Developer Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer salary in Surrey is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 120 73 242
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.62% 7.96% 11.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.08% 9.93% 12.95%
Number of salaries quoted 114 63 202
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £76,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 1,974 735 1,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 80.15% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 546 1,331
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £26,650
25th Percentile £36,375 £41,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,645 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.73% +13.29% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,550 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +2 43 £65,000 - 19
Weybridge +2 20 £50,000 -20.00%
Woking -1 15 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Epsom +18 8 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Staines -9 5 £75,000 +15.38%
Horley - 3 £55,000 - 2
Leatherhead -4 2 £40,000 -30.43%
Esher - 2 £60,000 -
Caterham - 2 £50,000 -
Redhill -1 1 £95,000 +68.89% 2
Camberley - 1 - -
Whyteleafe - 1 £50,000 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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 41 (34.17%) .NET
2 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 36 (30.00%) HTML
3 34 (28.33%) CSS
3 34 (28.33%) React
4 32 (26.67%) SQL
5 30 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (25.00%) SaaS
6 29 (24.17%) Agile
7 23 (19.17%) DevOps
7 23 (19.17%) Front End Development
8 22 (18.33%) GitHub
9 21 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (17.50%) Clean Code
9 21 (17.50%) Unit Testing
10 20 (16.67%) API Integration
10 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
11 18 (15.00%) Git
11 18 (15.00%) JavaScript
11 18 (15.00%) Wireframes
12 17 (14.17%) B2B
12 17 (14.17%) B2C
12 17 (14.17%) Bootstrap
12 17 (14.17%) Mobile Application Development
12 17 (14.17%) React Native
13 16 (13.33%) C#
14 15 (12.50%) REST
15 13 (10.83%) CI/CD
16 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 11 (9.17%) Degree

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 (2.50%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 30 (25.00%) SaaS
3 22 (18.33%) GitHub
4 21 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.50%) AWS
6 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.33%) Figma
8 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.67%) Miro
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.83%) GCP
10 1 (0.83%) Google Play
10 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.83%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) VoIP
2 3 (2.50%) Broadband
2 3 (2.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.50%) RTP
2 3 (2.50%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.50%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) GIS
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) Babel
2 4 (3.33%) rollup.js
3 2 (1.67%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.67%) Gradle
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) JUnit
3 2 (1.67%) Maven
3 2 (1.67%) Selenium
3 2 (1.67%) Subversion
4 1 (0.83%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.83%) CMake
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Gatling
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) JMeter
4 1 (0.83%) TestNG
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (5.00%) Finance
3 5 (4.17%) Games
3 5 (4.17%) Tech for Good
4 4 (3.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.67%) Aviation
5 2 (1.67%) Military
5 2 (1.67%) Retail
6 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.83%) Publishing
6 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (34.17%) .NET
2 36 (30.00%) HTML
3 34 (28.33%) CSS
3 34 (28.33%) React
4 17 (14.17%) Bootstrap
4 17 (14.17%) React Native
5 15 (12.50%) REST
6 10 (8.33%) Node.js
6 10 (8.33%) Vue
7 8 (6.67%) OAuth
8 6 (5.00%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.00%) SOAP
9 5 (4.17%) Jest
9 5 (4.17%) Laravel
9 5 (4.17%) RESTful
10 4 (3.33%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.33%) Blazor
10 4 (3.33%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.83%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (24.17%) Agile
3 23 (19.17%) DevOps
3 23 (19.17%) Front End Development
4 21 (17.50%) Clean Code
4 21 (17.50%) Unit Testing
5 20 (16.67%) API Integration
6 18 (15.00%) Wireframes
7 17 (14.17%) B2B
7 17 (14.17%) B2C
7 17 (14.17%) Mobile Application Development
8 13 (10.83%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.17%) Fintech
11 10 (8.33%) AI
11 10 (8.33%) SDLC
12 9 (7.50%) Microservices
12 9 (7.50%) MVC
13 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.67%) SQL
2 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 18 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.33%) C#
5 10 (8.33%) Java
6 8 (6.67%) C++
7 7 (5.83%) C
8 6 (5.00%) Python
9 3 (2.50%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.67%) Bash
10 2 (1.67%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
11 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.17%) Degree
2 5 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) PhD
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) ITGC
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.50%) BT
2 3 (2.50%) Fortinet
2 3 (2.50%) Mitel
2 3 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle
3 2 (1.67%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.83%) Apple
4 1 (0.83%) ESRI
4 1 (0.83%) Google
4 1 (0.83%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.83%) Peregrine
4 1 (0.83%) Typelevel