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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 134 160 149
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.56% 8.60% 7.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.78% 22.04% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 93 106
10th Percentile £433 £414 £456
25th Percentile £467 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £694
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £653 £690 £781
90th Percentile £844 £821 £884
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £680
% change year-on-year -5.98% -13.97% +0.74%
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 645 726 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.75% 39.01% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 491 528
10th Percentile £363 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £707
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £20.20 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -26.79%
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £78.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +14.31% -32.08%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 5 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.24%) Apache
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
2 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.49%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.49%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
4 1 (0.75%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.49%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.49%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) AWS
2 31 (23.13%) Azure
3 25 (18.66%) GitHub
4 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (6.72%) GCP
6 8 (5.97%) Azure AKS
6 8 (5.97%) Serverless
7 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.73%) PaaS
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.24%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Multicast
2 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) FTP
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.75%) SSH
3 1 (0.75%) VLAN
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.49%) Db2
7 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.49%) MySQL
7 2 (1.49%) Power BI
8 1 (0.75%) Big Data
8 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) KDB
8 1 (0.75%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.75%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (18.66%) Git
2 19 (14.18%) Jenkins
3 16 (11.94%) JUnit
4 12 (8.96%) GitLab
5 11 (8.21%) JIRA
6 9 (6.72%) Mockito
7 8 (5.97%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.48%) Gradle
9 5 (3.73%) Maven
10 4 (2.99%) Postman
11 3 (2.24%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.49%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.49%) Selenium
13 1 (0.75%) Appium
13 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.75%) Introscope
13 1 (0.75%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.75%) Subversion
13 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (40.30%) Finance
2 40 (29.85%) Banking
3 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.19%) Front Office
5 14 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.48%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.49%) Back Office
11 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.75%) Military
12 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (40.30%) Developer
2 42 (31.34%) Java Developer
3 41 (30.60%) Senior
4 30 (22.39%) Senior Developer
5 27 (20.15%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (10.45%) Architect
7 12 (8.96%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Lead
9 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.22%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) React Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior UI Developer
10 7 (5.22%) UI Developer
11 4 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Technical Leader
11 4 (2.99%) Test Engineer
12 3 (2.24%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (31.34%) Spring
2 38 (28.36%) Spring Boot
3 31 (23.13%) Kafka
4 26 (19.40%) React
5 25 (18.66%) REST
6 15 (11.19%) RESTful
7 12 (8.96%) JSON
8 10 (7.46%) .NET
9 9 (6.72%) Web Services
10 8 (5.97%) Node.js
11 7 (5.22%) Redux
11 7 (5.22%) SOAP
12 6 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (4.48%) WireMock
13 5 (3.73%) Middleware
14 4 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (2.99%) Gherkin
14 4 (2.99%) JMS
14 4 (2.99%) PySpark
14 4 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.91%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (8.96%) Fixed Income
5 11 (8.21%) Equities
6 7 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.48%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.49%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.49%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.75%) Derivative
11 1 (0.75%) Exotic Derivative
11 1 (0.75%) NHS
11 1 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Linux
2 6 (4.48%) Unix
3 4 (2.99%) Windows
4 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.54%) CI/CD
2 39 (29.10%) Microservices
3 34 (25.37%) Agile
3 34 (25.37%) DevOps
4 31 (23.13%) Test Automation
5 26 (19.40%) Containerisation
5 26 (19.40%) Software Engineering
6 25 (18.66%) Event-Driven
6 25 (18.66%) Observability
7 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.69%) AI
8 17 (12.69%) Electronic Trading
8 17 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (12.69%) Low Latency
8 17 (12.69%) TDD
9 13 (9.70%) API Design
9 13 (9.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (7.46%) Computer Science
10 10 (7.46%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.58%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) SQL
3 19 (14.18%) TypeScript
4 18 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.19%) C#
6 6 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.73%) Ruby
8 4 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.24%) Go
9 3 (2.24%) R
9 3 (2.24%) Scala
10 2 (1.49%) Bash
10 2 (1.49%) C++
10 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) Jython
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) Solidity
11 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.22%) Degree
4 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.75%) CISM
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) PhD
5 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.70%) QA
2 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) EMIR
4 2 (1.49%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.49%) MiFID
4 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.49%) SEPA
5 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) PSD2
5 1 (0.75%) TARGET2
System Software
1 29 (21.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) GridGain
2 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (27.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.96%) Terraform
3 9 (6.72%) Grafana
4 8 (5.97%) Ansible
5 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.75%) SELinux
7 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.18%) Oracle
2 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.73%) Splunk
4 4 (2.99%) IBM
4 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.24%) Google
5 3 (2.24%) Sybase
6 2 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.49%) Charles River
6 2 (1.49%) Databricks
6 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.49%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.75%) Apple
7 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) Solace
7 1 (0.75%) VMware
7 1 (0.75%) Workday