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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 566 818
Rank change year-on-year +16 +252 -183
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 312 347 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 1.56% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 77 212
10th Percentile £46,544 £49,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,125 £67,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,000 £180,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -

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 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 12 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 26 July 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 -44 257 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Scotland +65 228 £51,279 -26.75%
England -94 64 £95,000 +4.40% 6
London +62 43 £105,000 +10.53% 2
Work from Home -158 24 £47,557 -32.06% 4
South East -27 15 £90,000 +80.00% 1
Northern Ireland +10 5 £47,500 - 2
North West -36 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
North of England -38 4 £50,000 +15.17% 2
East of England -5 2 £85,000 +13.33% 2
South West -20 2 £70,000 +16.67%
Wales -30 1 £67,500 - 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 98 (31.41%) FileNet
2 15 (4.81%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.92%) CMS
5 3 (0.96%) Confluence
5 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Pig
6 2 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.64%) GlassFish
6 2 (0.64%) JBoss
6 2 (0.64%) JCAPS
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.32%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (3.53%) Dynamics AX
1 11 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.64%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (38.14%) AWS
2 108 (34.62%) Amazon S3
3 49 (15.71%) GitHub
4 25 (8.01%) Azure
5 14 (4.49%) OpenShift
5 14 (4.49%) Serverless
6 12 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.53%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.24%) PaaS
10 6 (1.92%) GCP
11 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.60%) IaaS
11 5 (1.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) SSH
2 2 (0.64%) FTP
3 1 (0.32%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.32%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (50.32%) NoSQL
2 117 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
3 100 (32.05%) Apache Cassandra
4 37 (11.86%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.24%) Big Data
7 7 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.60%) DB2
8 5 (1.60%) Metadata
8 5 (1.60%) Power BI
8 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.64%) MySQL
9 2 (0.64%) OLAP
9 2 (0.64%) OLTP
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 187 (59.94%) JUnit
2 105 (33.65%) Jasmine
3 62 (19.87%) Jenkins
4 60 (19.23%) Cypress.io
4 60 (19.23%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (19.23%) Protractor
4 60 (19.23%) Selenium
4 60 (19.23%) WebDriver
5 46 (14.74%) Mockito
6 13 (4.17%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.24%) JIRA
8 5 (1.60%) Git
9 4 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.96%) Maven
11 2 (0.64%) Ant
11 2 (0.64%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.64%) Subversion
12 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 250 (80.13%) Finance
2 217 (69.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 216 (69.23%) Law
4 98 (31.41%) Legal
5 72 (23.08%) Banking
6 61 (19.55%) Investment Banking
7 45 (14.42%) Marketing
8 40 (12.82%) Social Skills
9 29 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.85%) Police
11 11 (3.53%) Front Office
12 4 (1.28%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.64%) Back Office
13 2 (0.64%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 225 (72.12%) Software Engineer
2 149 (47.76%) Java Engineer
3 147 (47.12%) Java Software Engineer
4 107 (34.29%) Full Stack Engineer
5 106 (33.97%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 61 (19.55%) Lead
7 54 (17.31%) Lead Software Engineer
8 47 (15.06%) Senior
9 32 (10.26%) Developer
10 22 (7.05%) Java Developer
10 22 (7.05%) Lead Java Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) Architect
13 13 (4.17%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.85%) Analyst
14 12 (3.85%) Applications Support
14 12 (3.85%) Applications Support Analyst
14 12 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.85%) Senior Support Analyst
14 12 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (84.29%) Spring
2 196 (62.82%) AngularJS
3 188 (60.26%) Hibernate
3 188 (60.26%) React
4 166 (53.21%) JMS
5 149 (47.76%) HTML
6 148 (47.44%) CSS
7 139 (44.55%) jQuery
7 139 (44.55%) JSON
8 135 (43.27%) Node.js
9 132 (42.31%) Kafka
9 132 (42.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 100 (32.05%) Spring Integration
11 98 (31.41%) GraphQL
12 60 (19.23%) Jest
13 49 (15.71%) Web Services
14 46 (14.74%) XML
15 30 (9.62%) JavaBeans
16 25 (8.01%) Spring Boot
17 19 (6.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 100 (32.05%) Cloud Native
2 94 (30.13%) Algorithms
3 79 (25.32%) Data Structures
4 34 (10.90%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.21%) Tandem
8 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.60%) Media Streaming
9 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.64%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.64%) DataPower
12 2 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.09%) Unix
2 7 (2.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) Solaris
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (80.13%) Agile
2 239 (76.60%) Software Engineering
3 237 (75.96%) CI/CD
4 231 (74.04%) SDLC
5 214 (68.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 209 (66.99%) Machine Learning
7 172 (55.13%) Operational Stability
8 130 (41.67%) Community of Practice
9 128 (41.03%) Full Stack Development
10 127 (40.71%) Microservices
11 109 (34.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (34.62%) Visualisation
13 100 (32.05%) AOP
13 100 (32.05%) Risk Management
14 99 (31.73%) Document Management
15 97 (31.09%) Decision-Making
16 82 (26.28%) Multithreading
17 71 (22.76%) TDD
18 68 (21.79%) BDD
19 62 (19.87%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 309 (99.04%) Java
2 197 (63.14%) SQL
3 156 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 133 (42.63%) TypeScript
5 14 (4.49%) Python
5 14 (4.49%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.21%) Go
7 9 (2.88%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.60%) C#
9 3 (0.96%) Perl
10 2 (0.64%) XPath
11 1 (0.32%) ABAP
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Groovy
11 1 (0.32%) ProC
Qualifications
1 38 (12.18%) Degree
2 29 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 29 (9.29%) Master's Degree
3 18 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.85%) SLA
2 10 (3.21%) QA
3 5 (1.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (5.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) OpenAM
2 3 (0.96%) OpenDJ
3 2 (0.64%) HDFS
3 2 (0.64%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 118 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.09%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.85%) OpenSSO
4 11 (3.53%) Terraform
5 5 (1.60%) Ansible
6 2 (0.64%) Control-M
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 153 (49.04%) Oracle
2 13 (4.17%) SAP
3 12 (3.85%) Remedy
4 11 (3.53%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.60%) Okta
6 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.60%) Sony
7 4 (1.28%) Splunk
8 3 (0.96%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.64%) Google
9 2 (0.64%) IBM
9 2 (0.64%) TSYS
9 2 (0.64%) WSO2
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe
10 1 (0.32%) BT
10 1 (0.32%) HP
10 1 (0.32%) Qualys
10 1 (0.32%) webMethods