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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 140 149 165
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.08% 8.53% 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.26% 21.26% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 82 121
10th Percentile £428 £425 £418
25th Percentile £482 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £585 £655
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -10.69% -2.96%
75th Percentile £620 £703 £750
90th Percentile £749 £836 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -3.70%
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 602 701 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.15% 40.13% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 461 527
10th Percentile £355 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £696 £695
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £534 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.14% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.82%
75th Percentile £56.11 - £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +29.00% -40.06% -11.82%

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 18 May 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 6 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.43%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Camunda
4 1 (0.71%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.14%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.71%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.71%) AWS
2 31 (22.14%) Azure
3 26 (18.57%) GitHub
4 10 (7.14%) GCP
4 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (5.71%) Azure AKS
6 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.00%) Serverless
8 6 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Multicast
2 2 (1.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.71%) FTP
3 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.29%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.43%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.43%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.43%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.43%) Power BI
8 2 (1.43%) Redis
8 2 (1.43%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) DB2
9 1 (0.71%) KDB
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 19 (13.57%) Git
1 19 (13.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.57%) JIRA
3 11 (7.86%) JUnit
4 7 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.00%) GitLab
5 6 (4.29%) Maven
5 6 (4.29%) Mockito
6 5 (3.57%) Gradle
7 4 (2.86%) Postman
8 3 (2.14%) Selenium
9 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.43%) Gatling
9 2 (1.43%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 44 (31.43%) Finance
2 31 (22.14%) Banking
3 29 (20.71%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Front Office
5 9 (6.43%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.43%) Back Office
10 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) Law
11 1 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (50.71%) Developer
2 49 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 45 (32.14%) Senior
4 33 (23.57%) Senior Developer
5 21 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Architect
6 13 (9.29%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Backend Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Lead
8 9 (6.43%) Senior Backend Developer
9 8 (5.71%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.14%) Automation Engineer
13 3 (2.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 3 (2.14%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.00%) Spring
2 34 (24.29%) Spring Boot
3 31 (22.14%) Kafka
4 29 (20.71%) React
5 23 (16.43%) REST
6 15 (10.71%) JSON
7 12 (8.57%) RESTful
8 10 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.14%) HTML
9 9 (6.43%) .NET
9 9 (6.43%) Node.js
9 9 (6.43%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (5.71%) CSS
10 8 (5.71%) Web Services
11 6 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.29%) OSGi
12 5 (3.57%) J2EE
12 5 (3.57%) JMS
12 5 (3.57%) SOAP
12 5 (3.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.14%) Equities
5 7 (5.00%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.29%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.43%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.43%) NHS
9 2 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (28.57%) Microservices
3 33 (23.57%) Agile
4 30 (21.43%) DevOps
5 27 (19.29%) Containerisation
6 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
7 23 (16.43%) Observability
7 23 (16.43%) Software Engineering
8 21 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (13.57%) AI
10 19 (13.57%) Low Latency
11 15 (10.71%) TDD
12 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (8.57%) Roadmaps
15 11 (7.86%) Computer Science
15 11 (7.86%) Electronic Trading
15 11 (7.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (7.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.86%) Python
2 35 (25.00%) SQL
3 21 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 10 (7.14%) C#
6 4 (2.86%) Ruby
7 3 (2.14%) C++
7 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.14%) Scala
8 2 (1.43%) Go
8 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) R
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) C
9 1 (0.71%) Jython
9 1 (0.71%) ProC
9 1 (0.71%) Swift
9 1 (0.71%) VB
9 1 (0.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.71%) Degree
3 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) CISM
5 1 (0.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.71%) PhD
5 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.86%) SEPA
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
4 3 (2.14%) PSD2
5 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.43%) EMIR
5 2 (1.43%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.43%) MiFID
5 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (23.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) GridGain
3 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 38 (27.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.29%) Grafana
3 10 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 10 (7.14%) Terraform
4 6 (4.29%) Ansible
5 2 (1.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.71%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Oracle
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.57%) Google
3 5 (3.57%) Splunk
4 3 (2.14%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.14%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.14%) Charles River
4 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.43%) Confluent
5 2 (1.43%) Databricks
5 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.43%) IBM
5 2 (1.43%) SAP
5 2 (1.43%) Solace
5 2 (1.43%) Sybase
5 2 (1.43%) Workday
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe
6 1 (0.71%) Apple
6 1 (0.71%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce