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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 59 50
Rank change year-on-year -52 -9 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 399 1,097 1,919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.26% 4.16% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 4.37% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 932 1,576
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 £48.13 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.75% +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 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
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 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

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 12 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 12 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 -53 44 £585 -19.31% 13
South London -2 18 £485 -0.51%
East London -8 4 £723 +11.15% 1
West London +15 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 12 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.

1 399 (100.00%) Java
2 163 (40.85%) Agile
3 147 (36.84%) Finance
4 122 (30.58%) Spring
5 111 (27.82%) Banking
5 111 (27.82%) AWS
6 106 (26.57%) Spring Boot
7 95 (23.81%) Front Office
8 93 (23.31%) Microservices
9 83 (20.80%) Security Cleared
10 79 (19.80%) CI/CD
11 78 (19.55%) SC Cleared
12 77 (19.30%) TDD
13 69 (17.29%) SQL
14 66 (16.54%) Investment Banking
15 64 (16.04%) Docker
15 64 (16.04%) REST
16 60 (15.04%) DevOps
16 60 (15.04%) Python
16 60 (15.04%) Social Skills
17 59 (14.79%) Electronic Trading
17 59 (14.79%) Kafka
18 56 (14.04%) Jenkins
18 56 (14.04%) Fixed Income
19 51 (12.78%) Oracle
19 51 (12.78%) Linux
19 51 (12.78%) Kubernetes
19 51 (12.78%) SDLC
20 50 (12.53%) Test Automation
21 49 (12.28%) 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 30 (7.52%) Apache
2 13 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.26%) Confluence
3 11 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.75%) SAS
5 5 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.00%) JBoss
7 3 (0.75%) 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 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.26%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.75%) 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
1 111 (27.82%) AWS
2 45 (11.28%) GCP
3 28 (7.02%) Azure
3 28 (7.02%) Serverless
4 23 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (3.26%) dbt
7 12 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
7 12 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (2.51%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.00%) GitHub
12 3 (0.75%) Cloud Run
13 2 (0.50%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) SSH
2 3 (0.75%) 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 35 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.77%) KDB
2 31 (7.77%) MongoDB
3 29 (7.27%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 16 (4.01%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (3.26%) Apache Arrow
7 13 (3.26%) Apache Ignite
7 13 (3.26%) Dremio
7 13 (3.26%) Flink
8 12 (3.01%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.76%) MySQL
10 10 (2.51%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 56 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.28%) JUnit
3 40 (10.03%) Git
4 39 (9.77%) Mockito
5 31 (7.77%) JIRA
6 24 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 24 (6.02%) Maven
7 18 (4.51%) GitLab
8 15 (3.76%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.75%) Selenium
10 6 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.25%) TestNG
12 4 (1.00%) EasyMock
12 4 (1.00%) Gradle
12 4 (1.00%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.75%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.50%) Protractor
General
1 147 (36.84%) Finance
2 111 (27.82%) Banking
3 95 (23.81%) Front Office
4 66 (16.54%) Investment Banking
5 60 (15.04%) Social Skills
6 40 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (6.77%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.00%) Back Office
9 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.75%) 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
1 122 (30.58%) Spring
2 106 (26.57%) Spring Boot
3 64 (16.04%) REST
4 59 (14.79%) Kafka
5 45 (11.28%) Hibernate
6 38 (9.52%) JPA
7 35 (8.77%) React
8 27 (6.77%) JAX-RS
9 24 (6.02%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (5.76%) AngularJS
10 23 (5.76%) HTML
11 22 (5.51%) FIX Protocol
11 22 (5.51%) Web Services
12 18 (4.51%) CSS
12 18 (4.51%) JSON
13 17 (4.26%) RESTful
14 16 (4.01%) Node.js
14 16 (4.01%) XML
15 14 (3.51%) NumPy
15 14 (3.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.04%) Fixed Income
2 49 (12.28%) Derivative
3 46 (11.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (5.26%) Credit Derivative
6 21 (5.26%) Equities
6 21 (5.26%) Hedge funds
7 17 (4.26%) Data Structures
8 16 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.76%) Algorithms
9 15 (3.76%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.51%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.01%) Market Risk
12 8 (2.01%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.78%) Linux
2 37 (9.27%) Unix
3 16 (4.01%) Mac OS X
4 6 (1.50%) Windows
5 3 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (40.85%) Agile
2 93 (23.31%) Microservices
3 79 (19.80%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.30%) TDD
5 60 (15.04%) DevOps
6 59 (14.79%) Electronic Trading
7 51 (12.78%) SDLC
8 50 (12.53%) Test Automation
9 49 (12.28%) Software Engineering
10 45 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
10 45 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (10.78%) Multithreading
12 42 (10.53%) Computer Science
13 41 (10.28%) Low Latency
14 40 (10.03%) BDD
14 40 (10.03%) Scrum
15 37 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
16 30 (7.52%) Mentoring
17 28 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 26 (6.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 399 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (17.29%) SQL
3 60 (15.04%) Python
4 35 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.77%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.51%) Perl
7 13 (3.26%) C#
8 11 (2.76%) Scala
9 10 (2.51%) C++
9 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.00%) VBA
12 3 (0.75%) Bash
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 2 (0.50%) Haskell
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 83 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.02%) Degree
4 19 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.75%) PhD
7 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.51%) QA
2 5 (1.25%) MiFID
3 4 (1.00%) 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 64 (16.04%) 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 51 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.01%) Terraform
3 12 (3.01%) Ansible
4 8 (2.01%) Grafana
5 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.75%) 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 (12.78%) Oracle
2 27 (6.77%) ION Trading
3 22 (5.51%) Google
4 15 (3.76%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.26%) Solace
6 6 (1.50%) IBM
6 6 (1.50%) Splunk
6 6 (1.50%) TIBCO
7 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.75%) Tradeweb
7 3 (0.75%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.50%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) SAP
8 2 (0.50%) Sybase
8 2 (0.50%) WSO2
9 1 (0.25%) Adobe