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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Java 140 132 164
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.87% 7.39% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.54% 18.78% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 73 110
10th Percentile £454 £425 £425
25th Percentile £498 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £691 £738 £788
90th Percentile £835 £943 £879
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £640
% change year-on-year -5.98% -8.59% -8.57%
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 621 703 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.49% 39.34% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 456 545
10th Percentile £350 £413 £405
25th Percentile £425 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.35%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £775 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £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 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -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 12 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 5 (3.57%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) Ethereum
2 3 (2.14%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.71%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.14%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.71%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.86%) AWS
2 31 (22.14%) Azure
3 28 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (9.29%) GCP
5 9 (6.43%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.00%) Serverless
8 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.14%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.86%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.57%) Tick Data
5 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.86%) MySQL
6 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.14%) KDB
6 3 (2.14%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.43%) Big Data
7 2 (1.43%) DB2
7 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.43%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (20.00%) Git
2 20 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 15 (10.71%) JIRA
4 12 (8.57%) Cucumber
5 11 (7.86%) GitLab
5 11 (7.86%) JUnit
6 8 (5.71%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.29%) Maven
7 6 (4.29%) Postman
7 6 (4.29%) Selenium
8 5 (3.57%) Mockito
9 4 (2.86%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.14%) Gatling
10 3 (2.14%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.43%) Gradle
11 2 (1.43%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (40.00%) Finance
2 34 (24.29%) Banking
3 32 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 20 (14.29%) Front Office
5 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.14%) Legal
8 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Back Office
9 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (53.57%) Developer
2 49 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.29%) Senior
4 18 (12.86%) Senior Developer
5 10 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 9 (6.43%) Java Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Architect
7 8 (5.71%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (5.00%) Lead
9 6 (4.29%) Fidessa Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Angular Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.43%) Spring
2 26 (18.57%) React
3 23 (16.43%) REST
4 22 (15.71%) Kafka
5 20 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.14%) .NET
7 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.86%) CSS
8 11 (7.86%) HTML
9 9 (6.43%) Node.js
10 8 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (5.71%) RESTful
11 7 (5.00%) JSON
11 7 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (4.29%) OSGi
12 6 (4.29%) XML
13 5 (3.57%) Playwright
13 5 (3.57%) SOAP
13 5 (3.57%) Web Services
13 5 (3.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 15 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (9.29%) Equities
3 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.14%) Derivative
8 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.43%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.71%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.43%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Unix
3 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.43%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) AIX
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.29%) Agile
2 44 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 37 (26.43%) Microservices
4 32 (22.86%) DevOps
5 31 (22.14%) Test Automation
6 25 (17.86%) Scrum
7 24 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 22 (15.71%) TDD
9 21 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 20 (14.29%) Low Latency
11 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.86%) AI
12 18 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (10.71%) Kanban
13 15 (10.71%) Observability
14 14 (10.00%) BDD
15 12 (8.57%) Computer Science
15 12 (8.57%) Event-Driven
15 12 (8.57%) Order Management
15 12 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (35.71%) Python
2 40 (28.57%) SQL
3 20 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.14%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.71%) C#
6 6 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.86%) C++
8 3 (2.14%) Go
8 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.43%) ProC
9 2 (1.43%) Ruby
9 2 (1.43%) Rust
9 2 (1.43%) Swift
9 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.71%) Jython
10 1 (0.71%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.71%) Solidity
10 1 (0.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) Degree
4 10 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CBAP
6 2 (1.43%) ISEB
6 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) OSCP
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.57%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.14%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.14%) PSD2
3 3 (2.14%) SEPA
4 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.43%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) TARGET2
System Software
1 28 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (24.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.57%) Grafana
3 11 (7.86%) Ansible
4 8 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.71%) Terraform
5 2 (1.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.71%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.71%) Istio
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Oracle
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.29%) Google
3 6 (4.29%) Splunk
4 4 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.86%) Solace
5 3 (2.14%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.14%) Charles River
5 3 (2.14%) Confluent
5 3 (2.14%) Databricks
6 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.43%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.43%) Sybase
6 2 (1.43%) UiPath
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe
7 1 (0.71%) Apple
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) SAP