Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 724 606 523
Rank change year-on-year -118 -83 +114
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 48 74 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.84% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 36 49 82
10th Percentile - £27,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £110,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -71.36% +41.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £138,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% -35.00% -28.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Jakarta EE 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 10,218 8,861 18,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 18.01% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,644 5,854 13,720
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £113,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in the UK

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jakarta EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Jakarta EE in the UK

Jakarta EE
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jakarta EE within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
England -72 40 £30,500 -72.27% 12
UK excluding London -74 40 £30,500 -6.15% 5
South West -43 19 £29,500 -50.83% 3
Work from Home -53 10 £47,500 -56.82% 5
London -45 9 £62,750 -42.95% 8
Scotland +11 7 £75,000 +47.06% 1
North of England -22 7 £47,500 -43.17%
South East -38 7 £82,500 +189.47% 1
North West - 5 £47,500 -
Midlands -37 2 £100,000 +233.33%
Yorkshire -38 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £100,000 -

Jakarta EE
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 (8.33%) JBoss
2 2 (4.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.08%) Camunda
3 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.08%) PegaRULES
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 11 (22.92%) GCP
4 6 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.08%) n8n
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.25%) Db2
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (60.42%) Git
2 23 (47.92%) Eclipse
3 20 (41.67%) Subversion
4 14 (29.17%) JUnit
5 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.17%) JIRA
8 1 (2.08%) Maven
8 1 (2.08%) NetBeans
General
1 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (79.17%) Developer
2 36 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 19 (39.58%) Junior
3 19 (39.58%) Junior Developer
3 19 (39.58%) Junior Java Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Lead
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 5 (10.42%) Backend Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Pega Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Graduate C# Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Graduate Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Graduate Python Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Junior Python Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Linux Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Java Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (68.75%) React
2 25 (52.08%) Web Services
3 24 (50.00%) RESTful
4 20 (41.67%) Struts
5 14 (29.17%) REST
5 14 (29.17%) Spring
6 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
6 9 (18.75%) SOAP
7 8 (16.67%) JSP
7 8 (16.67%) Spring Boot
8 6 (12.50%) JMS
8 6 (12.50%) JPA
8 6 (12.50%) Middleware
8 6 (12.50%) Next.js
9 5 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (10.42%) HTML
9 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (10.42%) Spring MVC
10 4 (8.33%) CSS3
10 4 (8.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 7 (14.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (43.75%) Computer Science
3 20 (41.67%) Agile
3 20 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (37.50%) DevOps
5 17 (35.42%) Technical Architecture
6 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
7 14 (29.17%) SDLC
8 11 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (22.92%) Requirements Analysis
9 10 (20.83%) Scrum
10 9 (18.75%) TDD
11 8 (16.67%) Code Quality
11 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 8 (16.67%) Regression Testing
12 7 (14.58%) BDD
13 6 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
13 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 19 (39.58%) Python
4 18 (37.50%) Perl
5 17 (35.42%) C++
6 10 (20.83%) SQL
7 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
8 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.17%) C#
10 1 (2.08%) Groovy
10 1 (2.08%) Ruby
10 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Degree
2 21 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 4 (8.33%) Kibana
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) IBM
3 4 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.25%) Pega
5 2 (4.17%) Cognos
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Sybase
6 1 (2.08%) VMware