J2EE Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring J2EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 360 376
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +189
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 5 68 67
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.035% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 1.64% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4 61 48
10th Percentile £71,125 £98,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,813 £105,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £138,750 £116,875
90th Percentile - - £138,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +37.50% -5.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,658 4,138 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.85% 26.67% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,553 4,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

J2EE job vacancy trend in London

J2EE
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing J2EE

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (80.00%) React
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Wealth Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAM
2 1 (20.00%) OpenDJ
2 1 (20.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cognizant
1 1 (20.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity