Java Contracts in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 181 504 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.37% 13.05% 12.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.78% 30.36% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 355 446
10th Percentile £425 £468 £473
25th Percentile £500 £575 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £636
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +6.09% +6.04%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £738
90th Percentile £845 £950 £825
London median daily rate £600 £650 £635
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.36% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.15% -
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £50.50 £65.70
% change year-on-year +11.88% -23.14% -0.45%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 831 1,660 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.84% 42.98% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 1,096 1,576
10th Percentile £413 £421 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £795 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.00 £77.63
London median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Central London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Central London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Central London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Central London

Java
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 24 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
City of London -11 167 £653 -3.33% 54
City of Westminster - 3 £700 -
West End of London - 2 £475 - 2
Camden - 2 £475 - 2
Southwark - 1 £700 -
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.76%) Confluence
3 4 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) CMS
4 3 (1.66%) nginx
4 3 (1.66%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Camunda
6 1 (0.55%) JBoss
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.55%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.55%) Endur
2 1 (0.55%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.55%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.28%) AWS
2 23 (12.71%) Azure
3 14 (7.73%) GCP
4 7 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (3.87%) GitHub
5 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.76%) Serverless
7 4 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.66%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.10%) Kong
9 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.10%) SaaS
9 2 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) Firewall
1 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.10%) DHCP
2 2 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) Internet
3 1 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.55%) MQTT
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
3 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.55%) VLAN
3 1 (0.55%) VPN
3 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) MongoDB
2 13 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.97%) KDB
3 9 (4.97%) MySQL
4 8 (4.42%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.66%) Big Data
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.10%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.10%) DB2
8 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.10%) Power BI
8 2 (1.10%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (17.68%) Selenium
2 18 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.39%) Cucumber
4 15 (8.29%) Git
5 13 (7.18%) JUnit
6 12 (6.63%) JIRA
7 9 (4.97%) REST Assured
8 8 (4.42%) GitLab
8 8 (4.42%) Mockito
8 8 (4.42%) TestNG
9 7 (3.87%) Postman
9 7 (3.87%) WebDriver
10 6 (3.31%) Maven
11 5 (2.76%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.76%) JMeter
12 4 (2.21%) Appium
12 4 (2.21%) Gradle
12 4 (2.21%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.21%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (24.31%) Finance
2 41 (22.65%) Banking
3 31 (17.13%) Social Skills
4 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.39%) Front Office
6 11 (6.08%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.87%) Prime Brokerage
9 4 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.66%) Retail
10 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.10%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Aviation
12 1 (0.55%) Electronics
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (44.75%) Developer
2 44 (24.31%) Java Developer
3 34 (18.78%) Senior
4 18 (9.94%) Senior Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Architect
7 11 (6.08%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Tester
8 10 (5.52%) Lead
9 8 (4.42%) Automation Tester
9 8 (4.42%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Analyst
10 7 (3.87%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Consultant
12 5 (2.76%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.78%) Spring
2 31 (17.13%) Spring Boot
3 26 (14.36%) Kafka
4 21 (11.60%) REST
5 17 (9.39%) RESTful
6 9 (4.97%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.97%) HTML
7 8 (4.42%) .NET
7 8 (4.42%) JAX-RS
7 8 (4.42%) Node.js
7 8 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.42%) React
7 8 (4.42%) SOAP
7 8 (4.42%) Web Services
8 6 (3.31%) CSS
9 5 (2.76%) Gherkin
9 5 (2.76%) LDAP
10 4 (2.21%) NumPy
10 4 (2.21%) Pandas
10 4 (2.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.73%) Equities
3 13 (7.18%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.52%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.42%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.31%) Derivative
7 6 (3.31%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.21%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.10%) CMDB
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.10%) PKI
11 1 (0.55%) Credit Derivative
11 1 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.60%) Linux
2 12 (6.63%) Unix
3 6 (3.31%) Android
3 6 (3.31%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.76%) Windows
5 4 (2.21%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.07%) Agile
2 47 (25.97%) Test Automation
3 42 (23.20%) CI/CD
4 40 (22.10%) Microservices
5 36 (19.89%) DevOps
6 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (15.47%) Software Engineering
8 15 (8.29%) Computer Science
9 13 (7.18%) Software Testing
10 12 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (6.63%) SDLC
10 12 (6.63%) TDD
11 11 (6.08%) BDD
12 10 (5.52%) Scrum
13 9 (4.97%) Analytics
13 9 (4.97%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (4.97%) Multithreading
13 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (4.97%) Task Automation
13 9 (4.97%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.57%) Python
2 33 (18.23%) C#
3 32 (17.68%) SQL
4 22 (12.15%) C++
5 20 (11.05%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.63%) Go
7 9 (4.97%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.87%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.87%) Rust
8 7 (3.87%) Scala
9 5 (2.76%) Perl
10 4 (2.21%) C
10 4 (2.21%) Swift
11 3 (1.66%) Clojure
11 3 (1.66%) Haskell
11 3 (1.66%) R
11 3 (1.66%) Ruby
11 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
12 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.84%) Degree
4 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.31%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.21%) ISEB
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.10%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.18%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) MiFID
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (13.26%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.10%) IAG
4 2 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.55%) ACF2
5 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.55%) iptables
5 1 (0.55%) RACF
Systems Management
1 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.08%) Grafana
3 10 (5.52%) Terraform
4 9 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.87%) Consul
6 5 (2.76%) Ansible
7 2 (1.10%) Kibana
7 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.10%) Opsgenie
7 2 (1.10%) Packer
7 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.10%) Puppet
7 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.55%) logstash
8 1 (0.55%) vRealize
8 1 (0.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.18%) Oracle
3 9 (4.97%) Google
4 7 (3.87%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.21%) IBM
5 4 (2.21%) SAP
5 4 (2.21%) Splunk
6 3 (1.66%) Adobe
6 3 (1.66%) New Relic
6 3 (1.66%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.66%) Solace
6 3 (1.66%) Sybase
6 3 (1.66%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.10%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.10%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.10%) Murex
7 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.10%) VMware