Hybrid/Remote J2SE Contract Job Trends

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring J2SE 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 300 - 402
Rank change year-on-year - - +179
Contract jobs citing J2SE 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.031% - 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £429 - £486
25th Percentile £430 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £465 - £616
90th Percentile £486 - £644
UK median daily rate £430 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -6.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

J2SE 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 2,582 3,132 4,843
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.69% 25.54% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,091 3,588
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 40 58
10th Percentile £31.00 £25.83 £41.25
25th Percentile £36.63 £40.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -33.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £83.25
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £64.18 £56.40
% change year-on-year -19.85% +13.79% -13.23%

J2SE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing J2SE and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

J2SE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing J2SE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing J2SE

J2SE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) EJB
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Play Framework
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Lean Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) webMethods
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase