Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Java Developer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Java Developer daily rate in Farnborough is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 1.03% 0.57% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -
75th Percentile £403 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 84 143 100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.60% 81.71% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 97 56
10th Percentile £368 £385 £300
25th Percentile £400 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £623 £675 £595
90th Percentile £675 £750 £667
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 19
10th Percentile £61.65 £69.00 £21.05
25th Percentile £63.00 £74.06 £37.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% +53.33%
75th Percentile £74.06 - £64.38
90th Percentile £74.63 - £78.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £33.47 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.64% +4.27% +61.67%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Farnborough

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Farnborough.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Farnborough

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Farnborough region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware