Java EE Contracts in the South East

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java EE 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 142 180 209
Rank change year-on-year +38 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Java EE 17 25 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.45% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 3.42% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 6
10th Percentile - £571 £413
25th Percentile £500 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £470
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +38.30% -10.48%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £537
90th Percentile - £720 £553
England median daily rate £513 £650 £503
% change year-on-year -21.12% +29.30% -14.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Java 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the South East

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java EE in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Java EE in the South East

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in the South East

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java EE in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in the South East

Java EE
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the South East 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
Thames Valley +31 13 £501 -23.00% 3
Berkshire +19 13 £501 -23.00% 3
Surrey - 4 £650 -
Java EE
England

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) GitLab
2 14 (82.35%) Jenkins
2 14 (82.35%) JIRA
3 13 (76.47%) Cucumber
3 13 (76.47%) REST Assured
3 13 (76.47%) Selenium
4 9 (52.94%) SonarQube
5 3 (17.65%) Maven
6 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 11 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Law
3 4 (23.53%) Police
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Java Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Software Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
4 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) GUI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java GUI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) REST
2 9 (52.94%) ARM Templates
3 4 (23.53%) React
4 3 (17.65%) JSON
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.88%) CSS
6 1 (5.88%) Google Maps API
6 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (5.88%) Java SE
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) Spring
6 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.88%) Struts
6 1 (5.88%) Vaadin
6 1 (5.88%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (76.47%) Configuration Management
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) Software Architecture
2 13 (76.47%) Software Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) Technical Leadership
2 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
3 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
4 9 (52.94%) Decision-Making
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) SOA
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
7 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) OCP
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
1 9 (52.94%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
1 9 (52.94%) Podman
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) SAP