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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 37 17
Rank change year-on-year +27 -20 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 205 68 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.95% 5.67% 10.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.41% 6.57% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 182 57 145
10th Percentile £43,875 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £88,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,179 1,035 1,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 86.32% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 725 1,132
10th Percentile £30,525 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +11 68 £85,000 +30.77% 3
Woking +2 30 £65,000 +44.44%
Staines +1 18 £72,500 +7.41%
Redhill +12 11 £90,000 +26.32%
Reigate -6 11 £100,000 - 5
Leatherhead -2 9 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Epsom - 9 £65,000 -
Weybridge -1 7 £50,000 -20.00%
Godalming -3 6 - -
Farnham -4 5 £55,000 -4.35%
Cobham - 5 £42,500 -
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Horley - 3 £55,000 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Camberley - 2 £70,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 92 (44.88%) .NET
2 85 (41.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 79 (38.54%) C#
4 64 (31.22%) Azure
5 56 (27.32%) JavaScript
6 55 (26.83%) SQL
7 54 (26.34%) Agile
8 53 (25.85%) SaaS
8 53 (25.85%) TypeScript
9 51 (24.88%) Microservices
10 50 (24.39%) .NET Core
11 48 (23.41%) ASP.NET
12 43 (20.98%) Node.js
13 41 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 41 (20.00%) React
14 39 (19.02%) AWS
15 36 (17.56%) CI/CD
16 35 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (17.07%) Software Engineering
16 35 (17.07%) SQL Server
17 34 (16.59%) HTML
17 34 (16.59%) Vue
18 33 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (16.10%) DevOps
18 33 (16.10%) MongoDB
19 32 (15.61%) CSS
20 31 (15.12%) AI
20 31 (15.12%) Git
21 28 (13.66%) ASP.NET Core
21 28 (13.66%) Azure 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 (1.46%) Anypoint
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.98%) Apache
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.22%) Azure
2 53 (25.85%) SaaS
3 39 (19.02%) AWS
4 28 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.29%) GitHub
6 15 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (6.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (5.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.93%) GCP
11 5 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.95%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.95%) Google Play
12 4 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) VoIP
2 3 (1.46%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.46%) Internet
2 3 (1.46%) LAN
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.98%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (0.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 33 (16.10%) MongoDB
3 28 (13.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (11.71%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (7.80%) MySQL
6 14 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.39%) Redis
7 9 (4.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.98%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) Power BI
10 1 (0.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 31 (15.12%) Git
2 9 (4.39%) JIRA
3 6 (2.93%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.98%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.98%) GitLab
5 2 (0.98%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (10.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (5.37%) Games
4 9 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.90%) Finance
6 6 (2.93%) Law
6 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.44%) Advertising
7 5 (2.44%) Music Industry
7 5 (2.44%) Retail
8 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.98%) Aviation
9 2 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (44.88%) .NET
2 50 (24.39%) .NET Core
3 48 (23.41%) ASP.NET
4 43 (20.98%) Node.js
5 41 (20.00%) React
6 34 (16.59%) HTML
6 34 (16.59%) Vue
7 32 (15.61%) CSS
8 28 (13.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 26 (12.68%) Entity Framework
10 25 (12.20%) AngularJS
11 24 (11.71%) Blazor
11 24 (11.71%) REST
12 17 (8.29%) .NET Framework
13 16 (7.80%) RESTful
14 15 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
15 12 (5.85%) gRPC
15 12 (5.85%) LINQ
16 9 (4.39%) Laravel
16 9 (4.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.41%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.95%) iPhone
6 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.46%) IoT
6 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.98%) FPGA
7 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.78%) Linux
2 5 (2.44%) Debian
3 4 (1.95%) Android
3 4 (1.95%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (26.34%) Agile
3 51 (24.88%) Microservices
4 36 (17.56%) CI/CD
5 35 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (17.07%) Software Engineering
6 33 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (16.10%) DevOps
7 31 (15.12%) AI
8 26 (12.68%) Mentoring
9 19 (9.27%) Web Development
10 17 (8.29%) Clean Code
11 16 (7.80%) MVC
11 16 (7.80%) Scrum
12 15 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (7.32%) Machine Learning
12 15 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (6.34%) Fintech
14 12 (5.85%) Front End Development
14 12 (5.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.54%) C#
2 56 (27.32%) JavaScript
3 55 (26.83%) SQL
4 53 (25.85%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.76%) Python
6 15 (7.32%) Java
7 12 (5.85%) PHP
8 5 (2.44%) C++
9 4 (1.95%) Bash
9 4 (1.95%) Go
9 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.98%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.27%) Degree
2 18 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.93%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.95%) HND
7 1 (0.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.29%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.85%) Google
3 5 (2.44%) Facebook
3 5 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.44%) YouTube
4 3 (1.46%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle
5 2 (0.98%) Siebel