Java SE Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java SE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java SE 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £543 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Croydon

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 61 50 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 43.26% 60.24% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 28 28
10th Percentile £469 £469 £408
25th Percentile £500 £502 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £541 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +7.18% -3.81%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £543
90th Percentile £556 £725 £567
South London median daily rate £537 £600 £512
% change year-on-year -10.50% +17.24% -3.44%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Java SE job vacancy trend in Croydon

Java SE
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Java SE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Google