J2EE Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring J2EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £430 - -
England median daily rate £368 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -33.18% +3.00% -7.13%

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 371 338 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.37% 18.08% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 183 218
10th Percentile £373 £363 £325
25th Percentile £445 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £594
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

J2EE job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing J2EE

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 20 October 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 - 4 £430 - 1
J2EE
England

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