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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -54 -9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 397 1,086 1,930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.27% 4.15% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 4.36% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 926 1,586
10th Percentile £425 £481 £475
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 £913 £900 £875
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.88% +13.24%
75th Percentile - - £77.88
90th Percentile - - £78.40
England median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +1.84%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

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 14 May 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 14 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
Central London -48 45 £591 -18.43% 14
South London 0 17 £485 -0.51%
East London -12 4 £723 +11.15% 1
West London +16 3 £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 14 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 London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 397 (100.00%) Java
2 162 (40.81%) Agile
3 148 (37.28%) Finance
4 121 (30.48%) Spring
5 112 (28.21%) Banking
6 109 (27.46%) AWS
7 103 (25.94%) Spring Boot
8 95 (23.93%) Front Office
9 91 (22.92%) Microservices
10 81 (20.40%) Security Cleared
11 77 (19.40%) SC Cleared
11 77 (19.40%) CI/CD
12 76 (19.14%) TDD
13 68 (17.13%) SQL
14 67 (16.88%) Investment Banking
15 62 (15.62%) Docker
15 62 (15.62%) REST
16 61 (15.37%) Python
17 60 (15.11%) Electronic Trading
17 60 (15.11%) Social Skills
18 58 (14.61%) Kafka
19 57 (14.36%) DevOps
19 57 (14.36%) Fixed Income
20 53 (13.35%) Jenkins
21 52 (13.10%) Linux
22 51 (12.85%) Oracle
23 50 (12.59%) Test Automation
23 50 (12.59%) Software Engineering
23 50 (12.59%) SDLC
24 49 (12.34%) Kubernetes

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 31 (7.81%) Apache
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.02%) Confluence
4 11 (2.77%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.76%) SAS
6 4 (1.01%) JBoss
6 4 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) CICS
9 1 (0.25%) GemFire
9 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.27%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.76%) RMDS
3 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (27.46%) AWS
2 46 (11.59%) GCP
3 28 (7.05%) Azure
4 27 (6.80%) Serverless
5 23 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.28%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.53%) dbt
8 12 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (2.77%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.02%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.01%) GitHub
14 3 (0.76%) Cloud Run
15 2 (0.50%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) SSH
2 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.50%) 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 33 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (8.06%) KDB
3 31 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 28 (7.05%) Relational Database
5 19 (4.79%) Oracle Database
6 15 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.78%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.53%) Apache Arrow
7 14 (3.53%) Apache Ignite
7 14 (3.53%) Dremio
8 13 (3.27%) Flink
9 12 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.77%) MySQL
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
14 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (13.35%) Jenkins
2 43 (10.83%) JUnit
3 38 (9.57%) Git
3 38 (9.57%) Mockito
4 30 (7.56%) JIRA
5 24 (6.05%) Maven
6 23 (5.79%) Cucumber
7 17 (4.28%) GitLab
8 14 (3.53%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.76%) Selenium
10 6 (1.51%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.26%) TestNG
12 4 (1.01%) EasyMock
12 4 (1.01%) Gradle
12 4 (1.01%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.50%) Protractor
General
1 148 (37.28%) Finance
2 112 (28.21%) Banking
3 95 (23.93%) Front Office
4 67 (16.88%) Investment Banking
5 60 (15.11%) Social Skills
6 40 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (6.55%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.01%) Back Office
9 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
12 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (30.48%) Spring
2 103 (25.94%) Spring Boot
3 62 (15.62%) REST
4 58 (14.61%) Kafka
5 45 (11.34%) Hibernate
6 38 (9.57%) JPA
7 35 (8.82%) React
8 27 (6.80%) JAX-RS
9 23 (5.79%) ActiveMQ
9 23 (5.79%) HTML
10 22 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 22 (5.54%) FIX Protocol
11 21 (5.29%) Web Services
12 18 (4.53%) CSS
13 17 (4.28%) JSON
14 16 (4.03%) XML
15 15 (3.78%) Node.js
15 15 (3.78%) NumPy
15 15 (3.78%) Pandas
15 15 (3.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.36%) Fixed Income
2 49 (12.34%) Derivative
3 47 (11.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.54%) Equities
5 22 (5.54%) Hedge funds
6 21 (5.29%) Credit Derivative
6 21 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (4.28%) Data Structures
8 16 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.78%) Algorithms
9 15 (3.78%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.53%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (2.52%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.02%) Market Risk
12 8 (2.02%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.01%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.10%) Linux
2 37 (9.32%) Unix
3 16 (4.03%) Mac OS X
4 6 (1.51%) Windows
5 3 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (40.81%) Agile
2 91 (22.92%) Microservices
3 77 (19.40%) CI/CD
4 76 (19.14%) TDD
5 60 (15.11%) Electronic Trading
6 57 (14.36%) DevOps
7 50 (12.59%) SDLC
7 50 (12.59%) Software Engineering
7 50 (12.59%) Test Automation
8 45 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (11.08%) Full Stack Development
10 43 (10.83%) Multithreading
11 42 (10.58%) Computer Science
12 41 (10.33%) Low Latency
13 38 (9.57%) BDD
14 37 (9.32%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (9.32%) Scrum
15 30 (7.56%) Mentoring
16 28 (7.05%) User Acceptance Testing
17 26 (6.55%) OO
Programming Languages
1 397 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (17.13%) SQL
3 61 (15.37%) Python
4 35 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.05%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.53%) Perl
7 13 (3.27%) C#
8 11 (2.77%) Scala
9 10 (2.52%) C++
10 9 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.01%) VBA
12 3 (0.76%) Bash
12 3 (0.76%) PHP
12 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 2 (0.50%) Haskell
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 81 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.07%) Degree
4 19 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.76%) PhD
7 3 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.52%) 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 62 (15.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) 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 49 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.79%) Terraform
3 11 (2.77%) Ansible
4 7 (1.76%) Grafana
5 6 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.50%) Istio
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
7 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 51 (12.85%) Oracle
2 28 (7.05%) ION Trading
3 22 (5.54%) Google
4 15 (3.78%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.27%) Solace
6 6 (1.51%) Splunk
6 6 (1.51%) TIBCO
7 5 (1.26%) IBM
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.76%) Tradeweb
8 3 (0.76%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.50%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.50%) SAP
9 2 (0.50%) Sybase
9 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe