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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing Java 144 134 160
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.92% 7.52% 6.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.89% 19.06% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 75 107
10th Percentile £452 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £523 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £687 £744 £788
90th Percentile £806 £935 £879
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £645
% change year-on-year -5.98% -9.30% -7.86%

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 629 703 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.23% 39.45% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 459 542
10th Percentile £346 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -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 18 March 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 4 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.08%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.69%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (6.25%) 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%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.72%) AWS
2 32 (22.22%) Azure
3 30 (20.83%) GitHub
4 13 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (9.03%) GCP
5 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.56%) Serverless
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.08%) PaaS
10 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.64%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.47%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.47%) Tick Data
6 4 (2.78%) MySQL
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.08%) KDB
7 3 (2.08%) Kdb+
8 2 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.39%) Big Data
8 2 (1.39%) DB2
8 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.39%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.39%) Redis
9 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (21.53%) Git
2 21 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (10.42%) JIRA
4 12 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 11 (7.64%) GitLab
5 11 (7.64%) JUnit
6 8 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.17%) Maven
7 6 (4.17%) Mockito
7 6 (4.17%) Postman
8 5 (3.47%) Selenium
9 4 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.08%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.39%) Gatling
11 2 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.39%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.39%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (38.89%) Finance
2 36 (25.00%) Banking
3 32 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Front Office
5 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.08%) Legal
9 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
10 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (52.08%) Developer
2 50 (34.72%) Java Developer
3 27 (18.75%) Senior
4 19 (13.19%) Senior Developer
5 10 (6.94%) Architect
5 10 (6.94%) Java Engineer
6 9 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 9 (6.25%) Lead
7 8 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.17%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Angular Developer
11 4 (2.78%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.92%) Spring
2 27 (18.75%) React
3 23 (15.97%) Kafka
3 23 (15.97%) REST
3 23 (15.97%) Spring Boot
4 18 (12.50%) .NET
5 16 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.64%) CSS
6 11 (7.64%) HTML
7 9 (6.25%) Node.js
7 9 (6.25%) RESTful
8 8 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (5.56%) JSON
9 7 (4.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (4.17%) OSGi
10 6 (4.17%) SOAP
11 5 (3.47%) Playwright
11 5 (3.47%) Web Services
11 5 (3.47%) WireMock
12 4 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.72%) Equities
2 14 (9.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.47%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Derivative
8 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.39%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.39%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.56%) Linux
2 6 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.39%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) AIX
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.64%) Agile
1 47 (32.64%) CI/CD
2 41 (28.47%) Microservices
3 33 (22.92%) Test Automation
4 32 (22.22%) DevOps
5 25 (17.36%) Software Engineering
6 23 (15.97%) Containerisation
6 23 (15.97%) Scrum
6 23 (15.97%) TDD
7 20 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.19%) AI
8 19 (13.19%) Low Latency
8 19 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (11.81%) Observability
10 16 (11.11%) Event-Driven
11 15 (10.42%) BDD
11 15 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (9.72%) Kanban
13 12 (8.33%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (37.50%) Python
2 39 (27.08%) SQL
3 20 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.72%) C#
6 6 (4.17%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.78%) C++
7 4 (2.78%) Ruby
8 3 (2.08%) Go
8 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.39%) ProC
9 2 (1.39%) R
9 2 (1.39%) Rust
9 2 (1.39%) Swift
9 2 (1.39%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.69%) C
10 1 (0.69%) Jython
10 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.72%) Degree
2 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.39%) CBAP
4 2 (1.39%) ISEB
4 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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%) CISSP
5 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.69%) OSCP
5 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.08%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.08%) PSD2
2 3 (2.08%) SEPA
3 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.39%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.69%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.33%) Grafana
3 11 (7.64%) Ansible
4 9 (6.25%) Terraform
5 8 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (13.89%) Oracle
2 12 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.17%) Google
4 5 (3.47%) Splunk
5 4 (2.78%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.78%) Solace
6 3 (2.08%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.08%) Charles River
6 3 (2.08%) Confluent
6 3 (2.08%) Databricks
7 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.39%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.39%) Sybase
7 2 (1.39%) UiPath
8 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.69%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) Tradeweb