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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -17
Contract jobs citing Java 139 136 169
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.25% 7.42% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.64% 19.77% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 65 116
10th Percentile £443 £418 £425
25th Percentile £498 £501 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £788
90th Percentile £845 £935 £875
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -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 588 688 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.66% 37.55% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 426 577
10th Percentile £355 £412 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £28.30 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £31.00 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% +133.33% +0.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -48.53% +59.90% +0.52%

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 12 February 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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.16%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.16%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.72%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.72%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.25%) AWS
2 28 (20.14%) Azure
3 24 (17.27%) GitHub
4 15 (10.79%) GCP
5 11 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.19%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.47%) Serverless
8 7 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.16%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (1.44%) Figma
13 2 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) HTTP
2 1 (0.72%) DKIM
2 1 (0.72%) DNS
2 1 (0.72%) SNMP
2 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.19%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.60%) Tick Data
6 4 (2.88%) MySQL
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.16%) KDB
7 3 (2.16%) Kdb+
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.44%) Big Data
8 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.44%) DB2
8 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.44%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) DataStage
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Git
2 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.35%) JIRA
4 11 (7.91%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.47%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.76%) GitLab
7 7 (5.04%) JUnit
7 7 (5.04%) Maven
8 6 (4.32%) Selenium
9 5 (3.60%) Postman
9 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.88%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.16%) Gatling
11 3 (2.16%) Mockito
11 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.44%) Gradle
12 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.44%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (40.29%) Finance
2 35 (25.18%) Banking
2 35 (25.18%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.55%) Front Office
4 10 (7.19%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (54.68%) Developer
2 48 (34.53%) Java Developer
3 23 (16.55%) Senior
4 13 (9.35%) Senior Developer
5 11 (7.91%) Lead
6 10 (7.19%) Backend Developer
7 9 (6.47%) Architect
8 8 (5.76%) Senior Backend Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Fidessa Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Java Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Technical Architect
13 3 (2.16%) Analyst
13 3 (2.16%) Front Office Developer
13 3 (2.16%) Lead Developer
13 3 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.16%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.71%) React
2 23 (16.55%) Spring
3 22 (15.83%) REST
4 19 (13.67%) AngularJS
4 19 (13.67%) Kafka
5 18 (12.95%) .NET
5 18 (12.95%) Spring Boot
6 13 (9.35%) HTML
7 12 (8.63%) CSS
7 12 (8.63%) Node.js
8 8 (5.76%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (5.76%) RESTful
8 8 (5.76%) XML
9 7 (5.04%) OSGi
10 6 (4.32%) JSON
10 6 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (3.60%) Playwright
12 4 (2.88%) OAuth
12 4 (2.88%) SOAP
12 4 (2.88%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.63%) Equities
4 8 (5.76%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.60%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.16%) Derivative
9 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.44%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.44%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.47%) Linux
2 6 (4.32%) Unix
3 3 (2.16%) Windows
4 2 (1.44%) Android
4 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.81%) Agile
2 39 (28.06%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.46%) Microservices
4 30 (21.58%) Test Automation
5 29 (20.86%) DevOps
6 28 (20.14%) Scrum
7 25 (17.99%) Software Engineering
8 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.11%) Containerisation
9 21 (15.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.11%) Low Latency
9 21 (15.11%) TDD
10 18 (12.95%) Kanban
11 15 (10.79%) AI
12 14 (10.07%) Event-Driven
13 13 (9.35%) BDD
13 13 (9.35%) SDLC
14 11 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (7.91%) Order Management
14 11 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.13%) Python
2 39 (28.06%) SQL
3 23 (16.55%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.51%) C#
5 15 (10.79%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.60%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.88%) C++
8 3 (2.16%) Go
8 3 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.44%) ProC
9 2 (1.44%) Ruby
9 2 (1.44%) Rust
9 2 (1.44%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.72%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Degree
4 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.44%) CBAP
6 2 (1.44%) ISEB
6 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.72%) CCSP
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) OSCP
7 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.44%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.44%) NIST
3 2 (1.44%) PSD2
3 2 (1.44%) SEPA
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.72%) GRC
4 1 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (18.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.19%) Ansible
3 9 (6.47%) Grafana
4 8 (5.76%) Terraform
5 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.44%) Argo
6 2 (1.44%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (14.39%) Oracle
2 11 (7.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.60%) Google
3 5 (3.60%) Solace
4 4 (2.88%) Splunk
5 3 (2.16%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.16%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.16%) Confluent
6 2 (1.44%) Adobe
6 2 (1.44%) Altiris
6 2 (1.44%) Charles River
6 2 (1.44%) Citrix
6 2 (1.44%) Databricks
6 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.44%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.44%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.44%) Sybase
6 2 (1.44%) Symantec
6 2 (1.44%) VMware