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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 43 16
Rank change year-on-year +17 -27 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 123 62 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.34% 5.27% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.21% 27.43% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 87 39 154
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,175 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 452 226 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 19.63% 19.20% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 387 178 383
10th Percentile £43,450 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -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 3 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 3 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 +7 48 £80,000 +23.08% 29
Redhill - 14 £55,000 - 1
Reigate -4 11 £112,500 - 2
Staines -5 8 £50,000 - 5
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 -
Woking -25 3 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 3
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
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 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) AWS
2 45 (36.59%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.20%) Azure AI
5 13 (10.57%) GCP
6 11 (8.94%) GitHub
7 9 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.07%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.25%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.44%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 3 (2.44%) Prefect
13 3 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) VoIP
1 8 (6.50%) VPN
2 5 (4.07%) Firewall
2 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.25%) Broadband
3 4 (3.25%) LAN
3 4 (3.25%) Network Security
3 4 (3.25%) WAN
4 3 (2.44%) BGP
4 3 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (2.44%) DNS
4 3 (2.44%) IPsec
4 3 (2.44%) MPLS
4 3 (2.44%) Multicast
4 3 (2.44%) OSPF
5 1 (0.81%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.81%) HTTP
5 1 (0.81%) RS-232
5 1 (0.81%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.94%) Power BI
2 10 (8.13%) MySQL
3 9 (7.32%) Tableau
4 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.63%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (17.89%) Git
2 11 (8.94%) JIRA
3 7 (5.69%) GitLab
4 5 (4.07%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.25%) Selenium
6 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.44%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.63%) MSI
7 2 (1.63%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.81%) JUnit
8 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.81%) TestNG
8 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.69%) Finance
4 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.07%) Games
5 5 (4.07%) Retail
5 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.81%) Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Senior
2 20 (16.26%) Developer
2 20 (16.26%) Software Engineer
3 16 (13.01%) Analyst
3 16 (13.01%) Python Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Junior
5 12 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) Data Analyst
5 12 (9.76%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (9.76%) Python Software Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Junior Data Analyst
7 9 (7.32%) Lead
8 8 (6.50%) Administrator
8 8 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.88%) Systems Developer
11 5 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.51%) Terraform
2 10 (8.13%) PySpark
3 9 (7.32%) React
4 7 (5.69%) Node.js
4 7 (5.69%) REST
5 6 (4.88%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.88%) HTML
6 5 (4.07%) CSS
7 4 (3.25%) Laravel
7 4 (3.25%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.25%) Vue
8 3 (2.44%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.44%) Jest
8 3 (2.44%) LAMP
8 3 (2.44%) pytest
9 2 (1.63%) ADO
9 2 (1.63%) SOAP
9 2 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.88%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.07%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.25%) IoT
5 4 (3.25%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.25%) PKI
5 4 (3.25%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.25%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Windows
2 6 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.07%) Debian
3 5 (4.07%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.81%) CentOS
4 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.03%) AI
2 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.89%) Software Engineering
4 33 (26.83%) Machine Learning
5 29 (23.58%) Agile
6 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (16.26%) Analytics
9 19 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (14.63%) DevOps
11 17 (13.82%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.01%) Observability
13 15 (12.20%) Data Engineering
14 14 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.57%) Computer Science
15 13 (10.57%) Decision-Making
15 13 (10.57%) Test Automation
16 12 (9.76%) Data Science
16 12 (9.76%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.46%) SQL
2 28 (22.76%) C++
3 21 (17.07%) C#
4 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
5 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.20%) Java
7 13 (10.57%) Bash
8 12 (9.76%) PHP
9 10 (8.13%) Go
9 10 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.88%) Julia
11 4 (3.25%) C
11 4 (3.25%) Scala
12 3 (2.44%) Perl
13 2 (1.63%) Bicep
14 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.81%) Groovy
14 1 (0.81%) Rust
14 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Degree
2 21 (17.07%) Master's Degree
3 19 (15.45%) Azure Certification
4 15 (12.20%) PhD
5 11 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.07%) CEH
7 5 (4.07%) CISM
7 5 (4.07%) CISSP
7 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.07%) GIAC
8 4 (3.25%) HND
9 3 (2.44%) CCNA
9 3 (2.44%) CCNP
9 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.81%) HNC
10 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.07%) NIST
3 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (13.01%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.13%) Grafana
3 8 (6.50%) Ansible
3 8 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.07%) Proxmox
5 4 (3.25%) Kibana
6 3 (2.44%) Argo
6 3 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.76%) Databricks
3 6 (4.88%) VMware
4 5 (4.07%) Google
4 5 (4.07%) New Relic
4 5 (4.07%) Qualys
4 5 (4.07%) Splunk
5 4 (3.25%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.25%) Zerto
6 3 (2.44%) Cisco
6 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) EMC
8 1 (0.81%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.81%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.81%) Xilinx