Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Java Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.50% - 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £339 - £265
25th Percentile £353 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.35%
75th Percentile £446 - £588
90th Percentile £546 - £638
South East median daily rate £365 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -43.85% +13.04% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 1,285 692 1,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.28% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 481 711
10th Percentile £320 £300 £350
25th Percentile £455 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £667
90th Percentile £726 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 36 131
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.04 £12.63
25th Percentile £16.58 £27.38 £19.46
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -27.08% +10.34%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £56.44 £73.13 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% -5.56% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Hampshire

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 - 4 £360 -
Java Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) GitHub
3 5 (71.43%) Kafka
3 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (57.14%) Gradle
4 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
5 3 (42.86%) HBase
5 3 (42.86%) JMeter
5 3 (42.86%) Observability
5 3 (42.86%) OCP
5 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Ansible
6 2 (28.57%) Datadog
6 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
6 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (28.57%) User Stories

Java Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
4 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) HBase
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (85.71%) JUnit
3 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (57.14%) Gradle
5 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
5 3 (42.86%) JMeter
6 1 (14.29%) Gatling
6 1 (14.29%) Git
6 1 (14.29%) JIRA
6 1 (14.29%) Maven
6 1 (14.29%) Postman
6 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
6 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Kafka
3 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
5 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) OCP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle