J2EE Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring J2EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 319 365
Rank change year-on-year -37 +46 +60
Contract jobs citing J2EE 24 50 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 1.29% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 25
10th Percentile £349 £517 £305
25th Percentile £354 £525 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £515
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +31.07% -14.17%
75th Percentile £598 £838 £638
90th Percentile £655 - £750
England median daily rate £450 £603 £535
% change year-on-year -25.37% +12.71% -10.83%

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 3,771 3,872 4,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 25.70% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,548 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £361 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

J2EE job vacancy trend in London

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in London

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE

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 19 December 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 +3 4 £368 -31.31% 2
West London - 1 £650 -
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (20.83%) WebLogic
1 5 (20.83%) WebSphere
2 3 (12.50%) JBoss
3 2 (8.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.17%) CICS
4 1 (4.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (4.17%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (4.17%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (4.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) DB2
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
3 5 (20.83%) Redis
3 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) SonarQube
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (20.83%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) JIRA
3 5 (20.83%) JUnit
3 5 (20.83%) Maven
3 5 (20.83%) Mockito
3 5 (20.83%) Postman
3 5 (20.83%) REST Assured
3 5 (20.83%) SoapUI
3 5 (20.83%) Subversion
3 5 (20.83%) Xcode
3 5 (20.83%) XCTest
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Chocolatey
4 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (4.17%) PowerBuilder
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) German Language
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) TIBCO Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) ForgeRock Developer
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Web Services
2 10 (41.67%) SOAP
3 8 (33.33%) HTML
3 8 (33.33%) HTML5
3 8 (33.33%) Kafka
3 8 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 7 (29.17%) CSS
4 7 (29.17%) Spring
5 6 (25.00%) XML
5 6 (25.00%) XSLT
6 5 (20.83%) CSS3
6 5 (20.83%) Hibernate
6 5 (20.83%) JMS
6 5 (20.83%) JPA
6 5 (20.83%) OC4J
6 5 (20.83%) REST
6 5 (20.83%) Spring MVC
6 5 (20.83%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (20.83%) WSDL
6 5 (20.83%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Microservices
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Design Patterns
3 7 (29.17%) Front End Development
3 7 (29.17%) UML
4 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Multithreading
5 5 (20.83%) MVC
5 5 (20.83%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (20.83%) Resource Management
5 5 (20.83%) RUP
5 5 (20.83%) SOA
5 5 (20.83%) Static Code Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) Groovy
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
4 6 (25.00%) XPath
5 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 2 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.17%) C
7 1 (4.17%) COBOL
7 1 (4.17%) JCL
7 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.17%) ProC
7 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) OpenAM
2 2 (8.33%) OpenDJ
2 2 (8.33%) OpenIDM
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (20.83%) BEA
3 5 (20.83%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 5 (20.83%) Splunk
3 5 (20.83%) TIBCO
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.33%) ForgeRock
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) OutSystems
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) Workday