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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing Java 139 127 170
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.55% 6.83% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.97% 19.04% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 63 116
10th Percentile £452 £413 £425
25th Percentile £500 £518 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £788
90th Percentile £856 £943 £875
Central London median daily rate £610 £585 £650
% change year-on-year +4.27% -10.00% -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 580 667 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.52% 35.88% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 418 591
10th Percentile £359 £407 £413
25th Percentile £431 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £795 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -5.47%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -5.47%

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 20 January 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 5 (3.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.72%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.72%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.72%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.72%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.81%) AWS
2 30 (21.58%) Azure
3 24 (17.27%) GitHub
4 18 (12.95%) GCP
5 10 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.76%) Serverless
8 6 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.60%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon Neptune
12 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.44%) Figma
12 2 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) DKIM
1 1 (0.72%) DNS
1 1 (0.72%) SNMP
1 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.88%) MySQL
5 4 (2.88%) Tick Data
6 3 (2.16%) Hazelcast
6 3 (2.16%) Redis
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.44%) Big Data
7 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.44%) DB2
7 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.44%) KDB
7 2 (1.44%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.72%) DataStage
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (18.71%) Git
2 18 (12.95%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.63%) JIRA
4 11 (7.91%) Bitbucket
5 10 (7.19%) Cucumber
5 10 (7.19%) Selenium
6 9 (6.47%) GitLab
6 9 (6.47%) Maven
7 5 (3.60%) JUnit
7 5 (3.60%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.88%) Gradle
8 4 (2.88%) Postman
9 3 (2.16%) Gatling
9 3 (2.16%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.44%) Mockito
10 2 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.44%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (35.25%) Finance
2 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.86%) Banking
4 22 (15.83%) Front Office
5 9 (6.47%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.60%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.44%) Back Office
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (54.68%) Developer
2 47 (33.81%) Java Developer
3 26 (18.71%) Senior
4 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.63%) Lead
6 8 (5.76%) Backend Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Angular Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Architect
7 7 (5.04%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Fidessa Developer
8 6 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.16%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.16%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (2.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.42%) React
2 23 (16.55%) Spring
3 20 (14.39%) AngularJS
3 20 (14.39%) REST
4 17 (12.23%) Spring Boot
5 16 (11.51%) .NET
6 14 (10.07%) HTML
7 13 (9.35%) CSS
7 13 (9.35%) Kafka
8 11 (7.91%) Node.js
9 8 (5.76%) XML
10 7 (5.04%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (5.04%) OSGi
11 6 (4.32%) JSON
11 6 (4.32%) Web Services
12 5 (3.60%) RESTful
12 5 (3.60%) ZK
13 4 (2.88%) OAuth
13 4 (2.88%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (7.19%) Equities
4 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.16%) Derivative
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Linux
2 6 (4.32%) Unix
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
4 3 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.44%) Android
5 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.25%) Agile
2 36 (25.90%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.46%) DevOps
4 30 (21.58%) Microservices
5 29 (20.86%) Test Automation
6 28 (20.14%) Scrum
7 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
8 23 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (16.55%) TDD
9 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
10 20 (14.39%) Kanban
10 20 (14.39%) Low Latency
11 15 (10.79%) SDLC
12 14 (10.07%) BDD
13 13 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (8.63%) Event-Driven
15 11 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (7.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (35.97%) Python
2 39 (28.06%) SQL
3 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.79%) C#
5 14 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.60%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.88%) C++
7 4 (2.88%) Go
8 3 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.44%) ProC
9 2 (1.44%) Rust
9 2 (1.44%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.72%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Solidity
10 1 (0.72%) SOQL
10 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Degree
4 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
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 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.44%) GDPR
2 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.44%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.44%) PSD2
2 2 (1.44%) SEPA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) GRC
3 1 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) NCSC
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (20.14%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 32 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.35%) Terraform
3 12 (8.63%) Ansible
4 8 (5.76%) Grafana
5 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.88%) Argo
7 3 (2.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (15.83%) Oracle
2 12 (8.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.04%) Google
4 5 (3.60%) Solace
5 4 (2.88%) Splunk
6 3 (2.16%) Altiris
6 3 (2.16%) Citrix
6 3 (2.16%) Confluent
6 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.16%) Ivanti
6 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.16%) Symantec
6 3 (2.16%) VMware
7 2 (1.44%) Adobe
7 2 (1.44%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.44%) Databricks
7 2 (1.44%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.44%) Sybase
7 2 (1.44%) UiPath