Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 746 715
Rank change year-on-year +226 -31 -116
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 415 225 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 0.71% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 95 130 257
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,358 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £136,250 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 16 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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +195 323 £70,000 - 8
Scotland +91 260 £72,500 -2.28% 2
England +97 132 £105,000 +23.53% 22
London +135 88 £105,000 +10.53% 15
Work from Home +46 57 £70,000 -7.49% 7
South East +47 34 £75,000 +36.36% 4
North of England +37 8 £50,000 -9.09%
Wales 0 8 - -
North West +6 5 £50,000 -37.50%
East of England +7 4 £75,000 -11.76%
South West -2 4 £76,788 +27.98%
Yorkshire +87 3 £83,577 -
Midlands +3 3 £35,000 -46.15% 2
Northern Ireland +29 2 - -
West Midlands +27 2 £35,000 -56.25% 2
East Midlands -20 1 - -

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 96 (23.13%) FileNet
2 32 (7.71%) WebLogic
3 18 (4.34%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.17%) JBoss
5 8 (1.93%) Apache Pig
5 8 (1.93%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Fuse
5 8 (1.93%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.96%) Confluence
6 4 (0.96%) IIS
7 3 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.48%) GlassFish
8 2 (0.48%) JCAPS
8 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.24%) Apache
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 18 (4.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.37%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.96%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.48%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (40.72%) AWS
2 132 (31.81%) Amazon S3
3 73 (17.59%) Serverless
4 50 (12.05%) GitHub
5 44 (10.60%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (9.64%) OpenShift
7 38 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (9.16%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.51%) Azure
10 14 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.37%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.37%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.69%) PaaS
13 6 (1.45%) GCP
14 5 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.20%) IaaS
14 5 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) FTP
1 2 (0.48%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.24%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (39.28%) NoSQL
2 150 (36.14%) Elasticsearch
3 97 (23.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 61 (14.70%) Relational Database
5 38 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (6.02%) MongoDB
8 15 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.93%) Apache Hive
9 8 (1.93%) Big Data
9 8 (1.93%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.20%) Metadata
10 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.20%) Power BI
10 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.96%) MySQL
11 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 197 (47.47%) JUnit
2 104 (25.06%) Jasmine
3 98 (23.61%) Jenkins
4 60 (14.46%) Cypress.io
4 60 (14.46%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (14.46%) Protractor
4 60 (14.46%) Selenium
4 60 (14.46%) WebDriver
5 45 (10.84%) Mockito
6 40 (9.64%) Git
7 39 (9.40%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.93%) Checkstyle
8 8 (1.93%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.69%) JIRA
9 7 (1.69%) Maven
10 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.48%) Ant
11 2 (0.48%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 299 (72.05%) Finance
2 244 (58.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 244 (58.80%) Law
3 108 (26.02%) Legal
4 72 (17.35%) Banking
5 67 (16.14%) Marketing
6 60 (14.46%) Investment Banking
7 50 (12.05%) Social Skills
8 44 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (8.67%) Front Office
10 22 (5.30%) Police
11 12 (2.89%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.72%) Publishing
13 2 (0.48%) Automotive
13 2 (0.48%) Back Office
13 2 (0.48%) Retail
13 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.24%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 274 (66.02%) Software Engineer
2 196 (47.23%) Java Engineer
3 194 (46.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 116 (27.95%) Full Stack Engineer
4 116 (27.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 81 (19.52%) Lead
6 69 (16.63%) Lead Software Engineer
7 64 (15.42%) Senior
8 43 (10.36%) Developer
9 37 (8.92%) Lead Java Engineer
10 36 (8.67%) AWS DevOps
10 36 (8.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 36 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (8.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 36 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 33 (7.95%) Applications Support
12 29 (6.99%) Analyst
12 29 (6.99%) Applications Support Analyst
12 29 (6.99%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (80.96%) Spring
2 227 (54.70%) React
3 218 (52.53%) AngularJS
4 187 (45.06%) Hibernate
5 174 (41.93%) JMS
6 142 (34.22%) CSS
7 141 (33.98%) HTML
8 140 (33.73%) JSON
8 140 (33.73%) Node.js
9 139 (33.49%) Kafka
10 133 (32.05%) jQuery
11 131 (31.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 96 (23.13%) GraphQL
12 96 (23.13%) Spring Integration
13 61 (14.70%) Web Services
14 60 (14.46%) Jest
15 54 (13.01%) XML
16 39 (9.40%) JavaBeans
17 33 (7.95%) Java EE
18 32 (7.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 104 (25.06%) Algorithms
2 98 (23.61%) Cloud Native
3 79 (19.04%) Data Structures
4 43 (10.36%) Onboarding
5 36 (8.67%) Tandem
6 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 9 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.48%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.48%) FMCG
11 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.43%) Unix
2 11 (2.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Solaris
4 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (77.35%) Agile
2 313 (75.42%) Software Engineering
3 296 (71.33%) CI/CD
4 258 (62.17%) SDLC
5 224 (53.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 219 (52.77%) Machine Learning
7 200 (48.19%) Operational Stability
8 155 (37.35%) Community of Practice
9 154 (37.11%) Microservices
10 137 (33.01%) Full Stack Development
11 125 (30.12%) Decision-Making
12 121 (29.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (28.43%) Visualisation
14 108 (26.02%) Risk Management
15 98 (23.61%) AOP
16 96 (23.13%) Document Management
17 81 (19.52%) Multithreading
18 80 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
18 80 (19.28%) TDD
19 77 (18.55%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 413 (99.52%) Java
2 229 (55.18%) SQL
3 156 (37.59%) JavaScript
4 131 (31.57%) TypeScript
5 65 (15.66%) Python
6 36 (8.67%) Go
7 31 (7.47%) Shell Script
8 29 (6.99%) C#
9 21 (5.06%) Ruby
10 12 (2.89%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.72%) C
13 2 (0.48%) Bash
13 2 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.48%) XPath
14 1 (0.24%) ABAP
14 1 (0.24%) C++
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) ProC
Qualifications
1 44 (10.60%) Degree
2 42 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (6.99%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) CISSP
8 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.99%) SLA
2 10 (2.41%) QA
3 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (12.29%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.24%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 152 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.92%) Terraform
3 34 (8.19%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (6.99%) OpenSSO
5 9 (2.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.48%) Control-M
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 191 (46.02%) Oracle
2 29 (6.99%) Remedy
3 23 (5.54%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.61%) SAP
5 8 (1.93%) WSO2
6 5 (1.20%) Google
6 5 (1.20%) Okta
6 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.96%) Splunk
7 4 (0.96%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.72%) Adobe
8 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.24%) BT
9 1 (0.24%) CA
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco
9 1 (0.24%) Dell
9 1 (0.24%) HP
9 1 (0.24%) Qualys
9 1 (0.24%) webMethods