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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 144 149 161
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.30% 8.53% 7.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.53% 21.23% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 83 119
10th Percentile £428 £425 £420
25th Percentile £482 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -10.00% -3.70%
75th Percentile £614 £712 £750
90th Percentile £737 £838 £855
Central London median daily rate £530 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -9.40% -10.00% -3.70%
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 612 702 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.76% 40.21% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 463 527
10th Percentile £355 £410 £400
25th Percentile £446 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £693
90th Percentile £750 £799 £793
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £25.14 - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.65%
75th Percentile £57.91 - £50.25
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -40.06% -15.65%

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 12 May 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 6 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.39%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.69%) Camunda
4 1 (0.69%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.08%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.69%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.50%) AWS
2 34 (23.61%) Azure
3 28 (19.44%) GitHub
4 13 (9.03%) GCP
5 10 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.86%) Serverless
9 6 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) HTTP
1 2 (1.39%) Multicast
2 1 (0.69%) FTP
2 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.94%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.39%) Big Data
7 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.39%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.39%) MySQL
7 2 (1.39%) Power BI
7 2 (1.39%) Redis
7 2 (1.39%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) DB2
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Git
2 20 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.33%) JIRA
3 12 (8.33%) JUnit
4 8 (5.56%) GitLab
5 7 (4.86%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.86%) Mockito
6 6 (4.17%) Maven
7 5 (3.47%) Gradle
8 4 (2.78%) Postman
9 3 (2.08%) Selenium
10 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.39%) Gatling
10 2 (1.39%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.39%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (32.64%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Banking
3 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Front Office
5 8 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
10 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (50.69%) Developer
2 48 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 42 (29.17%) Senior
4 31 (21.53%) Senior Developer
5 19 (13.19%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (9.03%) Architect
6 13 (9.03%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Lead
8 9 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.08%) Automation Engineer
13 3 (2.08%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.08%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 3 (2.08%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.56%) Spring
2 35 (24.31%) Spring Boot
3 31 (21.53%) Kafka
3 31 (21.53%) React
4 24 (16.67%) REST
5 14 (9.72%) JSON
6 13 (9.03%) RESTful
7 11 (7.64%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.64%) HTML
8 10 (6.94%) .NET
9 9 (6.25%) CSS
9 9 (6.25%) Node.js
9 9 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (5.56%) Web Services
11 6 (4.17%) OSGi
12 5 (3.47%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.47%) J2EE
12 5 (3.47%) JMS
12 5 (3.47%) SOAP
12 5 (3.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.25%) Equities
5 6 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.47%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.39%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.39%) NHS
9 2 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.08%) Unix
3 2 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) AIX
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.81%) CI/CD
2 43 (29.86%) Microservices
3 35 (24.31%) Agile
4 31 (21.53%) DevOps
5 28 (19.44%) Containerisation
6 26 (18.06%) Software Engineering
6 26 (18.06%) Test Automation
7 24 (16.67%) Observability
8 22 (15.28%) AI
8 22 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (13.89%) Event-Driven
10 17 (11.81%) Low Latency
10 17 (11.81%) TDD
11 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 11 (7.64%) Scrum
15 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
15 10 (6.94%) Electronic Trading
15 10 (6.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) Python
2 36 (25.00%) SQL
3 22 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 12 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (2.78%) Ruby
7 3 (2.08%) C++
7 3 (2.08%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.08%) Scala
8 2 (1.39%) Go
8 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.39%) R
8 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.39%) Swift
9 1 (0.69%) C
9 1 (0.69%) Jython
9 1 (0.69%) ProC
9 1 (0.69%) VB
9 1 (0.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) Degree
3 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.69%) CCSP
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CISM
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) OSCP
5 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) QA
2 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.78%) GDPR
3 4 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.78%) SEPA
4 3 (2.08%) PSD2
5 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.39%) EMIR
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.39%) MiFID
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
5 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) TARGET2
System Software
1 36 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) GridGain
3 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 42 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.72%) Grafana
3 12 (8.33%) Terraform
4 11 (7.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.17%) Ansible
6 2 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (11.11%) Oracle
2 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.86%) Google
4 5 (3.47%) Splunk
5 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.08%) Charles River
5 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.39%) Confluent
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks
6 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.39%) IBM
6 2 (1.39%) SAP
6 2 (1.39%) Solace
6 2 (1.39%) Sybase
6 2 (1.39%) Workday
7 1 (0.69%) Adobe
7 1 (0.69%) Apple
7 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce