Java Developer Contracts in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 58 50
Rank change year-on-year -54 -8 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 402 1,142 1,915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.26% 4.25% 4.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 4.46% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 965 1,568
10th Percentile £422 £481 £475
25th Percentile £513 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £775
90th Percentile £913 £888 £863
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £77.18
Median % change year-on-year - +16.61% +13.50%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £64.13
% change year-on-year -34.75% +15.01% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in London

Java Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 -51 45 £585 -19.31% 9
South London +5 20 £485 -0.51%
East London -10 4 £723 +11.15% 1
West London +14 3 £425 -38.18% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 402 (100.00%) Java
2 162 (40.30%) Agile
3 143 (35.57%) Finance
4 125 (31.09%) Spring
5 115 (28.61%) AWS
6 113 (28.11%) Spring Boot
7 112 (27.86%) Banking
8 101 (25.12%) Microservices
9 91 (22.64%) Front Office
10 85 (21.14%) Security Cleared
11 82 (20.40%) CI/CD
12 80 (19.90%) SC Cleared
13 74 (18.41%) TDD
14 69 (17.16%) SQL
14 69 (17.16%) REST
15 68 (16.92%) Docker
16 66 (16.42%) Investment Banking
17 65 (16.17%) DevOps
18 63 (15.67%) Kafka
19 62 (15.42%) Social Skills
20 60 (14.93%) Jenkins
21 58 (14.43%) Python
22 56 (13.93%) Fixed Income
22 56 (13.93%) Electronic Trading
23 54 (13.43%) Kubernetes
24 52 (12.94%) SDLC
24 52 (12.94%) Oracle
25 49 (12.19%) JUnit
25 49 (12.19%) Test Automation
26 48 (11.94%) Software Engineering

Java Developer Skill Set
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 29 (7.21%) Apache
2 13 (3.23%) Confluence
3 12 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.74%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.49%) SAS
6 4 (1.00%) JBoss
6 4 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) GemFire
8 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.99%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.50%) RMDS
3 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (28.61%) AWS
2 45 (11.19%) GCP
3 30 (7.46%) Serverless
4 29 (7.21%) Azure
5 23 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.23%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (2.99%) dbt
10 9 (2.24%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.99%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (1.24%) GitHub
14 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.75%) Cloud Run
16 2 (0.50%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) SSH
2 3 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (8.21%) MongoDB
3 30 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.97%) KDB
5 19 (4.73%) Oracle Database
6 18 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.48%) MySQL
8 13 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.23%) Flink
8 13 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.99%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
9 12 (2.99%) Dremio
10 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (14.93%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.19%) JUnit
3 43 (10.70%) Git
4 39 (9.70%) Mockito
5 29 (7.21%) JIRA
6 25 (6.22%) Cucumber
7 24 (5.97%) Maven
8 18 (4.48%) GitLab
9 15 (3.73%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.74%) Selenium
11 6 (1.49%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.24%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.24%) TestNG
13 4 (1.00%) EasyMock
13 4 (1.00%) Gradle
13 4 (1.00%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.75%) Hamcrest
14 3 (0.75%) Liquibase
14 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 143 (35.57%) Finance
2 112 (27.86%) Banking
3 91 (22.64%) Front Office
4 66 (16.42%) Investment Banking
5 62 (15.42%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (7.21%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.00%) Back Office
9 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.50%) Electronics
11 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (31.09%) Spring
2 113 (28.11%) Spring Boot
3 69 (17.16%) REST
4 63 (15.67%) Kafka
5 45 (11.19%) Hibernate
6 37 (9.20%) JPA
7 35 (8.71%) React
8 27 (6.72%) JAX-RS
9 25 (6.22%) ActiveMQ
9 25 (6.22%) AngularJS
10 24 (5.97%) HTML
11 23 (5.72%) FIX Protocol
11 23 (5.72%) Web Services
12 20 (4.98%) RESTful
13 19 (4.73%) CSS
13 19 (4.73%) Node.js
14 17 (4.23%) JSON
15 15 (3.73%) Protocol Buffers
15 15 (3.73%) XML
16 13 (3.23%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.93%) Fixed Income
2 47 (11.69%) Derivative
3 42 (10.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.22%) Credit Derivative
5 21 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.22%) Hedge funds
6 19 (4.73%) Equities
7 17 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (3.98%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.73%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.48%) Algorithms
10 14 (3.48%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (2.74%) Onboarding
12 10 (2.49%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.99%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.69%) Linux
2 36 (8.96%) Unix
3 16 (3.98%) Mac OS X
4 7 (1.74%) Windows
5 3 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (40.30%) Agile
2 101 (25.12%) Microservices
3 82 (20.40%) CI/CD
4 74 (18.41%) TDD
5 65 (16.17%) DevOps
6 56 (13.93%) Electronic Trading
7 52 (12.94%) SDLC
8 49 (12.19%) Test Automation
9 48 (11.94%) Full Stack Development
9 48 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (11.94%) Software Engineering
10 43 (10.70%) Computer Science
10 43 (10.70%) Scrum
11 41 (10.20%) Multithreading
12 39 (9.70%) BDD
12 39 (9.70%) Low Latency
13 34 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (6.97%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.47%) OO
16 25 (6.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 402 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (17.16%) SQL
3 58 (14.43%) Python
4 39 (9.70%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.47%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.73%) Perl
7 14 (3.48%) C#
8 11 (2.74%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.74%) Scala
9 9 (2.24%) C++
9 9 (2.24%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.00%) VBA
12 3 (0.75%) Bash
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 2 (0.50%) Haskell
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 85 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 80 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.45%) Degree
4 21 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.74%) PhD
7 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.74%) QA
2 5 (1.24%) MiFID
3 4 (1.00%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (16.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.25%) GridGain
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 54 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.22%) Terraform
3 14 (3.48%) Ansible
4 8 (1.99%) Grafana
5 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.50%) Istio
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
7 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 52 (12.94%) Oracle
2 23 (5.72%) ION Trading
3 22 (5.47%) Google
4 14 (3.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.24%) Solace
6 6 (1.49%) IBM
6 6 (1.49%) Splunk
6 6 (1.49%) TIBCO
7 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.75%) Sybase
7 3 (0.75%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.50%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) SAP
8 2 (0.50%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.50%) WSO2
9 1 (0.25%) Databricks