Java Contracts in London

Java
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 1,526 2,821 4,856
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.71% 11.09% 12.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.39% 27.71% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 2,241 3,700
10th Percentile £413 £456 £456
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +0.08% +12.96%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £750
90th Percentile £888 £863 £838
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 19
10th Percentile £45.85 £36.80 £27.20
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.81 £35.63
Median hourly rate £50.50 £73.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.06% +26.29% -9.38%
75th Percentile £63.13 £90.00 £75.39
90th Percentile £73.50 - £77.35
England median hourly rate £66.01 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +0.77% +9.51%

All Programming Languages
London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,524 10,182 16,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 40.03% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,973 7,675 12,404
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 102
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.03
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in London

Java
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -11 177 £650 -3.70% 50
South London -2 27 £481 -1.28% 5
East London -4 24 £520 -20.00% 7
West London +7 21 £463 -22.92% 10
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 147 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (9.50%) Apache
3 51 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.88%) Confluence
5 12 (0.79%) nginx
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
7 9 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.52%) Camunda
9 7 (0.46%) JBoss
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.39%) CMS
10 6 (0.39%) MQSeries
11 5 (0.33%) WildFly
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.066%) Sketch
5 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (1.64%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.79%) ION Anvil
3 8 (0.52%) Endur
4 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
5 5 (0.33%) Shopify
6 4 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.26%) RMDS
7 3 (0.20%) Global One
8 2 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.13%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.066%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.066%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.066%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.066%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 507 (33.22%) AWS
2 208 (13.63%) Azure
3 195 (12.78%) GCP
4 130 (8.52%) dbt
5 127 (8.32%) Snowflake
6 78 (5.11%) GitHub
7 74 (4.85%) Serverless
8 50 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (3.08%) Amazon S3
10 43 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (1.83%) OpenShift
12 24 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (1.38%) Power Platform
14 20 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.98%) DNS
2 12 (0.79%) Network Security
3 10 (0.66%) Internet
3 10 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.59%) SSH
5 8 (0.52%) Firewall
6 7 (0.46%) DHCP
6 7 (0.46%) HTTP
7 6 (0.39%) VPN
8 4 (0.26%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.26%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) VoIP
9 3 (0.20%) AMQP
9 3 (0.20%) IPv4
9 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.13%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.13%) SMS
10 2 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
1 134 (8.78%) Data Lake
2 129 (8.45%) Dremio
3 127 (8.32%) Apache Arrow
4 109 (7.14%) Apache Ignite
5 89 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
6 83 (5.44%) Relational Database
7 82 (5.37%) SQL Server
8 73 (4.78%) NoSQL
9 72 (4.72%) MongoDB
10 58 (3.80%) MySQL
11 54 (3.54%) Big Data
12 49 (3.21%) KDB
13 46 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (2.36%) Oracle Database
15 31 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
16 29 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
17 28 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
17 28 (1.83%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 164 (10.75%) Git
2 148 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 105 (6.88%) Selenium
4 98 (6.42%) JIRA
5 75 (4.91%) Cucumber
5 75 (4.91%) JUnit
6 52 (3.41%) Maven
7 46 (3.01%) GitLab
8 43 (2.82%) Mockito
9 36 (2.36%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.77%) Postman
11 23 (1.51%) JMeter
11 23 (1.51%) TeamCity
12 22 (1.44%) Appium
12 22 (1.44%) Gradle
12 22 (1.44%) TestNG
12 22 (1.44%) WebDriver
13 21 (1.38%) REST Assured
14 20 (1.31%) Bitbucket
14 20 (1.31%) Subversion
General
1 560 (36.70%) Finance
2 390 (25.56%) Banking
3 254 (16.64%) Front Office
4 253 (16.58%) Social Skills
5 209 (13.70%) Investment Banking
6 134 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
7 84 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 26 (1.70%) Retail
9 20 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.25%) Back Office
10 19 (1.25%) Marketing
11 18 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.46%) Law
12 7 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
12 7 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.26%) Aviation
15 4 (0.26%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 728 (47.71%) Developer
2 413 (27.06%) Java Developer
3 305 (19.99%) Senior
4 162 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 152 (9.96%) Software Engineer
6 144 (9.44%) Lead
7 130 (8.52%) Java Engineer
8 118 (7.73%) Architect
9 101 (6.62%) Senior Java Developer
10 80 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (4.46%) Full Stack Developer
11 68 (4.46%) Software Developer
12 63 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
12 63 (4.13%) Python Engineer
13 59 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 54 (3.54%) Senior Java Engineer
15 51 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
16 50 (3.28%) Data Engineer
16 50 (3.28%) Lead Developer
17 46 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (17.10%) Spring
2 227 (14.88%) Spring Boot
3 154 (10.09%) REST
4 150 (9.83%) Kafka
5 146 (9.57%) React
6 133 (8.72%) gRPC
7 128 (8.39%) Protocol Buffers
8 127 (8.32%) NumPy
8 127 (8.32%) Pandas
9 123 (8.06%) SciPy
10 104 (6.82%) HTML
11 83 (5.44%) .NET
12 82 (5.37%) CSS
12 82 (5.37%) Web Services
13 67 (4.39%) XML
14 65 (4.26%) Hibernate
14 65 (4.26%) Node.js
15 63 (4.13%) RESTful
16 59 (3.87%) AngularJS
17 55 (3.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 208 (13.63%) Fixed Income
2 185 (12.12%) Derivative
3 182 (11.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 156 (10.22%) Hedge funds
5 140 (9.17%) Equities
6 95 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (4.78%) Algorithms
8 51 (3.34%) Data Structures
9 42 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.42%) Management Information System
11 36 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.64%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.57%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (1.44%) Cloud Native
17 22 (1.44%) Product Ownership
18 21 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
19 19 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 167 (10.94%) Linux
2 121 (7.93%) Unix
3 45 (2.95%) Windows
4 38 (2.49%) Android
5 25 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.05%) Mac OS X
7 15 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.20%) zOS
9 2 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.066%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (37.16%) Agile
2 362 (23.72%) Software Engineering
3 300 (19.66%) DevOps
4 299 (19.59%) CI/CD
5 254 (16.64%) Microservices
6 253 (16.58%) Test Automation
7 181 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (10.81%) TDD
9 146 (9.57%) SDLC
10 138 (9.04%) Asset Management
11 125 (8.19%) Scrum
12 124 (8.13%) Computer Science
13 120 (7.86%) Full Stack Development
14 113 (7.40%) Investment Management
15 106 (6.95%) BDD
16 104 (6.82%) Continuous Integration
17 87 (5.70%) Electronic Trading
18 86 (5.64%) Analytics
19 82 (5.37%) Design Patterns
20 81 (5.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 546 (35.78%) Python
2 356 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 339 (22.21%) SQL
4 193 (12.65%) TypeScript
5 192 (12.58%) C#
6 118 (7.73%) C++
7 85 (5.57%) Go
8 70 (4.59%) Kotlin
8 70 (4.59%) Scala
8 70 (4.59%) Shell Script
9 67 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 46 (3.01%) Perl
11 31 (2.03%) C
12 29 (1.90%) Bash
13 27 (1.77%) Ruby
14 26 (1.70%) Rust
15 24 (1.57%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.38%) Groovy
17 18 (1.18%) PHP
18 15 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 223 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 198 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 143 (9.37%) Degree
4 69 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (0.66%) PhD
9 6 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.33%) ISEB
11 4 (0.26%) CISSP
12 3 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.13%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.13%) CCNP
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.066%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.066%) OCP
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.066%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.91%) QA
2 63 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 12 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.79%) SLA
5 11 (0.72%) MiFID
6 7 (0.46%) GDPR
7 5 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.20%) GRC
8 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.066%) Basel III
10 1 (0.066%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.066%) GxP
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.066%) SEPA
10 1 (0.066%) WCAG
System Software
1 199 (13.04%) Docker
2 43 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.51%) IAG
4 22 (1.44%) ACF2
4 22 (1.44%) RACF
5 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (0.33%) HDFS
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.066%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.066%) Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) GridGain
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.066%) iptables
9 1 (0.066%) NFS
9 1 (0.066%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.066%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.066%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 249 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 115 (7.54%) Terraform
3 66 (4.33%) Grafana
4 64 (4.19%) Prometheus
5 56 (3.67%) Ansible
6 15 (0.98%) Kibana
7 14 (0.92%) Consul
8 11 (0.72%) Puppet
9 10 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.59%) BladeLogic
10 9 (0.59%) Opsgenie
10 9 (0.59%) Podman
11 7 (0.46%) Control-M
12 5 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) Packer
13 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 167 (10.94%) Oracle
2 85 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 58 (3.80%) Google
4 53 (3.47%) ION Trading
5 39 (2.56%) Splunk
6 34 (2.23%) IBM
7 32 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.83%) SAP
9 27 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.51%) Sybase
11 22 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.05%) Adobe
13 15 (0.98%) Solace
14 14 (0.92%) New Relic
15 13 (0.85%) Databricks
16 11 (0.72%) SaltStack
16 11 (0.72%) TIBCO
16 11 (0.72%) Virgin Media
17 10 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.66%) SEEBURGER