J2EE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 366 353
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -87
Contract jobs citing J2EE 36 64 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.28% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.55% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 49 102
10th Percentile £424 £395 £425
25th Percentile £456 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £647 £625 £575
90th Percentile £689 £678 £648
UK median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.84% -2.27% +11.45%
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
UK excluding London

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the UK excluding London

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +18 12 £625 +25.00% 8
North of England +7 12 £492 -18.04% 1
Scotland +36 9 £440 -23.48% 6
North West +18 7 £489 +0.31%
Yorkshire +1 5 £575 -4.17% 1
East of England 0 1 £600 +50.00%
South West -1 1 £700 +40.00%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (19.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (16.67%) Confluence
3 5 (13.89%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (13.89%) WebSphere
3 5 (13.89%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (13.89%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Apigee
3 7 (19.44%) Kong
4 4 (11.11%) IaaS
4 4 (11.11%) PaaS
5 3 (8.33%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) HTTP
2 3 (8.33%) LAN
2 3 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Internet
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) MongoDB
1 7 (19.44%) OLAP
1 7 (19.44%) OLTP
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 5 (13.89%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Aviation
5 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Architect
2 7 (19.44%) AWS Architect
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Middleware Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Design Leader
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Leader
4 4 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 11 (30.56%) Web Services
3 9 (25.00%) Spring
4 8 (22.22%) Kafka
5 7 (19.44%) .NET
5 7 (19.44%) IBM Integration Bus
5 7 (19.44%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (19.44%) SOAP
6 6 (16.67%) Apache Camel
6 6 (16.67%) Spring Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Middleware
8 4 (11.11%) HTML
9 3 (8.33%) JSP
9 3 (8.33%) XML
10 1 (2.78%) CSS
10 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.78%) HTML5
10 1 (2.78%) Java EE
10 1 (2.78%) OSGi
10 1 (2.78%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) DataPower
2 3 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.33%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) DevOps
2 11 (30.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (30.56%) Process Improvement
2 11 (30.56%) SOA
3 8 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (22.22%) Microservices
3 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (19.44%) API Management
4 7 (19.44%) CQRS
4 7 (19.44%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (19.44%) OO
4 7 (19.44%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
4 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
5 6 (16.67%) Agile
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) Java
2 14 (38.89%) C
2 14 (38.89%) C++
3 12 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) IBM
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) TSYS
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe
5 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.78%) Qualys
5 1 (2.78%) Rapid7