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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 130 153 148
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.58% 8.47% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 22.34% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 91 100
10th Percentile £450 £413 £475
25th Percentile £481 £481 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -12.86% +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £769
90th Percentile £795 £838 £864
Central London median daily rate £575 £605 £700
% change year-on-year -4.96% -13.57% +7.69%
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 676 685 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.04% 37.91% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 475 507
10th Percentile £400 £390 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.27% -1.29%
75th Percentile £668 £690 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
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% -10.27%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 7 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.77%) Camunda
4 1 (0.77%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.77%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.77%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.77%) JBoss
4 1 (0.77%) nginx
4 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.77%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.92%) AWS
2 35 (26.92%) Azure
3 27 (20.77%) GitHub
4 11 (8.46%) GCP
4 11 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.15%) Azure AKS
5 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (4.62%) PaaS
7 6 (4.62%) Serverless
8 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) Multicast
2 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.54%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) VLAN
3 2 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.77%) Firewall
4 1 (0.77%) FTP
4 1 (0.77%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.77%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.38%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.38%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.54%) Big Data
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.54%) Power BI
9 1 (0.77%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.77%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.77%) Db2
9 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.77%) MySQL
9 1 (0.77%) Redis
9 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.92%) Git
2 21 (16.15%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.54%) GitLab
4 14 (10.77%) JUnit
5 9 (6.92%) JIRA
6 8 (6.15%) Mockito
7 7 (5.38%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.38%) Postman
8 6 (4.62%) Gradle
9 5 (3.85%) Maven
9 5 (3.85%) Selenium
10 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.31%) eggPlant
11 3 (2.31%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.54%) Appium
12 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.54%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.54%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.54%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (37.69%) Finance
2 37 (28.46%) Banking
3 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.77%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.00%) Front Office
7 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Back Office
10 2 (1.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Military
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (39.23%) Developer
2 39 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 38 (29.23%) Senior
4 28 (21.54%) Senior Developer
5 26 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.00%) Lead
7 12 (9.23%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Architect
9 8 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) React Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Senior UI Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.38%) UI Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) Spring
2 36 (27.69%) Spring Boot
3 27 (20.77%) Kafka
4 25 (19.23%) React
5 20 (15.38%) REST
5 20 (15.38%) Terraform
6 14 (10.77%) RESTful
7 12 (9.23%) JSON
7 12 (9.23%) Web Services
8 10 (7.69%) .NET
9 9 (6.92%) SOAP
10 8 (6.15%) HTML
11 7 (5.38%) Node.js
11 7 (5.38%) Redux
12 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.85%) Middleware
12 5 (3.85%) XML
13 4 (3.08%) PySpark
13 4 (3.08%) WireMock
14 3 (2.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.15%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.23%) Fixed Income
4 11 (8.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (6.15%) Equities
6 7 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.08%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.77%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.77%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Linux
2 9 (6.92%) Unix
3 5 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.54%) Android
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.77%) AIX
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.69%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.54%) DevOps
3 37 (28.46%) Agile
4 35 (26.92%) Test Automation
5 34 (26.15%) Microservices
6 28 (21.54%) Software Engineering
7 27 (20.77%) Observability
8 26 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.92%) Event-Driven
11 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.85%) AI
13 17 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (13.08%) TDD
14 16 (12.31%) Low Latency
15 15 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
16 13 (10.00%) API Design
17 12 (9.23%) SDLC
17 12 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
18 11 (8.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.62%) Python
2 31 (23.85%) SQL
3 23 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.85%) C#
6 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.85%) Ruby
8 4 (3.08%) Bash
8 4 (3.08%) Korn
8 4 (3.08%) R
8 4 (3.08%) Scala
8 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.54%) Bicep
10 2 (1.54%) C++
10 2 (1.54%) Go
10 2 (1.54%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.77%) DAML
11 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Degree
4 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.77%) CISM
6 1 (0.77%) CISSP
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) ISEB
6 1 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.77%) PhD
6 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.38%) GDPR
3 5 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) EMIR
4 2 (1.54%) MiFID
4 2 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) SEPA
5 1 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.77%) GridGain
3 1 (0.77%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (31.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.38%) Ansible
3 6 (4.62%) Grafana
4 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.31%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.77%) Bosun
7 1 (0.77%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.77%) Control-M
7 1 (0.77%) SELinux
7 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.77%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Oracle
2 15 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.38%) IBM
4 4 (3.08%) Databricks
4 4 (3.08%) Google
4 4 (3.08%) SAP
4 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.31%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.31%) Splunk
6 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.54%) Foundry
6 2 (1.54%) Sybase
7 1 (0.77%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.77%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.77%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.77%) New Relic
7 1 (0.77%) Pega
7 1 (0.77%) Solace
7 1 (0.77%) Workday