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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Java 53 14 29
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.64% 5.20% 4.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 17.28% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 23
10th Percentile £204 £458 £365
25th Percentile £204 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -17.58% +3.45%
75th Percentile £523 £548 £675
90th Percentile £627 £561 £712
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +35.00% -23.08% -7.14%

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 159 81 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.91% 30.11% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 57 117
10th Percentile £204 £324 £255
25th Percentile £413 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £636 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 5
10th Percentile £60.00 - £64.50
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% -65.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £84.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.80
% change year-on-year - -11.00% +11.12%

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 8 June 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
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 8 June 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 +8 26 £513 -0.29% 5
Weybridge - 6 £210 -
Staines -13 5 £425 -
Redhill -5 4 £526 +10.74% 1
Woking +1 1 £640 +16.36% 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 (1.89%) Apache
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) OpenShift
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) SaaS
3 5 (9.43%) Sauce Labs
4 4 (7.55%) Azure
4 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.89%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.89%) Firebase
7 1 (1.89%) Google Play
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) FTP
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
1 2 (3.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Relational Database
2 9 (16.98%) MySQL
3 2 (3.77%) Big Data
3 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) SonarQube
2 6 (11.32%) Android Studio
3 5 (9.43%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (9.43%) Eclipse
3 5 (9.43%) Xcode
4 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.89%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.89%) fastlane
5 1 (1.89%) Gradle
5 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Finance
6 1 (1.89%) Advertising
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Java Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Java Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) Support Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Software Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Technical Support
4 9 (16.98%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) UX Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior
8 3 (5.66%) Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (39.62%) AngularJS
2 14 (26.42%) Quarkus
3 8 (15.09%) GraphQL
3 8 (15.09%) React
4 6 (11.32%) .NET
4 6 (11.32%) CSS
4 6 (11.32%) REST
5 5 (9.43%) Ajax
6 4 (7.55%) SOAP
7 3 (5.66%) Node.js
8 2 (3.77%) Faiss
8 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
8 2 (3.77%) Keras
8 2 (3.77%) LangChain
8 2 (3.77%) Loki
8 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
8 2 (3.77%) Spring
8 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
1 6 (11.32%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Clustering
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
1 10 (18.87%) Unix
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Agile
2 30 (56.60%) Software Engineering
3 24 (45.28%) Scrum
4 16 (30.19%) SDLC
4 16 (30.19%) Test Automation
5 14 (26.42%) DevSecOps
5 14 (26.42%) Unit Testing
6 13 (24.53%) Front End Development
7 12 (22.64%) Sprint Planning
7 12 (22.64%) Sprint Review
8 11 (20.75%) DevOps
9 10 (18.87%) OO
10 8 (15.09%) OOP
10 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.09%) User Experience
11 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
12 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
13 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
13 5 (9.43%) Mobile Application Development
14 4 (7.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.09%) Perl
3 8 (15.09%) SQL
4 6 (11.32%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.77%) C++
6 2 (3.77%) R
6 2 (3.77%) Scala
6 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.77%) VBScript
7 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 14 (26.42%) Argo
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Grafana
3 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.77%) Puppet
3 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Red Hat
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.43%) Splunk
5 3 (5.66%) Blue Prism
6 2 (3.77%) Google
6 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.89%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.89%) Teradata
7 1 (1.89%) UiPath