Java Contracts in London

Java
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 1,242 1,667 2,638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.56% 9.46% 10.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.32% 24.59% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 1,301 2,089
10th Percentile £400 £413 £446
25th Percentile £468 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £798 £850 £775
90th Percentile £850 £888 £863
England median daily rate £534 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.08% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 12
10th Percentile £40.08 £45.85 £47.13
25th Percentile £42.44 £49.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £50.50 £73.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -31.06% +35.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.13 £90.00
90th Percentile £61.63 £73.50 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +2.25%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,106 6,780 10,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.31% 38.49% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 5,152 7,571
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £840 £835
England median daily rate £521 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.01% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 77
10th Percentile £27.08 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £36.57 £48.60
Median hourly rate £41.66 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.69% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £72.50 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +19.05%

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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 -1 156 £585 -10.34% 478
South London +9 45 £523 +7.73% 41
East London +3 11 £415 -21.67% 17
West London -7 11 £400 -11.11% 60
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
1 101 (8.13%) Apache
2 93 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
3 79 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 52 (4.19%) Confluence
5 15 (1.21%) Oracle Coherence
6 9 (0.72%) JBoss
6 9 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.64%) GemFire
7 8 (0.64%) MQSeries
7 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.56%) Camunda
9 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.24%) IIS
12 3 (0.24%) nginx
13 2 (0.16%) CICS
13 2 (0.16%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (1.13%) Oracle BPM
3 12 (0.97%) Endur
4 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.32%) Shopify
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.16%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.081%) Findur
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 509 (40.98%) AWS
2 257 (20.69%) Azure
3 136 (10.95%) GCP
4 91 (7.33%) dbt
5 76 (6.12%) Serverless
6 71 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.75%) Snowflake
8 58 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (4.59%) GitHub
10 46 (3.70%) OpenShift
11 38 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (2.90%) Amazon S3
14 26 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
19 18 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (1.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.77%) HTTP
2 13 (1.05%) Firewall
3 8 (0.64%) HTTPS
3 8 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.56%) Network Security
5 6 (0.48%) DNS
5 6 (0.48%) SSH
6 5 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
6 5 (0.40%) Internet
6 5 (0.40%) Multicast
7 4 (0.32%) SNMP
7 4 (0.32%) VPN
7 4 (0.32%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) SMS
8 3 (0.24%) Telnet
9 2 (0.16%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.16%) LAN
10 1 (0.081%) DHCP
10 1 (0.081%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (7.49%) Relational Database
3 85 (6.84%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (6.60%) Apache Iceberg
4 82 (6.60%) Dremio
5 78 (6.28%) Apache Arrow
6 75 (6.04%) MongoDB
7 57 (4.59%) Big Data
7 57 (4.59%) NoSQL
8 51 (4.11%) Apache Ignite
9 48 (3.86%) Data Lake
10 41 (3.30%) SQL Server
11 38 (3.06%) Redis
12 35 (2.82%) MySQL
13 28 (2.25%) DB2
14 27 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (2.09%) Hadoop
15 26 (2.09%) Oracle Database
16 21 (1.69%) DynamoDB
17 19 (1.53%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 190 (15.30%) Jenkins
2 177 (14.25%) Git
3 105 (8.45%) JIRA
4 101 (8.13%) JUnit
5 61 (4.91%) GitLab
6 57 (4.59%) Maven
7 55 (4.43%) Selenium
8 46 (3.70%) Gradle
9 41 (3.30%) Cucumber
10 34 (2.74%) JMeter
10 34 (2.74%) Mockito
10 34 (2.74%) SonarQube
11 26 (2.09%) Artifactory
11 26 (2.09%) Bitbucket
12 25 (2.01%) TeamCity
13 24 (1.93%) Cypress.io
13 24 (1.93%) IntelliJ
13 24 (1.93%) REST Assured
14 21 (1.69%) Postman
15 19 (1.53%) Liquibase
General
1 489 (39.37%) Finance
2 373 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 315 (25.36%) Banking
4 220 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (15.62%) Investment Banking
6 177 (14.25%) Front Office
7 93 (7.49%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 25 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.69%) Military
10 21 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (1.53%) Marketing
11 19 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.13%) Retail
13 13 (1.05%) Electronics
14 10 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.64%) Back Office
17 6 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 608 (48.95%) Developer
2 350 (28.18%) Java Developer
3 230 (18.52%) Senior
4 150 (12.08%) Software Engineer
5 146 (11.76%) Java Engineer
6 123 (9.90%) Architect
7 122 (9.82%) Senior Developer
8 109 (8.78%) AWS Engineer
9 98 (7.89%) Lead
10 97 (7.81%) Senior Java Developer
11 88 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
12 72 (5.80%) AWS Developer
13 65 (5.23%) AWS Software Engineer
14 61 (4.91%) Python Engineer
15 58 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 52 (4.19%) Data Engineer
16 52 (4.19%) Lead Developer
16 52 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
17 50 (4.03%) Senior Java Engineer
18 47 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (19.81%) Spring
2 219 (17.63%) Kafka
3 171 (13.77%) React
4 169 (13.61%) Spring Boot
5 117 (9.42%) REST
6 116 (9.34%) AngularJS
7 100 (8.05%) .NET
8 78 (6.28%) Node.js
9 73 (5.88%) RESTful
10 68 (5.48%) NumPy
10 68 (5.48%) Pandas
11 65 (5.23%) SciPy
12 64 (5.15%) HTML
13 48 (3.86%) CSS
13 48 (3.86%) PySpark
14 47 (3.78%) SOAP
14 47 (3.78%) Web Services
15 45 (3.62%) Protocol Buffers
16 43 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
16 43 (3.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 115 (9.26%) Equities
3 98 (7.89%) Fixed Income
4 95 (7.65%) Derivative
5 77 (6.20%) Hedge funds
6 70 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (4.11%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.46%) Data Structures
9 33 (2.66%) Algorithms
10 32 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.42%) Pricing Data
12 27 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
12 27 (2.17%) Management Information System
13 26 (2.09%) Virtual Team
14 25 (2.01%) Product Ownership
15 24 (1.93%) Onboarding
16 23 (1.85%) Mobile App
17 21 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (1.69%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 156 (12.56%) Linux
2 57 (4.59%) Unix
3 51 (4.11%) Windows
4 30 (2.42%) Android
5 10 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.40%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) zOS
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (42.27%) Agile
2 399 (32.13%) CI/CD
3 334 (26.89%) DevOps
4 304 (24.48%) Software Engineering
5 290 (23.35%) Microservices
6 240 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (14.09%) TDD
8 164 (13.20%) Test Automation
9 144 (11.59%) Computer Science
10 129 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 112 (9.02%) Scrum
12 111 (8.94%) Containerisation
13 106 (8.53%) SDLC
14 102 (8.21%) Mentoring
15 94 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
16 90 (7.25%) Asset Management
17 88 (7.09%) Low Latency
18 80 (6.44%) Event-Driven
18 80 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 79 (6.36%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 477 (38.41%) Python
2 312 (25.12%) SQL
3 284 (22.87%) JavaScript
4 197 (15.86%) TypeScript
5 142 (11.43%) C#
6 116 (9.34%) C++
7 68 (5.48%) Go
8 59 (4.75%) Shell Script
9 54 (4.35%) Kotlin
10 42 (3.38%) Scala
11 40 (3.22%) PL/SQL
12 38 (3.06%) C
13 33 (2.66%) Bash
13 33 (2.66%) PowerShell
14 30 (2.42%) Perl
15 19 (1.53%) PHP
15 19 (1.53%) Ruby
16 17 (1.37%) Rust
17 16 (1.29%) Groovy
18 14 (1.13%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 196 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 172 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 158 (12.72%) Degree
4 70 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 23 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
7 13 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 13 (1.05%) PhD
8 11 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 9 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.56%) OCP
10 7 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.48%) CEH
11 6 (0.48%) CISSP
12 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.41%) QA
2 18 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (0.64%) SLA
5 7 (0.56%) GDPR
5 7 (0.56%) NIST
5 7 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.32%) SEPA
8 2 (0.16%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.16%) PMO
8 2 (0.16%) WCAG
9 1 (0.081%) FATCA
9 1 (0.081%) MiFID
9 1 (0.081%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 212 (17.07%) Docker
2 11 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.64%) GridGain
4 4 (0.32%) OpenAM
4 4 (0.32%) OpenDJ
4 4 (0.32%) OpenIDM
4 4 (0.32%) Platform Symphony
5 3 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.24%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (0.24%) iptables
5 3 (0.24%) Lustre
6 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.081%) Postfix
7 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 248 (19.97%) Kubernetes
2 118 (9.50%) Terraform
3 52 (4.19%) Ansible
4 37 (2.98%) Grafana
5 30 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.13%) Kibana
7 12 (0.97%) Puppet
8 9 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.48%) Control-M
10 6 (0.48%) Istio
10 6 (0.48%) Perfmon
11 4 (0.32%) Podman
12 3 (0.24%) Argo
12 3 (0.24%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.24%) Nagios
12 3 (0.24%) Netcool
12 3 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.24%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 135 (10.87%) Oracle
2 74 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 35 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.74%) Google
5 28 (2.25%) Sybase
6 27 (2.17%) IBM
6 27 (2.17%) Splunk
7 26 (2.09%) SAP
8 18 (1.45%) Databricks
9 16 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.29%) TIBCO
10 13 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.05%) Salesforce
11 12 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
12 11 (0.89%) OpenLink
13 10 (0.81%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.72%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.72%) Virgin Media