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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 39 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 27 74 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.60% 4.30% 7.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.27% 18.41% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 51 47
10th Percentile £365 £425 £442
25th Percentile £399 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +1.41% +10.10%
75th Percentile £581 £738 £700
90th Percentile £675 - £750
South East median daily rate £500 £580 £528
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.95% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 17
10th Percentile - £40.00 £55.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £61.25 £58.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +13.59%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.02 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.75 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +12.50%

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 220 402 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 29.33% 23.34% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 266 243
10th Percentile £419 £400 £306
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £635 £620
90th Percentile £650 £738 £686
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 51
10th Percentile £50.00 - £19.00
25th Percentile £50.53 £46.25 £45.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +64.29%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

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 30 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 30 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 9 £650 +869.86% 91
Farnborough +8 5 - -
Basingstoke +5 4 - - 81
Winchester - 3 £498 - 4
Fleet - 3 £402 -
Fareham - 2 £415 - 2
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 (14.81%) Anypoint
1 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) CMS
1 4 (14.81%) Confluence
1 4 (14.81%) Drupal
1 4 (14.81%) Mule
1 4 (14.81%) Mule ESB
1 4 (14.81%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (11.11%) iPaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
1 4 (14.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Git
2 10 (37.04%) JIRA
3 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.41%) Postman
6 2 (7.41%) Selenium
6 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (14.81%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) FPGA Developer
5 3 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) PHP Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Web Services
2 8 (29.63%) REST
2 8 (29.63%) SOAP
3 7 (25.93%) RESTful
4 5 (18.52%) React
5 4 (14.81%) Ajax
5 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.81%) CodeIgniter
5 4 (14.81%) CSS
5 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
5 4 (14.81%) HTML
5 4 (14.81%) jQuery
5 4 (14.81%) JSON
5 4 (14.81%) LAMP
5 4 (14.81%) Middleware
5 4 (14.81%) RAML
5 4 (14.81%) Spring
5 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.81%) XML
6 3 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Legacy Code
2 4 (14.81%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) FPGA
3 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.11%) Verilog
3 3 (11.11%) VHDL
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Agile
2 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) Scrum
4 8 (29.63%) Design Patterns
5 7 (25.93%) Migration
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) API Development
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
8 4 (14.81%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (14.81%) MVC
8 4 (14.81%) OO
8 4 (14.81%) OOP
8 4 (14.81%) SDLC
8 4 (14.81%) Secure Coding
8 4 (14.81%) SysML
8 4 (14.81%) TDD
8 4 (14.81%) UML
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) PHP
5 5 (18.52%) C#
6 4 (14.81%) DataWeave
6 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
7 3 (11.11%) C++
7 3 (11.11%) Scala
8 1 (3.70%) Go
8 1 (3.70%) Perl
8 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) MuleSoft
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.81%) Zend
3 3 (11.11%) Algorithmics
3 3 (11.11%) Intel
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle