Software Engineering Job Trends in Surrey

Software Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 150 91 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.93% 8.22% 9.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 9.10% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 121 69 189
10th Percentile - £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,600 1,000 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.87% 90.33% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 645 1,361
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,330 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Surrey

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 -1 37 £87,500 -2.78% 6
Reigate +4 18 £100,000 - 8
Chertsey - 14 £85,000 -
Woking -16 13 £55,000 +27.91% 3
Redhill +9 12 £66,250 -26.39%
Staines -3 5 £50,000 -29.82% 1
Camberley - 5 £50,000 -
Leatherhead - 4 - - 1
Epsom -12 3 £100,000 +53.85%
Egham - 2 £55,000 -
Farnham -1 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 2 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.00%) SaaS
2 28 (18.67%) AWS
3 25 (16.67%) Azure
4 7 (4.67%) GCP
5 4 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.00%) GitHub
7 2 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.33%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.33%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.67%) Figma
8 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Broadband
2 4 (2.67%) Wireless
3 2 (1.33%) LAN
3 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.33%) VoIP
3 2 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) MySQL
1 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Git
2 7 (4.67%) GitLab
2 7 (4.67%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (7.33%) Telecoms
2 10 (6.67%) Finance
2 10 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.33%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.67%) Games
5 5 (3.33%) Automotive
5 5 (3.33%) Electronics
6 4 (2.67%) Military
7 3 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.33%) Aviation
8 2 (1.33%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 110 (73.33%) Software Engineer
2 43 (28.67%) Senior
3 38 (25.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (22.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 29 (19.33%) Developer
6 28 (18.67%) .NET Software Engineer
7 21 (14.00%) C++ Software Engineer
8 19 (12.67%) .NET Developer
8 19 (12.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 19 (12.67%) C# Developer
8 19 (12.67%) Lead
8 19 (12.67%) Python Engineer
9 15 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 12 (8.00%) .NET Software Developer
10 12 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
10 12 (8.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.00%) .NET
2 13 (8.67%) CSS
2 13 (8.67%) HTML
2 13 (8.67%) Vue
3 3 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.00%) Node.js
3 3 (2.00%) Qt
3 3 (2.00%) React
3 3 (2.00%) REST
3 3 (2.00%) RESTful
4 2 (1.33%) gRPC
4 2 (1.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.33%) JPA
4 2 (1.33%) Kafka
4 2 (1.33%) LAMP
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.33%) Spring
4 2 (1.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.33%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.67%) PKI
5 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.33%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.33%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.67%) BBC
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.67%) Robotics
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) Debian
3 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.67%) AI
2 28 (18.67%) Agile
3 27 (18.00%) Machine Learning
4 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (13.33%) SDLC
6 19 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.00%) Microservices
8 17 (11.33%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (9.33%) Validation
11 12 (8.00%) CQRS
11 12 (8.00%) DevOps
11 12 (8.00%) Fintech
11 12 (8.00%) Product Vision
11 12 (8.00%) Resource Allocation
12 11 (7.33%) Embedded Software Development
13 10 (6.67%) Test Automation
14 9 (6.00%) Change Management
14 9 (6.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.00%) C#
2 39 (26.00%) Python
3 31 (20.67%) C++
4 14 (9.33%) SQL
5 12 (8.00%) Java
6 7 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.33%) Julia
8 5 (3.33%) PHP
9 4 (2.67%) C
9 4 (2.67%) Go
10 3 (2.00%) Bash
11 2 (1.33%) Perl
11 2 (1.33%) Scala
12 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.33%) Degree
2 20 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 17 (11.33%) PhD
4 15 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 11 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.67%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.67%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) GAMP
System Software
1 11 (7.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.00%) Terraform
3 4 (2.67%) Kibana
4 3 (2.00%) Ansible
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.33%) Google
2 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.33%) Typelevel
3 1 (0.67%) Adobe
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle