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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 142 145 160
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.97% 8.50% 7.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.79% 21.08% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 81 119
10th Percentile £450 £425 £420
25th Percentile £485 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £655
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.69% -2.96%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £744
90th Percentile £783 £823 £853
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 623 688 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.18% 40.33% 36.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 458 547
10th Percentile £355 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £559
% change year-on-year - -1.52% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £23.48 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £33.94 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £52.25 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +7.73% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £70.94 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £81.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +29.00% -40.06% -7.62%

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 9 June 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 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.41%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.41%) 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 (4.23%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.70%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.62%) AWS
2 29 (20.42%) Azure
3 25 (17.61%) GitHub
4 10 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (7.04%) GCP
5 9 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.63%) Azure AKS
6 8 (5.63%) Serverless
7 6 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.11%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) Multicast
2 2 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.04%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.41%) Big Data
7 2 (1.41%) Db2
7 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.41%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.41%) Power BI
7 2 (1.41%) Redis
7 2 (1.41%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.70%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 21 (14.79%) Git
2 19 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.45%) JIRA
4 11 (7.75%) JUnit
5 8 (5.63%) GitLab
6 7 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.93%) Mockito
7 6 (4.23%) Gradle
7 6 (4.23%) Maven
8 4 (2.82%) Postman
9 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.41%) Gatling
9 2 (1.41%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.41%) Selenium
9 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.70%) Introscope
10 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (34.51%) Finance
2 35 (24.65%) Banking
3 32 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Front Office
5 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.70%) Marketing
12 1 (0.70%) Military
12 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (49.30%) Developer
2 49 (34.51%) Java Developer
3 47 (33.10%) Senior
4 35 (24.65%) Senior Developer
5 23 (16.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Architect
6 13 (9.15%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Backend Developer
7 10 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Lead
8 9 (6.34%) Senior Backend Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) React Developer
11 4 (2.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Senior React Developer
11 4 (2.82%) Senior UI Developer
11 4 (2.82%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.28%) Spring
2 35 (24.65%) Spring Boot
3 32 (22.54%) Kafka
4 31 (21.83%) React
5 24 (16.90%) REST
6 15 (10.56%) JSON
7 12 (8.45%) RESTful
8 10 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.04%) HTML
8 10 (7.04%) Node.js
9 9 (6.34%) .NET
10 8 (5.63%) CSS
10 8 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (5.63%) Web Services
11 7 (4.93%) SOAP
12 6 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (4.23%) OSGi
12 6 (4.23%) WireMock
13 5 (3.52%) JMS
14 4 (2.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.45%) Equities
4 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.63%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.52%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.41%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.41%) NHS
8 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.70%) Derivative
9 1 (0.70%) Exotic Derivative
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.92%) CI/CD
2 37 (26.06%) Microservices
3 32 (22.54%) Agile
4 28 (19.72%) Containerisation
4 28 (19.72%) DevOps
5 25 (17.61%) Software Engineering
6 24 (16.90%) Test Automation
7 23 (16.20%) Observability
8 22 (15.49%) Event-Driven
9 20 (14.08%) Low Latency
10 19 (13.38%) AI
10 19 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (11.27%) TDD
12 15 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (9.15%) Electronic Trading
13 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (7.75%) API Design
14 11 (7.75%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (7.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.39%) Python
2 34 (23.94%) SQL
3 24 (16.90%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 12 (8.45%) C#
6 5 (3.52%) Ruby
7 4 (2.82%) Scala
8 3 (2.11%) C++
8 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.41%) R
10 1 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) Groovy
10 1 (0.70%) Jython
10 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
1 22 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.63%) Degree
3 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.41%) 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 (7.04%) QA
2 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.82%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.82%) SEPA
4 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 3 (2.11%) PSD2
5 2 (1.41%) EMIR
5 2 (1.41%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.41%) MiFID
5 2 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) TARGET2
System Software
1 32 (22.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) GridGain
3 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 38 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.45%) Grafana
3 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.63%) Terraform
5 6 (4.23%) Ansible
6 2 (1.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.70%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) Oracle
2 9 (6.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.82%) Google
3 4 (2.82%) Splunk
4 3 (2.11%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.11%) Charles River
4 3 (2.11%) IBM
4 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.11%) Sybase
5 2 (1.41%) Confluent
5 2 (1.41%) Databricks
5 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.41%) Solace
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe
6 1 (0.70%) Apple
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) Pega
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Workday