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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 1,142 1,466 2,978
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.16% 8.29% 11.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.24% 22.84% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 1,154 2,342
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £813 £825 £775
90th Percentile £875 £888 £863
England median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £37.48 £47.55 £35.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £49.25 £39.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £69.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -24.73% -1.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £64.53 £86.50
90th Percentile - £73.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -13.73% -2.67% +3.15%

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 4,913 6,419 10,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.39% 36.30% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,467 4,908 7,938
10th Percentile £380 £381 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £731
90th Percentile £832 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 82
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.33
25th Percentile £35.00 £40.80 £50.11
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -14.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £63.01 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £72.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 154 £585 -10.00% 123
South London -1 27 £475 -1.04% 5
West London +7 11 £400 -11.11% 32
East London +2 8 £415 -20.16% 17
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
1 109 (9.54%) Apache
2 97 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (7.53%) Apache Spark
4 49 (4.29%) Confluence
5 15 (1.31%) Oracle Coherence
6 8 (0.70%) GemFire
6 8 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.53%) CMS
7 6 (0.53%) JBoss
8 5 (0.44%) Camunda
8 5 (0.44%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.35%) 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 (0.18%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Endur
2 9 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.70%) FLEXCUBE
4 7 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.44%) Shopify
6 3 (0.26%) BASE24
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.18%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.18%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.18%) Unica
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 451 (39.49%) AWS
2 242 (21.19%) Azure
3 131 (11.47%) GCP
4 94 (8.23%) dbt
5 78 (6.83%) Serverless
6 70 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (5.08%) OpenShift
9 58 (5.08%) Snowflake
10 46 (4.03%) GitHub
11 43 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (2.36%) Amazon S3
14 26 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.19%) Dagster
16 22 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (1.58%) Azure AKS
18 18 (1.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.28%) HTTP
2 12 (1.05%) Firewall
3 10 (0.88%) DNS
3 10 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 10 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.88%) Network Security
4 6 (0.53%) SSH
5 5 (0.44%) DHCP
5 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.35%) DOCSIS
6 4 (0.35%) Multicast
6 4 (0.35%) SNMP
6 4 (0.35%) VPN
6 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.26%) ATM
7 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.26%) Telnet
8 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
3 90 (7.88%) Apache Iceberg
3 90 (7.88%) Dremio
4 87 (7.62%) Relational Database
5 82 (7.18%) Apache Arrow
6 81 (7.09%) MongoDB
7 60 (5.25%) Apache Ignite
8 55 (4.82%) NoSQL
9 48 (4.20%) Big Data
10 44 (3.85%) Data Lake
11 37 (3.24%) MySQL
11 37 (3.24%) SQL Server
12 29 (2.54%) Redis
13 22 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.93%) DB2
13 22 (1.93%) Hadoop
14 20 (1.75%) Oracle Database
15 19 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
16 17 (1.49%) KDB
Development Applications
1 183 (16.02%) Jenkins
2 158 (13.84%) Git
3 93 (8.14%) JIRA
4 85 (7.44%) JUnit
5 56 (4.90%) GitLab
6 52 (4.55%) Selenium
7 44 (3.85%) Maven
8 39 (3.42%) Artifactory
9 37 (3.24%) Cucumber
10 35 (3.06%) Gradle
10 35 (3.06%) JMeter
11 25 (2.19%) Bitbucket
12 23 (2.01%) Mockito
12 23 (2.01%) REST Assured
12 23 (2.01%) TeamCity
13 21 (1.84%) Cypress.io
14 20 (1.75%) SonarQube
15 19 (1.66%) LoadRunner
16 18 (1.58%) Postman
17 16 (1.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 433 (37.92%) Finance
2 321 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 299 (26.18%) Banking
4 189 (16.55%) Investment Banking
5 188 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
6 177 (15.50%) Front Office
7 96 (8.41%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 26 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (1.93%) Marketing
10 22 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.66%) Back Office
12 19 (1.66%) Retail
13 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.05%) Military
14 11 (0.96%) Electronics
15 6 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 552 (48.34%) Developer
2 298 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 203 (17.78%) Senior
4 112 (9.81%) Senior Developer
5 109 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
6 106 (9.28%) Architect
6 106 (9.28%) Java Engineer
7 101 (8.84%) Software Engineer
8 93 (8.14%) Lead
9 84 (7.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 77 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 68 (5.95%) Python Engineer
12 63 (5.52%) Data Engineer
13 57 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
14 56 (4.90%) AWS Software Engineer
15 49 (4.29%) AWS Developer
16 47 (4.12%) Python Developer
17 43 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
18 42 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
19 40 (3.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (18.83%) Spring
2 188 (16.46%) Kafka
3 150 (13.13%) Spring Boot
4 144 (12.61%) React
5 103 (9.02%) .NET
6 96 (8.41%) AngularJS
7 82 (7.18%) REST
8 76 (6.65%) PySpark
9 67 (5.87%) HTML
9 67 (5.87%) RESTful
10 58 (5.08%) NumPy
10 58 (5.08%) Pandas
11 57 (4.99%) SciPy
12 53 (4.64%) CSS
13 52 (4.55%) Node.js
14 48 (4.20%) J2EE
15 42 (3.68%) Web Services
16 41 (3.59%) Protocol Buffers
17 40 (3.50%) FIX Protocol
18 39 (3.42%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 126 (11.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 106 (9.28%) Equities
3 94 (8.23%) Derivative
4 75 (6.57%) Fixed Income
5 67 (5.87%) Hedge funds
6 54 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (3.06%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (2.54%) Algorithms
10 28 (2.45%) Cloud Native
11 26 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.93%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
13 21 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.84%) Product Ownership
14 20 (1.75%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.31%) Market Risk
16 14 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.23%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 155 (13.57%) Linux
2 52 (4.55%) Windows
3 47 (4.12%) Unix
4 21 (1.84%) Android
5 16 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.44%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.088%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (38.88%) Agile
2 349 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 341 (29.86%) DevOps
4 253 (22.15%) Software Engineering
5 235 (20.58%) Microservices
6 202 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
7 155 (13.57%) Test Automation
8 150 (13.13%) TDD
9 109 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 108 (9.46%) Computer Science
11 98 (8.58%) Asset Management
12 93 (8.14%) SDLC
13 87 (7.62%) Containerisation
13 87 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 82 (7.18%) Low Latency
15 81 (7.09%) Continuous Integration
16 80 (7.01%) Electronic Trading
17 74 (6.48%) Analytics
18 73 (6.39%) Scrum
19 70 (6.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 430 (37.65%) Python
2 313 (27.41%) SQL
3 257 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 162 (14.19%) TypeScript
5 142 (12.43%) C#
6 97 (8.49%) C++
7 74 (6.48%) Go
8 57 (4.99%) Shell Script
9 44 (3.85%) Kotlin
9 44 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 43 (3.77%) Scala
11 35 (3.06%) C
11 35 (3.06%) PL/SQL
12 31 (2.71%) Bash
13 18 (1.58%) Perl
14 17 (1.49%) Groovy
14 17 (1.49%) Ruby
15 13 (1.14%) Rust
16 12 (1.05%) BeanShell
17 11 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 179 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 159 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.86%) Degree
4 55 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 21 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
8 18 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.88%) PhD
10 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.61%) OCP
11 7 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.53%) CISSP
13 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.35%) CEH
15 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.18%) QA
2 18 (1.58%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (0.88%) GDPR
5 10 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.61%) NIST
7 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.44%) SLA
9 4 (0.35%) SEPA
10 1 (0.088%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.088%) MiFID
10 1 (0.088%) PSD2
10 1 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (18.91%) Docker
2 14 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.70%) GridGain
4 6 (0.53%) OpenAM
4 6 (0.53%) OpenDJ
4 6 (0.53%) OpenIDM
5 4 (0.35%) Lustre
5 4 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.26%) iptables
7 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.088%) RACF
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
8 1 (0.088%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 256 (22.42%) Kubernetes
2 128 (11.21%) Terraform
3 61 (5.34%) Ansible
4 32 (2.80%) Grafana
5 19 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.14%) Kibana
7 11 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.88%) Istio
8 10 (0.88%) Puppet
9 9 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.61%) Control-M
11 6 (0.53%) Perfmon
12 5 (0.44%) Argo
12 5 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.44%) Podman
13 4 (0.35%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.26%) Cacti
14 3 (0.26%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.26%) Rundeck
14 3 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (10.68%) Oracle
2 81 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.54%) Splunk
4 28 (2.45%) Google
4 28 (2.45%) IBM
4 28 (2.45%) SAP
5 26 (2.28%) Sybase
6 19 (1.66%) TIBCO
7 18 (1.58%) Databricks
8 17 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 15 (1.31%) Cloudera
9 15 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.23%) ForgeRock
11 13 (1.14%) OpenLink
12 12 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.96%) Virgin Media
14 10 (0.88%) ION Trading
15 9 (0.79%) Adobe