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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Java 136 133 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.73% 7.36% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.30% 18.81% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 71 113
10th Percentile £453 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £695 £731 £775
90th Percentile £836 £950 £853
Central London median daily rate £551 £585 £645
% change year-on-year -5.90% -9.30% -7.86%
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 610 707 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.17% 39.15% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 453 551
10th Percentile £349 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.58%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £700
90th Percentile £775 £796 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -16.52%

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 9 March 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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.21%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.74%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.74%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.09%) AWS
2 30 (22.06%) Azure
3 28 (20.59%) GitHub
4 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (9.56%) GCP
5 9 (6.62%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.15%) Serverless
8 6 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.68%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.21%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.09%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.09%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.68%) Tick Data
5 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.94%) MySQL
6 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.21%) KDB
6 3 (2.21%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.47%) Big Data
7 2 (1.47%) DB2
7 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (20.59%) Git
2 20 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.29%) JIRA
4 12 (8.82%) Cucumber
5 11 (8.09%) GitLab
5 11 (8.09%) JUnit
6 8 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.41%) Maven
7 6 (4.41%) Postman
7 6 (4.41%) Selenium
8 5 (3.68%) Mockito
9 4 (2.94%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.21%) Gatling
10 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.21%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.47%) Gradle
11 2 (1.47%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (41.18%) Finance
2 33 (24.26%) Banking
3 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
4 20 (14.71%) Front Office
5 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.21%) Legal
8 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Back Office
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (53.68%) Developer
2 48 (35.29%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.85%) Senior
4 18 (13.24%) Senior Developer
5 10 (7.35%) Backend Developer
6 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Architect
7 8 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (5.15%) Lead
9 6 (4.41%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.94%) Angular Developer
11 4 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 4 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.06%) Spring
2 25 (18.38%) React
3 23 (16.91%) REST
4 22 (16.18%) Kafka
5 20 (14.71%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.50%) .NET
7 16 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 11 (8.09%) CSS
8 11 (8.09%) HTML
9 8 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (5.88%) Node.js
9 8 (5.88%) RESTful
10 7 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.41%) OSGi
11 6 (4.41%) XML
12 5 (3.68%) JSON
12 5 (3.68%) Playwright
12 5 (3.68%) SOAP
12 5 (3.68%) Web Services
12 5 (3.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (9.56%) Equities
3 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.68%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.21%) Derivative
8 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.47%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Linux
2 6 (4.41%) Unix
3 2 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) AIX
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.56%) Agile
2 44 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 37 (27.21%) Microservices
4 32 (23.53%) DevOps
5 31 (22.79%) Test Automation
6 24 (17.65%) Scrum
6 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 22 (16.18%) TDD
8 21 (15.44%) Containerisation
9 20 (14.71%) Low Latency
10 18 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (12.50%) AI
12 15 (11.03%) Kanban
12 15 (11.03%) Observability
13 14 (10.29%) BDD
14 12 (8.82%) Computer Science
14 12 (8.82%) Event-Driven
14 12 (8.82%) Order Management
14 12 (8.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.56%) Python
2 38 (27.94%) SQL
3 20 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.03%) C#
6 5 (3.68%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.94%) C++
8 3 (2.21%) Go
8 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.47%) ProC
9 2 (1.47%) Ruby
9 2 (1.47%) Rust
9 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.74%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.74%) Jython
10 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) VB
10 1 (0.74%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) Degree
2 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CBAP
5 2 (1.47%) ISEB
5 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CISSP
6 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.74%) OSCP
6 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.21%) PSD2
2 3 (2.21%) SEPA
3 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (20.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.82%) Grafana
3 11 (8.09%) Ansible
4 8 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.88%) Terraform
5 2 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.74%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.74%) Istio
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Oracle
2 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.41%) Splunk
4 5 (3.68%) Google
5 4 (2.94%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.94%) Solace
6 3 (2.21%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.21%) Charles River
6 3 (2.21%) Confluent
7 2 (1.47%) Databricks
7 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.47%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) Sybase
7 2 (1.47%) UiPath
8 1 (0.74%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.74%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.74%) SAP
8 1 (0.74%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.74%) Workday