J2EE Developer Contracts

J2EE Developer
UK

The median J2EE Developer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 687 836
Rank change year-on-year +106 +149 -106
Contract jobs requiring a J2EE Developer 3 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.019% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £452 £538 £506
25th Percentile £477 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £559 £688 £538
90th Percentile £584 £690 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

J2EE Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured J2EE Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE Developer in the UK

J2EE Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for J2EE Developer in the UK

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE Developer in the UK

J2EE Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for J2EE Developer in the UK

J2EE Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the UK 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
England +85 3 £518 -15.08%
London +83 2 £436 -28.52%
Work from Home +110 1 £436 -30.24%
UK excluding London +21 1 £600 -4.00%
East of England - 1 £600 -

J2EE Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, J2EE Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring J2EE Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

J2EE Developer Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Mockito
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Apache CXF
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) GWT
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) JSF
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
3 1 (33.33%) Swagger
3 1 (33.33%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (33.33%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) RAD
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk