Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in the South West

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 147 110 151
Rank change year-on-year -37 +41 0
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.028% 0.053% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -42.86% +53.85%
England median daily rate £588 £421 £550
% change year-on-year +39.71% -23.55% +3.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 507 285 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.34% 15.12% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 184 282
10th Percentile £350 £353 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.29%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 76
10th Percentile £46.50 £61.13 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.00 -
90th Percentile £71.23 £70.87 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the South West

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Bristol -20 1 - -
Jakarta EE
England

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk