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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 146 136 160
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.79% 7.81% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.78% 19.48% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 78 112
10th Percentile £452 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £653
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.34% -6.79%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £775
90th Percentile £788 £933 £854
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -7.14%

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 641 698 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.81% 40.09% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 462 539
10th Percentile £350 £413 £411
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £689
90th Percentile £763 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £27.86 - £46.30
25th Percentile £29.90 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £38.53 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -39.44% -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 29 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 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.05%) Confluence
1 3 (2.05%) Ethereum
1 3 (2.05%) Hyperledger
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.68%) Camunda
3 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.68%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.68%) JBoss
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.05%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.68%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 51 (34.93%) AWS
2 34 (23.29%) Azure
3 29 (19.86%) GitHub
4 14 (9.59%) GCP
5 13 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.48%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.79%) Serverless
8 6 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.11%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.05%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.05%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Multicast
2 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.53%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.79%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.74%) Tick Data
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.05%) KDB
8 3 (2.05%) Kdb+
8 3 (2.05%) MySQL
9 2 (1.37%) Big Data
9 2 (1.37%) DB2
9 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.37%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.37%) Redis
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Git
2 20 (13.70%) Jenkins
3 15 (10.27%) JIRA
4 11 (7.53%) Cucumber
4 11 (7.53%) JUnit
5 10 (6.85%) GitLab
6 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.79%) Maven
7 6 (4.11%) Mockito
7 6 (4.11%) Postman
8 5 (3.42%) Selenium
9 4 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.05%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.37%) Gatling
11 2 (1.37%) Gradle
11 2 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.37%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.37%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (39.04%) Finance
2 36 (24.66%) Banking
3 35 (23.97%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Front Office
5 10 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Legal
8 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.37%) Back Office
9 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (52.74%) Developer
2 51 (34.93%) Java Developer
3 30 (20.55%) Senior
4 23 (15.75%) Senior Developer
5 11 (7.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (6.85%) Architect
6 10 (6.85%) Java Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Lead
7 9 (6.16%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Fidessa Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Technical Leader
12 3 (2.05%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.97%) Spring
2 26 (17.81%) React
3 25 (17.12%) Kafka
3 25 (17.12%) Spring Boot
4 23 (15.75%) REST
5 15 (10.27%) .NET
6 14 (9.59%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.53%) CSS
7 11 (7.53%) HTML
8 10 (6.85%) RESTful
9 9 (6.16%) JSON
9 9 (6.16%) Node.js
10 8 (5.48%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.79%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.11%) OSGi
12 6 (4.11%) SOAP
13 5 (3.42%) JMS
13 5 (3.42%) Playwright
13 5 (3.42%) WireMock
14 4 (2.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.22%) Equities
5 7 (4.79%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.42%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.42%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.37%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.37%) Derivative
9 2 (1.37%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.68%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 7 (4.79%) Unix
3 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.37%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.19%) CI/CD
2 43 (29.45%) Agile
3 42 (28.77%) Microservices
4 33 (22.60%) DevOps
5 31 (21.23%) Test Automation
6 24 (16.44%) Containerisation
6 24 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 21 (14.38%) Low Latency
7 21 (14.38%) Scrum
8 20 (13.70%) Observability
9 19 (13.01%) AI
9 19 (13.01%) TDD
10 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (11.64%) Event-Driven
12 15 (10.27%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (8.90%) BDD
15 12 (8.22%) Kanban
15 12 (8.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) Python
2 37 (25.34%) SQL
3 19 (13.01%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.27%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.59%) C#
6 5 (3.42%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.74%) C++
7 4 (2.74%) Ruby
7 4 (2.74%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.05%) Go
8 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.37%) ProC
9 2 (1.37%) R
9 2 (1.37%) Scala
9 2 (1.37%) Swift
9 2 (1.37%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.68%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.68%) Jython
10 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) Degree
4 12 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.37%) CBAP
5 2 (1.37%) ISEB
5 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.68%) OSCP
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.27%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.05%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.05%) PSD2
3 3 (2.05%) SEPA
4 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NCSC
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.68%) TARGET2
System Software
1 30 (20.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) GridGain
3 1 (0.68%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 37 (25.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.90%) Grafana
3 10 (6.85%) Terraform
4 9 (6.16%) Ansible
4 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.37%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Oracle
2 10 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.79%) Google
4 5 (3.42%) Splunk
5 4 (2.74%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.74%) Solace
6 3 (2.05%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.05%) Charles River
6 3 (2.05%) Confluent
6 3 (2.05%) Databricks
6 3 (2.05%) IBM
6 3 (2.05%) Sybase
7 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.37%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.37%) UiPath
8 1 (0.68%) Apple
8 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.68%) Informatica
8 1 (0.68%) SAP