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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 549 426
Rank change year-on-year +43 -123 -96
Contract jobs citing J2EE 73 145 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 1.09% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 113 356
10th Percentile £426 £415 £416
25th Percentile £488 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £695 £700 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.09% +4.76% +20.14%
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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +56 48 £545 +2.06% 36
UK excluding London +32 30 £495 -10.09% 20
Work from Home +79 29 £489 -8.43% 12
London +56 29 £533 -0.05% 25
Scotland +32 12 £440 -23.48% 2
North of England +25 12 £492 -7.22% 4
North West +23 9 £489 +30.40% 1
South East +19 4 £625 +20.48% 8
Yorkshire +7 3 £575 -2.13% 3
East of England +11 1 £600 -
South West +6 1 £700 +40.00% 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 12 (16.44%) WebSphere
2 10 (13.70%) Confluence
3 8 (10.96%) IBM HTTP Server
3 8 (10.96%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (10.96%) WebSphere Portal
4 7 (9.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (8.22%) SharePoint
6 5 (6.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (6.85%) Apache
6 5 (6.85%) WebLogic
7 4 (5.48%) JBoss
8 3 (4.11%) IIS
9 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
10 1 (1.37%) CMS
10 1 (1.37%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (13.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Temenos T24
2 6 (8.22%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (8.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (4.11%) Shopify
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.88%) Azure
2 23 (31.51%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) Apigee
3 7 (9.59%) Kong
4 6 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (8.22%) PaaS
4 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.22%) PowerApps
5 4 (5.48%) IaaS
5 4 (5.48%) iPaaS
6 3 (4.11%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.37%) GCP
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.37%) OCI
7 1 (1.37%) SaaS
7 1 (1.37%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) HTTP
2 7 (9.59%) SSH
3 3 (4.11%) LAN
3 3 (4.11%) WAN
4 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.59%) OLAP
2 7 (9.59%) OLTP
3 6 (8.22%) Oracle OLAP
4 5 (6.85%) MySQL
5 3 (4.11%) DB2
6 2 (2.74%) Big Data
6 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (32.88%) JIRA
2 14 (19.18%) JUnit
3 11 (15.07%) Cucumber
3 11 (15.07%) Git
3 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.22%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (6.85%) Maven
6 4 (5.48%) Postman
7 3 (4.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 33 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 27 (36.99%) Finance
3 19 (26.03%) Banking
4 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Marketing
7 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 2 (2.74%) Front Office
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Developer
2 24 (32.88%) Architect
3 18 (24.66%) Java Developer
4 17 (23.29%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) Middleware Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) AWS Architect
6 7 (9.59%) Technical Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) CyberArk Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Service Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.11%) Service Manager
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (43.84%) Spring
2 30 (41.10%) Web Services
3 24 (32.88%) Spring Boot
4 18 (24.66%) REST
5 16 (21.92%) SOAP
6 14 (19.18%) .NET
6 14 (19.18%) Kafka
7 12 (16.44%) XML
8 10 (13.70%) Apache Camel
8 10 (13.70%) Middleware
9 8 (10.96%) Hibernate
9 8 (10.96%) JSON
10 7 (9.59%) IBM Integration Bus
10 7 (9.59%) JPA
10 7 (9.59%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (8.22%) CSS
11 6 (8.22%) JSP
11 6 (8.22%) Spring Integration
11 6 (8.22%) Spring MVC
12 5 (6.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.59%) DataPower
2 7 (9.59%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.11%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Unix
2 13 (17.81%) Linux
3 6 (8.22%) Windows
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Agile
2 21 (28.77%) DevOps
3 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (19.18%) Microservices
5 13 (17.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 12 (16.44%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (16.44%) Migration
6 12 (16.44%) Scrum
6 12 (16.44%) SOA
6 12 (16.44%) TDD
7 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (15.07%) ITIL
8 10 (13.70%) API Management
8 10 (13.70%) Design Patterns
8 10 (13.70%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (13.70%) Risk Management
8 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
8 10 (13.70%) Service Management
8 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (86.30%) Java
2 25 (34.25%) SQL
3 16 (21.92%) Python
4 10 (13.70%) C
4 10 (13.70%) C++
5 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.85%) Perl
7 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) Groovy
8 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
1 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) CISSP
4 3 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.11%) SANS
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) GRC
2 3 (4.11%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.37%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Terraform
2 7 (9.59%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (5.48%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.74%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) Grafana
5 1 (1.37%) Istio
5 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.37%) Rancher
5 1 (1.37%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Oracle
2 15 (20.55%) IBM
3 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
4 11 (15.07%) SAP
5 7 (9.59%) TSYS
6 5 (6.85%) Adobe
7 4 (5.48%) Google
8 3 (4.11%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.11%) Dell
8 3 (4.11%) Intel
8 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (4.11%) Sitecore
8 3 (4.11%) VMware
9 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.37%) Databricks
10 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
10 1 (1.37%) Solace
10 1 (1.37%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) TIBCO