Python Contracts in Surrey

Python
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 29 51 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 10.62% 8.19% 15.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.25% 31.68% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 109
10th Percentile £325 £263 £400
25th Percentile £438 £388 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £600
90th Percentile £549 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £509 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £59.75 £50.25
25th Percentile - £63.13 £50.63
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +176.32%
75th Percentile - £75.63 £55.63
90th Percentile - £78.25 £56.75
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -13.46% +165.74% +28.74%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 80 161 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.30% 25.84% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 123 170
10th Percentile £320 £250 £388
25th Percentile £411 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £571
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -25.57% +8.76%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £658
South East median daily rate £501 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £68.00 £30.25
25th Percentile - - £36.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +57.89% +126.19%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £55.63
90th Percentile - £83.00 £60.63
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £56.47
% change year-on-year -12.10% +10.68% +30.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Surrey over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Surrey

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Redhill +10 8 £475 +5.56% 1
Staines +2 5 £365 -42.75% 7
Camberley -4 4 £514 +28.50% 1
Guildford +6 3 £514 +634.29% 17
Reigate +3 3 £475 -26.92% 6
Woking - 2 £550 - 12
Chertsey +7 1 £300 -2.44%
Python
South East

Python
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 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Contentsquare
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) NFC
1 5 (17.24%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Eclipse
1 5 (17.24%) Valgrind
2 4 (13.79%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (13.79%) Aerospace
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Senior
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Development Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Development Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) ABAP Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Scientist
5 3 (10.34%) Security Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Senior ABAP Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) REST
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 4 (13.79%) Node.js
3 3 (10.34%) React
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.90%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
2 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
3 6 (20.69%) Analytics
3 6 (20.69%) User Experience
4 5 (17.24%) Cryptography
4 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
4 5 (17.24%) Memory Management
4 5 (17.24%) Multithreaded Programming
4 5 (17.24%) Multithreading
5 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
5 4 (13.79%) Data Science
5 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
5 4 (13.79%) Workflow
6 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) C++
4 5 (17.24%) Perl
5 4 (13.79%) ABAP
5 4 (13.79%) R
6 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) GMP
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Adobe
1 5 (17.24%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Dell
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) HP
3 1 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) Mellanox
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) NEC
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Solarflare
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Sun