Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 461 311 304
Rank change year-on-year -150 -7 +36
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 15 56 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.38% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 2.05% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 59
10th Percentile £412 £269 £381
25th Percentile £413 £288 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £384 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.70% -33.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £447 £650
90th Percentile £700 £532 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £402 £546
% change year-on-year +39.93% -26.41% +6.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,254 2,734 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.76% 18.40% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 1,857 2,124
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £676 £632 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 113 223
10th Percentile £33.75 £31.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.81 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -78 7 £700 +74.13%
North West -54 5 £700 +74.13%
Midlands -50 4 £427 +40.88%
East Midlands -15 3 £424 +39.85%
Scotland -33 2 £393 +30.83% 1
South West -37 1 - - 2
West Midlands -53 1 £430 -
South East -85 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (13.33%) Mule
2 2 (13.33%) Mule ESB
3 1 (6.67%) Appian
3 1 (6.67%) JBoss
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Retail
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Advertising
6 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) J2EE Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Manager
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Spring
2 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) XML
4 3 (20.00%) OSGi
4 3 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) JPA
5 2 (13.33%) JSON
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) LDAP
5 2 (13.33%) SailPoint
6 1 (6.67%) CSS
6 1 (6.67%) DOM
6 1 (6.67%) HTML
6 1 (6.67%) JDBC
6 1 (6.67%) JSP
6 1 (6.67%) SAX
6 1 (6.67%) Servlets
6 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
7 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Istio
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Okta
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk