Java Contracts in London

Java
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 1,430 3,146 4,865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.07% 11.62% 12.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.49% 28.47% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 2,466 3,693
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £800 £775 £750
90th Percentile £875 £863 £838
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 18
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.93
25th Percentile £49.25 £36.00 £35.31
Median hourly rate £56.50 £50.50 £65.70
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -23.14% -0.45%
75th Percentile £66.52 £74.88 £78.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £90.00 £84.48
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in London

Java
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 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 -13 180 £650 -3.70% 60
South London +6 36 £480 -1.54% 6
East London -3 24 £520 -12.16% 26
West London +1 17 £463 -15.91% 4
Java
England

Java
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
1 107 (7.48%) Apache
2 98 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 43 (3.01%) Confluence
5 10 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.56%) CMS
7 7 (0.49%) Camunda
7 7 (0.49%) JBoss
7 7 (0.49%) nginx
7 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.35%) SAS
9 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.070%) Ethereum
Applications
1 23 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.33%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.84%) ION Anvil
3 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.49%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.42%) Endur
5 5 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.35%) Shopify
6 4 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.21%) Global One
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.14%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.14%) RMDS
9 1 (0.070%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.070%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 449 (31.40%) AWS
2 181 (12.66%) Azure
3 158 (11.05%) GCP
4 81 (5.66%) dbt
5 75 (5.24%) Serverless
6 74 (5.17%) GitHub
6 74 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 58 (4.06%) Amazon S3
8 49 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (1.54%) OpenShift
14 21 (1.47%) Power Platform
15 19 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.33%) DNS
2 16 (1.12%) Internet
3 13 (0.91%) Network Security
4 11 (0.77%) Firewall
4 11 (0.77%) HTTP
5 10 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.63%) DHCP
7 6 (0.42%) SSH
7 6 (0.42%) VPN
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) SSL
9 3 (0.21%) IPv4
9 3 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.14%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.14%) Intranet
10 2 (0.14%) SMS
10 2 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 81 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 80 (5.59%) Apache Arrow
5 80 (5.59%) Dremio
6 79 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 70 (4.90%) Apache Ignite
8 66 (4.62%) MongoDB
8 66 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 62 (4.34%) MySQL
10 45 (3.15%) Big Data
11 43 (3.01%) KDB
12 41 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
15 31 (2.17%) Oracle Database
16 26 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
17 24 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
18 20 (1.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 163 (11.40%) Jenkins
2 162 (11.33%) Git
3 107 (7.48%) Selenium
4 92 (6.43%) JIRA
5 83 (5.80%) Cucumber
5 83 (5.80%) JUnit
6 54 (3.78%) Maven
7 46 (3.22%) Mockito
8 42 (2.94%) GitLab
9 36 (2.52%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.96%) TestNG
11 27 (1.89%) REST Assured
12 26 (1.82%) JMeter
13 24 (1.68%) Postman
14 23 (1.61%) WebDriver
15 21 (1.47%) Subversion
15 21 (1.47%) TeamCity
16 20 (1.40%) Gradle
17 19 (1.33%) Bitbucket
18 18 (1.26%) Appium
General
1 477 (33.36%) Finance
2 326 (22.80%) Banking
3 262 (18.32%) Social Skills
4 223 (15.59%) Front Office
5 170 (11.89%) Investment Banking
6 140 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (6.36%) Public Sector
8 27 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.54%) Retail
10 21 (1.47%) Back Office
11 18 (1.26%) Marketing
12 16 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.56%) Law
13 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.49%) Prime Brokerage
15 6 (0.42%) Electronics
15 6 (0.42%) German Language
15 6 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 713 (49.86%) Developer
2 396 (27.69%) Java Developer
3 263 (18.39%) Senior
4 145 (10.14%) Senior Developer
5 125 (8.74%) Software Engineer
6 122 (8.53%) Lead
7 99 (6.92%) Architect
8 95 (6.64%) Java Engineer
9 82 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 77 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
11 61 (4.27%) Software Developer
12 57 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
13 50 (3.50%) Data Engineer
14 46 (3.22%) Analyst
14 46 (3.22%) React Developer
15 43 (3.01%) Consultant
16 42 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
16 42 (2.94%) Python Engineer
17 40 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
18 39 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (17.27%) Spring
2 216 (15.10%) Spring Boot
3 151 (10.56%) REST
4 147 (10.28%) Kafka
5 134 (9.37%) React
6 98 (6.85%) HTML
7 89 (6.22%) Web Services
8 87 (6.08%) NumPy
8 87 (6.08%) Pandas
9 85 (5.94%) .NET
10 84 (5.87%) Protocol Buffers
11 83 (5.80%) gRPC
12 82 (5.73%) SciPy
13 79 (5.52%) Node.js
14 78 (5.45%) CSS
15 69 (4.83%) Hibernate
16 66 (4.62%) XML
17 59 (4.13%) RESTful
18 58 (4.06%) AngularJS
19 57 (3.99%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.54%) Fixed Income
2 136 (9.51%) Derivative
3 128 (8.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 100 (6.99%) Equities
5 97 (6.78%) Hedge funds
6 90 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
7 65 (4.55%) Algorithms
8 44 (3.08%) Data Structures
9 38 (2.66%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.45%) Management Information System
11 33 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.68%) Public Cloud
15 23 (1.61%) Cloud Native
16 21 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
17 18 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
17 18 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
17 18 (1.26%) Mobile App
17 18 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (10.70%) Linux
2 112 (7.83%) Unix
3 47 (3.29%) Windows
4 27 (1.89%) Android
5 16 (1.12%) Mac OS X
6 14 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.21%) zOS
9 1 (0.070%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (36.43%) Agile
2 301 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 300 (20.98%) CI/CD
4 268 (18.74%) DevOps
5 250 (17.48%) Microservices
6 235 (16.43%) Test Automation
7 180 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (10.21%) TDD
9 136 (9.51%) SDLC
10 125 (8.74%) Computer Science
11 123 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
11 123 (8.60%) Scrum
12 102 (7.13%) Analytics
13 101 (7.06%) Continuous Integration
14 97 (6.78%) BDD
15 95 (6.64%) Asset Management
16 86 (6.01%) Electronic Trading
17 83 (5.80%) Design Patterns
17 83 (5.80%) Investment Management
18 73 (5.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 489 (34.20%) Python
2 327 (22.87%) SQL
3 297 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 220 (15.38%) C#
5 155 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 98 (6.85%) C++
7 64 (4.48%) Scala
8 63 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 63 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 61 (4.27%) Go
9 61 (4.27%) PowerShell
10 41 (2.87%) Perl
11 39 (2.73%) Ruby
12 26 (1.82%) Rust
13 22 (1.54%) C
14 21 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.40%) Bash
16 18 (1.26%) PHP
17 15 (1.05%) Groovy
18 14 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 244 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 217 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 143 (10.00%) Degree
4 68 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.84%) PhD
8 11 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.42%) ISEB
11 3 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.21%) CISSP
12 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.14%) CCNP
12 2 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.14%) SANS
13 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.03%) QA
2 45 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 14 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 13 (0.91%) SLA
6 12 (0.84%) MiFID
7 8 (0.56%) GDPR
8 5 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.070%) Basel III
11 1 (0.070%) COPPA
11 1 (0.070%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.070%) GxP
11 1 (0.070%) IFRS
11 1 (0.070%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.070%) NCSC
11 1 (0.070%) NIST
11 1 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (13.15%) Docker
2 42 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.89%) IAG
4 25 (1.75%) ACF2
4 25 (1.75%) RACF
5 13 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) HDFS
10 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.070%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.070%) Firmware
10 1 (0.070%) GridGain
10 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.070%) iptables
10 1 (0.070%) NFS
10 1 (0.070%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.070%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.070%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 219 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 103 (7.20%) Terraform
3 56 (3.92%) Ansible
4 54 (3.78%) Grafana
5 46 (3.22%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.98%) Kibana
7 11 (0.77%) Consul
7 11 (0.77%) Puppet
8 10 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.63%) BladeLogic
10 8 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 7 (0.49%) Packer
11 7 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
13 4 (0.28%) Control-M
13 4 (0.28%) Istio
13 4 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 160 (11.19%) Oracle
2 86 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 53 (3.71%) Google
4 39 (2.73%) ION Trading
5 38 (2.66%) IBM
6 34 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.31%) SAP
8 32 (2.24%) Splunk
9 28 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 28 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.82%) Sybase
11 21 (1.47%) Adobe
12 13 (0.91%) Databricks
12 13 (0.91%) New Relic
13 11 (0.77%) Virgin Media
14 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.70%) Murex
14 10 (0.70%) PagerDuty
14 10 (0.70%) Solace
15 9 (0.63%) Citrix