Java Contracts in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 178 433 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.36% 11.80% 13.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.27% 28.71% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 313 444
10th Percentile £423 £463 £466
25th Percentile £500 £575 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £653
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.45% +6.97%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £758
90th Percentile £856 £885 £838
London median daily rate £623 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.23% - +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £60.05
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year - -45.74% +152.94%
75th Percentile - - £71.38
90th Percentile - - £74.75
London median hourly rate £50.50 £72.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -30.34% +34.26% -15.63%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 878 1,508 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.30% 41.10% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 991 1,461
10th Percentile £411 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £826 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £21.35 £35.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - +98.11%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £70.55
London median hourly rate £50.50 £61.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year -17.89% +28.13% +6.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Central London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Central London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Central London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Central London

Java
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
City of London -11 164 £675 - 51
West End of London - 3 £450 -
City of Westminster - 3 £700 -
Camden - 2 £475 -
Southwark - 1 £700 -
Java
London

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 8 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.81%) Confluence
2 5 (2.81%) MQSeries
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.12%) JBoss
4 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 2 (1.12%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Camunda
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.56%) Endur
1 1 (0.56%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.56%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.56%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.21%) AWS
2 27 (15.17%) Azure
3 18 (10.11%) GCP
4 7 (3.93%) GitHub
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.81%) Serverless
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.12%) Datadog
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.12%) Kong
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
3 1 (0.56%) VLAN
3 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) MongoDB
2 13 (7.30%) KDB
3 10 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.37%) MySQL
4 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.25%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) Power BI
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.12%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.17%) Selenium
2 15 (8.43%) Cucumber
2 15 (8.43%) Git
3 14 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.30%) JIRA
5 11 (6.18%) JUnit
6 9 (5.06%) Maven
7 8 (4.49%) Mockito
8 7 (3.93%) Postman
9 6 (3.37%) GitLab
9 6 (3.37%) REST Assured
9 6 (3.37%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.81%) Gradle
10 5 (2.81%) TestNG
11 4 (2.25%) Appium
11 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.69%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (26.40%) Finance
2 42 (23.60%) Banking
3 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
4 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.55%) Front Office
6 11 (6.18%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.93%) Prime Brokerage
7 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.25%) Private Banking
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (47.19%) Developer
2 48 (26.97%) Java Developer
3 29 (16.29%) Senior
4 15 (8.43%) Senior Developer
5 12 (6.74%) Java Engineer
5 12 (6.74%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Lead
6 11 (6.18%) Site Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Tester
7 9 (5.06%) Analyst
8 8 (4.49%) Architect
8 8 (4.49%) Automation Tester
8 8 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (3.93%) Consultant
10 6 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.37%) Test Engineer
11 5 (2.81%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.10%) Spring
2 31 (17.42%) Spring Boot
3 28 (15.73%) Kafka
4 22 (12.36%) RESTful
5 17 (9.55%) REST
6 13 (7.30%) React
7 12 (6.74%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (6.18%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.49%) HTML
9 8 (4.49%) JAX-RS
9 8 (4.49%) Node.js
10 6 (3.37%) CSS
10 6 (3.37%) SOAP
10 6 (3.37%) Web Services
10 6 (3.37%) XML
11 5 (2.81%) .NET
12 4 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.25%) GWT
12 4 (2.25%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.87%) Equities
4 10 (5.62%) Fixed Income
5 9 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.81%) Derivative
7 4 (2.25%) AS400
7 4 (2.25%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.25%) iSeries
8 3 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.56%) CMDB
10 1 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.29%) Linux
2 15 (8.43%) Unix
3 7 (3.93%) Android
3 7 (3.93%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.37%) Windows
5 4 (2.25%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.65%) Agile
2 50 (28.09%) CI/CD
3 44 (24.72%) DevOps
4 43 (24.16%) Test Automation
5 40 (22.47%) Microservices
6 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.29%) Software Engineering
8 22 (12.36%) TDD
9 14 (7.87%) Computer Science
9 14 (7.87%) Full Stack Development
9 14 (7.87%) Low Latency
9 14 (7.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (7.30%) SDLC
11 12 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (6.74%) Software Testing
11 12 (6.74%) Task Automation
12 11 (6.18%) Analytical Thinking
12 11 (6.18%) BDD
13 10 (5.62%) Analytics
13 10 (5.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.96%) Python
2 32 (17.98%) SQL
3 25 (14.04%) C#
4 22 (12.36%) C++
5 16 (8.99%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.87%) Shell Script
7 13 (7.30%) Go
8 10 (5.62%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.93%) Rust
9 7 (3.93%) Scala
10 4 (2.25%) C
10 4 (2.25%) Perl
10 4 (2.25%) RPG
10 4 (2.25%) Swift
11 3 (1.69%) Clojure
11 3 (1.69%) Haskell
11 3 (1.69%) R
11 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (11.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.43%) Degree
4 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.81%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.25%) ISEB
6 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) PhD
7 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) QA
2 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SEPA
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (11.80%) Docker
2 11 (6.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) iptables
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.87%) Grafana
2 14 (7.87%) Prometheus
3 11 (6.18%) Consul
4 9 (5.06%) Terraform
5 4 (2.25%) Ansible
5 4 (2.25%) Control-M
6 2 (1.12%) Kibana
6 2 (1.12%) Opsgenie
6 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.56%) logstash
7 1 (0.56%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) vRealize
7 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) SaltStack
3 10 (5.62%) IBM
3 10 (5.62%) Oracle
4 9 (5.06%) Google
5 6 (3.37%) ION Trading
6 4 (2.25%) Splunk
7 3 (1.69%) New Relic
7 3 (1.69%) SAP
7 3 (1.69%) Solace
7 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.12%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.12%) Murex
8 2 (1.12%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.12%) Workday
9 1 (0.56%) Databricks
9 1 (0.56%) Perfecto Mobile