Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £552, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 88 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -57 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 61 39 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.47% 1.78% 6.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% 1.87% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 194
10th Percentile £435 £363 £522
25th Percentile £463 £425 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £585 £725
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -19.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £585 £738 £797
90th Percentile £658 £856 £950
Central London median daily rate £551 £585 £725
% change year-on-year -5.81% -19.31% +7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (55.74%) Spring
3 29 (47.54%) Kubernetes
4 27 (44.26%) DevOps
5 26 (42.62%) AWS
6 25 (40.98%) Microservices
6 25 (40.98%) React
6 25 (40.98%) Spring Boot
6 25 (40.98%) Agile
7 24 (39.34%) Finance
8 22 (36.07%) Clean Code
9 21 (34.43%) MongoDB
10 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
11 19 (31.15%) SQL
11 19 (31.15%) Kafka
11 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
11 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
12 18 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (29.51%) Public Sector
12 18 (29.51%) API Development
13 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
13 17 (27.87%) NoSQL
14 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (26.23%) AWS Certified Developer
14 16 (26.23%) SOLID
15 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
16 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
17 13 (21.31%) Python
18 12 (19.67%) Git
19 10 (16.39%) AngularJS

Java Developer Skill Set
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 (11.48%) Apache
1 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) AWS
2 2 (3.28%) Azure
2 2 (3.28%) GCP
2 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (34.43%) MongoDB
2 18 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (27.87%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.75%) Big Data
5 7 (11.48%) Hadoop
6 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.28%) DB2
8 2 (3.28%) KDB
8 2 (3.28%) MySQL
9 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.75%) JUnit
3 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (8.20%) Maven
5 4 (6.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (6.56%) Gradle
5 4 (6.56%) IntelliJ
5 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) JBehave
6 1 (1.64%) JIRA
6 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (39.34%) Finance
2 18 (29.51%) Public Sector
3 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (16.39%) Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (8.20%) Front Office
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (55.74%) Spring
2 25 (40.98%) React
2 25 (40.98%) Spring Boot
3 19 (31.15%) Kafka
4 10 (16.39%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.20%) RESTful
5 5 (8.20%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (6.56%) HTML
6 4 (6.56%) JMS
6 4 (6.56%) JPA
6 4 (6.56%) REST
6 4 (6.56%) Web Services
7 3 (4.92%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (3.28%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.28%) HTML5
8 2 (3.28%) Middleware
8 2 (3.28%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (3.28%) ZK
9 1 (1.64%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (8.20%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (8.20%) Equities
2 5 (8.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.20%) Market Risk
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.28%) Blockchain
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) PKI
5 1 (1.64%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) DevOps
2 25 (40.98%) Agile
2 25 (40.98%) Microservices
3 22 (36.07%) Clean Code
4 18 (29.51%) API Development
5 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (26.23%) SOLID
6 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.75%) SDLC
8 8 (13.11%) Low Latency
9 7 (11.48%) Analytics
9 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) TDD
9 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
10 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (9.84%) Risk Management
11 5 (8.20%) Code Quality
11 5 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (8.20%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
3 19 (31.15%) SQL
4 13 (21.31%) Python
5 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.28%) DAML
6 2 (3.28%) Perl
6 2 (3.28%) Scala
6 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.64%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.64%) PhD
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (47.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (8.20%) Oracle
2 4 (6.56%) Splunk
3 3 (4.92%) Sybase
4 1 (1.64%) Databricks
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.64%) Solace