Java EE Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 638 700
Rank change year-on-year +105 +62 -110
Contract jobs citing Java EE 51 59 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.46% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 122
10th Percentile £374 £363 £388
25th Percentile £433 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £585
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -16.67% +11.43%
75th Percentile £681 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £690 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +29.15% -5.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £69.25 £45.63
25th Percentile - £70.31 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year - +29.83% -11.86%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 20 June 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 11 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 20 June 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 +88 43 £588 +17.18% 4
UK excluding London +46 41 £613 +29.15% 5
South East +31 25 £650 +44.44%
Work from Home +93 19 £650 +33.33% 3
London +59 7 £450 -10.00% 2
North West - 7 £373 - 1
North of England - 7 £373 - 1
Scotland +42 5 £478 +1.70% 2
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
South West - 2 - - 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 3 (5.88%) WildFly
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) JBoss
2 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Miro
4 3 (5.88%) SAP Fieldglass
4 3 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (54.90%) Jenkins
2 25 (49.02%) Cucumber
2 25 (49.02%) Selenium
3 24 (47.06%) REST Assured
3 24 (47.06%) SonarQube
4 16 (31.37%) JIRA
5 14 (27.45%) GitLab
6 4 (7.84%) JUnit
6 4 (7.84%) Maven
7 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.92%) Git
7 2 (3.92%) Gradle
7 2 (3.92%) Subversion
8 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 32 (62.75%) Social Skills
2 25 (49.02%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (39.22%) Law
4 13 (25.49%) Police
5 5 (9.80%) Finance
5 5 (9.80%) Retail
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.88%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.96%) Automotive
7 1 (1.96%) Back Office
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Java Engineer
2 20 (39.22%) Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 13 (25.49%) Java Developer
4 13 (25.49%) Senior
5 12 (23.53%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (19.61%) Senior Java Engineer
6 10 (19.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 10 (19.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Architect
10 3 (5.88%) Java Architect
10 3 (5.88%) Java Technical Architect
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
11 2 (3.92%) Designer
11 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (58.82%) REST
2 18 (35.29%) Spring
3 12 (23.53%) ARM Templates
3 12 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.73%) RESTful
5 6 (11.76%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.80%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.80%) SOAP
6 5 (9.80%) Web Services
7 3 (5.88%) .NET
7 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.88%) CSS
7 3 (5.88%) Grails
7 3 (5.88%) jQuery
7 3 (5.88%) React
8 2 (3.92%) JPA
8 2 (3.92%) JSON
8 2 (3.92%) JSP
8 2 (3.92%) JSTL
8 2 (3.92%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) AIX
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 31 (60.78%) Software Engineering
3 30 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (52.94%) DevOps
5 25 (49.02%) Decision-Making
5 25 (49.02%) Software Architecture
5 25 (49.02%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (49.02%) Test Automation
6 13 (25.49%) Configuration Management
6 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (25.49%) OO
7 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.61%) API Development
8 10 (19.61%) Design Patterns
9 9 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (13.73%) Low Latency
10 7 (13.73%) Software Testing
11 6 (11.76%) Agile
11 6 (11.76%) TDD
12 5 (9.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.88%) SQL
4 2 (3.92%) C
4 2 (3.92%) Rust
4 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (54.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (47.06%) Ansible
2 13 (25.49%) Terraform
3 12 (23.53%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.53%) Podman
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle
1 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.96%) VMware