Java Contracts in West London

Java
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Java 11 25 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.26% 6.72% 8.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.07% 17.73% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 42
10th Percentile £384 £346 £425
25th Percentile £387 £413 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £401 £588 £650
90th Percentile £438 £595 -
London median daily rate £600 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.75
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.75 £50.50 £73.25
% change year-on-year -3.47% -31.06% +35.65%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 73 141 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 28.29% 37.90% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 104 167
10th Percentile £367 £250 £425
25th Percentile £400 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -19.15% +11.90%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £650
90th Percentile £680 £646 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 22
10th Percentile £29.01 - £65.00
25th Percentile £29.04 £23.80 £67.75
Median hourly rate £29.07 £45.40 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.97% -39.47% +100.00%
75th Percentile £42.04 £69.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £49.81 £72.60 £90.00
London median hourly rate £42.82 £49.75 £63.00
% change year-on-year -13.94% -21.03% +24.44%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in West London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in West London

Java
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Hounslow +3 9 £400 -5.88% 3
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JUnit
1 7 (63.64%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) Appium
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) HP UFT
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) QA Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) QA Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Management Architect
4 1 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Hystrix
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Manual Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Regression Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Security Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
6 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
7 1 (9.09%) Data Privacy
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) ISTQB
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce