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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 31 13
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 202 75 287
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 9.73% 7.30% 11.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.18% 8.57% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 190 64 230
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,125 £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 1,984 875 2,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 85.20% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 605 1,542
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £53,750 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.44% +1.00% -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 1 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 1 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 +4 70 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Woking +7 34 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Weybridge 0 13 £50,000 -20.00%
Epsom - 13 £60,000 - 1
Redhill +16 11 £90,000 +24.14% 1
Staines -2 10 £71,250 +5.56% 2
Leatherhead +1 7 £32,500 -43.48% 6
Reigate -6 6 £95,000 -5.00%
Farnham -4 4 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cobham - 4 £42,500 - 1
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Whyteleafe - 1 £50,000 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 81 (40.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (37.62%) .NET
3 58 (28.71%) SQL
4 55 (27.23%) Azure
4 55 (27.23%) C#
5 53 (26.24%) SaaS
6 50 (24.75%) Agile
6 50 (24.75%) TypeScript
7 44 (21.78%) React
8 40 (19.80%) JavaScript
9 37 (18.32%) Microsoft
9 37 (18.32%) Node.js
10 36 (17.82%) Microservices
11 35 (17.33%) CI/CD
12 33 (16.34%) ASP.NET
12 33 (16.34%) AWS
12 33 (16.34%) HTML
13 32 (15.84%) .NET Core
14 31 (15.35%) CSS
14 31 (15.35%) MongoDB
15 29 (14.36%) Vue
16 27 (13.37%) AI
16 27 (13.37%) DevOps
17 26 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (12.38%) ASP.NET Core
18 25 (12.38%) Azure SQL Database
18 25 (12.38%) Software Engineering
19 24 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
19 24 (11.88%) Python
20 23 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.49%) Anypoint
2 2 (0.99%) Apache
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.23%) Azure
2 53 (26.24%) SaaS
3 33 (16.34%) AWS
4 24 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.40%) GitHub
6 6 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.98%) Azure AI
8 4 (1.98%) GCP
8 4 (1.98%) Google Play
8 4 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.98%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.44%) VoIP
2 4 (1.98%) Broadband
3 3 (1.49%) HTTP
3 3 (1.49%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.49%) Internet
3 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) RTP
3 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.49%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.49%) WAN
3 3 (1.49%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.99%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.35%) MongoDB
2 25 (12.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (6.44%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.46%) MySQL
5 6 (2.97%) Redis
6 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.99%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.99%) Power BI
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (9.41%) Git
2 9 (4.46%) JIRA
3 6 (2.97%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.49%) GitLab
6 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.99%) Gradle
6 2 (0.99%) Maven
6 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
7 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (6.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.95%) Finance
4 9 (4.46%) Games
5 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.48%) Advertising
6 5 (2.48%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.98%) Aviation
7 4 (1.98%) Music Industry
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (37.62%) .NET
2 44 (21.78%) React
3 37 (18.32%) Node.js
4 33 (16.34%) ASP.NET
4 33 (16.34%) HTML
5 32 (15.84%) .NET Core
6 31 (15.35%) CSS
7 29 (14.36%) Vue
8 25 (12.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 18 (8.91%) REST
10 17 (8.42%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.92%) AngularJS
12 14 (6.93%) Blazor
13 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET Web API
13 13 (6.44%) RESTful
14 11 (5.45%) LINQ
15 9 (4.46%) Laravel
16 8 (3.96%) Bootstrap
16 8 (3.96%) Jest
16 8 (3.96%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.94%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.98%) iPhone
7 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.99%) IoT
8 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.50%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.90%) Linux
2 7 (3.47%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.48%) Debian
4 4 (1.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 50 (24.75%) Agile
3 36 (17.82%) Microservices
4 35 (17.33%) CI/CD
5 27 (13.37%) AI
5 27 (13.37%) DevOps
6 26 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (12.38%) Software Engineering
8 23 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.41%) Front End Development
10 17 (8.42%) Machine Learning
11 16 (7.92%) Fintech
11 16 (7.92%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.93%) Clean Code
13 13 (6.44%) Web Development
14 12 (5.94%) CQRS
14 12 (5.94%) Product Vision
14 12 (5.94%) Resource Allocation
14 12 (5.94%) SDLC
15 11 (5.45%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.71%) SQL
2 55 (27.23%) C#
3 50 (24.75%) TypeScript
4 40 (19.80%) JavaScript
5 24 (11.88%) Python
6 17 (8.42%) Java
7 12 (5.94%) PHP
8 9 (4.46%) C++
9 6 (2.97%) C
10 5 (2.48%) Bash
10 5 (2.48%) Go
11 4 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.49%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.99%) Perl
14 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.50%) Scala
14 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.45%) Degree
3 7 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.49%) HND
7 1 (0.50%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.96%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (8.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Kamailio
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.97%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) Argo
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.97%) Google
3 5 (2.48%) Facebook
3 5 (2.48%) YouTube
4 3 (1.49%) BT
4 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.49%) Mitel
4 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle
6 1 (0.50%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.50%) Xamarin