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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 743 745
Rank change year-on-year +203 +2 -137
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 387 237 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 0.79% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 85 117 249
10th Percentile £46,783 £53,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,294 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.54% +7.06% +15.38%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £136,250 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -8.70%

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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 14 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 18 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 +112 304 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Scotland +88 260 £51,279 -28.14% 3
England +49 110 £105,000 +23.53% 34
London +112 78 £105,000 +10.53% 25
Work from Home -15 34 £47,557 -37.15% 13
South East +9 30 £90,000 +56.52% 7
Wales -17 4 - -
North of England +30 3 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East of England -3 3 £66,250 -22.06%
North West -5 3 £50,000 -37.50% 1
West Midlands +12 2 £35,000 -56.25% 1
Midlands -17 2 £35,000 -46.15% 1
Northern Ireland +17 1 - - 4
South West -31 1 £70,000 +16.67%

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 (25.32%) FileNet
2 29 (7.49%) WebLogic
3 16 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.07%) Apache Pig
5 7 (1.81%) JBoss
5 7 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.81%) Red Hat Fuse
6 6 (1.55%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.78%) Confluence
8 2 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.52%) CMS
8 2 (0.52%) GlassFish
8 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) JCAPS
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.26%) Apache
9 1 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.62%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.52%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 163 (42.12%) AWS
2 128 (33.07%) Amazon S3
3 49 (12.66%) GitHub
4 47 (12.14%) Serverless
5 37 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (8.79%) OpenShift
7 32 (8.27%) Amazon SQS
8 30 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (7.49%) Azure
10 14 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.62%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.62%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.81%) PaaS
12 6 (1.55%) GCP
13 5 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.29%) IaaS
13 5 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) FTP
1 2 (0.52%) SSH
2 1 (0.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (42.64%) NoSQL
2 149 (38.50%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (25.58%) Apache Cassandra
4 61 (15.76%) Relational Database
5 30 (7.75%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (7.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (6.72%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.07%) Apache Hive
8 8 (2.07%) Big Data
8 8 (2.07%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.81%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.29%) Metadata
11 5 (1.29%) Power BI
11 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.52%) MySQL
12 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 198 (51.16%) JUnit
2 105 (27.13%) Jasmine
3 90 (23.26%) Jenkins
4 60 (15.50%) Cypress.io
4 60 (15.50%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (15.50%) Protractor
4 60 (15.50%) Selenium
4 60 (15.50%) WebDriver
5 46 (11.89%) Mockito
6 33 (8.53%) Artifactory
7 16 (4.13%) Git
8 8 (2.07%) Checkstyle
8 8 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.55%) JIRA
10 4 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.03%) Maven
10 4 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.52%) Ant
11 2 (0.52%) PowerBuilder
11 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 298 (77.00%) Finance
2 246 (63.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 246 (63.57%) Law
3 110 (28.42%) Legal
4 72 (18.60%) Banking
5 67 (17.31%) Marketing
6 60 (15.50%) Investment Banking
7 47 (12.14%) Social Skills
8 39 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (7.75%) Front Office
10 22 (5.68%) Police
11 11 (2.84%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.78%) Publishing
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Back Office
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.26%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 257 (66.41%) Software Engineer
2 181 (46.77%) Java Engineer
3 179 (46.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 119 (30.75%) Full Stack Engineer
5 118 (30.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 81 (20.93%) Lead
7 69 (17.83%) Lead Software Engineer
8 59 (15.25%) Senior
9 39 (10.08%) Developer
10 37 (9.56%) Lead Java Engineer
11 30 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
11 30 (7.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 30 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (7.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 30 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 28 (7.24%) Applications Support
13 26 (6.72%) Analyst
13 26 (6.72%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (6.72%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (82.69%) Spring
2 218 (56.33%) AngularJS
3 209 (54.01%) React
4 188 (48.58%) Hibernate
5 175 (45.22%) JMS
6 142 (36.69%) Kafka
7 141 (36.43%) CSS
7 141 (36.43%) HTML
7 141 (36.43%) JSON
8 140 (36.18%) Node.js
9 135 (34.88%) jQuery
10 132 (34.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 99 (25.58%) Spring Integration
12 98 (25.32%) GraphQL
13 60 (15.50%) Jest
13 60 (15.50%) Web Services
14 53 (13.70%) XML
15 39 (10.08%) JavaBeans
16 36 (9.30%) Spring Boot
17 30 (7.75%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 105 (27.13%) Algorithms
2 100 (25.84%) Cloud Native
3 79 (20.41%) Data Structures
4 43 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 30 (7.75%) Tandem
6 14 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.33%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.29%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.52%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.52%) FMCG
14 2 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.26%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.27%) Unix
2 11 (2.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Solaris
3 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (81.14%) Agile
2 292 (75.45%) CI/CD
3 291 (75.19%) Software Engineering
4 261 (67.44%) SDLC
5 226 (58.40%) Artificial Intelligence
6 221 (57.11%) Machine Learning
7 201 (51.94%) Operational Stability
8 156 (40.31%) Community of Practice
9 141 (36.43%) Microservices
10 140 (36.18%) Full Stack Development
11 122 (31.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (31.01%) Decision-Making
12 120 (31.01%) Visualisation
13 111 (28.68%) Risk Management
14 100 (25.84%) AOP
15 98 (25.32%) Document Management
16 82 (21.19%) Multithreading
17 80 (20.67%) TDD
18 76 (19.64%) BDD
19 63 (16.28%) OO
Programming Languages
1 385 (99.48%) Java
2 231 (59.69%) SQL
3 153 (39.53%) JavaScript
4 133 (34.37%) TypeScript
5 39 (10.08%) Python
6 30 (7.75%) Go
7 28 (7.24%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.10%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.33%) C#
10 3 (0.78%) C
11 2 (0.52%) Perl
11 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.52%) Ruby
11 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) XPath
12 1 (0.26%) ABAP
12 1 (0.26%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) ProC
Qualifications
1 40 (10.34%) Degree
2 38 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 37 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.49%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.72%) SLA
2 10 (2.58%) QA
3 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (2.07%) HDFS
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.26%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 147 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.27%) Single Sign-On
3 31 (8.01%) Terraform
4 26 (6.72%) OpenSSO
5 8 (2.07%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 191 (49.35%) Oracle
2 26 (6.72%) Remedy
3 19 (4.91%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.88%) SAP
5 7 (1.81%) WSO2
6 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.29%) Google
6 5 (1.29%) Okta
6 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.03%) Splunk
8 2 (0.52%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe
9 1 (0.26%) BT
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco
9 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.26%) IBM
9 1 (0.26%) Qualys
9 1 (0.26%) TSYS
9 1 (0.26%) webMethods