Jakarta EE Job Trends in England

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers permanent 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 669 597 719
Rank change year-on-year -72 +122 -53
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 40 60 86
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.045% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.76% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 31 46 54
10th Percentile - £27,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £55,625 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £110,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -72.27% +41.94% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £138,750 £136,500
UK median annual salary £31,500 £110,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -71.36% +41.94% +10.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Jakarta EE 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 9,203 7,923 15,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.38% 18.28% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,062 5,363 12,217
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Jakarta EE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in England

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in England over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Jakarta EE in England

Jakarta EE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jakarta EE within the England region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
South West -43 19 £29,500 -50.83% 2
London -45 9 £62,750 -42.95% 7
North of England -22 7 £47,500 -43.17%
South East -38 7 £82,500 +189.47% 1
North West - 5 £47,500 -
Midlands -37 2 £100,000 +233.33%
Yorkshire -38 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £100,000 -
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (10.00%) JBoss
2 2 (5.00%) CICS
3 1 (2.50%) Camunda
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) PegaRULES
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) GCP
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.50%) n8n
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.50%) Db2
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.00%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (70.00%) Git
2 23 (57.50%) Eclipse
3 19 (47.50%) Subversion
4 14 (35.00%) JUnit
5 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.50%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.50%) JIRA
7 1 (2.50%) NetBeans
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Retail
3 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 37 (92.50%) Developer
2 35 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 19 (47.50%) Junior
3 19 (47.50%) Junior Developer
3 19 (47.50%) Junior Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Pega Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Graduate Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Junior C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Junior Python Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Linux Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.00%) SQL Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) React
2 25 (62.50%) Web Services
3 24 (60.00%) RESTful
4 20 (50.00%) Struts
5 12 (30.00%) REST
5 12 (30.00%) Spring
6 9 (22.50%) AngularJS
7 8 (20.00%) SOAP
8 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
9 6 (15.00%) JMS
10 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (12.50%) JPA
10 5 (12.50%) Middleware
10 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (10.00%) HTML
12 3 (7.50%) CSS
12 3 (7.50%) Hibernate
12 3 (7.50%) HTML5
12 3 (7.50%) Kafka
12 3 (7.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 19 (47.50%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
4 12 (30.00%) DevOps
5 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (27.50%) Requirements Analysis
5 11 (27.50%) Technical Architecture
6 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (22.50%) Scrum
7 9 (22.50%) TDD
8 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (20.00%) Regression Testing
8 8 (20.00%) SDLC
9 7 (17.50%) BDD
10 6 (15.00%) Kanban
10 6 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (12.50%) Microservices
12 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 4 (10.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (52.50%) JavaScript
3 19 (47.50%) Python
4 18 (45.00%) Perl
5 17 (42.50%) C++
6 10 (25.00%) SQL
7 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.00%) C#
9 1 (2.50%) Groovy
9 1 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Degree
2 20 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Kibana
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) IBM
3 4 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.50%) Pega
5 2 (5.00%) Cognos
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (2.50%) VMware