Java Developer Contract Job Trends in East London

Java Developer
London > East London

The median Java Developer daily rate in East London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 4.46% 1.31% 4.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% 1.52% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile - - £532
25th Percentile £450 £825 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £850 £825
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +3.03% +35.25%
75th Percentile - £875 £925
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £575 £710 £700
% change year-on-year -19.01% +1.43% +3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 95 132 249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.82% 86.27% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 114 212
10th Percentile £190 £300 £188
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £650
90th Percentile £779 £657 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 -
25th Percentile £23.79 £21.13 -
Median hourly rate £28.58 £21.80 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +15.13% -29.84%
75th Percentile £54.88 £23.09 -
90th Percentile £84.82 £23.48 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in East London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in East London

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in East London

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the East London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 5 £540 -
Java Developer
London

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 East London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Maven
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MemSQL
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Graceful Degradation
3 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle