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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 1,169 1,455 3,133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.32% 8.16% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.57% 22.63% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 1,146 2,452
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £601 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -7.50% +2.36%
75th Percentile £813 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £879 £863
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £38.13 - £35.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £49.25 £36.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £56.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +11.88% -28.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.52 £74.88
90th Percentile £54.75 £73.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 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 +1 158 £585 -10.00% 122
South London 0 27 £475 -1.04% 4
West London +4 11 £400 -11.11% 35
East London -2 7 £415 -21.67% 18
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
1 108 (9.24%) Apache
2 95 (8.13%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (7.87%) Apache Spark
4 50 (4.28%) Confluence
5 14 (1.20%) Oracle Coherence
6 8 (0.68%) GemFire
6 8 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.51%) CMS
7 6 (0.51%) JBoss
8 5 (0.43%) Camunda
8 5 (0.43%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.26%) CICS
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Endur
1 9 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.60%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.43%) Shopify
5 3 (0.26%) BASE24
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.26%) Unica
6 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.17%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle TCA
7 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 467 (39.95%) AWS
2 237 (20.27%) Azure
3 135 (11.55%) GCP
4 92 (7.87%) dbt
5 77 (6.59%) Serverless
6 70 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (5.22%) OpenShift
9 57 (4.88%) Snowflake
10 45 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (3.76%) GitHub
12 37 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (2.40%) Amazon S3
14 27 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (2.22%) Dagster
16 24 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (1.71%) PaaS
18 19 (1.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.14%) HTTP
2 11 (0.94%) Firewall
2 11 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
3 10 (0.86%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.86%) Network Security
4 9 (0.77%) DNS
5 6 (0.51%) SSH
6 5 (0.43%) DHCP
6 5 (0.43%) Multicast
6 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.34%) DOCSIS
7 4 (0.34%) SNMP
7 4 (0.34%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.26%) ATM
8 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.26%) Telnet
8 3 (0.26%) VPN
9 2 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
3 88 (7.53%) Apache Iceberg
3 88 (7.53%) Dremio
4 86 (7.36%) MongoDB
5 83 (7.10%) Relational Database
6 79 (6.76%) Apache Arrow
7 58 (4.96%) Apache Ignite
7 58 (4.96%) NoSQL
8 51 (4.36%) Big Data
9 43 (3.68%) Data Lake
10 37 (3.17%) MySQL
11 36 (3.08%) SQL Server
12 26 (2.22%) Redis
13 24 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (1.88%) Hadoop
15 20 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
15 20 (1.71%) DB2
16 19 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
16 19 (1.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (15.74%) Jenkins
2 157 (13.43%) Git
3 94 (8.04%) JIRA
4 84 (7.19%) JUnit
5 61 (5.22%) GitLab
6 54 (4.62%) Selenium
7 46 (3.93%) Maven
8 40 (3.42%) Artifactory
9 36 (3.08%) Cucumber
10 35 (2.99%) JMeter
11 33 (2.82%) Gradle
12 25 (2.14%) Bitbucket
13 24 (2.05%) REST Assured
13 24 (2.05%) TeamCity
14 23 (1.97%) Mockito
15 22 (1.88%) Cypress.io
16 20 (1.71%) Postman
16 20 (1.71%) SonarQube
17 19 (1.63%) LoadRunner
18 15 (1.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 433 (37.04%) Finance
2 313 (26.78%) Social Skills
3 302 (25.83%) Banking
4 188 (16.08%) Investment Banking
5 186 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
6 181 (15.48%) Front Office
7 97 (8.30%) Public Sector
8 29 (2.48%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.14%) Marketing
11 22 (1.88%) Retail
11 22 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.63%) Back Office
12 19 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.94%) Electronics
14 11 (0.94%) Military
15 6 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 542 (46.36%) Developer
2 294 (25.15%) Java Developer
3 202 (17.28%) Senior
4 111 (9.50%) AWS Engineer
4 111 (9.50%) Java Engineer
5 109 (9.32%) Senior Developer
6 106 (9.07%) Architect
6 106 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 96 (8.21%) Lead
8 81 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 80 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 74 (6.33%) Python Engineer
11 69 (5.90%) Data Engineer
12 56 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
13 54 (4.62%) AWS Software Engineer
14 47 (4.02%) AWS Developer
15 45 (3.85%) Python Developer
16 42 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
17 41 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (3.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (18.82%) Spring
2 194 (16.60%) Kafka
3 153 (13.09%) Spring Boot
4 140 (11.98%) React
5 101 (8.64%) .NET
6 95 (8.13%) AngularJS
7 78 (6.67%) REST
8 77 (6.59%) PySpark
9 68 (5.82%) RESTful
10 67 (5.73%) HTML
11 56 (4.79%) NumPy
11 56 (4.79%) Pandas
12 54 (4.62%) SciPy
13 53 (4.53%) CSS
14 50 (4.28%) J2EE
15 49 (4.19%) Node.js
16 40 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
16 40 (3.42%) Web Services
17 39 (3.34%) gRPC
18 38 (3.25%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 103 (8.81%) Equities
3 94 (8.04%) Derivative
4 72 (6.16%) Fixed Income
5 64 (5.47%) Hedge funds
6 59 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 33 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.74%) Algorithms
10 28 (2.40%) Cloud Native
11 27 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
11 27 (2.31%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.88%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.63%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.20%) Market Risk
16 13 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 150 (12.83%) Linux
2 51 (4.36%) Windows
3 43 (3.68%) Unix
4 22 (1.88%) Android
5 16 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.086%) Solaris
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (37.98%) Agile
2 351 (30.03%) CI/CD
3 345 (29.51%) DevOps
4 263 (22.50%) Software Engineering
5 236 (20.19%) Microservices
6 199 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (13.34%) Test Automation
8 147 (12.57%) TDD
9 113 (9.67%) Computer Science
10 106 (9.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 98 (8.38%) Asset Management
12 93 (7.96%) SDLC
13 89 (7.61%) Containerisation
14 88 (7.53%) Mentoring
15 84 (7.19%) Low Latency
16 83 (7.10%) Continuous Integration
17 79 (6.76%) Electronic Trading
18 76 (6.50%) Analytics
19 75 (6.42%) Data Engineering
20 74 (6.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 442 (37.81%) Python
2 316 (27.03%) SQL
3 259 (22.16%) JavaScript
4 159 (13.60%) TypeScript
5 142 (12.15%) C#
6 102 (8.73%) C++
7 80 (6.84%) Go
8 59 (5.05%) Shell Script
9 54 (4.62%) Scala
10 45 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 45 (3.85%) PowerShell
11 39 (3.34%) C
12 33 (2.82%) PL/SQL
13 32 (2.74%) Bash
14 18 (1.54%) Perl
15 17 (1.45%) Groovy
15 17 (1.45%) Ruby
16 13 (1.11%) Rust
17 12 (1.03%) BeanShell
18 11 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 184 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 164 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 127 (10.86%) Degree
4 58 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 18 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
9 14 (1.20%) PhD
10 8 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.60%) OCP
11 7 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.51%) CISSP
13 4 (0.34%) CEH
14 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.01%) QA
2 20 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (0.86%) GDPR
5 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.60%) NIST
8 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (0.51%) SLA
9 5 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.26%) SEPA
11 1 (0.086%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.086%) MiFID
11 1 (0.086%) PSD2
11 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.086%) WCAG
System Software
1 223 (19.08%) Docker
2 14 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.68%) GridGain
4 6 (0.51%) OpenAM
4 6 (0.51%) OpenDJ
4 6 (0.51%) OpenIDM
5 4 (0.34%) Lustre
5 4 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
5 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.26%) iptables
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.086%) RACF
7 1 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.086%) vSphere
7 1 (0.086%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 269 (23.01%) Kubernetes
2 137 (11.72%) Terraform
3 60 (5.13%) Ansible
4 33 (2.82%) Grafana
5 20 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.11%) Istio
7 13 (1.11%) Kibana
8 9 (0.77%) Puppet
9 8 (0.68%) Argo
9 8 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.60%) Control-M
11 6 (0.51%) Perfmon
12 5 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.43%) Podman
13 4 (0.34%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.26%) Cacti
14 3 (0.26%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.26%) Rundeck
14 3 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (10.27%) Oracle
2 80 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 31 (2.65%) Google
3 31 (2.65%) Splunk
4 28 (2.40%) IBM
4 28 (2.40%) SAP
5 24 (2.05%) Sybase
6 20 (1.71%) Databricks
7 18 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.54%) TIBCO
8 17 (1.45%) Cloudera
9 15 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 15 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.20%) ForgeRock
10 14 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.11%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.86%) ION Trading
12 10 (0.86%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.77%) Adobe
13 9 (0.77%) Informatica