Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 715 766
Rank change year-on-year +158 +51 -146
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 371 242 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 0.89% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 76 89 242
10th Percentile £46,306 £51,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,625 £61,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,669 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -5.41% +23.08%
75th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £99,375
90th Percentile £138,750 £180,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -28.57% +28.09% -0.64%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,805 27,260 70,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.38% 29.04% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,126 17,774 30,060
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Salary trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +72 300 £50,000 -28.57% 10
Scotland +72 253 £47,557 -32.06% 2
England -11 99 £105,000 +23.53% 17
London +95 66 £105,000 +10.53% 11
Work from Home -67 34 £47,557 -32.06% 9
South East +1 29 £90,000 +80.00% 4
Northern Ireland +18 4 £47,500 - 3
North of England -10 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Wales -22 4 - -
North West -25 4 £50,000 -37.50%
East of England -18 3 £66,250 -19.70%
Midlands -18 2 £35,000 -46.15%
West Midlands -22 2 £35,000 -
South West -40 1 £70,000 +16.67%

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 98 (26.42%) FileNet
2 29 (7.82%) WebLogic
3 13 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.62%) JBoss
4 6 (1.62%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Fuse
5 5 (1.35%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.35%) CMS
6 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.54%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.54%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.50%) Dynamics AX
1 13 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (41.51%) AWS
2 122 (32.88%) Amazon S3
3 49 (13.21%) GitHub
4 37 (9.97%) Serverless
5 30 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (7.82%) Azure
7 28 (7.55%) OpenShift
8 26 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.50%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.50%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.89%) PaaS
12 6 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.62%) GCP
13 5 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.35%) IaaS
13 5 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) SSH
2 2 (0.54%) FTP
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.27%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (43.94%) NoSQL
2 145 (39.08%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (26.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 56 (15.09%) Relational Database
5 24 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.20%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.35%) Apache Hive
10 5 (1.35%) Big Data
10 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.35%) Metadata
10 5 (1.35%) Power BI
10 5 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.54%) MySQL
11 2 (0.54%) OLAP
11 2 (0.54%) OLTP
11 2 (0.54%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 194 (52.29%) JUnit
2 105 (28.30%) Jasmine
3 82 (22.10%) Jenkins
4 60 (16.17%) Cypress.io
4 60 (16.17%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (16.17%) Protractor
4 60 (16.17%) Selenium
4 60 (16.17%) WebDriver
5 46 (12.40%) Mockito
6 27 (7.28%) Artifactory
7 14 (3.77%) Git
8 7 (1.89%) JIRA
9 5 (1.35%) Checkstyle
9 5 (1.35%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.81%) Maven
12 2 (0.54%) Ant
12 2 (0.54%) PowerBuilder
12 2 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 287 (77.36%) Finance
2 240 (64.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 240 (64.69%) Law
3 108 (29.11%) Legal
4 73 (19.68%) Banking
5 63 (16.98%) Marketing
6 61 (16.44%) Investment Banking
7 48 (12.94%) Social Skills
8 38 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (6.74%) Front Office
10 22 (5.93%) Police
11 10 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.81%) Publishing
13 2 (0.54%) Automotive
13 2 (0.54%) Back Office
13 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 251 (67.65%) Software Engineer
2 175 (47.17%) Java Engineer
3 173 (46.63%) Java Software Engineer
4 117 (31.54%) Full Stack Engineer
5 116 (31.27%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 75 (20.22%) Lead
7 66 (17.79%) Lead Software Engineer
8 61 (16.44%) Senior
9 36 (9.70%) Developer
10 34 (9.16%) Lead Java Engineer
11 26 (7.01%) Analyst
11 26 (7.01%) Applications Support
11 26 (7.01%) Applications Support Analyst
11 26 (7.01%) Senior Analyst
11 26 (7.01%) Senior Applications Support
11 26 (7.01%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 26 (7.01%) Senior Support Analyst
11 26 (7.01%) Support Analyst
12 24 (6.47%) AWS DevOps
12 24 (6.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (83.56%) Spring
2 215 (57.95%) AngularJS
3 205 (55.26%) React
4 189 (50.94%) Hibernate
5 173 (46.63%) JMS
6 143 (38.54%) CSS
6 143 (38.54%) HTML
7 142 (38.27%) JSON
8 139 (37.47%) Kafka
8 139 (37.47%) Node.js
9 138 (37.20%) jQuery
10 132 (35.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 100 (26.95%) Spring Integration
12 98 (26.42%) GraphQL
13 60 (16.17%) Jest
13 60 (16.17%) Web Services
14 52 (14.02%) XML
15 37 (9.97%) JavaBeans
16 31 (8.36%) Spring Boot
17 30 (8.09%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 104 (28.03%) Algorithms
2 100 (26.95%) Cloud Native
3 79 (21.29%) Data Structures
4 41 (11.05%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.47%) Tandem
6 14 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.62%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.08%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.54%) FMCG
14 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.89%) Unix
2 11 (2.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Solaris
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (80.05%) Agile
2 279 (75.20%) Software Engineering
3 277 (74.66%) CI/CD
4 256 (69.00%) SDLC
5 224 (60.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 219 (59.03%) Machine Learning
7 195 (52.56%) Operational Stability
8 151 (40.70%) Community of Practice
9 138 (37.20%) Full Stack Development
10 137 (36.93%) Microservices
11 119 (32.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (31.81%) Visualisation
13 113 (30.46%) Decision-Making
14 110 (29.65%) Risk Management
15 100 (26.95%) AOP
16 98 (26.42%) Document Management
17 82 (22.10%) Multithreading
18 79 (21.29%) TDD
19 76 (20.49%) BDD
20 62 (16.71%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 369 (99.46%) Java
2 219 (59.03%) SQL
3 152 (40.97%) JavaScript
4 133 (35.85%) TypeScript
5 34 (9.16%) Python
6 28 (7.55%) Shell Script
7 24 (6.47%) Go
8 10 (2.70%) C#
9 9 (2.43%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.81%) Perl
11 2 (0.54%) C
11 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 2 (0.54%) XPath
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) ProC
Qualifications
1 38 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.97%) Degree
2 37 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.82%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.01%) SLA
2 8 (2.16%) QA
3 5 (1.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (9.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.27%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (37.47%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (7.01%) OpenSSO
4 25 (6.74%) Terraform
5 7 (1.89%) Ansible
6 2 (0.54%) Control-M
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 184 (49.60%) Oracle
2 26 (7.01%) Remedy
3 16 (4.31%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.77%) SAP
5 6 (1.62%) WSO2
6 5 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.35%) Google
6 5 (1.35%) Okta
6 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.08%) Splunk
8 2 (0.54%) IBM
8 2 (0.54%) TSYS
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe
9 1 (0.27%) BT
9 1 (0.27%) CA
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco
9 1 (0.27%) Dell
9 1 (0.27%) HP
9 1 (0.27%) webMethods