Java Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Java
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 46 13 19
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.56% 4.28% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.86% 14.77% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 17
10th Percentile £204 £453 £364
25th Percentile £204 £482 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £558
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +14.35% +1.36%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £712
90th Percentile £660 £668 £717
South East median daily rate £475 £515 £558
% change year-on-year -7.77% -7.62% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £69.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £21.90 £65.00
% change year-on-year +173.97% -66.31% +2.77%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 140 88 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.11% 28.95% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 59 113
10th Percentile £281 £348 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £671 £632 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile £41.00 - £41.00
25th Percentile £60.00 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £69.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Java job vacancy trend in Surrey

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Surrey

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in Surrey

Java
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 Java within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 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 +9 22 £513 -0.29% 8
Weybridge - 5 £207 -
Staines -10 3 £469 +10.29%
Redhill - 3 £557 -
Woking +2 2 £640 - 2
Java
South East

Java
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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) OpenShift
2 6 (13.04%) SaaS
2 6 (13.04%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (6.52%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (2.17%) Firebase
5 1 (2.17%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.17%) Google Play
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Wireless
2 2 (4.35%) FTP
2 2 (4.35%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 7 (15.22%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.35%) Weaviate
4 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) SonarQube
2 8 (17.39%) Android Studio
3 6 (13.04%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (13.04%) Eclipse
3 6 (13.04%) Xcode
4 2 (4.35%) Gradle
4 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.17%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.17%) fastlane
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Advertising
4 1 (2.17%) Electronics
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Legal
4 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Java Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) UX Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (4.35%) Android Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Lead
8 2 (4.35%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
9 1 (2.17%) Applications Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) AngularJS
2 12 (26.09%) Quarkus
3 8 (17.39%) CSS
3 8 (17.39%) React
4 6 (13.04%) Ajax
4 6 (13.04%) GraphQL
5 4 (8.70%) REST
6 3 (6.52%) LangChain
6 3 (6.52%) SOAP
7 2 (4.35%) .NET
7 2 (4.35%) Faiss
7 2 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (4.35%) Hugging Face
7 2 (4.35%) Keras
7 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
7 2 (4.35%) Spring
7 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
7 2 (4.35%) Vue
8 1 (2.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Unix
3 8 (17.39%) Android
4 7 (15.22%) Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Agile
2 25 (54.35%) Software Engineering
3 21 (45.65%) Scrum
4 15 (32.61%) Test Automation
5 12 (26.09%) DevSecOps
5 12 (26.09%) Unit Testing
6 11 (23.91%) Front End Development
6 11 (23.91%) SDLC
6 11 (23.91%) Sprint Planning
7 10 (21.74%) Sprint Review
7 10 (21.74%) User Experience
8 9 (19.57%) DevOps
8 9 (19.57%) OO
9 6 (13.04%) Mobile Application Development
10 5 (10.87%) Analytics
11 4 (8.70%) AI
11 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
11 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (8.70%) UX Design
11 4 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Python
2 12 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (15.22%) Perl
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.35%) C++
7 2 (4.35%) R
7 2 (4.35%) VBScript
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (26.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Red Hat
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.04%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Blue Prism
4 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.17%) Teradata
6 1 (2.17%) UiPath