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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 25 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 126 66 252
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.74% 7.14% 10.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.19% 8.99% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 120 57 211
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £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 £85,000 £75,500 £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 2,034 734 2,110
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 79.35% 90.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 553 1,403
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,900
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 18 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 18 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 45 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Woking +5 20 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Weybridge +2 20 £50,000 -20.00%
Epsom +15 8 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Staines -11 3 £75,000 +15.38%
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Leatherhead -6 2 £40,000 -30.43% 4
Esher - 2 £60,000 -
Caterham - 2 £50,000 -
Redhill +1 1 £95,000 +31.03%
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 18 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 45 (35.71%) .NET
2 35 (27.78%) HTML
3 33 (26.19%) Azure
3 33 (26.19%) CSS
3 33 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (26.19%) React
3 33 (26.19%) SaaS
3 33 (26.19%) SQL
4 26 (20.63%) Agile
5 23 (18.25%) DevOps
6 21 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 21 (16.67%) GitHub
6 21 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 20 (15.87%) Clean Code
7 20 (15.87%) Unit Testing
8 19 (15.08%) API Integration
9 17 (13.49%) B2B
9 17 (13.49%) B2C
9 17 (13.49%) Bootstrap
9 17 (13.49%) C#
9 17 (13.49%) Mobile Application Development
9 17 (13.49%) React Native
10 16 (12.70%) JavaScript
10 16 (12.70%) Wireframes
11 15 (11.90%) Git
11 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
12 13 (10.32%) REST
13 12 (9.52%) Microservices

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 (2.38%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.19%) Azure
1 33 (26.19%) SaaS
2 21 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 21 (16.67%) GitHub
3 11 (8.73%) AWS
4 7 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.17%) Figma
6 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.38%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) GCP
7 1 (0.79%) Google Play
7 1 (0.79%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.79%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.35%) VoIP
2 3 (2.38%) Broadband
2 3 (2.38%) HTTP
2 3 (2.38%) RTP
2 3 (2.38%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.38%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
1 5 (3.97%) Power BI
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) GIS
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) Babel
2 4 (3.17%) rollup.js
3 2 (1.59%) Gradle
3 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.59%) JUnit
3 2 (1.59%) Maven
3 2 (1.59%) Selenium
3 2 (1.59%) Subversion
4 1 (0.79%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.79%) CMake
4 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.79%) Gatling
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) JMeter
4 1 (0.79%) Postman
4 1 (0.79%) TestNG
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (4.76%) Finance
3 5 (3.97%) Games
3 5 (3.97%) Tech for Good
4 4 (3.17%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.38%) Aviation
6 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.59%) Military
7 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.79%) Publishing
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (35.71%) .NET
2 35 (27.78%) HTML
3 33 (26.19%) CSS
3 33 (26.19%) React
4 17 (13.49%) Bootstrap
4 17 (13.49%) React Native
5 13 (10.32%) REST
6 11 (8.73%) Node.js
6 11 (8.73%) Vue
7 8 (6.35%) OAuth
8 6 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.76%) SOAP
9 5 (3.97%) Jest
9 5 (3.97%) Laravel
10 4 (3.17%) Django
10 4 (3.17%) Flask
10 4 (3.17%) RESTful
11 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.38%) Spring
11 3 (2.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (20.63%) Agile
3 23 (18.25%) DevOps
4 21 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 20 (15.87%) Clean Code
5 20 (15.87%) Unit Testing
6 19 (15.08%) API Integration
7 17 (13.49%) B2B
7 17 (13.49%) B2C
7 17 (13.49%) Mobile Application Development
8 16 (12.70%) Wireframes
9 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
11 12 (9.52%) Microservices
11 12 (9.52%) SDLC
12 11 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.73%) Fintech
13 10 (7.94%) AI
14 8 (6.35%) CQRS
14 8 (6.35%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.19%) SQL
2 21 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 17 (13.49%) C#
4 16 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.73%) Java
6 8 (6.35%) C++
7 7 (5.56%) C
8 6 (4.76%) Python
9 3 (2.38%) DataWeave
9 3 (2.38%) Go
10 2 (1.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.79%) PHP
11 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) PhD
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) ITGC
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.38%) BT
2 3 (2.38%) Fortinet
2 3 (2.38%) Mitel
2 3 (2.38%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle
3 2 (1.59%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.79%) Apple
4 1 (0.79%) ESRI
4 1 (0.79%) Google
4 1 (0.79%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.79%) Peregrine
4 1 (0.79%) Typelevel