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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 477 618
Rank change year-on-year -64 +141 -11
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 38 304 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.43% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 2.13% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 47
10th Percentile £26,750 £42,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £27,313 £46,306 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -28.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £66,109 £78,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £88,441
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +27.27% +10.00%

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 5,382 14,272 16,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.80% 20.15% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,500 10,278 9,115
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 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +87 17 £28,500 -68.33% 14
Midlands +64 5 £30,000 -14.29% 7
West Midlands +57 5 £30,000 -14.29% 1
Scotland -60 5 £85,253 +66.25% 7
North of England +54 4 £83,577 +67.15% 6
Northern Ireland +47 4 - - 3
East of England +46 3 £55,000 -16.98% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £83,577 - 3
North West +5 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 13 (34.21%) JBoss
1 13 (34.21%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (10.53%) Apache
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.53%) WebSphere
3 3 (7.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (7.89%) Confluence
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (7.89%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (34.21%) Serverless
4 3 (7.89%) Azure
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (34.21%) Relational Database
2 7 (18.42%) MySQL
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) Apache Hive
3 4 (10.53%) Big Data
3 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.89%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.26%) DB2
5 2 (5.26%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (50.00%) Git
2 15 (39.47%) JUnit
3 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.16%) Eclipse
5 3 (7.89%) Gradle
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA
5 3 (7.89%) Maven
5 3 (7.89%) Subversion
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (34.21%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
3 5 (13.16%) Law
3 5 (13.16%) Police
4 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
5 3 (7.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (81.58%) Developer
2 30 (78.95%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Junior
4 5 (13.16%) Junior Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Graduate
5 4 (10.53%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Graduate Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (57.89%) Spring
2 19 (50.00%) REST
3 18 (47.37%) SOAP
3 18 (47.37%) Web Services
4 17 (44.74%) RESTful
4 17 (44.74%) Spring Boot
5 13 (34.21%) Apache Camel
6 8 (21.05%) Java EE
7 6 (15.79%) Kafka
8 5 (13.16%) GWT
8 5 (13.16%) JPA
8 5 (13.16%) Middleware
8 5 (13.16%) Vaadin
8 5 (13.16%) XML
9 4 (10.53%) Hibernate
10 3 (7.89%) JAXB
10 3 (7.89%) JDBC
10 3 (7.89%) JSF
10 3 (7.89%) Struts
10 3 (7.89%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (21.05%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Rocky
3 3 (7.89%) Android
3 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) Agile
2 18 (47.37%) DevOps
3 17 (44.74%) Microservices
3 17 (44.74%) Scrum
4 14 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (34.21%) BDD
5 13 (34.21%) Kanban
5 13 (34.21%) TDD
6 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
7 9 (23.68%) SDLC
8 7 (18.42%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (15.79%) Design Patterns
9 6 (15.79%) Web Development
10 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 4 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
10 4 (10.53%) OOD
10 4 (10.53%) OOP
10 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) Java
2 12 (31.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (34.21%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) Sybase
4 3 (7.89%) Adobe
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Curam