Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Java Developer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Java Developer daily rate in Bournemouth is £270, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 6 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 12.50% 13.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 12.77% 13.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £259 £389 -
25th Percentile £263 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
75th Percentile - £446 -
90th Percentile - £468 -
Dorset median daily rate £270 £425 -
% change year-on-year -36.47% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bournemouth with a recognized job title 47 58 80
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.92% 95.08% 96.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 40 56
10th Percentile £146 £368 £159
25th Percentile £205 £399 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £481 £361
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.22% -27.02%
75th Percentile £525 £517 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £825
Dorset median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 19
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £15.04
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.22 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -2.56% -5.36%
75th Percentile £15.75 £15.62 £18.24
90th Percentile £21.56 £20.40 £21.50
Dorset median hourly rate £15.50 £15.22 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.87% -73.07% +186.61%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Bournemouth

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bournemouth region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 Java Developer jobs in Bournemouth