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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Java 145 134 176
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.88% 6.59% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.89% 18.64% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 121
10th Percentile £415 £449 £413
25th Percentile £500 £516 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £585 £640
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% -8.59% -8.57%
75th Percentile £695 £734 £800
90th Percentile £868 £916 £875
Central London median daily rate £610 £587 £650
% change year-on-year +3.92% -9.69% -7.14%
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 607 719 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.97% 35.37% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 457 592
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £430 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £786 £788 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £26.35 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% -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 31 December 2025.

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 (2.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) 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 (2.07%) 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 52 (35.86%) AWS
2 34 (23.45%) Azure
3 23 (15.86%) GitHub
4 22 (15.17%) GCP
5 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.52%) Serverless
8 6 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.07%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.07%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.07%) Slack
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.38%) Apigee
11 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.38%) 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 14 (9.66%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.28%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.76%) DB2
5 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.76%) MySQL
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.07%) DataStage
6 3 (2.07%) KDB
6 3 (2.07%) MemSQL
6 3 (2.07%) Sybase IQ
6 3 (2.07%) Tick Data
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.38%) Event Store
7 2 (1.38%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (19.31%) Git
2 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.28%) Bitbucket
3 12 (8.28%) JIRA
4 11 (7.59%) Selenium
5 10 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.21%) GitLab
6 9 (6.21%) Maven
7 6 (4.14%) JUnit
7 6 (4.14%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.45%) Gradle
9 4 (2.76%) Postman
9 4 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.76%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.07%) Mockito
11 2 (1.38%) Gatling
11 2 (1.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.38%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (35.17%) Finance
2 32 (22.07%) Banking
3 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.79%) Front Office
5 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.21%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.07%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Back Office
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (54.48%) Developer
2 48 (33.10%) Java Developer
3 23 (15.86%) Senior
4 15 (10.34%) Lead
5 12 (8.28%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.21%) Angular Developer
7 8 (5.52%) Architect
8 6 (4.14%) Backend Developer
8 6 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.14%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Consultant
10 4 (2.76%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (2.76%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.07%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.93%) React
2 24 (16.55%) Spring
3 22 (15.17%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.79%) AngularJS
4 20 (13.79%) REST
5 17 (11.72%) .NET
6 14 (9.66%) Kafka
7 12 (8.28%) Node.js
8 11 (7.59%) HTML
9 10 (6.90%) CSS
10 9 (6.21%) XML
11 7 (4.83%) RESTful
12 6 (4.14%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.14%) Web Services
13 5 (3.45%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.45%) JSON
13 5 (3.45%) OSGi
13 5 (3.45%) ZK
14 4 (2.76%) OAuth
14 4 (2.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.52%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.14%) Equities
5 5 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.07%) Derivative
7 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.69%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Unix
3 5 (3.45%) Windows
4 3 (2.07%) Android
4 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.07%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) Agile
2 38 (26.21%) CI/CD
3 36 (24.83%) DevOps
4 32 (22.07%) Microservices
5 30 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (20.00%) Scrum
7 25 (17.24%) TDD
8 24 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (15.86%) Containerisation
9 23 (15.86%) Software Engineering
10 21 (14.48%) Kanban
11 18 (12.41%) Low Latency
12 16 (11.03%) SDLC
13 15 (10.34%) BDD
13 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (9.66%) Event-Driven
15 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
15 13 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
16 12 (8.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.17%) Python
2 43 (29.66%) SQL
3 23 (15.86%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.72%) C#
4 17 (11.72%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.76%) C++
6 4 (2.76%) Go
7 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.38%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.38%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.38%) ProC
8 2 (1.38%) Rust
8 2 (1.38%) Swift
8 2 (1.38%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.69%) Ruby
9 1 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.59%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.38%) CBAP
5 2 (1.38%) CISSP
5 2 (1.38%) ISEB
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.38%) SANS
6 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.69%) CISA
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.69%) CRISC
6 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.69%) PSD2
4 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (18.62%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 33 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.34%) Terraform
3 11 (7.59%) Ansible
4 6 (4.14%) Grafana
5 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.76%) Argo
7 3 (2.07%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (15.17%) Oracle
2 13 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.21%) Google
4 4 (2.76%) Solace
5 3 (2.07%) Altiris
5 3 (2.07%) Citrix
5 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.07%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.07%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.07%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Symantec
5 3 (2.07%) VMware
6 2 (1.38%) Adobe
6 2 (1.38%) Confluent
6 2 (1.38%) Databricks
6 2 (1.38%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.38%) Sybase
6 2 (1.38%) UiPath