Java Applications Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Java Application Developer
England > South East

As of 15 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Java Application Developer daily rate in the South East.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 160 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Applications Developer 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.023% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £390 -
England median daily rate - £390 £850
% change year-on-year - -54.12% +30.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 3,978 3,131 4,629
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 92.69% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 1,957 2,971
10th Percentile £231 £236 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 117 281
10th Percentile £13.88 £19.06 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.50 £24.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -21.85% +25.02%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.25 £69.75 £76.53
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

Java Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Java Applications Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Java Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Applications Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Applications Developer job vacancies in the South East

Java Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Applications Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Applications Developer job vacancies in the South East

Java Applications 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 Java Applications Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Hampshire - 1 - - 1
Java Applications Developer
England

Java Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Java Applications 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 Java Applications Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring

Java Applications 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata