Software Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Software Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Software Engineer salary in Surrey is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 58 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -29 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 158 44 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 8.30% 3.70% 9.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.69% 3.87% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 117 33 164
10th Percentile - £43,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -7.49%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,818 1,136 3,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.54% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 963 727 2,083
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Surrey

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 September 2024. 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 +25 57 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Woking - 35 £45,000 - 4
Epsom - 18 £57,500 - 3
Leatherhead +7 10 - -
Godalming - 4 £50,000 -
Dorking - 2 £62,500 - 2
Tadworth - 2 - -
Reigate -14 1 £77,500 +19.23%
Chertsey - 1 £60,000 -
Software Engineer
South East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 15 September 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (99.37%) Software Engineering
2 74 (46.84%) C++
3 65 (41.14%) Degree
4 61 (38.61%) Python
5 58 (36.71%) Security Cleared
6 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
7 54 (34.18%) SQL
8 49 (31.01%) C#
9 47 (29.75%) Java
10 46 (29.11%) Middleware
10 46 (29.11%) Azure
11 45 (28.48%) Linux
11 45 (28.48%) C
12 40 (25.32%) Agile
13 39 (24.68%) Signal Processing
14 38 (24.05%) .NET
14 38 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 31 (19.62%) DevOps
16 30 (18.99%) Machine Learning
16 30 (18.99%) Git
17 29 (18.35%) NoSQL
17 29 (18.35%) Computer Science
18 28 (17.72%) Kotlin
19 26 (16.46%) CI/CD
20 25 (15.82%) Ansible
20 25 (15.82%) Collaborative Working
21 24 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
21 24 (15.19%) Microservices
21 24 (15.19%) Test Automation

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 23 (14.56%) Simulink
2 2 (1.27%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.11%) Azure
2 23 (14.56%) AWS
3 19 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.39%) Azure API Management
4 18 (11.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (11.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 18 (11.39%) GitHub
4 18 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.16%) SaaS
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.63%) PaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.63%) Serverless
7 1 (0.63%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.90%) Wireless
3 2 (1.27%) 4G
3 2 (1.27%) 5G
3 2 (1.27%) Bluetooth
3 2 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.27%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (1.27%) Modbus
3 2 (1.27%) MQTT
3 2 (1.27%) RS-232
3 2 (1.27%) RS-485
3 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.35%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (18.99%) Git
2 20 (12.66%) Vagrant
3 9 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.53%) JIRA
6 2 (1.27%) CMake
6 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.27%) TestRail
7 1 (0.63%) GDB
General
1 22 (13.92%) Automotive
2 21 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.39%) Electronics
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.16%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.27%) Finance
6 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing
6 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (29.11%) Middleware
2 38 (24.05%) .NET
3 16 (10.13%) WPF
4 15 (9.49%) WinForms
5 8 (5.06%) React
6 6 (3.80%) Hibernate
6 6 (3.80%) OpenGL
6 6 (3.80%) Vulkan
7 4 (2.53%) HTML
7 4 (2.53%) HTML5
8 3 (1.90%) OpenCL
8 3 (1.90%) QML
8 3 (1.90%) Qt
8 3 (1.90%) VTK
9 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.27%) REST
9 2 (1.27%) Yocto
10 1 (0.63%) Kafka
10 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Algorithms
2 18 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 16 (10.13%) VHDL
4 15 (9.49%) FPGA
5 11 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (5.70%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (5.06%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.80%) CUDA
9 5 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.53%) 3D Graphics
11 3 (1.90%) Industry 4.0
11 3 (1.90%) IoT
11 3 (1.90%) Satnav
12 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
12 2 (1.27%) Device Driver
12 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.27%) NB-IoT
13 1 (0.63%) CAN bus
13 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 45 (28.48%) Linux
2 20 (12.66%) Android
2 20 (12.66%) CentOS
2 20 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 20 (12.66%) Ubuntu
3 11 (6.96%) Embedded Linux
4 10 (6.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (99.37%) Software Engineering
2 40 (25.32%) Agile
3 39 (24.68%) Signal Processing
4 38 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (19.62%) Artificial Intelligence
5 31 (19.62%) DevOps
6 30 (18.99%) Machine Learning
7 29 (18.35%) Computer Science
8 26 (16.46%) CI/CD
9 25 (15.82%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (15.19%) Microservices
10 24 (15.19%) Scrum
10 24 (15.19%) Test Automation
11 21 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.03%) Mentoring
13 18 (11.39%) API Management
13 18 (11.39%) B2B
13 18 (11.39%) Community of Practice
13 18 (11.39%) Use Case
14 15 (9.49%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.84%) C++
2 61 (38.61%) Python
3 54 (34.18%) SQL
4 49 (31.01%) C#
5 47 (29.75%) Java
6 45 (28.48%) C
7 28 (17.72%) Kotlin
8 23 (14.56%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.06%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.43%) MATLAB
11 6 (3.80%) Fortran
12 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.27%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.27%) Bash
13 2 (1.27%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 65 (41.14%) Degree
2 58 (36.71%) Security Cleared
3 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
4 24 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (10.13%) Azure Certification
5 16 (10.13%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.33%) PhD
7 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.90%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (6.96%) Firmware
2 9 (5.70%) Docker
3 4 (2.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (15.82%) Ansible
2 23 (14.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.66%) Xilinx
3 18 (11.39%) Databricks
4 2 (1.27%) Atmel
4 2 (1.27%) Freescale
4 2 (1.27%) SAP