Java Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Java
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 33 11
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 13 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.75% 1.75% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.23% 6.82% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £504 £421 £500
25th Percentile £506 £453 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £578 £588
90th Percentile - £614 -
Hampshire median daily rate £595 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +13.33% -8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 44 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 42.16% 25.73% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 22
10th Percentile £380 £433 £414
25th Percentile £400 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.49% +13.75%
75th Percentile £547 £625 £588
90th Percentile £619 £627 £645
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £51.95
25th Percentile - - £54.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.50%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £62.78
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £59.17
% change year-on-year -28.57% +18.30% -1.38%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Farnborough

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Java

Java
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 10 (76.92%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Middleware
1 10 (76.92%) React
2 3 (23.08%) Swagger
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (84.62%) Configuration Management
3 10 (76.92%) Migration
3 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) High Availability
5 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Open Source
6 3 (23.08%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) API Development
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
8 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
8 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
8 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (100.00%) Python
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (76.92%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Ansible
2 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Proxmox
3 3 (23.08%) Rundeck
3 3 (23.08%) Salt
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) VMware