Java Contracts in East London

Java
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Java 15 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 12.93% 11.70% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 27.16% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 19
10th Percentile £261 £285 £500
25th Percentile £401 £418 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% -20.00% +28.71%
75th Percentile £525 £618 £794
90th Percentile £887 £644 £885
London median daily rate £610 £639 £625
% change year-on-year -4.50% +2.20% -3.85%

All Programming Languages
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 81 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 31.03% 43.09% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 76 51
10th Percentile £350 £300 £380
25th Percentile £415 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £529 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -0.98% +12.42%
75th Percentile £586 £593 £781
90th Percentile £691 £719 £950
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £36.00
London median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +14.29%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in East London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in East London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in East London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in East London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Java in East London

Java
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 within the East London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +10 10 £450 -16.67%
Docklands, London +4 2 £900 +23.08%
Java
London

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Endur
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) MemSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (13.33%) Ant
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) Toad
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
4 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) NeoLoad
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Automotive
3 3 (20.00%) Back Office
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Endur Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) OpenLink Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 4 (26.67%) XML
3 3 (20.00%) React
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) Swagger
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) EDI
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (13.33%) Sass
4 2 (13.33%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) JMS
5 1 (6.67%) JPA
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (20.00%) Grid Computing
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) AIX
2 2 (13.33%) Android
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) ETRM
6 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
6 4 (26.67%) Multithreading
7 3 (20.00%) API Design
7 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
7 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Korn
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SEPA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (20.00%) Ansible
5 2 (13.33%) Grafana
6 1 (6.67%) Kibana
6 1 (6.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Hitachi
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Perforce
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk