Java Server Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Java Server Engineer
England > London

As of 17 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Java Server Engineer daily rate in London.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Server Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 13,358 13,119 16,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,859 8,445 12,227
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -4.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 143 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £19.25
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +11.11% -7.35%
75th Percentile £62.63 £52.25 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £68.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
% change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%

Java Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Java Server Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Java Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Server Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Server Engineer job vacancies in London

Java Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 January 2026, Java Server Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Java Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unix

Java Server Engineer Skill Set
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:

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes