Java Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Java
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 142 149 162
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.19% 8.56% 7.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.36% 21.23% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 82 119
10th Percentile £430 £425 £420
25th Percentile £483 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £585 £655
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -10.69% -2.96%
75th Percentile £614 £703 £750
90th Percentile £748 £836 £855
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Programming Languages
City of London

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 608 702 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.49% 40.34% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 460 526
10th Percentile £355 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £695
90th Percentile £750 £794 £794
Central London median daily rate £528 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.26% +2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £25.14 - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £50.25
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -40.06% -15.65%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Java job vacancy trend in the City of London

Java
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the City of London

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Java

Java
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 6 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.41%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.70%) Camunda
4 1 (0.70%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.70%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.62%) AWS
2 32 (22.54%) Azure
3 27 (19.01%) GitHub
4 11 (7.75%) GCP
5 10 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (6.34%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.93%) Serverless
9 6 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Multicast
2 2 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) FTP
3 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.34%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.41%) Big Data
8 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.41%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.41%) Power BI
8 2 (1.41%) Redis
8 2 (1.41%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.70%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
2 19 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.45%) JIRA
4 11 (7.75%) JUnit
5 7 (4.93%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.93%) GitLab
6 6 (4.23%) Maven
6 6 (4.23%) Mockito
7 5 (3.52%) Gradle
8 4 (2.82%) Postman
9 3 (2.11%) Selenium
10 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.41%) Gatling
10 2 (1.41%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.41%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.70%) TestRail
11 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (31.69%) Finance
2 31 (21.83%) Banking
3 29 (20.42%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Front Office
5 9 (6.34%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.52%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.41%) Back Office
11 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Games
12 1 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.70%) Marketing
12 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (50.00%) Developer
2 48 (33.80%) Java Developer
3 44 (30.99%) Senior
4 32 (22.54%) Senior Developer
5 20 (14.08%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Architect
6 13 (9.15%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Backend Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Lead
9 8 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (2.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 3 (2.11%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 3 (2.11%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.28%) Spring
2 34 (23.94%) Spring Boot
3 30 (21.13%) Kafka
4 29 (20.42%) React
5 23 (16.20%) REST
6 14 (9.86%) JSON
7 12 (8.45%) RESTful
8 10 (7.04%) .NET
8 10 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.04%) HTML
9 9 (6.34%) Node.js
9 9 (6.34%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (5.63%) CSS
10 8 (5.63%) Web Services
11 6 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.23%) OSGi
12 5 (3.52%) J2EE
12 5 (3.52%) JMS
12 5 (3.52%) SOAP
12 5 (3.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.04%) Equities
5 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.23%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.52%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.41%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.41%) NHS
10 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.21%) CI/CD
2 41 (28.87%) Microservices
3 33 (23.24%) Agile
4 30 (21.13%) DevOps
5 27 (19.01%) Containerisation
6 25 (17.61%) Software Engineering
6 25 (17.61%) Test Automation
7 23 (16.20%) Observability
8 22 (15.49%) AI
9 21 (14.79%) Event-Driven
10 20 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (13.38%) Low Latency
12 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.56%) TDD
13 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (8.45%) Roadmaps
15 11 (7.75%) Computer Science
15 11 (7.75%) Electronic Trading
15 11 (7.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (7.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.51%) Python
2 35 (24.65%) SQL
3 21 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.86%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.75%) C#
6 4 (2.82%) C++
6 4 (2.82%) Ruby
7 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.11%) Scala
8 2 (1.41%) Go
8 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.41%) R
8 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) Jython
9 1 (0.70%) ProC
9 1 (0.70%) Swift
9 1 (0.70%) VB
9 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) SC Cleared
1 21 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.34%) Degree
3 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.41%) CISSP
4 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) CCSP
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CISM
5 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.70%) OSCP
5 1 (0.70%) PhD
5 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 4 (2.82%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.82%) SEPA
4 3 (2.11%) PSD2
5 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.41%) EMIR
5 2 (1.41%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.41%) MiFID
5 2 (1.41%) NIST
5 2 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) NCSC
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) TARGET2
System Software
1 34 (23.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) GridGain
3 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 39 (27.46%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.15%) Grafana
3 11 (7.75%) Terraform
4 10 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.23%) Ansible
6 2 (1.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.70%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Oracle
2 11 (7.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.23%) Google
4 5 (3.52%) Splunk
5 3 (2.11%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.11%) Charles River
5 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) Confluent
6 2 (1.41%) Databricks
6 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.41%) IBM
6 2 (1.41%) SAP
6 2 (1.41%) Solace
6 2 (1.41%) Sybase
6 2 (1.41%) Workday
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe
7 1 (0.70%) Apple
7 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce