Java EE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java EE 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 306 368 432
Rank change year-on-year +62 +64 +27
Contract jobs citing Java EE 30 31 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.94% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 18
10th Percentile £272 £528 £435
25th Percentile £274 £575 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £650 £494
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +31.51% -1.15%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £542
90th Percentile £612 £718 £574
UK median daily rate £331 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -48.04% +27.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Java 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 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%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java 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 Java EE 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
South East +38 17 £501 -23.00% 4
Scotland +19 11 £280 -41.41%
North of England - 1 £537 - 1
South West - 1 £400 - 2
North West - 1 £537 - 1
Java EE
UK

Java EE
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 9 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) DB2
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (76.67%) JIRA
2 15 (50.00%) GitLab
3 14 (46.67%) Cucumber
3 14 (46.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (46.67%) Selenium
4 13 (43.33%) REST Assured
5 12 (40.00%) Git
6 10 (33.33%) Subversion
7 9 (30.00%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (30.00%) PVCS
7 9 (30.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (10.00%) Maven
9 1 (3.33%) JUnit
9 1 (3.33%) Mercurial
General
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Law
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Police
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Front Office
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (26.67%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) ETL Developer
7 1 (3.33%) GUI Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Junior
7 1 (3.33%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Server Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) REST
2 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (13.33%) JSON
3 4 (13.33%) React
3 4 (13.33%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.67%) Web Services
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) DOM
6 1 (3.33%) EJB
6 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (3.33%) JDBC
6 1 (3.33%) JMS
6 1 (3.33%) Middleware
6 1 (3.33%) Struts
6 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
1 14 (46.67%) Software Engineering
1 14 (46.67%) Test Automation
2 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
2 13 (43.33%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) Software Architecture
2 13 (43.33%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
5 9 (30.00%) Technical Analysis
5 9 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (26.67%) ETL Development
6 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 2 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (53.33%) SQL
3 9 (30.00%) C
3 9 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 9 (30.00%) ProC
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) OCP
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Ansible
1 9 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (30.00%) Podman
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) Sybase