J2EE Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring J2EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 551 440
Rank change year-on-year +39 -111 +283
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 3 16 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.043% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% 0.22% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 36
10th Percentile £52,600 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -14.04% +29.55%
75th Percentile £64,375 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £71,875 £89,717
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +46.67% -11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,850 7,219 7,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.29% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 4,080 5,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

J2EE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing J2EE

J2EE
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
South West +16 2 £57,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 -
Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Redux
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform