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 to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 47 36
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 179 118 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.54% 5.72% 9.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% 6.13% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 124 67 161
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £66,250 £89,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +13.64% +10.00%

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 2,508 1,924 3,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.26% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 1,201 2,078
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +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 6 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 6 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 +29 65 £55,000 -15.38% 11
Leatherhead 0 39 - -
Woking +3 21 £50,000 -20.00%
Godalming - 4 £50,000 -
Egham - 4 £90,000 - 1
Reigate +8 2 £87,500 +34.62%
Chertsey - 2 £57,500 -
Cranleigh - 2 - -
Tadworth -3 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 6 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 96 (53.63%) C++
3 71 (39.66%) C
3 71 (39.66%) Security Cleared
3 71 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (36.87%) SC Cleared
5 61 (34.08%) Degree
6 52 (29.05%) Java
7 50 (27.93%) Python
8 44 (24.58%) Linux
8 44 (24.58%) Git
9 37 (20.67%) C#
10 34 (18.99%) Actionable Insight
10 34 (18.99%) Electronics
10 34 (18.99%) SQL
11 30 (16.76%) Mathematics
12 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
12 29 (16.20%) Agile
13 28 (15.64%) Test Automation
14 27 (15.08%) Simulink
14 27 (15.08%) JavaScript
14 27 (15.08%) Signal Processing
15 26 (14.53%) Mentoring
16 25 (13.97%) Computer Science Degree
17 24 (13.41%) Machine Learning
17 24 (13.41%) Azure
17 24 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence
18 22 (12.29%) Physics
18 22 (12.29%) .NET
19 21 (11.73%) Analytical Skills

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 8 (4.47%) Apache
2 5 (2.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (15.08%) Simulink
2 2 (1.12%) Stateflow
2 2 (1.12%) TargetLink
3 1 (0.56%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.41%) Azure
2 20 (11.17%) SaaS
3 18 (10.06%) AWS
4 8 (4.47%) 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 (1.68%) 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 20 (11.17%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.79%) MySQL
2 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (24.58%) Git
2 14 (7.82%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.82%) JIRA
3 10 (5.59%) Vagrant
3 10 (5.59%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.47%) CMake
4 8 (4.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (4.47%) TestRail
5 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.79%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.23%) Subversion
7 1 (0.56%) GDB
General
1 34 (18.99%) Electronics
2 21 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.17%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Automotive
5 8 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.23%) Finance
8 3 (1.68%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) 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 22 (12.29%) .NET
2 20 (11.17%) Middleware
3 15 (8.38%) WPF
4 14 (7.82%) React
5 11 (6.15%) OpenGL
5 11 (6.15%) Vulkan
5 11 (6.15%) WinForms
6 10 (5.59%) HTML
7 9 (5.03%) HTML5
8 8 (4.47%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.47%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (4.47%) OpenCL
8 8 (4.47%) QML
8 8 (4.47%) Qt
8 8 (4.47%) STL
8 8 (4.47%) VTK
9 6 (3.35%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.79%) Spring
11 3 (1.68%) DirectX
11 3 (1.68%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.06%) Satnav
3 15 (8.38%) Analogue Electronics
4 14 (7.82%) FPGA
5 13 (7.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (7.26%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (7.26%) VHDL
6 10 (5.59%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (5.03%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (4.47%) CUDA
8 8 (4.47%) Device Driver
9 7 (3.91%) CAN bus
10 2 (1.12%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.12%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.56%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.58%) Linux
2 20 (11.17%) Windows
3 13 (7.26%) Android
4 12 (6.70%) CentOS
4 12 (6.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (6.70%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 71 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (18.99%) Actionable Insight
4 30 (16.76%) Mathematics
5 29 (16.20%) Agile
5 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
6 28 (15.64%) Test Automation
7 27 (15.08%) Signal Processing
8 26 (14.53%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (13.41%) Machine Learning
10 22 (12.29%) Physics
11 18 (10.06%) Code Quality
11 18 (10.06%) Quality Management
12 17 (9.50%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (7.82%) Coaching
14 13 (7.26%) Schematic Capture
15 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (6.15%) Microservices
16 10 (5.59%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.63%) C++
2 71 (39.66%) C
3 52 (29.05%) Java
4 50 (27.93%) Python
5 37 (20.67%) C#
6 34 (18.99%) SQL
7 27 (15.08%) JavaScript
8 18 (10.06%) Kotlin
9 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.47%) Bash
10 8 (4.47%) C-shell
10 8 (4.47%) Fortran
11 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.56%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 71 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 66 (36.87%) SC Cleared
3 61 (34.08%) Degree
4 25 (13.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (9.50%) PhD
6 13 (7.26%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.61%) QA
2 18 (10.06%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 12 (6.70%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (5.03%) Firmware
3 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (10.06%) Terraform
2 15 (8.38%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (5.59%) Xilinx
2 5 (2.79%) Atlassian
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle
2 5 (2.79%) Siebel
3 4 (2.23%) VMware
4 3 (1.68%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.56%) Atmel
5 1 (0.56%) Freescale
5 1 (0.56%) SAP