Java Developer Contracts in South London

Java Developer
London > South London

The median Java Developer daily rate in South London is £485 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 26 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 20 28 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 8.20% 7.11% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.40% 7.67% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 7
10th Percentile £450 £453 £421
25th Percentile £463 £453 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -22.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £527 £531 £644
90th Percentile £573 £715 £660
London median daily rate £650 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 238 365 356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.54% 92.64% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 288 273
10th Percentile £235 £213 £251
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.50 £39.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.38 £41.32
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -50.44% +1.99%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.66 £54.69
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in South London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in South London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in South London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in South London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in South London

Java Developer
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 Developer within the South London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -2 19 £483 -1.03%
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
Java Developer
London

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (95.00%) SC Cleared
2 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (75.00%) AWS
3 15 (75.00%) Spring
4 14 (70.00%) Microservices
4 14 (70.00%) Spring Boot
5 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (55.00%) Docker
6 11 (55.00%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (55.00%) Agile
7 10 (50.00%) REST
8 9 (45.00%) TDD
8 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
9 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
9 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
9 8 (40.00%) Scrum
10 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
10 7 (35.00%) Web Services
10 7 (35.00%) Serverless
10 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (35.00%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (30.00%) OpenStack
11 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (30.00%) Git
11 6 (30.00%) Node.js
12 5 (25.00%) BDD
12 5 (25.00%) RESTful

Java Developer Skill Set
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 (30.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (35.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Ant
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
General
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) Spring
2 14 (70.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (50.00%) REST
4 7 (35.00%) Web Services
5 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (30.00%) Node.js
6 5 (25.00%) Kafka
6 5 (25.00%) RESTful
7 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 4 (20.00%) SOAP
8 3 (15.00%) J2EE
8 3 (15.00%) JPA
8 3 (15.00%) React
8 3 (15.00%) Spring Security
9 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
9 2 (10.00%) Guice
9 2 (10.00%) HTML
9 2 (10.00%) Mustache
10 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Microservices
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) TDD
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (25.00%) BDD
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Observability
9 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 2 (10.00%) High Availability
9 2 (10.00%) SDLC
10 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
10 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
10 1 (5.00%) Integration Patterns
10 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
10 1 (5.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk