Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 635 690
Rank change year-on-year +102 +55 -144
Contract jobs citing Java EE 49 77 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.55% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 50 138
10th Percentile £429 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £647 £650
90th Percentile £718 £730 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +32.65% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.88
25th Percentile - £71.25 £49.06
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year - +14.47% +12.97%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -13.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,945 14,054 24,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.36% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 10,256 17,811
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 154 245
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.23 £21.40
25th Percentile £37.63 £46.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.78 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +96 37 £650 +29.30% 13
UK excluding London +59 34 £650 +32.65% 8
South East +25 25 £650 +38.30% 5
Work from Home +102 22 £625 +25.00% 4
London +74 11 £450 -10.48% 4
Scotland +30 8 £450 -6.05%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

Java EE
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 (12.24%) JBoss
2 5 (10.20%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.12%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.12%) WebSphere
4 2 (4.08%) Apache
4 2 (4.08%) Confluence
4 2 (4.08%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
2 17 (34.69%) Azure
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) Miro
5 2 (4.08%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.12%) MySQL
3 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (57.14%) Cucumber
1 28 (57.14%) Selenium
2 25 (51.02%) Jenkins
3 24 (48.98%) REST Assured
3 24 (48.98%) SonarQube
4 15 (30.61%) JIRA
5 13 (26.53%) GitLab
6 2 (4.08%) JMeter
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.08%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) Subversion
General
1 31 (63.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (51.02%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (40.82%) Law
4 13 (26.53%) Police
5 4 (8.16%) Retail
6 3 (6.12%) Tech for Good
7 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Finance
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.04%) Automotive
8 1 (2.04%) Back Office
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Java Engineer
2 16 (32.65%) Developer
3 14 (28.57%) Senior
4 12 (24.49%) Java Developer
5 11 (22.45%) Software Engineer
6 10 (20.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (18.37%) Senior Java Engineer
7 9 (18.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 9 (18.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (12.24%) Architect
8 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (10.20%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (6.12%) AWS Developer
11 3 (6.12%) Java Architect
11 3 (6.12%) Java Technical Architect
11 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
11 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (6.12%) Technical Architect
12 2 (4.08%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (63.27%) REST
2 14 (28.57%) Spring
3 12 (24.49%) ARM Templates
4 10 (20.41%) Hibernate
4 10 (20.41%) Web Services
5 6 (12.24%) SOAP
6 5 (10.20%) JPA
6 5 (10.20%) JSON
7 4 (8.16%) EJB
7 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
7 4 (8.16%) SAML
7 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
7 4 (8.16%) XML
8 3 (6.12%) .NET
8 3 (6.12%) CSS
8 3 (6.12%) DOM
8 3 (6.12%) Grails
8 3 (6.12%) JAX-RS
8 3 (6.12%) JDBC
8 3 (6.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) AIX
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (55.10%) Software Engineering
3 26 (53.06%) DevOps
4 25 (51.02%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (51.02%) Decision-Making
4 25 (51.02%) Software Architecture
4 25 (51.02%) Technical Leadership
4 25 (51.02%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.53%) Configuration Management
5 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
7 10 (20.41%) OO
8 9 (18.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (14.29%) Microservices
9 7 (14.29%) MVC
10 6 (12.24%) Agile
10 6 (12.24%) TDD
11 5 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (10.20%) Scrum
12 4 (8.16%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) C
4 1 (2.04%) C++
4 1 (2.04%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Ansible
2 13 (26.53%) Terraform
3 12 (24.49%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.49%) Podman
4 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 2 (4.08%) Adobe
2 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.08%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) Omniture
2 2 (4.08%) PeopleSoft
2 2 (4.08%) SAP
2 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) VMware