Java EE Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 416 540
Rank change year-on-year +86 +124 -92
Contract jobs citing Java EE 19 43 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.71% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 73
10th Percentile £422 £363 £392
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.85% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £565 £653
90th Percentile - £650 -
UK median daily rate £588 £488 £585
% change year-on-year +20.51% -16.67% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £69.25 £45.63
25th Percentile - £70.31 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year - +29.83% -11.83%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.77
% change year-on-year - +29.83% -11.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Java EE 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 WFH option and 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 3,657 6,059 13,124
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.97% 24.99% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 4,544 9,747
10th Percentile £343 £399 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +10.55%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £741
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 77 110
10th Percentile £24.23 £24.45 £22.50
25th Percentile - £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.10 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

Java EE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java EE trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
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 Java EE.

Java EE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java EE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Java EE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
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 Java EE.

Java EE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
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 2 (10.53%) WildFly
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Miro
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Fieldglass
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) GitLab
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 8 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 8 (42.11%) REST Assured
2 8 (42.11%) Selenium
2 8 (42.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Law
3 7 (36.84%) Police
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Tech for Good
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Automotive
6 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Developer
3 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
4 8 (42.11%) Java Engineer
4 8 (42.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (42.11%) Senior Java Engineer
4 8 (42.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 8 (42.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
6 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
8 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
9 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) REST
2 8 (42.11%) ARM Templates
2 8 (42.11%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) Grails
4 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.79%) jQuery
4 3 (15.79%) SOAP
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) React
6 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.26%) Jest
6 1 (5.26%) MicroProfile
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Software Engineering
2 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Configuration Management
4 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 8 (42.11%) Decision-Making
4 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (42.11%) Software Architecture
4 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) API Development
5 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (21.05%) OO
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
6 3 (15.79%) BDD
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) MVC
6 3 (15.79%) OOP
7 2 (10.53%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
1 8 (42.11%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
1 8 (42.11%) Podman
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle