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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 137 162 152
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.63% 8.70% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.11% 22.10% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 94 110
10th Percentile £425 £414 £448
25th Percentile £464 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £678
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -11.44% +0.37%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £775
90th Percentile £831 £820 £877
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £675
% change year-on-year -5.98% -13.33% +1.89%
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 649 733 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.66% 39.35% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 497 540
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 £696 £700
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 18 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 18 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 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.19%) Apache
2 3 (2.19%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.19%) Hyperledger
2 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) Camunda
4 1 (0.73%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.73%) JBoss
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.46%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.46%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.46%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.73%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 54 (39.42%) AWS
2 31 (22.63%) Azure
3 26 (18.98%) GitHub
4 10 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.57%) GCP
5 9 (6.57%) Serverless
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.84%) Azure AKS
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.65%) PaaS
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Multicast
2 2 (1.46%) HTTP
2 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) FTP
3 1 (0.73%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.73%) SSH
3 1 (0.73%) VLAN
3 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.03%) DynamoDB
4 10 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.46%) Db2
8 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.46%) MySQL
8 2 (1.46%) Power BI
9 1 (0.73%) Big Data
9 1 (0.73%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.73%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.73%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.73%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 20 (14.60%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.14%) JUnit
4 13 (9.49%) GitLab
4 13 (9.49%) JIRA
5 10 (7.30%) Mockito
6 9 (6.57%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.38%) Gradle
8 5 (3.65%) Maven
8 5 (3.65%) Postman
9 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.46%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.73%) Appium
11 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (42.34%) Finance
2 42 (30.66%) Banking
3 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.95%) Front Office
5 14 (10.22%) Investment Banking
6 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.19%) Legal
11 2 (1.46%) Back Office
11 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.73%) Military
12 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (39.42%) Developer
2 44 (32.12%) Java Developer
3 43 (31.39%) Senior
4 31 (22.63%) Senior Developer
5 28 (20.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (10.95%) Architect
7 13 (9.49%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Lead
9 9 (6.57%) Technical Architect
10 8 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) React Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior React Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior UI Developer
11 7 (5.11%) UI Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.92%) Backend Developer
13 4 (2.92%) Senior Backend Developer
13 4 (2.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.12%) Spring
2 40 (29.20%) Spring Boot
3 33 (24.09%) Kafka
4 26 (18.98%) React
4 26 (18.98%) REST
5 16 (11.68%) RESTful
6 12 (8.76%) JSON
7 10 (7.30%) .NET
8 8 (5.84%) Node.js
8 8 (5.84%) SOAP
9 7 (5.11%) Redux
9 7 (5.11%) Web Services
9 7 (5.11%) WireMock
10 6 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (3.65%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.65%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.65%) YAML
12 4 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.92%) J2EE
12 4 (2.92%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.52%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (8.76%) Fixed Income
5 11 (8.03%) Equities
6 7 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.38%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.46%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.46%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.73%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.30%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.92%) Windows
4 3 (2.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.46%) Android
6 1 (0.73%) AIX
6 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.80%) CI/CD
2 41 (29.93%) Microservices
3 36 (26.28%) Agile
4 34 (24.82%) DevOps
5 32 (23.36%) Test Automation
6 28 (20.44%) Software Engineering
7 26 (18.98%) Containerisation
8 25 (18.25%) Event-Driven
8 25 (18.25%) Observability
9 19 (13.87%) AI
10 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (12.41%) Electronic Trading
11 17 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (12.41%) Low Latency
11 17 (12.41%) TDD
12 13 (9.49%) API Design
12 13 (9.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (8.03%) BDD
14 10 (7.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.58%) Python
2 31 (22.63%) SQL
3 20 (14.60%) TypeScript
4 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.68%) C#
6 6 (4.38%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.38%) Ruby
7 4 (2.92%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.19%) Go
8 3 (2.19%) R
8 3 (2.19%) Scala
9 2 (1.46%) Bash
9 2 (1.46%) C++
10 1 (0.73%) DAML
10 1 (0.73%) Groovy
10 1 (0.73%) Jython
10 1 (0.73%) Rust
10 1 (0.73%) Solidity
10 1 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.73%) CISM
5 1 (0.73%) CISSP
5 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.73%) PhD
5 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) EMIR
4 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.46%) MiFID
4 2 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.46%) SEPA
5 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.73%) PSD2
5 1 (0.73%) TARGET2
System Software
1 30 (21.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.73%) GridGain
2 1 (0.73%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.76%) Terraform
3 9 (6.57%) Grafana
4 8 (5.84%) Ansible
5 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.73%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.73%) SELinux
7 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.73%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (12.41%) Oracle
2 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.65%) Splunk
4 4 (2.92%) IBM
4 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.19%) Google
5 3 (2.19%) Sybase
6 2 (1.46%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.46%) Charles River
6 2 (1.46%) Databricks
6 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.46%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.73%) Pega
7 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.73%) Solace
7 1 (0.73%) VMware
7 1 (0.73%) Workday