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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 124 153 157
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.50% 8.64% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.05% 23.22% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 92 103
10th Percentile £425 £413 £431
25th Percentile £488 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £610 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -9.63% +3.05%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £750
90th Percentile £795 £835 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £610 £680
% change year-on-year -5.74% -10.29% +3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.50

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 651 659 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.87% 37.21% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 455 504
10th Percentile £400 £385 £408
25th Percentile £460 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.48% -2.27%
75th Percentile £671 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £578
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.43% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -11.69% +208.00%
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.33% +6.80% +220.00%

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 September 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 September 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 (4.84%) Apache Spark
1 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Camunda
4 1 (0.81%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.81%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.81%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.52%) AWS
2 37 (29.84%) Azure
3 24 (19.35%) GitHub
4 13 (10.48%) GCP
5 9 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.03%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.03%) PaaS
9 5 (4.03%) Serverless
10 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.23%) dbt
10 4 (3.23%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) Multicast
2 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.61%) DNS
3 2 (1.61%) VLAN
3 2 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) FTP
4 1 (0.81%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.81%) RTCP
4 1 (0.81%) RTP
4 1 (0.81%) SSH
4 1 (0.81%) VoIP
4 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.42%) Big Data
6 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.61%) Power BI
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.81%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.81%) Redis
8 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (16.13%) Git
2 19 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.48%) GitLab
3 13 (10.48%) JUnit
4 8 (6.45%) JIRA
4 8 (6.45%) Maven
4 8 (6.45%) Mockito
5 7 (5.65%) Gradle
6 6 (4.84%) Postman
7 5 (4.03%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.03%) Selenium
8 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.42%) eggPlant
9 3 (2.42%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.61%) Appium
10 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.61%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.61%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 48 (38.71%) Finance
2 38 (30.65%) Banking
3 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.10%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.48%) Front Office
7 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.03%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Back Office
9 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (37.90%) Developer
2 41 (33.06%) Senior
3 34 (27.42%) Java Developer
4 27 (21.77%) Senior Developer
5 25 (20.16%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.48%) Architect
6 13 (10.48%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) React Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Senior React Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Senior UI Developer
8 7 (5.65%) UI Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (31.45%) Spring
1 39 (31.45%) Spring Boot
2 29 (23.39%) Kafka
3 24 (19.35%) REST
4 23 (18.55%) React
5 21 (16.94%) Terraform
6 16 (12.90%) RESTful
7 12 (9.68%) Web Services
8 11 (8.87%) SOAP
9 10 (8.06%) .NET
10 9 (7.26%) JSON
11 8 (6.45%) HTML
12 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.65%) Node.js
12 7 (5.65%) Redux
13 5 (4.03%) Middleware
13 5 (4.03%) XML
14 3 (2.42%) CSS
14 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (2.42%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.87%) Fixed Income
3 11 (8.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (7.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (5.65%) Equities
7 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.61%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.61%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Linux
2 10 (8.06%) Unix
3 5 (4.03%) Windows
4 2 (1.61%) Android
4 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) AIX
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (50.81%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.26%) DevOps
3 37 (29.84%) Microservices
4 35 (28.23%) Test Automation
5 32 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 31 (25.00%) Agile
7 27 (21.77%) Software Engineering
8 25 (20.16%) Observability
9 24 (19.35%) Event-Driven
9 24 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (13.71%) AI
11 17 (13.71%) TDD
12 15 (12.10%) Electronic Trading
12 15 (12.10%) Low Latency
13 14 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.29%) SDLC
13 14 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.65%) Python
2 27 (21.77%) SQL
3 22 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.94%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.71%) C#
6 10 (8.06%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.03%) Korn
7 5 (4.03%) Scala
8 4 (3.23%) Bash
8 4 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.23%) Ruby
9 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.61%) Bicep
10 2 (1.61%) C++
10 2 (1.61%) Go
10 2 (1.61%) R
10 2 (1.61%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.81%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.81%) DAML
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) Degree
4 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) CISM
6 1 (0.81%) CISSP
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) ISEB
6 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.71%) QA
2 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) GDPR
3 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.42%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.42%) SEPA
5 2 (1.61%) EMIR
5 2 (1.61%) MiFID
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) PSD2
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (29.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) GridGain
3 1 (0.81%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (31.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.45%) Grafana
3 6 (4.84%) Ansible
3 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.61%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.81%) Bosun
6 1 (0.81%) Control-M
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.81%) SELinux
6 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.81%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (18.55%) Oracle
2 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) IBM
4 5 (4.03%) Databricks
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
5 4 (3.23%) Google
5 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.42%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.42%) Splunk
7 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.61%) Foundry
7 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.61%) Sybase
8 1 (0.81%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.81%) Calypso
8 1 (0.81%) Murex
8 1 (0.81%) Temenos
8 1 (0.81%) VMware