Software Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Software Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Software Engineer salary in Surrey is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 153 140 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.04% 5.79% 8.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.61% 6.17% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 103 72 160
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £88,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Surrey with a recognized job title 2,313 2,270 3,321
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 93.88% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 1,414 2,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,150 £32,481
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +30 49 £55,000 -10.20% 7
Leatherhead +3 40 - - 2
Woking -2 13 £50,000 -20.00% 5
Egham - 4 £90,000 -
Esher - 4 £95,000 -
Godalming - 4 £50,000 - 1
Reigate +11 2 £87,500 +34.62% 1
Chertsey - 2 £57,500 - 1
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Tadworth -2 1 - - 5
Dorking - 1 £62,500 - 1
Caterham - 1 £70,000 -
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (56.21%) C++
3 67 (43.79%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (42.48%) Security Cleared
5 64 (41.83%) C
6 59 (38.56%) SC Cleared
7 56 (36.60%) Degree
8 45 (29.41%) Java
8 45 (29.41%) Python
9 40 (26.14%) Actionable Insight
10 39 (25.49%) Linux
11 35 (22.88%) Electronics
12 34 (22.22%) Git
13 33 (21.57%) C#
14 32 (20.92%) Test Automation
15 30 (19.61%) Mathematics
15 30 (19.61%) SQL
16 29 (18.95%) JavaScript
17 26 (16.99%) Agile
18 25 (16.34%) Computer Science
19 24 (15.69%) Signal Processing
20 23 (15.03%) Mentoring
20 23 (15.03%) Simulink
20 23 (15.03%) Azure
20 23 (15.03%) SaaS
21 22 (14.38%) QA
21 22 (14.38%) Physics
21 22 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
21 22 (14.38%) Machine Learning
22 21 (13.73%) Algorithms

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.23%) Apache
2 5 (3.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Simulink
2 2 (1.31%) Stateflow
2 2 (1.31%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.65%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.03%) Azure
1 23 (15.03%) SaaS
2 17 (11.11%) AWS
3 11 (7.19%) GCP
4 4 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.61%) Serverless
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.65%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Wireless
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
2 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.65%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.65%) Modbus
2 1 (0.65%) MQTT
2 1 (0.65%) RS-232
2 1 (0.65%) RS-485
2 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.27%) MySQL
2 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (22.22%) Git
2 13 (8.50%) JIRA
3 8 (5.23%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.58%) CMake
4 7 (4.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (4.58%) TestRail
5 6 (3.92%) Vagrant
6 5 (3.27%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.27%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.61%) Subversion
8 2 (1.31%) GDB
General
1 35 (22.88%) Electronics
2 20 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.23%) Automotive
3 8 (5.23%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.61%) Finance
6 3 (1.96%) Games
7 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.31%) Retail
7 2 (1.31%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.42%) .NET
2 18 (11.76%) React
3 14 (9.15%) Middleware
4 13 (8.50%) WPF
5 10 (6.54%) HTML
5 10 (6.54%) OpenGL
5 10 (6.54%) Vulkan
6 9 (5.88%) HTML5
6 9 (5.88%) WinForms
7 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.23%) Apache NiFi
7 8 (5.23%) STL
8 7 (4.58%) OpenCL
8 7 (4.58%) QML
8 7 (4.58%) Qt
8 7 (4.58%) VTK
9 5 (3.27%) Spring
10 4 (2.61%) Vue
11 3 (1.96%) DirectX
11 3 (1.96%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.73%) Algorithms
1 21 (13.73%) Satnav
2 16 (10.46%) Analogue Electronics
3 15 (9.80%) FPGA
4 14 (9.15%) VHDL
5 13 (8.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (8.50%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (7.19%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (5.23%) Device Driver
9 7 (4.58%) CAN bus
9 7 (4.58%) CUDA
10 2 (1.31%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.31%) IoT
11 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.65%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.49%) Linux
2 16 (10.46%) Windows
3 9 (5.88%) Android
4 8 (5.23%) CentOS
4 8 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.31%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 67 (43.79%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (26.14%) Actionable Insight
4 32 (20.92%) Test Automation
5 30 (19.61%) Mathematics
6 26 (16.99%) Agile
7 25 (16.34%) Computer Science
8 24 (15.69%) Signal Processing
9 23 (15.03%) Mentoring
10 22 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (14.38%) Machine Learning
10 22 (14.38%) Physics
11 21 (13.73%) Code Quality
11 21 (13.73%) Quality Management
12 14 (9.15%) Schematic Capture
13 11 (7.19%) Coaching
14 10 (6.54%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (5.88%) Unit Testing
16 8 (5.23%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 86 (56.21%) C++
2 64 (41.83%) C
3 45 (29.41%) Java
3 45 (29.41%) Python
4 33 (21.57%) C#
5 30 (19.61%) SQL
6 29 (18.95%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.84%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.58%) Bash
8 7 (4.58%) C-shell
8 7 (4.58%) Fortran
8 7 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.61%) Bicep
9 4 (2.61%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.31%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.65%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 65 (42.48%) Security Cleared
2 59 (38.56%) SC Cleared
3 56 (36.60%) Degree
4 20 (13.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (11.76%) PhD
6 13 (8.50%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) QA
2 21 (13.73%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.65%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 12 (7.84%) Docker
2 9 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (5.88%) Firmware
3 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (9.15%) Terraform
2 6 (3.92%) Ansible
3 2 (1.31%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 8 (5.23%) Oracle
1 8 (5.23%) Siebel
2 6 (3.92%) Xilinx
3 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.61%) VMware
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.65%) Atmel
6 1 (0.65%) Freescale
6 1 (0.65%) SAP