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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 22 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 50 32 53
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 12.92% 7.06% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.01% 19.05% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 43
10th Percentile - - £217
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £220 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -54.87% -15.22%
75th Percentile £488 £603 £575
90th Percentile £533 £675 £672
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.58
25th Percentile £27.50 - £49.55
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £54.50
75th Percentile £43.75 - £61.00
90th Percentile £50.50 - £64.90
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £50.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -0.99% -15.83% -7.90%

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 147 168 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 37.98% 37.09% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 116 150
10th Percentile - - £302
25th Percentile £204 £203 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -12.41% -2.14%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £600
90th Percentile £618 £581 £672
South East median daily rate £489 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £28.69 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +37.61% +21.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - £81.25 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%

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 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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 8 £475 +5.56%
Staines -4 6 £208 +1.22%
Guildford - 6 £532 - 5
Woking - 4 £318 - 1
Camberley +6 1 £514 - 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 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) SaaS
2 18 (36.00%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) Wireless
2 8 (16.00%) NFC
2 8 (16.00%) PPP
3 4 (8.00%) FTP
3 4 (8.00%) HTTP
3 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) MySQL
1 24 (48.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (52.00%) Eclipse
2 19 (38.00%) Android Studio
2 19 (38.00%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (36.00%) Xcode
4 8 (16.00%) Valgrind
5 3 (6.00%) Git
6 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.00%) GitLab
6 1 (2.00%) Gradle
6 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Technical Support
2 23 (46.00%) Support Engineer
2 23 (46.00%) Technical Engineer
2 23 (46.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 19 (38.00%) UX Engineer
4 18 (36.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 10 (20.00%) Senior
6 8 (16.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Development Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Senior Development Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Software Development Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
7 7 (14.00%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (14.00%) Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) CSS
2 20 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 19 (38.00%) Ajax
3 19 (38.00%) GraphQL
3 19 (38.00%) React
4 12 (24.00%) REST
5 8 (16.00%) JSON
5 8 (16.00%) Web Services
5 8 (16.00%) XML
6 4 (8.00%) SOAP
7 3 (6.00%) Material Design
7 3 (6.00%) RESTful
8 2 (4.00%) HTML
8 2 (4.00%) Spring
8 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.00%) ADO
9 1 (2.00%) Flask
9 1 (2.00%) Kafka
9 1 (2.00%) Node.js
9 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (16.00%) Smartcard
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 32 (64.00%) Linux
2 28 (56.00%) Unix
2 28 (56.00%) Windows
3 22 (44.00%) Android
4 8 (16.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) User Experience
2 27 (54.00%) OO
3 22 (44.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (18.00%) Front End Development
5 9 (18.00%) OOP
6 8 (16.00%) Cryptography
6 8 (16.00%) Memory Management
6 8 (16.00%) Multithreaded Programming
6 8 (16.00%) Multithreading
7 7 (14.00%) Agile
7 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (8.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.00%) Escalation Management
9 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (8.00%) Process Improvement
9 4 (8.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 35 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 25 (50.00%) Perl
4 10 (20.00%) C++
5 8 (16.00%) C#
6 7 (14.00%) SQL
7 3 (6.00%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.00%) Objective-C
7 3 (6.00%) Swift
8 2 (4.00%) Go
9 1 (2.00%) ABAP
9 1 (2.00%) Julia
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Oracle
2 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (38.00%) ServiceNow
3 18 (36.00%) Splunk
4 3 (6.00%) Apple
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) SAP