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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 178 514 584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.23% 13.12% 12.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.65% 30.34% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 363 455
10th Percentile £425 £463 £473
25th Percentile £500 £563 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £693 £630
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +9.92% +5.00%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £738
90th Percentile £851 £950 £820
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 £70.90
% change year-on-year +11.88% -28.77% +10.78%

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 822 1,694 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.40% 43.25% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 1,113 1,603
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £617 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +3.29% +8.64%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
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% +13.64%

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 19 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 19 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 -14 163 £653 -6.28% 48
City of Westminster - 4 £675 -
West End of London +3 2 £475 -42.42% 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 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.37%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) nginx
3 3 (1.69%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.12%) CMS
4 2 (1.12%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Camunda
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.56%) Endur
2 1 (0.56%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.56%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.65%) AWS
2 21 (11.80%) Azure
3 13 (7.30%) GCP
4 8 (4.49%) GitHub
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.81%) Serverless
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.12%) SaaS
10 2 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) DHCP
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.56%) VLAN
3 1 (0.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.43%) MongoDB
2 13 (7.30%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.06%) MySQL
5 8 (4.49%) KDB
5 8 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.25%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) Big Data
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.12%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.12%) DB2
9 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.12%) Power BI
9 2 (1.12%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 32 (17.98%) Selenium
2 19 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.55%) Cucumber
4 15 (8.43%) Git
5 13 (7.30%) JUnit
6 11 (6.18%) JIRA
7 9 (5.06%) GitLab
7 9 (5.06%) REST Assured
8 8 (4.49%) Mockito
8 8 (4.49%) TestNG
9 7 (3.93%) Postman
9 7 (3.93%) WebDriver
10 6 (3.37%) Maven
11 5 (2.81%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.81%) JMeter
12 4 (2.25%) Appium
12 4 (2.25%) Gradle
12 4 (2.25%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (23.03%) Finance
2 38 (21.35%) Banking
3 29 (16.29%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.43%) Front Office
6 11 (6.18%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.93%) Prime Brokerage
9 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Aviation
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (44.94%) Developer
2 41 (23.03%) Java Developer
3 33 (18.54%) Senior
4 17 (9.55%) Senior Developer
5 14 (7.87%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Architect
7 10 (5.62%) Java Engineer
7 10 (5.62%) Lead
7 10 (5.62%) Tester
8 8 (4.49%) Automation Tester
8 8 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Test Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Analyst
9 7 (3.93%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Consultant
10 6 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.98%) Spring
2 30 (16.85%) Spring Boot
3 26 (14.61%) Kafka
4 23 (12.92%) REST
5 15 (8.43%) RESTful
6 9 (5.06%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.06%) React
7 8 (4.49%) .NET
7 8 (4.49%) HTML
7 8 (4.49%) JAX-RS
7 8 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.49%) SOAP
7 8 (4.49%) Web Services
8 7 (3.93%) Node.js
9 5 (2.81%) CSS
9 5 (2.81%) Gherkin
9 5 (2.81%) LDAP
10 4 (2.25%) Middleware
10 4 (2.25%) NumPy
10 4 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.30%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.30%) Equities
3 10 (5.62%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.06%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.37%) Derivative
5 6 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.81%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.25%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.12%) CMDB
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.36%) Linux
2 13 (7.30%) Unix
3 6 (3.37%) Android
3 6 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.81%) Mac OS X
4 5 (2.81%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.53%) Agile
2 46 (25.84%) Test Automation
3 43 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 39 (21.91%) Microservices
5 35 (19.66%) DevOps
6 29 (16.29%) Software Engineering
7 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.43%) Computer Science
9 14 (7.87%) TDD
10 13 (7.30%) Software Testing
11 12 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (6.74%) SDLC
12 11 (6.18%) BDD
13 10 (5.62%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (5.62%) Scrum
14 9 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (5.06%) Machine Learning
14 9 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (5.06%) Task Automation
14 9 (5.06%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.64%) Python
2 32 (17.98%) C#
2 32 (17.98%) SQL
3 21 (11.80%) C++
4 19 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.30%) Go
6 9 (5.06%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.93%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.93%) Rust
7 7 (3.93%) Scala
8 4 (2.25%) C
8 4 (2.25%) Perl
8 4 (2.25%) Swift
9 3 (1.69%) Clojure
9 3 (1.69%) Haskell
9 3 (1.69%) R
9 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.12%) Bash
10 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.99%) Degree
4 10 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.25%) ISEB
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.12%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) QA
2 7 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (14.04%) Docker
2 7 (3.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.12%) IAG
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) ACF2
5 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.56%) iptables
5 1 (0.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 35 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.18%) Grafana
3 10 (5.62%) Terraform
4 9 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.93%) Consul
6 5 (2.81%) Ansible
7 2 (1.12%) Kibana
7 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.12%) Packer
7 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.12%) Puppet
7 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.56%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.56%) vRealize
8 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (7.30%) Microsoft
1 13 (7.30%) Oracle
2 9 (5.06%) Google
3 7 (3.93%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.25%) IBM
4 4 (2.25%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Adobe
5 3 (1.69%) New Relic
5 3 (1.69%) Solace
5 3 (1.69%) Splunk
5 3 (1.69%) Sybase
5 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.12%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.12%) Murex
6 2 (1.12%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.12%) VMware