Hybrid/Remote Jakarta EE Job Trends

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 385 515
Rank change year-on-year -44 +130 -60
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 10 42 34
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.046% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.98% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 41 19
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £60,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £110,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -56.82% +131.30% -32.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £115,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £138,750 £81,000
UK median annual salary £31,500 £110,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -71.36% +41.94% +10.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 4,019 4,266 7,808
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.67% 25.81% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,041 2,910 6,523
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Jakarta EE and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Jakarta EE over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Jakarta EE salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (30.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior
3 2 (20.00%) Junior C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Struts
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 1 (10.00%) JPA
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) Mustache
5 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Security
5 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (10.00%) Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Cognos
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) VMware