Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 76 88
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 46 46 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.56% 2.20% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 2.36% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 39
10th Percentile £400 £511 £425
25th Percentile £500 £577 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £695 £800
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% -13.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £738 £856 £875
90th Percentile £899 £913 £1,068
Central London median daily rate £625 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 1,681 1,948 2,432
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 92.98% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,195 1,747
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £782 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +95.92% -41.67%
75th Percentile £43.33 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.09% +40.08% -38.31%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

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

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 46 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (43.48%) Agile
3 17 (36.96%) Microservices
3 17 (36.96%) Scrum
3 17 (36.96%) Spring
3 17 (36.96%) Spring Boot
4 16 (34.78%) Kanban
5 15 (32.61%) Git
6 13 (28.26%) Low Latency
6 13 (28.26%) REST
7 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (23.91%) BDD
8 11 (23.91%) GitHub
8 11 (23.91%) TDD
9 10 (21.74%) SQL
9 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
10 9 (19.57%) Python
10 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
11 8 (17.39%) Azure
11 8 (17.39%) Bitbucket
11 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
11 8 (17.39%) Oracle
11 8 (17.39%) React
11 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
12 7 (15.22%) AWS
12 7 (15.22%) GCP
12 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
13 6 (13.04%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) GitHub
2 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
4 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.52%) DB2
4 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.52%) MemSQL
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.52%) Sybase IQ
4 3 (6.52%) Tick Data
5 2 (4.35%) KDB
5 2 (4.35%) MySQL
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) Hazelcast
6 1 (2.17%) Kdb+
6 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Git
2 8 (17.39%) Bitbucket
3 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) Maven
4 4 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.35%) Gradle
6 2 (4.35%) JIRA
6 2 (4.35%) JUnit
6 2 (4.35%) Mockito
7 1 (2.17%) jMock
7 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Front Office
4 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) Spring
1 17 (36.96%) Spring Boot
2 13 (28.26%) REST
3 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
4 8 (17.39%) React
5 4 (8.70%) RESTful
5 4 (8.70%) Web Services
5 4 (8.70%) ZK
6 3 (6.52%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (6.52%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.35%) CSS
7 2 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (4.35%) Kafka
7 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.17%) JSON
8 1 (2.17%) JSP
8 1 (2.17%) SOAP
8 1 (2.17%) Vue
8 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.70%) Equities
4 2 (4.35%) Derivative
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Agile
2 17 (36.96%) Microservices
2 17 (36.96%) Scrum
3 16 (34.78%) Kanban
4 13 (28.26%) Low Latency
5 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.91%) BDD
6 11 (23.91%) TDD
7 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.04%) DevOps
10 5 (10.87%) Code Quality
10 5 (10.87%) SDLC
11 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven
11 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (8.70%) Order Management
11 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
11 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.87%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) C++
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) Solace
3 3 (6.52%) ION Trading
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Sybase
5 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Murex
5 1 (2.17%) Tradeweb