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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 122 150 158
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.44% 8.58% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.80% 23.18% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 92 99
10th Percentile £425 £413 £426
25th Percentile £490 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -6.15% -0.46%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £764
90th Percentile £800 £838 £853
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £678
% change year-on-year -4.17% -11.44% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - £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 649 647 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.96% 36.99% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 454 501
10th Percentile £400 £385 £406
25th Percentile £461 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +0.85% -3.29%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £708
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £15.55 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £26.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -11.69% +208.00%
75th Percentile £46.87 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £61.49 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 (4.92%) Apache Spark
1 6 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.28%) Confluence
3 3 (2.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.82%) Camunda
4 1 (0.82%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.82%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
4 1 (0.82%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.52%) AWS
2 37 (30.33%) Azure
3 24 (19.67%) GitHub
4 14 (11.48%) GCP
5 10 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.28%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.28%) dbt
9 4 (3.28%) PaaS
9 4 (3.28%) Serverless
9 4 (3.28%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Multicast
1 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.64%) DNS
2 2 (1.64%) VLAN
2 2 (1.64%) VPN
3 1 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.82%) Firewall
3 1 (0.82%) FTP
3 1 (0.82%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.82%) RTCP
3 1 (0.82%) RTP
3 1 (0.82%) SSH
3 1 (0.82%) VoIP
3 1 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.84%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.46%) Big Data
7 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.64%) Power BI
9 1 (0.82%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.82%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.82%) Redis
9 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (17.21%) Git
2 20 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.66%) GitLab
3 13 (10.66%) JUnit
4 8 (6.56%) Gradle
4 8 (6.56%) Maven
4 8 (6.56%) Mockito
5 7 (5.74%) JIRA
5 7 (5.74%) Postman
6 6 (4.92%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.92%) Selenium
7 4 (3.28%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.28%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.46%) eggPlant
9 2 (1.64%) Appium
9 2 (1.64%) HP UFT
9 2 (1.64%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 51 (41.80%) Finance
2 39 (31.97%) Banking
3 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.11%) Investment Banking
5 13 (10.66%) Front Office
6 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.10%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.28%) Back Office
8 4 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.82%) Billing
10 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Military
10 1 (0.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (35.25%) Developer
2 38 (31.15%) Senior
3 29 (23.77%) Java Developer
4 24 (19.67%) Senior Developer
5 22 (18.03%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Architect
7 11 (9.02%) Lead
8 10 (8.20%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) React Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Senior UI Developer
9 7 (5.74%) UI Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (31.97%) Spring
2 38 (31.15%) Spring Boot
3 30 (24.59%) Kafka
4 26 (21.31%) REST
5 24 (19.67%) React
6 20 (16.39%) Terraform
7 15 (12.30%) RESTful
8 13 (10.66%) Web Services
9 11 (9.02%) SOAP
10 10 (8.20%) .NET
11 9 (7.38%) HTML
11 9 (7.38%) JSON
12 8 (6.56%) AngularJS
13 7 (5.74%) Middleware
13 7 (5.74%) Node.js
13 7 (5.74%) Redux
14 5 (4.10%) XML
15 4 (3.28%) XBRL
16 3 (2.46%) CSS
16 3 (2.46%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.05%) Cloud Native
2 23 (18.85%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (7.38%) Fixed Income
4 9 (7.38%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.38%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.56%) Equities
6 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.28%) Algorithms
8 4 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.64%) Derivative
10 2 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.30%) Linux
2 10 (8.20%) Unix
3 5 (4.10%) Windows
4 2 (1.64%) Android
4 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) AIX
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.46%) CI/CD
2 39 (31.97%) DevOps
3 36 (29.51%) Microservices
4 35 (28.69%) Test Automation
5 33 (27.05%) Agile
6 32 (26.23%) Containerisation
7 28 (22.95%) Software Engineering
8 24 (19.67%) Observability
9 22 (18.03%) Event-Driven
9 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (13.93%) AI
12 16 (13.11%) TDD
13 14 (11.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.48%) SDLC
14 13 (10.66%) Electronic Trading
14 13 (10.66%) Low Latency
14 13 (10.66%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (10.66%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.15%) Python
2 30 (24.59%) SQL
3 22 (18.03%) JavaScript
4 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.93%) C#
6 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.10%) Korn
8 4 (3.28%) Bash
8 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.28%) Scala
9 3 (2.46%) Ruby
10 2 (1.64%) Bicep
10 2 (1.64%) C++
10 2 (1.64%) Go
10 2 (1.64%) R
10 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.64%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.82%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.82%) DAML
Qualifications
1 26 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) CISM
6 1 (0.82%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) ISEB
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.30%) QA
2 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.74%) GDPR
4 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.46%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.46%) SEPA
6 2 (1.64%) EMIR
6 2 (1.64%) MiFID
7 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.82%) PSD2
7 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (30.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (31.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.56%) Grafana
3 7 (5.74%) Ansible
4 6 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.64%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.82%) Bosun
7 1 (0.82%) Control-M
7 1 (0.82%) Puppet
7 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.82%) SELinux
7 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.82%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (18.03%) Oracle
2 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.38%) IBM
4 5 (4.10%) Databricks
4 5 (4.10%) Google
4 5 (4.10%) SAP
5 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.46%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.46%) Splunk
7 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.64%) Foundry
7 2 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.82%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.82%) FIS
8 1 (0.82%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.82%) Murex
8 1 (0.82%) New Relic
8 1 (0.82%) Temenos
8 1 (0.82%) Workday