J2EE Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 501 537
Rank change year-on-year -40 +36 +110
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 42 294 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.97% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 37
10th Percentile £26,750 £43,500 £41,148
25th Percentile £26,938 £46,278 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -28.57% +28.09%
75th Percentile £88,638 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,000 £83,529
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -

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 5,462 14,898 14,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.67% 18.86% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,289 10,664 8,648
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK excluding London

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 10 June 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 East +77 18 £28,500 -68.33% 12
Scotland -59 11 £81,376 +71.11% 3
Midlands +81 5 £30,000 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +70 5 £30,000 -14.29%
North of England +61 4 £83,577 +67.15% 3
Northern Ireland +45 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £83,577 - 1
North West +6 1 - - 2
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (33.33%) JBoss
1 14 (33.33%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (9.52%) Apache
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.52%) WebSphere
3 3 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (7.14%) Confluence
4 2 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Amazon EKS
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) Serverless
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
1 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 14 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.52%) Apache Hive
4 4 (9.52%) Big Data
4 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.52%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (9.52%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.76%) DB2
5 2 (4.76%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
1 17 (40.48%) JUnit
2 16 (38.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.76%) Maven
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.38%) Ant
5 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.38%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.38%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.38%) Protractor
5 1 (2.38%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 16 (38.10%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (23.81%) Law
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.90%) Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) Police
5 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Developer
2 29 (69.05%) Java Developer
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Junior
4 5 (11.90%) Junior Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Graduate
5 4 (9.52%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Graduate Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Lead Java Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) Spring
2 24 (57.14%) REST
3 19 (45.24%) Spring Boot
4 18 (42.86%) RESTful
5 17 (40.48%) Web Services
6 16 (38.10%) SOAP
7 14 (33.33%) Apache Camel
8 11 (26.19%) Kafka
9 8 (19.05%) Java EE
10 5 (11.90%) GWT
10 5 (11.90%) Hibernate
10 5 (11.90%) JPA
10 5 (11.90%) Middleware
10 5 (11.90%) Vaadin
11 3 (7.14%) JSR 170
11 3 (7.14%) OSGi
12 2 (4.76%) HTML
12 2 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
12 2 (4.76%) JSON
12 2 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Rocky
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) DevOps
2 20 (47.62%) Microservices
2 20 (47.62%) Scrum
3 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
3 16 (38.10%) TDD
4 15 (35.71%) BDD
4 15 (35.71%) Kanban
5 14 (33.33%) SDLC
6 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 7 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.29%) High Availability
9 5 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (11.90%) Community of Practice
9 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.90%) Multithreading
9 5 (11.90%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 40 (95.24%) Java
2 16 (38.10%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Degree
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Ansible
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle
1 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Sybase
3 3 (7.14%) Adobe
4 2 (4.76%) Curam
5 1 (2.38%) IBM