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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -15 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 45 22 99
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 8.57% 7.51% 16.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.30% 7.83% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 77
10th Percentile £406 £401 £372
25th Percentile £450 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £564 £558 £550
90th Percentile £654 £649 £677
South East median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.59 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% -30.02% +5.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £58.91
% change year-on-year -12.20% -13.00% -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 484 281 548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 95.90% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 191 402
10th Percentile £204 £195 £246
25th Percentile £369 £280 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £623
90th Percentile £671 £656 £693
South East median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 27 56
10th Percentile £50.00 £20.00 £12.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £71.99 £38.57 £57.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +61.31% -31.58% -1.86%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +5 17 £513 +28.13% 8
Leatherhead -4 4 £613 +36.11% 2
Staines -9 3 £413 -
Redhill - 2 £500 - 6
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Cobham - 1 £653 - 2
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (28.89%) Java
4 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 8 (17.78%) Azure
5 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.78%) Scrum
6 7 (15.56%) .NET
6 7 (15.56%) Argo
6 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
6 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
6 7 (15.56%) OpenShift
6 7 (15.56%) QA
6 7 (15.56%) Quarkus
6 7 (15.56%) SonarQube
6 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 6 (13.33%) Red Hat
7 6 (13.33%) SDLC
7 6 (13.33%) Siebel
7 6 (13.33%) SQL
8 5 (11.11%) Analytics
8 5 (11.11%) EAI
8 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 5 (11.11%) OCI

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 2 (4.44%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) OpenShift
3 5 (11.11%) OCI
4 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Firebase
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Google Gemini
6 1 (2.22%) Google Play
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.44%) fastlane
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.22%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.22%) Crashlytics
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Gradle
3 1 (2.22%) Xcode
General
1 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Electronics
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 7 (15.56%) .NET
2 7 (15.56%) Quarkus
3 2 (4.44%) JSON
3 2 (4.44%) JSON Schema
3 2 (4.44%) RESTful
3 2 (4.44%) WinForms
4 1 (2.22%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (2.22%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.22%) Blazor
4 1 (2.22%) Core Data
4 1 (2.22%) iOS SDK
4 1 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (2.22%) MDX
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) Retrofit
4 1 (2.22%) SwiftUI
4 1 (2.22%) UIKit
4 1 (2.22%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.22%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (2.22%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (17.78%) Scrum
4 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
4 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
5 6 (13.33%) DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
5 6 (13.33%) SDLC
6 5 (11.11%) Analytics
6 5 (11.11%) EAI
6 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (11.11%) Sprint Review
7 4 (8.89%) API Development
7 4 (8.89%) CRM
7 4 (8.89%) Microservices
7 4 (8.89%) Workflow
8 3 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) Java
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) C#
3 4 (8.89%) Python
4 3 (6.67%) C
4 3 (6.67%) C++
4 3 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) WCAG
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Argo
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Red Hat
1 6 (13.33%) Siebel
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAI