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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 35 16
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 203 66 204
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.93% 5.64% 9.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.39% 6.52% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 182 55 148
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -

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 2,161 1,013 1,895
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 86.51% 92.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 697 1,154
10th Percentile £30,525 £29,000 £29,825
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £85,000
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 12 August 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 12 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
Guildford +10 68 £85,000 +30.77% 15
Woking +5 31 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Staines +7 15 £72,500 +20.83% 1
Redhill +15 11 £90,000 +26.32%
Reigate -7 10 £100,000 - 3
Epsom - 10 £60,000 - 1
Leatherhead -2 9 £32,500 -31.58% 5
Weybridge -2 7 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Farnham -4 5 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Godalming -4 5 - - 2
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Egham - 4 £43,750 - 1
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Camberley - 1 £70,000 - 1
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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 (43.35%) .NET
2 84 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 75 (36.95%) C#
4 62 (30.54%) Azure
5 56 (27.59%) SQL
6 54 (26.60%) SaaS
7 53 (26.11%) Agile
7 53 (26.11%) JavaScript
7 53 (26.11%) TypeScript
8 48 (23.65%) Microservices
9 46 (22.66%) .NET Core
10 45 (22.17%) ASP.NET
11 42 (20.69%) React
12 41 (20.20%) Microsoft
12 41 (20.20%) Node.js
13 38 (18.72%) AWS
14 35 (17.24%) CI/CD
15 34 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (16.75%) Vue
16 33 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (16.26%) HTML
16 33 (16.26%) Software Engineering
17 32 (15.76%) MongoDB
18 31 (15.27%) AI
18 31 (15.27%) CSS
18 31 (15.27%) SQL Server
19 30 (14.78%) DevOps
20 28 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
20 28 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
21 26 (12.81%) Entity Framework

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 (1.48%) Anypoint
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.99%) Apache
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.54%) Azure
2 54 (26.60%) SaaS
3 38 (18.72%) AWS
4 25 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.88%) GitHub
6 12 (5.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (5.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (4.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.45%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.46%) GCP
11 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.97%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.97%) Google Play
12 4 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) VoIP
2 3 (1.48%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.48%) Internet
2 3 (1.48%) LAN
2 3 (1.48%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.48%) WAN
3 2 (0.99%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.76%) MongoDB
2 31 (15.27%) SQL Server
3 28 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.90%) MySQL
6 12 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.43%) Redis
8 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.99%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.99%) Power BI
10 2 (0.99%) Siebel EIM
11 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (12.81%) Git
2 9 (4.43%) JIRA
3 6 (2.96%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (8.87%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (5.42%) Games
5 10 (4.93%) Finance
6 7 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.46%) Advertising
8 5 (2.46%) Law
8 5 (2.46%) Music Industry
8 5 (2.46%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.99%) Aviation
10 2 (0.99%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (43.35%) .NET
2 46 (22.66%) .NET Core
3 45 (22.17%) ASP.NET
4 42 (20.69%) React
5 41 (20.20%) Node.js
6 34 (16.75%) Vue
7 33 (16.26%) HTML
8 31 (15.27%) CSS
9 28 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
10 26 (12.81%) Entity Framework
11 24 (11.82%) AngularJS
12 21 (10.34%) Blazor
13 20 (9.85%) REST
14 16 (7.88%) .NET Framework
15 15 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 15 (7.39%) RESTful
16 12 (5.91%) LINQ
17 10 (4.93%) Laravel
18 9 (4.43%) gRPC
18 9 (4.43%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.97%) iPhone
6 3 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.48%) IoT
6 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.36%) Linux
2 5 (2.46%) Debian
3 4 (1.97%) Android
3 4 (1.97%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 53 (26.11%) Agile
3 48 (23.65%) Microservices
4 35 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 34 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (16.26%) Software Engineering
7 31 (15.27%) AI
8 30 (14.78%) DevOps
9 23 (11.33%) Mentoring
10 18 (8.87%) Web Development
11 16 (7.88%) Clean Code
11 16 (7.88%) Machine Learning
12 15 (7.39%) Scrum
13 14 (6.90%) Fintech
13 14 (6.90%) Front End Development
14 13 (6.40%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (6.40%) MVC
15 12 (5.91%) Computer Science
15 12 (5.91%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.95%) C#
2 56 (27.59%) SQL
3 53 (26.11%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.11%) TypeScript
4 20 (9.85%) Python
5 15 (7.39%) Java
6 13 (6.40%) PHP
7 5 (2.46%) C++
8 4 (1.97%) Bash
8 4 (1.97%) Go
8 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.48%) C
9 3 (1.48%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.99%) Perl
10 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (8.87%) Degree
2 17 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.97%) HND
8 1 (0.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.99%) WCAG
3 1 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 21 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.42%) Google
3 5 (2.46%) Facebook
3 5 (2.46%) YouTube
4 4 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.48%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle
6 2 (0.99%) Siebel