Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.98% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £620 £538 -
25th Percentile £650 £540 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -1.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile - £547 -
90th Percentile - £549 -
North West median daily rate £700 £402 £438
% change year-on-year +74.13% -8.11% -10.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 414 205 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.25% 20.98% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 160 201
10th Percentile £369 £331 £363
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% -4.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £552 £650
90th Percentile £653 £638 £850
North West median daily rate £525 £447 £498
% change year-on-year +17.45% -10.15% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 2 7
10th Percentile £62.30 £70.63 £64.75
25th Percentile £71.00 £71.56 £66.88
Median hourly rate £76.00 £76.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +8.93% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £84.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.88 £73.30
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year +7.14% +4.09% +45.63%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in Manchester

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Manager
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java