Developer Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer salary in Surrey is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 31 13
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 217 74 261
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.01% 6.67% 10.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.48% 7.81% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 201 63 207
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 2,070 948 2,249
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 85.48% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 663 1,477
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Developer
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Surrey

Developer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in Surrey

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 Developer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 July 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 +8 76 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Woking +7 34 £57,500 +27.78% 22
Staines +6 14 £72,500 +7.41% 1
Epsom - 13 £60,000 - 1
Redhill +17 11 £90,000 +24.14%
Weybridge 0 11 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Leatherhead 0 9 £32,500 -43.48% 10
Reigate -4 9 £100,000 -
Farnham -3 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Whyteleafe - 1 £50,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 2026, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 88 (40.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (39.17%) .NET
3 66 (30.41%) C#
4 62 (28.57%) Azure
5 60 (27.65%) SQL
6 56 (25.81%) SaaS
7 55 (25.35%) Agile
8 53 (24.42%) TypeScript
9 46 (21.20%) JavaScript
10 44 (20.28%) Microsoft
11 43 (19.82%) Microservices
11 43 (19.82%) React
12 41 (18.89%) ASP.NET
13 40 (18.43%) Node.js
14 38 (17.51%) CI/CD
15 37 (17.05%) .NET Core
15 37 (17.05%) AWS
16 36 (16.59%) MongoDB
17 32 (14.75%) Vue
18 31 (14.29%) AI
18 31 (14.29%) HTML
19 29 (13.36%) CSS
19 29 (13.36%) DevOps
19 29 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (13.36%) Software Engineering
20 28 (12.90%) ASP.NET Core
20 28 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
21 25 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
21 25 (11.52%) Python
22 24 (11.06%) Azure DevOps

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.38%) Anypoint
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.57%) Azure
2 56 (25.81%) SaaS
3 37 (17.05%) AWS
4 24 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (10.14%) GitHub
6 8 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (2.76%) GCP
8 6 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.30%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.30%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.84%) Google Play
10 4 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) VoIP
2 4 (1.84%) Broadband
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.38%) LAN
3 3 (1.38%) RTP
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.38%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.38%) WAN
3 3 (1.38%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.92%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.59%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.76%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.07%) MySQL
6 7 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.23%) Redis
7 4 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.92%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.92%) Power BI
8 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.46%) Siebel EIM
9 1 (0.46%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Git
2 9 (4.15%) JIRA
3 6 (2.76%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.38%) GitLab
6 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.92%) Gradle
6 2 (0.92%) Maven
6 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (7.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.07%) Finance
3 11 (5.07%) Games
4 7 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.30%) Advertising
5 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.30%) Music Industry
5 5 (2.30%) Retail
5 5 (2.30%) Tech for Good
6 4 (1.84%) Aviation
7 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (39.17%) .NET
2 43 (19.82%) React
3 41 (18.89%) ASP.NET
4 40 (18.43%) Node.js
5 37 (17.05%) .NET Core
6 32 (14.75%) Vue
7 31 (14.29%) HTML
8 29 (13.36%) CSS
9 28 (12.90%) ASP.NET Core
10 22 (10.14%) REST
11 21 (9.68%) Entity Framework
12 18 (8.29%) AngularJS
13 17 (7.83%) Blazor
14 16 (7.37%) RESTful
15 15 (6.91%) ASP.NET Web API
16 12 (5.53%) LINQ
17 11 (5.07%) .NET Framework
18 9 (4.15%) Laravel
19 8 (3.69%) Jest
19 8 (3.69%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.61%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.84%) iPhone
8 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.38%) IoT
8 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.46%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.68%) Linux
2 7 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.30%) Debian
4 4 (1.84%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 55 (25.35%) Agile
3 43 (19.82%) Microservices
4 38 (17.51%) CI/CD
5 31 (14.29%) AI
6 29 (13.36%) DevOps
6 29 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.36%) Software Engineering
7 25 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (8.76%) Mentoring
9 18 (8.29%) Fintech
10 17 (7.83%) Front End Development
10 17 (7.83%) Machine Learning
11 16 (7.37%) Web Development
12 13 (5.99%) Clean Code
13 12 (5.53%) CQRS
13 12 (5.53%) Multithreading
13 12 (5.53%) Product Vision
13 12 (5.53%) Resource Allocation
13 12 (5.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 66 (30.41%) C#
2 60 (27.65%) SQL
3 53 (24.42%) TypeScript
4 46 (21.20%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.52%) Python
6 19 (8.76%) Java
7 12 (5.53%) PHP
8 10 (4.61%) C++
9 7 (3.23%) C
10 5 (2.30%) Bash
10 5 (2.30%) Go
11 4 (1.84%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.38%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.92%) Perl
13 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.46%) Scala
14 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.99%) Degree
3 8 (3.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.84%) HND
7 1 (0.46%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.61%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.46%) ITGC
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (10.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) Kamailio
3 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.69%) Terraform
3 3 (1.38%) Argo
4 2 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 44 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.07%) Google
3 5 (2.30%) Facebook
3 5 (2.30%) YouTube
4 4 (1.84%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.38%) BT
5 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.38%) Mitel
5 3 (1.38%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.46%) Siebel
7 1 (0.46%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.46%) Xamarin