Computer Science Job Trends in Surrey

Computer Science
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 58 67 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.90% 6.80% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 7.40% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 46 51 110
10th Percentile £31,380 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £39,136 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.40% -11.92%
75th Percentile £84,375 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +1.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,431 906 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 71.48% 91.89% 86.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 546 1,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Surrey

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
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 within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 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 -24 8 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Egham - 8 £100,000 -
Reigate - 6 £92,500 - 2
Horley - 4 £38,000 -
Staines -7 3 £32,500 -56.67% 1
Woking -19 2 £88,000 +95.56% 1
Camberley +4 1 £33,750 -55.00%
Redhill 0 1 £60,000 +50.00% 3
Farnham - 1 - -
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) SaaS
4 6 (10.34%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.90%) Prefect
5 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.45%) Datadog
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Figma
8 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) MQTT
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.72%) BGP
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) IPsec
3 1 (1.72%) LAN
3 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.72%) SNMP
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) VLAN
3 1 (1.72%) VoIP
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (1.72%) WAN
3 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) MySQL
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.17%) Redis
6 1 (1.72%) Big Data
6 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Git
2 6 (10.34%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (8.62%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.45%) MSI
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) JIRA
6 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Electronics
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Finance
5 6 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Software Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Android Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Android Software Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Graphics Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Graphics Software Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Graduate
5 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Applications Support
6 4 (6.90%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Coordinator
6 4 (6.90%) IT Support
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) DirectX
1 6 (10.34%) HTML
1 6 (10.34%) Middleware
1 6 (10.34%) Node.js
1 6 (10.34%) OpenGL
1 6 (10.34%) OpenGL ES
1 6 (10.34%) Vulkan
2 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 5 (8.62%) CSS
3 4 (6.90%) YAML
4 3 (5.17%) Jest
4 3 (5.17%) Vue
5 2 (3.45%) ADO
5 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.45%) NestJS
5 2 (3.45%) NgRx
5 2 (3.45%) Playwright
5 2 (3.45%) Sass
5 2 (3.45%) Vitest
5 2 (3.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.72%) BBC
5 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Android
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Debian
4 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Mathematics
2 17 (29.31%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.24%) AI
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
4 10 (17.24%) Scrum
5 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Analytics
6 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.79%) Kanban
7 6 (10.34%) Business Continuity
7 6 (10.34%) Data Science
7 6 (10.34%) DevSecOps
7 6 (10.34%) ITIL
7 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) C#
3 12 (20.69%) SQL
4 8 (13.79%) Java
5 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) C++
7 5 (8.62%) Scala
7 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.90%) Bash
8 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (5.17%) PHP
10 2 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Degree
2 17 (29.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (15.52%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.90%) A+ Certification
4 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CISSP
7 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.72%) HNC
7 1 (1.72%) HND
7 1 (1.72%) MBA
7 1 (1.72%) PhD
7 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) JTAG
3 2 (3.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (3.45%) Firmware
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Argo
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.72%) CASB
4 1 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Google
2 2 (3.45%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.72%) BT
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) EMC
3 1 (1.72%) New Relic
3 1 (1.72%) VMware