Java Developer Contracts in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 55 50
Rank change year-on-year -53 -5 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 396 1,179 1,917
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.24% 4.35% 4.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 4.57% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 992 1,565
10th Percentile £425 £476 £480
25th Percentile £513 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £775
90th Percentile £933 £888 £860
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £57.88
25th Percentile - - £69.69
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £77.34
Median % change year-on-year - +16.37% +13.74%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +22.92% -2.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London -60 43 £598 -17.56% 10
South London +6 20 £485 -0.51%
East London -12 3 £595 -8.46% 1
West London +13 2 £425 -38.18% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 164 (41.41%) Agile
3 140 (35.35%) Finance
4 120 (30.30%) Spring
5 115 (29.04%) Banking
6 114 (28.79%) AWS
7 109 (27.53%) Spring Boot
8 101 (25.51%) Microservices
9 90 (22.73%) Front Office
10 85 (21.46%) Security Cleared
11 82 (20.71%) CI/CD
12 79 (19.95%) SC Cleared
13 70 (17.68%) Investment Banking
14 69 (17.42%) TDD
15 68 (17.17%) Docker
16 67 (16.92%) DevOps
16 67 (16.92%) SQL
17 63 (15.91%) Kafka
17 63 (15.91%) Social Skills
18 62 (15.66%) REST
19 59 (14.90%) Jenkins
20 58 (14.65%) Python
21 56 (14.14%) Electronic Trading
22 55 (13.89%) Fixed Income
22 55 (13.89%) Kubernetes
23 52 (13.13%) SDLC
23 52 (13.13%) Oracle
24 49 (12.37%) JUnit
24 49 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
25 48 (12.12%) Software Engineering

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (7.32%) Apache
2 13 (3.28%) Confluence
3 12 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.77%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.26%) SAS
6 4 (1.01%) JBoss
6 4 (1.01%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) GemFire
8 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.25%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.25%) RMDS
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (28.79%) AWS
2 41 (10.35%) GCP
3 30 (7.58%) Serverless
4 27 (6.82%) Azure
5 23 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.29%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.03%) dbt
11 8 (2.02%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.77%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.52%) GitHub
14 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.76%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (0.76%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) SSH
2 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.59%) MongoDB
3 29 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 26 (6.57%) KDB
5 20 (5.05%) NoSQL
6 19 (4.80%) Oracle Database
7 14 (3.54%) MySQL
8 13 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.28%) Flink
8 13 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.03%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
9 12 (3.03%) Dremio
10 9 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.26%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (14.90%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.37%) JUnit
3 42 (10.61%) Git
4 39 (9.85%) Mockito
5 29 (7.32%) JIRA
6 25 (6.31%) Cucumber
7 20 (5.05%) Maven
8 18 (4.55%) GitLab
9 14 (3.54%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.77%) Selenium
11 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.26%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.26%) TestNG
13 4 (1.01%) EasyMock
13 4 (1.01%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.76%) Gradle
14 3 (0.76%) Hamcrest
14 3 (0.76%) Liquibase
14 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.51%) Protractor
General
1 140 (35.35%) Finance
2 115 (29.04%) Banking
3 90 (22.73%) Front Office
4 70 (17.68%) Investment Banking
5 63 (15.91%) Social Skills
6 39 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.01%) Back Office
9 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Electronics
11 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.51%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (30.30%) Spring
2 109 (27.53%) Spring Boot
3 63 (15.91%) Kafka
4 62 (15.66%) REST
5 44 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 37 (9.34%) JPA
7 33 (8.33%) React
8 25 (6.31%) ActiveMQ
9 24 (6.06%) JAX-RS
10 23 (5.81%) FIX Protocol
10 23 (5.81%) HTML
10 23 (5.81%) Web Services
11 22 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 20 (5.05%) RESTful
13 19 (4.80%) CSS
14 18 (4.55%) Node.js
15 15 (3.79%) JSON
15 15 (3.79%) Protocol Buffers
16 14 (3.54%) XML
17 13 (3.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.89%) Fixed Income
2 45 (11.36%) Derivative
3 40 (10.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.30%) Credit Derivative
6 20 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (5.05%) Hedge funds
7 18 (4.55%) Equities
8 17 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.79%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.54%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (3.54%) Management Information System
11 13 (3.28%) Algorithms
12 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
13 10 (2.53%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (2.02%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.87%) Linux
2 36 (9.09%) Unix
3 16 (4.04%) Mac OS X
4 8 (2.02%) Windows
5 3 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (41.41%) Agile
2 101 (25.51%) Microservices
3 82 (20.71%) CI/CD
4 69 (17.42%) TDD
5 67 (16.92%) DevOps
6 56 (14.14%) Electronic Trading
7 52 (13.13%) SDLC
8 49 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (12.12%) Software Engineering
10 46 (11.62%) Full Stack Development
10 46 (11.62%) Scrum
11 44 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 41 (10.35%) Computer Science
13 39 (9.85%) Multithreading
14 38 (9.60%) BDD
15 36 (9.09%) Low Latency
16 34 (8.59%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (6.82%) Mentoring
18 24 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
19 23 (5.81%) OO
Programming Languages
1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (16.92%) SQL
3 58 (14.65%) Python
4 39 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.79%) C#
6 15 (3.79%) Perl
7 11 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.53%) Scala
9 9 (2.27%) C++
9 9 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.01%) VBA
12 3 (0.76%) Bash
12 3 (0.76%) PHP
12 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.51%) Groovy
13 2 (0.51%) Haskell
13 2 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 85 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.09%) Degree
4 20 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.77%) PhD
8 3 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.78%) QA
2 5 (1.26%) MiFID
3 4 (1.01%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (17.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.25%) GridGain
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 55 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.56%) Terraform
3 14 (3.54%) Ansible
4 8 (2.02%) Grafana
5 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.51%) Istio
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.51%) Packer
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.25%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 52 (13.13%) Oracle
2 21 (5.30%) ION Trading
3 19 (4.80%) Google
4 13 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.02%) Solace
6 6 (1.52%) IBM
7 5 (1.26%) Splunk
7 5 (1.26%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.76%) Sybase
8 3 (0.76%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.51%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.51%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.51%) SAP
9 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.51%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Databricks