Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 447 434
Rank change year-on-year -154 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 60 103 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 1.39% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 73 105
10th Percentile £400 £269 £406
25th Percentile £423 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £402 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.93% -26.91% +6.80%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £625
90th Percentile £856 £838 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £388 £575
% change year-on-year +22.58% -32.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,242 7,414 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.40% 22.60% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,688 5,005 6,121
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.80% -5.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 154 265
10th Percentile £29.91 £30.08 £22.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the UK

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in the UK

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Jakarta EE
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England -132 52 £588 +39.71% 10
London -69 39 £581 +10.71% 7
Work from Home -75 17 £500 +22.25% 4
UK excluding London -156 15 £475 +22.58% 4
North of England -81 7 £700 +74.13%
North West -56 5 £700 +74.13%
Midlands -47 4 £427 +35.73%
East Midlands -17 3 £424 +34.74%
Scotland -33 2 £393 +30.83% 1
South West -36 1 - - 2
West Midlands -61 1 £430 -
South East -84 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (11.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Tomcat
3 5 (8.33%) Ethereum
3 5 (8.33%) Hyperledger
3 5 (8.33%) JBoss
3 5 (8.33%) nginx
3 5 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 5 (8.33%) WebSphere
4 2 (3.33%) Apache
4 2 (3.33%) Mule
4 2 (3.33%) Mule ESB
5 1 (1.67%) Appian
5 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.67%) MinIO
5 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.67%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.67%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 9 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.00%) MySQL
5 5 (8.33%) GIS
5 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.67%) Db2
7 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (30.00%) Git
2 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.00%) JUnit
4 9 (15.00%) JIRA
5 8 (13.33%) Maven
6 6 (10.00%) Eclipse
7 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
7 3 (5.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.33%) JProfiler
9 1 (1.67%) Ant
9 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (38.33%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Banking
4 13 (21.67%) Retail
5 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) Marketing
7 3 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 13 (21.67%) Architect
4 11 (18.33%) Senior
5 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Lead
8 4 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Security Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Service Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Applications Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) React Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Blockchain Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Information Architect
10 2 (3.33%) J2EE Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (51.67%) Spring
2 27 (45.00%) REST
3 17 (28.33%) Spring Boot
4 13 (21.67%) RESTful
5 12 (20.00%) JDBC
5 12 (20.00%) Web Services
6 10 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (13.33%) CSS
7 8 (13.33%) Kafka
8 7 (11.67%) JSON
8 7 (11.67%) JSP
8 7 (11.67%) LDAP
8 7 (11.67%) OAuth
8 7 (11.67%) OpenID
8 7 (11.67%) Sass
8 7 (11.67%) SOAP
8 7 (11.67%) Spring MVC
9 6 (10.00%) JMS
10 5 (8.33%) SAML
10 5 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.33%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Spread Betting
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Unix
4 4 (6.67%) Solaris
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.00%) Agile
3 24 (40.00%) Microservices
4 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.67%) Scrum
4 16 (26.67%) SDLC
5 15 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (15.00%) AI
6 9 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 9 (15.00%) ITIL
6 9 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 8 (13.33%) Change Management
7 8 (13.33%) MVC
7 8 (13.33%) TDD
8 7 (11.67%) ETL
8 7 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (91.67%) Java
2 19 (31.67%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 9 (15.00%) Python
6 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.33%) Perl
9 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.67%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) XPath
9 1 (1.67%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) CISM
3 5 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) GDPR
2 5 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 5 (8.33%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.33%) SLA
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.67%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.67%) Istio
4 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Oracle
2 10 (16.67%) IBM
3 6 (10.00%) SAP
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) Workday
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.67%) New Relic
5 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.00%) Adobe
7 2 (3.33%) Google
8 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.67%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.67%) Okta
8 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.67%) Sybase
8 1 (1.67%) VMware