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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing Java 131 158 146
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.56% 8.47% 7.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.88% 22.01% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 95 102
10th Percentile £450 £413 £476
25th Percentile £481 £463 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £694
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -12.07% +5.92%
75th Percentile £656 £690 £766
90th Percentile £850 £819 £874
Central London median daily rate £555 £610 £688
% change year-on-year -9.02% -11.27% +5.28%
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 659 718 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.99% 38.48% 36.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 493 512
10th Percentile £382 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £591
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.06% -3.47%
75th Percentile £669 £696 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -48.13%

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 14 August 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
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 within the City of London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
Java
Central London

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 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 3 (2.29%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.76%) Camunda
5 1 (0.76%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.76%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.76%) JBoss
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.76%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.76%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.93%) AWS
2 32 (24.43%) Azure
3 29 (22.14%) GitHub
4 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.63%) GCP
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.11%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.11%) Serverless
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.58%) PaaS
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Multicast
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.53%) DNS
3 2 (1.53%) VLAN
3 2 (1.53%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) Firewall
4 1 (0.76%) FTP
4 1 (0.76%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.87%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.53%) Big Data
8 2 (1.53%) Db2
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.53%) Power BI
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.79%) Git
3 16 (12.21%) JUnit
4 15 (11.45%) GitLab
5 10 (7.63%) JIRA
6 9 (6.87%) Mockito
7 8 (6.11%) Cucumber
7 8 (6.11%) Postman
8 6 (4.58%) Gradle
9 5 (3.82%) Maven
10 4 (3.05%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.05%) Selenium
11 3 (2.29%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.53%) Appium
12 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.53%) eggPlant
12 2 (1.53%) JMeter
12 2 (1.53%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.53%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (38.17%) Finance
2 37 (28.24%) Banking
3 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.69%) Front Office
6 13 (9.92%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.58%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.53%) Back Office
11 2 (1.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Legal
12 1 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Retail
12 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (39.69%) Developer
2 40 (30.53%) Java Developer
2 40 (30.53%) Senior
3 30 (22.90%) Senior Developer
4 28 (21.37%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (9.16%) Architect
5 12 (9.16%) Java Engineer
5 12 (9.16%) Lead
6 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) React Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Senior React Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Senior UI Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.34%) UI Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.05%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.29%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (30.53%) Spring
2 38 (29.01%) Spring Boot
3 29 (22.14%) Kafka
4 26 (19.85%) React
5 20 (15.27%) REST
6 16 (12.21%) RESTful
7 12 (9.16%) JSON
8 11 (8.40%) Web Services
9 10 (7.63%) .NET
10 9 (6.87%) SOAP
11 7 (5.34%) HTML
11 7 (5.34%) Node.js
11 7 (5.34%) Redux
12 6 (4.58%) Middleware
13 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.82%) WireMock
14 4 (3.05%) Gherkin
14 4 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (3.05%) PySpark
14 4 (3.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.43%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.03%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.16%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.87%) Equities
5 7 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.76%) OTC Derivatives
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.92%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Unix
3 5 (3.82%) Windows
4 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (45.80%) CI/CD
2 39 (29.77%) DevOps
3 37 (28.24%) Microservices
4 36 (27.48%) Agile
5 35 (26.72%) Test Automation
6 28 (21.37%) Containerisation
7 25 (19.08%) Observability
8 24 (18.32%) Software Engineering
9 23 (17.56%) Event-Driven
10 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (12.98%) Electronic Trading
14 16 (12.21%) Low Latency
14 16 (12.21%) TDD
15 15 (11.45%) AI
16 14 (10.69%) API Design
17 12 (9.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 12 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
18 11 (8.40%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.35%) Python
2 31 (23.66%) SQL
3 23 (17.56%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.74%) C#
6 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.82%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.82%) Ruby
8 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.29%) Bash
9 3 (2.29%) Go
9 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.29%) R
9 3 (2.29%) Scala
10 2 (1.53%) C++
10 2 (1.53%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Jython
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) CISM
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) ISEB
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) EMIR
4 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.53%) MiFID
4 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.53%) SEPA
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) PSD2
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (25.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) GridGain
2 1 (0.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.98%) Terraform
3 8 (6.11%) Grafana
4 7 (5.34%) Ansible
5 5 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.29%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.53%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) Bosun
8 1 (0.76%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.76%) Control-M
8 1 (0.76%) SELinux
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Oracle
2 14 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.34%) IBM
4 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.82%) Splunk
5 4 (3.05%) Google
6 3 (2.29%) Databricks
6 3 (2.29%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.29%) SAP
6 3 (2.29%) Sybase
7 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.76%) Charles River
8 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.76%) Pega
8 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.76%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Workday