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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 23 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 44 37 58
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 12.64% 7.77% 7.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.35% 22.29% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 47
10th Percentile - - £217
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% -22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £672 £580
90th Percentile £548 £675 £685
South East median daily rate £450 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -21.74% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £46.58
25th Percentile - £57.50 £49.55
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.09% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.90
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -

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 136 166 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 39.08% 34.87% 27.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 115 171
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £540 £556 £600
90th Percentile £584 £618 £656
South East median daily rate £493 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.38 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +37.61% +70.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.12%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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 +18 9 £475 +5.56%
Staines -3 5 £208 +1.22% 4
Guildford - 5 £532 - 10
Woking - 4 £413 - 4
Camberley 0 1 £514 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) SaaS
2 15 (34.09%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) Wireless
2 9 (20.45%) NFC
2 9 (20.45%) PPP
3 4 (9.09%) FTP
3 4 (9.09%) HTTP
3 4 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (47.73%) MySQL
1 21 (47.73%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Eclipse
2 16 (36.36%) Browser DevTools
3 15 (34.09%) Android Studio
3 15 (34.09%) Xcode
4 9 (20.45%) Valgrind
5 4 (9.09%) Git
6 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
General
1 27 (61.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (56.82%) Technical Support
2 20 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 20 (45.45%) Technical Engineer
2 20 (45.45%) Technical Support Engineer
3 16 (36.36%) UX Engineer
4 15 (34.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 11 (25.00%) Senior
6 10 (22.73%) Software Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) C++ Software Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Development Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Senior Development Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (20.45%) Software Development Engineer
8 7 (15.91%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (11.36%) Developer
10 4 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) React
2 16 (36.36%) Ajax
2 16 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 16 (36.36%) CSS
2 16 (36.36%) GraphQL
3 13 (29.55%) REST
4 9 (20.45%) JSON
4 9 (20.45%) Web Services
4 9 (20.45%) XML
5 4 (9.09%) SOAP
6 3 (6.82%) Material Design
6 3 (6.82%) RESTful
7 1 (2.27%) ADO
7 1 (2.27%) Kafka
7 1 (2.27%) Next.js
7 1 (2.27%) Node.js
7 1 (2.27%) Spring
7 1 (2.27%) Spring Batch
7 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (43.18%) Mobile App
2 9 (20.45%) Smartcard
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (68.18%) Linux
2 25 (56.82%) Unix
2 25 (56.82%) Windows
3 18 (40.91%) Android
4 9 (20.45%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) User Experience
2 24 (54.55%) OO
3 19 (43.18%) Mobile Application Development
4 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 9 (20.45%) Cryptography
5 9 (20.45%) Front End Development
5 9 (20.45%) Memory Management
5 9 (20.45%) Multithreaded Programming
5 9 (20.45%) Multithreading
5 9 (20.45%) OOP
6 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.36%) Agile
7 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.09%) Escalation Management
8 4 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.09%) Process Improvement
9 3 (6.82%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 35 (79.55%) Python
2 32 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 22 (50.00%) Perl
4 9 (20.45%) C#
4 9 (20.45%) C++
5 7 (15.91%) SQL
6 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.82%) Objective-C
6 3 (6.82%) Swift
7 2 (4.55%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) ABAP
8 1 (2.27%) Julia
8 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Oracle
2 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 15 (34.09%) Splunk
4 3 (6.82%) Apple
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) SAP