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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 46 15 39
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 10.41% 4.24% 6.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.38% 14.02% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 33
10th Percentile £204 £182 £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £429 £500
Median % change year-on-year -51.60% -14.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £330 £663 £585
90th Percentile £549 £666 £712
South East median daily rate £423 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -26.52% +8.49% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £27.50 - £46.58
25th Percentile £56.25 - £49.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £54.50
75th Percentile £67.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £64.90
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £65.00

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 130 107 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.41% 30.23% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 68 115
10th Percentile £204 £215 £263
25th Percentile £286 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £657 £683
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 11
10th Percentile £45.00 - £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.93% +34.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £67.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 - 10 £330 - 14
Redhill - 5 £475 - 2
Weybridge - 4 £207 -
Staines -10 3 £525 +156.10%
Woking - 2 £640 - 5
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 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) SaaS
2 14 (30.43%) Sauce Labs
3 7 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.70%) AWS
5 3 (6.52%) Azure
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Datadog
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) Wireless
2 6 (13.04%) FTP
2 6 (13.04%) HTTP
2 6 (13.04%) Wireshark
3 3 (6.52%) NFC
3 3 (6.52%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (39.13%) Relational Database
2 16 (34.78%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.35%) Weaviate
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Eclipse
2 15 (32.61%) Android Studio
2 15 (32.61%) Browser DevTools
3 14 (30.43%) Xcode
4 6 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.52%) Valgrind
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
6 1 (2.17%) Gradle
6 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Electronics
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Support Engineer
2 21 (45.65%) Technical Engineer
2 21 (45.65%) Technical Support
2 21 (45.65%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (32.61%) UX Engineer
4 11 (23.91%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 8 (17.39%) Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Development Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Development Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Development Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (47.83%) AngularJS
2 17 (36.96%) CSS
2 17 (36.96%) React
3 15 (32.61%) Ajax
3 15 (32.61%) GraphQL
4 10 (21.74%) REST
5 6 (13.04%) Quarkus
5 6 (13.04%) SOAP
6 3 (6.52%) JSON
6 3 (6.52%) LangChain
6 3 (6.52%) Spring
6 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.52%) Web Services
6 3 (6.52%) XML
7 2 (4.35%) Faiss
7 2 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (4.35%) Hugging Face
7 2 (4.35%) Kafka
7 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
7 2 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Smartcard
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 23 (50.00%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Unix
3 19 (41.30%) Linux
4 15 (32.61%) Android
5 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) OO
2 19 (41.30%) User Experience
3 16 (34.78%) Software Engineering
4 15 (32.61%) Mobile Application Development
5 14 (30.43%) Agile
6 10 (21.74%) Scrum
7 9 (19.57%) Front End Development
8 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.22%) OOP
9 7 (15.22%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (13.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.04%) DevOps
10 6 (13.04%) DevSecOps
10 6 (13.04%) Escalation Management
10 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
10 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.04%) SDLC
10 6 (13.04%) Sprint Review
10 6 (13.04%) Unit Testing
11 4 (8.70%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) Python
2 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 16 (34.78%) Perl
4 5 (10.87%) C++
5 4 (8.70%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) SQL
7 2 (4.35%) R
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Julia
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Oracle
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
3 14 (30.43%) Splunk
4 12 (26.09%) ServiceNow
5 6 (13.04%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.17%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.17%) Teradata