Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in London

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 323 346
Rank change year-on-year -69 +23 +26
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 39 40 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.12% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 39
10th Percentile £417 £286 £434
25th Percentile £511 £359 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -1.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £786 £838 £564
90th Percentile £913 - £625
England median daily rate £588 £421 £550
% change year-on-year +39.71% -23.55% +3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Jakarta EE 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 4,486 3,560 4,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.65% 26.09% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,474 3,339
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -38.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in London

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in London

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the London region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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 -12 4 £321 -12.63%
South London -12 2 £825 - 3
Jakarta EE
England

Jakarta EE
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 (12.82%) Ethereum
1 5 (12.82%) Hyperledger
2 4 (10.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (10.26%) JBoss
2 4 (10.26%) WebSphere
3 3 (7.69%) nginx
3 3 (7.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) MinIO
4 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 9 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.82%) MySQL
2 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.69%) GIS
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.56%) Db2
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Git
2 13 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (23.08%) JUnit
4 7 (17.95%) JIRA
4 7 (17.95%) Maven
5 4 (10.26%) Eclipse
6 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.13%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.13%) JProfiler
6 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.56%) Ant
7 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Retail
4 9 (23.08%) Banking
5 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.69%) Legal
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Security Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Service Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Applications Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) React Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Blockchain Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Information Security Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Java Applications Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (64.10%) Spring
2 23 (58.97%) REST
3 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 10 (25.64%) AngularJS
4 10 (25.64%) RESTful
5 9 (23.08%) JDBC
6 8 (20.51%) Web Services
7 7 (17.95%) CSS
7 7 (17.95%) OAuth
7 7 (17.95%) OpenID
7 7 (17.95%) SOAP
8 6 (15.38%) JMS
8 6 (15.38%) Kafka
8 6 (15.38%) Sass
8 6 (15.38%) Spring MVC
9 5 (12.82%) gRPC
9 5 (12.82%) JSON
9 5 (12.82%) LDAP
9 5 (12.82%) SAML
9 5 (12.82%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Blockchain
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Spread Betting
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Unix
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.69%) Solaris
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) CI/CD
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 18 (46.15%) Microservices
4 15 (38.46%) Scrum
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.64%) SDLC
7 9 (23.08%) E-Commerce
7 9 (23.08%) ITIL
7 9 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (20.51%) Change Management
8 8 (20.51%) DevOps
9 6 (15.38%) AI
9 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.38%) MVC
9 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 6 (15.38%) Unit Testing
10 5 (12.82%) RBAC
10 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
10 5 (12.82%) TDD
10 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
5 6 (15.38%) Python
6 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
6 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) Perl
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) CISM
1 5 (12.82%) CISSP
2 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GDPR
2 5 (12.82%) HIPAA
2 5 (12.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (12.82%) SLA
3 3 (7.69%) QA
4 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle
2 9 (23.08%) IBM
3 6 (15.38%) SAP
4 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.82%) Workday
5 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
5 4 (10.26%) New Relic
5 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 4 (10.26%) Splunk
6 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (2.56%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.56%) Sybase