Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Java Developer
South East > Hampshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Hampshire is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 42 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.60% - 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £311 - £456
25th Percentile £317 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £473 - £538
90th Percentile £601 - £625
South East median daily rate £473 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -2.02% -3.45% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.72%

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 1,515 685 1,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 94.88% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 507 799
10th Percentile £338 £300 £361
25th Percentile £475 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £665 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.65% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 43 159
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £27.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £52.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% -8.46% +14.70%
75th Percentile £51.64 £73.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £60.90 £75.00 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £34.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.68% -27.37% +5.56%

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 5 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer 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 5 April 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 - 19 £416 - 2
Fleet - 14 - - 2
Portsmouth - 2 - -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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 42 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 26 (61.90%) Spring
3 23 (54.76%) AWS
4 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
4 20 (47.62%) Spring Boot
5 18 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (38.10%) Kafka
7 15 (35.71%) Fintech
7 15 (35.71%) GitHub
8 13 (30.95%) Cucumber
8 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
8 13 (30.95%) JUnit
9 12 (28.57%) Agile
9 12 (28.57%) Microservices
9 12 (28.57%) OpenShift
9 12 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (26.19%) NoSQL
11 10 (23.81%) Gradle
11 10 (23.81%) Hibernate
11 10 (23.81%) SQL
12 9 (21.43%) Ansible
12 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
13 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
13 8 (19.05%) DynamoDB
13 8 (19.05%) Relational Database
13 8 (19.05%) RESTful
14 7 (16.67%) Apache Spark
14 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda

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 7 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) GitHub
3 12 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
5 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (16.67%) Serverless
6 6 (14.29%) Azure
6 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.90%) GCP
7 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
8 4 (9.52%) Datadog
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (26.19%) NoSQL
3 8 (19.05%) DynamoDB
3 8 (19.05%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.29%) Big Data
4 6 (14.29%) HBase
5 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Cucumber
1 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
1 13 (30.95%) JUnit
2 12 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (23.81%) Gradle
4 7 (16.67%) Git
4 7 (16.67%) JMeter
5 6 (14.29%) Artifactory
6 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (7.14%) Maven
7 2 (4.76%) Gatling
7 2 (4.76%) JIRA
8 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) Spring
2 20 (47.62%) Spring Boot
3 16 (38.10%) Kafka
4 10 (23.81%) Hibernate
5 8 (19.05%) RESTful
6 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.52%) JPA
7 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (9.52%) React
8 3 (7.14%) REST
8 3 (7.14%) Spring MVC
9 2 (4.76%) Web Services
10 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) Fintech
3 12 (28.57%) Agile
3 12 (28.57%) Microservices
4 11 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 6 (14.29%) Observability
6 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.90%) Scrum
7 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
8 4 (9.52%) DevOps
8 4 (9.52%) ETL
8 4 (9.52%) Event-Driven
8 4 (9.52%) High Availability
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Testing
8 4 (9.52%) SOA
8 4 (9.52%) User Stories
9 3 (7.14%) MVC
9 3 (7.14%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) Go
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) OCP
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.43%) Ansible
3 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
5 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) VMware
2 3 (7.14%) Ab Initio
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Teradata