Software Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Software Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Software Engineer salary in Surrey is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 180 109 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.43% 5.62% 9.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.01% 6.03% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 131 64 160
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,375 £39,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £91,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £76,375
South East median annual salary £52,501 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 2,567 1,807 3,550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 93.10% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 1,166 2,065
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +26 70 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Leatherhead -2 31 - -
Woking +6 24 £50,000 -20.00% 1
Godalming - 4 £50,000 -
Egham - 4 £90,000 - 2
Reigate +3 2 £87,500 +34.62% 1
Chertsey - 2 £57,500 -
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Tadworth -2 1 - -
Dorking - 1 £62,500 -
Esher - 1 £100,000 -
Caterham - 1 £70,000 -
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 96 (53.33%) C++
3 73 (40.56%) C
4 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
5 66 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (35.56%) SC Cleared
7 63 (35.00%) Degree
8 54 (30.00%) Java
9 49 (27.22%) Python
10 43 (23.89%) Git
11 42 (23.33%) Linux
12 37 (20.56%) Electronics
13 34 (18.89%) C#
14 31 (17.22%) SQL
14 31 (17.22%) Signal Processing
15 30 (16.67%) Mathematics
15 30 (16.67%) Computer Science
16 28 (15.56%) Simulink
17 27 (15.00%) Agile
18 26 (14.44%) Test Automation
18 26 (14.44%) JavaScript
18 26 (14.44%) Actionable Insight
18 26 (14.44%) Computer Science Degree
19 25 (13.89%) Azure
20 24 (13.33%) Physics
20 24 (13.33%) Mentoring
21 23 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
21 23 (12.78%) Machine Learning
21 23 (12.78%) Artificial Intelligence
22 22 (12.22%) Algorithms

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 7 (3.89%) Apache
2 5 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (15.56%) Simulink
2 2 (1.11%) Stateflow
2 2 (1.11%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.56%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.89%) Azure
2 19 (10.56%) AWS
3 18 (10.00%) SaaS
4 8 (4.44%) GCP
5 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.56%) Serverless
5 1 (0.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) Wireless
2 1 (0.56%) 4G
2 1 (0.56%) 5G
2 1 (0.56%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.56%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.56%) Modbus
2 1 (0.56%) MQTT
2 1 (0.56%) RS-232
2 1 (0.56%) RS-485
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.78%) MySQL
2 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (23.89%) Git
2 14 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.78%) JIRA
3 11 (6.11%) Vagrant
4 10 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 8 (4.44%) CMake
5 8 (4.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (4.44%) TestRail
6 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.67%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.11%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) GDB
General
1 37 (20.56%) Electronics
2 23 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.67%) Automotive
5 8 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.89%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.22%) Finance
8 3 (1.67%) Games
9 2 (1.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.11%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.67%) .NET
1 21 (11.67%) Middleware
2 16 (8.89%) WPF
3 14 (7.78%) React
4 12 (6.67%) WinForms
5 11 (6.11%) OpenGL
5 11 (6.11%) Vulkan
6 10 (5.56%) HTML
7 9 (5.00%) HTML5
8 8 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.44%) OpenCL
8 8 (4.44%) QML
8 8 (4.44%) Qt
8 8 (4.44%) VTK
9 7 (3.89%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (3.89%) STL
10 6 (3.33%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.67%) DirectX
11 3 (1.67%) OpenGL ES
11 3 (1.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Algorithms
2 17 (9.44%) Analogue Electronics
3 16 (8.89%) FPGA
3 16 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (8.89%) Satnav
3 16 (8.89%) VHDL
4 15 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (4.44%) CUDA
7 8 (4.44%) Device Driver
8 7 (3.89%) CAN bus
9 2 (1.11%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.11%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.11%) IoT
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.33%) Linux
2 19 (10.56%) Windows
3 14 (7.78%) Android
4 13 (7.22%) CentOS
4 13 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (7.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 66 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (17.22%) Signal Processing
4 30 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 30 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 27 (15.00%) Agile
6 26 (14.44%) Actionable Insight
6 26 (14.44%) Test Automation
7 24 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 24 (13.33%) Physics
8 23 (12.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 23 (12.78%) Machine Learning
9 18 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (8.89%) Code Quality
10 16 (8.89%) Quality Management
11 15 (8.33%) Schematic Capture
12 12 (6.67%) Coaching
12 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (6.67%) Microservices
13 10 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.33%) C++
2 73 (40.56%) C
3 54 (30.00%) Java
4 49 (27.22%) Python
5 34 (18.89%) C#
6 31 (17.22%) SQL
7 26 (14.44%) JavaScript
8 19 (10.56%) Kotlin
9 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.44%) Bash
10 8 (4.44%) C-shell
10 8 (4.44%) Fortran
11 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.11%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 63 (35.00%) Degree
4 26 (14.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (10.56%) PhD
6 16 (8.89%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.44%) QA
2 16 (8.89%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 12 (6.67%) Docker
2 9 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (5.00%) Firmware
3 4 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.56%) Terraform
2 16 (8.89%) Ansible
3 2 (1.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 11 (6.11%) Xilinx
2 5 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.22%) VMware
4 3 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle
4 3 (1.67%) Siebel
5 1 (0.56%) Atmel
5 1 (0.56%) Freescale
5 1 (0.56%) SAP