J2EE Contracts

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 536 422
Rank change year-on-year +33 -114 -80
Contract jobs citing J2EE 91 162 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 1.27% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 127 370
10th Percentile £425 £408 £412
25th Percentile £472 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.27% +11.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,216 12,735 23,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 22.93% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,364 9,287 17,252
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 152 225
10th Percentile £22.10 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 11 June 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 13 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 11 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 +49 70 £535 +0.19% 18
London +45 42 £525 -1.69% 9
UK excluding London +16 35 £600 +9.09% 14
Work from Home +70 32 £489 -8.21% 11
South East +21 12 £625 +26.58% 7
North of England +18 12 £492 -18.04% 1
Scotland +23 8 £440 -23.48% 3
North West +17 7 £489 +0.31%
Yorkshire -9 5 £575 -4.17% 1
South West +4 1 £700 +40.00%
East of England -2 1 £600 +50.00%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 (13.19%) WebSphere
2 8 (8.79%) IBM HTTP Server
2 8 (8.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (8.79%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (8.79%) WebSphere Portal
3 6 (6.59%) Confluence
4 5 (5.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (4.40%) JBoss
5 4 (4.40%) WebLogic
5 4 (4.40%) WildFly
6 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.30%) Tomcat
7 2 (2.20%) Apache
7 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (2.20%) IIS
8 1 (1.10%) CMS
8 1 (1.10%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (1.10%) Jetty
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (9.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.30%) Shopify
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.10%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) AWS
2 24 (26.37%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) Apigee
3 7 (7.69%) Kong
4 6 (6.59%) PaaS
5 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.40%) IaaS
5 4 (4.40%) iPaaS
5 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.30%) BigCommerce
6 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.10%) GCP
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.10%) npm
8 1 (1.10%) OCI
8 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) SSH
2 9 (9.89%) HTTP
3 3 (3.30%) LAN
3 3 (3.30%) WAN
4 2 (2.20%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) FTP
5 1 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Oracle Database
2 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 7 (7.69%) OLAP
2 7 (7.69%) OLTP
3 6 (6.59%) MySQL
3 6 (6.59%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) Big Data
5 2 (2.20%) DB2
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) JIRA
2 13 (14.29%) JUnit
3 11 (12.09%) Git
4 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
5 9 (9.89%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.59%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (6.59%) Maven
7 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.20%) Subversion
9 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.10%) Gradle
9 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.10%) JMeter
9 1 (1.10%) Mockito
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 37 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 32 (35.16%) Finance
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.59%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Aviation
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
7 4 (4.40%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Front Office
8 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (39.56%) Developer
2 27 (29.67%) Java Developer
3 26 (28.57%) Architect
4 23 (25.27%) Senior
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Lead
7 8 (8.79%) Middleware Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Technical Design Leader
9 6 (6.59%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.30%) J2EE Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (37.36%) Spring Boot
1 34 (37.36%) Web Services
2 32 (35.16%) Spring
3 19 (20.88%) SOAP
4 17 (18.68%) REST
4 17 (18.68%) XML
5 16 (17.58%) .NET
6 13 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 12 (13.19%) JSON
8 11 (12.09%) Kafka
9 10 (10.99%) JPA
9 10 (10.99%) Middleware
10 7 (7.69%) CSS
10 7 (7.69%) HTML
10 7 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
10 7 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (6.59%) Apache Camel
11 6 (6.59%) JSP
11 6 (6.59%) Spring Integration
11 6 (6.59%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (9.89%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (7.69%) DataPower
4 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.30%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.30%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Spread Betting
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Unix
2 16 (17.58%) Linux
3 7 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) DevOps
2 31 (34.07%) Agile
3 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (16.48%) Microservices
5 14 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 14 (15.38%) Scrum
6 13 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (14.29%) SOA
6 13 (14.29%) TDD
7 12 (13.19%) ITIL
7 12 (13.19%) Migration
7 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
8 11 (12.09%) Design Patterns
8 11 (12.09%) SDLC
8 11 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (10.99%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (10.99%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (10.99%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (10.99%) Sprint Retrospective
9 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (87.91%) Java
2 28 (30.77%) Python
3 24 (26.37%) SQL
4 22 (24.18%) C
4 22 (24.18%) C++
5 17 (18.68%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.79%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.59%) Perl
8 4 (4.40%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.10%) C#
11 1 (1.10%) Groovy
11 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) CISSP
5 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.20%) SANS
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) GRC
2 3 (3.30%) SLA
3 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.10%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) Terraform
2 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (6.59%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.10%) Rancher
5 1 (1.10%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Oracle
2 15 (16.48%) IBM
3 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) SAP
5 7 (7.69%) TSYS
6 5 (5.49%) Adobe
7 4 (4.40%) Google
7 4 (4.40%) MuleSoft
8 3 (3.30%) Dell
8 3 (3.30%) Intel
8 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.30%) Sitecore
8 3 (3.30%) VMware
9 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.10%) Databricks
10 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
10 1 (1.10%) OneLogin
10 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.10%) Solace