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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 151 156 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.61% 7.41% 9.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.34% 20.94% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 100 194
10th Percentile £413 £426 £425
25th Percentile £463 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £653
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -0.46% -3.26%
75th Percentile £685 £753 £775
90th Percentile £838 £851 £875
Central London median daily rate £600 £663 £651
% change year-on-year -9.43% +1.77% -3.56%
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 647 745 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.91% 35.39% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 500 752
10th Percentile £386 £406 £407
25th Percentile £456 £484 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £608
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -3.41% +1.38%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £727
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 September 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
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 19 September 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Java
Central London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.97%) Apache
2 6 (3.97%) Confluence
3 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.66%) Camunda
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Endur
2 1 (0.66%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.66%) Summit
2 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.44%) AWS
2 27 (17.88%) Azure
3 24 (15.89%) GCP
4 7 (4.64%) GitHub
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (2.65%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.65%) Serverless
6 4 (2.65%) Slack
7 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.99%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.32%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) HTTP
2 3 (1.99%) DNS
2 3 (1.99%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.66%) DKIM
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.66%) SNMP
4 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.58%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.93%) MongoDB
2 15 (9.93%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.28%) Hadoop
4 10 (6.62%) Big Data
5 9 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.65%) DB2
7 4 (2.65%) KDB
7 4 (2.65%) MemSQL
7 4 (2.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.65%) Power BI
7 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.99%) DataStage
8 3 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.99%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.32%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.93%) JIRA
4 11 (7.28%) Selenium
5 8 (5.30%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.97%) Gradle
6 6 (3.97%) JUnit
6 6 (3.97%) Maven
7 5 (3.31%) GitLab
7 5 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.99%) Postman
9 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.32%) Appium
10 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.32%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (37.09%) Finance
2 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 34 (22.52%) Banking
4 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.28%) Front Office
7 9 (5.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.64%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) Back Office
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (53.64%) Developer
2 58 (38.41%) Java Developer
3 19 (12.58%) Senior
4 13 (8.61%) Lead
5 10 (6.62%) Architect
6 9 (5.96%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Angular Developer
7 8 (5.30%) Java Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (4.64%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.97%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
9 6 (3.97%) OpenLink Developer
9 6 (3.97%) React Developer
9 6 (3.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Consultant
10 5 (3.31%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.85%) Spring
2 29 (19.21%) Spring Boot
3 24 (15.89%) React
4 20 (13.25%) Kafka
5 17 (11.26%) REST
6 15 (9.93%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.95%) .NET
8 10 (6.62%) RESTful
9 9 (5.96%) Node.js
10 6 (3.97%) Web Services
10 6 (3.97%) XML
11 5 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (3.31%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.31%) HTML
12 4 (2.65%) CSS
12 4 (2.65%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.65%) OAuth
12 4 (2.65%) OAuth2
12 4 (2.65%) Spark Streaming
13 3 (1.99%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.30%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.97%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.31%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.65%) Equities
7 4 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.65%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.99%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.26%) Linux
2 12 (7.95%) Unix
3 7 (4.64%) Windows
4 3 (1.99%) Android
4 3 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.77%) Agile
2 38 (25.17%) DevOps
3 37 (24.50%) Microservices
3 37 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (23.18%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.89%) Software Engineering
6 20 (13.25%) Scrum
6 20 (13.25%) SDLC
7 17 (11.26%) Kanban
8 16 (10.60%) Clean Code
8 16 (10.60%) TDD
8 16 (10.60%) Test Automation
9 15 (9.93%) Containerisation
9 15 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (9.93%) Low Latency
10 14 (9.27%) Event-Driven
10 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (9.27%) Migration
11 12 (7.95%) Code Quality
11 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (39.74%) Python
2 42 (27.81%) SQL
3 27 (17.88%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.92%) C#
5 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.64%) C++
7 5 (3.31%) Go
7 5 (3.31%) Scala
8 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.99%) DAML
9 3 (1.99%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.32%) Bash
10 2 (1.32%) Perl
10 2 (1.32%) R
11 1 (0.66%) C
11 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
11 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.95%) Degree
4 10 (6.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) CEH
8 1 (0.66%) CISA
8 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.66%) CRISC
8 1 (0.66%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
8 1 (0.66%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.97%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (9.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 26 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.60%) Terraform
3 4 (2.65%) Ansible
3 4 (2.65%) Argo
4 3 (1.99%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.66%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 9 (5.96%) Oracle
2 8 (5.30%) Google
3 7 (4.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.97%) OpenLink
5 3 (1.99%) Altiris
5 3 (1.99%) Citrix
5 3 (1.99%) Ivanti
5 3 (1.99%) Symantec
5 3 (1.99%) VMware
6 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.32%) IBM
6 2 (1.32%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) Splunk
6 2 (1.32%) Sybase
7 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.66%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Tenable
7 1 (0.66%) UiPath