Java Contracts in Surrey

Java
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Java 16 39 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.65% 6.16% 3.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 22.41% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 20
10th Percentile £418 £203 £385
25th Percentile £463 £373 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £675 £639
90th Percentile £550 £712 £703
South East median daily rate £498 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -14.96% +11.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.13
25th Percentile - £57.50 £52.81
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +188.46%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £60.31
90th Percentile - - £62.38
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -1.89% +7.51%

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 88 174 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 31.10% 27.49% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 136 165
10th Percentile £280 £203 £388
25th Percentile £408 £312 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.09% -3.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £68.00 £30.25
25th Percentile - - £36.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +57.89% +126.19%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £55.63
90th Percentile - £83.00 £60.63
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.64% +15.79%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Surrey

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Java in Surrey

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Surrey

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 2025. 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
Redhill +15 5 £475 -13.64% 1
Staines -3 3 £425 -32.00% 10
Guildford +2 2 £514 +35.26% 24
Woking - 2 £550 - 17
Camberley - 2 £514 - 1
Leatherhead +7 1 £650 - 5
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) NFC
1 5 (31.25%) PPP
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Eclipse
2 5 (31.25%) Valgrind
3 4 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Development Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Development Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) ABAP Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior ABAP Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) JSON
2 6 (37.50%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) Web Services
2 6 (37.50%) XML
3 5 (31.25%) React
4 4 (25.00%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) Java EE
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) ADO
6 1 (6.25%) Ajax
6 1 (6.25%) CSS
6 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
6 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.25%) Java SE
6 1 (6.25%) PySpark
6 1 (6.25%) Spring
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.25%) Struts
6 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Smartcard
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Ubuntu
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) User Experience
3 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
3 5 (31.25%) Front End Development
3 5 (31.25%) Memory Management
3 5 (31.25%) Multithreaded Programming
3 5 (31.25%) Multithreading
3 5 (31.25%) Workflow
4 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) API Design
5 1 (6.25%) API Integration
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 13 (81.25%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) C#
4 5 (31.25%) C++
4 5 (31.25%) Perl
5 4 (25.00%) ABAP
6 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (6.25%) Bash
7 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) OCP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Adobe
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk