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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 177 457 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.38% 12.24% 12.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.20% 29.46% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 326 436
10th Percentile £421 £469 £467
25th Percentile £500 £566 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £738
90th Percentile £849 £950 £838
London median daily rate £613 £650 £639
% change year-on-year -5.77% +1.76% +11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £61.03
25th Percentile - - £63.69
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.09% -
75th Percentile - - £73.19
90th Percentile - - £75.48
London median hourly rate £51.50 £69.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year -26.16% +5.28% +3.52%

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 835 1,551 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.82% 41.54% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 1,032 1,532
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £35.00 £39.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £45.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +0.88% +123.75%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £73.06
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.45
London median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +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 15 May 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 15 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
City of London -12 163 £650 -3.70% 61
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 6 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.82%) Confluence
3 4 (2.26%) Apache
3 4 (2.26%) MQSeries
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.69%) nginx
4 3 (1.69%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.13%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.56%) Camunda
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) SAP Hybris
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
2 1 (0.56%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.07%) AWS
2 23 (12.99%) Azure
3 15 (8.47%) GCP
4 6 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.39%) GitHub
5 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.26%) Serverless
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.13%) SaaS
8 2 (1.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.13%) DHCP
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
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 17 (9.60%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.78%) KDB
2 12 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.52%) MySQL
4 8 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.13%) Big Data
7 2 (1.13%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.13%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.13%) Power BI
7 2 (1.13%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.56%) Scylla
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.95%) Selenium
2 16 (9.04%) Cucumber
2 16 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.91%) Git
4 12 (6.78%) JIRA
4 12 (6.78%) JUnit
5 8 (4.52%) GitLab
5 8 (4.52%) Maven
5 8 (4.52%) Mockito
6 7 (3.95%) Postman
6 7 (3.95%) REST Assured
6 7 (3.95%) TestNG
6 7 (3.95%) WebDriver
7 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.82%) JMeter
8 4 (2.26%) Appium
8 4 (2.26%) Gradle
8 4 (2.26%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.69%) Android Studio
General
1 46 (25.99%) Finance
2 40 (22.60%) Banking
3 30 (16.95%) Social Skills
4 23 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.04%) Front Office
6 9 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.95%) Prime Brokerage
9 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.69%) Private Banking
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%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (46.33%) Developer
2 44 (24.86%) Java Developer
3 30 (16.95%) Senior
4 17 (9.60%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.34%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Tester
8 10 (5.65%) Architect
8 10 (5.65%) Lead
9 9 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.52%) Automation Tester
10 8 (4.52%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Analyst
12 6 (3.39%) Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) Full Stack Developer
14 4 (2.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.34%) Spring
2 32 (18.08%) Spring Boot
3 27 (15.25%) Kafka
4 19 (10.73%) RESTful
5 18 (10.17%) REST
6 10 (5.65%) JAX-RS
7 9 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.08%) Node.js
7 9 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (5.08%) React
8 8 (4.52%) .NET
8 8 (4.52%) HTML
9 6 (3.39%) CSS
9 6 (3.39%) SOAP
9 6 (3.39%) Web Services
10 5 (2.82%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.26%) LDAP
11 4 (2.26%) Restlet
11 4 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.91%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.34%) Equities
4 11 (6.21%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.39%) Derivative
6 6 (3.39%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.39%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.26%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.69%) AS400
8 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.69%) iSeries
9 2 (1.13%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.13%) CMDB
9 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.12%) Linux
2 12 (6.78%) Unix
3 7 (3.95%) Android
3 7 (3.95%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.39%) Windows
5 4 (2.26%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.12%) Agile
2 47 (26.55%) Test Automation
3 44 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 40 (22.60%) DevOps
5 38 (21.47%) Microservices
6 28 (15.82%) Software Engineering
7 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (9.04%) TDD
9 14 (7.91%) Computer Science
10 12 (6.78%) SDLC
10 12 (6.78%) Software Testing
11 11 (6.21%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (5.65%) BDD
12 10 (5.65%) Full Stack Development
12 10 (5.65%) Scrum
12 10 (5.65%) Task Automation
13 9 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (5.08%) Low Latency
13 9 (5.08%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.16%) Python
2 31 (17.51%) SQL
3 30 (16.95%) C#
4 21 (11.86%) C++
5 16 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.78%) Go
7 10 (5.65%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.52%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.95%) Rust
10 6 (3.39%) Scala
11 5 (2.82%) Perl
12 4 (2.26%) C
12 4 (2.26%) Swift
13 3 (1.69%) Clojure
13 3 (1.69%) Haskell
13 3 (1.69%) R
13 3 (1.69%) RPG
13 3 (1.69%) Ruby
14 2 (1.13%) PHP
14 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.47%) Degree
4 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.26%) ISEB
7 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.13%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.34%) QA
2 5 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.56%) MiFID
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (12.99%) Docker
2 8 (4.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (19.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.78%) Grafana
3 10 (5.65%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.08%) Terraform
5 8 (4.52%) Consul
6 6 (3.39%) Ansible
7 3 (1.69%) Control-M
8 2 (1.13%) Kibana
8 2 (1.13%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.13%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.13%) Packer
8 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.13%) Puppet
8 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.56%) logstash
9 1 (0.56%) vRealize
9 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) Oracle
3 9 (5.08%) Google
4 8 (4.52%) SaltStack
5 7 (3.95%) IBM
6 4 (2.26%) SAP
6 4 (2.26%) Splunk
7 3 (1.69%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.69%) New Relic
7 3 (1.69%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.69%) Solace
7 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.13%) Adobe
8 2 (1.13%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.13%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.13%) Murex
8 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) VMware