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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 22 35 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 24.18% 24.14% 18.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.31% 50.72% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 23
10th Percentile £380 £361 £453
25th Percentile £446 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -2.05% -11.36%
75th Percentile £499 £525 £503
90th Percentile £500 £568 £625
South London median daily rate £475 £480 £488
% change year-on-year -1.04% -1.54% -7.14%

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 69 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 57.14% 47.59% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 58
10th Percentile £425 £362 £453
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £544 £625
90th Percentile £538 £583 £650
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 1 May 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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) Camunda
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle CX
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) GIS
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Redis
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (36.36%) JIRA
3 7 (31.82%) JUnit
3 7 (31.82%) Mockito
4 5 (22.73%) Gradle
4 5 (22.73%) Liquibase
5 4 (18.18%) Git
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
5 4 (18.18%) REST Assured
6 3 (13.64%) Selenium
7 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
8 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Electronics
3 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
3 5 (22.73%) Marketing
3 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Java Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior
6 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Tester
8 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) QA Tester
8 1 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Spring
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (36.36%) Kafka
4 5 (22.73%) OpenAPI
4 5 (22.73%) React
4 5 (22.73%) REST
4 5 (22.73%) Swagger
5 4 (18.18%) HTML
5 4 (18.18%) XML
6 3 (13.64%) Web Services
7 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
7 2 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.09%) jQuery
7 2 (9.09%) JSON
7 2 (9.09%) Keycloak
7 2 (9.09%) WireMock
8 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Microservices
2 15 (68.18%) TDD
3 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
7 5 (22.73%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Programme Management
7 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) API Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (13.64%) CQRS
9 3 (13.64%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
1 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Kibana
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow