Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Java Developer
South East > Hampshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Hampshire is £416, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 68 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 46 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.26% 0.13% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 0.14% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 1 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £328 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% - -
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £424 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +0.89% -11.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile £52.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.88%

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 1,289 699 1,306
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 94.33% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 487 709
10th Percentile £325 £312 £355
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £667
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 36 132
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.04 £12.66
25th Percentile £16.58 £27.38 £18.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -27.08% +13.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £59.49 £73.13 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 - 22 £410 - 1
Fleet - 12 - - 3
Basingstoke -14 1 £600 -
Portsmouth - 1 - - 2
Andover - 1 £450 -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 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 46 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (65.22%) Spring
3 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
4 28 (60.87%) AWS
5 24 (52.17%) Kubernetes
5 24 (52.17%) Spring Boot
6 22 (47.83%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (43.48%) Cucumber
8 19 (41.30%) GitHub
9 18 (39.13%) Kafka
10 17 (36.96%) Jenkins
10 17 (36.96%) JUnit
11 15 (32.61%) OpenShift
11 15 (32.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (28.26%) Agile
12 13 (28.26%) Fintech
13 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (26.09%) Gradle
13 12 (26.09%) Microservices
13 12 (26.09%) Observability
14 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
14 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
15 10 (21.74%) Ansible
15 10 (21.74%) Hibernate
15 10 (21.74%) OCP
15 10 (21.74%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
16 9 (19.57%) Azure
17 8 (17.39%) Artifactory
17 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB

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 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) GitHub
3 15 (32.61%) OpenShift
4 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
4 9 (19.57%) Azure
5 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (15.22%) Datadog
6 7 (15.22%) GCP
7 6 (13.04%) Snowflake
8 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.87%) Serverless
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (47.83%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
3 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB
3 8 (17.39%) HBase
4 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
5 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.70%) Big Data
7 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (43.48%) Cucumber
2 17 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 17 (36.96%) JUnit
3 15 (32.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (26.09%) Gradle
5 8 (17.39%) Artifactory
5 8 (17.39%) JMeter
6 6 (13.04%) Git
7 4 (8.70%) Maven
8 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.35%) Gatling
10 1 (2.17%) GitLab
10 1 (2.17%) JIRA
10 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (65.22%) Spring
2 24 (52.17%) Spring Boot
3 18 (39.13%) Kafka
4 10 (21.74%) Hibernate
5 8 (17.39%) RESTful
6 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.70%) JPA
7 4 (8.70%) React
8 3 (6.52%) Spring MVC
9 2 (4.35%) REST
10 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.17%) Spring Batch
10 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
2 13 (28.26%) Agile
2 13 (28.26%) Fintech
3 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (26.09%) Microservices
3 12 (26.09%) Observability
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.04%) DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Event-Driven
5 6 (13.04%) SOA
5 6 (13.04%) User Stories
6 5 (10.87%) High Availability
6 5 (10.87%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (10.87%) Performance Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) Software Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.70%) Epics
7 4 (8.70%) Scrum
7 4 (8.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) Python
4 1 (2.17%) Go
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) OCP
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Def Stans
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.52%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Ab Initio
3 2 (4.35%) Teradata
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle