J2EE Job Trends in the North West

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring J2EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 191 258
Rank change year-on-year -7 +67 +47
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.050% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.13% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -29.55% +12.82% +14.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 611 777 1,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.65% 19.47% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 528 588 1,436
10th Percentile £29,525 £33,525 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,215 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +3.89% -0.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

J2EE job vacancy trend in the North West

J2EE
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing J2EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing J2EE

J2EE
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Manchester +1 4 £47,500 - 1
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Pega Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Pega
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) VMware