Developer Contracts in Hampshire

Developer
South East > Hampshire

The median Developer daily rate in Hampshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 68 84 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 9.16% 4.90% 9.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.56% 5.42% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 76
10th Percentile £374 £325 £338
25th Percentile £419 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £650
90th Percentile £625 £558 £676
South East median daily rate £475 £489 £505
% change year-on-year -2.81% -3.22% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £32.99 £35.00 £56.44
25th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £60.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £77.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +6.90% +36.79%
75th Percentile £55.00 £83.34 £75.00
90th Percentile - £84.45 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £60.70 £70.00
% change year-on-year -17.63% -13.28% +47.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 711 1,549 1,202
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 90.43% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 897 777
10th Percentile £256 £363 £235
25th Percentile £416 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 186 98
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £20.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +144.19%
75th Percentile £68.13 £64.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £48.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -4.00% +138.10%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Hampshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Hampshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Hampshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Hampshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Hampshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth +9 19 £514 +28.50% 166
Farnborough +18 15 £425 -9.57% 6
Southampton +13 11 £403 +36.44% 170
Havant - 6 £600 - 2
Winchester +3 5 £485 -3.39% 6
Fareham - 2 £415 - 4
Basingstoke +14 1 - - 152
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 29 (42.65%) Agile
2 27 (39.71%) SQL
3 23 (33.82%) Oracle
4 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 19 (27.94%) Finance
6 19 (27.94%) C#
7 18 (26.47%) JIRA
7 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
8 17 (25.00%) PL/SQL
9 15 (22.06%) Visual Studio
9 15 (22.06%) Web Services
9 15 (22.06%) Windows
9 15 (22.06%) Confluence
9 15 (22.06%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (22.06%) Functional Testing
10 14 (20.59%) REST
10 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
10 14 (20.59%) Delphi
11 13 (19.12%) AWS
11 13 (19.12%) Git
11 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
12 12 (17.65%) RESTful
12 12 (17.65%) Java
12 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
13 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
13 11 (16.18%) Web Development
13 11 (16.18%) Azure
14 10 (14.71%) MySQL
14 10 (14.71%) CSS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (22.06%) Confluence
2 7 (10.29%) Anypoint
3 5 (7.35%) Mule
4 4 (5.88%) Mule ESB
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.47%) Gunicorn
6 1 (1.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.94%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.47%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) AWS
2 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) iPaaS
3 3 (4.41%) OCI
4 2 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.47%) MinIO
5 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) MySQL
2 8 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.35%) Redis
5 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.47%) ObjectStore
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.47%) Power BI
8 1 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) JIRA
2 15 (22.06%) Visual Studio
3 13 (19.12%) Git
4 4 (5.88%) Subversion
5 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.94%) Codeception
7 1 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.47%) Poetry
General
1 19 (27.94%) Finance
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) Web Services
2 14 (20.59%) REST
3 12 (17.65%) RESTful
4 10 (14.71%) CSS
5 8 (11.76%) React
6 7 (10.29%) HTML
6 7 (10.29%) SOAP
7 6 (8.82%) .NET
7 6 (8.82%) Laravel
8 5 (7.35%) JSON
8 5 (7.35%) RAML
8 5 (7.35%) XML
9 4 (5.88%) Phalcon
9 4 (5.88%) Spring
9 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.88%) Vue
10 3 (4.41%) Flask
10 3 (4.41%) Kafka
10 3 (4.41%) Next.js
10 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (4.41%) FPGA
1 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (4.41%) Verilog
1 3 (4.41%) VHDL
2 2 (2.94%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (2.94%) Vector Graphics
3 1 (1.47%) Animation
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.47%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.47%) IVR
3 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Agile
2 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.06%) Functional Testing
3 15 (22.06%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
5 11 (16.18%) Web Development
6 9 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (11.76%) API Development
7 8 (11.76%) Front End Development
7 8 (11.76%) OO
8 7 (10.29%) API Management
8 7 (10.29%) Microservices
8 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.82%) Design Patterns
9 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (8.82%) MVC
9 6 (8.82%) Scrum
9 6 (8.82%) SDLC
9 6 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) SQL
2 19 (27.94%) C#
3 17 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 14 (20.59%) Delphi
5 12 (17.65%) Java
6 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
7 9 (13.24%) Python
8 8 (11.76%) PHP
9 5 (7.35%) DataWeave
10 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
11 3 (4.41%) Apex Code
11 3 (4.41%) C++
12 1 (1.47%) Dart
12 1 (1.47%) Perl
12 1 (1.47%) RPG
12 1 (1.47%) Ruby
12 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) COBIT
1 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.47%) NIST
1 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) CloudHub
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle
2 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) MuleSoft
4 5 (7.35%) Zend
5 3 (4.41%) Algorithmics
5 3 (4.41%) Intel
5 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.94%) Adobe
6 2 (2.94%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.47%) Databricks
7 1 (1.47%) Informatica
7 1 (1.47%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) UiPath