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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing Java 151 155 163
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.84% 8.89% 7.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.59% 21.83% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 87 116
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £653
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.34% -6.28%
75th Percentile £626 £722 £775
90th Percentile £788 £910 £847
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -7.14%
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 640 710 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.99% 40.71% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 465 534
10th Percentile £350 £413 £405
25th Percentile £436 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.96%
75th Percentile £635 £690 £688
90th Percentile £763 £783 £796
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £28.77 - £46.30
25th Percentile £33.90 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £48.75 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £49.88
90th Percentile £67.36 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £48.75 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +67.68% -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 10 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 (1.99%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.99%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.32%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.66%) Camunda
3 1 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.66%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.66%) JBoss
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.99%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 54 (35.76%) AWS
2 35 (23.18%) Azure
3 31 (20.53%) GitHub
4 14 (9.27%) GCP
5 10 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (5.96%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.30%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.30%) Serverless
8 6 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) Multicast
2 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.93%) NoSQL
2 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.61%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.65%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.99%) KDB
8 3 (1.99%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.99%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) Big Data
9 2 (1.32%) DB2
9 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.32%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.32%) Redis
10 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (19.21%) Git
2 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.61%) JIRA
4 12 (7.95%) JUnit
5 10 (6.62%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.96%) GitLab
7 8 (5.30%) Maven
8 7 (4.64%) Mockito
9 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.31%) Postman
11 4 (2.65%) Gradle
11 4 (2.65%) Selenium
12 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.99%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.32%) Gatling
13 2 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (1.32%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (36.42%) Finance
2 35 (23.18%) Social Skills
3 34 (22.52%) Banking
4 18 (11.92%) Front Office
5 10 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.64%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.65%) Legal
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (52.98%) Developer
2 56 (37.09%) Java Developer
3 35 (23.18%) Senior
4 27 (17.88%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.60%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (8.61%) Architect
7 10 (6.62%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Lead
8 9 (5.96%) Backend Developer
9 8 (5.30%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.97%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.31%) Fidessa Developer
13 3 (1.99%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (1.99%) KDB Developer
13 3 (1.99%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.15%) Spring
2 32 (21.19%) Spring Boot
3 30 (19.87%) React
4 28 (18.54%) Kafka
5 27 (17.88%) REST
6 14 (9.27%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.61%) RESTful
8 11 (7.28%) .NET
8 11 (7.28%) CSS
8 11 (7.28%) HTML
9 10 (6.62%) JSON
9 10 (6.62%) Node.js
9 10 (6.62%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (3.97%) OSGi
10 6 (3.97%) SOAP
11 5 (3.31%) JMS
11 5 (3.31%) Playwright
11 5 (3.31%) Web Services
11 5 (3.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (9.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.95%) Equities
4 7 (4.64%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.97%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.31%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Derivative
9 2 (1.32%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.32%) NHS
10 1 (0.66%) Blog
10 1 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.66%) PMI
10 1 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.96%) Linux
2 7 (4.64%) Unix
3 3 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) AIX
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.77%) CI/CD
2 48 (31.79%) Microservices
3 45 (29.80%) Agile
4 33 (21.85%) DevOps
5 32 (21.19%) Test Automation
6 27 (17.88%) Containerisation
7 24 (15.89%) Observability
7 24 (15.89%) Software Engineering
8 21 (13.91%) Low Latency
9 20 (13.25%) Event-Driven
9 20 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (13.25%) TDD
10 19 (12.58%) AI
10 19 (12.58%) Scrum
11 18 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (9.27%) Roadmaps
13 13 (8.61%) BDD
14 11 (7.28%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (30.46%) Python
2 36 (23.84%) SQL
3 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.27%) C#
6 5 (3.31%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.65%) C++
7 4 (2.65%) Ruby
7 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.32%) Go
9 2 (1.32%) ProC
9 2 (1.32%) R
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
9 2 (1.32%) Swift
10 1 (0.66%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.66%) Jython
10 1 (0.66%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.66%) VB
10 1 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.62%) Degree
3 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.66%) CCSP
5 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.66%) CISSP
5 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.66%) OSCP
5 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.99%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.99%) PSD2
3 3 (1.99%) SEPA
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) GRC
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.66%) TARGET2
System Software
1 34 (22.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) GridGain
3 1 (0.66%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 41 (27.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.93%) Grafana
3 11 (7.28%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.62%) Terraform
5 7 (4.64%) Ansible
6 2 (1.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.66%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.66%) Istio
7 1 (0.66%) Puppet
7 1 (0.66%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) Oracle
2 9 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.64%) Google
4 5 (3.31%) Splunk
5 4 (2.65%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.99%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.99%) Charles River
6 3 (1.99%) Confluent
6 3 (1.99%) Databricks
6 3 (1.99%) IBM
6 3 (1.99%) Solace
7 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.32%) Sybase
8 1 (0.66%) Adobe
8 1 (0.66%) Apple
8 1 (0.66%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.66%) Informatica
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.66%) SAP