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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 1,546 2,779 4,932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.81% 11.01% 12.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.47% 27.44% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 2,210 3,762
10th Percentile £413 £454 £456
25th Percentile £500 £522 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - +12.36%
75th Percentile £838 £775 £750
90th Percentile £888 £863 £850
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 20
10th Percentile £45.85 £37.00 £24.50
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.63 £34.38
Median hourly rate £50.50 £72.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +34.26% -15.63%
75th Percentile £63.13 £90.00 £74.72
90th Percentile £73.50 - £75.96
England median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £64.75
% change year-on-year +2.32% +1.16% +5.28%

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 6,587 10,126 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.52% 40.12% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,007 7,630 12,509
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 £827 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 107
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £28.85
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £66.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £75.57
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.44%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -13 174 £650 -3.70% 52
South London -2 28 £485 -0.51% 3
West London +10 23 £463 -22.92% 13
East London -1 23 £530 -18.46% 7
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
1 160 (10.35%) Apache Airflow
2 158 (10.22%) Apache
3 51 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.85%) Confluence
5 12 (0.78%) nginx
6 10 (0.65%) SAS
6 10 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.45%) Camunda
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.39%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) JBoss
8 6 (0.39%) MQSeries
9 5 (0.32%) WildFly
10 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Sketch
5 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (1.68%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.78%) ION Anvil
3 8 (0.52%) Endur
4 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 5 (0.32%) Shopify
6 4 (0.26%) RMDS
7 3 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.19%) Global One
8 2 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.13%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.065%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.065%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.065%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 523 (33.83%) AWS
2 209 (13.52%) Azure
3 206 (13.32%) GCP
4 144 (9.31%) dbt
5 140 (9.06%) Snowflake
6 78 (5.05%) GitHub
7 71 (4.59%) Serverless
8 50 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (2.85%) Amazon S3
12 32 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (1.68%) OpenShift
14 23 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.36%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.29%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
19 16 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.03%) DNS
2 12 (0.78%) Network Security
3 10 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.58%) Internet
4 9 (0.58%) SSH
5 8 (0.52%) Firewall
6 7 (0.45%) HTTP
7 6 (0.39%) DHCP
7 6 (0.39%) VPN
8 4 (0.26%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.26%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) VoIP
9 3 (0.19%) AMQP
9 3 (0.19%) IPv4
9 3 (0.19%) 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
1 148 (9.57%) Amazon Athena
2 146 (9.44%) Data Lake
3 143 (9.25%) Dremio
4 141 (9.12%) Apache Arrow
5 122 (7.89%) Apache Ignite
6 91 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
7 83 (5.37%) Relational Database
8 80 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 72 (4.66%) NoSQL
10 70 (4.53%) MongoDB
11 57 (3.69%) MySQL
12 55 (3.56%) Big Data
13 48 (3.10%) KDB
14 44 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (2.52%) Oracle Database
16 30 (1.94%) BigQuery
16 30 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
17 28 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
17 28 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
18 20 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 169 (10.93%) Git
2 152 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 104 (6.73%) Selenium
4 96 (6.21%) JIRA
5 76 (4.92%) JUnit
6 73 (4.72%) Cucumber
7 52 (3.36%) Maven
8 45 (2.91%) GitLab
9 42 (2.72%) Mockito
10 34 (2.20%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.75%) Postman
12 24 (1.55%) JMeter
13 23 (1.49%) Gradle
14 22 (1.42%) Appium
14 22 (1.42%) TeamCity
14 22 (1.42%) WebDriver
15 21 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 21 (1.36%) REST Assured
15 21 (1.36%) Subversion
15 21 (1.36%) TestNG
General
1 582 (37.65%) Finance
2 411 (26.58%) Banking
3 267 (17.27%) Front Office
4 250 (16.17%) Social Skills
5 220 (14.23%) Investment Banking
6 131 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (5.37%) Public Sector
8 28 (1.81%) Retail
9 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.23%) Marketing
11 18 (1.16%) Back Office
11 18 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.45%) Law
12 7 (0.45%) Prime Brokerage
12 7 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.26%) Aviation
15 4 (0.26%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 733 (47.41%) Developer
2 420 (27.17%) Java Developer
3 316 (20.44%) Senior
4 163 (10.54%) Senior Developer
4 163 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 153 (9.90%) Lead
6 140 (9.06%) Java Engineer
7 124 (8.02%) Architect
8 103 (6.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 86 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (4.53%) Python Engineer
11 69 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
12 68 (4.40%) Software Developer
13 66 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
14 65 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
15 59 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
16 56 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
17 55 (3.56%) Lead Developer
18 51 (3.30%) Data Engineer
19 48 (3.10%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (17.40%) Spring
2 231 (14.94%) Spring Boot
3 156 (10.09%) REST
4 152 (9.83%) Kafka
5 146 (9.44%) gRPC
6 145 (9.38%) React
7 141 (9.12%) NumPy
7 141 (9.12%) Pandas
7 141 (9.12%) Protocol Buffers
8 137 (8.86%) SciPy
9 107 (6.92%) HTML
10 85 (5.50%) CSS
11 82 (5.30%) .NET
12 81 (5.24%) Web Services
13 69 (4.46%) XML
14 67 (4.33%) Hibernate
15 64 (4.14%) RESTful
16 62 (4.01%) Node.js
17 60 (3.88%) AngularJS
18 58 (3.75%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 221 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 200 (12.94%) Derivative
3 199 (12.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 169 (10.93%) Hedge funds
5 153 (9.90%) Equities
6 98 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (4.72%) Algorithms
8 50 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 43 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (2.39%) Management Information System
11 31 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 30 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.55%) Product Ownership
15 23 (1.49%) Cloud Native
15 23 (1.49%) Mobile App
15 23 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.29%) Credit Derivative
17 19 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 166 (10.74%) Linux
2 127 (8.21%) Unix
3 46 (2.98%) Windows
4 43 (2.78%) Android
5 26 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.03%) Mac OS X
6 16 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.19%) zOS
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (37.71%) Agile
2 381 (24.64%) Software Engineering
3 308 (19.92%) CI/CD
4 306 (19.79%) DevOps
5 259 (16.75%) Microservices
6 252 (16.30%) Test Automation
7 184 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (10.61%) TDD
9 151 (9.77%) Asset Management
10 149 (9.64%) SDLC
11 126 (8.15%) Computer Science
11 126 (8.15%) Scrum
12 119 (7.70%) Full Stack Development
13 118 (7.63%) Investment Management
14 108 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
15 107 (6.92%) BDD
16 87 (5.63%) Migration
17 86 (5.56%) Analytics
18 85 (5.50%) Electronic Trading
19 81 (5.24%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 559 (36.16%) Python
2 372 (24.06%) JavaScript
3 340 (21.99%) SQL
4 209 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 184 (11.90%) C#
6 119 (7.70%) C++
7 87 (5.63%) Go
8 74 (4.79%) Kotlin
8 74 (4.79%) Scala
9 73 (4.72%) Shell Script
10 69 (4.46%) PowerShell
11 46 (2.98%) Perl
12 34 (2.20%) C
13 29 (1.88%) Bash
14 28 (1.81%) Ruby
14 28 (1.81%) Rust
15 26 (1.68%) PL/SQL
16 22 (1.42%) Groovy
17 18 (1.16%) PHP
18 13 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 221 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 197 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 142 (9.18%) Degree
4 72 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (0.58%) PhD
9 6 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.32%) ISEB
11 4 (0.26%) CISSP
12 3 (0.19%) 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 (0.065%) ACCA
14 1 (0.065%) OCP
14 1 (0.065%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.065%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.98%) QA
2 66 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.78%) SLA
5 11 (0.71%) MiFID
6 6 (0.39%) GDPR
7 5 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.19%) GRC
8 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.065%) Basel III
10 1 (0.065%) IFRS
10 1 (0.065%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.065%) NCSC
10 1 (0.065%) SEPA
10 1 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 201 (13.00%) Docker
2 44 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.49%) IAG
4 22 (1.42%) ACF2
4 22 (1.42%) RACF
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (0.32%) HDFS
7 5 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.065%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) GridGain
9 1 (0.065%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.065%) iptables
9 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.065%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 255 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 117 (7.57%) Terraform
3 65 (4.20%) Grafana
4 64 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 57 (3.69%) Ansible
6 15 (0.97%) Kibana
7 14 (0.91%) Consul
8 10 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (0.65%) Puppet
8 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.58%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.58%) Opsgenie
9 9 (0.58%) Podman
10 7 (0.45%) Control-M
11 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
12 4 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.19%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 170 (11.00%) Oracle
2 83 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 61 (3.95%) Google
4 55 (3.56%) ION Trading
5 38 (2.46%) Splunk
6 34 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.07%) IBM
8 27 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 27 (1.75%) SAP
9 23 (1.49%) Sybase
10 17 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.97%) Adobe
11 15 (0.97%) Solace
12 14 (0.91%) New Relic
12 14 (0.91%) Virgin Media
13 11 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 11 (0.71%) Databricks
13 11 (0.71%) SaltStack
13 11 (0.71%) SEEBURGER
13 11 (0.71%) TIBCO