Developer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer daily rate in Surrey is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 39 25 89
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 7.72% 8.06% 15.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.46% 8.42% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 70
10th Percentile £408 £401 £374
25th Percentile £481 £416 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £558 £550
90th Percentile £535 £649 £683
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £54.00 - -
25th Percentile - £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.59 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.82% -30.02% +5.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year - -10.87% -15.85%

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 461 297 547
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 95.81% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 197 410
10th Percentile £204 £185 £200
25th Percentile £394 £263 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £613
90th Percentile £688 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.65% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 53
10th Percentile £50.00 £20.00 £12.31
25th Percentile £58.75 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £25.15 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +168.39% +37.06% -59.22%
75th Percentile £81.24 £36.16 £58.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +61.54% -31.58% -1.21%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +2 14 £513 +28.13% 12
Staines -8 3 £413 - 1
Woking - 2 £475 - 4
Redhill - 2 £500 -
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 20 (51.28%) SC Cleared
1 20 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) Agile
3 13 (33.33%) Java
4 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 9 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 9 (23.08%) QA
5 9 (23.08%) Scrum
5 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 8 (20.51%) Argo
6 8 (20.51%) DevSecOps
6 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
6 8 (20.51%) OpenShift
6 8 (20.51%) Quarkus
6 8 (20.51%) SonarQube
6 8 (20.51%) Unit Testing
7 7 (17.95%) .NET
7 7 (17.95%) Azure
7 7 (17.95%) Front End Development
7 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
7 7 (17.95%) SDLC
8 6 (15.38%) Analytics
8 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (15.38%) Sprint Review
9 5 (12.82%) DevOps
10 4 (10.26%) AI
10 4 (10.26%) API Development
10 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
10 4 (10.26%) Power Platform

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) OpenShift
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Firebase
4 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.56%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.13%) Android Studio
2 2 (5.13%) fastlane
2 2 (5.13%) Gradle
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.56%) Crashlytics
3 1 (2.56%) JMeter
3 1 (2.56%) Xcode
General
1 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Advertising
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Electronics
4 1 (2.56%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 8 (20.51%) Quarkus
3 7 (17.95%) .NET
4 2 (5.13%) JSON
4 2 (5.13%) JSON Schema
4 2 (5.13%) RESTful
4 2 (5.13%) WinForms
5 1 (2.56%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.56%) Android SDK
5 1 (2.56%) Blazor
5 1 (2.56%) Core Data
5 1 (2.56%) iOS SDK
5 1 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.56%) LangChain
5 1 (2.56%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (2.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.56%) Retrofit
5 1 (2.56%) SwiftUI
5 1 (2.56%) UIKit
5 1 (2.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.56%) Device Driver
2 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.56%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (2.56%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 9 (23.08%) Scrum
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 8 (20.51%) DevSecOps
4 8 (20.51%) Unit Testing
5 7 (17.95%) Front End Development
5 7 (17.95%) SDLC
6 6 (15.38%) Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (15.38%) Sprint Review
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
8 4 (10.26%) AI
8 4 (10.26%) API Development
9 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.69%) Data Modelling
9 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (7.69%) Microservices
9 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (10.26%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) C
3 3 (7.69%) C#
3 3 (7.69%) C++
3 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) SC Cleared
1 20 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Argo
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Apple
4 1 (2.56%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI