Java Contracts in Hampshire

Java
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 34 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Java 16 73 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.14% 4.53% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.62% 21.28% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 49 58
10th Percentile £354 £425 £428
25th Percentile £390 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £593 £571
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +3.77% +14.20%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £709
90th Percentile - - £750
South East median daily rate £507 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -11.78% +8.49% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 15
10th Percentile £50.50 £37.50 £56.44
25th Percentile £51.25 £60.94 £62.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.51 £75.00
90th Percentile £54.50 £74.20 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Hampshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Java in Hampshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Hampshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Hampshire

Java
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 within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Portsmouth +5 5 £650 +869.86% 34
Basingstoke +6 4 - - 35
Winchester - 3 £498 - 1
Fareham - 2 £415 - 2
Farnborough 0 1 - - 5
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Anypoint
1 4 (25.00%) Apache
1 4 (25.00%) CMS
1 4 (25.00%) Confluence
1 4 (25.00%) Drupal
1 4 (25.00%) Mule
1 4 (25.00%) Mule ESB
1 4 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) iPaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Git
2 6 (37.50%) JIRA
3 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (25.00%) PHP Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) FPGA Developer
4 3 (18.75%) FPGA Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) SOAP
1 8 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) Ajax
2 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (25.00%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) jQuery
2 4 (25.00%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) LAMP
2 4 (25.00%) RAML
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
2 4 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Code
2 3 (18.75%) FPGA
2 3 (18.75%) Verilog
2 3 (18.75%) VHDL
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) API Development
3 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) API Management
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) MVC
4 4 (25.00%) OO
4 4 (25.00%) OOP
4 4 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) API Design
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
5 3 (18.75%) Signal Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PHP
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) DataWeave
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) CloudHub
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (25.00%) Zend
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithmics
3 3 (18.75%) Intel
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle