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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 129 157 152
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.65% 8.75% 7.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.58% 23.54% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 94 103
10th Percentile £435 £413 £431
25th Percentile £481 £463 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £610 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -9.63% +3.05%
75th Percentile £638 £687 £755
90th Percentile £793 £830 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £610 £688
% change year-on-year -5.74% -11.27% +4.96%
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 659 667 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.87% 37.18% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 458 510
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.48% -1.91%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £577 £576
% change year-on-year -4.60% +0.04% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% +232.00%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 8 (6.20%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.88%) Confluence
4 4 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.33%) Apache
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.78%) Camunda
6 1 (0.78%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.78%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.78%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.78%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 53 (41.09%) AWS
2 37 (28.68%) Azure
3 27 (20.93%) GitHub
4 13 (10.08%) GCP
5 10 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.65%) PaaS
8 6 (4.65%) Serverless
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.88%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.10%) dbt
11 3 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Multicast
2 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.55%) DNS
3 2 (1.55%) VLAN
3 2 (1.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.78%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.78%) Firewall
4 1 (0.78%) FTP
4 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.78%) RTCP
4 1 (0.78%) RTP
4 1 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.43%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.33%) Big Data
7 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.55%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.78%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.78%) Redis
9 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Git
1 21 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.85%) GitLab
2 14 (10.85%) JUnit
3 10 (7.75%) JIRA
4 9 (6.98%) Mockito
5 7 (5.43%) Maven
5 7 (5.43%) Postman
6 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.65%) Gradle
7 5 (3.88%) Selenium
8 4 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.33%) eggPlant
9 3 (2.33%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.55%) Appium
10 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.55%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.55%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.55%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (37.98%) Finance
2 40 (31.01%) Banking
3 31 (24.03%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.40%) Investment Banking
6 14 (10.85%) Front Office
7 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.88%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.33%) Back Office
10 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.78%) Billing
12 1 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.78%) Marketing
12 1 (0.78%) Military
12 1 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (38.76%) Developer
2 40 (31.01%) Senior
3 36 (27.91%) Java Developer
4 27 (20.93%) Senior Developer
5 25 (19.38%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (10.85%) Architect
6 14 (10.85%) Lead
7 9 (6.98%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) React Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior React Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior UI Developer
8 7 (5.43%) UI Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.23%) Spring
1 39 (30.23%) Spring Boot
2 30 (23.26%) Kafka
3 24 (18.60%) React
4 23 (17.83%) REST
5 22 (17.05%) Terraform
6 16 (12.40%) RESTful
7 12 (9.30%) SOAP
7 12 (9.30%) Web Services
8 11 (8.53%) .NET
8 11 (8.53%) JSON
9 8 (6.20%) HTML
9 8 (6.20%) Node.js
10 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.43%) Redux
11 5 (3.88%) XML
12 4 (3.10%) Middleware
12 4 (3.10%) WireMock
13 3 (2.33%) GraphQL
13 3 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.30%) Fixed Income
4 11 (8.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (6.20%) Equities
5 8 (6.20%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.78%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.08%) Linux
2 8 (6.20%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) Android
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.39%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.78%) DevOps
3 38 (29.46%) Microservices
4 37 (28.68%) Test Automation
5 33 (25.58%) Agile
6 32 (24.81%) Containerisation
7 27 (20.93%) Software Engineering
8 26 (20.16%) Event-Driven
8 26 (20.16%) Observability
9 25 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.95%) AI
11 18 (13.95%) TDD
12 16 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (11.63%) Electronic Trading
13 15 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (11.63%) Low Latency
13 15 (11.63%) SDLC
14 14 (10.85%) API Design
14 14 (10.85%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.56%) Python
2 29 (22.48%) SQL
3 23 (17.83%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.95%) C#
6 10 (7.75%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.88%) Korn
7 5 (3.88%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.88%) Ruby
7 5 (3.88%) Scala
8 4 (3.10%) Bash
8 4 (3.10%) R
9 3 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.55%) Bicep
10 2 (1.55%) C++
10 2 (1.55%) Go
10 2 (1.55%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.78%) DAML
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.55%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CISM
6 1 (0.78%) CISSP
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) ISEB
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) QA
2 7 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.43%) GDPR
3 5 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.33%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.33%) SEPA
5 2 (1.55%) EMIR
5 2 (1.55%) MiFID
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) PSD2
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (28.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) GridGain
3 1 (0.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.20%) Grafana
3 6 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.88%) Ansible
5 3 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.55%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.78%) Bosun
7 1 (0.78%) Control-M
7 1 (0.78%) Puppet
7 1 (0.78%) SELinux
7 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (17.83%) Oracle
2 14 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.43%) IBM
4 5 (3.88%) Databricks
4 5 (3.88%) SAP
5 4 (3.10%) Google
5 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.33%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.33%) Splunk
7 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.55%) Foundry
7 2 (1.55%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.55%) Sybase
8 1 (0.78%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.78%) Calypso
8 1 (0.78%) Murex
8 1 (0.78%) Pega
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.78%) Temenos
8 1 (0.78%) VMware