Developer Job Trends in Surrey

Developer
South East > Surrey

The median Developer salary in Surrey is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 25 13
Rank change year-on-year +17 -12 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 182 77 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 9.09% 7.73% 11.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.54% 9.28% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 172 64 240
10th Percentile £46,375 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £86,625
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 1,908 830 2,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 83.33% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 569 1,579
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,400 £27,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 63 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Woking +11 33 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Weybridge 0 13 £50,000 -20.00%
Epsom - 12 £60,000 - 1
Redhill +17 10 £86,250 +18.97% 3
Staines -5 8 £70,000 +5.66% 2
Reigate -4 5 £90,000 - 1
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Leatherhead -4 3 £40,000 -30.43% 6
Cobham - 3 £42,500 - 5
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Farnham -6 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Lightwater - 2 £47,500 -
Whyteleafe - 1 £50,000 -
Camberley - 1 - -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 67 (36.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (36.26%) .NET
3 50 (27.47%) SaaS
4 49 (26.92%) SQL
5 44 (24.18%) Azure
5 44 (24.18%) TypeScript
6 43 (23.63%) Agile
7 42 (23.08%) C#
8 40 (21.98%) React
9 32 (17.58%) CI/CD
9 32 (17.58%) HTML
10 30 (16.48%) CSS
10 30 (16.48%) JavaScript
11 28 (15.38%) AWS
11 28 (15.38%) Microservices
11 28 (15.38%) Node.js
12 26 (14.29%) Microsoft
13 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
13 25 (13.74%) Vue
14 23 (12.64%) AI
14 23 (12.64%) DevOps
14 23 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (12.09%) MongoDB
15 22 (12.09%) Python
16 21 (11.54%) ASP.NET
16 21 (11.54%) GitHub
17 20 (10.99%) .NET Core
17 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (10.99%) Front End Development

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 (1.65%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.10%) Apache
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.47%) SaaS
2 44 (24.18%) Azure
3 28 (15.38%) AWS
4 21 (11.54%) GitHub
5 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.65%) GCP
7 3 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.65%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.10%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.10%) Figma
8 2 (1.10%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.14%) VoIP
2 4 (2.20%) Broadband
3 3 (1.65%) HTTP
3 3 (1.65%) LAN
3 3 (1.65%) RTP
3 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.65%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.65%) WAN
3 3 (1.65%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (1.10%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.09%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.95%) MySQL
5 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.75%) Redis
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.10%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.55%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) Git
2 9 (4.95%) JIRA
3 7 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.65%) GitLab
6 2 (1.10%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.10%) Gradle
6 2 (1.10%) JUnit
6 2 (1.10%) Maven
6 2 (1.10%) Selenium
6 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.55%) Gatling
7 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) Postman
7 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.55%) TestNG
General
1 15 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (5.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.95%) Games
4 6 (3.30%) Finance
4 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.75%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.20%) Aviation
7 3 (1.65%) Advertising
7 3 (1.65%) Music Industry
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (36.26%) .NET
2 40 (21.98%) React
3 32 (17.58%) HTML
4 30 (16.48%) CSS
5 28 (15.38%) Node.js
6 25 (13.74%) Vue
7 21 (11.54%) ASP.NET
8 20 (10.99%) .NET Core
9 15 (8.24%) ASP.NET Core
9 15 (8.24%) REST
10 14 (7.69%) Entity Framework
11 13 (7.14%) AngularJS
12 10 (5.49%) Bootstrap
12 10 (5.49%) React Native
12 10 (5.49%) RESTful
13 9 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (4.95%) Laravel
14 8 (4.40%) Jest
14 8 (4.40%) LINQ
14 8 (4.40%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.10%) iPhone
6 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.55%) IoT
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.99%) Linux
2 7 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.75%) Debian
4 2 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (36.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (23.63%) Agile
3 32 (17.58%) CI/CD
4 28 (15.38%) Microservices
5 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
6 23 (12.64%) AI
6 23 (12.64%) DevOps
6 23 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (10.99%) Front End Development
9 15 (8.24%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.24%) Machine Learning
10 14 (7.69%) Fintech
10 14 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 12 (6.59%) CQRS
11 12 (6.59%) Product Vision
11 12 (6.59%) Resource Allocation
11 12 (6.59%) SDLC
11 12 (6.59%) Unit Testing
11 12 (6.59%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.92%) SQL
2 44 (24.18%) TypeScript
3 42 (23.08%) C#
4 30 (16.48%) JavaScript
5 22 (12.09%) Python
6 18 (9.89%) Java
7 12 (6.59%) PHP
8 8 (4.40%) C++
9 5 (2.75%) Bash
9 5 (2.75%) C
9 5 (2.75%) Go
10 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.65%) DataWeave
12 2 (1.10%) Perl
12 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.95%) Degree
3 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) HND
7 1 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.30%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) WCAG
5 1 (0.55%) ITGC
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Argo
4 2 (1.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.20%) Google
3 3 (1.65%) BT
3 3 (1.65%) Facebook
3 3 (1.65%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.65%) Mitel
3 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
3 3 (1.65%) YouTube
4 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.55%) Peregrine
5 1 (0.55%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.55%) Xamarin