Junior Java Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Junior Java Technical Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Junior Java Technical Architect daily rate in the City of London is £503, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Java Technical Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.051% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - -
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £503 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,826 1,689 2,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.96% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,022 1,603
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 21
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.25 £43.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +79.17% -31.43%
75th Percentile £48.67 £112.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £134.65 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.74% +34.62% -20.00%

Junior Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Junior Java Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Junior Java Technical Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Junior Java Technical Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft