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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 556 715
Rank change year-on-year -46 +159 +30
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 107 378 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.77% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 79 80 98
10th Percentile £30,500 £46,306 £51,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £68,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £138,750 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £180,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% -28.57% +28.09%

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 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +152 96 £110,000 +4.76% 22
London +127 83 £110,000 +4.76% 10
Work from Home +157 72 £110,000 +131.30% 7
UK excluding London -53 38 £30,000 -40.00% 18
South East +77 18 £28,500 -68.33% 12
Scotland -57 7 £85,253 +79.26% 3
Midlands +89 5 £30,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +61 5 £30,000 -14.29%
North of England +53 4 £83,577 +67.15%
Northern Ireland +44 4 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £83,577 -
North West +7 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 63 (58.88%) Apache
1 63 (58.88%) Apache Spark
2 59 (55.14%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (14.02%) JBoss
4 14 (13.08%) Red Hat Fuse
5 7 (6.54%) WebSphere
6 4 (3.74%) Confluence
7 3 (2.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 78 (72.90%) AWS
2 74 (69.16%) Serverless
3 73 (68.22%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (56.07%) AWS Lambda
4 60 (56.07%) OpenShift
5 59 (55.14%) dbt
6 17 (15.89%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.80%) Azure
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (55.14%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (55.14%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (55.14%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (55.14%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (55.14%) Dremio
2 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (13.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.67%) MySQL
5 4 (3.74%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.74%) Big Data
5 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.80%) DB2
6 3 (2.80%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.80%) Redis
7 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.87%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 59 (55.14%) Artifactory
2 21 (19.63%) Git
3 19 (17.76%) Jenkins
3 19 (17.76%) JUnit
4 7 (6.54%) JIRA
5 4 (3.74%) Maven
6 3 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.80%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.80%) Mockito
6 3 (2.80%) Postman
6 3 (2.80%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.80%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.80%) Subversion
6 3 (2.80%) Xcode
6 3 (2.80%) XCTest
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.93%) NetBeans
General
1 79 (73.83%) Finance
2 59 (55.14%) Front Office
3 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.35%) Banking
5 9 (8.41%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.54%) Law
7 5 (4.67%) Police
8 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.80%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (55.14%) AWS DevOps
1 59 (55.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 59 (55.14%) AWS Engineer
1 59 (55.14%) Data Engineer
1 59 (55.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 59 (55.14%) Python Engineer
2 31 (28.97%) Developer
3 29 (27.10%) Java Developer
4 11 (10.28%) Software Engineer
5 5 (4.67%) Junior
5 5 (4.67%) Junior Developer
5 5 (4.67%) Junior Java Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Graduate
6 4 (3.74%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Graduate Java Developer
7 3 (2.80%) Java Engineer
7 3 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (2.80%) Software Manager
8 2 (1.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (67.29%) Kafka
2 59 (55.14%) PySpark
3 29 (27.10%) Spring
4 26 (24.30%) REST
5 22 (20.56%) SOAP
5 22 (20.56%) Spring Boot
6 20 (18.69%) RESTful
6 20 (18.69%) Web Services
7 14 (13.08%) Apache Camel
8 9 (8.41%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.48%) Java EE
9 8 (7.48%) JPA
10 6 (5.61%) Vaadin
11 5 (4.67%) GWT
11 5 (4.67%) Middleware
11 5 (4.67%) XML
12 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.74%) CSS
12 4 (3.74%) HTML
13 3 (2.80%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Unix
3 5 (4.67%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (85.05%) Agile
2 79 (73.83%) DevOps
3 74 (69.16%) Software Engineering
4 65 (60.75%) CI/CD
5 59 (55.14%) Asset Management
5 59 (55.14%) Data Engineering
5 59 (55.14%) Open Source
5 59 (55.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 25 (23.36%) Microservices
7 18 (16.82%) Scrum
7 18 (16.82%) TDD
8 16 (14.95%) SDLC
9 14 (13.08%) BDD
9 14 (13.08%) Kanban
10 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.48%) Multithreading
12 8 (7.48%) Requirements Analysis
13 7 (6.54%) Concurrent Programming
13 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 102 (95.33%) Java
2 60 (56.07%) Python
3 59 (55.14%) Go
4 17 (15.89%) SQL
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.80%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) SEPA
3 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 79 (73.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (71.03%) Kubernetes
2 59 (55.14%) Terraform
3 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Oracle
2 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (4.67%) Sybase
3 4 (3.74%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Adobe
4 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.80%) Splunk
5 2 (1.87%) Curam
5 2 (1.87%) Pega
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow