Java Contracts in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 161 451 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.37% 12.73% 13.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.58% 29.69% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 320 414
10th Percentile £420 £480 £470
25th Percentile £500 £572 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £738
90th Percentile £855 £950 £838
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £61.03
25th Percentile - - £63.69
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.09% -
75th Percentile - - £73.19
90th Percentile - - £75.48
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -49.09% -

All Programming Languages
City of London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 746 1,519 1,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.13% 42.89% 44.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 999 1,435
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -9.07% +3.10% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the City of London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
Java
Central London

Java
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 6 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.11%) Confluence
3 4 (2.48%) Apache
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.86%) nginx
4 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.24%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.24%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.24%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.62%) Camunda
6 1 (0.62%) CMS
6 1 (0.62%) JBoss
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.62%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Endur
2 1 (0.62%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.62%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.57%) AWS
2 22 (13.66%) Azure
3 14 (8.70%) GCP
4 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.73%) GitHub
5 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.11%) Serverless
6 4 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.24%) SaaS
8 2 (1.24%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.24%) DHCP
2 2 (1.24%) DNS
2 2 (1.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.62%) MQTT
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) VLAN
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) MongoDB
2 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.83%) KDB
4 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.35%) MySQL
7 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.48%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.24%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.24%) Power BI
10 2 (1.24%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) DB2
11 1 (0.62%) Kdb+
11 1 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.62%) Scylla
11 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (18.63%) Selenium
2 16 (9.94%) Cucumber
2 16 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.70%) Git
4 12 (7.45%) JIRA
4 12 (7.45%) JUnit
5 8 (4.97%) GitLab
5 8 (4.97%) Maven
5 8 (4.97%) Mockito
6 7 (4.35%) Postman
6 7 (4.35%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.35%) TestNG
6 7 (4.35%) WebDriver
7 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.48%) Appium
8 4 (2.48%) Gradle
8 4 (2.48%) JMeter
8 4 (2.48%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (24.84%) Finance
2 39 (24.22%) Banking
3 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
4 23 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.56%) Front Office
6 10 (6.21%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.35%) Prime Brokerage
7 7 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.48%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.86%) Retail
9 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Aviation
10 1 (0.62%) Back Office
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (44.72%) Developer
2 38 (23.60%) Java Developer
3 25 (15.53%) Senior
4 16 (9.94%) Senior Developer
5 12 (7.45%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Java Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Tester
7 10 (6.21%) Architect
7 10 (6.21%) Lead
8 8 (4.97%) Automation Tester
8 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.97%) Site Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Analyst
9 7 (4.35%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.73%) Consultant
10 6 (3.73%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.01%) Spring
2 27 (16.77%) Kafka
3 26 (16.15%) Spring Boot
4 19 (11.80%) RESTful
5 14 (8.70%) REST
6 10 (6.21%) JAX-RS
7 9 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (5.59%) React
8 8 (4.97%) .NET
8 8 (4.97%) HTML
8 8 (4.97%) Node.js
9 6 (3.73%) CSS
9 6 (3.73%) SOAP
9 6 (3.73%) Web Services
10 5 (3.11%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.48%) LDAP
11 4 (2.48%) Middleware
11 4 (2.48%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 13 (8.07%) Equities
4 11 (6.83%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.73%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.11%) Derivative
8 4 (2.48%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.86%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.24%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.24%) CMDB
10 2 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.24%) PKI
11 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.62%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Linux
2 12 (7.45%) Unix
3 7 (4.35%) Android
4 6 (3.73%) Windows
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.81%) Agile
2 47 (29.19%) Test Automation
3 42 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 38 (23.60%) DevOps
5 37 (22.98%) Microservices
6 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (16.77%) Software Engineering
7 15 (9.32%) TDD
8 14 (8.70%) Computer Science
9 12 (7.45%) SDLC
9 12 (7.45%) Software Testing
10 11 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (6.21%) BDD
11 10 (6.21%) Multithreading
11 10 (6.21%) Scrum
12 9 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (5.59%) Full Stack Development
12 9 (5.59%) Low Latency
12 9 (5.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.51%) Python
2 31 (19.25%) C#
3 28 (17.39%) SQL
4 20 (12.42%) C++
5 14 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.45%) Go
7 10 (6.21%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.35%) Rust
9 5 (3.11%) Perl
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.86%) C
10 3 (1.86%) Clojure
10 3 (1.86%) Haskell
10 3 (1.86%) R
10 3 (1.86%) Ruby
11 2 (1.24%) PHP
12 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.62%) RPG
12 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) Degree
4 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.11%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.48%) ISEB
7 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.62%) NIST
3 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (14.29%) Docker
2 8 (4.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (20.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.45%) Grafana
3 10 (6.21%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.59%) Terraform
5 8 (4.97%) Consul
6 6 (3.73%) Ansible
7 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.24%) Opsgenie
7 2 (1.24%) Packer
7 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.24%) Puppet
7 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.62%) Control-M
8 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.62%) Kibana
8 1 (0.62%) logstash
8 1 (0.62%) vRealize
8 1 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Oracle
3 8 (4.97%) Google
3 8 (4.97%) SaltStack
4 5 (3.11%) IBM
5 4 (2.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.86%) New Relic
6 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.86%) Solace
6 3 (1.86%) Splunk
6 3 (1.86%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.24%) Adobe
7 2 (1.24%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.24%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.24%) Murex
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.24%) VMware