Java Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Java Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £710 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 168 145
Rank change year-on-year +52 -23 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 10 10 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.27% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.29% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £595 £471 -
25th Percentile £700 £506 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £738 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +9.26% +1.89%
75th Percentile £875 £756 £714
90th Percentile £913 £779 £854
Central London median daily rate £710 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +1.43% +3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,100 3,471 3,999
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.25% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,364 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 52
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +110.01%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the City of London

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer 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 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Kafka
4 4 (40.00%) RESTful
4 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Consul
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (30.00%) Grafana
5 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (30.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) SaltStack
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft

Java Engineer 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) KDB
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Aviation
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) Rendezvous
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (10.00%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (20.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (10.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) iptables
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Consul
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) SaltStack
2 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (20.00%) Solace
2 2 (20.00%) TIBCO