Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Java Developer
South East > Hampshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Hampshire is £398, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 72 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 40 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.00% 0.13% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £326 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% - -
75th Percentile £467 - -
90th Percentile £474 - -
South East median daily rate £405 £420 £428
% change year-on-year -3.57% -1.75% -21.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,214 751 1,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 94.11% 89.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 531 641
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £455 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 37 99
10th Percentile £13.98 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £27.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £59.44
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -41.12% +37.94%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.63
90th Percentile £57.96 £69.75 £77.60
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.39
% change year-on-year -40.82% -21.85% +25.02%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Hampshire

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Java 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 Java Developer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Farnborough - 20 £385 -
Fleet - 10 - - 2
Basingstoke -12 1 £600 -
Andover - 1 £450 -
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, 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 Hampshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (67.50%) Spring
3 25 (62.50%) AWS
3 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 21 (52.50%) Kubernetes
4 21 (52.50%) Spring Boot
5 20 (50.00%) Cucumber
5 20 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (47.50%) GitHub
7 17 (42.50%) Jenkins
7 17 (42.50%) JUnit
7 17 (42.50%) Kafka
8 15 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (32.50%) OpenShift
10 12 (30.00%) Gradle
10 12 (30.00%) Observability
11 11 (27.50%) Agile
11 11 (27.50%) Fintech
11 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (27.50%) Microservices
12 10 (25.00%) Ansible
12 10 (25.00%) NoSQL
12 10 (25.00%) OCP
12 10 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
14 8 (20.00%) Artifactory
14 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
14 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (20.00%) HBase
14 8 (20.00%) JMeter

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) GitHub
3 13 (32.50%) OpenShift
4 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.50%) Datadog
6 6 (15.00%) Azure
7 5 (12.50%) GCP
8 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (10.00%) Serverless
8 4 (10.00%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (20.00%) HBase
4 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 7 (17.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.00%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 17 (42.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (42.50%) JUnit
3 15 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (30.00%) Gradle
5 8 (20.00%) Artifactory
5 8 (20.00%) JMeter
6 4 (10.00%) Git
6 4 (10.00%) Maven
7 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.00%) Gatling
9 1 (2.50%) GitLab
9 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (67.50%) Spring
2 21 (52.50%) Spring Boot
3 17 (42.50%) Kafka
4 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
5 7 (17.50%) RESTful
6 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (10.00%) JPA
8 3 (7.50%) React
8 3 (7.50%) Spring MVC
9 1 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.50%) REST
9 1 (2.50%) Spring Batch
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) Observability
3 11 (27.50%) Agile
3 11 (27.50%) Fintech
3 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (27.50%) Microservices
4 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (15.00%) SOA
5 6 (15.00%) User Stories
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Epics
7 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Test Scripting
8 3 (7.50%) High Availability
8 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (7.50%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) OCP
1 10 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (52.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) Ansible
3 7 (17.50%) Grafana
3 7 (17.50%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Ab Initio
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Teradata