Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Senior Java Developer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Farnborough is £462, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 2.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £472 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £462 - -

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 91 136 115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.50% 81.44% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 93 73
10th Percentile £368 £345 £316
25th Percentile £418 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £668
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 14
10th Percentile £61.35 £69.00 £21.05
25th Percentile £62.25 £74.06 £28.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £60.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £79.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £68.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.42% +30.95% +40.00%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 11 October 2025, Senior 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 Farnborough region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes