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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 39 18
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 191 63 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.61% 5.53% 10.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.09% 6.42% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 163 53 130
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,500 £46,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 2,361 981 1,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 86.05% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 681 870
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,924 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.42% -6.81% -4.55%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +12 64 £85,000 +30.77% 6
Woking +1 22 £65,000 +44.44% 11
Staines -2 18 £72,500 +11.54% 5
Reigate -5 16 £100,000 -
Redhill +11 10 £86,250 +23.21% 3
Leatherhead -5 10 £32,500 -31.58% 3
Epsom - 10 £65,000 - 2
Godalming -5 6 - - 3
Farnham -4 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Weybridge -3 4 - -
Egham - 4 £43,750 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Thames Ditton - 3 - - 2
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 7 October 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 84 (43.98%) .NET
2 76 (39.79%) C#
3 71 (37.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (28.80%) Azure
4 55 (28.80%) JavaScript
5 54 (28.27%) Agile
6 51 (26.70%) .NET Core
7 49 (25.65%) ASP.NET
7 49 (25.65%) TypeScript
8 47 (24.61%) SQL
9 46 (24.08%) Microservices
10 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
11 41 (21.47%) Node.js
12 36 (18.85%) React
12 36 (18.85%) SQL Server
13 35 (18.32%) SaaS
14 34 (17.80%) AWS
14 34 (17.80%) CI/CD
15 33 (17.28%) MongoDB
16 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (16.23%) Git
18 29 (15.18%) Vue
19 28 (14.66%) AI
19 28 (14.66%) ASP.NET Core
19 28 (14.66%) Azure SQL Database
19 28 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 28 (14.66%) DevOps
19 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
20 27 (14.14%) HTML
20 27 (14.14%) Software Engineering

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 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.80%) Azure
2 35 (18.32%) SaaS
3 34 (17.80%) AWS
4 23 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (7.85%) GitHub
6 14 (7.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (3.66%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.14%) GCP
11 5 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.62%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.09%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.09%) Google Play
12 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) VoIP
2 3 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.57%) Internet
2 3 (1.57%) LAN
2 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.57%) WAN
3 2 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.52%) ATM
4 1 (0.52%) Broadband
4 1 (0.52%) Intranet
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.85%) SQL Server
2 33 (17.28%) MongoDB
3 28 (14.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (12.57%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (8.38%) MySQL
6 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.71%) Redis
7 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.05%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.05%) Siebel EIM
9 2 (1.05%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) Metadata
10 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (16.23%) Git
2 10 (5.24%) JIRA
3 6 (3.14%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (12.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.66%) Finance
5 7 (3.66%) Games
6 6 (3.14%) Law
6 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.62%) Advertising
7 5 (2.62%) Music Industry
7 5 (2.62%) Retail
8 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (43.98%) .NET
2 51 (26.70%) .NET Core
3 49 (25.65%) ASP.NET
4 41 (21.47%) Node.js
5 36 (18.85%) React
6 29 (15.18%) Vue
7 28 (14.66%) ASP.NET Core
8 27 (14.14%) HTML
9 26 (13.61%) AngularJS
10 25 (13.09%) CSS
10 25 (13.09%) Entity Framework
11 24 (12.57%) Blazor
12 21 (10.99%) REST
13 17 (8.90%) .NET Framework
13 17 (8.90%) RESTful
14 15 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
15 12 (6.28%) gRPC
15 12 (6.28%) LINQ
16 9 (4.71%) Terraform
17 8 (4.19%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.62%) FPGA
6 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.09%) iPhone
6 4 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.57%) IoT
7 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.42%) Linux
2 5 (2.62%) Debian
3 4 (2.09%) Android
3 4 (2.09%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (28.27%) Agile
3 46 (24.08%) Microservices
4 34 (17.80%) CI/CD
5 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.66%) AI
6 28 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.66%) DevOps
6 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
7 27 (14.14%) Software Engineering
8 20 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (8.90%) Scrum
9 17 (8.90%) Web Development
10 16 (8.38%) Clean Code
10 16 (8.38%) MVC
11 15 (7.85%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (7.33%) Fintech
13 13 (6.81%) Event-Driven
13 13 (6.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (39.79%) C#
2 55 (28.80%) JavaScript
3 49 (25.65%) TypeScript
4 47 (24.61%) SQL
5 19 (9.95%) Python
6 15 (7.85%) Java
7 12 (6.28%) PHP
8 5 (2.62%) C++
9 4 (2.09%) Bash
9 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.57%) C
10 3 (1.57%) Go
10 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.05%) Perl
11 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.47%) Degree
1 20 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.09%) HND
6 1 (0.52%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (13.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Google
3 5 (2.62%) Facebook
3 5 (2.62%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.62%) YouTube
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Siebel