Java Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Java
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 11 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 23.91% 13.33% 4.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.71% 29.63% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £263 £388 £361
25th Percentile £270 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -3.21% -49.14%
75th Percentile £506 £449 £539
90th Percentile £623 £472 £666
Dorset median daily rate £385 £421 £538
% change year-on-year -8.44% -21.77% -14.00%

All Programming Languages
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 27 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 36.96% 45.00% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 10
10th Percentile £197 £390 £316
25th Percentile £256 £433 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -43.16% +26.67% -41.18%
75th Percentile £508 £700 £416
90th Percentile £568 - £497
Dorset median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +1.42%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Java job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Bournemouth

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Java

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Java Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth2
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Security
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (27.27%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
1 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Microservices
1 4 (36.36%) MVC
1 4 (36.36%) User Stories
2 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Perl
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
15 Java jobs in Bournemouth