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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 156 153 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.79% 8.71% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.41% 21.64% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 85 123
10th Percentile £443 £425 £421
25th Percentile £498 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £750
90th Percentile £770 £838 £853
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £645
% change year-on-year -5.98% -9.30% -4.44%
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 639 707 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.81% 40.24% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 468 534
10th Percentile £355 £413 £400
25th Percentile £439 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £577 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +0.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £796 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -8.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £25.14 - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £50.25
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -40.06% -15.65%

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 2 May 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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.92%) Apache
2 3 (1.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.28%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.28%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.64%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.64%) JBoss
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.92%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.64%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.54%) AWS
2 36 (23.08%) Azure
3 29 (18.59%) GitHub
4 14 (8.97%) GCP
5 9 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.13%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.49%) Serverless
8 6 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) FTP
2 1 (0.64%) Multicast
2 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.77%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.56%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.92%) MySQL
9 2 (1.28%) Big Data
9 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.28%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.28%) KDB
9 2 (1.28%) Kdb+
9 2 (1.28%) Power BI
9 2 (1.28%) Redis
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (16.03%) Git
2 20 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.33%) JIRA
4 12 (7.69%) JUnit
5 9 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.77%) GitLab
6 7 (4.49%) Maven
6 7 (4.49%) Mockito
7 5 (3.21%) Gradle
7 5 (3.21%) Postman
8 4 (2.56%) Selenium
9 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.28%) Gatling
10 2 (1.28%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.28%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.28%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
General
1 56 (35.90%) Finance
2 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 33 (21.15%) Banking
4 17 (10.90%) Front Office
5 10 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.49%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.21%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.56%) Legal
9 3 (1.92%) Back Office
9 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (51.28%) Developer
2 53 (33.97%) Java Developer
3 38 (24.36%) Senior
4 27 (17.31%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (8.97%) Architect
7 13 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Lead
9 9 (5.77%) Backend Developer
10 8 (5.13%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.21%) Fidessa Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
14 4 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 3 (1.92%) Lead Java Engineer
15 3 (1.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (29.49%) Spring
2 35 (22.44%) Spring Boot
3 33 (21.15%) React
4 31 (19.87%) Kafka
5 26 (16.67%) REST
6 14 (8.97%) JSON
6 14 (8.97%) RESTful
7 12 (7.69%) .NET
7 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.05%) HTML
9 10 (6.41%) CSS
9 10 (6.41%) Node.js
9 10 (6.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.49%) Web Services
11 6 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (3.85%) OSGi
11 6 (3.85%) SOAP
12 5 (3.21%) JMS
12 5 (3.21%) Playwright
12 5 (3.21%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.05%) Equities
4 6 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.21%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.28%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.28%) NHS
8 2 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.64%) Blog
9 1 (0.64%) Derivative
9 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.64%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.64%) Online Games
9 1 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.49%) Linux
2 6 (3.85%) Unix
3 3 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.28%) Android
5 1 (0.64%) AIX
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.26%) CI/CD
2 47 (30.13%) Microservices
3 44 (28.21%) Agile
4 33 (21.15%) DevOps
5 29 (18.59%) Containerisation
5 29 (18.59%) Test Automation
6 27 (17.31%) Software Engineering
7 24 (15.38%) Observability
8 22 (14.10%) AI
8 22 (14.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (12.82%) Event-Driven
9 20 (12.82%) Low Latency
10 18 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (11.54%) TDD
11 17 (10.90%) Scrum
12 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (8.97%) Roadmaps
14 12 (7.69%) Computer Science
15 10 (6.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (6.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.41%) Python
2 37 (23.72%) SQL
3 22 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.62%) C#
6 5 (3.21%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.56%) Ruby
8 3 (1.92%) C++
8 3 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.92%) Scala
8 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.28%) Go
9 2 (1.28%) ProC
9 2 (1.28%) R
9 2 (1.28%) Swift
10 1 (0.64%) Jython
10 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.64%) VB
10 1 (0.64%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (12.18%) SC Cleared
1 19 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.77%) Degree
3 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.64%) CCSP
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.64%) CISM
5 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) OSCP
5 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.62%) QA
2 5 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.56%) GDPR
3 4 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.56%) SEPA
4 3 (1.92%) PSD2
5 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.28%) EMIR
5 2 (1.28%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.28%) MiFID
5 2 (1.28%) NIST
5 2 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) TARGET2
System Software
1 37 (23.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) GridGain
3 1 (0.64%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 44 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.62%) Grafana
3 11 (7.05%) Prometheus
3 11 (7.05%) Terraform
4 6 (3.85%) Ansible
5 2 (1.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.64%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.64%) Istio
6 1 (0.64%) Puppet
6 1 (0.64%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (12.18%) Oracle
2 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.49%) Google
4 5 (3.21%) Splunk
5 4 (2.56%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.92%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.92%) Charles River
6 3 (1.92%) Databricks
6 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.92%) Solace
7 2 (1.28%) Confluent
7 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.28%) IBM
7 2 (1.28%) SAP
7 2 (1.28%) Sybase
7 2 (1.28%) Workday
8 1 (0.64%) Adobe
8 1 (0.64%) Apple
8 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.64%) Salesforce