Java Contracts in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 36 26 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 42.35% 23.42% 20.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 69.23% 48.15% 44.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 22
10th Percentile £451 £360 £455
25th Percentile £463 £373 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £479 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.79% -18.75%
75th Percentile £578 £525 £500
90th Percentile £627 £553 £506
South London median daily rate £523 £485 £488
% change year-on-year +7.73% -0.51% -15.22%

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 52 54 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 61.18% 48.65% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 50
10th Percentile £453 £363 £453
25th Percentile £463 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £575
90th Percentile £702 £567 £650
South London median daily rate £531 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Java in Croydon

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Croydon over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Croydon

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 5 (13.89%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) MQSeries
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Camunda
3 2 (5.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle CX
5 4 (11.11%) SaaS
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.78%) OCI
8 1 (2.78%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.67%) Redis
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (5.56%) GIS
6 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.56%) MySQL
6 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) JUnit
2 10 (27.78%) Mockito
3 7 (19.44%) Git
4 6 (16.67%) JIRA
5 5 (13.89%) Gradle
5 5 (13.89%) Liquibase
6 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 3 (8.33%) Maven
8 2 (5.56%) JMeter
8 2 (5.56%) Postman
8 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.78%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.78%) jMock
9 1 (2.78%) Selenium
9 1 (2.78%) Storybook
General
1 17 (47.22%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Electronics
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Marketing
3 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 13 (36.11%) Java Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Java Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) QA Tester
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (55.56%) Spring
2 13 (36.11%) Kafka
2 13 (36.11%) Spring Boot
3 8 (22.22%) XML
4 7 (19.44%) REST
5 6 (16.67%) JSON
5 6 (16.67%) React
6 5 (13.89%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
6 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
6 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
6 5 (13.89%) Swagger
7 4 (11.11%) EDIFACT
7 4 (11.11%) HTML
7 4 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (11.11%) Web Services
8 3 (8.33%) Bootstrap
8 3 (8.33%) JPA
8 3 (8.33%) SOAP
8 3 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 4 (11.11%) Replication
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Microservices
2 22 (61.11%) TDD
3 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (47.22%) Containerisation
5 14 (38.89%) DevOps
6 12 (33.33%) Agile
6 12 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (22.22%) Code Quality
8 7 (19.44%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.67%) CQRS
9 6 (16.67%) Design Patterns
9 6 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
9 6 (16.67%) Migration
10 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (13.89%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (13.89%) Programme Management
10 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 4 (11.11%) Analytics
11 4 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
3 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Python
4 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (86.11%) SC Cleared
1 31 (86.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (63.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.78%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Kibana
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) SAP
2 4 (11.11%) Confluent
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft