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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 50 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.88% 4.56% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.56% 16.09% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 18
10th Percentile £204 £460 £364
25th Percentile £204 £482 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -1.04% +9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £663 £700
90th Percentile £640 £666 £716
South East median daily rate £475 £507 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -11.78% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £44.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 149 87 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.45% 28.34% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 59 113
10th Percentile £204 £331 £255
25th Percentile £413 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £619
90th Percentile £667 £632 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 3
10th Percentile £43.25 - £41.00
25th Percentile £60.00 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% -5.42% +9.09%

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 26 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

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 26 April 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 24 £513 -0.29% 5
Weybridge - 5 £207 -
Redhill - 4 £526 -
Staines -11 3 £469 +10.29%
Woking +1 2 £640 +16.36%
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%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (12.00%) SaaS
2 6 (12.00%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (2.00%) Firebase
6 1 (2.00%) Google Gemini
6 1 (2.00%) Google Play
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) FTP
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
1 2 (4.00%) Wireless
1 2 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (16.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) Big Data
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.00%) Weaviate
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (16.00%) Android Studio
3 6 (12.00%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (12.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (12.00%) Xcode
4 2 (4.00%) Gradle
4 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.00%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.00%) fastlane
5 1 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.00%) Advertising
4 1 (2.00%) Electronics
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Java Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Technical Support
4 9 (18.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) UX Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Consultant
9 2 (4.00%) Android Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Lead
9 2 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
9 2 (4.00%) Senior
10 1 (2.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 13 (26.00%) Quarkus
3 8 (16.00%) CSS
3 8 (16.00%) React
4 7 (14.00%) GraphQL
5 6 (12.00%) Ajax
6 4 (8.00%) REST
7 3 (6.00%) LangChain
7 3 (6.00%) SOAP
7 3 (6.00%) Spring
7 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.00%) .NET
8 2 (4.00%) Faiss
8 2 (4.00%) HTML
8 2 (4.00%) Hugging Face
8 2 (4.00%) Keras
8 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (4.00%) Vue
9 1 (2.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Unix
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Android
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Agile
2 27 (54.00%) Software Engineering
3 22 (44.00%) Scrum
4 16 (32.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.00%) DevSecOps
5 13 (26.00%) Unit Testing
6 12 (24.00%) Front End Development
6 12 (24.00%) SDLC
6 12 (24.00%) Sprint Planning
7 11 (22.00%) Sprint Review
8 10 (20.00%) OO
8 10 (20.00%) User Experience
9 9 (18.00%) DevOps
10 6 (12.00%) Mobile Application Development
11 5 (10.00%) Analytics
11 5 (10.00%) OOP
11 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.00%) AI
12 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
12 4 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 13 (26.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.00%) Perl
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 4 (8.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) R
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) VBScript
8 1 (2.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (26.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (16.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Splunk
4 3 (6.00%) Blue Prism
4 3 (6.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.00%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) Teradata
6 1 (2.00%) UiPath