Java Contracts in Portsmouth

Java
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 23 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 5 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 4.07% 6.02% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.63% 25.35% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £382 - -
25th Percentile £473 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £67 £550
Median % change year-on-year +869.86% -87.81% +12.82%
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £498 £593 £571
% change year-on-year -16.03% +3.77% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £50.50 £60.88 £52.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £62.19 £62.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 £65.61 £73.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% -10.34% +20.83%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 71 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 34.96% 23.75% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 35
10th Percentile £445 £134 £406
25th Percentile £507 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £550
90th Percentile £666 £637 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 16
10th Percentile £50.50 £59.00 £48.81
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £52.75
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +7.38% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.01 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £72.00 £70.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
% change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Portsmouth

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Portsmouth

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Portsmouth

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Portsmouth

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) FPGA Developer
2 2 (40.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) FPGA
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (40.00%) Verilog
1 2 (40.00%) VHDL
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithmics
1 2 (40.00%) Intel
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle