EJB Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring EJB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing EJB 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.35% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
England median daily rate £430 £476 £575
% change year-on-year -9.71% -17.17% +9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

EJB 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 457 330 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.98% 19.67% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 193 167
10th Percentile £361 £380 £300
25th Percentile £444 £450 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £560
90th Percentile £700 £748 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £19.02 - £17.20
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £77.30 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

EJB
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EJB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

EJB job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

EJB
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EJB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EJB

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EJB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing EJB

EJB
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. 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
Shropshire - 8 £429 - 1
EJB
England

EJB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (100.00%) Apache
1 8 (100.00%) JBoss
1 8 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) HTML5
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) J2SE
1 8 (100.00%) JSON
1 8 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 8 (100.00%) REST
1 8 (100.00%) SOAP
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 8 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 8 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
1 8 (100.00%) Open Source
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Scala
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) webMethods