Java Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Java
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Westminster requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 18.18% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £621 - -

All Programming Languages
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 39.39% 20.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £296 - £479
25th Percentile £463 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -15.56% +9.22%
75th Percentile £659 £488 £628
90th Percentile £725 - £656
City of Westminster median daily rate £606 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +10.23% -4.35% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster.

Java job vacancy trend in Westminster

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Police
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
4 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (33.33%) API Development
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (16.67%) System Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible