J2EE Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 308 393 372
Rank change year-on-year +85 -21 -50
Contract jobs citing J2EE 33 64 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.27% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 1.07% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 52 177
10th Percentile £410 £463 £406
25th Percentile £433 £474 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +1.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £690 £684 £672
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

J2EE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

J2EE trend for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE.

J2EE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing J2EE over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

J2EE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing J2EE.

J2EE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 7 (21.21%) IBM HTTP Server
2 7 (21.21%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (21.21%) WebSphere Portal
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (12.12%) Confluence
5 3 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Apache
6 2 (6.06%) IIS
6 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
6 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
7 1 (3.03%) Jetty
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Temenos T24
2 2 (6.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Apigee
3 5 (15.15%) Kong
4 2 (6.06%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) FTP
2 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) SSH
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
1 5 (15.15%) OLAP
1 5 (15.15%) OLTP
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (6.06%) DB2
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Maven
General
1 16 (48.48%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Banking
3 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Retail
6 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Senior
2 11 (33.33%) Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Middleware Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Developer
5 5 (15.15%) AWS Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (6.06%) CyberArk Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Service Manager
8 2 (6.06%) Technical Design Leader
8 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 11 (33.33%) Web Services
3 9 (27.27%) Spring
4 7 (21.21%) Middleware
5 6 (18.18%) Kafka
5 6 (18.18%) SOAP
6 5 (15.15%) .NET
6 5 (15.15%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (15.15%) JSP
6 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (15.15%) XML
7 4 (12.12%) Apache Camel
7 4 (12.12%) REST
7 4 (12.12%) Spring Integration
8 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 3 (9.09%) CSS
8 3 (9.09%) HTML
8 3 (9.09%) jQuery
8 3 (9.09%) Sass
9 2 (6.06%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) DataPower
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Unix
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) ITIL
3 8 (24.24%) Microservices
3 8 (24.24%) Service Management
4 7 (21.21%) Risk Management
4 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (18.18%) Agile
5 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (18.18%) SOA
5 6 (18.18%) Technical Debt
6 5 (15.15%) API Management
6 5 (15.15%) CQRS
6 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
6 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (27.27%) C
2 9 (27.27%) C++
3 8 (24.24%) Python
4 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.06%) CISSP
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
1 2 (6.06%) SANS
1 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GRC
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) IBM
2 11 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) TSYS
4 3 (9.09%) Adobe
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) SAP
5 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.06%) Dell
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Intel
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.06%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) VMware