Java Contracts in South London

Java
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 34 49 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 14.11% 12.47% 17.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.53% 29.17% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 52
10th Percentile £361 £453 £341
25th Percentile £401 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £625
90th Percentile £591 £760 £733
London median daily rate £600 £650 £635
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.36% +10.43%

All Programming Languages
South London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 168 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 35.68% 42.75% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 131 122
10th Percentile £363 £450 £340
25th Percentile £425 £481 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £567 £706 £638
90th Percentile £620 £900 £700
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £37.83 - £32.76
25th Percentile £38.95 - £45.15
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +3.79% +0.77%
75th Percentile £48.37 - -
90th Percentile £49.28 £51.95 £52.97
London median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.17% +15.00% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in South London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in South London.

Daily rate trend for Java in South London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in South London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in South London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Java in South London

Java
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Croydon +6 32 £475 -2.56% 3
Bromley +1 1 £800 +20.75% 1
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 6 (17.65%) OpenStack
2 5 (14.71%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) JBoss
4 1 (2.94%) nginx
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (32.35%) Amazon S3
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (20.59%) Serverless
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (14.71%) Route 53
6 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.94%) Azure
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (23.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.94%) Flink
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (41.18%) Git
3 6 (17.65%) JIRA
4 5 (14.71%) JUnit
5 2 (5.88%) JMeter
6 1 (2.94%) Ant
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Mockito
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 14 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Developer
2 19 (55.88%) Java Developer
3 10 (29.41%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Developer in Test
7 1 (2.94%) ETL Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Junior
7 1 (2.94%) Junior DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) React Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (55.88%) Spring
2 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
3 15 (44.12%) REST
4 9 (26.47%) Hibernate
5 8 (23.53%) JPA
5 8 (23.53%) Spring Security
6 7 (20.59%) Web Services
7 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (17.65%) Node.js
8 5 (14.71%) HTML
8 5 (14.71%) Kafka
8 5 (14.71%) RESTful
9 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
9 4 (11.76%) CSS
9 4 (11.76%) J2EE
9 4 (11.76%) React
9 4 (11.76%) SOAP
10 2 (5.88%) Apache Camel
10 2 (5.88%) Mustache
11 1 (2.94%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.94%) Derivative
2 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Agile
2 16 (47.06%) Microservices
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 13 (38.24%) Scrum
5 12 (35.29%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (29.41%) TDD
7 8 (23.53%) Observability
8 6 (17.65%) BDD
8 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
8 6 (17.65%) Kanban
9 5 (14.71%) High Availability
9 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (14.71%) Service Design
10 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (8.82%) Static Code Analysis
11 2 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) C
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) Go
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) Rust
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (91.18%) Security Cleared
2 30 (88.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 6 (17.65%) Grafana
4 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.76%) Ansible
6 2 (5.88%) Kibana
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
7 1 (2.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.94%) Splunk