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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 648 685
Rank change year-on-year +100 +37 -133
Contract jobs citing Java EE 43 70 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% 0.51% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 140
10th Percentile - £383 £388
25th Percentile £450 £456 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £650
90th Percentile £720 £729 £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% -
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -23.69%

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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 35 £650 +25.00% 11
UK excluding London +68 31 £650 +32.65% 7
South East +34 25 £650 +38.30% 4
Work from Home +106 19 £625 +25.00% 5
London +75 9 £450 -10.48% 3
Scotland +36 5 £478 -0.31%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 (6.98%) JBoss
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.65%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Miro
4 2 (4.65%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Cucumber
1 25 (58.14%) Jenkins
1 25 (58.14%) Selenium
2 24 (55.81%) REST Assured
2 24 (55.81%) SonarQube
3 15 (34.88%) JIRA
4 13 (30.23%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
5 2 (4.65%) JUnit
5 2 (4.65%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.65%) Maven
5 2 (4.65%) Subversion
General
1 31 (72.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (58.14%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (46.51%) Law
4 13 (30.23%) Police
5 5 (11.63%) Retail
6 3 (6.98%) Tech for Good
7 2 (4.65%) Finance
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Automotive
8 1 (2.33%) Back Office
8 1 (2.33%) Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Java Engineer
2 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Senior
3 12 (27.91%) Software Engineer
4 11 (25.58%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) Senior Java Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (20.93%) Java Developer
7 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (11.63%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (6.98%) Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Java Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Java Technical Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
10 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
11 2 (4.65%) Designer
11 2 (4.65%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (69.77%) REST
2 12 (27.91%) ARM Templates
2 12 (27.91%) Spring
3 7 (16.28%) Hibernate
4 5 (11.63%) GraphQL
4 5 (11.63%) SOAP
4 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.63%) Web Services
5 3 (6.98%) .NET
5 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.98%) CSS
5 3 (6.98%) Grails
5 3 (6.98%) jQuery
5 3 (6.98%) React
6 2 (4.65%) JPA
6 2 (4.65%) JSON
6 2 (4.65%) JSP
6 2 (4.65%) JSTL
6 2 (4.65%) Node.js
6 2 (4.65%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (65.12%) Software Engineering
3 26 (60.47%) DevOps
4 25 (58.14%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (58.14%) Decision-Making
4 25 (58.14%) Software Architecture
4 25 (58.14%) Technical Leadership
4 25 (58.14%) Test Automation
5 13 (30.23%) Configuration Management
5 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (16.28%) OO
8 7 (16.28%) TDD
9 5 (11.63%) API Development
9 5 (11.63%) BDD
9 5 (11.63%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (11.63%) Microservices
10 4 (9.30%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 4 (9.30%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) C
4 1 (2.33%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) Python
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) SC Cleared
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (55.81%) Ansible
2 13 (30.23%) Terraform
3 12 (27.91%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) Podman
4 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Adobe
2 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.65%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Omniture
2 2 (4.65%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) VMware