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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 111 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 7 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £469 £440 £595
25th Percentile £491 £463 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £594 £950 £669
90th Percentile £763 - £688
Central London median daily rate £538 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -23.21% +12.00% -16.67%

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 1,890 1,670 2,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.88% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,033 1,591
10th Percentile £350 £357 £340
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.68% -5.08%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -27.14%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Apache Beam
5 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Big Data
5 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming

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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Beam
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) React Native
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Equities
2 1 (14.29%) TWAP
2 1 (14.29%) VWAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Garbage Collection
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
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