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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Java 136 136 167
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.30% 7.33% 6.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.99% 19.60% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 67 113
10th Percentile £455 £413 £425
25th Percentile £498 £506 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £655
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -10.69% -6.43%
75th Percentile £695 £731 £788
90th Percentile £845 £955 £878
Central London median daily rate £600 £585 £655
% change year-on-year +2.56% -10.69% -6.43%
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 567 694 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.43% 37.41% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 434 591
10th Percentile £356 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £484 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £762 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £27.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £29.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +133.33% -4.48%
75th Percentile £41.50 - £49.88
90th Percentile £45.10 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +59.90% -4.48%

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 2 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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.21%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.74%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.74%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.74%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.88%) AWS
2 26 (19.12%) Azure
3 23 (16.91%) GitHub
4 16 (11.76%) GCP
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
5 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.62%) Serverless
7 7 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.68%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.47%) Apigee
11 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.47%) Figma
11 2 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) DKIM
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) SNMP
2 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.62%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.68%) Tick Data
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.21%) KDB
6 3 (2.21%) Kdb+
6 3 (2.21%) MySQL
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.47%) Big Data
7 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.47%) DB2
7 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.47%) Redis
8 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.74%) MemSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (19.85%) Git
2 18 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.82%) Cucumber
3 12 (8.82%) JIRA
4 9 (6.62%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.62%) GitLab
5 8 (5.88%) Maven
6 7 (5.15%) JUnit
7 6 (4.41%) Selenium
8 5 (3.68%) Postman
8 5 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.94%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.21%) Gatling
10 3 (2.21%) Gradle
10 3 (2.21%) Mockito
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.47%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (37.50%) Finance
2 34 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.79%) Banking
4 22 (16.18%) Front Office
5 9 (6.62%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.21%) Legal
8 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.47%) Back Office
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (57.35%) Developer
2 50 (36.76%) Java Developer
3 23 (16.91%) Senior
4 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
5 10 (7.35%) Backend Developer
5 10 (7.35%) Lead
6 8 (5.88%) Architect
6 8 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Angular Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Fidessa Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Lead Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.21%) Analyst
10 3 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.21%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (2.21%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.38%) React
2 24 (17.65%) Spring
3 21 (15.44%) REST
4 20 (14.71%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.24%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.50%) .NET
7 14 (10.29%) Kafka
8 13 (9.56%) HTML
9 12 (8.82%) CSS
10 11 (8.09%) Node.js
11 8 (5.88%) XML
12 7 (5.15%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (5.15%) OSGi
12 7 (5.15%) RESTful
13 6 (4.41%) JSON
13 6 (4.41%) Web Services
13 6 (4.41%) ZK
14 4 (2.94%) OAuth
14 4 (2.94%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (11.03%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.09%) Equities
4 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.68%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.21%) Derivative
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.47%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Linux
2 6 (4.41%) Unix
3 4 (2.94%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.47%) Android
5 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.29%) Agile
2 36 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 31 (22.79%) Microservices
4 30 (22.06%) DevOps
4 30 (22.06%) Scrum
5 27 (19.85%) Test Automation
6 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.91%) Software Engineering
8 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (16.18%) TDD
9 21 (15.44%) Containerisation
9 21 (15.44%) Low Latency
10 20 (14.71%) Kanban
11 15 (11.03%) BDD
12 12 (8.82%) AI
12 12 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (8.09%) Event-Driven
13 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (8.09%) SDLC
14 10 (7.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (36.03%) Python
2 38 (27.94%) SQL
3 22 (16.18%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.03%) C#
4 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.68%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.94%) C++
7 3 (2.21%) Go
7 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.47%) ProC
8 2 (1.47%) Ruby
8 2 (1.47%) Rust
8 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) Swift
9 1 (0.74%) VB
9 1 (0.74%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Degree
4 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) CBAP
6 2 (1.47%) ISEB
6 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.74%) CCSP
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.74%) OSCP
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.47%) GDPR
2 2 (1.47%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.47%) PSD2
2 2 (1.47%) SEPA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) GRC
3 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NCSC
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (19.85%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 31 (22.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.56%) Ansible
3 11 (8.09%) Terraform
4 8 (5.88%) Grafana
5 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.21%) Argo
6 3 (2.21%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (16.18%) Oracle
2 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.41%) Google
4 5 (3.68%) Solace
5 3 (2.21%) Altiris
5 3 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (2.21%) Confluent
5 3 (2.21%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.21%) Splunk
5 3 (2.21%) Symantec
5 3 (2.21%) VMware
6 2 (1.47%) Adobe
6 2 (1.47%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.47%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.47%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.47%) Sybase
6 2 (1.47%) UiPath