Java Contracts in London

Java
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 1,469 2,978 4,855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.37% 11.29% 12.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.98% 27.96% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 2,346 3,685
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £750
90th Percentile £888 £863 £838
England median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 20
10th Percentile £47.55 £35.00 £27.48
25th Percentile £49.25 £39.31 £35.94
Median hourly rate £52.50 £69.75 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +1.71% +7.15%
75th Percentile £64.53 £86.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £73.00 £90.00 £84.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £64.31
% change year-on-year -0.76% +1.85% +15.35%

All Programming Languages
London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,392 10,651 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.43% 40.37% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,883 7,975 12,516
10th Percentile £380 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £829 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 83 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.40 £28.53
25th Percentile £40.79 £50.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in London

Java
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 Java within the London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 -11 176 £650 -3.70% 66
South London +1 33 £480 -1.54% 4
East London -1 26 £520 -20.00% 28
West London +3 20 £450 -25.00% 16
Java
England

Java
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
1 124 (8.44%) Apache
2 123 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 43 (2.93%) Confluence
5 10 (0.68%) nginx
5 10 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Camunda
7 7 (0.48%) JBoss
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.48%) SAS
8 6 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.27%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) Sketch
5 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (1.36%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.82%) ION Anvil
3 8 (0.54%) Endur
4 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 5 (0.34%) Shopify
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) RMDS
8 3 (0.20%) Global One
9 2 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.14%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.068%) SAP CX
10 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 485 (33.02%) AWS
2 189 (12.87%) Azure
3 175 (11.91%) GCP
4 106 (7.22%) dbt
5 102 (6.94%) Snowflake
6 77 (5.24%) Serverless
7 71 (4.83%) GitHub
8 55 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 52 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (1.57%) OpenShift
15 21 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (1.36%) Power Platform
17 18 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
19 15 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.09%) DNS
2 13 (0.88%) Internet
2 13 (0.88%) Network Security
3 10 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.61%) Firewall
4 9 (0.61%) HTTP
5 8 (0.54%) DHCP
6 7 (0.48%) SSH
7 6 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.27%) SSL
9 3 (0.20%) IPv4
9 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.20%) VoIP
10 2 (0.14%) AMQP
10 2 (0.14%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.14%) SMS
10 2 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
2 108 (7.35%) Data Lake
3 105 (7.15%) Apache Arrow
3 105 (7.15%) Dremio
4 89 (6.06%) Apache Ignite
5 88 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (5.51%) Relational Database
6 81 (5.51%) SQL Server
7 65 (4.42%) MongoDB
8 63 (4.29%) NoSQL
9 56 (3.81%) MySQL
10 51 (3.47%) Big Data
11 49 (3.34%) KDB
12 47 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
14 32 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
15 30 (2.04%) Oracle Database
16 26 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
17 24 (1.63%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 160 (10.89%) Git
2 151 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 106 (7.22%) Selenium
4 94 (6.40%) JIRA
5 82 (5.58%) Cucumber
6 78 (5.31%) JUnit
7 59 (4.02%) Maven
8 46 (3.13%) Mockito
9 42 (2.86%) GitLab
10 39 (2.65%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.84%) JMeter
11 27 (1.84%) TestNG
12 24 (1.63%) Postman
12 24 (1.63%) REST Assured
13 23 (1.57%) WebDriver
14 21 (1.43%) Gradle
14 21 (1.43%) Subversion
15 20 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 20 (1.36%) TeamCity
16 19 (1.29%) SoapUI
General
1 521 (35.47%) Finance
2 342 (23.28%) Banking
3 264 (17.97%) Social Skills
4 242 (16.47%) Front Office
5 184 (12.53%) Investment Banking
6 137 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 27 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 24 (1.63%) Retail
10 20 (1.36%) Back Office
11 19 (1.29%) Marketing
12 16 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.48%) Law
13 7 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
13 7 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.27%) Aviation
16 4 (0.27%) German Language
16 4 (0.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 715 (48.67%) Developer
2 401 (27.30%) Java Developer
3 276 (18.79%) Senior
4 148 (10.07%) Senior Developer
5 137 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 134 (9.12%) Lead
7 115 (7.83%) Architect
8 113 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 89 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 76 (5.17%) Full Stack Developer
11 70 (4.77%) AWS Engineer
12 66 (4.49%) Software Developer
13 52 (3.54%) Java Software Engineer
14 51 (3.47%) Data Engineer
15 49 (3.34%) Python Engineer
15 49 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (3.06%) Analyst
17 45 (3.06%) Lead Developer
18 44 (3.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (17.15%) Spring
2 220 (14.98%) Spring Boot
3 154 (10.48%) REST
4 146 (9.94%) Kafka
5 143 (9.73%) React
6 110 (7.49%) gRPC
7 106 (7.22%) Protocol Buffers
8 105 (7.15%) NumPy
8 105 (7.15%) Pandas
9 101 (6.88%) SciPy
10 97 (6.60%) HTML
11 86 (5.85%) Web Services
12 85 (5.79%) .NET
13 79 (5.38%) CSS
14 76 (5.17%) Node.js
15 68 (4.63%) Hibernate
16 62 (4.22%) XML
17 60 (4.08%) AngularJS
18 58 (3.95%) RESTful
19 55 (3.74%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 186 (12.66%) Fixed Income
2 160 (10.89%) Derivative
3 153 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 130 (8.85%) Hedge funds
5 122 (8.30%) Equities
6 93 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
7 70 (4.77%) Algorithms
8 48 (3.27%) Data Structures
9 38 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 32 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (2.11%) Onboarding
13 30 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.77%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.63%) Cloud Native
16 21 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
17 19 (1.29%) Mobile App
17 19 (1.29%) Product Ownership
18 18 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
18 18 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 162 (11.03%) Linux
2 114 (7.76%) Unix
3 47 (3.20%) Windows
4 28 (1.91%) Android
5 17 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.09%) Mac OS X
7 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (36.76%) Agile
2 325 (22.12%) Software Engineering
3 299 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 274 (18.65%) DevOps
5 251 (17.09%) Microservices
6 245 (16.68%) Test Automation
7 174 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (10.62%) TDD
9 140 (9.53%) SDLC
10 128 (8.71%) Computer Science
11 124 (8.44%) Full Stack Development
12 120 (8.17%) Scrum
13 117 (7.96%) Asset Management
14 105 (7.15%) BDD
14 105 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
15 97 (6.60%) Investment Management
16 95 (6.47%) Analytics
17 88 (5.99%) Electronic Trading
18 84 (5.72%) Design Patterns
19 81 (5.51%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 514 (34.99%) Python
2 337 (22.94%) SQL
3 312 (21.24%) JavaScript
4 208 (14.16%) C#
5 173 (11.78%) TypeScript
6 108 (7.35%) C++
7 72 (4.90%) Go
8 66 (4.49%) Scala
9 65 (4.42%) Kotlin
10 61 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 59 (4.02%) PowerShell
12 41 (2.79%) Perl
13 33 (2.25%) Ruby
14 27 (1.84%) C
14 27 (1.84%) Rust
15 23 (1.57%) Bash
16 22 (1.50%) PL/SQL
17 16 (1.09%) PHP
18 15 (1.02%) Groovy
19 14 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 214 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.87%) Degree
4 66 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 12 (0.82%) PhD
7 11 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.41%) ISEB
8 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.27%) CISSP
10 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.14%) CCNP
11 2 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.14%) SANS
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.97%) QA
2 52 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 13 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 13 (0.88%) SLA
5 11 (0.75%) MiFID
6 8 (0.54%) GDPR
7 5 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.27%) GRC
9 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.068%) Basel III
10 1 (0.068%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.068%) GxP
10 1 (0.068%) NCSC
10 1 (0.068%) NIST
10 1 (0.068%) WCAG
System Software
1 190 (12.93%) Docker
2 41 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.57%) IAG
4 22 (1.50%) ACF2
4 22 (1.50%) RACF
5 13 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.34%) HDFS
8 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.068%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.068%) Firmware
9 1 (0.068%) GridGain
9 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.068%) iptables
9 1 (0.068%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.068%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 227 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 113 (7.69%) Terraform
3 58 (3.95%) Grafana
4 56 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 53 (3.61%) Ansible
6 15 (1.02%) Kibana
7 12 (0.82%) Consul
8 10 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (0.68%) Puppet
9 9 (0.61%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.61%) Opsgenie
9 9 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.48%) Packer
11 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.34%) Control-M
12 5 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.34%) Podman
13 4 (0.27%) Istio
13 4 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 159 (10.82%) Oracle
2 84 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 54 (3.68%) Google
4 46 (3.13%) ION Trading
5 39 (2.65%) IBM
6 34 (2.31%) Splunk
7 33 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.11%) SAP
9 27 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.50%) Sybase
12 17 (1.16%) Adobe
13 14 (0.95%) Databricks
13 14 (0.95%) New Relic
14 12 (0.82%) Virgin Media
15 11 (0.75%) Solace
16 10 (0.68%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.68%) PagerDuty
16 10 (0.68%) SEEBURGER