Full-Stack Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Full-Stack Java Developer
England > South East

The median Full-Stack Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 179 204
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.027% 0.047% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.051% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £368 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +5.88% -6.59%
75th Percentile £403 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £405 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -22.86% -16.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 3,287 3,884 5,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 92.17% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,127 2,327 3,502
10th Percentile £204 £250 £209
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £614
90th Percentile £659 £688 £695
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 224 254
10th Percentile £13.09 £16.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.73 £57.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.13% +15.59% +55.26%
75th Percentile £45.88 £73.75 £66.39
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +54.59%

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Full-Stack Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the South East

Full-Stack Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Hampshire - 1 £385 - 2
Full-Stack Java Developer
England

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, Full-Stack 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 South East region featuring Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware