EJB Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring EJB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EJB 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 302 341 463
Rank change year-on-year +39 +122 +156
Contract jobs citing EJB 2 4 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.026% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £719 £438
25th Percentile £388 £728 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £763 £563
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +35.56% +10.29%
75th Percentile £463 £803 £638
90th Percentile - £816 £693
UK median daily rate £402 £763 £525
% change year-on-year -47.28% +45.24% -10.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

EJB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing EJB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

EJB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

EJB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing EJB.

EJB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

EJB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AOP
1 2 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle