Backend Developer Job Trends in Surrey

Backend Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Backend Developer salary in Surrey is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.22% - 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
South East median annual salary £68,750 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +30.95% -19.23% -13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,163 1,031 1,882
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 86.42% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 717 1,134
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,250 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Surrey

Backend Developer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines - 5 £70,000 -
Backend Developer
South East

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 23 August 2026, Backend Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality

Backend Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (60.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Pinecone
3 2 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Faiss
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (40.00%) Flask
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft