Java Job Trends in Guildford

Java
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Java 7 8 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 3.61% 4.71% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.95% 9.20% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £67,500 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £33,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +4.17% +100.00%
75th Percentile £106,875 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £72,250 £80,000
Surrey median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Guildford

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 39 87 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 20.10% 51.18% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 35 45 49
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,650 £32,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £106,250 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £113,250 £82,500 £69,500
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Java job vacancy trend in Guildford

Java
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Guildford over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Guildford

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 2 (28.57%) Google Play
1 2 (28.57%) TestFlight
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) GIS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) TestRail
3 2 (28.57%) Android Studio
3 2 (28.57%) CMake
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Xcode
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) C++ Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Android Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Android Developer
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Qt
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Google Maps API
2 2 (28.57%) OpenGL
2 2 (28.57%) OpenSceneGraph
2 2 (28.57%) QML
2 2 (28.57%) Qt Quick
2 2 (28.57%) Vulkan
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Mathematical Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
1 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
1 3 (42.86%) Parallel Programming
1 3 (42.86%) Physics
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Android Development
2 2 (28.57%) Batch Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Cross-Platform Development
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Development
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) Objective-C
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 3 (42.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Apple
1 2 (28.57%) ESRI
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Mapbox
1 2 (28.57%) Xamarin