Java/J2EE Developer Contracts

Java J2EE Developer
UK

The median Java J2EE Developer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 692 843
Rank change year-on-year +116 +151 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 3 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.013% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.014% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £469 £538 -
25th Percentile £518 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% +59.09%
75th Percentile - £688 £538
90th Percentile - - £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Java/J2EE Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java/J2EE Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java/J2EE Developer in the UK

Java/J2EE Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer.

Daily rate trend for Java/J2EE Developer in the UK

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java/J2EE Developer in the UK

Java/J2EE Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Java/J2EE Developer in the UK

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +115 3 £600 -1.64%
London +112 2 £518 -15.08%
Work from Home +116 1 £436 -30.24%
UK excluding London +63 1 £600 -4.00%
East of England - 1 £600 -

Java/J2EE Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java/J2EE Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Java/J2EE Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) Rancher
3 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns

Java/J2EE Developer Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk