Garbage Collection Contracts in London

Garbage Collection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Garbage Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Garbage Collection over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 378 444
Rank change year-on-year +13 +66 +137
Contract jobs citing Garbage Collection 10 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.073% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.055% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 26
10th Percentile £698 £717 £525
25th Percentile £713 £741 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £825 £663
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +24.43% +0.08%
75th Percentile £838 £894 £713
90th Percentile £845 £940 £806
England median daily rate £750 £825 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +26.92% -1.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Garbage Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,653 14,416 21,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,213 15,864
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Garbage Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Garbage Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Garbage Collection in London

Garbage Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Garbage Collection in London.

Daily rate trend for Garbage Collection in London

Garbage Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Garbage Collection in London.

Hourly rate trend for Garbage Collection in London

Garbage Collection
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Garbage Collection within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London -2 1 - - 2
Garbage Collection
England

Garbage Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Multicast
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (40.00%) AWT
2 4 (40.00%) GWT
2 4 (40.00%) JMS
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Rendezvous
2 4 (40.00%) TIBCO EMS
3 3 (30.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) MyBatis
4 2 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (40.00%) Equities
3 3 (30.00%) Clustering
3 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (30.00%) Replication
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (80.00%) Multithreading
3 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) OO
4 4 (40.00%) OOD
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Market Making
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) Distributed Cache
6 2 (20.00%) Order Management
7 1 (10.00%) Algorithmic Trading
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (30.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (30.00%) Refinitiv
2 3 (30.00%) Solace