Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

The median contractor rate for a Java Developer was £556 per day in advertised job vacancies in the City of London during the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Java Developer London / City of London
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	13	23	34
Rank change year-on-year	+10	+11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer	308	250	270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	9.34%	7.34%	4.65%
As % of the Job Titles category	9.78%	7.67%	4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	270	229	244
Median daily rate	£556	£538	£538
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.48%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£425	£425	£403
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£630	£648
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£413	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.03%	+3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£187.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£46.00	£36.00	£39.30
% change year-on-year	+27.77%	-8.39%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles City of London
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	3148	3259	5509
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	95.51%	95.74%	94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	2405	2639	4250
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£310	£280
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£373
% change year-on-year	-	+7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	39	40	99
Median hourly rate	£17.77	£20.00	£19.72
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.15%	+1.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£12.94	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£30.00	£43.57	£37.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London that featured Java Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, Java Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1	522 (99.43%)	Java
2	282 (53.71%)	Agile Software Development
3	195 (37.14%)	Finance
4	189 (36.00%)	TDD
5	181 (34.48%)	Banking
6	166 (31.62%)	Spring
7	116 (22.10%)	SQL
8	107 (20.38%)	JavaScript
9	106 (20.19%)	Linux
10	104 (19.81%)	Scrum
11	99 (18.86%)	BDD
12	96 (18.29%)	Multithreading
12	96 (18.29%)	Front Office
13	94 (17.90%)	HTML
14	90 (17.14%)	Continuous Integration

15	87 (16.57%)	Investment Banking
16	86 (16.38%)	REST
17	83 (15.81%)	Oracle
18	80 (15.24%)	Microservices
19	75 (14.29%)	DevOps
20	73 (13.90%)	Low Latency
21	70 (13.33%)	NoSQL
22	69 (13.14%)	CSS
23	68 (12.95%)	Unix
23	68 (12.95%)	Electronic Trading
24	67 (12.76%)	Web Services
25	65 (12.38%)	Scala
25	65 (12.38%)	AngularJS
26	64 (12.19%)	Test Automation
26	64 (12.19%)	Hibernate

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	39 (7.43%)	Apache Spark
2	33 (6.29%)	Tomcat
3	20 (3.81%)	Oracle Coherence
4	16 (3.05%)	Elasticsearch
5	15 (2.86%)	Apache
6	11 (2.10%)	Confluence
7	10 (1.90%)	JBoss
8	9 (1.71%)	Mule
9	6 (1.14%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	6 (1.14%)	WebLogic
9	6 (1.14%)	WebSphere
10	4 (0.76%)	Apache Solr
10	4 (0.76%)	MQSeries
11	3 (0.57%)	DataSynapse
11	3 (0.57%)	GemFire
11	3 (0.57%)	Liferay
11	3 (0.57%)	WebSphere Application Server
12	2 (0.38%)	Apache Pig
12	2 (0.38%)	CMS
12	2 (0.38%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft Excel
1	1 (0.19%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	18 (3.43%)	ION MarketView
2	1 (0.19%)	Actimize
2	1 (0.19%)	Bloomberg TOMS
2	1 (0.19%)	RMDS

Cloud Services
1	60 (11.43%)	Amazon AWS
2	8 (1.52%)	OpenShift
3	6 (1.14%)	Microsoft Azure
3	6 (1.14%)	Slack
4	5 (0.95%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	5 (0.95%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
5	4 (0.76%)	GitHub
6	2 (0.38%)	Amazon EC2
6	2 (0.38%)	Amazon Kinesis
6	2 (0.38%)	Cloud Computing
7	1 (0.19%)	BrowserStack
7	1 (0.19%)	vREST

Communications & Networking
1	12 (2.29%)	HTTP
2	7 (1.33%)	TCP/IP
3	3 (0.57%)	Internet
4	2 (0.38%)	HTTPS
5	1 (0.19%)	Intranet
5	1 (0.19%)	Kerberos
5	1 (0.19%)	RTP
5	1 (0.19%)	RTSP
5	1 (0.19%)	SSH

Database & Business Intelligence
1	70 (13.33%)	NoSQL
2	63 (12.00%)	Big Data
3	52 (9.90%)	Apache Cassandra
3	52 (9.90%)	MongoDB
4	38 (7.24%)	Hadoop
4	38 (7.24%)	Relational Database
5	31 (5.90%)	MySQL
6	25 (4.76%)	KDB
7	19 (3.62%)	Kdb+
8	17 (3.24%)	SQL Server
9	16 (3.05%)	RDBMS
10	13 (2.48%)	PostgreSQL
11	11 (2.10%)	Hazelcast
12	10 (1.90%)	MarkLogic
13	8 (1.52%)	DB2
14	6 (1.14%)	HBase
14	6 (1.14%)	Tick Data
15	4 (0.76%)	MariaDB
16	3 (0.57%)	Couchbase
16	3 (0.57%)	GIS

Development Applications
1	58 (11.05%)	Maven
2	56 (10.67%)	Git (software)
3	55 (10.48%)	Jenkins
4	47 (8.95%)	JUnit
5	32 (6.10%)	Cucumber
6	28 (5.33%)	JIRA
6	28 (5.33%)	Subversion
7	23 (4.38%)	Mockito
8	22 (4.19%)	IntelliJ
9	20 (3.81%)	gulp
10	19 (3.62%)	Grunt
11	17 (3.24%)	TeamCity
12	15 (2.86%)	Selenium
13	12 (2.29%)	Gradle
14	11 (2.10%)	Eclipse
15	10 (1.90%)	Team Foundation Server
16	9 (1.71%)	Ant
17	8 (1.52%)	EasyMock
18	5 (0.95%)	Atlassian Bamboo
19	4 (0.76%)	ClearCase

General
1	195 (37.14%)	Finance
2	181 (34.48%)	Banking
3	96 (18.29%)	Front Office
4	87 (16.57%)	Investment Banking
5	18 (3.43%)	Retail
6	13 (2.48%)	Telecoms
7	7 (1.33%)	Games
7	7 (1.33%)	Law
7	7 (1.33%)	Publishing
8	6 (1.14%)	Back Office
8	6 (1.14%)	Financial Institution
8	6 (1.14%)	Retail Banking
9	5 (0.95%)	Advertising
10	3 (0.57%)	Legal
11	1 (0.19%)	Automotive
11	1 (0.19%)	Digital Economy
11	1 (0.19%)	Marketing
11	1 (0.19%)	Wholesale Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	166 (31.62%)	Spring
2	94 (17.90%)	HTML
3	86 (16.38%)	REST
4	69 (13.14%)	CSS
5	67 (12.76%)	Web Services
6	65 (12.38%)	AngularJS
7	64 (12.19%)	Hibernate
8	58 (11.05%)	XML
9	53 (10.10%)	HTML5
10	45 (8.57%)	RESTful
11	43 (8.19%)	J2EE
12	41 (7.81%)	Node.js
13	33 (6.29%)	FIX Protocol
13	33 (6.29%)	JMS
13	33 (6.29%)	JSON
13	33 (6.29%)	React
14	30 (5.71%)	Dropwizard
15	28 (5.33%)	Spring Boot
16	24 (4.57%)	SOAP
17	23 (4.38%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	63 (12.00%)	Equities
2	45 (8.57%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	35 (6.67%)	Fintech
4	31 (5.90%)	Derivative
4	31 (5.90%)	Greenfield Project
5	30 (5.71%)	Fixed Income
6	28 (5.33%)	Analytical Skills
7	25 (4.76%)	Computer Science
8	23 (4.38%)	Enterprise Software
9	21 (4.00%)	Equity Derivative
10	17 (3.24%)	Credit Risk
11	16 (3.05%)	Client/Server
11	16 (3.05%)	Data Structures
12	13 (2.48%)	TWAP
12	13 (2.48%)	VWAP
13	12 (2.29%)	Algorithms
14	10 (1.90%)	User Experience
15	9 (1.71%)	N-Tier
16	7 (1.33%)	Grid Computing
16	7 (1.33%)	Market Risk

Operating Systems
1	106 (20.19%)	Linux
2	68 (12.95%)	Unix
3	38 (7.24%)	Windows
4	8 (1.52%)	Solaris
4	8 (1.52%)	Windows Server
5	6 (1.14%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	3 (0.57%)	Android
7	2 (0.38%)	Apple iOS
7	2 (0.38%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	282 (53.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	189 (36.00%)	TDD
3	104 (19.81%)	Scrum
4	99 (18.86%)	BDD
5	96 (18.29%)	Multithreading
6	90 (17.14%)	Continuous Integration
7	80 (15.24%)	Microservices
8	75 (14.29%)	DevOps
9	73 (13.90%)	Low Latency
10	68 (12.95%)	Electronic Trading
11	64 (12.19%)	Test Automation
12	62 (11.81%)	OO
13	55 (10.48%)	MVC
14	51 (9.71%)	Pair Programming
15	49 (9.33%)	Kanban
16	45 (8.57%)	Software Engineering
17	37 (7.05%)	SOA
18	36 (6.86%)	Open Source
18	36 (6.86%)	Web Development
19	34 (6.48%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	522 (99.43%)	Java
2	116 (22.10%)	SQL
3	107 (20.38%)	JavaScript
4	65 (12.38%)	Scala
5	29 (5.52%)	PL/SQL
5	29 (5.52%)	Python
6	28 (5.33%)	Groovy
7	22 (4.19%)	C#
8	21 (4.00%)	Shell Script
9	15 (2.86%)	Go
10	12 (2.29%)	Bash Shell
11	9 (1.71%)	Kotlin
12	6 (1.14%)	C++
13	5 (0.95%)	Apex Code
13	5 (0.95%)	SOQL
13	5 (0.95%)	SOSL
14	4 (0.76%)	Haskell
15	3 (0.57%)	Perl
15	3 (0.57%)	Ruby
16	2 (0.38%)	Objective-C

Qualifications
1	24 (4.57%)	Degree
2	10 (1.90%)	Computer Science Degree
3	7 (1.33%)	Numerate Degree
4	3 (0.57%)	SC Cleared
4	3 (0.57%)	Security Cleared
5	1 (0.19%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	27 (5.14%)	QA
2	25 (4.76%)	MiFID
3	2 (0.38%)	Dodd-Frank
3	2 (0.38%)	EMIR

System Software
1	39 (7.43%)	Docker
2	2 (0.38%)	Shibboleth
3	1 (0.19%)	GridGain
3	1 (0.19%)	Varnish

Systems Management
1	31 (5.90%)	Opscode Chef
2	23 (4.38%)	Puppet
3	22 (4.19%)	Ansible
4	19 (3.62%)	Kubernetes
5	8 (1.52%)	Kibana
6	7 (1.33%)	Grafana
7	6 (1.14%)	Prometheus
8	3 (0.57%)	Control-M
8	3 (0.57%)	MOM
9	2 (0.38%)	Mesos
9	2 (0.38%)	Terraform
10	1 (0.19%)	BladeLogic
10	1 (0.19%)	Marathon
10	1 (0.19%)	Oozie
10	1 (0.19%)	Thomson Reuters DACS

Vendors
1	83 (15.81%)	Oracle
2	22 (4.19%)	ION Trading
3	20 (3.81%)	TIBCO
4	19 (3.62%)	New Relic
5	18 (3.43%)	Sybase
6	12 (2.29%)	IBM
7	11 (2.10%)	Red Hat
8	6 (1.14%)	Microsoft
8	6 (1.14%)	Solace
8	6 (1.14%)	Splunk
8	6 (1.14%)	StreamBase
9	5 (0.95%)	Reuters
9	5 (0.95%)	Salesforce.com
10	3 (0.57%)	Atlassian
10	3 (0.57%)	Bloomberg
10	3 (0.57%)	Calypso
10	3 (0.57%)	Informatica
10	3 (0.57%)	Murex
10	3 (0.57%)	Perforce
11	2 (0.38%)	Tableau