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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Java 53 29 39
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 8.88% 8.84% 6.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.55% 24.79% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 30
10th Percentile £204 - -
25th Percentile £356 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £520 £488 £672
90th Percentile £551 £549 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £475 £596
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.34% +15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 1
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -11.11%

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 168 117 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.14% 35.67% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 82 140
10th Percentile £313 £204 £203
25th Percentile £413 £285 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +10.29% -19.05%
75th Percentile £619 £548 £558
90th Percentile £675 £575 £626
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.65% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 7
10th Percentile £60.87 £45.15 £68.00
25th Percentile £66.25 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £66.01
% change year-on-year +9.09% -16.68% +20.02%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +7 32 £513 -3.67%
Staines -17 5 £425 +104.82% 1
Weybridge - 5 £500 -
Redhill -1 3 £526 +10.63%
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
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) OpenShift
2 5 (9.43%) AWS
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) GCP
3 3 (5.66%) GitHub
3 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (5.66%) SaaS
3 3 (5.66%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (1.89%) Dialogflow
5 1 (1.89%) Firebase
5 1 (1.89%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 7 (13.21%) MySQL
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Big Data
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (41.51%) SonarQube
2 4 (7.55%) Android Studio
2 4 (7.55%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.66%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.66%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.66%) Xcode
4 1 (1.89%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.89%) fastlane
4 1 (1.89%) Git
4 1 (1.89%) Gradle
4 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Java Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Java Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Lecturer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.66%) UX Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (49.06%) AngularJS
2 22 (41.51%) Quarkus
3 8 (15.09%) .NET
4 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.55%) CSS
5 4 (7.55%) React
6 3 (5.66%) Ajax
6 3 (5.66%) Node.js
6 3 (5.66%) REST
7 2 (3.77%) Loki
7 2 (3.77%) RESTful
7 2 (3.77%) SOAP
7 2 (3.77%) Spring
7 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.89%) Android SDK
8 1 (1.89%) CSS3
8 1 (1.89%) HTML5
8 1 (1.89%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
1 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Clustering
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Unix
3 4 (7.55%) Android
4 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) Agile
2 32 (60.38%) Software Engineering
3 30 (56.60%) Scrum
4 26 (49.06%) SDLC
5 24 (45.28%) Test Automation
6 22 (41.51%) DevSecOps
6 22 (41.51%) Unit Testing
7 21 (39.62%) Front End Development
8 20 (37.74%) Sprint Planning
8 20 (37.74%) Sprint Review
9 10 (18.87%) DevOps
10 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
11 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.32%) User Experience
12 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
12 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (9.43%) OO
12 5 (9.43%) OOP
13 4 (7.55%) Due Diligence
13 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.21%) C#
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 5 (9.43%) Perl
6 4 (7.55%) C++
6 4 (7.55%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.77%) Bash
8 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.77%) Scala
8 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.77%) VBScript
9 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (47.17%) SC Cleared
1 25 (47.17%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (13.21%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (39.62%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (41.51%) 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 21 (39.62%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.66%) Blue Prism
4 3 (5.66%) Splunk
5 2 (3.77%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.89%) UiPath