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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Java 144 128 175
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.90% 6.67% 7.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.83% 18.77% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 65 123
10th Percentile £415 £429 £414
25th Percentile £498 £515 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -6.40% -10.71%
75th Percentile £693 £738 £775
90th Percentile £869 £935 £875
Central London median daily rate £610 £585 £645
% change year-on-year +4.27% -9.30% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 580 682 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.83% 35.54% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 430 591
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £425 £478 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% - -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £797 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £588
% change year-on-year -5.17% -1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

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 9 January 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 4 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.69%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.69%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.69%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.69%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.42%) AWS
2 33 (22.92%) Azure
3 24 (16.67%) GitHub
4 21 (14.58%) GCP
5 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.56%) Serverless
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.47%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.08%) Slack
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon Neptune
12 2 (1.39%) Figma
12 2 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) DKIM
1 1 (0.69%) DNS
1 1 (0.69%) SNMP
1 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.64%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.78%) DB2
6 4 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.78%) MySQL
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.08%) DataStage
7 3 (2.08%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.08%) KDB
7 3 (2.08%) MemSQL
7 3 (2.08%) Redis
7 3 (2.08%) Sybase IQ
7 3 (2.08%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.39%) Kdb+
8 2 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (18.75%) Git
2 17 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 12 (8.33%) JIRA
4 11 (7.64%) Selenium
5 10 (6.94%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.25%) GitLab
6 9 (6.25%) Maven
7 6 (4.17%) JUnit
7 6 (4.17%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.47%) Gradle
9 4 (2.78%) Postman
9 4 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.08%) Gatling
10 3 (2.08%) Mockito
10 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.39%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (34.72%) Finance
2 30 (20.83%) Banking
2 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.28%) Front Office
4 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.08%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Back Office
8 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (54.86%) Developer
2 50 (34.72%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.67%) Senior
4 15 (10.42%) Lead
5 13 (9.03%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.25%) Angular Developer
7 7 (4.86%) Architect
7 7 (4.86%) Backend Developer
8 6 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.17%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Consultant
10 4 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.06%) React
2 23 (15.97%) Spring
3 21 (14.58%) AngularJS
3 21 (14.58%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.89%) REST
5 17 (11.81%) .NET
6 14 (9.72%) Kafka
7 12 (8.33%) HTML
7 12 (8.33%) Node.js
8 11 (7.64%) CSS
9 9 (6.25%) XML
10 6 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (4.17%) JSON
10 6 (4.17%) OSGi
10 6 (4.17%) Web Services
11 5 (3.47%) RESTful
11 5 (3.47%) ZK
12 4 (2.78%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.78%) OAuth
12 4 (2.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.17%) Equities
5 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Derivative
6 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.25%) Linux
2 6 (4.17%) Unix
3 5 (3.47%) Windows
4 3 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.39%) Android
5 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.42%) Agile
2 37 (25.69%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.31%) DevOps
4 31 (21.53%) Microservices
5 30 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.14%) Scrum
7 28 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.36%) TDD
9 24 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (15.97%) Containerisation
10 23 (15.97%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.58%) Kanban
11 21 (14.58%) Low Latency
12 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (11.11%) SDLC
13 15 (10.42%) BDD
14 14 (9.72%) Event-Driven
15 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
15 13 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
16 11 (7.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.72%) Python
2 44 (30.56%) SQL
3 24 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.11%) C#
4 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.47%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.78%) C++
6 4 (2.78%) Go
7 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.39%) ProC
8 2 (1.39%) Rust
8 2 (1.39%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) Solidity
9 1 (0.69%) SOQL
9 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.64%) Degree
2 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.39%) CBAP
5 2 (1.39%) CISSP
5 2 (1.39%) ISEB
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.39%) SANS
6 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.69%) CCSP
6 1 (0.69%) CISA
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
3 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.39%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.39%) NIST
3 2 (1.39%) PSD2
3 2 (1.39%) SEPA
4 1 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (19.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 34 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.11%) Terraform
3 12 (8.33%) Ansible
4 7 (4.86%) Grafana
5 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.47%) Argo
7 3 (2.08%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (15.28%) Oracle
2 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.56%) Google
4 4 (2.78%) Solace
5 3 (2.08%) Altiris
5 3 (2.08%) Citrix
5 3 (2.08%) Confluent
5 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.08%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.08%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.08%) Splunk
5 3 (2.08%) Symantec
5 3 (2.08%) VMware
6 2 (1.39%) Adobe
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks
6 2 (1.39%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.39%) Sybase
6 2 (1.39%) UiPath
7 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock