Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Java Engineer
Surrey > Guildford

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Guildford is £330, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 2.78% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - -
Surrey median daily rate £330 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 36 43 55
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 95.56% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 46
10th Percentile £259 £102 £214
25th Percentile £405 £338 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £573
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -17.03% +14.50%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £738
90th Percentile £600 £700 £788
Surrey median daily rate £488 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +2.63% -7.77% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £24.80 - £47.75
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.41%
75th Percentile £29.00 - -
90th Percentile £29.60 - £56.98
Surrey median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +12.24% -20.49% +36.96%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Guildford

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Guildford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Guildford

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Java Engineer 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 Guildford region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Observability

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java