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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 113 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 +45 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 8 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.44% 0.53% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.56% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 8
10th Percentile £371 £665 £471
25th Percentile £413 £706 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £710 £725
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% -2.07% +7.41%
75th Percentile £669 £875 £759
90th Percentile £775 £913 £799
Central London median daily rate £450 £710 £685
% change year-on-year -36.62% +3.65% +1.48%

All DemandTrendContract 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 1,699 1,957 3,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 94.50% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 1,268 2,063
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.87 £14.42
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.88 £20.09
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -27.03% -11.90%
75th Percentile £53.50 £89.06 £56.56
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £76.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.46%

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
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 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the City of London

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
Java Engineer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, 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 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Spring
5 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (37.50%) MySQL
5 3 (37.50%) React
5 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
5 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (25.00%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) GCP
6 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) KDB
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) JPA
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (12.50%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) DAML
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) Hitachi
1 1 (12.50%) ION Trading
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk