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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Java 12 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 33.33% - 6.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.65%
75th Percentile - - £778
90th Percentile - - £784
Surrey median daily rate £208 £429 £558
% change year-on-year -51.60% -23.09% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £60.00 - £51.20
% change year-on-year - - -8.98%

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 15 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 41.67% 17.86% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £340 - £365
25th Percentile £354 £400 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -12.82% -6.25%
75th Percentile £506 £461 £719
90th Percentile £518 £482 £779
Surrey median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £60.00 £13.50 £71.90
% change year-on-year +344.44% -81.22% +27.82%

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 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) AngularJS
1 7 (58.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (91.67%) Scrum
2 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 7 (58.33%) DevSecOps
4 7 (58.33%) Front End Development
4 7 (58.33%) SDLC
4 7 (58.33%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (58.33%) Sprint Review
4 7 (58.33%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) TDD
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Argo
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Red Hat