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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Java 149 144 163
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.82% 8.28% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.10% 20.25% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 82 116
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £653
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.34% -6.79%
75th Percentile £647 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £923 £847
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -7.14%

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 645 711 757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.53% 40.89% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 469 537
10th Percentile £352 £413 £405
25th Percentile £436 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.21%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £28.31 - £46.30
25th Percentile £31.03 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £52.49 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +54.80% -39.44% -16.52%

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 4 April 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 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.34%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.67%) Camunda
3 1 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.67%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.67%) JBoss
3 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.24%) AWS
2 35 (23.49%) Azure
3 31 (20.81%) GitHub
4 15 (10.07%) GCP
5 11 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (6.04%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.37%) Serverless
8 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.03%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.01%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Multicast
2 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) NoSQL
2 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.72%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.04%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.68%) Tick Data
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.01%) KDB
8 3 (2.01%) Kdb+
8 3 (2.01%) MySQL
9 2 (1.34%) Big Data
9 2 (1.34%) DB2
9 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.34%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (20.13%) Git
2 19 (12.75%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.72%) JIRA
4 12 (8.05%) JUnit
5 11 (7.38%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.04%) GitLab
7 8 (5.37%) Maven
8 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
8 7 (4.70%) Mockito
9 6 (4.03%) Postman
10 5 (3.36%) Selenium
11 4 (2.68%) Gradle
12 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
12 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.34%) Gatling
13 2 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (1.34%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
13 2 (1.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (37.58%) Finance
2 35 (23.49%) Banking
2 35 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.75%) Front Office
4 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.68%) Legal
8 2 (1.34%) Back Office
8 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Law
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (53.02%) Developer
2 54 (36.24%) Java Developer
3 34 (22.82%) Senior
4 26 (17.45%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (8.72%) Architect
7 11 (7.38%) Lead
8 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Backend Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Fidessa Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.68%) Technical Leader
15 3 (2.01%) Electronics Engineer
15 3 (2.01%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.85%) Spring
2 31 (20.81%) Spring Boot
3 29 (19.46%) React
4 28 (18.79%) Kafka
5 25 (16.78%) REST
6 14 (9.40%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.72%) RESTful
8 12 (8.05%) .NET
9 11 (7.38%) CSS
9 11 (7.38%) HTML
10 10 (6.71%) JSON
10 10 (6.71%) Node.js
10 10 (6.71%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.03%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.03%) OSGi
11 6 (4.03%) SOAP
12 5 (3.36%) JMS
12 5 (3.36%) Playwright
12 5 (3.36%) Web Services
12 5 (3.36%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.05%) Equities
4 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.03%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.34%) Derivative
9 2 (1.34%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.34%) NHS
10 1 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 7 (4.70%) Unix
3 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.34%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) AIX
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.23%) CI/CD
2 48 (32.21%) Microservices
3 43 (28.86%) Agile
4 34 (22.82%) DevOps
5 33 (22.15%) Test Automation
6 27 (18.12%) Containerisation
7 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
8 23 (15.44%) Observability
9 21 (14.09%) Low Latency
10 20 (13.42%) Event-Driven
10 20 (13.42%) TDD
11 19 (12.75%) AI
11 19 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.75%) Scrum
12 15 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (8.72%) BDD
13 13 (8.72%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.05%) Computer Science
15 11 (7.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.54%) Python
2 36 (24.16%) SQL
3 21 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.74%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.07%) C#
6 5 (3.36%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.68%) C++
7 4 (2.68%) Ruby
7 4 (2.68%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.01%) Go
8 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.34%) ProC
9 2 (1.34%) R
9 2 (1.34%) Scala
9 2 (1.34%) Swift
9 2 (1.34%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.67%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) VB
10 1 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (11.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.38%) Degree
4 9 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) CCSP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.67%) OSCP
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.41%) QA
2 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.01%) PSD2
3 3 (2.01%) SEPA
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NCSC
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) TARGET2
System Software
1 34 (22.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) GridGain
3 1 (0.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 39 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.07%) Grafana
3 11 (7.38%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.71%) Terraform
5 8 (5.37%) Ansible
6 2 (1.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.67%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.67%) Istio
7 1 (0.67%) Puppet
7 1 (0.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Oracle
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.70%) Google
4 5 (3.36%) Splunk
5 4 (2.68%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.01%) Charles River
6 3 (2.01%) Confluent
6 3 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (2.01%) IBM
6 3 (2.01%) Solace
7 2 (1.34%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.34%) Sybase
7 2 (1.34%) UiPath
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe
8 1 (0.67%) Apple
8 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) SAP