J2EE Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 718 789
Rank change year-on-year +160 +71 -95
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 114 113 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 0.65% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 97 66 89
10th Percentile £49,500 £48,750 £51,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £69,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £138,750 £130,313 £102,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £180,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,802 17,415 27,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 20.30% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,756 14,148 16,775
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +8.00%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Salary trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for J2EE in England

J2EE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +127 98 £110,000 +4.76% 18
South East +79 17 £28,500 -62.00% 10
Midlands +66 5 £30,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +62 5 £30,000 -14.29%
North of England +52 4 £83,577 +67.15% 1
East of England +37 3 £55,000 -16.98% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £83,577 - 1
North West +12 1 - -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 71 (62.28%) Apache
1 71 (62.28%) Apache Airflow
1 71 (62.28%) Apache Spark
2 13 (11.40%) JBoss
2 13 (11.40%) Red Hat Fuse
3 4 (3.51%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.63%) Confluence
4 3 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.63%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 96 (84.21%) AWS
2 90 (78.95%) Amazon ECS
2 90 (78.95%) Serverless
3 77 (67.54%) AWS Lambda
3 77 (67.54%) OpenShift
4 71 (62.28%) dbt
5 15 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.39%) Azure
9 3 (2.63%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (62.28%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (62.28%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (62.28%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (62.28%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (62.28%) Dremio
2 15 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.51%) MySQL
6 3 (2.63%) MariaDB
6 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) DB2
8 1 (0.88%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.88%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 77 (67.54%) Artifactory
2 23 (20.18%) Jenkins
3 22 (19.30%) Git
4 15 (13.16%) JUnit
5 6 (5.26%) JIRA
5 6 (5.26%) Maven
6 5 (4.39%) Subversion
7 4 (3.51%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.63%) Gradle
9 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.75%) Mockito
9 2 (1.75%) Postman
9 2 (1.75%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.75%) Xcode
9 2 (1.75%) XCTest
10 1 (0.88%) NetBeans
General
1 86 (75.44%) Finance
2 77 (67.54%) Front Office
3 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
5 5 (4.39%) Law
5 5 (4.39%) Police
6 4 (3.51%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Advertising
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (67.54%) AWS DevOps
1 77 (67.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 77 (67.54%) AWS Engineer
1 77 (67.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (62.28%) Data Engineer
2 71 (62.28%) Python Engineer
3 26 (22.81%) Developer
3 26 (22.81%) Java Developer
4 6 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 6 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (4.39%) Junior
5 5 (4.39%) Junior Developer
5 5 (4.39%) Junior Java Developer
5 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
6 4 (3.51%) Graduate
6 4 (3.51%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (3.51%) Graduate Java Developer
7 3 (2.63%) Software Manager
8 2 (1.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (1.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (65.79%) Kafka
2 71 (62.28%) PySpark
3 22 (19.30%) Spring
4 21 (18.42%) REST
5 20 (17.54%) SOAP
6 18 (15.79%) RESTful
6 18 (15.79%) Web Services
7 16 (14.04%) Spring Boot
8 13 (11.40%) Apache Camel
9 7 (6.14%) JPA
10 6 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.26%) Vaadin
11 5 (4.39%) GWT
11 5 (4.39%) Middleware
11 5 (4.39%) XML
12 4 (3.51%) Hibernate
12 4 (3.51%) JDBC
12 4 (3.51%) JSP
12 4 (3.51%) React
12 4 (3.51%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.02%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.26%) Tandem
4 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Linux
1 5 (4.39%) Rocky
1 5 (4.39%) Unix
2 3 (2.63%) Android
2 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (85.96%) Agile
2 94 (82.46%) DevOps
3 82 (71.93%) Software Engineering
4 77 (67.54%) Asset Management
4 77 (67.54%) CI/CD
4 77 (67.54%) Open Source
4 77 (67.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 71 (62.28%) Data Engineering
6 23 (20.18%) Microservices
7 16 (14.04%) TDD
8 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (11.40%) BDD
9 13 (11.40%) Kanban
9 13 (11.40%) Scrum
10 9 (7.89%) SDLC
11 7 (6.14%) Requirements Analysis
12 6 (5.26%) Decision-Making
12 6 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (5.26%) Financial Modelling
12 6 (5.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (96.49%) Java
2 78 (68.42%) Python
3 77 (67.54%) Go
4 9 (7.89%) SQL
5 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (0.88%) Perl
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.40%) SLA
2 2 (1.75%) SEPA
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 97 (85.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 95 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 77 (67.54%) Terraform
3 13 (11.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (7.02%) Oracle
2 5 (4.39%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.75%) Pega
5 2 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Sybase