Java SE Contract Job Trends in London

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Java SE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 367 -
Rank change year-on-year -80 - -
Contract jobs citing Java SE 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.015% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £421 £353 -
25th Percentile £488 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% - -
75th Percentile £546 £563 -
90th Percentile £550 £601 -
England median daily rate £500 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +19.05% -23.64% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,303 3,924 4,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.13% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,733 3,509
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £766 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.59
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -37.04%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £67.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java SE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Java SE job vacancy trend in London

Java SE
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java SE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Java SE

Java SE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java SE in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java SE in London

Java SE
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 SE within the London region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. 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
South London - 3 £550 -
Java SE
England

Java SE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) MinIO
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (18.18%) GIS
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Gradle
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) Spring MVC
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) EJB
4 2 (18.18%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (18.18%) JSP
4 2 (18.18%) Middleware
4 2 (18.18%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
5 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 1 (9.09%) JDBC
5 1 (9.09%) JMS
5 1 (9.09%) JPA
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth
5 1 (9.09%) ODBC
5 1 (9.09%) OpenID
5 1 (9.09%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Solaris
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) MVC
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) OO
4 3 (27.27%) OOP
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Refactoring
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat