Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £598 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 29 37
Rank change year-on-year -69 +8 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 35 242 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.57% 6.54% 5.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 6.87% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 200 206
10th Percentile £348 £522 £513
25th Percentile £425 £613 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £738 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% +9.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £750 £816 £738
90th Percentile £879 £950 £835
Central London median daily rate £598 £738 £675
% change year-on-year -18.96% +9.26% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,116 3,524 4,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.24% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,380 3,073
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.66 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the City of London

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (51.43%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Microservices
4 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 10 (28.57%) Banking
4 10 (28.57%) Spring
5 9 (25.71%) AWS
5 9 (25.71%) TDD
5 9 (25.71%) Front Office
6 8 (22.86%) Kafka
7 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 7 (20.00%) Linux
7 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (17.14%) Docker
8 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) JAX-RS
8 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (17.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 5 (14.29%) BDD
9 5 (14.29%) Mockito
9 5 (14.29%) Multithreading
9 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 5 (14.29%) Unix
9 5 (14.29%) C#
9 5 (14.29%) SQL
9 5 (14.29%) Python
9 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
9 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
9 5 (14.29%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) MQSeries
1 1 (2.86%) nginx
1 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (2.86%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) KDB
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) DB2
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 5 (14.29%) Mockito
2 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.86%) EasyMock
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) TestNG
General
1 10 (28.57%) Banking
2 9 (25.71%) Front Office
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Investment Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Finance
6 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Automotive
8 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
1 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 8 (22.86%) Kafka
3 6 (17.14%) JAX-RS
4 4 (11.43%) REST
5 3 (8.57%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (8.57%) SAML
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.71%) CSS
6 2 (5.71%) GWT
6 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.71%) HTML
6 2 (5.71%) JPA
6 2 (5.71%) Restlet
6 2 (5.71%) Web Services
7 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.86%) Mustache
7 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.86%) React
7 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.71%) Equities
2 2 (5.71%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
3 4 (11.43%) Mac OS X
4 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Microservices
3 9 (25.71%) TDD
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 5 (14.29%) BDD
5 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Pair Programming
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (8.57%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (8.57%) Web Design
7 3 (8.57%) Web Development
8 2 (5.71%) Static Code Analysis
8 2 (5.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) C#
2 5 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) C++
3 2 (5.71%) PHP
3 2 (5.71%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Go
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) QA
1 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Google
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.71%) Sybase
2 1 (2.86%) Advent
2 1 (2.86%) Eze Castle Integration
2 1 (2.86%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.86%) Solace
2 1 (2.86%) TIBCO