Java Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 27 19 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 34.18% 20.00% 31.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.45% 57.58% 74.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 36
10th Percentile £475 £405 £472
25th Percentile £509 £444 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £532 £606
90th Percentile £632 £538 £656
South London median daily rate £588 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +17.50% - -16.67%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 33 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 59.49% 34.74% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 47
10th Percentile £466 £400 £425
25th Percentile £505 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% -7.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £633 £538 £625
90th Percentile £730 £567 £650
South London median daily rate £558 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +11.54% -9.09% -4.35%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Croydon

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Croydon over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Croydon

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 4 (14.81%) MQSeries
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (7.41%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (18.52%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle CX
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) OCI
7 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (14.81%) Redis
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.70%) DataStage
7 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Jenkins
2 10 (37.04%) JUnit
2 10 (37.04%) Mockito
3 6 (22.22%) Git
4 5 (18.52%) Gradle
4 5 (18.52%) Liquibase
5 4 (14.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (11.11%) Maven
7 2 (7.41%) JMeter
8 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.70%) DbUnit
8 1 (3.70%) jMock
8 1 (3.70%) Postman
8 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.70%) Storybook
General
1 15 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Electronics
3 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
3 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
1 11 (40.74%) Java Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Java Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Principal Architect
6 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) Spring
2 11 (40.74%) Kafka
2 11 (40.74%) Spring Boot
3 7 (25.93%) XML
4 6 (22.22%) JSON
4 6 (22.22%) React
4 6 (22.22%) REST
5 5 (18.52%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (18.52%) Hibernate
5 5 (18.52%) OpenAPI
5 5 (18.52%) Swagger
6 4 (14.81%) EDIFACT
6 4 (14.81%) Web Services
7 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.11%) Bootstrap
7 3 (11.11%) JPA
7 3 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (11.11%) SOAP
7 3 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (7.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Replication
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Microservices
2 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 16 (59.26%) TDD
3 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
4 12 (44.44%) Agile
4 12 (44.44%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (25.93%) Migration
7 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) CQRS
7 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
7 5 (18.52%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (18.52%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (18.52%) Programme Management
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Code Quality
8 4 (14.81%) Scrum
9 3 (11.11%) SOA
9 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) SC Cleared
1 23 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
2 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 4 (14.81%) Confluent
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft