Java Developer Contracts in South London

Java Developer
London > South London

The median Java Developer daily rate in South London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 24 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 16 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 9.30% 8.89% 5.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.32% 9.14% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £458 £460 -
25th Percentile £468 £469 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -22.00%
75th Percentile £546 £575 £500
90th Percentile £549 £628 £695
London median daily rate £575 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -20.69% +3.57% +3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 155 175 327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 97.22% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 122 243
10th Percentile £213 £363 £279
25th Percentile £381 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -5.30% +0.86%
75th Percentile £630 £558 £606
90th Percentile £703 £724 £688
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -61.32% +14.94%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile - £73.75 £65.11
London median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%

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
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 August 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
Croydon +5 15 £520 +5.32% 1
Java Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 15 (93.75%) Microservices
3 14 (87.50%) Docker
4 13 (81.25%) TDD
5 12 (75.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
6 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
7 10 (62.50%) Public Sector
8 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
9 8 (50.00%) Code Quality
9 8 (50.00%) GCP
9 8 (50.00%) CQRS
9 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
9 8 (50.00%) Azure
10 7 (43.75%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
11 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
11 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (31.25%) Agile
12 5 (31.25%) JUnit
12 5 (31.25%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (31.25%) REST
12 5 (31.25%) Mockito
13 4 (25.00%) Amazon SQS

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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
7 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) GIS
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) JUnit
2 5 (31.25%) Mockito
3 4 (25.00%) Git
3 4 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (18.75%) Maven
5 2 (12.50%) JMeter
6 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
6 1 (6.25%) jMock
General
1 10 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Front Office
2 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (31.25%) REST
4 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) Bootstrap
5 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) JPA
5 3 (18.75%) SOAP
5 3 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
6 2 (12.50%) jQuery
6 2 (12.50%) JSON
6 2 (12.50%) WireMock
7 1 (6.25%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
7 1 (6.25%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Microservices
2 13 (81.25%) TDD
3 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
5 8 (50.00%) Code Quality
5 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (50.00%) CQRS
5 8 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (43.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (31.25%) Agile
8 4 (25.00%) DevOps
9 3 (18.75%) BDD
9 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
9 3 (18.75%) Scrum
9 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (12.50%) High Availability
10 2 (12.50%) Process Management
10 2 (12.50%) SDLC
10 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft