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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 34 13
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 206 71 226
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 9.30% 6.29% 10.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.79% 7.27% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 191 60 171
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 2,105 977 2,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 86.54% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 678 1,244
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,000
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £84,625
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 29 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 29 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 +10 73 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Woking +3 32 £62,500 +38.89% 2
Staines +4 13 £72,500 +13.73%
Epsom - 12 £62,500 - 1
Redhill +14 11 £90,000 +26.32%
Reigate -4 9 £100,000 - 2
Leatherhead -1 8 £32,500 -43.48% 2
Weybridge -1 8 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Farnham -5 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Godalming -3 2 - - 1
Camberley - 1 £70,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 86 (41.75%) .NET
2 85 (41.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 70 (33.98%) C#
4 61 (29.61%) Azure
5 56 (27.18%) SQL
6 54 (26.21%) Agile
6 54 (26.21%) SaaS
7 52 (25.24%) TypeScript
8 49 (23.79%) JavaScript
9 44 (21.36%) Microservices
10 43 (20.87%) ASP.NET
11 42 (20.39%) Microsoft
12 41 (19.90%) .NET Core
13 40 (19.42%) Node.js
13 40 (19.42%) React
14 36 (17.48%) AWS
15 34 (16.50%) CI/CD
16 33 (16.02%) MongoDB
17 32 (15.53%) HTML
17 32 (15.53%) Vue
18 30 (14.56%) AI
18 30 (14.56%) CSS
18 30 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (14.56%) Software Engineering
19 29 (14.08%) DevOps
20 28 (13.59%) ASP.NET Core
20 28 (13.59%) Azure SQL Database
21 27 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
22 24 (11.65%) Git

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 (1.46%) Anypoint
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.61%) Azure
2 54 (26.21%) SaaS
3 36 (17.48%) AWS
4 24 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.74%) GitHub
6 10 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.43%) GCP
10 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.43%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.94%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.94%) Google Play
11 4 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.85%) VoIP
2 3 (1.46%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.46%) Internet
2 3 (1.46%) LAN
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.97%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) RTP
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) MongoDB
2 28 (13.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (11.65%) SQL Server
4 19 (9.22%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.83%) MySQL
6 9 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.40%) Redis
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.97%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.97%) Power BI
10 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (11.65%) Git
2 9 (4.37%) JIRA
3 6 (2.91%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.43%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.97%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (8.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.34%) Games
4 10 (4.85%) Finance
5 8 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.43%) Advertising
7 5 (2.43%) Music Industry
7 5 (2.43%) Retail
8 4 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.46%) Aviation
9 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.97%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (41.75%) .NET
2 43 (20.87%) ASP.NET
3 41 (19.90%) .NET Core
4 40 (19.42%) Node.js
4 40 (19.42%) React
5 32 (15.53%) HTML
5 32 (15.53%) Vue
6 30 (14.56%) CSS
7 28 (13.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 23 (11.17%) Entity Framework
9 21 (10.19%) AngularJS
10 20 (9.71%) REST
11 19 (9.22%) Blazor
12 15 (7.28%) ASP.NET Web API
12 15 (7.28%) RESTful
13 13 (6.31%) .NET Framework
14 12 (5.83%) LINQ
15 10 (4.85%) Laravel
16 9 (4.37%) Swing
17 7 (3.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.94%) iPhone
8 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.46%) IoT
8 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.22%) Linux
2 5 (2.43%) Debian
2 5 (2.43%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.94%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (26.21%) Agile
3 44 (21.36%) Microservices
4 34 (16.50%) CI/CD
5 30 (14.56%) AI
5 30 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.56%) Software Engineering
6 29 (14.08%) DevOps
7 27 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
9 16 (7.77%) Fintech
9 16 (7.77%) Machine Learning
9 16 (7.77%) Web Development
10 15 (7.28%) Front End Development
11 12 (5.83%) CQRS
11 12 (5.83%) Multithreading
11 12 (5.83%) Product Vision
11 12 (5.83%) Resource Allocation
11 12 (5.83%) Scrum
11 12 (5.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) C#
2 56 (27.18%) SQL
3 52 (25.24%) TypeScript
4 49 (23.79%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.19%) Python
6 17 (8.25%) Java
7 13 (6.31%) PHP
8 7 (3.40%) C++
9 4 (1.94%) Bash
9 4 (1.94%) C
9 4 (1.94%) Go
9 4 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.46%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.97%) Perl
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.31%) Degree
3 8 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.94%) HND
7 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) QA
2 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.97%) WCAG
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) ITGC
3 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (9.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 13 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.88%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 42 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.34%) Google
3 5 (2.43%) Facebook
3 5 (2.43%) YouTube
4 4 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.46%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.49%) BT
6 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.49%) Mitel
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) Siebel
6 1 (0.49%) Xamarin