Jakarta EE Job Trends in the South East

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 309 271 337
Rank change year-on-year -38 +66 -20
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 7 13 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.044% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 1.15% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £76,250 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 £26,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £28,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% -40.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £30,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,750 - £80,000
England median annual salary £30,500 £110,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -72.27% +41.94% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,584 1,126 2,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.94% 13.06% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 778 2,223
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,875 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the South East

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jakarta EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jakarta EE within the South East 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
Berkshire +18 7 £82,500 - 1
Thames Valley +13 7 £82,500 - 1
Jakarta EE
England

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
2 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) JMS
3 4 (57.14%) JPA
3 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (57.14%) React
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
6 1 (14.29%) Mustache
6 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Kanban
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) BDD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
6 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 2 (28.57%) MVC
7 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Kibana
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) AppDynamics
2 4 (57.14%) IBM