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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 590 652
Rank change year-on-year +47 +62 +182
Contract jobs citing EJB 10 6 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.014% 0.066%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.067% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 26
10th Percentile £336 £611 £356
25th Percentile £380 £628 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £663 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.32% +39.47% -22.13%
75th Percentile £432 £703 £538
90th Percentile £498 £724 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -19.23%
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 7,352 8,993 12,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.55% 21.35% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,967 6,172 9,079
10th Percentile £350 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -2.00% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.80% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 269 156
10th Percentile £30.08 £22.50 £28.75
25th Percentile £38.16 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year - -12.35% +16.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.09 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.15 £59.03
% change year-on-year +7.48% -1.49% +7.33%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +58 8 £402 -33.00% 2
UK excluding London +31 6 £393 - 5
North of England - 5 £402 - 2
North West - 5 £402 -
Work from Home +37 3 £425 -41.38% 1
London +29 2 £425 -29.17%
Scotland - 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 7 (70.00%) JBoss
2 6 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (50.00%) WebLogic
4 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) DB2
2 2 (20.00%) IMS/DB
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Ant
4 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Web Services
2 7 (70.00%) J2EE
2 7 (70.00%) Spring
3 6 (60.00%) SOAP
4 5 (50.00%) JSP
4 5 (50.00%) REST
4 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (40.00%) JDBC
5 4 (40.00%) RAML
5 4 (40.00%) Servlets
5 4 (40.00%) WSDL
6 3 (30.00%) RESTful
6 3 (30.00%) XML
7 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (20.00%) Java EE
7 2 (20.00%) JMS
7 2 (20.00%) JPA
7 2 (20.00%) Middleware
7 2 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) API Development
2 4 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Servant Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) AOP
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) REXX
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISSAP
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (10.00%) Intel
4 1 (10.00%) Thales