Java Contracts in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 151 172 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.86% 7.17% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.32% 19.68% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 131 300
10th Percentile £413 £425 £462
25th Percentile £463 £505 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £690 £750 £775
90th Percentile £817 £863 £875
London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £52.50 £51.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +1.94% -28.97% +45.00%

All Programming Languages
Central London

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 743 874 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.70% 36.43% 40.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 629 976
10th Percentile £404 £412 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £690 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £790 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £21.53 - £21.35
25th Percentile £29.07 £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -7.62% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.50
London median hourly rate £40.25 £50.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.90% -16.25% +23.71%

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 17 June 2025.

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 17 June 2025. 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 -2 147 £585 -13.33% 628
Southwark -3 1 - - 1
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 12 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.62%) Apache
2 10 (6.62%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Camunda
3 2 (1.32%) IIS
4 1 (0.66%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.66%) Luigi
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Endur
2 4 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.11%) AWS
2 33 (21.85%) Azure
3 16 (10.60%) GCP
4 5 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.31%) GitHub
4 5 (3.31%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.65%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.99%) OCI
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.66%) PaaS
8 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) HTTP
2 5 (3.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.66%) Multicast
4 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.25%) MongoDB
2 18 (11.92%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.61%) Big Data
4 12 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.62%) Hadoop
6 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.64%) MySQL
8 4 (2.65%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.65%) KDB
8 4 (2.65%) Power BI
9 3 (1.99%) DB2
9 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.99%) Redis
10 2 (1.32%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 30 (19.87%) Git
2 24 (15.89%) Jenkins
3 18 (11.92%) JIRA
4 15 (9.93%) JUnit
5 11 (7.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (5.96%) Maven
6 9 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.64%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (4.64%) Postman
8 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.31%) GitLab
9 5 (3.31%) IntelliJ
9 5 (3.31%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.65%) Gradle
10 4 (2.65%) Selenium
10 4 (2.65%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.99%) Appium
11 3 (1.99%) Subversion
11 3 (1.99%) Xcode
11 3 (1.99%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (42.38%) Finance
2 47 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.87%) Banking
4 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
5 20 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.28%) Front Office
7 10 (6.62%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.64%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.99%) Military
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Automotive
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (53.64%) Developer
2 58 (38.41%) Java Developer
3 19 (12.58%) Architect
4 18 (11.92%) Senior
5 13 (8.61%) Lead
6 12 (7.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.96%) Java Engineer
7 9 (5.96%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (5.30%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.64%) React Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.97%) Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (3.97%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
10 6 (3.97%) OpenLink Developer
11 5 (3.31%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.48%) Spring
2 30 (19.87%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.22%) Kafka
4 23 (15.23%) React
5 18 (11.92%) REST
6 17 (11.26%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.95%) HTML
8 9 (5.96%) .NET
8 9 (5.96%) Web Services
9 8 (5.30%) JPA
10 7 (4.64%) CSS
10 7 (4.64%) RESTful
11 6 (3.97%) Swagger
12 5 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.31%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.31%) HTML5
12 5 (3.31%) Middleware
12 5 (3.31%) OAuth
12 5 (3.31%) SOAP
12 5 (3.31%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.64%) Equities
5 6 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.97%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (3.31%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.31%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.99%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.99%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) iSeries
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.87%) Linux
2 15 (9.93%) Unix
3 5 (3.31%) Windows
4 2 (1.32%) Android
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.75%) Agile
2 49 (32.45%) DevOps
3 43 (28.48%) CI/CD
3 43 (28.48%) Microservices
4 35 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (17.88%) Software Engineering
6 20 (13.25%) Clean Code
7 18 (11.92%) SDLC
8 17 (11.26%) TDD
9 16 (10.60%) API Development
9 16 (10.60%) Low Latency
10 15 (9.93%) Mentoring
10 15 (9.93%) Test Automation
11 14 (9.27%) Code Quality
11 14 (9.27%) Kanban
12 13 (8.61%) Computer Science
12 13 (8.61%) Migration
12 13 (8.61%) Unit Testing
13 12 (7.95%) Analytics
13 12 (7.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.41%) Python
2 36 (23.84%) SQL
3 35 (23.18%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.92%) C#
5 11 (7.28%) C++
6 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.96%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.64%) Groovy
8 7 (4.64%) Scala
9 5 (3.31%) C
9 5 (3.31%) Perl
9 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.65%) Go
11 3 (1.99%) DAML
11 3 (1.99%) Ruby
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.92%) Degree
4 13 (8.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.99%) OCP
7 3 (1.99%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.66%) CEH
9 1 (0.66%) CISSP
9 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.66%) OSCP
9 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (1.99%) NIST
2 3 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (12.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.66%) Lustre
2 1 (0.66%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.66%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.66%) OpenIDM
2 1 (0.66%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 38 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.95%) Terraform
3 5 (3.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.99%) Grafana
4 3 (1.99%) Kibana
5 2 (1.32%) Argo
5 2 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.32%) Opsgenie
5 2 (1.32%) Podman
5 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.66%) Control-M
6 1 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.66%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 20 (13.25%) Oracle
2 9 (5.96%) Splunk
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.97%) Google
4 6 (3.97%) OpenLink
5 5 (3.31%) IBM
6 3 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.99%) Sybase
7 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.32%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.66%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.66%) Pega
8 1 (0.66%) Talend
8 1 (0.66%) WSO2