Smart City Job Trends in Surrey

Smart Cities
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart City in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Smart City over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smart City 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.040% - 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

All Generic Skills
Surrey

Smart City falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 405 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 27.28% 35.68% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 522 230 268
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,781 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £80,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%

Smart City
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Smart City relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Smart City job vacancy trend in Surrey

Smart City
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware