Java Developer Contracts in London

Java Developer
England > London

The median Java Developer daily rate in London is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 108 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 -54 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 297 404 1,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.36% 2.27% 4.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 2.43% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 338 976
10th Percentile £410 £423 £481
25th Percentile £513 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £850 £800
90th Percentile £875 £938 £888
England median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.13 £73.75
% change year-on-year +35.06% -34.75% +16.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,741 16,606 25,655
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.28% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,053 12,006 18,582
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £680 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 338 289
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £76.05
England median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
% change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%

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 2025.

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 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 +16 61 £550 -5.98% 10
South London -6 9 £473 -2.58%
West London +15 2 - - 2
East London +11 1 £575 -20.42% 3
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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.

1 297 (100.00%) Java
2 121 (40.74%) Spring
3 111 (37.37%) Agile
4 110 (37.04%) Finance
5 106 (35.69%) AWS
6 96 (32.32%) SQL
7 92 (30.98%) Banking
8 88 (29.63%) Microservices
9 85 (28.62%) Spring Boot
10 76 (25.59%) TDD
10 76 (25.59%) Social Skills
10 76 (25.59%) Kafka
11 73 (24.58%) Kubernetes
11 73 (24.58%) PostgreSQL
12 72 (24.24%) Investment Banking
13 71 (23.91%) CI/CD
14 69 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (22.56%) DevOps
16 62 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
17 59 (19.87%) MongoDB
18 56 (18.86%) Docker
19 55 (18.52%) Security Cleared
19 55 (18.52%) SC Cleared
20 52 (17.51%) Software Engineering
20 52 (17.51%) Equities
20 52 (17.51%) Relational Database
21 51 (17.17%) Python
22 50 (16.84%) JUnit
23 49 (16.50%) Git
24 48 (16.16%) React

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 25 (8.42%) Apache
2 20 (6.73%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.37%) Oracle Coherence
5 8 (2.69%) GemFire
6 6 (2.02%) Confluence
7 4 (1.35%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.01%) Camunda
8 3 (1.01%) JBoss
9 2 (0.67%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.67%) nginx
10 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.69%) AWS
2 30 (10.10%) Azure
3 19 (6.40%) GCP
4 15 (5.05%) Serverless
5 14 (4.71%) dbt
6 12 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.69%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.36%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.02%) Slack
11 5 (1.68%) GitHub
12 4 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.70%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.35%) HTTP
3 2 (0.67%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (24.58%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (19.87%) MongoDB
3 52 (17.51%) Relational Database
4 28 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 22 (7.41%) Redis
6 19 (6.40%) MySQL
7 18 (6.06%) Big Data
8 14 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.71%) Apache Arrow
8 14 (4.71%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (4.71%) DB2
8 14 (4.71%) Dremio
9 12 (4.04%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.69%) KDB
11 8 (2.69%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.01%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (16.84%) JUnit
2 49 (16.50%) Git
3 39 (13.13%) Jenkins
4 24 (8.08%) Maven
5 20 (6.73%) Gradle
6 16 (5.39%) JIRA
7 13 (4.38%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.38%) Mockito
8 12 (4.04%) IntelliJ
9 10 (3.37%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (3.37%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.69%) GitLab
11 7 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.36%) Jasmine
12 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.02%) Liquibase
12 6 (2.02%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.68%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.35%) Subversion
14 4 (1.35%) TestNG
General
1 110 (37.04%) Finance
2 92 (30.98%) Banking
3 76 (25.59%) Social Skills
4 72 (24.24%) Investment Banking
5 62 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (15.82%) Front Office
7 43 (14.48%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.69%) Marketing
9 6 (2.02%) Electronics
9 6 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
13 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (40.74%) Spring
2 85 (28.62%) Spring Boot
3 76 (25.59%) Kafka
4 48 (16.16%) React
5 46 (15.49%) AngularJS
6 29 (9.76%) RESTful
7 28 (9.43%) FIX Protocol
8 22 (7.41%) Swagger
9 21 (7.07%) OpenAPI
10 19 (6.40%) REST
11 17 (5.72%) Hibernate
11 17 (5.72%) HTML
11 17 (5.72%) JMS
12 14 (4.71%) Web Services
13 13 (4.38%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (4.04%) .NET
15 10 (3.37%) Spark Streaming
15 10 (3.37%) XML
16 9 (3.03%) CSS
17 8 (2.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.51%) Equities
2 37 (12.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (11.78%) Derivative
4 24 (8.08%) Fixed Income
5 19 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.71%) Market Risk
7 10 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.69%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.36%) Cloud Native
11 6 (2.02%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.02%) State Machine
11 6 (2.02%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.15%) Linux
2 18 (6.06%) Unix
3 10 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.35%) Windows
5 3 (1.01%) Android
5 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (37.37%) Agile
2 88 (29.63%) Microservices
3 76 (25.59%) TDD
4 71 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 69 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (22.56%) DevOps
7 52 (17.51%) Software Engineering
8 44 (14.81%) Multithreading
9 40 (13.47%) Low Latency
10 37 (12.46%) Performance Tuning
11 35 (11.78%) BDD
12 34 (11.45%) Clean Code
12 34 (11.45%) SDLC
13 33 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
14 30 (10.10%) Computer Science
15 29 (9.76%) Containerisation
16 26 (8.75%) Code Quality
16 26 (8.75%) Mathematics
17 25 (8.42%) Design Patterns
18 23 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 297 (100.00%) Java
2 96 (32.32%) SQL
3 51 (17.17%) Python
4 40 (13.47%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 21 (7.07%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.70%) Scala
8 8 (2.69%) Bash
9 6 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.68%) C#
10 5 (1.68%) Perl
11 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.01%) DAML
13 2 (0.67%) C++
13 2 (0.67%) Go
13 2 (0.67%) Ruby
14 1 (0.34%) C
14 1 (0.34%) COBOL
14 1 (0.34%) JCL
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 55 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.10%) Degree
3 19 (6.40%) Numerate Degree
4 15 (5.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.34%) OCP
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.34%) PhD
6 1 (0.34%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 56 (18.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.69%) GridGain
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (24.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.05%) Terraform
3 6 (2.02%) Ansible
4 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.35%) Grafana
6 3 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (10.10%) Oracle
2 20 (6.73%) Sybase
3 10 (3.37%) Splunk
4 9 (3.03%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.36%) Solace
5 7 (2.36%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.02%) Google
6 6 (2.02%) SAP
7 5 (1.68%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.35%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.01%) IBM
10 2 (0.67%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.67%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.34%) Databricks
11 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.34%) Tradeweb