Java Job Trends in Surrey

Java
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 46 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 51 48 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.55% 4.84% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.26% 19.12% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 33 156
10th Percentile £32,750 - £28,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £85,625
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 251 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.81% 25.30% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 334 201 565
10th Percentile £40,725 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Java job vacancy trend in Surrey

Java
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Surrey

Java
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -13 22 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Staines -5 5 £33,500 -48.46%
Epsom -3 3 £60,000 -7.69%
Woking - 3 £57,500 -
Redhill +11 2 - -
Camberley - 1 £41,500 -
Farnham - 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Leatherhead - 1 - - 1
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 4 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (7.84%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) AWS
2 11 (21.57%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
4 4 (7.84%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 4 (7.84%) Prefect
4 4 (7.84%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.96%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.73%) MySQL
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.84%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (7.84%) Big Data
4 4 (7.84%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
4 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.84%) Tableau
5 2 (3.92%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.92%) Redis
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) JIRA
3 6 (11.76%) Postman
3 6 (11.76%) Selenium
4 5 (9.80%) SoapUI
4 5 (9.80%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (7.84%) WebDriver
6 3 (5.88%) JUnit
7 2 (3.92%) GitLab
7 2 (3.92%) Gradle
7 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.92%) Maven
7 2 (3.92%) TestNG
8 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.96%) Gatling
8 1 (1.96%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.96%) JMeter
General
1 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Aviation
4 4 (7.84%) Marketing
4 4 (7.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.92%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Senior
2 17 (33.33%) Developer
3 14 (27.45%) Java Developer
4 11 (21.57%) Software Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Manager
7 5 (9.80%) Analyst
7 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Java Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Test Analyst
8 4 (7.84%) Data Science Manager
8 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (7.84%) UI Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Swing
2 6 (11.76%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) SOAP
2 6 (11.76%) Spring
3 5 (9.80%) .NET
3 5 (9.80%) HTML
3 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.84%) Play Framework
5 3 (5.88%) Kafka
5 3 (5.88%) React
6 2 (3.92%) Faiss
6 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.92%) Flask
6 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.92%) scikit-learn
6 2 (3.92%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 15 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 14 (27.45%) Decision-Making
4 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
4 11 (21.57%) Data Science
5 10 (19.61%) AI
6 9 (17.65%) Analytics
6 9 (17.65%) Machine Learning
6 9 (17.65%) Scrum
7 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (15.69%) LLM
7 8 (15.69%) Mathematics
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Software Testing
8 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 6 (11.76%) Test Management
9 5 (9.80%) API Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Cross-Browser Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) SQL
2 18 (35.29%) Python
3 8 (15.69%) Scala
4 7 (13.73%) C++
5 6 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (7.84%) R
7 3 (5.88%) C
7 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.92%) Groovy
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
9 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) Master's Degree
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.84%) MBA
7 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
7 3 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) BT
1 4 (7.84%) Databricks
1 4 (7.84%) Google
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.96%) Foundry
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle