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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 44 28 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 26.19% 13.27% 13.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.89% 37.33% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 38
10th Percentile £456 £360 £404
25th Percentile £463 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -0.51% -18.75%
75th Percentile £623 £544 £505
90th Percentile £678 £598 £720
London median daily rate £611 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -2.20% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
London median hourly rate £52.50 £51.50 £69.75
% change year-on-year +1.94% -26.16% +39.50%

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 76 75 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.24% 35.55% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 57 115
10th Percentile £450 £371 £435
25th Percentile £463 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £663
90th Percentile £875 £570 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £43.30 £50.24
25th Percentile - £47.02 £50.42
Median hourly rate - £56.30 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year - +7.07% +5.19%
75th Percentile - £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile - £69.37 £55.08
London median hourly rate £40.25 £50.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.90% -16.25% +20.04%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +9 35 £495 +3.45% 8
Bromley -2 8 £738 -3.28% 16
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 (13.64%) MQSeries
2 5 (11.36%) Confluence
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 2 (4.55%) Camunda
4 2 (4.55%) SAS
5 1 (2.27%) JBoss
5 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle CX
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 3 (6.82%) Serverless
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) OCI
7 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 6 (13.64%) Redis
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (4.55%) GIS
7 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.55%) MySQL
8 1 (2.27%) DB2
8 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.27%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) JUnit
2 10 (22.73%) Mockito
3 7 (15.91%) Git
4 6 (13.64%) JIRA
5 5 (11.36%) Gradle
5 5 (11.36%) Liquibase
6 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.82%) Maven
8 2 (4.55%) JMeter
8 2 (4.55%) Postman
8 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.27%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.27%) GitLab
9 1 (2.27%) jMock
9 1 (2.27%) Selenium
9 1 (2.27%) Storybook
General
1 17 (38.64%) Public Sector
2 15 (34.09%) Finance
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Front Office
5 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
6 5 (11.36%) Electronics
6 5 (11.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (11.36%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Developer
2 16 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Java Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Java Swing Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) Spring
2 13 (29.55%) Kafka
2 13 (29.55%) Spring Boot
3 12 (27.27%) XML
4 9 (20.45%) Middleware
5 7 (15.91%) REST
6 6 (13.64%) JSON
6 6 (13.64%) React
7 5 (11.36%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
7 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
7 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
7 5 (11.36%) Swagger
7 5 (11.36%) Web Services
8 4 (9.09%) EDIFACT
8 4 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (9.09%) FpML
8 4 (9.09%) HTML
8 4 (9.09%) SOAP
9 3 (6.82%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Fixed Income
1 7 (15.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.09%) Derivative
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.09%) Replication
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Microservices
2 22 (50.00%) TDD
3 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
4 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
4 17 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (31.82%) DevOps
6 13 (29.55%) Design Patterns
7 9 (20.45%) Code Quality
7 9 (20.45%) High Availability
7 9 (20.45%) Scrum
8 7 (15.91%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) CQRS
9 6 (13.64%) Domain-Driven Design
9 6 (13.64%) Kanban
9 6 (13.64%) Migration
9 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 8 (18.18%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.09%) C#
4 4 (9.09%) C++
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) Perl
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.27%) REXX
5 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (68.18%) SC Cleared
1 30 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (52.27%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Kibana
2 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) SAP
2 4 (9.09%) Confluent
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) IBM
3 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) Sybase
4 2 (4.55%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft