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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 129 161 145
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.36% 8.63% 7.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 22.33% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 97 102
10th Percentile £435 £413 £483
25th Percentile £481 £463 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £694
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -12.07% +5.92%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £766
90th Percentile £838 £829 £874
Central London median daily rate £555 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -7.50% -12.73% +4.96%
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 671 721 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.87% 38.64% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 495 509
10th Percentile £374 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -1.87% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £706
90th Percentile £765 £775 £819
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -37.36%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.33%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Camunda
5 1 (0.78%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.78%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.78%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.78%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.76%) AWS
2 34 (26.36%) Azure
3 29 (22.48%) GitHub
4 13 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.75%) GCP
6 9 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (6.98%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.20%) Serverless
8 7 (5.43%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.65%) PaaS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Multicast
2 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) FTP
3 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.78%) SSH
3 1 (0.78%) VLAN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.55%) Big Data
7 2 (1.55%) Db2
7 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.78%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) MySQL
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (17.83%) Git
1 23 (17.83%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.63%) GitLab
2 15 (11.63%) JUnit
3 10 (7.75%) JIRA
4 9 (6.98%) Mockito
5 8 (6.20%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.43%) Postman
7 6 (4.65%) Gradle
8 5 (3.88%) Maven
8 5 (3.88%) Selenium
9 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.55%) Appium
10 2 (1.55%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.55%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.55%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.78%) Introscope
11 1 (0.78%) Subversion
11 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (37.98%) Finance
2 36 (27.91%) Banking
3 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Front Office
5 13 (10.08%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Back Office
10 2 (1.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (39.53%) Developer
2 40 (31.01%) Senior
3 39 (30.23%) Java Developer
4 30 (23.26%) Senior Developer
5 28 (21.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (10.08%) Architect
7 11 (8.53%) Java Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Lead
8 8 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) React Developer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior UI Developer
9 7 (5.43%) UI Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Test Engineer
12 3 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) Spring
2 37 (28.68%) Spring Boot
3 29 (22.48%) Kafka
4 26 (20.16%) React
5 22 (17.05%) REST
6 15 (11.63%) RESTful
7 12 (9.30%) JSON
8 9 (6.98%) Web Services
9 8 (6.20%) .NET
9 8 (6.20%) Node.js
9 8 (6.20%) SOAP
10 7 (5.43%) Redux
11 6 (4.65%) WireMock
12 5 (3.88%) Middleware
13 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.10%) Gherkin
13 4 (3.10%) HTML
13 4 (3.10%) Playwright
13 4 (3.10%) PySpark
13 4 (3.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.36%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.30%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.98%) Equities
5 7 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.78%) Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.78%) NHS
8 1 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.75%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Unix
3 4 (3.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) AIX
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) CI/CD
2 39 (30.23%) DevOps
3 38 (29.46%) Microservices
4 35 (27.13%) Agile
5 33 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 29 (22.48%) Containerisation
7 26 (20.16%) Observability
8 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
9 23 (17.83%) Event-Driven
10 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.40%) Electronic Trading
11 16 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (12.40%) Low Latency
12 15 (11.63%) AI
12 15 (11.63%) TDD
13 14 (10.85%) API Design
14 12 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (7.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.33%) Python
2 30 (23.26%) SQL
3 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.73%) C#
4 19 (14.73%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.88%) Ruby
7 4 (3.10%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.33%) Go
8 3 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.33%) R
8 3 (2.33%) Scala
9 2 (1.55%) Bash
9 2 (1.55%) C++
9 2 (1.55%) Korn
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Jython
10 1 (0.78%) Rust
10 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Degree
4 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.78%) CISM
5 1 (0.78%) CISSP
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) PhD
5 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) EMIR
4 2 (1.55%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.55%) MiFID
4 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.55%) SEPA
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.78%) PSD2
5 1 (0.78%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (25.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) GridGain
2 1 (0.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.40%) Terraform
3 8 (6.20%) Grafana
4 7 (5.43%) Ansible
5 6 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.78%) Bosun
7 1 (0.78%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.78%) SELinux
7 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Oracle
2 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.65%) IBM
4 4 (3.10%) Google
4 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.10%) Splunk
5 3 (2.33%) Databricks
5 3 (2.33%) Sybase
6 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.55%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.55%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.78%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) New Relic
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Solace
7 1 (0.78%) VMware
7 1 (0.78%) Workday