Java Contracts in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 151 159 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.59% 7.51% 11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.54% 20.46% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 115 281
10th Percentile £416 £425 £461
25th Percentile £463 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £689 £759 £788
90th Percentile £818 £870 £925
Central London median daily rate £583 £655 £675
% change year-on-year -11.07% -2.96% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.00%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 701 777 1,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.87% 36.69% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 542 899
10th Percentile £404 £406 £422
25th Percentile £463 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £696 £699 £738
90th Percentile £778 £811 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £19.28 - £21.35
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.50
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -17.00% -7.62% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the City of London

Java
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 30 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
London Bridge -1 1 - -
Java
Central London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 13 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.62%) Confluence
3 9 (5.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) Camunda
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.66%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Endur
2 3 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (31.79%) AWS
2 29 (19.21%) Azure
3 17 (11.26%) GCP
4 5 (3.31%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.65%) GitHub
5 4 (2.65%) Power Platform
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%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.32%) Slack
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 19 (12.58%) MongoDB
2 17 (11.26%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.27%) Big Data
3 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.28%) Hadoop
6 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.64%) MySQL
8 5 (3.31%) KDB
9 4 (2.65%) Power BI
10 3 (1.99%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.99%) DB2
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.66%) Flink
12 1 (0.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.93%) JIRA
4 11 (7.28%) JUnit
5 7 (4.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (4.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 7 (4.64%) Gradle
5 7 (4.64%) Maven
5 7 (4.64%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.97%) IntelliJ
7 5 (3.31%) GitLab
7 5 (3.31%) Selenium
8 4 (2.65%) Postman
9 3 (1.99%) Appium
9 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.99%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 64 (42.38%) Finance
2 46 (30.46%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.54%) Banking
4 25 (16.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.95%) Front Office
7 11 (7.28%) 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%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (53.64%) Developer
2 58 (38.41%) Java Developer
3 18 (11.92%) Architect
4 17 (11.26%) Senior
5 13 (8.61%) Lead
6 11 (7.28%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.30%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.64%) React Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.64%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Consultant
11 6 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.97%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
11 6 (3.97%) OpenLink Developer
12 5 (3.31%) Angular Developer
12 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.49%) Spring
2 26 (17.22%) Spring Boot
3 22 (14.57%) Kafka
4 21 (13.91%) React
5 15 (9.93%) REST
6 14 (9.27%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.62%) .NET
8 9 (5.96%) HTML
9 7 (4.64%) RESTful
10 6 (3.97%) Middleware
10 6 (3.97%) Web Services
11 5 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (3.31%) JPA
11 5 (3.31%) OAuth
11 5 (3.31%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (2.65%) CSS
12 4 (2.65%) JMS
12 4 (2.65%) SAML
13 3 (1.99%) Node.js
13 3 (1.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.96%) 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
6 5 (3.31%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.99%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) Derivative
9 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (21.85%) Linux
2 14 (9.27%) 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 53 (35.10%) Agile
2 48 (31.79%) DevOps
3 43 (28.48%) CI/CD
4 38 (25.17%) Microservices
5 35 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (19.21%) Software Engineering
7 18 (11.92%) Clean Code
8 17 (11.26%) Low Latency
9 16 (10.60%) SDLC
10 14 (9.27%) API Development
10 14 (9.27%) Computer Science
10 14 (9.27%) Kanban
10 14 (9.27%) Migration
11 13 (8.61%) Scrum
11 13 (8.61%) TDD
11 13 (8.61%) Test Automation
12 12 (7.95%) Analytics
12 12 (7.95%) Code Quality
12 12 (7.95%) Mentoring
13 11 (7.28%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.41%) Python
2 32 (21.19%) SQL
3 29 (19.21%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.26%) C#
5 13 (8.61%) C++
6 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.30%) Scala
8 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.31%) C
9 5 (3.31%) Perl
9 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.65%) Go
10 4 (2.65%) Groovy
11 3 (1.99%) DAML
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.32%) R
12 2 (1.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.25%) Degree
4 11 (7.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.99%) OCP
6 3 (1.99%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) CEH
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.66%) OSCP
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
3 3 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (10.60%) 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 33 (21.85%) 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 17 (11.26%) Oracle
2 9 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.97%) Google
3 6 (3.97%) OpenLink
3 6 (3.97%) Splunk
4 5 (3.31%) IBM
5 3 (1.99%) Sybase
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.32%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.66%) Databricks
7 1 (0.66%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.66%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.66%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.66%) Pega
7 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.66%) Talend
7 1 (0.66%) UiPath
7 1 (0.66%) WSO2