Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Java Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £337, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 10 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £284 £371 £634
25th Percentile £297 £413 £708
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £337 £450 £713
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% -36.84% -
75th Percentile £442 £669 £875
90th Percentile £506 £775 £950
Central London median daily rate £341 £450 £713
% change year-on-year -24.22% -36.84% +4.01%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,099 1,622 1,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 93.92% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 1,086 1,240
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 16
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £22.84
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.15 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% -41.35% +33.33%
75th Percentile £34.51 £56.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.86% -20.50% -1.41%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2026, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Docker
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) REST
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) AI
6 2 (20.00%) API Development
6 2 (20.00%) API Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Git
6 2 (20.00%) Gradle
6 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns

Java Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Gradle
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) JSF
3 2 (20.00%) JSP
3 2 (20.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) MicroProfile
4 1 (10.00%) Quarkus
4 1 (10.00%) RESTEasy
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Equities
4 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (10.00%) SEPA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
22 Java Engineer jobs in the City of London