Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Java Developer
South East > Hampshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Hampshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 11 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.08% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.27% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £329 £423 -
25th Percentile £382 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £472 £569 -
90th Percentile £488 £588 -
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -26.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 917 1,120 1,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 93.10% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 727 700
10th Percentile £213 £353 £270
25th Percentile £420 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £510
% change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 77 96
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +28.57% +20.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £58.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.82% +11.41% +80.35%

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 October 2025.

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 October 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
Farnborough +9 5 £462 +15.38%
Basingstoke +8 1 £600 - 1
Portsmouth - 1 - -
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 October 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
3 8 (72.73%) AWS
3 8 (72.73%) Cucumber
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
4 7 (63.64%) Observability
4 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (45.45%) JUnit
5 5 (45.45%) Kafka
5 5 (45.45%) GitHub
5 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
6 4 (36.36%) Microservices
6 4 (36.36%) Datadog
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (36.36%) OCP
6 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (36.36%) Grafana
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
7 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
7 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 3 (27.27%) Kerberos
7 3 (27.27%) SOA
7 3 (27.27%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ

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 1 (9.09%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Datadog
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
3 3 (27.27%) HBase
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Cucumber
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) JUnit
3 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
4 3 (27.27%) Gradle
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) JMeter
5 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Spring
1 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) Kafka
3 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (9.09%) JSF
5 1 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
5 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
6 1 (9.09%) API Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) SysML
6 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
6 1 (9.09%) UML
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) OCP
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle