Developer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer daily rate in Surrey is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 19 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 76 23 93
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 12.82% 7.74% 15.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.26% 7.93% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 16 68
10th Percentile £411 £404 £351
25th Percentile £450 £416 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +2.80% +9.29%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £619
90th Percentile £654 £644 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - £27.38
25th Percentile £57.50 £37.80 £36.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +60.14% -24.48% -2.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £71.56
90th Percentile £78.75 - £81.13
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £33.89 £58.91
% change year-on-year +62.31% -42.48% -14.32%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 533 290 561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 97.64% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 208 404
10th Percentile £204 £194 £203
25th Percentile £405 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £601
90th Percentile £654 £622 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 22 52
10th Percentile £33.00 £13.69 £13.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.17 £16.19
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -34.12% -19.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.16 £68.97
90th Percentile £73.34 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £55.80
% change year-on-year +90.91% -50.72% +11.60%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Surrey

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Surrey

Developer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Guildford -1 22 £510 +22.89% 3
Leatherhead +7 16 £544 -16.35% 5
Cobham - 5 £653 -
Staines -13 3 £413 -
Redhill - 3 £500 -
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Epsom 0 1 £425 -22.73%
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, 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 Surrey region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 42 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 41 (53.95%) SC Cleared
3 22 (28.95%) Agile
4 21 (27.63%) Siebel
5 17 (22.37%) Java
6 16 (21.05%) AngularJS
7 15 (19.74%) SQL
8 14 (18.42%) CRM
8 14 (18.42%) Scrum
9 13 (17.11%) Azure
9 13 (17.11%) Siebel CRM
9 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.79%) Oracle
10 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
11 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
11 11 (14.47%) OCI
11 11 (14.47%) QA
11 11 (14.47%) Unit Testing
12 10 (13.16%) .NET
12 10 (13.16%) Argo
12 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps
12 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
12 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
12 10 (13.16%) Quarkus
12 10 (13.16%) SonarQube
13 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (11.84%) DevOps
13 9 (11.84%) EAI

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.11%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) OCI
3 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) Firebase
6 1 (1.32%) AWS
6 1 (1.32%) Dialogflow
6 1 (1.32%) GCP
6 1 (1.32%) GitHub
6 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.32%) Google Play
6 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (11.84%) Siebel EIM
2 6 (7.89%) Power BI
3 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.95%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.63%) fastlane
2 2 (2.63%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.32%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.32%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.32%) Gradle
3 1 (1.32%) Xcode
General
1 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
2 4 (5.26%) Legal
3 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Advertising
5 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 10 (13.16%) .NET
2 10 (13.16%) Quarkus
3 4 (5.26%) RESTful
4 3 (3.95%) JSON
5 2 (2.63%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.63%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.63%) WinForms
6 1 (1.32%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.32%) Android SDK
6 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.32%) Core Data
6 1 (1.32%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (1.32%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.32%) React
6 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.32%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.32%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.32%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) MicroBlaze
4 1 (1.32%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Agile
2 14 (18.42%) CRM
2 14 (18.42%) Scrum
3 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
4 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
5 11 (14.47%) Unit Testing
6 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps
6 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (11.84%) DevOps
7 9 (11.84%) EAI
7 9 (11.84%) Front End Development
7 9 (11.84%) SDLC
8 8 (10.53%) Analytics
8 8 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (10.53%) Sprint Review
9 7 (9.21%) Workflow
10 6 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.89%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) SQL
3 5 (6.58%) C#
3 5 (6.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 3 (3.95%) C
4 3 (3.95%) C++
5 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.32%) Swift
6 1 (1.32%) VB
6 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 41 (53.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
1 1 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) Argo
1 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Siebel
2 12 (15.79%) Oracle
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.84%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.26%) SAP
6 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) Apple
7 1 (1.32%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.32%) Google