Jakarta EE Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 575 501 451
Rank change year-on-year -74 -50 +77
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 40 40 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.12% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.79% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 30 17 29
10th Percentile - £26,750 -
25th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -35.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £76,875 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £91,934 £90,000
UK median annual salary £31,500 £110,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -71.36% +41.94% +10.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,187 5,077 12,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 14.96% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 3,211 8,830
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Jakarta EE in the UK excluding London

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the UK excluding London 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
South West -43 19 £29,500 -50.83% 3
Scotland +11 7 £75,000 +47.06% 1
North of England -22 7 £47,500 -43.17%
South East -38 7 £82,500 +189.47% 1
North West - 5 £47,500 -
Midlands -37 2 £100,000 +233.33%
Yorkshire -38 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £100,000 -
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) JBoss
2 2 (5.00%) CICS
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) PegaRULES
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (27.50%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) Db2
2 2 (5.00%) Hazelcast
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (70.00%) Git
2 22 (55.00%) Eclipse
3 20 (50.00%) Subversion
4 14 (35.00%) JUnit
5 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
6 4 (10.00%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.50%) JIRA
7 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Retail
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 30 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (42.50%) Junior
3 17 (42.50%) Junior Developer
3 17 (42.50%) Junior Java Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Technical Leader
5 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Pega Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) SQL Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Java Applications Developer
8 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior
8 1 (2.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (77.50%) React
2 24 (60.00%) RESTful
2 24 (60.00%) Web Services
3 19 (47.50%) Struts
4 10 (25.00%) REST
5 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 8 (20.00%) Spring
6 7 (17.50%) JSP
7 6 (15.00%) JMS
7 6 (15.00%) Next.js
7 6 (15.00%) SOAP
7 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
8 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (12.50%) JPA
9 4 (10.00%) CSS
9 4 (10.00%) CSS3
9 4 (10.00%) HTML
9 4 (10.00%) HTML5
9 4 (10.00%) Middleware
9 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (42.50%) Agile
4 17 (42.50%) Technical Architecture
5 16 (40.00%) DevOps
6 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
7 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.00%) SDLC
8 11 (27.50%) Requirements Analysis
9 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (25.00%) Scrum
10 8 (20.00%) Code Quality
10 8 (20.00%) Regression Testing
11 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
12 6 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (15.00%) Kanban
12 6 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (15.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
3 17 (42.50%) C++
3 17 (42.50%) Perl
3 17 (42.50%) Python
4 9 (22.50%) SQL
5 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
6 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Kibana
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) IBM
3 4 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.50%) Pega
5 2 (5.00%) Cognos
6 1 (2.50%) VMware