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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 137 137 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.91% 7.43% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.99% 19.71% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 73 113
10th Percentile £436 £414 £425
25th Percentile £498 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £775
90th Percentile £835 £943 £853
Central London median daily rate £600 £580 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% -10.77% -7.14%
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 596 695 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.06% 37.71% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 441 551
10th Percentile £355 £413 £404
25th Percentile £425 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%

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 26 February 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 4 (2.92%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.19%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.19%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.73%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.31%) AWS
2 28 (20.44%) Azure
3 27 (19.71%) GitHub
4 14 (10.22%) GCP
5 12 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.57%) Serverless
8 7 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.92%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.19%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.19%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.46%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) DKIM
2 1 (0.73%) DNS
2 1 (0.73%) SNMP
2 1 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.03%) MongoDB
1 11 (8.03%) NoSQL
1 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.65%) Tick Data
5 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.92%) MySQL
6 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.19%) DB2
6 3 (2.19%) KDB
6 3 (2.19%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.46%) Big Data
7 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.46%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 19 (13.87%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.22%) JIRA
4 12 (8.76%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.57%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.57%) GitLab
5 9 (6.57%) JUnit
6 7 (5.11%) Maven
7 6 (4.38%) Postman
7 6 (4.38%) Selenium
8 5 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.92%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.92%) Mockito
10 3 (2.19%) Gatling
10 3 (2.19%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.46%) Gradle
11 2 (1.46%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (38.69%) Finance
2 34 (24.82%) Banking
2 34 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Front Office
4 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.57%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.19%) Legal
6 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Back Office
7 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Games
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (54.74%) Developer
2 48 (35.04%) Java Developer
3 24 (17.52%) Senior
4 14 (10.22%) Senior Developer
5 10 (7.30%) Backend Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Lead
7 8 (5.84%) Architect
7 8 (5.84%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (4.38%) Fidessa Developer
8 6 (4.38%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Angular Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 3 (2.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) KDB Developer
11 3 (2.19%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.71%) Spring
2 25 (18.25%) React
3 23 (16.79%) REST
4 21 (15.33%) Kafka
5 20 (14.60%) Spring Boot
6 18 (13.14%) .NET
7 17 (12.41%) AngularJS
8 12 (8.76%) CSS
8 12 (8.76%) HTML
9 10 (7.30%) Node.js
10 9 (6.57%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (5.11%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (5.11%) RESTful
11 7 (5.11%) XML
12 6 (4.38%) OSGi
13 5 (3.65%) JSON
13 5 (3.65%) Playwright
13 5 (3.65%) SOAP
13 5 (3.65%) WireMock
14 4 (2.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (9.49%) Equities
4 9 (6.57%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.65%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.92%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.19%) Derivative
9 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.46%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.46%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.57%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Unix
3 2 (1.46%) Android
3 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.58%) Agile
2 41 (29.93%) CI/CD
3 37 (27.01%) Microservices
4 32 (23.36%) Test Automation
5 31 (22.63%) DevOps
6 27 (19.71%) Scrum
7 24 (17.52%) Software Engineering
8 22 (16.06%) Containerisation
8 22 (16.06%) TDD
9 20 (14.60%) Low Latency
9 20 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (12.41%) AI
11 17 (12.41%) Kanban
12 14 (10.22%) BDD
13 13 (9.49%) Event-Driven
13 13 (9.49%) Observability
14 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (8.76%) Order Management
15 11 (8.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.96%) Python
2 41 (29.93%) SQL
3 23 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.68%) C#
4 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.65%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.92%) C++
7 3 (2.19%) Go
7 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.46%) ProC
8 2 (1.46%) Ruby
8 2 (1.46%) Rust
8 2 (1.46%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.73%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.73%) Bash
9 1 (0.73%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.73%) Scala
9 1 (0.73%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (10.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.46%) CBAP
6 2 (1.46%) ISEB
6 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) CCSP
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CISSP
7 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.73%) OSCP
7 1 (0.73%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.76%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.19%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.19%) PSD2
2 3 (2.19%) SEPA
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.46%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) GRC
4 1 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) NCSC
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.73%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.73%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 32 (23.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.76%) Grafana
3 10 (7.30%) Ansible
4 9 (6.57%) Terraform
5 8 (5.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.46%) Argo
7 1 (0.73%) Istio
7 1 (0.73%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 20 (14.60%) Oracle
2 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.38%) Splunk
4 5 (3.65%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Solace
5 4 (2.92%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.92%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.19%) Charles River
6 3 (2.19%) Confluent
6 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.19%) Sybase
7 2 (1.46%) Databricks
7 2 (1.46%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.46%) UiPath
8 1 (0.73%) Altiris
8 1 (0.73%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.73%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.73%) Workday