Java Contracts in Central London

Java
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 177 447 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.39% 11.98% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.63% 29.35% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 325 438
10th Percentile £419 £463 £465
25th Percentile £500 £575 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +7.00%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £743
90th Percentile £850 £888 £838
London median daily rate £613 £650 £649
% change year-on-year -5.77% +0.19% +12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £61.03
25th Percentile - - £63.69
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.09% +169.61%
75th Percentile - - £73.19
90th Percentile - - £75.48
London median hourly rate £50.50 £73.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year -31.06% +26.29% -9.38%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 858 1,523 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.81% 40.83% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 1,005 1,495
10th Percentile £406 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%

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 2 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 2 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 -12 162 £655 -2.96% 55
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 7 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.82%) Confluence
3 4 (2.26%) MQSeries
4 3 (1.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.13%) JBoss
5 2 (1.13%) nginx
5 2 (1.13%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.13%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Camunda
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
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 53 (29.94%) AWS
2 27 (15.25%) Azure
3 18 (10.17%) GCP
4 7 (3.95%) GitHub
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.82%) Serverless
7 4 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.13%) Datadog
9 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.13%) Kong
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) MQTT
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.56%) SSH
2 1 (0.56%) VLAN
2 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.30%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.78%) KDB
3 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.39%) MySQL
6 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) Power BI
9 2 (1.13%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.56%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) DB2
10 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.25%) Selenium
2 15 (8.47%) Cucumber
3 14 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.34%) Git
4 13 (7.34%) JIRA
5 11 (6.21%) JUnit
6 8 (4.52%) Mockito
7 7 (3.95%) Maven
7 7 (3.95%) Postman
8 6 (3.39%) GitLab
8 6 (3.39%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.39%) WebDriver
9 5 (2.82%) TestNG
10 4 (2.26%) Appium
10 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.26%) Gradle
11 3 (1.69%) Android Studio
11 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (25.99%) Finance
2 41 (23.16%) Banking
3 31 (17.51%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.47%) Front Office
6 10 (5.65%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.95%) Prime Brokerage
7 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.26%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.69%) 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 (47.46%) Developer
2 45 (25.42%) Java Developer
3 30 (16.95%) Senior
4 18 (10.17%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.34%) Java Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Lead
7 11 (6.21%) Site Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Tester
8 9 (5.08%) Analyst
8 9 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Automation Tester
9 8 (4.52%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Consultant
10 7 (3.95%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.21%) Spring
2 31 (17.51%) Spring Boot
3 28 (15.82%) Kafka
4 21 (11.86%) RESTful
5 18 (10.17%) REST
6 11 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (6.21%) React
7 9 (5.08%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.52%) HTML
8 8 (4.52%) JAX-RS
8 8 (4.52%) Node.js
9 6 (3.39%) CSS
9 6 (3.39%) SOAP
9 6 (3.39%) Web Services
10 5 (2.82%) .NET
10 5 (2.82%) XML
11 4 (2.26%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (2.26%) GWT
11 4 (2.26%) Restlet
12 3 (1.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.04%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.34%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.78%) Equities
5 8 (4.52%) Fixed Income
5 8 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.82%) Derivative
7 4 (2.26%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.69%) AS400
8 3 (1.69%) iSeries
8 3 (1.69%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.13%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.13%) CMDB
9 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.82%) Linux
2 14 (7.91%) Unix
3 7 (3.95%) Android
3 7 (3.95%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.39%) Windows
5 4 (2.26%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.81%) Agile
2 48 (27.12%) CI/CD
3 44 (24.86%) Test Automation
4 42 (23.73%) DevOps
5 39 (22.03%) Microservices
6 29 (16.38%) Software Engineering
7 28 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.30%) TDD
9 14 (7.91%) SDLC
10 13 (7.34%) Computer Science
10 13 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (6.78%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (6.78%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (6.78%) Software Testing
12 11 (6.21%) BDD
12 11 (6.21%) Task Automation
13 10 (5.65%) Analytical Thinking
13 10 (5.65%) Analytics
13 10 (5.65%) Low Latency
13 10 (5.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.16%) Python
2 33 (18.64%) SQL
3 26 (14.69%) C#
4 23 (12.99%) C++
5 15 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.34%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.21%) Go
8 9 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.39%) Rust
9 6 (3.39%) Scala
10 4 (2.26%) C
10 4 (2.26%) Perl
10 4 (2.26%) Swift
11 3 (1.69%) Bash
11 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.69%) R
11 3 (1.69%) RPG
12 2 (1.13%) Clojure
12 2 (1.13%) Haskell
12 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.47%) Degree
4 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.26%) ISEB
7 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.13%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) QA
2 5 (2.82%) 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 22 (12.43%) Docker
2 10 (5.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (19.77%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.34%) Grafana
2 13 (7.34%) Prometheus
3 10 (5.65%) Consul
4 9 (5.08%) Terraform
5 4 (2.26%) Ansible
6 3 (1.69%) Control-M
7 2 (1.13%) Kibana
7 2 (1.13%) Opsgenie
7 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.56%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Packer
8 1 (0.56%) Podman
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) vRealize
8 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) Oracle
2 10 (5.65%) SaltStack
3 9 (5.08%) Google
3 9 (5.08%) IBM
4 4 (2.26%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.26%) Splunk
5 3 (1.69%) New Relic
5 3 (1.69%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Solace
5 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.13%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.13%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.13%) Murex
6 2 (1.13%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.13%) VMware
6 2 (1.13%) Workday
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks