Java Contracts in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 161 469 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.42% 12.93% 13.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.61% 30.08% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 329 423
10th Percentile £420 £479 £473
25th Percentile £500 £563 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £738
90th Percentile £860 £950 £838
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.85% +8.33%
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
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -49.09% -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 745 1,559 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.32% 43.00% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 1,021 1,472
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
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 7 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.11%) Confluence
3 4 (2.48%) Apache
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.86%) nginx
4 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.24%) CMS
5 2 (1.24%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.24%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.62%) Camunda
6 1 (0.62%) JBoss
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.62%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.62%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Endur
2 1 (0.62%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.62%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.95%) AWS
2 22 (13.66%) Azure
3 14 (8.70%) GCP
4 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.73%) GitHub
5 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.11%) Serverless
6 4 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.24%) SaaS
8 2 (1.24%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Firewall
1 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.24%) DHCP
2 2 (1.24%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.62%) Intranet
3 1 (0.62%) MQTT
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) VLAN
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) MongoDB
2 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.59%) KDB
5 8 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.35%) MySQL
7 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.48%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.24%) Big Data
10 2 (1.24%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.24%) DB2
10 2 (1.24%) Power BI
10 2 (1.24%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.62%) Kdb+
11 1 (0.62%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Selenium
2 17 (10.56%) Cucumber
2 17 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.32%) Git
4 12 (7.45%) JIRA
4 12 (7.45%) JUnit
5 8 (4.97%) GitLab
5 8 (4.97%) Maven
5 8 (4.97%) Mockito
5 8 (4.97%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.35%) Postman
6 7 (4.35%) TestNG
6 7 (4.35%) WebDriver
7 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.48%) Appium
8 4 (2.48%) Gradle
8 4 (2.48%) JMeter
8 4 (2.48%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (24.22%) Finance
2 38 (23.60%) Banking
3 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
4 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.94%) Front Office
6 10 (6.21%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.35%) Prime Brokerage
9 4 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.86%) Retail
10 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.62%) Automotive
11 1 (0.62%) Aviation
11 1 (0.62%) Back Office
11 1 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (44.72%) Developer
2 39 (24.22%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.77%) Senior
4 17 (10.56%) Senior Developer
5 12 (7.45%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Architect
6 11 (6.83%) Lead
6 11 (6.83%) Tester
7 10 (6.21%) Java Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Automation Tester
8 8 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Analyst
9 7 (4.35%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Consultant
11 5 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.39%) Spring
2 26 (16.15%) Kafka
2 26 (16.15%) Spring Boot
3 18 (11.18%) RESTful
4 17 (10.56%) REST
5 10 (6.21%) AngularJS
5 10 (6.21%) JAX-RS
6 9 (5.59%) React
7 8 (4.97%) .NET
7 8 (4.97%) HTML
7 8 (4.97%) Node.js
7 8 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.73%) CSS
8 6 (3.73%) SOAP
8 6 (3.73%) Web Services
9 5 (3.11%) Gherkin
10 4 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.48%) LDAP
10 4 (2.48%) Middleware
10 4 (2.48%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.07%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.45%) Equities
4 10 (6.21%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.73%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.11%) Derivative
7 5 (3.11%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.48%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.24%) CMDB
9 2 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.24%) PKI
10 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.04%) Linux
2 12 (7.45%) Unix
3 6 (3.73%) Android
4 5 (3.11%) Windows
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.43%) Agile
2 48 (29.81%) Test Automation
3 40 (24.84%) CI/CD
4 37 (22.98%) Microservices
5 36 (22.36%) DevOps
6 28 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (16.15%) Software Engineering
8 14 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 14 (8.70%) TDD
9 12 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (7.45%) SDLC
9 12 (7.45%) Software Testing
10 11 (6.83%) BDD
10 11 (6.83%) Scrum
11 9 (5.59%) Analytics
11 9 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (5.59%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (5.59%) Multithreading
11 9 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (4.97%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (37.89%) Python
2 32 (19.88%) C#
3 28 (17.39%) SQL
4 20 (12.42%) C++
5 16 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.45%) Go
7 9 (5.59%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.35%) Rust
9 6 (3.73%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.73%) Scala
10 5 (3.11%) Perl
11 3 (1.86%) C
11 3 (1.86%) Clojure
11 3 (1.86%) Haskell
11 3 (1.86%) R
11 3 (1.86%) Ruby
12 2 (1.24%) PHP
12 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.62%) Bash
13 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) Degree
4 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.11%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.48%) ISEB
7 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) QA
2 6 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.62%) NIST
3 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.83%) Grafana
3 9 (5.59%) Prometheus
3 9 (5.59%) Terraform
4 7 (4.35%) Consul
5 5 (3.11%) Ansible
6 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.24%) Opsgenie
6 2 (1.24%) Packer
6 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.24%) Puppet
6 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.62%) Kibana
7 1 (0.62%) logstash
7 1 (0.62%) vRealize
7 1 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.83%) Oracle
3 8 (4.97%) Google
4 7 (4.35%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.48%) IBM
6 3 (1.86%) Adobe
6 3 (1.86%) New Relic
6 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.86%) SAP
6 3 (1.86%) Solace
6 3 (1.86%) Splunk
6 3 (1.86%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.24%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.24%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.24%) Murex
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.24%) Sybase
7 2 (1.24%) VMware