Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 515 769
Rank change year-on-year -51 +254 -65
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 126 419 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 1.99% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 102 96 125
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £53,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £69,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +20.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £138,750 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -51.92% -7.14% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Salary trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +157 117 £110,000 +4.76% 33
London +122 101 £110,000 +4.76% 16
Work from Home +220 84 £110,000 +57.14% 15
UK excluding London -65 37 £31,250 -51.92% 22
South East +91 16 £28,500 -62.00% 6
Midlands +84 5 £30,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +53 5 £30,000 -14.29%
Scotland -46 5 £85,253 +33.73% 3
North of England +81 4 £83,577 +67.15% 4
Northern Ireland +37 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +76 3 £83,577 - 1
East of England +56 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
North West +28 1 - - 3

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 75 (59.52%) Apache
1 75 (59.52%) Apache Spark
2 71 (56.35%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (9.52%) JBoss
3 12 (9.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 7 (5.56%) WebSphere
5 4 (3.17%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (2.38%) Confluence
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 100 (79.37%) AWS
2 93 (73.81%) Amazon ECS
2 93 (73.81%) Serverless
3 81 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
3 81 (64.29%) OpenShift
4 71 (56.35%) dbt
5 15 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.97%) Azure
9 3 (2.38%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (56.35%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (56.35%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (56.35%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (56.35%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (56.35%) Dremio
2 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.35%) MySQL
6 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.17%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.17%) Big Data
7 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.38%) DB2
8 3 (2.38%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.59%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (64.29%) Artifactory
2 26 (20.63%) Jenkins
3 21 (16.67%) Git
4 16 (12.70%) JUnit
5 6 (4.76%) Eclipse
5 6 (4.76%) JIRA
5 6 (4.76%) Maven
6 5 (3.97%) Subversion
7 3 (2.38%) Gradle
8 2 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.59%) Mockito
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.59%) Postman
8 2 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.59%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.59%) Xcode
8 2 (1.59%) XCTest
9 1 (0.79%) NetBeans
General
1 97 (76.98%) Finance
2 81 (64.29%) Front Office
3 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.14%) Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Law
6 5 (3.97%) Police
7 3 (2.38%) Retail
7 3 (2.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 81 (64.29%) AWS DevOps
1 81 (64.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 81 (64.29%) AWS Engineer
1 81 (64.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (56.35%) Data Engineer
2 71 (56.35%) Python Engineer
3 31 (24.60%) Developer
4 30 (23.81%) Java Developer
5 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 10 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Software Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Junior
7 5 (3.97%) Junior Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Graduate
8 4 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Graduate Java Developer
9 3 (2.38%) Software Manager
10 2 (1.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (63.49%) Kafka
2 71 (56.35%) PySpark
3 26 (20.63%) Spring
4 23 (18.25%) REST
5 21 (16.67%) SOAP
6 19 (15.08%) Spring Boot
6 19 (15.08%) Web Services
7 17 (13.49%) RESTful
8 12 (9.52%) Apache Camel
9 8 (6.35%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.35%) Java EE
10 7 (5.56%) JPA
10 7 (5.56%) XML
11 6 (4.76%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.76%) Vaadin
12 5 (3.97%) GWT
12 5 (3.97%) Middleware
13 4 (3.17%) JDBC
13 4 (3.17%) React
13 4 (3.17%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.94%) Tandem
3 8 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 7 (5.56%) Unix
3 5 (3.97%) Rocky
4 3 (2.38%) Android
4 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (85.71%) Agile
2 99 (78.57%) DevOps
3 93 (73.81%) Software Engineering
4 85 (67.46%) CI/CD
5 81 (64.29%) Asset Management
5 81 (64.29%) Open Source
5 81 (64.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 71 (56.35%) Data Engineering
7 22 (17.46%) Microservices
8 16 (12.70%) Scrum
9 15 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (11.90%) TDD
10 13 (10.32%) SDLC
11 12 (9.52%) BDD
11 12 (9.52%) Kanban
12 10 (7.94%) Decision-Making
12 10 (7.94%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (7.94%) Financial Modelling
13 8 (6.35%) Requirements Analysis
14 7 (5.56%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 121 (96.03%) Java
2 82 (65.08%) Python
3 81 (64.29%) Go
4 15 (11.90%) SQL
5 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Degree
4 5 (3.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) SLA
2 3 (2.38%) SEPA
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 101 (80.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 98 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 81 (64.29%) Terraform
3 12 (9.52%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Oracle
2 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
2 5 (3.97%) Sybase
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.38%) Adobe
5 2 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.59%) Curam
5 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.59%) Pega
5 2 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow