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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -18
Contract jobs citing Java 143 126 171
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.88% 6.71% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.66% 18.89% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 63 118
10th Percentile £418 £421 £425
25th Percentile £498 £518 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £695 £749 £784
90th Percentile £871 £943 £875
Central London median daily rate £605 £585 £650
% change year-on-year +3.42% -10.00% -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 580 667 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.96% 35.52% 33.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 419 585
10th Percentile £356 £406 £413
25th Percentile £425 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% - -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £788 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £589
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.34% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -17.39%

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 13 January 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 (3.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.70%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.70%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.66%) AWS
2 32 (22.38%) Azure
3 25 (17.48%) GitHub
4 20 (13.99%) GCP
5 11 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.59%) Serverless
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.80%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon Neptune
11 2 (1.40%) Apigee
11 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.40%) Figma
11 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) DKIM
1 1 (0.70%) DNS
1 1 (0.70%) SNMP
1 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.39%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.80%) DB2
6 4 (2.80%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.80%) MySQL
6 4 (2.80%) Tick Data
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.10%) DataStage
7 3 (2.10%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.10%) KDB
7 3 (2.10%) MemSQL
7 3 (2.10%) Redis
7 3 (2.10%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 27 (18.88%) Git
2 18 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.39%) Bitbucket
3 12 (8.39%) JIRA
4 10 (6.99%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.99%) Selenium
5 9 (6.29%) Maven
6 8 (5.59%) GitLab
7 6 (4.20%) JUnit
8 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.80%) Gradle
9 4 (2.80%) Postman
10 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.10%) Gatling
10 3 (2.10%) Mockito
10 3 (2.10%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.40%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (34.27%) Finance
2 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.28%) Banking
4 22 (15.38%) Front Office
5 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Back Office
9 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (56.64%) Developer
2 51 (35.66%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.78%) Senior
4 14 (9.79%) Lead
4 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (6.29%) Angular Developer
6 8 (5.59%) Backend Developer
7 7 (4.90%) Architect
8 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.20%) Lead Developer
8 6 (4.20%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Fidessa Developer
11 3 (2.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.88%) React
2 24 (16.78%) Spring
3 22 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 21 (14.69%) Spring Boot
5 20 (13.99%) REST
6 16 (11.19%) .NET
7 13 (9.09%) HTML
7 13 (9.09%) Kafka
8 12 (8.39%) CSS
8 12 (8.39%) Node.js
9 9 (6.29%) XML
10 7 (4.90%) OSGi
11 6 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.20%) JSON
11 6 (4.20%) Web Services
12 5 (3.50%) RESTful
12 5 (3.50%) ZK
13 4 (2.80%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.80%) OAuth
13 4 (2.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.90%) Equities
5 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.10%) Derivative
7 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.70%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Linux
2 6 (4.20%) Unix
3 5 (3.50%) Windows
4 3 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.40%) Android
5 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.66%) Agile
2 36 (25.17%) CI/CD
3 34 (23.78%) DevOps
4 31 (21.68%) Microservices
5 30 (20.98%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.28%) Scrum
7 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.48%) TDD
9 24 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (16.08%) Software Engineering
11 22 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 21 (14.69%) Kanban
12 21 (14.69%) Low Latency
13 16 (11.19%) SDLC
14 15 (10.49%) BDD
14 15 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (9.09%) Event-Driven
15 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
15 13 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
16 11 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.97%) Python
2 43 (30.07%) SQL
3 25 (17.48%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.19%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.49%) C#
6 5 (3.50%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.80%) C++
7 4 (2.80%) Go
8 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.40%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.40%) ProC
9 2 (1.40%) Rust
9 2 (1.40%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.70%) Bash
10 1 (0.70%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.70%) Solidity
10 1 (0.70%) SOQL
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.69%) Degree
2 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.40%) CBAP
5 2 (1.40%) ISEB
5 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.70%) CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.70%) CISSP
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) OSCP
6 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.40%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.40%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.40%) PSD2
3 2 (1.40%) SEPA
4 1 (0.70%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 33 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.49%) Terraform
3 12 (8.39%) Ansible
4 7 (4.90%) Grafana
5 6 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.80%) Argo
7 3 (2.10%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (15.38%) Oracle
2 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (3.50%) Solace
5 3 (2.10%) Altiris
5 3 (2.10%) Citrix
5 3 (2.10%) Confluent
5 3 (2.10%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.10%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.10%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.10%) Splunk
5 3 (2.10%) Symantec
5 3 (2.10%) VMware
6 2 (1.40%) Adobe
6 2 (1.40%) Databricks
6 2 (1.40%) Sybase
6 2 (1.40%) UiPath
7 1 (0.70%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.70%) Ping Identity