Developer Jobs in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer salary in Surrey is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 76 287 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.90% 11.31% 13.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.75% 12.30% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 62 207 173
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £69,688 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £90,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,126 2,334 1,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.35% 91.96% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 672 1,504 1,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Surrey

Developer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Surrey.

Salary trend for Developer in Surrey

Developer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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 -7 16 £65,000 +30.00% 29
Farnham +1 13 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Weybridge +8 7 £62,500 -19.35%
Staines -3 5 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Woking -5 5 £45,000 -43.75% 9
Redhill -21 5 £72,500 +31.82% 1
Reigate 0 2 £100,000 +25.00% 6
Walton-on-Thames +8 1 - -
Leatherhead +6 1 £57,500 - 3
Godalming -2 1 £31,500 -40.00% 2
Warlingham - 1 - -
Caterham - 1 - -
Esher - 1 - -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 41 (53.95%) .NET
2 35 (46.05%) AWS
3 31 (40.79%) Azure
4 28 (36.84%) C#
5 26 (34.21%) React
6 25 (32.89%) Node.js
6 25 (32.89%) JavaScript
6 25 (32.89%) SQL
7 22 (28.95%) Agile
8 20 (26.32%) Java
8 20 (26.32%) MVC
8 20 (26.32%) Docker
8 20 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 19 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 18 (23.68%) Python
10 18 (23.68%) Degree
11 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
12 16 (21.05%) ASP.NET
12 16 (21.05%) C++
12 16 (21.05%) Software Engineering
12 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
13 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
13 15 (19.74%) Linux
14 14 (18.42%) RESTful
14 14 (18.42%) Mathematics
14 14 (18.42%) Design Patterns
15 13 (17.11%) Web Development

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) AWS
2 31 (40.79%) Azure
3 12 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 10 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (9.21%) Serverless
6 6 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.58%) GCP
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.63%) SaaS
11 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.32%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Broadband
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (1.32%) RS-232
3 1 (1.32%) RS-422
3 1 (1.32%) RS-485
3 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.11%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.89%) Power BI
4 4 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.63%) Redis
7 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (3.95%) Subversion
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (1.32%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.32%) ESLint
4 1 (1.32%) Gatling
4 1 (1.32%) GDB
4 1 (1.32%) Gradle
4 1 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) JMeter
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) rollup.js
4 1 (1.32%) RSpec
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.89%) Finance
5 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.95%) Law
6 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Advertising
8 1 (1.32%) Games
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (53.95%) .NET
2 26 (34.21%) React
3 25 (32.89%) Node.js
4 19 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 16 (21.05%) ASP.NET
6 14 (18.42%) RESTful
7 11 (14.47%) Blazor
8 10 (13.16%) Pandas
9 7 (9.21%) HTML
9 7 (9.21%) Spring Boot
10 6 (7.89%) .NET Framework
10 6 (7.89%) Kafka
10 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (7.89%) REST
11 4 (5.26%) XML
12 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.95%) React Native
12 3 (3.95%) Serverless Framework
12 3 (3.95%) Vue
13 2 (2.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.16%) Cyberattack
3 9 (11.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.32%) FPGA
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.74%) Linux
2 11 (14.47%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Agile
2 20 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (26.32%) MVC
3 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 14 (18.42%) Design Patterns
5 14 (18.42%) Mathematics
6 13 (17.11%) User Experience
6 13 (17.11%) Web Development
7 11 (14.47%) Kanban
7 11 (14.47%) OOP
7 11 (14.47%) OWASP
8 10 (13.16%) Android Development
8 10 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (13.16%) Containerisation
8 10 (13.16%) Line Management
8 10 (13.16%) Microservices
8 10 (13.16%) OO
8 10 (13.16%) Secure Coding
8 10 (13.16%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.84%) C#
2 25 (32.89%) JavaScript
2 25 (32.89%) SQL
3 20 (26.32%) Java
4 18 (23.68%) Python
5 16 (21.05%) C++
6 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
7 10 (13.16%) Go
7 10 (13.16%) Rust
8 7 (9.21%) C
9 4 (5.26%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.63%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.32%) PHP
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Degree
2 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.89%) DBS Check
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.26%) PhD
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.79%) Terraform
3 10 (13.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft