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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 127 57 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.28% 4.89% 10.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.79% 27.80% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 91 37 149
10th Percentile £38,920 £40,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 457 205 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.99% 17.60% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 394 160 364
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,375 £37,000
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% -6.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,250
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 16 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 16 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 +4 52 £80,000 +14.29% 33
Redhill +16 13 £55,000 +46.67% 4
Reigate -7 11 £112,500 +200.00% 10
Staines -5 9 £52,500 - 8
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 4
Woking -24 3 £70,000 -12.50% 26
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 3
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 2
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 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.15%) Apache
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.58%) AWS
2 43 (33.86%) Azure
3 16 (12.60%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.02%) GitHub
5 13 (10.24%) Azure AI
5 13 (10.24%) GCP
6 12 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (8.66%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.15%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (2.36%) ChatGPT
13 3 (2.36%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) VPN
2 9 (7.09%) Firewall
3 8 (6.30%) VoIP
4 6 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.15%) LAN
5 4 (3.15%) Network Security
5 4 (3.15%) WAN
6 3 (2.36%) BGP
6 3 (2.36%) Broadband
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.36%) DNS
6 3 (2.36%) IPsec
6 3 (2.36%) MPLS
6 3 (2.36%) Multicast
6 3 (2.36%) OSPF
7 1 (0.79%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.79%) RS-232
7 1 (0.79%) RS-485
7 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) Power BI
2 10 (7.87%) MySQL
3 7 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.51%) Tableau
4 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.57%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.57%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.57%) Redis
7 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Git
2 11 (8.66%) JIRA
3 7 (5.51%) GitLab
4 5 (3.94%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.15%) Selenium
6 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.36%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.57%) MSI
7 2 (1.57%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.79%) JUnit
8 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.79%) Subversion
8 1 (0.79%) TestNG
8 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Finance
4 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.51%) Retail
5 5 (3.94%) Games
5 5 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.36%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (23.62%) Senior
2 21 (16.54%) Software Engineer
3 20 (15.75%) Developer
4 16 (12.60%) Analyst
4 16 (12.60%) Python Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) Data Analyst
5 12 (9.45%) Python Software Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Administrator
6 11 (8.66%) Junior
6 11 (8.66%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Junior Analyst
7 10 (7.87%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (7.09%) Lead
9 8 (6.30%) DevOps Administrator
9 8 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 7 (5.51%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.05%) Terraform
2 10 (7.87%) PySpark
3 9 (7.09%) React
4 7 (5.51%) HTML
4 7 (5.51%) Node.js
4 7 (5.51%) REST
5 6 (4.72%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.94%) CSS
7 4 (3.15%) Laravel
7 4 (3.15%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.15%) Vue
8 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.36%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.36%) Jest
8 3 (2.36%) LAMP
8 3 (2.36%) pytest
9 2 (1.57%) ADO
9 2 (1.57%) SOAP
9 2 (1.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.30%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.72%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.15%) IoT
6 4 (3.15%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.15%) PKI
6 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.79%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.20%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Windows
2 6 (4.72%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.94%) Debian
3 5 (3.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.18%) AI
2 42 (33.07%) CI/CD
3 39 (30.71%) Software Engineering
4 32 (25.20%) Machine Learning
5 28 (22.05%) Agile
6 22 (17.32%) Analytics
6 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (16.54%) DevOps
7 21 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
9 18 (14.17%) Observability
10 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (11.81%) Data Engineering
11 14 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (11.02%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.02%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.24%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.45%) Cloud Security
13 12 (9.45%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.98%) SQL
2 30 (23.62%) C++
3 21 (16.54%) C#
4 17 (13.39%) Bash
4 17 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.39%) PowerShell
5 16 (12.60%) Java
6 13 (10.24%) Go
7 11 (8.66%) PHP
8 10 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.72%) Julia
10 5 (3.94%) C
11 4 (3.15%) Scala
12 2 (1.57%) Bicep
12 2 (1.57%) Perl
13 1 (0.79%) Groovy
13 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (27.56%) Degree
2 21 (16.54%) Master's Degree
3 17 (13.39%) Azure Certification
4 16 (12.60%) PhD
5 11 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.09%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
8 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.94%) CEH
9 5 (3.94%) CISM
9 5 (3.94%) CISSP
9 5 (3.94%) GIAC
10 4 (3.15%) HND
11 3 (2.36%) CCNA
11 3 (2.36%) CCNP
11 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) QA
2 6 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.72%) NIST
3 5 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (13.39%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (25.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.24%) Grafana
3 12 (9.45%) Ansible
4 11 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.30%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.15%) Kibana
7 3 (2.36%) Argo
7 3 (2.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.57%) Istio
9 1 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.45%) Databricks
3 9 (7.09%) VMware
4 5 (3.94%) Google
4 5 (3.94%) New Relic
4 5 (3.94%) Qualys
4 5 (3.94%) Splunk
5 4 (3.15%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.15%) Zerto
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.79%) EMC
8 1 (0.79%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.79%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.79%) Xilinx