J2EE Contracts

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 528 418
Rank change year-on-year +39 -110 -71
Contract jobs citing J2EE 86 155 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.20% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 121 355
10th Percentile £423 £425 £406
25th Percentile £484 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.27% +12.02%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £628
90th Percentile £650 £688 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +16.67%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 contract job vacancies with 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +32 61 £534 - 23
London +52 36 £525 -1.87% 17
UK excluding London +16 36 £588 +6.82% 9
Work from Home +79 31 £489 -8.43% 9
Scotland +27 12 £440 -23.48% 3
North of England +16 12 £492 -14.48% 1
South East +14 10 £625 +26.58% 4
North West +26 7 £489 +30.40%
Yorkshire +6 5 £575 -4.17% 1
South West +3 1 £700 +40.00%
East of England +1 1 £600 +20.00%

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 11 (12.79%) WebSphere
2 10 (11.63%) Confluence
3 8 (9.30%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (9.30%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (9.30%) WebSphere Portal
4 7 (8.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (5.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (4.65%) Apache
6 4 (4.65%) JBoss
6 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
6 4 (4.65%) WebLogic
6 4 (4.65%) WildFly
7 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
7 2 (2.33%) IIS
8 1 (1.16%) CMS
8 1 (1.16%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (10.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Temenos T24
2 4 (4.65%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.49%) Shopify
4 1 (1.16%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.05%) AWS
2 23 (26.74%) Azure
3 7 (8.14%) Apigee
3 7 (8.14%) Kong
4 6 (6.98%) PaaS
5 5 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.65%) IaaS
6 4 (4.65%) iPaaS
6 4 (4.65%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.49%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.16%) GCP
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.16%) OCI
9 1 (1.16%) SaaS
9 1 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) SSH
2 8 (9.30%) HTTP
3 3 (3.49%) LAN
3 3 (3.49%) WAN
4 1 (1.16%) Internet
4 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
1 7 (8.14%) OLAP
1 7 (8.14%) OLTP
2 6 (6.98%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (5.81%) MySQL
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.33%) Big Data
4 2 (2.33%) DB2
4 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (30.23%) JIRA
2 16 (18.60%) JUnit
3 13 (15.12%) Cucumber
4 12 (13.95%) Git
5 11 (12.79%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.98%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (5.81%) Maven
8 4 (4.65%) Postman
9 3 (3.49%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 37 (43.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (32.56%) Finance
3 21 (24.42%) Banking
4 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.65%) Marketing
8 3 (3.49%) Aviation
8 3 (3.49%) Front Office
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Developer
2 25 (29.07%) Architect
2 25 (29.07%) Java Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) Lead
4 8 (9.30%) Middleware Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
4 8 (9.30%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.14%) AWS Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Technical Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Technical Design Leader
7 5 (5.81%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Service Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.21%) Spring
1 32 (37.21%) Spring Boot
2 31 (36.05%) Web Services
3 18 (20.93%) REST
3 18 (20.93%) SOAP
4 16 (18.60%) .NET
5 14 (16.28%) Kafka
5 14 (16.28%) XML
6 10 (11.63%) Apache Camel
6 10 (11.63%) Hibernate
6 10 (11.63%) JSON
6 10 (11.63%) Middleware
7 9 (10.47%) JPA
8 7 (8.14%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.98%) CSS
9 6 (6.98%) HTML
9 6 (6.98%) JSP
9 6 (6.98%) Spring Integration
9 6 (6.98%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (10.47%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (8.14%) DataPower
4 5 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.49%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.49%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.93%) Unix
2 15 (17.44%) Linux
3 7 (8.14%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Android
4 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.88%) DevOps
2 29 (33.72%) Agile
3 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (17.44%) TDD
5 14 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (16.28%) Scrum
6 13 (15.12%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (15.12%) Migration
7 12 (13.95%) Microservices
7 12 (13.95%) Process Improvement
7 12 (13.95%) SOA
8 11 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.79%) ITIL
8 11 (12.79%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (12.79%) Roadmaps
9 10 (11.63%) Design Patterns
9 10 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
9 10 (11.63%) Service Management
9 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (87.21%) Java
2 25 (29.07%) Python
2 25 (29.07%) SQL
3 19 (22.09%) C
3 19 (22.09%) C++
4 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.98%) Perl
6 5 (5.81%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.49%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (1.16%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) CISSP
5 2 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) SANS
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) GRC
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.16%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 17 (19.77%) Terraform
2 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.14%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (4.65%) Ansible
5 2 (2.33%) Kibana
6 1 (1.16%) Grafana
6 1 (1.16%) Istio
6 1 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.16%) Rancher
6 1 (1.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Oracle
2 15 (17.44%) IBM
3 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.47%) SAP
5 7 (8.14%) TSYS
6 5 (5.81%) Adobe
7 4 (4.65%) Google
8 3 (3.49%) Dell
8 3 (3.49%) Intel
8 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.49%) Sitecore
8 3 (3.49%) VMware
9 2 (2.33%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.16%) Databricks
10 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.16%) Okta
10 1 (1.16%) OneLogin
10 1 (1.16%) Solace