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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Java 58 24 37
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.85% 7.59% 6.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.15% 23.08% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 29
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £204 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -20.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £519 £548 £675
90th Percentile £539 £550 -
South East median daily rate £513 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +35.00% -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 165 104 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.01% 32.91% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 78 138
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £408 £301 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £619 £548 £561
90th Percentile £675 £575 £632
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 7
10th Percentile £62.50 - £68.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +18.18%

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 3 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 3 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 +6 35 £513 -3.67%
Staines -16 5 £425 +104.82%
Weybridge - 5 £500 -
Redhill -3 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 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) OpenShift
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (5.17%) Azure
3 3 (5.17%) GCP
3 3 (5.17%) GitHub
3 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (5.17%) SaaS
3 3 (5.17%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (1.72%) Dialogflow
5 1 (1.72%) Firebase
5 1 (1.72%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) FTP
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
1 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.07%) MySQL
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Big Data
4 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) SonarQube
2 4 (6.90%) Android Studio
2 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.17%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.17%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.17%) Xcode
4 1 (1.72%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.72%) fastlane
4 1 (1.72%) Git
4 1 (1.72%) Gradle
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Developer
2 14 (24.14%) Java Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Java Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Support Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Support
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Lecturer
7 4 (6.90%) Senior
8 3 (5.17%) Consultant
8 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.17%) UX Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (46.55%) AngularJS
2 23 (39.66%) Quarkus
3 8 (13.79%) .NET
4 6 (10.34%) GraphQL
5 5 (8.62%) REST
6 4 (6.90%) CSS
6 4 (6.90%) React
6 4 (6.90%) SOAP
7 3 (5.17%) Ajax
7 3 (5.17%) Node.js
8 2 (3.45%) Loki
8 2 (3.45%) RESTful
8 2 (3.45%) Spring
8 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.72%) Android Jetpack
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
9 1 (1.72%) HTML
9 1 (1.72%) Jetpack Compose
9 1 (1.72%) Middleware
9 1 (1.72%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
1 7 (12.07%) Unix
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) Agile
2 35 (60.34%) Software Engineering
3 33 (56.90%) Scrum
4 27 (46.55%) SDLC
5 25 (43.10%) Test Automation
6 23 (39.66%) DevSecOps
6 23 (39.66%) Unit Testing
7 22 (37.93%) Front End Development
8 21 (36.21%) Sprint Planning
8 21 (36.21%) Sprint Review
9 11 (18.97%) DevOps
10 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
11 7 (12.07%) OO
11 7 (12.07%) OOP
12 6 (10.34%) User Experience
13 5 (8.62%) CI/CD
13 5 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
14 4 (6.90%) Due Diligence
14 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.07%) C#
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) Perl
6 4 (6.90%) C++
6 4 (6.90%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.45%) Scala
8 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.45%) VBScript
9 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) SC Cleared
1 27 (46.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.07%) Degree
3 4 (6.90%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.93%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 23 (39.66%) Argo
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.45%) Puppet
3 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) Blue Prism
4 3 (5.17%) Splunk
5 2 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) UiPath