J2EE Contracts in the West Midlands

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% - 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £775 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +45.40% -3.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

J2EE 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 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the West Midlands

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the West Midlands

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the West Midlands

J2EE
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 J2EE within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham - 3 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) EDI
1 3 (75.00%) IDoc
1 3 (75.00%) JDBC
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Management
1 3 (75.00%) B2B
1 3 (75.00%) BPMN
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) ABAP
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase