Java EE Contracts in England

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 598 670
Rank change year-on-year +101 +72 -116
Contract jobs citing Java EE 48 39 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.083% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 0.37% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 100
10th Percentile £372 £450 £399
25th Percentile £387 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £585
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -14.30% +11.43%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £705 £734 £653
UK median daily rate £538 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +11.98% -12.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £67.00 £39.06
25th Percentile - £70.63 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +57.89% -27.53%
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £59.32
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Java EE 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,911 10,638 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.55% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,508 7,917 14,165
10th Percentile £350 £386 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 137 205
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.45 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.25 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +26.83% +13.89%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java EE in England.

Daily rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java EE in England.

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +24 25 £650 +44.44% 1
North of England - 12 £382 - 1
North West - 12 £382 - 1
London +72 7 £450 -10.00% 2
South West +6 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
Midlands - 2 £500 -
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.08%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) Miro
4 3 (6.25%) SAP Fieldglass
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 25 (52.08%) Cucumber
2 25 (52.08%) Selenium
3 24 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 24 (50.00%) SonarQube
4 15 (31.25%) JIRA
5 14 (29.17%) GitLab
6 4 (8.33%) JUnit
7 2 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (4.17%) Git
7 2 (4.17%) Gradle
7 2 (4.17%) Maven
7 2 (4.17%) Mockito
8 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 29 (60.42%) Social Skills
2 25 (52.08%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (41.67%) Law
4 13 (27.08%) Police
5 6 (12.50%) Finance
6 5 (10.42%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Java Engineer
2 17 (35.42%) Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Software Engineer
4 13 (27.08%) Senior
5 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 12 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (20.83%) Senior Java Engineer
6 10 (20.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 10 (20.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Java Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
11 1 (2.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (62.50%) REST
2 18 (37.50%) Spring
3 15 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 12 (25.00%) ARM Templates
5 10 (20.83%) RESTful
6 5 (10.42%) GraphQL
6 5 (10.42%) SOAP
7 4 (8.33%) React
8 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.17%) CSS
9 2 (4.17%) CSS3
9 2 (4.17%) EJB
9 2 (4.17%) HTML
9 2 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (4.17%) JMS
9 2 (4.17%) Node.js
9 2 (4.17%) Sass
9 2 (4.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (77.08%) Continuous Integration
2 31 (64.58%) Software Engineering
3 29 (60.42%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (58.33%) DevOps
5 27 (56.25%) Test Automation
6 25 (52.08%) Decision-Making
6 25 (52.08%) Software Architecture
6 25 (52.08%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (29.17%) Containerisation
8 13 (27.08%) Configuration Management
8 13 (27.08%) Design Patterns
8 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (22.92%) API Development
9 11 (22.92%) OO
10 10 (20.83%) Low Latency
10 10 (20.83%) Software Testing
11 9 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (14.58%) Microservices
13 5 (10.42%) Agile
13 5 (10.42%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (4.17%) C
2 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.17%) Rust
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) Ansible
2 13 (27.08%) Terraform
3 12 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.17%) Red Hat