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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 143 143 164
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.13% 8.54% 7.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.37% 21.34% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 80 122
10th Percentile £428 £425 £418
25th Percentile £478 £491 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £585 £655
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -10.69% -2.96%
75th Percentile £638 £693 £750
90th Percentile £749 £815 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -3.70%
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 612 670 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.24% 40.00% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 451 540
10th Percentile £355 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £554
% change year-on-year -2.27% -0.63% -11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 £16.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.59% -64.95% -11.82%
75th Percentile £56.11 £17.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.04 £48.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -52.51% -11.82%

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 May 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 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.40%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.40%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.70%) Camunda
4 1 (0.70%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.10%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.36%) AWS
2 32 (22.38%) Azure
3 28 (19.58%) GitHub
4 10 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (6.99%) GCP
4 10 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.59%) Azure AKS
5 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.59%) Serverless
6 6 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.10%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Multicast
2 2 (1.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.99%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.40%) Big Data
8 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.40%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.40%) Power BI
8 2 (1.40%) Redis
8 2 (1.40%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.70%) DB2
9 1 (0.70%) KDB
9 1 (0.70%) MySQL
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (14.69%) Git
2 20 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.09%) JIRA
4 11 (7.69%) JUnit
5 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.59%) GitLab
6 7 (4.90%) Mockito
7 6 (4.20%) Maven
8 5 (3.50%) Gradle
8 5 (3.50%) Postman
9 3 (2.10%) Selenium
10 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.40%) Gatling
10 2 (1.40%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.40%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.70%) TestRail
11 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (32.87%) Finance
2 33 (23.08%) Banking
3 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Front Office
5 10 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.59%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.20%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (48.95%) Developer
2 48 (33.57%) Java Developer
3 45 (31.47%) Senior
4 33 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 21 (14.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Architect
7 13 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Backend Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Lead
9 9 (6.29%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.80%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.80%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.10%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.10%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 3 (2.10%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.37%) Spring
2 34 (23.78%) Spring Boot
3 32 (22.38%) Kafka
4 29 (20.28%) React
5 24 (16.78%) REST
6 16 (11.19%) JSON
7 12 (8.39%) RESTful
8 10 (6.99%) .NET
8 10 (6.99%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.99%) HTML
9 9 (6.29%) Node.js
10 8 (5.59%) CSS
10 8 (5.59%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (5.59%) Web Services
11 7 (4.90%) SOAP
12 6 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.20%) OSGi
12 6 (4.20%) WireMock
13 5 (3.50%) J2EE
13 5 (3.50%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (6.99%) Equities
5 8 (5.59%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.50%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.40%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.40%) NHS
10 2 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.70%) Blog
11 1 (0.70%) Exotic Derivative
11 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.66%) CI/CD
2 39 (27.27%) Microservices
3 33 (23.08%) Agile
4 30 (20.98%) DevOps
5 28 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 26 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering
8 23 (16.08%) Observability
9 22 (15.38%) Event-Driven
10 20 (13.99%) AI
10 20 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (12.59%) Low Latency
12 17 (11.89%) TDD
13 14 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
15 11 (7.69%) API Design
15 11 (7.69%) Computer Science
15 11 (7.69%) Electronic Trading
15 11 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.87%) Python
2 35 (24.48%) SQL
3 22 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.79%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.69%) C#
6 5 (3.50%) Ruby
7 4 (2.80%) Scala
8 3 (2.10%) C++
8 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.40%) R
9 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) C
10 1 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) Groovy
10 1 (0.70%) ProC
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
10 1 (0.70%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 22 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.59%) Degree
3 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) CISM
5 1 (0.70%) CISSP
5 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.70%) PhD
5 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.99%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.80%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.80%) SEPA
4 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) PSD2
5 2 (1.40%) EMIR
5 2 (1.40%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.40%) MiFID
5 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) TARGET2
System Software
1 34 (23.78%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) GridGain
3 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 38 (26.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.39%) Grafana
3 9 (6.29%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.29%) Terraform
4 6 (4.20%) Ansible
5 2 (1.40%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Oracle
2 11 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.80%) Google
3 4 (2.80%) Splunk
4 3 (2.10%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.10%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.10%) Charles River
4 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.40%) Confluent
5 2 (1.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.40%) IBM
5 2 (1.40%) SAP
5 2 (1.40%) Solace
5 2 (1.40%) Sybase
5 2 (1.40%) Workday
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe
6 1 (0.70%) Apple
6 1 (0.70%) Pega
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce