Java Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Java
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 14.49% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £597 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 - -
75th Percentile £868 - -
90th Percentile £938 - -
Central London median daily rate £555 £610 £688
% change year-on-year -9.02% -11.27% +5.28%

All Programming Languages
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23 17 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 33.33% 36.96% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 18
10th Percentile £393 £405 £459
25th Percentile £544 £438 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £673 £580 £694
90th Percentile £888 £650 £878
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -48.13%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Java job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Java
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the City of Westminster

Java
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Westminster - 6 £600 -
Paddington - 2 £621 -
Java
Central London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) JUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Mockito
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Gatling
3 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (30.00%) Law
1 3 (30.00%) Police
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (20.00%) React Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior UI Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Spring
1 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Micronaut
4 2 (20.00%) Next.js
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) Redux
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Equities
2 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Pair Programming
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace