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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 308 377
Rank change year-on-year +24 +69 -4
Contract jobs citing J2EE 30 33 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 0.98% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 43
10th Percentile £274 £424 £456
25th Percentile £353 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £613
90th Percentile £838 £692 £625
UK median daily rate £402 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -25.90% -1.36% -

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 2,724 3,360 5,526
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.90% 25.46% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,917 2,357 4,102
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 84 63
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.68 £26.10
25th Percentile £42.13 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.81% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.42% +4.35%

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 5 August 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 2 (6.67%) JBoss
3 2 (6.67%) Mule
3 2 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.33%) CICS
4 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) OpenShift
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.67%) dbt
4 5 (16.67%) Serverless
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Kong
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (30.00%) Redis
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (16.67%) Apache Arrow
4 5 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
4 5 (16.67%) Dremio
5 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (10.00%) DB2
6 3 (10.00%) Hazelcast
7 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
7 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.33%) IMS/DB
8 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) Maven
2 14 (46.67%) Git
3 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (36.67%) JIRA
4 11 (36.67%) SonarQube
5 9 (30.00%) JUnit
5 9 (30.00%) Subversion
6 6 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (20.00%) IntelliJ
6 6 (20.00%) Mockito
6 6 (20.00%) Postman
6 6 (20.00%) REST Assured
6 6 (20.00%) SoapUI
6 6 (20.00%) Xcode
6 6 (20.00%) XCTest
7 5 (16.67%) Artifactory
8 3 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (10.00%) Gradle
8 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Banking
3 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.67%) Front Office
6 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) COBOL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) Kafka
2 19 (63.33%) Spring
3 18 (60.00%) Spring Boot
4 11 (36.67%) AngularJS
4 11 (36.67%) Web Services
5 10 (33.33%) CSS
5 10 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 10 (33.33%) HTML
6 9 (30.00%) Bootstrap
6 9 (30.00%) HTML5
6 9 (30.00%) Spring MVC
7 8 (26.67%) REST
7 8 (26.67%) SOAP
7 8 (26.67%) Spring Cloud
7 8 (26.67%) Swagger
8 7 (23.33%) CSS3
9 6 (20.00%) JPA
9 6 (20.00%) Material-UI
9 6 (20.00%) RESTful
10 5 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Unix
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Microservices
2 16 (53.33%) Agile
3 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) MVC
5 9 (30.00%) Multithreading
5 9 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Code Quality
6 8 (26.67%) Concurrent Programming
6 8 (26.67%) DevOps
6 8 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (23.33%) Open Source
8 6 (20.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.00%) Software Architecture
8 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
8 6 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) Java
2 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 8 (26.67%) Python
5 6 (20.00%) Groovy
6 5 (16.67%) Go
7 4 (13.33%) Bash
8 3 (10.00%) Perl
8 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (6.67%) COBOL
9 2 (6.67%) JCL
9 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (3.33%) REXX
10 1 (3.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (26.67%) Terraform
3 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (20.00%) Puppet
4 4 (13.33%) Control-M
5 3 (10.00%) Ansible
5 3 (10.00%) Grafana
5 3 (10.00%) Istio
5 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle
2 9 (30.00%) CA Agile Central
3 7 (23.33%) Dynatrace
4 6 (20.00%) Splunk
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.67%) Checkmarx
6 2 (6.67%) IBM
7 1 (3.33%) DocuSign
7 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.33%) Workday