Developer Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer salary in Surrey is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 14
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 158 80 261
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.69% 7.80% 10.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.17% 9.90% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 150 62 216
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £73,750 £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 1,934 808 2,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 78.83% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,376 554 1,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £80,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £53,065 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.06% +6.13% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 54 £65,000 - 8
Woking +10 32 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Weybridge +2 18 £50,000 -20.00%
Epsom +21 10 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Staines -10 5 £55,000 -15.38%
Redhill +11 4 £90,000 +24.14% 6
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Esher 0 2 £60,000 -
Leatherhead -5 2 £40,000 -30.43% 2
Caterham +7 1 £50,000 -
Farnham -7 1 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Reigate -8 1 - - 3
Camberley - 1 - -
Whyteleafe - 1 £50,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 2
Cobham - 1 £42,500 - 2
Lightwater - 1 £47,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 57 (36.08%) .NET
2 53 (33.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (28.48%) SaaS
4 40 (25.32%) SQL
5 36 (22.78%) Azure
5 36 (22.78%) React
6 35 (22.15%) HTML
7 33 (20.89%) CSS
7 33 (20.89%) TypeScript
8 29 (18.35%) Agile
8 29 (18.35%) C#
9 24 (15.19%) DevOps
10 22 (13.92%) GitHub
10 22 (13.92%) JavaScript
10 22 (13.92%) Software Engineering
11 21 (13.29%) AWS
11 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (13.29%) Front End Development
11 21 (13.29%) Microservices
12 20 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (12.03%) CI/CD
13 19 (12.03%) Node.js
13 19 (12.03%) Vue
14 18 (11.39%) Clean Code
14 18 (11.39%) Microsoft
15 17 (10.76%) AI
16 16 (10.13%) Unit Testing
17 15 (9.49%) B2B
17 15 (9.49%) B2C
17 15 (9.49%) Bootstrap

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 (1.90%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.48%) SaaS
2 36 (22.78%) Azure
3 22 (13.92%) GitHub
4 21 (13.29%) AWS
4 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.90%) Figma
6 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.90%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.63%) GCP
8 1 (0.63%) Google Play
8 1 (0.63%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.70%) VoIP
2 3 (1.90%) Broadband
2 3 (1.90%) HTTP
2 3 (1.90%) RTP
2 3 (1.90%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.90%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.63%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.59%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.53%) MySQL
3 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.90%) Power BI
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Redis
6 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.63%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Git
2 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Babel
3 2 (1.27%) Gradle
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) JUnit
3 2 (1.27%) Maven
3 2 (1.27%) rollup.js
3 2 (1.27%) Selenium
3 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.63%) Gatling
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) JMeter
4 1 (0.63%) Postman
4 1 (0.63%) Subversion
4 1 (0.63%) TestNG
4 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (4.43%) Games
2 7 (4.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.16%) Finance
3 5 (3.16%) Tech for Good
4 4 (2.53%) Aviation
5 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.63%) Advertising
6 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.63%) Military
6 1 (0.63%) Music Industry
6 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (36.08%) .NET
2 36 (22.78%) React
3 35 (22.15%) HTML
4 33 (20.89%) CSS
5 19 (12.03%) Node.js
5 19 (12.03%) Vue
6 15 (9.49%) Bootstrap
6 15 (9.49%) React Native
7 12 (7.59%) REST
8 8 (5.06%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.43%) Laravel
9 7 (4.43%) OAuth
10 6 (3.80%) Entity Framework
10 6 (3.80%) Jest
10 6 (3.80%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.80%) RESTful
11 5 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.53%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.63%) iPhone
5 1 (0.63%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.23%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (18.35%) Agile
3 24 (15.19%) DevOps
4 22 (13.92%) Software Engineering
5 21 (13.29%) Front End Development
5 21 (13.29%) Microservices
6 20 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (12.03%) CI/CD
8 18 (11.39%) Clean Code
9 17 (10.76%) AI
10 16 (10.13%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.49%) B2B
11 15 (9.49%) B2C
11 15 (9.49%) Mobile Application Development
11 15 (9.49%) Wireframes
12 14 (8.86%) API Integration
12 14 (8.86%) SDLC
13 13 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (7.59%) Product Vision
14 12 (7.59%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.32%) SQL
2 33 (20.89%) TypeScript
3 29 (18.35%) C#
4 22 (13.92%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.23%) Python
6 12 (7.59%) Java
7 6 (3.80%) C++
7 6 (3.80%) PHP
8 5 (3.16%) C
9 4 (2.53%) Bash
9 4 (2.53%) Go
10 3 (1.90%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.70%) Degree
1 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.80%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) HNC
4 1 (0.63%) HND
4 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) QA
2 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) ITGC
4 1 (0.63%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.53%) Terraform
3 3 (1.90%) Argo
4 2 (1.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.90%) BT
2 3 (1.90%) Fortinet
2 3 (1.90%) Mitel
2 3 (1.90%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.63%) Facebook
3 1 (0.63%) Google
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle
3 1 (0.63%) Peregrine
3 1 (0.63%) Typelevel
3 1 (0.63%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.63%) YouTube