J2EE Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 341 364
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -7
Contract jobs citing J2EE 33 39 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.28% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 42
10th Percentile £268 £425 £378
25th Percentile £302 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £563 £545
Median % change year-on-year -28.53% +3.21% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £628 £625
90th Percentile £610 £650 -
UK median daily rate £384 £541 £534
% change year-on-year -29.05% +1.36% -2.91%

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 2,819 3,047 3,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.49% 16.91% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,869 1,940 2,766
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £390 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £625 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 165 114
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.65 £42.64
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.53% -4.37%
75th Percentile £66.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.26 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE

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 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE

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 2 September 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 -3 20 £447 -9.10% 7
North West +4 18 £425 -13.19% 4
Scotland +2 6 £432 +1.65% 2
East Midlands -1 6 £276 -48.65%
Midlands -4 6 £276 -48.65%
East of England +4 2 £400 -33.33%
Yorkshire -14 2 £700 +21.74% 3
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 (21.21%) WebSphere
2 6 (18.18%) JBoss
2 6 (18.18%) WebLogic
3 5 (15.15%) Mule
3 5 (15.15%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.06%) CICS
4 2 (6.06%) Mule ESB
5 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
5 1 (3.03%) Confluence
5 1 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Serverless
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (18.18%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) Datadog
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (15.15%) Apigee
5 5 (15.15%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (15.15%) Loggly
5 5 (15.15%) Route 53
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (12.12%) PaaS
6 4 (12.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) NoSQL
2 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.21%) DB2
3 7 (21.21%) DynamoDB
3 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (15.15%) BigQuery
5 5 (15.15%) MySQL
5 5 (15.15%) Redis
6 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
7 3 (9.09%) MariaDB
7 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
9 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
2 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (27.27%) Maven
3 9 (27.27%) SonarQube
4 8 (24.24%) Bitbucket
5 7 (21.21%) Gradle
6 5 (15.15%) JUnit
6 5 (15.15%) SonarLint
7 4 (12.12%) IntelliJ
7 4 (12.12%) Selenium
8 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (9.09%) JIRA
9 2 (6.06%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (6.06%) HP UFT
9 2 (6.06%) NetBeans
9 2 (6.06%) SOAtest
9 2 (6.06%) Subversion
10 1 (3.03%) Ant
10 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
10 1 (3.03%) NUnit
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 11 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Architect
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Architect
5 6 (18.18%) Java Architect
5 6 (18.18%) Java Technical Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Scrum Master
7 3 (9.09%) Senior
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Test Architect
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.03%) J2EE Specialist
9 1 (3.03%) Java Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Middleware Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Platform Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (72.73%) Spring Boot
2 20 (60.61%) Spring
3 12 (36.36%) Web Services
4 11 (33.33%) Kafka
5 10 (30.30%) REST
5 10 (30.30%) RESTful
6 7 (21.21%) JSON
6 7 (21.21%) RAML
7 6 (18.18%) Dropwizard
7 6 (18.18%) Hibernate
7 6 (18.18%) JWT
7 6 (18.18%) Micronaut
7 6 (18.18%) SOAP
7 6 (18.18%) XML
8 5 (15.15%) Celery
8 5 (15.15%) EJB
8 5 (15.15%) JSP
9 4 (12.12%) Servlets
9 4 (12.12%) WSDL
10 3 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Product Ownership
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
3 6 (18.18%) N-Tier
4 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
5 3 (9.09%) Mainframe
6 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (6.06%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (6.06%) VSAM
7 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) LIMS
7 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Unix
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 18 (54.55%) Microservices
3 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
4 12 (36.36%) Design Patterns
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) SDLC
6 10 (30.30%) Scrum
6 10 (30.30%) TDD
7 9 (27.27%) API Development
7 9 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
7 9 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
8 8 (24.24%) Clean Code
8 8 (24.24%) Event-Driven
8 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
9 7 (21.21%) OOP
9 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
9 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) SQL
3 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.18%) Python
5 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.06%) COBOL
6 2 (6.06%) JCL
6 2 (6.06%) REXX
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Gigya
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) Checkmarx
4 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.06%) Ab Initio
5 2 (6.06%) AppDynamics
5 2 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (6.06%) IBM
5 2 (6.06%) Informatica
5 2 (6.06%) LabWare
5 2 (6.06%) Parasoft
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) DocuSign
6 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Solace
6 1 (3.03%) Sybase