J2EE Contracts in the North of England

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 158 173
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing J2EE 18 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.27% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.31% 1.48% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 23
10th Percentile £352 £424 £433
25th Percentile £385 £484 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £492 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -18.04% -3.81%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £625
90th Percentile £586 £715 £650
England median daily rate £400 £546 £535
% change year-on-year -26.77% +2.10% -4.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 780 745 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.60% 18.00% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 512 780
10th Percentile £337 £363 £363
25th Percentile £384 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -4.48% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £614 £740 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 21
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.41 £37.80
25th Percentile £30.00 £41.09 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £70.13 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £72.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.93% -6.53% +3.81%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the North of England

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the North of England

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the North of England

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the North of England

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
North West +3 18 £425 -13.19% 8
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (27.78%) JBoss
2 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
2 5 (27.78%) WebLogic
3 3 (16.67%) Mule
4 2 (11.11%) CICS
4 2 (11.11%) Mule ESB
5 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
5 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
2 6 (33.33%) Serverless
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (27.78%) Apigee
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Datadog
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) Loggly
3 5 (27.78%) Route 53
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (22.22%) PaaS
4 4 (22.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
2 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 6 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (27.78%) BigQuery
3 5 (27.78%) MySQL
3 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
3 5 (27.78%) Redis
3 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) Gradle
3 7 (38.89%) Maven
4 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
5 5 (27.78%) SonarLint
6 4 (22.22%) JUnit
6 4 (22.22%) Selenium
7 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
8 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (11.11%) HP UFT
8 2 (11.11%) JIRA
8 2 (11.11%) NetBeans
8 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
8 2 (11.11%) Subversion
9 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
9 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
6 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Architect
3 6 (33.33%) Java Architect
3 6 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum Master
5 3 (16.67%) Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (5.56%) Java Scrum Master
7 1 (5.56%) Lead
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 11 (61.11%) Web Services
3 10 (55.56%) Spring
4 6 (33.33%) Dropwizard
4 6 (33.33%) Micronaut
4 6 (33.33%) RESTful
5 5 (27.78%) Celery
5 5 (27.78%) EJB
5 5 (27.78%) JSP
5 5 (27.78%) JWT
5 5 (27.78%) RAML
5 5 (27.78%) XML
6 4 (22.22%) JSON
6 4 (22.22%) Kafka
6 4 (22.22%) REST
6 4 (22.22%) Servlets
6 4 (22.22%) SOAP
6 4 (22.22%) WSDL
7 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
7 3 (16.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
3 6 (33.33%) N-Tier
4 4 (22.22%) Private Cloud
5 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (11.11%) VSAM
7 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Microservices
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) SDLC
4 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (38.89%) API Development
5 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 7 (38.89%) Domain-Driven Design
5 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven
5 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
5 7 (38.89%) TDD
6 6 (33.33%) API Design
6 6 (33.33%) BDD
6 6 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) COBOL
4 2 (11.11%) JCL
4 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 2 (11.11%) REXX
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Gigya
3 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Parasoft
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft