Java Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Java
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 26 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 35.62% 4.35% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 68.42% 22.22% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 £481 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £380
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +35.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £519 £548 £448
90th Percentile - - £479
Surrey median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.10% -11.25% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £67.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 52.05% 19.57% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 7
10th Percentile £381 £400 £365
25th Percentile £406 £402 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -4.31%
75th Percentile £519 £523 £513
90th Percentile £523 £548 £595
Surrey median daily rate £513 £500 £433
% change year-on-year +2.50% +15.61% -21.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +141.07% -65.00% +52.38%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Java job vacancy trend in Guildford

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java

Java
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 14 (53.85%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (3.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
1 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
2 10 (38.46%) Java Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) AngularJS
1 14 (53.85%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Agile
2 25 (96.15%) Software Engineering
3 21 (80.77%) Scrum
4 14 (53.85%) DevSecOps
4 14 (53.85%) Unit Testing
5 13 (50.00%) Front End Development
5 13 (50.00%) SDLC
5 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 12 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
6 12 (46.15%) Sprint Review
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Clean Code
8 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (3.85%) Design Patterns
8 1 (3.85%) TDD
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Argo
1 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Red Hat