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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -19
Contract jobs citing Java 136 150 191
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.51% 6.98% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.22% 19.89% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 83 133
10th Percentile £413 £477 £415
25th Percentile £519 £527 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £695 £804 £800
90th Percentile £856 £923 £875
Central London median daily rate £636 £650 £651
% change year-on-year -2.15% -0.15% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £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 641 754 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.39% 35.09% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 478 647
10th Percentile £382 £406 £400
25th Percentile £436 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £724
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £563 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.29% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +135.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.82% -12.63% -9.52%

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 26 November 2025.

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 7 (5.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.74%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.74%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) Luigi
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.74%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.74%) Summit
2 1 (0.74%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.56%) AWS
2 32 (23.53%) Azure
3 22 (16.18%) GCP
4 15 (11.03%) GitHub
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.15%) Serverless
7 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.68%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.94%) Slack
10 3 (2.21%) SaaS
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon Neptune
11 2 (1.47%) Apigee
11 2 (1.47%) Figma
11 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) DKIM
1 1 (0.74%) DNS
1 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.74%) HTTP
1 1 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.56%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.35%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
4 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.68%) KDB
6 4 (2.94%) DB2
6 4 (2.94%) MemSQL
6 4 (2.94%) MySQL
6 4 (2.94%) Power BI
6 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.21%) DataStage
7 3 (2.21%) Sybase IQ
7 3 (2.21%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.47%) Big Data
8 2 (1.47%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 30 (22.06%) Git
2 15 (11.03%) Bitbucket
2 15 (11.03%) JIRA
3 14 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.82%) Selenium
5 10 (7.35%) GitLab
5 10 (7.35%) Maven
6 9 (6.62%) Cucumber
7 8 (5.88%) Gradle
8 6 (4.41%) JUnit
9 5 (3.68%) Postman
9 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.94%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.21%) Mockito
11 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.47%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (39.71%) Finance
2 32 (23.53%) Banking
2 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.24%) Front Office
4 12 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.21%) Back Office
8 3 (2.21%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Automotive
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (50.74%) Developer
2 44 (32.35%) Java Developer
3 18 (13.24%) Senior
4 16 (11.76%) Lead
5 9 (6.62%) Angular Developer
6 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Architect
7 6 (4.41%) Lead Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Consultant
8 5 (3.68%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Java Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) KDB Developer
10 3 (2.21%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (2.21%) Principal Developer
10 3 (2.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.91%) Spring
2 21 (15.44%) REST
3 20 (14.71%) Spring Boot
4 19 (13.97%) React
5 16 (11.76%) .NET
6 15 (11.03%) AngularJS
7 14 (10.29%) Kafka
8 11 (8.09%) Node.js
9 8 (5.88%) XML
10 7 (5.15%) RESTful
11 6 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.41%) HTML
11 6 (4.41%) Web Services
12 5 (3.68%) CSS
12 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.68%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.94%) ZK
14 3 (2.21%) JPA
14 3 (2.21%) jQuery
14 3 (2.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.41%) Equities
5 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.94%) Derivative
6 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.74%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Linux
2 9 (6.62%) Unix
3 5 (3.68%) Windows
4 4 (2.94%) Android
5 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.91%) Agile
2 36 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.53%) Scrum
5 30 (22.06%) DevOps
6 27 (19.85%) Microservices
6 27 (19.85%) Software Engineering
7 26 (19.12%) Test Automation
8 21 (15.44%) Kanban
9 20 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (14.71%) TDD
10 18 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 18 (13.24%) SDLC
11 16 (11.76%) Low Latency
12 14 (10.29%) Migration
13 13 (9.56%) BDD
13 13 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.56%) Event-Driven
14 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.76%) Python
2 36 (26.47%) SQL
3 17 (12.50%) C#
4 16 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.15%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.41%) C++
8 4 (2.94%) Go
9 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.21%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.47%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.47%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.47%) Rust
10 2 (1.47%) Swift
11 1 (0.74%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.74%) R
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
11 1 (0.74%) Solidity
11 1 (0.74%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.56%) Degree
2 10 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.47%) CBAP
5 2 (1.47%) CISSP
5 2 (1.47%) ISEB
5 2 (1.47%) SANS
6 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CRISC
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) OSCP
6 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.74%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (15.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.82%) Terraform
3 9 (6.62%) Ansible
4 4 (2.94%) Argo
5 3 (2.21%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (1.47%) Grafana
6 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.74%) Istio
7 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 17 (12.50%) Oracle
2 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.62%) Google
4 4 (2.94%) Solace
5 3 (2.21%) Altiris
5 3 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (2.21%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.21%) Ivanti
5 3 (2.21%) Symantec
5 3 (2.21%) UiPath
5 3 (2.21%) VMware
6 2 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.47%) IBM
6 2 (1.47%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.47%) Splunk
6 2 (1.47%) Sybase
7 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.74%) Kony