J2EE Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 403 399
Rank change year-on-year +89 -4 -86
Contract jobs citing J2EE 29 63 236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.26% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 1.02% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 158
10th Percentile £416 £463 £404
25th Percentile £440 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +1.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £600
90th Percentile £720 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

J2EE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

J2EE trend for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE.

J2EE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing J2EE over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

J2EE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE.

J2EE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (34.48%) WebSphere
2 7 (24.14%) IBM HTTP Server
2 7 (24.14%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (24.14%) WebSphere Portal
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (13.79%) Confluence
5 3 (10.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Apache
5 3 (10.34%) IIS
5 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Temenos T24
2 2 (6.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Apigee
3 5 (17.24%) Kong
4 2 (6.90%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.24%) OLAP
1 5 (17.24%) OLTP
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (10.34%) DB2
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Maven
General
1 17 (58.62%) Finance
2 12 (41.38%) Banking
3 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Architect
2 10 (34.48%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Middleware Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) CyberArk Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) CyberArk Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Service Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Service Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Spring Boot
2 11 (37.93%) Web Services
3 7 (24.14%) Middleware
3 7 (24.14%) Spring
4 6 (20.69%) .NET
4 6 (20.69%) JSP
4 6 (20.69%) Kafka
5 5 (17.24%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (17.24%) SOAP
5 5 (17.24%) XML
6 4 (13.79%) Apache Camel
6 4 (13.79%) Spring Integration
7 3 (10.34%) CSS
7 3 (10.34%) EJB
7 3 (10.34%) HTML
7 3 (10.34%) jQuery
7 3 (10.34%) LDAP
7 3 (10.34%) Sass
7 3 (10.34%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) DataPower
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) DevOps
2 9 (31.03%) ITIL
3 8 (27.59%) Service Management
4 7 (24.14%) Microservices
4 7 (24.14%) Risk Management
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (20.69%) Design Patterns
5 6 (20.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
5 6 (20.69%) SOA
5 6 (20.69%) Technical Debt
6 5 (17.24%) Agile
6 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
6 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
6 5 (17.24%) OO
6 5 (17.24%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) C
2 7 (24.14%) C++
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.34%) CISSP
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) SANS
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GRC
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Istio
4 1 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) IBM
2 10 (34.48%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) TSYS
4 3 (10.34%) Adobe
4 3 (10.34%) CyberArk
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 2 (6.90%) Dell
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Intel
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.90%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) VMware