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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 831 787 927
Rank change year-on-year -44 +140 -235
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 71 185 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.61% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20 79 106
10th Percentile £40,750 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £72,230 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.01% +20.38% -9.43%
75th Percentile £64,063 £88,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £89,852 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £69,724 £50,000
% change year-on-year -31.87% +39.45% -16.67%

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 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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 -63 59 £47,500 -31.87% 4
England +26 51 £52,000 -25.71% 8
South East +6 32 £47,500 +32.59% 3
Work from Home -9 14 £47,500 -29.63% 6
London +66 12 £52,000 -35.24% 3
Scotland -84 12 £42,500 -50.00%
Wales -10 6 - -
North of England +37 3 - - 1
East of England +18 2 £63,750 -20.31%
North West +2 2 - - 1
East Midlands -17 2 - -
Midlands -22 2 - -
Yorkshire +88 1 - -
Northern Ireland +23 1 - -
South West -25 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 29 (40.85%) WebLogic
2 12 (16.90%) JBoss
2 12 (16.90%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (7.04%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.82%) GlassFish
4 2 (2.82%) JCAPS
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (5.63%) Azure
4 4 (5.63%) Serverless
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.82%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.03%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.45%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.82%) DB2
6 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Maven
2 12 (16.90%) IntelliJ
3 9 (12.68%) Git
4 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.04%) Eclipse
5 5 (7.04%) JIRA
6 2 (2.82%) Ant
6 2 (2.82%) JUnit
6 2 (2.82%) Subversion
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 32 (45.07%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (30.99%) Police
4 21 (29.58%) Public Sector
5 12 (16.90%) Finance
6 5 (7.04%) Electronics
6 5 (7.04%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.04%) Marketing
6 5 (7.04%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.63%) Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Back Office
8 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.82%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Automotive
9 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (63.38%) Senior
2 27 (38.03%) Analyst
2 27 (38.03%) Applications Support
2 27 (38.03%) Applications Support Analyst
2 27 (38.03%) Senior Analyst
2 27 (38.03%) Senior Applications Support
2 27 (38.03%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
2 27 (38.03%) Senior Support Analyst
2 27 (38.03%) Support Analyst
3 22 (30.99%) Developer
4 16 (22.54%) Java Developer
5 14 (19.72%) Java Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Java Software Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Senior Java Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (77.46%) Spring
2 31 (43.66%) J2EE
3 30 (42.25%) AngularJS
4 26 (36.62%) XML
5 24 (33.80%) REST
6 23 (32.39%) Web Services
7 21 (29.58%) JPA
7 21 (29.58%) RESTful
8 20 (28.17%) Hibernate
8 20 (28.17%) JSON
8 20 (28.17%) SOAP
9 15 (21.13%) React
10 13 (18.31%) CSS
11 12 (16.90%) HTML
11 12 (16.90%) XSD
12 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
13 8 (11.27%) jQuery
13 8 (11.27%) JSP
14 7 (9.86%) JDBC
15 6 (8.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
2 2 (2.82%) Credit Risk
2 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.82%) e-Learning
2 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.03%) Unix
2 3 (4.23%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Android
3 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (66.20%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (57.75%) Actionable Insight
3 29 (40.85%) Containerisation
4 27 (38.03%) Enterprise Architecture
4 27 (38.03%) Enterprise Search
4 27 (38.03%) Impact Assessments
4 27 (38.03%) Incident Management
4 27 (38.03%) Information Management
4 27 (38.03%) ITIL
4 27 (38.03%) Service Management
5 19 (26.76%) Agile
5 19 (26.76%) User Experience
6 18 (25.35%) Mentoring
7 17 (23.94%) Front End Development
7 17 (23.94%) Software Engineering
7 17 (23.94%) UX Design
8 13 (18.31%) Design Patterns
9 12 (16.90%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (16.90%) Data Design
10 11 (15.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 67 (94.37%) Java
2 29 (40.85%) Shell Script
3 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
4 14 (19.72%) Python
5 9 (12.68%) SQL
6 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.63%) C#
7 4 (5.63%) Ruby
8 2 (2.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (57.75%) SC Cleared
1 41 (57.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (38.03%) SLA
2 5 (7.04%) GDPR
2 5 (7.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (39.44%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (38.03%) OpenSSO
3 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Control-M
4 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (43.66%) Oracle
2 27 (38.03%) Remedy
3 5 (7.04%) Google
3 5 (7.04%) SAP
4 2 (2.82%) IBM
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat