J2EE Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 100 97
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +38
Contract jobs citing J2EE 2 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.13% 0.27% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 1.32% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £453 £463
25th Percentile - £494 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile - £613 £625
90th Percentile - £628 £650
England median daily rate £384 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -30.18% +1.85% -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 341 302 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.96% 20.09% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 213 315
10th Percentile £356 £419 £396
25th Percentile £400 £465 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £695
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - -39.54% -36.12%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Yorkshire

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing J2EE

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -1 2 £700 +21.74% 1
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle