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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 144 146 164
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.01% 8.52% 7.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.75% 21.38% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 83 122
10th Percentile £450 £425 £421
25th Percentile £485 £463 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £690 £750
90th Percentile £800 £821 £874
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 633 683 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.42% 39.87% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 459 555
10th Percentile £357 £404 £403
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £564
% change year-on-year -0.63% -1.82% -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £25.45 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £38.88 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £76.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £83.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £45.79 £48.50
% change year-on-year +14.64% -5.60% -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 13 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
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 13 June 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.39%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.69%) Camunda
4 1 (0.69%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.08%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.11%) AWS
2 29 (20.14%) Azure
3 24 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (6.94%) GCP
5 9 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 8 (5.56%) Serverless
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) Multicast
2 2 (1.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.94%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.39%) Big Data
7 2 (1.39%) Db2
7 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.39%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.39%) Power BI
7 2 (1.39%) Redis
7 2 (1.39%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.69%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Git
2 20 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.33%) JIRA
3 12 (8.33%) JUnit
4 9 (6.25%) GitLab
5 8 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.56%) Mockito
6 6 (4.17%) Gradle
6 6 (4.17%) Maven
7 4 (2.78%) Postman
8 3 (2.08%) Gatling
9 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.39%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.39%) Selenium
9 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.69%) Introscope
10 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 53 (36.81%) Finance
2 39 (27.08%) Banking
3 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.50%) Front Office
5 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (48.61%) Developer
2 50 (34.72%) Java Developer
3 49 (34.03%) Senior
4 37 (25.69%) Senior Developer
5 26 (18.06%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.03%) Architect
6 13 (9.03%) Java Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) Lead
8 10 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 8 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (5.56%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.86%) React Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior React Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior UI Developer
11 7 (4.86%) UI Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.86%) Spring
2 35 (24.31%) Spring Boot
3 34 (23.61%) Kafka
3 34 (23.61%) React
4 25 (17.36%) REST
5 15 (10.42%) JSON
6 12 (8.33%) RESTful
7 10 (6.94%) .NET
8 9 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.25%) HTML
8 9 (6.25%) Node.js
9 8 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (5.56%) Web Services
10 7 (4.86%) CSS
10 7 (4.86%) Redux
10 7 (4.86%) SOAP
10 7 (4.86%) WireMock
11 6 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.47%) JMS
12 5 (3.47%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (10.42%) Equities
5 11 (7.64%) Fixed Income
6 8 (5.56%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.39%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.39%) NHS
11 2 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.69%) OTC Derivatives
12 1 (0.69%) PMI
12 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Unix
3 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) AIX
4 1 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.11%) CI/CD
2 37 (25.69%) Microservices
3 32 (22.22%) Agile
4 27 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 27 (18.75%) DevOps
5 25 (17.36%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.36%) Test Automation
6 23 (15.97%) Low Latency
6 23 (15.97%) Observability
7 22 (15.28%) Event-Driven
8 19 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (11.81%) AI
9 17 (11.81%) Electronic Trading
9 17 (11.81%) TDD
10 15 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (7.64%) API Design
12 11 (7.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (7.64%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.94%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.25%) Python
2 34 (23.61%) SQL
3 25 (17.36%) JavaScript
4 19 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.72%) C#
6 5 (3.47%) Ruby
7 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.78%) Scala
8 3 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.39%) C++
9 2 (1.39%) R
10 1 (0.69%) Go
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Jython
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.17%) Degree
4 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.69%) CISM
5 1 (0.69%) CISSP
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) PhD
5 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 6 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.78%) SEPA
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) PSD2
5 2 (1.39%) EMIR
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.39%) MiFID
5 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) TARGET2
System Software
1 32 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) GridGain
3 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 38 (26.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.33%) Grafana
3 9 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.56%) Terraform
5 7 (4.86%) Ansible
6 2 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (10.42%) Oracle
2 9 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.47%) Splunk
4 4 (2.78%) Google
5 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.08%) Charles River
5 3 (2.08%) IBM
5 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.08%) Sybase
6 2 (1.39%) Confluent
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks
6 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.39%) Solace
7 1 (0.69%) Adobe
7 1 (0.69%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Workday