Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 539 879 702
Rank change year-on-year +340 -177 -145
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 189 212 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 0.51% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 21 129 184
10th Percentile £39,658 £30,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £49,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £106,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -10.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java EE 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 14,242 41,228 50,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.45% 32.62% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,171 24,746 32,182
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java EE.

Salary trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java EE over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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 +267 171 £47,500 -17.39% 10
England +243 99 £47,500 -22.13% 11
Wales +68 61 - -
Work from Home +179 53 £48,750 -20.08% 17
South East +171 46 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North of England +158 21 £72,500 +93.33% 2
Scotland +55 14 £57,500 -17.20% 2
London +236 13 £69,000 -18.82% 4
North West +106 13 £65,000 +116.67% 1
South West +49 10 £39,908 -48.51% 2
Northern Ireland +38 10 - -
Yorkshire +95 8 £80,000 -5.88%
Midlands +112 7 £39,500 -35.25% 1
East Midlands +48 7 £39,500 -43.57%
East of England +126 4 £80,000 - 1

Java EE
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 85 (44.97%) WebLogic
2 73 (38.62%) JBoss
2 73 (38.62%) Red Hat Fuse
3 27 (14.29%) IIS
4 6 (3.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.06%) Apache
6 2 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) Apache TomEE
7 1 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.41%) AWS
2 8 (4.23%) Azure
3 7 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (2.65%) Serverless
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (1.06%) Route 53
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.53%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.53%) SaaS
6 1 (0.53%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) FTP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (43.92%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.59%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (0.53%) KDB
6 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (38.62%) IntelliJ
2 32 (16.93%) JIRA
3 26 (13.76%) GitLab
3 26 (13.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (7.41%) Git
4 14 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.17%) Maven
6 3 (1.59%) Subversion
6 3 (1.59%) Trac
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) JUnit
General
1 88 (46.56%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (41.27%) Public Sector
3 67 (35.45%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.70%) Finance
5 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.06%) Electronics
6 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.06%) Marketing
6 2 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Banking
7 1 (0.53%) Front Office
7 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 132 (69.84%) Senior
2 84 (44.44%) Analyst
3 83 (43.92%) Applications Support
3 83 (43.92%) Applications Support Analyst
3 83 (43.92%) Support Analyst
4 57 (30.16%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (30.16%) Senior Applications Support
4 57 (30.16%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
4 57 (30.16%) Senior Support Analyst
5 55 (29.10%) Java Engineer
5 55 (29.10%) Java Software Engineer
5 55 (29.10%) Software Engineer
6 51 (26.98%) Senior Java Engineer
6 51 (26.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 51 (26.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (21.16%) Developer
8 38 (20.11%) Java Developer
9 23 (12.17%) Senior Developer
9 23 (12.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (2.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (91.01%) Spring
2 85 (44.97%) AngularJS
2 85 (44.97%) J2EE
3 82 (43.39%) REST
4 81 (42.86%) Web Services
5 79 (41.80%) XML
6 78 (41.27%) JPA
6 78 (41.27%) JSON
7 76 (40.21%) XSD
8 75 (39.68%) Hibernate
9 74 (39.15%) SOAP
10 59 (31.22%) RESTful
11 26 (13.76%) .NET
12 15 (7.94%) React
13 10 (5.29%) Spring Boot
14 7 (3.70%) HTML
15 6 (3.17%) JMS
16 5 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
17 4 (2.12%) JSF
17 4 (2.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.53%) Equities
3 1 (0.53%) PKI
3 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 86 (45.50%) Unix
2 27 (14.29%) Windows
3 26 (13.76%) Android
4 5 (2.65%) Linux
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (84.66%) Actionable Insight
2 141 (74.60%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (47.62%) Agile
4 86 (45.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 84 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 83 (43.92%) Impact Assessments
6 83 (43.92%) Incident Management
6 83 (43.92%) Information Management
6 83 (43.92%) ITIL
7 80 (42.33%) Software Engineering
8 79 (41.80%) Mentoring
9 77 (40.74%) Collaborative Working
9 77 (40.74%) User Experience
10 75 (39.68%) Front End Development
10 75 (39.68%) UX Design
11 73 (38.62%) Data Design
12 58 (30.69%) Service Management
13 57 (30.16%) Enterprise Search
14 27 (14.29%) SOA
15 26 (13.76%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 188 (99.47%) Java
2 59 (31.22%) Shell Script
3 29 (15.34%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.76%) C#
5 17 (8.99%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.35%) SQL
7 5 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.59%) Python
8 3 (1.59%) XPath
8 3 (1.59%) XQuery
9 1 (0.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (89.42%) Security Cleared
2 167 (88.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.59%) Degree
4 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (43.92%) SLA
2 3 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 83 (43.92%) OpenSSO
1 83 (43.92%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (13.76%) AirWatch
3 10 (5.29%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.23%) Ansible
5 7 (3.70%) Terraform
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Kibana
6 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 95 (50.26%) Oracle
2 57 (30.16%) Remedy
3 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.59%) IBM
4 3 (1.59%) SAP
4 3 (1.59%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.53%) Axway
6 1 (0.53%) BEA
6 1 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.53%) Splunk