Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £598 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -55 +5 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 40 213 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 6.00% 5.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 6.31% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 183 201
10th Percentile £363 £522 £513
25th Percentile £425 £611 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £775
90th Percentile £855 £950 £860
Central London median daily rate £598 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -17.56% +3.57% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,071 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (47.50%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) Spring
4 12 (30.00%) Banking
4 12 (30.00%) TDD
4 12 (30.00%) Front Office
4 12 (30.00%) Microservices
4 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 10 (25.00%) AWS
6 9 (22.50%) Finance
6 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
7 8 (20.00%) Kafka
7 8 (20.00%) JAX-RS
7 8 (20.00%) Linux
7 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (17.50%) Multithreading
9 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
9 6 (15.00%) Investment Banking
9 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (15.00%) REST
9 6 (15.00%) GCP
9 6 (15.00%) Docker
9 6 (15.00%) DevOps
9 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
10 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
10 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
10 5 (12.50%) C#
10 5 (12.50%) Unix
10 5 (12.50%) Python

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) MQSeries
1 1 (2.50%) nginx
1 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (2.50%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) GCP
3 4 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.50%) KDB
3 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (12.50%) Mockito
2 4 (10.00%) Maven
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) Git
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) EasyMock
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) Gradle
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.50%) TestNG
General
1 12 (30.00%) Banking
1 12 (30.00%) Front Office
2 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) Spring
2 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (20.00%) JAX-RS
3 8 (20.00%) Kafka
4 6 (15.00%) REST
5 4 (10.00%) GWT
5 4 (10.00%) Restlet
6 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.50%) CSS
6 3 (7.50%) HTML
6 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) SAML
7 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.00%) JPA
7 2 (5.00%) Web Services
8 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.50%) Mustache
8 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Equities
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Mac OS X
4 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) Microservices
2 12 (30.00%) TDD
3 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.50%) Multithreading
5 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) BDD
6 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.00%) Low Latency
7 4 (10.00%) Pair Programming
7 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (7.50%) Responsive Web Design
8 3 (7.50%) User Experience
8 3 (7.50%) Web Design
8 3 (7.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (12.50%) C#
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) C++
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) PHP
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Advent
3 1 (2.50%) Eze Castle Integration
3 1 (2.50%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.50%) Solace
3 1 (2.50%) Sybase
3 1 (2.50%) TIBCO