Computer Science Degree Job Trends in Surrey

Computer Science Degree
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 46 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 +18 +45
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 13 74 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.87% 5.34% 2.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.17% 13.29% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 17
10th Percentile £52,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £100,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 598 557 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 40.16% 40.22% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 292 264 211
10th Percentile £26,892 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £58,704 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% +6.73% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.24%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Surrey

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Surrey

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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 -1 12 £77,500 +55.00% 1
Computer Science Degree
South East

Computer Science Degree
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 (7.69%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
2 3 (23.08%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Blazor Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Research Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
1 7 (53.85%) Blazor
1 7 (53.85%) REST
1 7 (53.85%) WinForms
1 7 (53.85%) WPF
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.69%) LAMP
3 1 (7.69%) LangChain
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) AI
1 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 8 (61.54%) Computer Science
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
4 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 7 (53.85%) Mathematics
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Twin
5 3 (23.08%) Reinforcement Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (7.69%) Feature Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) LLM
7 1 (7.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) Julia
4 3 (23.08%) C
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) R
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Master's Degree
3 4 (30.77%) PhD
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) MCSE
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Podman
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) VMware