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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -20
Contract jobs citing Java 140 148 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.87% 7.05% 7.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.77% 20.00% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 84 138
10th Percentile £413 £478 £413
25th Percentile £505 £526 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £625 £651
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -3.92% -7.07%
75th Percentile £695 £769 £800
90th Percentile £858 £909 £908
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £655
% change year-on-year - -4.58% -3.85%
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 643 740 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.16% 35.25% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 474 656
10th Percentile £379 £406 £400
25th Percentile £427 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -1.96% -
75th Percentile £682 £699 £724
90th Percentile £775 £812 £844
Central London median daily rate £569 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -1.94% -3.33% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +135.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.82% -12.63% -9.52%

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 19 November 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 8 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Camunda
3 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.71%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.71%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.71%) JBoss
3 1 (0.71%) Luigi
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.71%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.71%) Summit
2 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.00%) AWS
2 32 (22.86%) Azure
3 22 (15.71%) GCP
4 15 (10.71%) GitHub
5 10 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.00%) Serverless
7 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.86%) Slack
10 3 (2.14%) SaaS
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon Neptune
11 2 (1.43%) Apigee
11 2 (1.43%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (1.43%) Figma
11 2 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) DKIM
1 1 (0.71%) DNS
1 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) HTTP
1 1 (0.71%) SNMP
1 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.29%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.29%) Hadoop
4 6 (4.29%) MySQL
4 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.57%) KDB
6 4 (2.86%) DB2
6 4 (2.86%) MemSQL
6 4 (2.86%) Power BI
6 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.14%) DataStage
7 3 (2.14%) Sybase IQ
7 3 (2.14%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.43%) Event Store
8 2 (1.43%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 30 (21.43%) Git
2 16 (11.43%) JIRA
3 15 (10.71%) Bitbucket
4 14 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 12 (8.57%) Selenium
6 10 (7.14%) GitLab
6 10 (7.14%) Maven
7 9 (6.43%) Cucumber
8 8 (5.71%) Gradle
9 5 (3.57%) JUnit
9 5 (3.57%) Postman
9 5 (3.57%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.86%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.14%) Mockito
11 3 (2.14%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.43%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (40.00%) Finance
2 34 (24.29%) Banking
3 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
4 20 (14.29%) Front Office
5 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.14%) Back Office
9 3 (2.14%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (49.29%) Developer
2 45 (32.14%) Java Developer
3 19 (13.57%) Senior
4 16 (11.43%) Lead
5 11 (7.86%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.43%) Angular Developer
7 7 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.29%) Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.57%) Consultant
9 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (3.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 4 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) KDB Developer
11 3 (2.14%) Principal Developer
11 3 (2.14%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.14%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.86%) Spring
2 23 (16.43%) REST
3 22 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 21 (15.00%) React
5 17 (12.14%) AngularJS
6 16 (11.43%) .NET
7 14 (10.00%) Kafka
8 11 (7.86%) Node.js
9 8 (5.71%) XML
10 7 (5.00%) RESTful
11 6 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.29%) HTML
11 6 (4.29%) Web Services
12 5 (3.57%) CSS
12 5 (3.57%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.57%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.86%) ZK
14 3 (2.14%) JPA
14 3 (2.14%) jQuery
14 3 (2.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Equities
5 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.86%) Derivative
6 4 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.71%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 10 (7.14%) Unix
3 6 (4.29%) Windows
4 3 (2.14%) Android
4 3 (2.14%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.00%) Agile
2 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (22.14%) Scrum
4 30 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 29 (20.71%) DevOps
5 29 (20.71%) Microservices
6 25 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 22 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (15.00%) Kanban
9 20 (14.29%) TDD
10 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
10 18 (12.86%) SDLC
11 17 (12.14%) Low Latency
12 14 (10.00%) Migration
13 13 (9.29%) BDD
13 13 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.29%) Event-Driven
14 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.43%) Python
2 36 (25.71%) SQL
3 18 (12.86%) C#
4 17 (12.14%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.29%) C++
6 6 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.86%) Go
8 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.14%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.43%) Bash
9 2 (1.43%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.43%) Rust
9 2 (1.43%) Swift
10 1 (0.71%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.71%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.43%) CBAP
5 2 (1.43%) CISSP
5 2 (1.43%) ISEB
5 2 (1.43%) SANS
6 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CISA
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CRISC
6 1 (0.71%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) GRC
4 1 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (15.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (19.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.57%) Terraform
3 9 (6.43%) Ansible
4 4 (2.86%) Argo
5 3 (2.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (1.43%) Grafana
6 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.71%) Istio
7 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.71%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Oracle
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.71%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) Solace
5 3 (2.14%) Altiris
5 3 (2.14%) Citrix
5 3 (2.14%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.14%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.14%) Symantec
5 3 (2.14%) UiPath
5 3 (2.14%) VMware
6 2 (1.43%) Databricks
6 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.43%) IBM
6 2 (1.43%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.43%) Splunk
6 2 (1.43%) Sybase
7 1 (0.71%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow