Hybrid/Remote Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 260 286
Rank change year-on-year -86 +26 +58
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 17 45 57
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 1.63% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 36 35
10th Percentile £400 £270 £417
25th Percentile £415 £337 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -25.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £763 £656
90th Percentile £658 £838 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £402 £546
% change year-on-year +39.93% -26.41% +6.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Jakarta EE 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 3,154 2,755 3,473
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.37% 27.17% 24.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 1,949 2,469
10th Percentile £363 £350 £338
25th Percentile £431 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +4.36%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 46 85
10th Percentile £47.59 £31.00 £35.40
25th Percentile £62.50 £52.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +51.16% -33.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Jakarta EE daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
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 4 (23.53%) nginx
1 4 (23.53%) Tomcat
2 3 (17.65%) WebLogic
3 2 (11.76%) Apache
3 2 (11.76%) JBoss
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Confluence
4 1 (5.88%) Ethereum
4 1 (5.88%) Hyperledger
4 1 (5.88%) Mule
4 1 (5.88%) Mule ESB
4 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) MinIO
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) GIS
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.88%) Advertising
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) REST
3 4 (23.53%) EJB
3 4 (23.53%) OpenLayers
4 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 3 (17.65%) Middleware
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
5 2 (11.76%) Java SE
5 2 (11.76%) OAuth
5 2 (11.76%) OpenID
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) EDI
6 1 (5.88%) JDBC
6 1 (5.88%) JSP
6 1 (5.88%) ODBC
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Solaris
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) ETL
3 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Master Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) TDD
5 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) Data Privacy
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.88%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.88%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) XPath
6 1 (5.88%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) New Relic
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Sybase