Java Contracts in South London

Java
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 10 10 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 27 37 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 15.29% 11.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.53% 39.78% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 35
10th Percentile £380 £361 £453
25th Percentile £446 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £499 £525 £650
90th Percentile £500 £585 £745
London median daily rate £630 £601 £650
% change year-on-year +4.78% -7.50% +2.36%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 93 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 44.86% 38.43% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 64 123
10th Percentile £425 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £738 £554 £713
90th Percentile £938 £600 £900
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Croydon -1 22 £475 -0.52% 3
Bromley -3 4 - -
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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Camunda
2 2 (7.41%) MQSeries
3 1 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle CX
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.41%) GIS
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
5 1 (3.70%) IMS/DB
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) JIRA
3 7 (25.93%) JUnit
3 7 (25.93%) Mockito
4 5 (18.52%) Gradle
4 5 (18.52%) Liquibase
5 4 (14.81%) Git
5 4 (14.81%) Postman
5 4 (14.81%) REST Assured
6 3 (11.11%) Selenium
7 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.41%) JMeter
8 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 5 (18.52%) Electronics
4 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
4 5 (18.52%) Marketing
5 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Front Office
7 2 (7.41%) Banking
8 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Java Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior
5 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Java Swing Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
9 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) QA Tester
9 1 (3.70%) Quality Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Support Specialist
9 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Spring
2 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (29.63%) Kafka
3 8 (29.63%) XML
4 5 (18.52%) OpenAPI
4 5 (18.52%) React
4 5 (18.52%) REST
4 5 (18.52%) Swagger
5 4 (14.81%) HTML
5 4 (14.81%) Middleware
5 4 (14.81%) Web Services
6 3 (11.11%) Swing
7 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
7 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
7 2 (7.41%) jQuery
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) Rendezvous
7 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 3 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Microservices
2 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) TDD
3 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
4 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (18.52%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (18.52%) High Availability
7 5 (18.52%) Migration
7 5 (18.52%) Programme Management
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.81%) API Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Test Scripting
9 3 (11.11%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.70%) REXX
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
3 2 (7.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Sybase
3 2 (7.41%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow