Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 572 664 765
Rank change year-on-year +92 +101 -128
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 357 259 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 0.96% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 75 87 238
10th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,000 £75,669 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.19% -5.41% +23.08%
75th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £180,000 £117,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,779 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -30.32% +27.27% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22,074 26,882 71,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.09% 29.07% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,295 17,588 29,917
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 12 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 12 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 +43 289 £48,779 -30.32% 18
Scotland +74 243 £47,557 -32.06% 6
England -29 94 £105,000 +23.53% 19
London +94 63 £105,000 +10.53% 9
Work from Home -90 35 £47,557 -32.06% 11
South East -31 27 £90,000 +80.00% 8
Northern Ireland +17 5 £47,500 - 3
North of England -19 4 £50,000 +15.17% 1
Wales -24 4 - -
North West -37 4 £50,000 -37.50%
East of England -14 3 £66,250 -17.19%
West Midlands -9 2 £35,000 -
Midlands -45 2 £35,000 -46.15%
South West -48 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 (27.45%) FileNet
2 27 (7.56%) WebLogic
3 13 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.68%) CMS
4 6 (1.68%) JBoss
4 6 (1.68%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.12%) Apache Pig
6 3 (0.84%) Confluence
6 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.56%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.56%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.64%) Dynamics AX
1 13 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (41.46%) AWS
2 120 (33.61%) Amazon S3
3 49 (13.73%) GitHub
4 34 (9.52%) Serverless
5 29 (8.12%) Azure
6 28 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (7.28%) OpenShift
8 24 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.64%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.96%) PaaS
12 6 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.68%) GCP
13 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.40%) IaaS
13 5 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) SSH
2 2 (0.56%) FTP
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.28%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (43.98%) NoSQL
2 139 (38.94%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (27.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 52 (14.57%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (5.32%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.52%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.40%) Metadata
10 5 (1.40%) Power BI
10 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.12%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.12%) Big Data
11 4 (1.12%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.56%) MySQL
12 2 (0.56%) OLAP
12 2 (0.56%) OLTP
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 193 (54.06%) JUnit
2 105 (29.41%) Jasmine
3 80 (22.41%) Jenkins
4 60 (16.81%) Cypress.io
4 60 (16.81%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (16.81%) Protractor
4 60 (16.81%) Selenium
4 60 (16.81%) WebDriver
5 46 (12.89%) Mockito
6 25 (7.00%) Artifactory
7 14 (3.92%) Git
8 7 (1.96%) JIRA
9 4 (1.12%) Checkstyle
9 4 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.84%) Maven
11 2 (0.56%) Ant
11 2 (0.56%) PowerBuilder
11 2 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 275 (77.03%) Finance
2 230 (64.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 230 (64.43%) Law
3 102 (28.57%) Legal
4 73 (20.45%) Banking
5 61 (17.09%) Investment Banking
6 59 (16.53%) Marketing
7 47 (13.17%) Social Skills
8 36 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (6.44%) Front Office
10 20 (5.60%) Police
11 10 (2.80%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.84%) Publishing
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Back Office
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 2 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.28%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (67.51%) Software Engineer
2 165 (46.22%) Java Engineer
3 163 (45.66%) Java Software Engineer
4 111 (31.09%) Full Stack Engineer
5 110 (30.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 70 (19.61%) Lead
7 62 (17.37%) Lead Software Engineer
8 60 (16.81%) Senior
9 36 (10.08%) Developer
10 30 (8.40%) Lead Java Engineer
11 25 (7.00%) Java Developer
12 24 (6.72%) Analyst
12 24 (6.72%) Applications Support
12 24 (6.72%) Applications Support Analyst
12 24 (6.72%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (6.72%) Senior Applications Support
12 24 (6.72%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
12 24 (6.72%) Senior Support Analyst
12 24 (6.72%) Support Analyst
13 22 (6.16%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (83.19%) Spring
2 211 (59.10%) AngularJS
3 201 (56.30%) React
4 189 (52.94%) Hibernate
5 167 (46.78%) JMS
6 144 (40.34%) CSS
6 144 (40.34%) HTML
7 142 (39.78%) JSON
8 139 (38.94%) jQuery
8 139 (38.94%) Node.js
9 133 (37.25%) Kafka
10 132 (36.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 100 (28.01%) Spring Integration
12 98 (27.45%) GraphQL
13 60 (16.81%) Jest
14 55 (15.41%) Web Services
15 46 (12.89%) XML
16 31 (8.68%) JavaBeans
17 30 (8.40%) Spring Boot
18 28 (7.84%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 100 (28.01%) Cloud Native
2 98 (27.45%) Algorithms
3 79 (22.13%) Data Structures
4 35 (9.80%) Onboarding
5 22 (6.16%) Tandem
6 14 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.40%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.40%) Media Streaming
10 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (1.12%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.56%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.56%) DataPower
13 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.68%) Unix
2 11 (3.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Solaris
3 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (79.55%) Agile
2 267 (74.79%) Software Engineering
3 264 (73.95%) CI/CD
4 246 (68.91%) SDLC
5 218 (61.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 213 (59.66%) Machine Learning
7 185 (51.82%) Operational Stability
8 141 (39.50%) Community of Practice
9 136 (38.10%) Microservices
10 131 (36.69%) Full Stack Development
11 113 (31.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (31.37%) Visualisation
13 111 (31.09%) Decision-Making
14 104 (29.13%) Risk Management
15 100 (28.01%) AOP
16 98 (27.45%) Document Management
17 82 (22.97%) Multithreading
18 79 (22.13%) TDD
19 76 (21.29%) BDD
20 62 (17.37%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 355 (99.44%) Java
2 208 (58.26%) SQL
3 153 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 133 (37.25%) TypeScript
5 32 (8.96%) Python
6 26 (7.28%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.16%) Go
8 11 (3.08%) C#
9 9 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.84%) Perl
11 2 (0.56%) C
11 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 2 (0.56%) XPath
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) ProC
Qualifications
1 37 (10.36%) Degree
2 36 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 35 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (8.12%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.72%) SLA
2 7 (1.96%) QA
3 5 (1.40%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 137 (38.38%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.68%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (6.72%) OpenSSO
4 23 (6.44%) Terraform
5 7 (1.96%) Ansible
6 2 (0.56%) Control-M
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 178 (49.86%) Oracle
2 24 (6.72%) Remedy
3 16 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.92%) SAP
5 6 (1.68%) WSO2
6 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.40%) Google
6 5 (1.40%) Okta
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.12%) Splunk
8 2 (0.56%) IBM
8 2 (0.56%) TSYS
9 1 (0.28%) Adobe
9 1 (0.28%) BT
9 1 (0.28%) CA
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco
9 1 (0.28%) Dell
9 1 (0.28%) HP
9 1 (0.28%) webMethods