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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 129 162 145
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.42% 8.61% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.58% 22.38% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 98 103
10th Percentile £450 £413 £476
25th Percentile £481 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £688
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.27% +4.96%
75th Percentile £653 £690 £764
90th Percentile £844 £827 £873
Central London median daily rate £558 £605 £684
% change year-on-year -7.85% -11.52% +4.39%
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 659 724 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.70% 38.49% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 498 511
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -2.28% -4.24%
75th Percentile £668 £699 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -48.13%

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 10 August 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the City of London region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £875 -
Java
Central London

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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.33%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Camunda
5 1 (0.78%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.78%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.78%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.78%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.53%) AWS
2 33 (25.58%) Azure
3 28 (21.71%) GitHub
4 12 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.75%) GCP
6 9 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (6.98%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.20%) Serverless
8 7 (5.43%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.65%) PaaS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Multicast
2 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) FTP
3 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.78%) SSH
3 1 (0.78%) VLAN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.55%) Big Data
7 2 (1.55%) Db2
7 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.78%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.78%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.78%) Redis
8 1 (0.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (17.83%) Git
2 22 (17.05%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.63%) GitLab
3 15 (11.63%) JUnit
4 9 (6.98%) JIRA
4 9 (6.98%) Mockito
5 8 (6.20%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.43%) Postman
7 6 (4.65%) Gradle
8 5 (3.88%) Maven
9 4 (3.10%) Selenium
10 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.55%) Appium
11 2 (1.55%) Liquibase
11 2 (1.55%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.78%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (37.98%) Finance
2 36 (27.91%) Banking
3 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Front Office
5 13 (10.08%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Back Office
10 2 (1.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (39.53%) Developer
2 40 (31.01%) Senior
3 39 (30.23%) Java Developer
4 30 (23.26%) Senior Developer
5 28 (21.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.08%) Architect
7 12 (9.30%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.53%) Lead
9 8 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) React Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior UI Developer
10 7 (5.43%) UI Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) Spring
2 37 (28.68%) Spring Boot
3 29 (22.48%) Kafka
4 26 (20.16%) React
5 21 (16.28%) REST
6 15 (11.63%) RESTful
7 12 (9.30%) JSON
8 9 (6.98%) Web Services
9 8 (6.20%) .NET
9 8 (6.20%) Node.js
9 8 (6.20%) SOAP
10 7 (5.43%) Redux
11 6 (4.65%) WireMock
12 5 (3.88%) Middleware
13 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.10%) Gherkin
13 4 (3.10%) HTML
13 4 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (3.10%) PySpark
13 4 (3.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.36%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.30%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.98%) Equities
5 7 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.78%) Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.75%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Unix
3 4 (3.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) AIX
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) CI/CD
2 39 (30.23%) DevOps
2 39 (30.23%) Microservices
3 35 (27.13%) Agile
4 33 (25.58%) Test Automation
5 29 (22.48%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.16%) Observability
7 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
8 23 (17.83%) Event-Driven
9 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.40%) Electronic Trading
11 16 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (12.40%) Low Latency
12 15 (11.63%) AI
12 15 (11.63%) TDD
13 14 (10.85%) API Design
14 12 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (7.75%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.33%) Python
2 30 (23.26%) SQL
3 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.73%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.95%) C#
6 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.88%) Ruby
8 4 (3.10%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.33%) Go
9 3 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.33%) R
9 3 (2.33%) Scala
10 2 (1.55%) Bash
10 2 (1.55%) C++
10 2 (1.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.78%) Groovy
11 1 (0.78%) Jython
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
11 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Degree
4 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.78%) CISM
5 1 (0.78%) CISSP
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) PhD
5 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.63%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) EMIR
4 2 (1.55%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.55%) MiFID
4 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.55%) SEPA
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.78%) PSD2
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) TARGET2
System Software
1 34 (26.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) GridGain
2 1 (0.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.18%) Terraform
3 8 (6.20%) Grafana
4 7 (5.43%) Ansible
5 6 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.78%) Bosun
7 1 (0.78%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.78%) SELinux
7 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Oracle
2 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.65%) IBM
4 4 (3.10%) Google
4 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.10%) Splunk
5 3 (2.33%) Databricks
5 3 (2.33%) Sybase
6 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.55%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.55%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.78%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.78%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) New Relic
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Pega
7 1 (0.78%) Workday