Senior Job Trends in Surrey

Senior
South East > Surrey

The median Senior salary in Surrey is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 224 117 341
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.25% 11.81% 12.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.85% 14.29% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 168 100 208
10th Percentile £43,875 £51,250 £41,775
25th Percentile £54,063 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,125 £83,750
South East median annual salary £66,300 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.08% +4.17% -11.11%

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 1,890 819 2,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 82.64% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 556 1,565
10th Percentile £30,400 £30,500 £27,700
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% -14.71%
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%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Senior job vacancy trend in Surrey

Senior
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Surrey

Senior
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Surrey

Senior
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 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 69 £65,000 +10.64% 12
Epsom +5 22 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Woking 0 17 £100,000 +21.21% 10
Chertsey - 15 £85,000 - 1
Reigate 0 11 £85,000 +38.21% 2
Leatherhead - 9 £75,000 -
Redhill +3 8 £62,500 -10.71% 1
Weybridge -3 8 £30,000 -52.00%
Staines -5 7 £52,500 -22.22% 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 5 - -
Egham - 5 £72,500 -
Camberley +2 2 £48,250 -35.67% 1
Farnham -4 1 - -
Tadworth - 1 - - 1
Walton-on-Thames - 1 - -
Cobham - 1 - -
Haslemere - 1 £37,500 -
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2026, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 40 (17.86%) Software Engineering
2 36 (16.07%) Agile
3 34 (15.18%) Python
4 32 (14.29%) AI
5 29 (12.95%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (12.95%) Firewall
6 27 (12.05%) Degree
7 23 (10.27%) Java
8 22 (9.82%) Business Development
8 22 (9.82%) DevOps
8 22 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 20 (8.93%) Linux
10 20 (8.93%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (8.48%) Cisco
12 18 (8.04%) Azure
12 18 (8.04%) SaaS
12 18 (8.04%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (7.59%) C#
13 17 (7.59%) LAN
13 17 (7.59%) WAN
14 16 (7.14%) Analytics
14 16 (7.14%) Aruba
14 16 (7.14%) AWS
14 16 (7.14%) Master's Degree
14 16 (7.14%) Palo Alto
14 16 (7.14%) Qualys
15 15 (6.70%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (6.25%) CI/CD
16 14 (6.25%) Data Security

Senior 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 4 (1.79%) IIS
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Primavera
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.45%) HFM
3 1 (0.45%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.04%) Azure
1 18 (8.04%) SaaS
2 16 (7.14%) AWS
3 11 (4.91%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.46%) GitHub
5 9 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.89%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.89%) Azure API Management
9 2 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.89%) Datadog
9 2 (0.89%) Figma
9 2 (0.89%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.95%) Firewall
2 18 (8.04%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (7.59%) LAN
3 17 (7.59%) WAN
4 15 (6.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (3.57%) VPN
5 8 (3.57%) Wireless
6 7 (3.13%) Internet
6 7 (3.13%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.68%) VoIP
8 5 (2.23%) Broadband
9 4 (1.79%) Network Security
9 4 (1.79%) NGFW
10 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.34%) WLAN
11 2 (0.89%) DNS
11 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.45%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
1 5 (2.23%) Tableau
2 4 (1.79%) Big Data
2 4 (1.79%) Data Mining
2 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.34%) MySQL
4 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.45%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) Power BI
5 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (5.80%) JIRA
2 5 (2.23%) Git
3 4 (1.79%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.89%) MSI
5 2 (0.89%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.45%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.45%) TestNG
6 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (8.93%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.70%) Marketing
3 12 (5.36%) Finance
4 11 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.02%) Retail
6 8 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.13%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.68%) Local Government
8 6 (2.68%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.79%) Legal
10 4 (1.79%) Military
10 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.34%) Aviation
11 3 (1.34%) Games
12 2 (0.89%) Electronics
12 2 (0.89%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.02%) React
2 7 (3.13%) Swing
3 5 (2.23%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.79%) .NET
4 4 (1.79%) Jest
4 4 (1.79%) Node.js
4 4 (1.79%) Play Framework
5 3 (1.34%) pytest
5 3 (1.34%) REST
6 2 (0.89%) ADO
6 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.89%) Electron
6 2 (0.89%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.89%) HTML
6 2 (0.89%) SOAP
6 2 (0.89%) YAML
7 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.45%) LDAP
7 1 (0.45%) OAuth
7 1 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.02%) Algorithms
1 9 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.68%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.68%) NHS
4 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.23%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.89%) Acoustics
7 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.93%) Linux
2 4 (1.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.34%) Debian
3 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.86%) Software Engineering
2 36 (16.07%) Agile
3 32 (14.29%) AI
4 29 (12.95%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (9.82%) Business Development
5 22 (9.82%) DevOps
5 22 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (9.38%) Mentoring
7 20 (8.93%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (7.14%) Analytics
9 14 (6.25%) CI/CD
9 14 (6.25%) Data Security
9 14 (6.25%) Incident Management
9 14 (6.25%) Machine Learning
9 14 (6.25%) SIEM
9 14 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.80%) Decision-Making
10 13 (5.80%) Network Load Balancing
10 13 (5.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.18%) Python
2 23 (10.27%) Java
3 17 (7.59%) C#
4 13 (5.80%) Bash
5 11 (4.91%) C++
6 9 (4.02%) Go
7 8 (3.57%) SQL
8 7 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.68%) R
10 5 (2.23%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.79%) Scala
12 3 (1.34%) PHP
13 2 (0.89%) Julia
14 1 (0.45%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.05%) Degree
2 16 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.57%) PhD
4 7 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) MBA
7 3 (1.34%) CCNP
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.89%) CCNA
8 2 (0.89%) CISSP
8 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) HNC
9 1 (0.45%) HND
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (2.23%) PMO
3 4 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.79%) GMP
4 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) GAAP
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) Firmware
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.91%) Terraform
2 10 (4.46%) Grafana
2 10 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.46%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.57%) Ansible
3 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.57%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.89%) Argo
5 1 (0.45%) Autotask
5 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (8.48%) Cisco
2 16 (7.14%) Aruba
2 16 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 16 (7.14%) Qualys
3 10 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.02%) VMware
5 7 (3.13%) BT
6 6 (2.68%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.68%) Meraki
6 6 (2.68%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (2.23%) Databricks
8 3 (1.34%) Huawei
8 3 (1.34%) Mitel
8 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.34%) SAP
9 2 (0.89%) Adobe
9 2 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle
9 2 (0.89%) Sage
9 2 (0.89%) SYSPRO