J2EE Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 323 404
Rank change year-on-year +66 +81 +7
Contract jobs citing J2EE 47 22 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 0.60% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 57
10th Percentile £389 £413 £463
25th Percentile £622 £437 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +65.07% -14.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £838 £516 £613
90th Percentile - £723 £688
UK median daily rate £750 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +42.86% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 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%

J2EE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

J2EE trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing J2EE.

J2EE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing J2EE over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

J2EE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing J2EE.

J2EE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
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 28 (59.57%) Apache
1 28 (59.57%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (59.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (14.89%) WebSphere
3 3 (6.38%) JBoss
3 3 (6.38%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (4.26%) Confluence
4 2 (4.26%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) OpenShift
2 30 (63.83%) AWS
3 28 (59.57%) Amazon ECS
3 28 (59.57%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (59.57%) dbt
3 28 (59.57%) Serverless
4 7 (14.89%) Azure
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) Kong
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (59.57%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (59.57%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (59.57%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (59.57%) Dremio
2 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) Redis
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (6.38%) DB2
4 3 (6.38%) Hazelcast
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.26%) IMS/DB
6 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (59.57%) Artifactory
2 9 (19.15%) Maven
3 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (14.89%) JIRA
5 5 (10.64%) Git
5 5 (10.64%) JUnit
5 5 (10.64%) Subversion
6 3 (6.38%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (6.38%) Gradle
6 3 (6.38%) HP UFT
6 3 (6.38%) IntelliJ
6 3 (6.38%) NetBeans
6 3 (6.38%) Selenium
7 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (4.26%) Mockito
7 2 (4.26%) Postman
7 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.26%) XCTest
General
1 36 (76.60%) Finance
2 28 (59.57%) Front Office
3 12 (25.53%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (59.57%) AWS DevOps
1 28 (59.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 28 (59.57%) AWS Engineer
1 28 (59.57%) Data Engineer
1 28 (59.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 28 (59.57%) Python Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.38%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Java Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Support Specialist
6 1 (2.13%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Database Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (78.72%) Kafka
2 28 (59.57%) PySpark
3 11 (23.40%) Spring
4 9 (19.15%) Spring Boot
5 8 (17.02%) SOAP
5 8 (17.02%) Web Services
6 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
6 7 (14.89%) RESTful
7 6 (12.77%) HTML
7 6 (12.77%) XML
8 5 (10.64%) CSS
8 5 (10.64%) Hibernate
8 5 (10.64%) HTML5
8 5 (10.64%) Spring MVC
9 4 (8.51%) Bootstrap
9 4 (8.51%) Middleware
10 3 (6.38%) Ajax
10 3 (6.38%) jQuery
10 3 (6.38%) JSON
10 3 (6.38%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Unix
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Agile
2 31 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 31 (65.96%) DevOps
3 30 (63.83%) Open Source
4 29 (61.70%) Software Engineering
5 28 (59.57%) Asset Management
5 28 (59.57%) Data Engineering
5 28 (59.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (31.91%) Microservices
7 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) MVC
9 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.51%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (8.51%) Multithreading
9 4 (8.51%) Scrum
10 3 (6.38%) API Development
10 3 (6.38%) Data Transformation
10 3 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (6.38%) KYC
10 3 (6.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (91.49%) Java
2 32 (68.09%) Python
3 28 (59.57%) Go
4 6 (12.77%) SQL
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Perl
6 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) Groovy
7 2 (4.26%) REXX
7 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) COBOL
8 1 (2.13%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (70.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (70.21%) Kubernetes
2 31 (65.96%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) Progress Chef
3 6 (12.77%) Puppet
4 3 (6.38%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Control-M
4 3 (6.38%) Grafana
4 3 (6.38%) Istio
4 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.38%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.13%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Oracle
2 5 (10.64%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (6.38%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.38%) IBM
3 3 (6.38%) Pega
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.38%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.13%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) HP
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) VMware