J2EE Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 393 357
Rank change year-on-year +37 -36 -101
Contract jobs citing J2EE 32 54 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.23% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 1.23% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 43 99
10th Percentile £416 £380 £412
25th Percentile £440 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +4.76% +20.41%
75th Percentile £533 £625 £575
90th Percentile £626 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,265 4,374 6,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.31% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,146 3,274 4,408
10th Percentile £324 £360 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 91 145
10th Percentile £21.44 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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
Scotland +38 19 £450 -21.74% 1
North of England +16 8 £489 -16.77%
North West +31 7 £489 +30.40%
South East +14 3 - - 5
South West +20 1 £700 +40.00%
East of England +9 1 £600 -
Yorkshire +5 1 - -
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 13 (40.63%) Confluence
2 5 (15.63%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (15.63%) WebSphere
2 5 (15.63%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (15.63%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (9.38%) Apache
3 3 (9.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Temenos T24
2 1 (3.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Apigee
2 5 (15.63%) Kong
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.38%) IaaS
3 3 (9.38%) iPaaS
3 3 (9.38%) PaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) HTTP
2 3 (9.38%) 5G
2 3 (9.38%) LAN
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.63%) OLAP
2 5 (15.63%) OLTP
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) JIRA
2 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
2 13 (40.63%) JUnit
3 12 (37.50%) Git
4 10 (31.25%) Cucumber
5 9 (28.13%) Postman
6 5 (15.63%) IBM UrbanCode
6 5 (15.63%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Banking
3 8 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 16 (50.00%) Senior
3 8 (25.00%) Architect
3 8 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) AWS Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Middleware Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (68.75%) Spring
2 17 (53.13%) Kafka
2 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
3 16 (50.00%) REST
4 14 (43.75%) Apache Camel
5 12 (37.50%) Web Services
6 8 (25.00%) SOAP
7 5 (15.63%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (15.63%) Middleware
7 5 (15.63%) Node.js
7 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (15.63%) RESTful
8 4 (12.50%) Spring Integration
9 3 (9.38%) .NET
9 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (3.13%) CSS
10 1 (3.13%) HTML
10 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) DataPower
2 3 (9.38%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (34.38%) End-to-End Testing
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 9 (28.13%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (25.00%) SOA
7 7 (21.88%) API Management
7 7 (21.88%) Coaching
7 7 (21.88%) Component Testing
7 7 (21.88%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (15.63%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (15.63%) ITIL
9 5 (15.63%) OO
9 5 (15.63%) OOA/OOD
9 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
4 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Kibana
2 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Oracle
2 10 (31.25%) IBM
3 5 (15.63%) TSYS
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe