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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 132 152 147
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.64% 8.21% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.82% 21.53% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 89 102
10th Percentile £450 £413 £476
25th Percentile £481 £463 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -12.86% +6.87%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £773
90th Percentile £838 £826 £874
Central London median daily rate £575 £605 £700
% change year-on-year -4.96% -13.57% +6.87%
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 666 706 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.46% 38.12% 36.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 483 511
10th Percentile £396 £393 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.85% -3.20%
75th Percentile £669 £698 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.96%
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 19 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 19 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 7 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.27%) Apache
3 3 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 3 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.76%) Camunda
4 1 (0.76%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.76%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.76%) JBoss
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.76%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.64%) AWS
2 35 (26.52%) Azure
3 29 (21.97%) GitHub
4 12 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.33%) GCP
6 9 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.06%) Serverless
8 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (4.55%) PaaS
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) Multicast
2 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.52%) DNS
3 2 (1.52%) VLAN
3 2 (1.52%) 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 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.30%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.52%) Big Data
8 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.52%) Db2
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.52%) Power BI
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) Git
1 23 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.12%) JUnit
3 15 (11.36%) GitLab
4 10 (7.58%) JIRA
5 9 (6.82%) Mockito
6 8 (6.06%) Cucumber
6 8 (6.06%) Postman
7 6 (4.55%) Gradle
8 5 (3.79%) Maven
8 5 (3.79%) Selenium
9 4 (3.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.27%) eggPlant
10 3 (2.27%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.52%) Appium
11 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.52%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.52%) Liquibase
11 2 (1.52%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (37.12%) Finance
2 37 (28.03%) Banking
3 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.85%) Front Office
5 13 (9.85%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.52%) Back Office
9 2 (1.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (39.39%) Developer
2 41 (31.06%) Senior
3 40 (30.30%) Java Developer
4 30 (22.73%) Senior Developer
5 28 (21.21%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Lead
7 11 (8.33%) Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) React Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Senior UI Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.30%) UI Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Support Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (30.30%) Spring
2 38 (28.79%) Spring Boot
3 29 (21.97%) Kafka
4 26 (19.70%) React
5 19 (14.39%) REST
6 16 (12.12%) RESTful
7 12 (9.09%) JSON
7 12 (9.09%) Web Services
8 10 (7.58%) .NET
8 10 (7.58%) SOAP
9 8 (6.06%) HTML
10 7 (5.30%) Node.js
10 7 (5.30%) Redux
11 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.79%) Middleware
11 5 (3.79%) WireMock
11 5 (3.79%) XML
12 4 (3.03%) Gherkin
12 4 (3.03%) PySpark
12 4 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.06%) Equities
5 7 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.76%) OTC Derivatives
10 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.61%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Windows
4 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.52%) Android
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.06%) DevOps
3 37 (28.03%) Agile
3 37 (28.03%) Test Automation
4 35 (26.52%) Microservices
5 27 (20.45%) Containerisation
6 26 (19.70%) Observability
6 26 (19.70%) Software Engineering
7 23 (17.42%) Event-Driven
8 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.64%) AI
10 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (12.88%) TDD
12 16 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
12 16 (12.12%) Low Latency
13 13 (9.85%) API Design
14 12 (9.09%) BDD
14 12 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.33%) Python
2 33 (25.00%) SQL
3 23 (17.42%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.39%) C#
6 9 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.79%) Ruby
8 4 (3.03%) R
8 4 (3.03%) Scala
8 4 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.27%) Bash
9 3 (2.27%) Korn
9 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.52%) C++
10 2 (1.52%) Go
10 2 (1.52%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Solidity
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Degree
4 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.52%) 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 16 (12.12%) QA
2 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) EMIR
4 2 (1.52%) MiFID
4 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) SEPA
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (25.76%) 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 42 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.64%) Terraform
3 7 (5.30%) Ansible
4 6 (4.55%) Grafana
5 4 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.52%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.52%) 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 22 (16.67%) Oracle
2 16 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.30%) IBM
4 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.03%) Databricks
5 4 (3.03%) Google
5 4 (3.03%) SAP
6 3 (2.27%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.27%) Splunk
6 3 (2.27%) Sybase
7 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) New Relic
8 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.76%) Solace
8 1 (0.76%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Workday