J2EE Contracts in London

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 363 411
Rank change year-on-year +61 +48 -37
Contract jobs citing J2EE 51 28 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 0.63% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 65
10th Percentile £505 £428 £423
25th Percentile £713 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year +40.27% +0.45% -5.98%
75th Percentile £838 £619 £601
90th Percentile - £673 £700
England median daily rate £775 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +45.40% -3.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in London.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in London.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +4 2 £383 -32.60% 4
South London +5 1 - -
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (54.90%) Apache
1 28 (54.90%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (54.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (3.92%) JBoss
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (72.55%) AWS
2 36 (70.59%) OpenShift
3 34 (66.67%) Serverless
4 33 (64.71%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (54.90%) dbt
6 9 (17.65%) Azure
7 5 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.80%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.80%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.84%) PaaS
9 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.88%) Kong
10 1 (1.96%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.96%) GCP
10 1 (1.96%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (54.90%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (54.90%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (54.90%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (54.90%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (54.90%) Dremio
2 8 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (9.80%) Redis
4 3 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (5.88%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.92%) DB2
5 2 (3.92%) IMS/DB
5 2 (3.92%) MySQL
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (64.71%) Artifactory
2 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.69%) Maven
4 6 (11.76%) Git
5 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.92%) JIRA
6 2 (3.92%) JUnit
6 2 (3.92%) Mockito
6 2 (3.92%) Postman
6 2 (3.92%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.92%) Subversion
6 2 (3.92%) Xcode
6 2 (3.92%) XCTest
7 1 (1.96%) GitLab
7 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (88.24%) Finance
2 33 (64.71%) Front Office
3 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (68.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (64.71%) AWS DevOps
2 33 (64.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 33 (64.71%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (54.90%) Data Engineer
3 28 (54.90%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Developer
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Support Specialist
8 1 (1.96%) E-Commerce Manager
8 1 (1.96%) Mainframe Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (68.63%) Kafka
2 28 (54.90%) PySpark
3 11 (21.57%) Spring
4 7 (13.73%) AngularJS
4 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
5 6 (11.76%) Web Services
6 5 (9.80%) CSS
6 5 (9.80%) RESTful
6 5 (9.80%) SOAP
7 4 (7.84%) Bootstrap
7 4 (7.84%) REST
7 4 (7.84%) Spring MVC
8 3 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (5.88%) HTML
8 3 (5.88%) XML
9 2 (3.92%) EJB
9 2 (3.92%) JDBC
9 2 (3.92%) Middleware
9 2 (3.92%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (3.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Tandem
2 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Unix
2 4 (7.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) DevOps
2 35 (68.63%) Agile
2 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
3 33 (64.71%) Asset Management
3 33 (64.71%) Open Source
3 33 (64.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 33 (64.71%) Software Engineering
4 28 (54.90%) Data Engineering
5 15 (29.41%) Microservices
6 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.80%) Financial Modelling
9 4 (7.84%) ITIL
9 4 (7.84%) MVC
9 4 (7.84%) Problem Management
9 4 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (5.88%) Concurrent Programming
10 3 (5.88%) CQRS
10 3 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) Java
2 37 (72.55%) Python
3 33 (64.71%) Go
4 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) SQL
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) Perl
6 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
7 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.92%) REXX
8 1 (1.96%) COBOL
8 1 (1.96%) JCL
8 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
1 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (80.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (78.43%) Kubernetes
2 36 (70.59%) Terraform
3 5 (9.80%) Istio
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Control-M
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.88%) Puppet
4 3 (5.88%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.92%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
3 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.92%) Splunk
3 2 (3.92%) Sun
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe
4 1 (1.96%) Pega
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Sitecore