EJB Contracts

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring EJB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EJB over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 593 687
Rank change year-on-year +82 +94 +112
Contract jobs citing EJB 8 7 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.016% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.078% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 18
10th Percentile £336 £634 £455
25th Percentile £380 £684 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £763 £525
Median % change year-on-year -47.28% +45.24% -10.26%
75th Percentile £432 £825 £591
90th Percentile £493 - £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

EJB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

EJB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EJB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EJB in the UK

EJB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EJB.

Daily rate trend for EJB in the UK

EJB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EJB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EJB in the UK

EJB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EJB.

Hourly rate trend for EJB in the UK

EJB
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +67 7 £402 -49.75% 6
UK excluding London +58 5 £384 - 5
North of England - 4 £393 - 3
North West - 4 £393 - 2
London +35 3 £475 -40.63%
Work from Home +48 2 £425 -44.26% 3
Scotland +9 1 £270 -

EJB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (75.00%) JBoss
1 6 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) IMS/DB
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Mercurial
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Java Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) J2EE
2 6 (75.00%) SOAP
3 5 (62.50%) JSP
3 5 (62.50%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) Spring
4 4 (50.00%) RAML
4 4 (50.00%) Servlets
4 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (50.00%) WSDL
5 3 (37.50%) JDBC
5 3 (37.50%) RESTful
6 2 (25.00%) Java EE
6 2 (25.00%) Middleware
6 2 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (25.00%) XML
6 2 (25.00%) XSLT
7 1 (12.50%) DOM
7 1 (12.50%) JPA
7 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) API Development
2 4 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Servant Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (25.00%) AOP
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft