J2EE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 308 367 407
Rank change year-on-year +59 +40 -49
Contract jobs citing J2EE 28 32 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 0.97% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 44
10th Percentile £266 £416 £408
25th Percentile £339 £440 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -11.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £407 £533 £616
90th Percentile £440 £626 £634
UK median daily rate £750 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +42.86% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +20 9 £402 -17.79% 4
North West +19 9 £402 -17.79% 3
Scotland +3 9 £404 -10.22% 3
Midlands - 8 £326 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £326 - 2
West Midlands - 4 - -
South East +45 2 - - 6
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 5 (17.86%) JBoss
3 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
4 3 (10.71%) Confluence
5 2 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (7.14%) CICS
5 2 (7.14%) CMS
6 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
2 2 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) DB2
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) Selenium
3 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
3 5 (17.86%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) Gradle
3 5 (17.86%) JUnit
3 5 (17.86%) Maven
4 4 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (14.29%) HP UFT
4 4 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 4 (14.29%) NetBeans
4 4 (14.29%) Subversion
5 2 (7.14%) Introscope
5 2 (7.14%) LoadRunner
5 2 (7.14%) SOAtest
6 1 (3.57%) Ant
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 10 (35.71%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Back Office
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office
7 1 (3.57%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum Master
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (3.57%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.57%) J2EE Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 14 (50.00%) Web Services
2 11 (39.29%) Spring
3 10 (35.71%) REST
3 10 (35.71%) SOAP
4 8 (28.57%) Kafka
5 7 (25.00%) HTML
6 5 (17.86%) CSS
7 4 (14.29%) EJB
7 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 4 (14.29%) JSP
7 4 (14.29%) RAML
7 4 (14.29%) Servlets
7 4 (14.29%) Spring Integration
7 4 (14.29%) Spring MVC
7 4 (14.29%) WSDL
8 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
8 3 (10.71%) HTML5
8 3 (10.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (17.86%) Mainframe
3 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (7.14%) VSAM
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Unix
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) AIX
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) Scrum
3 8 (28.57%) API Development
3 8 (28.57%) Microservices
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) SDLC
5 6 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Backlog Management
7 4 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 4 (14.29%) Budget Control
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (14.29%) MVC
7 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) B2B
8 3 (10.71%) BPMN
8 3 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.71%) ABAP
5 3 (10.71%) COBOL
5 3 (10.71%) Groovy
5 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.14%) C
6 2 (7.14%) JCL
6 2 (7.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SAP Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 4 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (7.14%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) DocuSign
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
4 2 (7.14%) Adobe
4 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) Parasoft
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (7.14%) Sybase
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Avaloq
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) Temenos