Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Surrey is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 116 156
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 36 30 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.35% 1.43% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.53% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 22 13 45
10th Percentile £55,250 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £70,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £68,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% +5.00% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,452 1,957 3,436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.37% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 1,216 2,061
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +7.95% +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%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Surrey

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Surrey

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Surrey

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 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 +11 9 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Leatherhead -12 7 - -
Chertsey - 2 £57,500 -
Esher - 2 £100,000 -
Tadworth -5 1 - -
Caterham - 1 £70,000 -
Cranleigh - 1 - -
Dorking - 1 £62,500 -
Senior Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 12 (33.33%) C++
4 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.78%) Java
6 10 (27.78%) C#
6 10 (27.78%) Agile
7 8 (22.22%) SQL
7 8 (22.22%) .NET
8 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
8 7 (19.44%) C
8 7 (19.44%) Python
8 7 (19.44%) Windows
9 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
9 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (16.67%) System Testing
9 6 (16.67%) Git
9 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 6 (16.67%) Coaching
9 6 (16.67%) React
9 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 5 (13.89%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (13.89%) Ansible
10 5 (13.89%) Docker
10 5 (13.89%) DevOps
10 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
10 5 (13.89%) Linux

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) OrCAD
1 1 (2.78%) Simulink
1 1 (2.78%) Stateflow
1 1 (2.78%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) 4G
1 1 (2.78%) 5G
1 1 (2.78%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.78%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (2.78%) Modbus
1 1 (2.78%) MQTT
1 1 (2.78%) RS-232
1 1 (2.78%) RS-485
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 6 (16.67%) React
3 2 (5.56%) Vue
4 1 (2.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.78%) IoT
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) CentOS
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Coaching
5 6 (16.67%) System Testing
5 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.11%) Data Collection
7 4 (11.11%) Logistics
8 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 2 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (5.56%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (5.56%) Requirements Analysis
9 2 (5.56%) Signal Processing
9 2 (5.56%) UML
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C++
2 10 (27.78%) C#
2 10 (27.78%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) C
4 7 (19.44%) Python
5 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.56%) Bicep
9 1 (2.78%) Assembly Language
9 1 (2.78%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO 26262
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Atmel
1 1 (2.78%) Freescale
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.78%) SAP