Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 774 722
Rank change year-on-year +247 -52 -117
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 414 219 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% 0.70% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 91 123 257
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,500 £66,780 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £136,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +33.33% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

J2EE 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 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £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 £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Salary trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +191 324 £57,500 -17.86% 10
Scotland +89 262 £55,000 -24.36% 1
England +72 129 £105,000 +23.53% 24
London +126 86 £105,000 +10.53% 18
Work from Home +46 56 £56,250 -25.66% 8
South East +27 34 £75,000 +30.43% 4
North of England +37 8 £50,000 -9.09%
Wales -6 8 - -
North West +1 5 £50,000 -37.50%
South West -23 4 £76,788 +27.98%
Yorkshire +73 3 £83,577 -
East of England +9 3 £66,250 -22.06%
Midlands +8 3 £35,000 -46.15% 1
Northern Ireland +27 2 - - 4
West Midlands +17 2 £35,000 -56.25% 1
East Midlands -11 1 - -

J2EE
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 98 (23.67%) FileNet
2 32 (7.73%) WebLogic
3 17 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.17%) JBoss
5 8 (1.93%) Apache Pig
5 8 (1.93%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (1.69%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.97%) Confluence
8 3 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.72%) IIS
9 2 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.48%) GlassFish
9 2 (0.48%) JCAPS
9 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.24%) Apache
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 17 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.38%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.72%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.48%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 165 (39.86%) AWS
2 132 (31.88%) Amazon S3
3 71 (17.15%) Serverless
4 50 (12.08%) GitHub
5 42 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
6 38 (9.18%) OpenShift
7 36 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
8 34 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.52%) Azure
10 14 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.38%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.38%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.69%) PaaS
13 6 (1.45%) GCP
14 5 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.21%) IaaS
14 5 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) FTP
1 2 (0.48%) SSH
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.24%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (39.86%) NoSQL
2 152 (36.71%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (23.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 62 (14.98%) Relational Database
5 34 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (6.04%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.93%) Apache Hive
8 8 (1.93%) Big Data
8 8 (1.93%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.21%) Metadata
11 5 (1.21%) Power BI
11 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.48%) MySQL
14 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
14 1 (0.24%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 199 (48.07%) JUnit
2 105 (25.36%) Jasmine
3 95 (22.95%) Jenkins
4 60 (14.49%) Cypress.io
4 60 (14.49%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (14.49%) Protractor
4 60 (14.49%) Selenium
4 60 (14.49%) WebDriver
5 46 (11.11%) Mockito
6 38 (9.18%) Git
7 37 (8.94%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.93%) Checkstyle
8 8 (1.93%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.69%) JIRA
10 5 (1.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.97%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.48%) Ant
13 2 (0.48%) PowerBuilder
13 2 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 301 (72.71%) Finance
2 246 (59.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 246 (59.42%) Law
3 110 (26.57%) Legal
4 73 (17.63%) Banking
5 67 (16.18%) Marketing
6 60 (14.49%) Investment Banking
7 48 (11.59%) Social Skills
8 43 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (8.21%) Front Office
10 22 (5.31%) Police
11 12 (2.90%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.72%) Publishing
13 2 (0.48%) Automotive
13 2 (0.48%) Back Office
13 2 (0.48%) Retail
13 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.24%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 277 (66.91%) Software Engineer
2 199 (48.07%) Java Engineer
3 197 (47.58%) Java Software Engineer
4 118 (28.50%) Full Stack Engineer
4 118 (28.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 81 (19.57%) Lead
6 69 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 62 (14.98%) Senior
8 41 (9.90%) Developer
9 37 (8.94%) Lead Java Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
10 34 (8.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 34 (8.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 32 (7.73%) Applications Support
12 29 (7.00%) Analyst
12 29 (7.00%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (7.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (82.13%) Spring
2 227 (54.83%) React
3 218 (52.66%) AngularJS
4 189 (45.65%) Hibernate
5 175 (42.27%) JMS
6 141 (34.06%) CSS
6 141 (34.06%) JSON
6 141 (34.06%) Kafka
6 141 (34.06%) Node.js
7 140 (33.82%) HTML
8 134 (32.37%) jQuery
9 132 (31.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 98 (23.67%) GraphQL
10 98 (23.67%) Spring Integration
11 60 (14.49%) Jest
11 60 (14.49%) Web Services
12 54 (13.04%) XML
13 39 (9.42%) JavaBeans
14 34 (8.21%) Spring Boot
15 33 (7.97%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 105 (25.36%) Algorithms
2 100 (24.15%) Cloud Native
3 79 (19.08%) Data Structures
4 43 (10.39%) Onboarding
5 34 (8.21%) Tandem
6 14 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.48%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.48%) FMCG
13 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.24%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.45%) Unix
2 11 (2.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Solaris
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (77.54%) Agile
2 314 (75.85%) Software Engineering
3 296 (71.50%) CI/CD
4 260 (62.80%) SDLC
5 226 (54.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 221 (53.38%) Machine Learning
7 201 (48.55%) Operational Stability
8 158 (38.16%) Microservices
9 156 (37.68%) Community of Practice
10 139 (33.57%) Full Stack Development
11 124 (29.95%) Decision-Making
12 122 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (28.74%) Visualisation
14 110 (26.57%) Risk Management
15 100 (24.15%) AOP
16 98 (23.67%) Document Management
17 81 (19.57%) Multithreading
17 81 (19.57%) TDD
18 78 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
19 77 (18.60%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 412 (99.52%) Java
2 230 (55.56%) SQL
3 154 (37.20%) JavaScript
4 132 (31.88%) TypeScript
5 61 (14.73%) Python
6 34 (8.21%) Go
7 31 (7.49%) Shell Script
8 28 (6.76%) C#
9 21 (5.07%) Ruby
10 12 (2.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.72%) C
11 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
12 2 (0.48%) XPath
13 1 (0.24%) ABAP
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) ProC
Qualifications
1 42 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.90%) Degree
3 40 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) CISSP
7 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.00%) SLA
2 10 (2.42%) QA
3 5 (1.21%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (11.35%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.24%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 152 (36.71%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.45%) Terraform
3 34 (8.21%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (7.00%) OpenSSO
5 9 (2.17%) Ansible
6 2 (0.48%) Control-M
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 194 (46.86%) Oracle
2 29 (7.00%) Remedy
3 22 (5.31%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.62%) SAP
5 8 (1.93%) WSO2
6 5 (1.21%) Google
6 5 (1.21%) Okta
6 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.97%) Splunk
8 3 (0.72%) Adobe
8 3 (0.72%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.24%) BT
9 1 (0.24%) CA
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco
9 1 (0.24%) Dell
9 1 (0.24%) HP
9 1 (0.24%) Qualys
9 1 (0.24%) webMethods