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 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 84 91
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 27 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.37% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 1
10th Percentile £313 £420 -
25th Percentile £326 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £467 £550 -
90th Percentile £474 £580 -
South East median daily rate £400 £533 £425
% change year-on-year -24.88% +25.29% -26.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £41.50 - £67.00
25th Percentile £43.75 - £68.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
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 1,023 1,017 1,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.74% 92.62% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 674 685
10th Percentile £256 £350 £270
25th Percentile £418 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £636
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £506
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.79% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 69 83
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.90 £30.41 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.85 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +31.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £38.71 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.70 £75.00 £71.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £51.66
% change year-on-year -63.84% +11.30% +38.44%

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 13 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 +13 17 £385 -3.75% 1
Basingstoke +3 1 £600 -
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 13 November 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 27 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (88.89%) Spring
3 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
4 21 (77.78%) AWS
5 19 (70.37%) Cucumber
6 18 (66.67%) GitHub
6 18 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (66.67%) Spring Boot
7 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
8 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
8 16 (59.26%) JUnit
9 15 (55.56%) Kafka
10 14 (51.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (44.44%) Observability
11 12 (44.44%) OpenShift
12 11 (40.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (37.04%) Agile
13 10 (37.04%) Hibernate
13 10 (37.04%) Microservices
14 9 (33.33%) Gradle
14 9 (33.33%) NoSQL
14 9 (33.33%) OCP
14 9 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (29.63%) Ansible
15 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (29.63%) JMeter
15 8 (29.63%) VMware
16 7 (25.93%) Artifactory
16 7 (25.93%) Datadog
16 7 (25.93%) Grafana

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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 18 (66.67%) GitHub
3 12 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (25.93%) Datadog
6 5 (18.52%) Azure
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
7 4 (14.81%) GCP
8 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (25.93%) HBase
3 7 (25.93%) MongoDB
4 6 (22.22%) DynamoDB
5 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.70%) Big Data
6 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (70.37%) Cucumber
2 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 16 (59.26%) JUnit
3 14 (51.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (33.33%) Gradle
5 8 (29.63%) JMeter
6 7 (25.93%) Artifactory
7 3 (11.11%) Git
8 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (7.41%) Gatling
8 2 (7.41%) Maven
9 1 (3.70%) GitLab
9 1 (3.70%) JIRA
9 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (88.89%) Spring
2 18 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 15 (55.56%) Kafka
4 10 (37.04%) Hibernate
5 6 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (22.22%) RESTful
6 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
6 4 (14.81%) JPA
7 3 (11.11%) React
7 3 (11.11%) Spring MVC
8 2 (7.41%) REST
9 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (3.70%) JSF
9 1 (3.70%) Spring Batch
9 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) Observability
3 11 (40.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
4 10 (37.04%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 6 (22.22%) SOA
5 6 (22.22%) User Stories
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Performance Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Epics
7 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Test Scripting
8 3 (11.11%) DevOps
8 3 (11.11%) MVC
8 3 (11.11%) Scrum
9 2 (7.41%) API Development
9 2 (7.41%) API Integration
9 2 (7.41%) High Availability
9 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) OCP
1 9 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Ansible
3 7 (25.93%) Grafana
3 7 (25.93%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) VMware
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle