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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 106 115
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 13 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £438 £413 £604
25th Percentile £459 £419 £702
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £710
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -4.93% -2.07%
75th Percentile £572 £825 £836
90th Percentile £588 £935 £894
Central London median daily rate £525 £675 £710
% change year-on-year -22.22% -4.93% +3.65%

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 2,200 1,562 2,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 93.14% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 976 1,441
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 15
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.35 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.49 £48.75 £28.44
90th Percentile £62.89 £92.75 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.15 £26.41
% change year-on-year -7.25% +6.61% -24.56%

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (46.15%) React
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) AI
5 4 (30.77%) Docker
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) GCP
6 3 (23.08%) GitLab
6 3 (23.08%) Google
6 3 (23.08%) Kafka
6 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
6 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
6 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 3 (23.08%) Spring
6 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) TDD
6 3 (23.08%) Tech Ops
7 2 (15.38%) BDD
7 2 (15.38%) Code Quality

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Beam
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) MicroProfile
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
4 1 (7.69%) React Native
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTEasy
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) AI
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
4 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) Tech Ops
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
1 1 (7.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
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