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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 115 154 151
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.22% 8.85% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.77% 23.73% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 97 90
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £488 £465 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -7.92% +1.92%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £773
90th Percentile £791 £838 £864
Central London median daily rate £575 £605 £700
% change year-on-year -4.96% -13.57% +7.69%
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 647 649 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.37% 37.30% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 462 483
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £453 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -2.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £14.63 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £22.88 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 (5.22%) Apache Spark
1 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.48%) Confluence
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.87%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.26%) AWS
2 34 (29.57%) Azure
3 23 (20.00%) GitHub
4 12 (10.43%) GCP
5 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.48%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.48%) dbt
8 4 (3.48%) PaaS
8 4 (3.48%) Serverless
8 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.61%) Azure AI
9 3 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Multicast
1 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) VLAN
2 2 (1.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) FTP
3 1 (0.87%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.87%) RTCP
3 1 (0.87%) RTP
3 1 (0.87%) SSH
3 1 (0.87%) VoIP
3 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.61%) Big Data
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.87%) Chroma
8 1 (0.87%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Git
1 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.30%) GitLab
2 13 (11.30%) JUnit
3 8 (6.96%) Mockito
4 7 (6.09%) Gradle
4 7 (6.09%) JIRA
4 7 (6.09%) Maven
4 7 (6.09%) Postman
5 6 (5.22%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.22%) Selenium
6 4 (3.48%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.61%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.61%) eggPlant
8 2 (1.74%) Appium
8 2 (1.74%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.74%) HP UFT
8 2 (1.74%) Liquibase
General
1 48 (41.74%) Finance
2 37 (32.17%) Banking
3 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 12 (10.43%) Front Office
7 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.48%) Back Office
8 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (33.91%) Developer
2 35 (30.43%) Senior
3 26 (22.61%) Java Developer
4 21 (18.26%) Senior Developer
5 19 (16.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Architect
7 10 (8.70%) Lead
8 9 (7.83%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) React Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior React Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior UI Developer
10 6 (5.22%) UI Developer
11 5 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.30%) Spring
2 35 (30.43%) Spring Boot
3 28 (24.35%) Kafka
4 24 (20.87%) REST
5 22 (19.13%) React
6 20 (17.39%) Terraform
7 14 (12.17%) RESTful
8 13 (11.30%) Web Services
9 11 (9.57%) SOAP
10 10 (8.70%) .NET
11 9 (7.83%) HTML
12 8 (6.96%) AngularJS
12 8 (6.96%) JSON
13 7 (6.09%) Middleware
14 6 (5.22%) Node.js
14 6 (5.22%) Redux
15 5 (4.35%) XML
16 4 (3.48%) XBRL
17 3 (2.61%) CSS
17 3 (2.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 21 (18.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.96%) Equities
5 8 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (6.09%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
8 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 4 (3.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (2.61%) Client/Server
10 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.74%) Derivative
11 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Linux
2 10 (8.70%) Unix
3 5 (4.35%) Windows
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) AIX
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.04%) CI/CD
2 38 (33.04%) DevOps
3 34 (29.57%) Test Automation
4 33 (28.70%) Microservices
5 32 (27.83%) Agile
6 29 (25.22%) Containerisation
7 26 (22.61%) Software Engineering
8 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (18.26%) Observability
10 20 (17.39%) Event-Driven
10 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.78%) AI
12 16 (13.91%) TDD
13 14 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (12.17%) SDLC
14 13 (11.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (10.43%) Decision-Making
15 12 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (10.43%) Translating Business Requirements
16 11 (9.57%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) Python
2 30 (26.09%) SQL
3 21 (18.26%) JavaScript
4 20 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 16 (13.91%) C#
6 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.35%) Korn
8 4 (3.48%) Bash
8 4 (3.48%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.48%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.48%) Scala
9 3 (2.61%) Ruby
10 2 (1.74%) Bicep
10 2 (1.74%) C++
10 2 (1.74%) Go
10 2 (1.74%) R
10 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.87%) Groovy
11 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) Degree
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.87%) CISM
6 1 (0.87%) CISSP
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) ISEB
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.09%) GDPR
3 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.61%) SEPA
5 2 (1.74%) EMIR
5 2 (1.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) PSD2
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (29.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.09%) Ansible
2 7 (6.09%) Grafana
3 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.61%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.74%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.87%) Bosun
6 1 (0.87%) Control-M
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.87%) SELinux
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Oracle
2 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.09%) IBM
4 5 (4.35%) SAP
5 4 (3.48%) Databricks
5 4 (3.48%) Google
5 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.61%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.61%) Splunk
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.74%) Foundry
7 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.87%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.87%) Calypso
8 1 (0.87%) Murex
8 1 (0.87%) Sybase
8 1 (0.87%) Temenos
8 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.87%) VMware