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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -20
Contract jobs citing Java 142 138 172
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.75% 6.67% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.67% 18.85% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 73 118
10th Percentile £414 £431 £413
25th Percentile £500 £515 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £645
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -9.30% -7.86%
75th Percentile £699 £725 £800
90th Percentile £873 £913 £885
Central London median daily rate £625 £595 £650
% change year-on-year +5.13% -8.54% -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 600 732 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.75% 35.40% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 466 603
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £435 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £795 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £598
% change year-on-year -5.17% -2.93% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £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 £44.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
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 24 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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.70%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.70%) JBoss
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.70%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.70%) Summit
2 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) AWS
2 33 (23.24%) Azure
3 22 (15.49%) GitHub
4 20 (14.08%) GCP
5 11 (7.75%) Amazon S3
6 10 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.63%) Serverless
8 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.52%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.11%) Slack
12 2 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.41%) Apigee
12 2 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.41%) SaaS
12 2 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) DKIM
1 1 (0.70%) DNS
1 1 (0.70%) SNMP
1 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.45%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.82%) DB2
7 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.82%) MySQL
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.11%) DataStage
8 3 (2.11%) KDB
8 3 (2.11%) MemSQL
8 3 (2.11%) Sybase IQ
8 3 (2.11%) Tick Data
9 2 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.41%) Event Store
9 2 (1.41%) Kdb+
9 2 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (19.72%) Git
2 15 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.45%) Bitbucket
3 12 (8.45%) JIRA
4 11 (7.75%) Selenium
5 10 (7.04%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.34%) GitLab
6 9 (6.34%) Maven
7 6 (4.23%) JUnit
7 6 (4.23%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.52%) Gradle
9 4 (2.82%) Postman
9 4 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.82%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.11%) Mockito
11 2 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (35.21%) Finance
2 31 (21.83%) Banking
3 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
4 19 (13.38%) Front Office
5 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.52%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.11%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Back Office
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (53.52%) Developer
2 46 (32.39%) Java Developer
3 23 (16.20%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Lead
5 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.34%) Angular Developer
7 8 (5.63%) Architect
8 7 (4.93%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.52%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.52%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.52%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 4 (2.82%) Consultant
11 4 (2.82%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.11%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (2.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.90%) React
2 23 (16.20%) Spring
3 21 (14.79%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.08%) REST
5 19 (13.38%) AngularJS
6 17 (11.97%) .NET
7 13 (9.15%) Kafka
8 12 (8.45%) Node.js
9 10 (7.04%) HTML
10 9 (6.34%) CSS
10 9 (6.34%) XML
11 7 (4.93%) RESTful
12 6 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.23%) Web Services
13 5 (3.52%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.52%) ZK
14 4 (2.82%) GraphQL
14 4 (2.82%) JSON
14 4 (2.82%) OSGi
15 3 (2.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.23%) Equities
5 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.11%) Derivative
7 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.41%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.04%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Unix
3 5 (3.52%) Windows
4 3 (2.11%) Android
4 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.92%) Agile
2 37 (26.06%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.65%) DevOps
4 31 (21.83%) Microservices
5 30 (21.13%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (20.42%) Scrum
7 25 (17.61%) Software Engineering
8 24 (16.90%) TDD
9 23 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (15.49%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.79%) Kanban
12 16 (11.27%) Low Latency
12 16 (11.27%) SDLC
13 14 (9.86%) BDD
13 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (9.15%) Roadmaps
15 12 (8.45%) Event-Driven
15 12 (8.45%) Migration
15 12 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.92%) Python
2 41 (28.87%) SQL
3 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.68%) C#
5 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.52%) Go
8 4 (2.82%) C++
9 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.41%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.41%) ProC
10 2 (1.41%) Rust
10 2 (1.41%) Swift
10 2 (1.41%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.70%) Bash
11 1 (0.70%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.70%) Solidity
11 1 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.45%) Degree
3 11 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.41%) CBAP
6 2 (1.41%) CISSP
6 2 (1.41%) ISEB
6 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.41%) SANS
7 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.70%) CCSP
7 1 (0.70%) CISA
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (18.31%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 31 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.86%) Terraform
3 10 (7.04%) Ansible
4 5 (3.52%) Grafana
5 4 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.11%) Argo
6 3 (2.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (16.20%) Oracle
2 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) Google
4 4 (2.82%) Solace
5 3 (2.11%) Altiris
5 3 (2.11%) Citrix
5 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.11%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.11%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.11%) Splunk
5 3 (2.11%) Symantec
5 3 (2.11%) VMware
6 2 (1.41%) Adobe
6 2 (1.41%) Databricks
6 2 (1.41%) IBM
6 2 (1.41%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.41%) Sybase
6 2 (1.41%) UiPath
7 1 (0.70%) OutSystems