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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 110 135 152
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.09% 7.83% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.82% 21.81% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 89 92
10th Percentile £415 £411 £429
25th Percentile £481 £465 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -5.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £777
90th Percentile £797 £841 £875
Central London median daily rate £575 £610 £663
% change year-on-year -5.74% -7.92% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 654 619 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.28% 35.90% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 455 487
10th Percentile £382 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.87% -2.85%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £708
90th Percentile £775 £795 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.22% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £16.94 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -69.64% +273.33%
75th Percentile £39.38 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +38.33%

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 15 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 15 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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
1 6 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.64%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.91%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
4 1 (0.91%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.18%) AWS
2 30 (27.27%) Azure
3 21 (19.09%) GitHub
4 12 (10.91%) GCP
5 10 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.55%) Serverless
8 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.64%) dbt
8 4 (3.64%) PaaS
8 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.73%) Azure AI
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.73%) DNS
2 3 (2.73%) Multicast
2 3 (2.73%) VLAN
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.91%) RTCP
3 1 (0.91%) RTP
3 1 (0.91%) SSH
3 1 (0.91%) VoIP
3 1 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.73%) Big Data
5 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.73%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.91%) Chroma
7 1 (0.91%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.91%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Git
1 21 (19.09%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.82%) GitLab
2 13 (11.82%) JUnit
3 10 (9.09%) JIRA
4 8 (7.27%) Postman
5 7 (6.36%) Mockito
5 7 (6.36%) Selenium
6 6 (5.45%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.45%) Maven
7 5 (4.55%) Gradle
8 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.64%) SoapUI
8 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.73%) Appium
9 3 (2.73%) eggPlant
9 3 (2.73%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.82%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.82%) JMeter
General
1 55 (50.00%) Finance
2 41 (37.27%) Banking
3 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.27%) Investment Banking
5 13 (11.82%) Front Office
6 8 (7.27%) Back Office
7 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Billing
10 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Military
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Developer
2 31 (28.18%) Senior
3 24 (21.82%) Java Developer
4 19 (17.27%) Senior Developer
5 17 (15.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Lead
7 10 (9.09%) Architect
8 8 (7.27%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.45%) React Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior React Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior UI Developer
10 6 (5.45%) UI Developer
11 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Applications Support
12 4 (3.64%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.91%) Spring
2 32 (29.09%) Spring Boot
3 24 (21.82%) Kafka
4 23 (20.91%) Terraform
5 21 (19.09%) REST
6 19 (17.27%) React
7 12 (10.91%) RESTful
8 11 (10.00%) .NET
8 11 (10.00%) Web Services
9 10 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 10 (9.09%) SOAP
10 9 (8.18%) HTML
11 7 (6.36%) Middleware
12 6 (5.45%) JSON
12 6 (5.45%) Node.js
12 6 (5.45%) Redux
13 4 (3.64%) Hibernate
13 4 (3.64%) JPA
13 4 (3.64%) XBRL
13 4 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 20 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (8.18%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.27%) Equities
5 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (6.36%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (4.55%) Algorithms
8 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (3.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (2.73%) Client/Server
10 3 (2.73%) Derivative
11 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.55%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Unix
3 6 (5.45%) Windows
4 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.82%) Android
5 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.91%) AIX
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.91%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.73%) CI/CD
2 35 (31.82%) DevOps
3 33 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 30 (27.27%) Microservices
5 29 (26.36%) Agile
6 28 (25.45%) Containerisation
7 24 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (21.82%) Software Engineering
8 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.27%) Observability
10 18 (16.36%) AI
10 18 (16.36%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.64%) TDD
12 14 (12.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (11.82%) SDLC
13 13 (11.82%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (10.91%) Electronic Trading
14 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.36%) Python
2 36 (32.73%) SQL
3 23 (20.91%) JavaScript
4 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.55%) C#
6 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.55%) Bash
7 5 (4.55%) Korn
8 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.64%) Scala
9 3 (2.73%) Go
9 3 (2.73%) Ruby
10 2 (1.82%) Bicep
10 2 (1.82%) C++
10 2 (1.82%) R
10 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.82%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.91%) DAML
11 1 (0.91%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CISM
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) ISEB
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) QA
2 7 (6.36%) GDPR
3 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.73%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.73%) SEPA
6 2 (1.82%) EMIR
6 2 (1.82%) MiFID
7 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.91%) PSD2
7 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.91%) SLA
7 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (28.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (29.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.36%) Ansible
3 6 (5.45%) Grafana
4 4 (3.64%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.91%) Bosun
7 1 (0.91%) Control-M
7 1 (0.91%) Puppet
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.91%) SELinux
7 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (20.91%) Oracle
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) IBM
4 5 (4.55%) SAP
4 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.55%) Splunk
5 4 (3.64%) Databricks
5 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.64%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.82%) Foundry
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.91%) FIS
7 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.91%) Metaswitch
7 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.91%) New Relic
7 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.91%) Workday