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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 154 149 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.81% 8.40% 7.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.02% 20.84% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 83 121
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £517 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £750
90th Percentile £776 £835 £856
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 641 715 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.34% 40.33% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 473 529
10th Percentile £351 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.63%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £690
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £24.33 - -
25th Percentile £29.90 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.25 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £54.30 - £50.25
90th Percentile £64.31 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.25 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +41.90% -40.06% -15.65%

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 24 April 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 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.95%) Apache
2 3 (1.95%) Confluence
3 2 (1.30%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.30%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Camunda
4 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.65%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.95%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.65%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.36%) AWS
2 35 (22.73%) Azure
3 32 (20.78%) GitHub
4 13 (8.44%) GCP
5 9 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.19%) Azure AKS
6 8 (5.19%) Serverless
7 6 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) FTP
2 1 (0.65%) Multicast
2 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) NoSQL
1 15 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.79%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.84%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.60%) Tick Data
7 3 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.95%) MySQL
8 2 (1.30%) Big Data
8 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.30%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.30%) KDB
8 2 (1.30%) Kdb+
8 2 (1.30%) Power BI
8 2 (1.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (17.53%) Git
2 19 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.44%) JIRA
4 11 (7.14%) JUnit
5 9 (5.84%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.19%) GitLab
7 7 (4.55%) Maven
8 6 (3.90%) Mockito
9 5 (3.25%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.25%) Postman
10 4 (2.60%) Gradle
10 4 (2.60%) Selenium
11 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.30%) Gatling
12 2 (1.30%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.30%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.65%) Zephyr
General
1 53 (34.42%) Finance
2 34 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.13%) Banking
4 17 (11.04%) Front Office
5 10 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
8 3 (1.95%) Back Office
8 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (53.25%) Developer
2 55 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 35 (22.73%) Senior
4 27 (17.53%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.39%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (9.09%) Architect
7 12 (7.79%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Lead
9 9 (5.84%) Backend Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.90%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) Fidessa Developer
14 4 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
15 3 (1.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 3 (1.95%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 3 (1.95%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (27.92%) Spring
2 34 (22.08%) Spring Boot
3 32 (20.78%) React
4 28 (18.18%) Kafka
5 27 (17.53%) REST
6 14 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.44%) JSON
7 13 (8.44%) RESTful
8 11 (7.14%) .NET
8 11 (7.14%) HTML
9 10 (6.49%) CSS
9 10 (6.49%) Node.js
9 10 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.55%) Web Services
11 6 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (3.90%) OSGi
11 6 (3.90%) SOAP
12 5 (3.25%) JMS
12 5 (3.25%) Playwright
12 5 (3.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.83%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.14%) Equities
4 6 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.25%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.25%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.30%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.30%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Blog
9 1 (0.65%) Derivative
9 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.65%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.65%) Online Games
9 1 (0.65%) PMI
9 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Linux
2 7 (4.55%) Unix
3 3 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.30%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) AIX
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.12%) CI/CD
2 48 (31.17%) Microservices
3 45 (29.22%) Agile
4 32 (20.78%) DevOps
5 30 (19.48%) Test Automation
6 27 (17.53%) Containerisation
7 25 (16.23%) Software Engineering
8 24 (15.58%) Observability
9 23 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (14.29%) AI
11 20 (12.99%) Event-Driven
11 20 (12.99%) Low Latency
11 20 (12.99%) TDD
12 19 (12.34%) Scrum
13 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (9.09%) Roadmaps
16 12 (7.79%) BDD
16 12 (7.79%) Computer Science
17 10 (6.49%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.17%) Python
2 36 (23.38%) SQL
3 21 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.04%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.09%) C#
6 5 (3.25%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.60%) Ruby
7 4 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.95%) C++
8 3 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.95%) Scala
9 2 (1.30%) Go
9 2 (1.30%) ProC
9 2 (1.30%) R
9 2 (1.30%) Swift
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) Jython
10 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.84%) Degree
3 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) CCSP
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CISM
5 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) OSCP
5 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 5 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.95%) GDPR
3 3 (1.95%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.95%) PSD2
3 3 (1.95%) SEPA
4 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) EMIR
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) MiFID
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) GridGain
3 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 41 (26.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.74%) Grafana
3 11 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 11 (7.14%) Terraform
4 6 (3.90%) Ansible
5 2 (1.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.65%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.65%) Istio
6 1 (0.65%) Puppet
6 1 (0.65%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (12.34%) Oracle
2 11 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.55%) Google
4 5 (3.25%) Splunk
5 4 (2.60%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.95%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.95%) Charles River
6 3 (1.95%) Databricks
6 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.95%) Solace
7 2 (1.30%) Confluent
7 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) SAP
7 2 (1.30%) Sybase
7 2 (1.30%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) Apple
8 1 (0.65%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce