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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 39 17
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 195 60 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.86% 5.24% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.34% 6.12% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 171 50 131
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 2,338 981 1,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 85.68% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 679 920
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 67 £85,000 +36.00% 12
Woking +2 27 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Staines +1 18 £72,500 -3.33% 5
Reigate -3 15 £100,000 - 1
Redhill +6 10 £86,250 +21.05% 3
Leatherhead -6 10 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Epsom - 7 £65,000 - 4
Godalming -5 6 - - 3
Farnham -4 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Weybridge -6 4 - -
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Camberley - 2 £70,000 -
Horley +9 1 £55,000 +10.00%
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 (45.13%) .NET
2 79 (40.51%) C#
3 77 (39.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 57 (29.23%) Azure
4 57 (29.23%) JavaScript
5 54 (27.69%) Agile
6 53 (27.18%) TypeScript
7 51 (26.15%) .NET Core
7 51 (26.15%) SQL
8 50 (25.64%) Microservices
9 48 (24.62%) ASP.NET
10 45 (23.08%) SaaS
11 43 (22.05%) Node.js
12 40 (20.51%) Microsoft
13 37 (18.97%) AWS
13 37 (18.97%) React
14 35 (17.95%) CI/CD
14 35 (17.95%) SQL Server
15 33 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (16.92%) Vue
16 32 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (16.41%) MongoDB
16 32 (16.41%) Software Engineering
17 31 (15.90%) Git
17 31 (15.90%) HTML
18 29 (14.87%) CSS
19 28 (14.36%) AI
19 28 (14.36%) ASP.NET Core
19 28 (14.36%) Azure SQL Database
19 28 (14.36%) 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 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.03%) Apache
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.23%) Azure
2 45 (23.08%) SaaS
3 37 (18.97%) AWS
4 24 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.18%) GitHub
7 12 (6.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.59%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.08%) GCP
10 5 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.05%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.05%) Google Play
11 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) VoIP
2 3 (1.54%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.54%) Internet
2 3 (1.54%) LAN
2 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.54%) WAN
3 2 (1.03%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.51%) ATM
4 1 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 32 (16.41%) MongoDB
3 28 (14.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (12.31%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (8.21%) MySQL
6 13 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.62%) Redis
7 9 (4.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.03%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Power BI
10 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 31 (15.90%) Git
2 9 (4.62%) JIRA
3 6 (3.08%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.03%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.03%) GitLab
5 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (11.28%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.59%) Finance
5 7 (3.59%) Games
6 6 (3.08%) Law
6 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.56%) Advertising
7 5 (2.56%) Music Industry
7 5 (2.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (45.13%) .NET
2 51 (26.15%) .NET Core
3 48 (24.62%) ASP.NET
4 43 (22.05%) Node.js
5 37 (18.97%) React
6 33 (16.92%) Vue
7 31 (15.90%) HTML
8 29 (14.87%) CSS
9 28 (14.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 26 (13.33%) AngularJS
11 25 (12.82%) Entity Framework
12 24 (12.31%) Blazor
13 21 (10.77%) REST
14 17 (8.72%) .NET Framework
15 16 (8.21%) RESTful
16 15 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
17 12 (6.15%) gRPC
17 12 (6.15%) LINQ
18 9 (4.62%) Terraform
19 7 (3.59%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.56%) FPGA
5 4 (2.05%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.05%) iPhone
5 4 (2.05%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.54%) IoT
6 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.72%) Linux
2 5 (2.56%) Debian
3 4 (2.05%) Android
3 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (27.69%) Agile
3 50 (25.64%) Microservices
4 35 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 33 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (16.41%) Software Engineering
7 28 (14.36%) AI
7 28 (14.36%) DevOps
8 27 (13.85%) Mentoring
9 20 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
10 17 (8.72%) Scrum
10 17 (8.72%) Web Development
11 16 (8.21%) Clean Code
11 16 (8.21%) MVC
12 15 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (6.67%) Event-Driven
13 13 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (6.67%) Fintech
13 13 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (40.51%) C#
2 57 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 53 (27.18%) TypeScript
4 51 (26.15%) SQL
5 19 (9.74%) Python
6 14 (7.18%) Java
7 12 (6.15%) PHP
8 5 (2.56%) C++
9 4 (2.05%) Bash
9 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.54%) C
10 3 (1.54%) Go
10 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.03%) Perl
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 20 (10.26%) Degree
1 20 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.05%) HND
6 1 (0.51%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.21%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.15%) Google
3 5 (2.56%) Facebook
3 5 (2.56%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.56%) YouTube
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle
4 2 (1.03%) Siebel
5 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft