Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring J2EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 603 574
Rank change year-on-year -119 -29 +158
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 38 70 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 0.79% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 32 47 66
10th Percentile - £27,500 £46,903
25th Percentile £28,750 £60,000 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -72.27% +33.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £138,750 £129,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £30,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% -45.45% -21.43%

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 10,242 8,902 19,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 18.08% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,656 5,893 14,573
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

J2EE job vacancy trend in the UK

J2EE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing J2EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing J2EE

J2EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 11 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 19 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
UK excluding London -82 33 £30,500 +1.67% 3
England -94 32 £30,500 -72.27% 5
South West -45 19 £29,500 -50.83% 2
Work from Home -36 8 £35,000 -68.18% 3
Scotland +17 6 £75,000 -3.23% 1
London -82 6 £77,500 -29.55% 3
North of England -31 5 £47,500 -43.17%
North West - 5 £47,500 -
Midlands -32 2 £100,000 +233.33%
East Midlands - 2 £100,000 -
South East -43 1 - -

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (10.53%) JBoss
2 2 (5.26%) CICS
3 1 (2.63%) Camunda
3 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.63%) PegaRULES
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) GCP
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) n8n
5 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Db2
1 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (63.16%) Git
2 23 (60.53%) Eclipse
3 19 (50.00%) Subversion
4 14 (36.84%) JUnit
5 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.89%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.63%) JIRA
7 1 (2.63%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (15.79%) Retail
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Marketing
2 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Developer
2 28 (73.68%) Java Developer
3 19 (50.00%) Junior
3 19 (50.00%) Junior Developer
3 19 (50.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 6 (15.79%) Technical Leader
5 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Pega Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Graduate C# Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Graduate Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Graduate Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Junior Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Linux Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Principal Java Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (71.05%) React
2 22 (57.89%) RESTful
3 21 (55.26%) Web Services
4 20 (52.63%) Struts
5 7 (18.42%) JSP
6 6 (15.79%) Next.js
7 5 (13.16%) REST
7 5 (13.16%) SOAP
8 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
8 4 (10.53%) HTML
8 4 (10.53%) Spring
9 3 (7.89%) CSS
9 3 (7.89%) CSS3
9 3 (7.89%) HTML5
9 3 (7.89%) Kafka
9 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
10 2 (5.26%) Hibernate
10 2 (5.26%) JMS
10 2 (5.26%) Middleware
10 2 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 17 (44.74%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (44.74%) Technical Architecture
4 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 13 (34.21%) SDLC
6 12 (31.58%) Agile
7 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
7 11 (28.95%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (21.05%) Regression Testing
9 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.79%) Code Quality
10 6 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
10 6 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (10.53%) Scrum
12 3 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (7.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (71.05%) JavaScript
3 19 (50.00%) Python
4 18 (47.37%) Perl
5 17 (44.74%) C++
6 6 (15.79%) SQL
6 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.26%) C#
9 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) Degree
2 19 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) QA
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle
1 3 (7.89%) Pega
2 2 (5.26%) Cognos
2 2 (5.26%) IBM
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Sybase
3 1 (2.63%) VMware