Python Job Trends in Surrey

Python
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 46 15
Rank change year-on-year +17 -31 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 128 56 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.19% 4.87% 10.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.89% 27.86% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 92 36 152
10th Percentile £38,920 £40,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +17.12% +0.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% -12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 459 201 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.61% 17.46% 30.76%
Number of salaries quoted 396 157 362
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +3.60% -3.48%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Python job vacancy trend in Surrey

Python
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Surrey over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Surrey

Python
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 22 September 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 +2 51 £80,000 +14.29% 21
Redhill +15 13 £55,000 +46.67% 6
Reigate -6 11 £112,500 +200.00% 5
Staines -7 9 £52,500 - 5
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 2
Woking -21 3 £70,000 -12.50% 21
Camberley - 3 £52,500 - 3
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 1
Python
South East

Python
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 8 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (39.06%) AWS
2 43 (33.59%) Azure
3 15 (11.72%) GitHub
3 15 (11.72%) Power Platform
4 14 (10.94%) GCP
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (9.38%) Azure AI
6 11 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.91%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.91%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) VPN
2 10 (7.81%) Firewall
3 8 (6.25%) VoIP
4 7 (5.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.13%) DNS
5 4 (3.13%) LAN
5 4 (3.13%) Network Security
5 4 (3.13%) WAN
6 3 (2.34%) BGP
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.34%) IPsec
6 3 (2.34%) MPLS
6 3 (2.34%) Multicast
6 3 (2.34%) OSPF
7 2 (1.56%) Broadband
8 1 (0.78%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.78%) RS-232
8 1 (0.78%) RS-485
8 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) MySQL
1 10 (7.81%) Power BI
2 7 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.69%) Tableau
4 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.34%) DocumentDB
4 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.56%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.56%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) JIRA
3 7 (5.47%) GitLab
4 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.13%) Selenium
6 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.34%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.56%) MSI
7 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.78%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.78%) JUnit
8 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) Subversion
8 1 (0.78%) TestNG
8 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.03%) Finance
4 7 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Retail
5 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.13%) Games
7 3 (2.34%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.78%) Electronics
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Senior
2 21 (16.41%) Software Engineer
3 19 (14.84%) Developer
4 16 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 15 (11.72%) Analyst
6 12 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) C++ Software Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Administrator
7 11 (8.59%) Data Analyst
7 11 (8.59%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (7.81%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Junior
8 10 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (7.03%) Junior Analyst
9 9 (7.03%) Lead
10 8 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
10 8 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 6 (4.69%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.66%) Terraform
2 10 (7.81%) PySpark
3 9 (7.03%) React
4 7 (5.47%) HTML
4 7 (5.47%) Node.js
5 6 (4.69%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.69%) REST
6 5 (3.91%) CSS
7 4 (3.13%) Laravel
7 4 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.13%) Vue
8 3 (2.34%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.34%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.34%) Jest
8 3 (2.34%) LAMP
8 3 (2.34%) pytest
9 2 (1.56%) ADO
9 2 (1.56%) SOAP
9 2 (1.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.69%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.13%) IoT
5 4 (3.13%) PKI
5 4 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.34%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.34%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.56%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.91%) Debian
3 5 (3.91%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.00%) AI
2 43 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 38 (29.69%) Software Engineering
4 31 (24.22%) Machine Learning
5 28 (21.88%) Agile
6 22 (17.19%) Analytics
6 22 (17.19%) DevOps
6 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.41%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (14.84%) Mentoring
10 18 (14.06%) Observability
11 14 (10.94%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.94%) Data Engineering
11 14 (10.94%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (9.38%) Cloud Security
13 12 (9.38%) Data Science
13 12 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.00%) SQL
2 30 (23.44%) C++
3 21 (16.41%) C#
4 19 (14.84%) Bash
5 17 (13.28%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.28%) PowerShell
6 16 (12.50%) Java
7 13 (10.16%) Go
8 11 (8.59%) PHP
9 10 (7.81%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.69%) Julia
11 5 (3.91%) C
12 4 (3.13%) Scala
13 2 (1.56%) Bicep
13 2 (1.56%) Perl
14 1 (0.78%) Groovy
14 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.78%) Rust
14 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (28.13%) Degree
2 22 (17.19%) Master's Degree
3 17 (13.28%) PhD
4 16 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 11 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.03%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 6 (4.69%) CISSP
8 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.91%) CEH
9 5 (3.91%) CISM
9 5 (3.91%) GIAC
10 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (3.13%) HND
11 3 (2.34%) CCNA
11 3 (2.34%) CCNP
11 3 (2.34%) SC Cleared
12 2 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.78%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.47%) NIST
3 5 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (14.06%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.16%) Ansible
2 13 (10.16%) Grafana
3 11 (8.59%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.25%) Proxmox
5 4 (3.13%) Kibana
6 3 (2.34%) Argo
6 3 (2.34%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.56%) Istio
7 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) Databricks
3 9 (7.03%) VMware
4 5 (3.91%) Google
4 5 (3.91%) New Relic
4 5 (3.91%) Qualys
4 5 (3.91%) Splunk
5 4 (3.13%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.13%) Zerto
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco
6 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) EMC
8 1 (0.78%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.78%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.78%) Xilinx