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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 322 301
Rank change year-on-year -126 -21 +26
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 15 46 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 1.46% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 55
10th Percentile £512 £268 £372
25th Percentile £600 £330 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £417 £550
Median % change year-on-year +49.88% -24.18% +6.69%
75th Percentile £700 £531 £650
90th Percentile £715 £599 £687
UK median daily rate £600 £395 £535
% change year-on-year +51.90% -26.17% +1.90%

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 4,776 3,156 3,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.30% 20.86% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,102 2,120 2,180
10th Percentile £356 £317 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £680 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 129 163
10th Percentile £30.50 £31.25 £29.20
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +9.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -83 12 £650 +45.41%
North West -57 7 £650 +53.12%
Yorkshire -39 4 - -
East Midlands -26 1 - - 1
Scotland -26 1 £310 -28.24% 5
Midlands -53 1 - - 5
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 3
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 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.67%) JBoss
3 1 (6.67%) Mule
3 1 (6.67%) Mule ESB
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Spring
2 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 2 (13.33%) JPA
5 2 (13.33%) LDAP
5 2 (13.33%) SailPoint
6 1 (6.67%) CSS3
6 1 (6.67%) HTML5
6 1 (6.67%) JSF
6 1 (6.67%) JSON
6 1 (6.67%) Kafka
6 1 (6.67%) Middleware
6 1 (6.67%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) Sass
6 1 (6.67%) SAX
6 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) SDLC
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
7 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow