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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -25 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 124 62 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.29% 5.26% 10.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.19% 28.18% 35.90%
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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 456 220 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 19.45% 18.66% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 391 172 379
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £38,250
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 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,000
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 7 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 7 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 +9 49 £80,000 +23.08% 19
Redhill - 14 £55,000 - 1
Reigate -3 11 £112,500 - 3
Staines -5 8 £50,000 - 5
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 1
Woking -24 3 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 2
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 1
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
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 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.90%) AWS
2 45 (36.29%) Azure
3 16 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.10%) Azure AI
5 13 (10.48%) GCP
6 12 (9.68%) GitHub
7 10 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.03%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.42%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 3 (2.42%) Prefect
14 3 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) VPN
2 8 (6.45%) VoIP
3 6 (4.84%) Firewall
4 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.23%) Broadband
5 4 (3.23%) LAN
5 4 (3.23%) Network Security
5 4 (3.23%) WAN
6 3 (2.42%) BGP
6 3 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.42%) DNS
6 3 (2.42%) IPsec
6 3 (2.42%) MPLS
6 3 (2.42%) Multicast
6 3 (2.42%) OSPF
7 1 (0.81%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.81%) HTTP
7 1 (0.81%) RS-232
7 1 (0.81%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Power BI
2 10 (8.06%) MySQL
3 9 (7.26%) Tableau
4 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.61%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.61%) 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 (17.74%) Git
2 11 (8.87%) JIRA
3 7 (5.65%) GitLab
4 5 (4.03%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.23%) Selenium
6 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.42%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.42%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.61%) MSI
7 2 (1.61%) 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 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.65%) Finance
4 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.84%) Retail
5 5 (4.03%) Games
5 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.42%) 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 28 (22.58%) Senior
2 20 (16.13%) Developer
2 20 (16.13%) Software Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) Analyst
3 16 (12.90%) Python Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Junior
5 12 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Data Analyst
5 12 (9.68%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (9.68%) Python Software Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Administrator
7 9 (7.26%) Junior Data Analyst
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Systems Administrator
8 8 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.84%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.16%) Terraform
2 10 (8.06%) PySpark
3 9 (7.26%) React
4 7 (5.65%) Node.js
4 7 (5.65%) REST
5 6 (4.84%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.84%) HTML
6 5 (4.03%) CSS
7 4 (3.23%) Laravel
7 4 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.23%) Vue
8 3 (2.42%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.42%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.42%) Jest
8 3 (2.42%) LAMP
8 3 (2.42%) pytest
9 2 (1.61%) ADO
9 2 (1.61%) SOAP
9 2 (1.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.65%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.84%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.23%) IoT
5 4 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.23%) PKI
5 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.39%) Linux
2 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.03%) Debian
3 5 (4.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.81%) CentOS
4 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.42%) AI
2 40 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.65%) Software Engineering
4 33 (26.61%) Machine Learning
5 29 (23.39%) Agile
6 24 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.94%) Analytics
7 21 (16.94%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (15.32%) DevOps
8 19 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
9 17 (13.71%) Observability
10 15 (12.10%) Data Engineering
11 14 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.48%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.68%) Data Science
13 12 (9.68%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.23%) SQL
2 28 (22.58%) C++
3 21 (16.94%) C#
4 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
5 16 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.10%) Java
7 14 (11.29%) Bash
8 12 (9.68%) PHP
9 11 (8.87%) Go
10 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.84%) Julia
12 4 (3.23%) C
12 4 (3.23%) Scala
13 3 (2.42%) Perl
14 2 (1.61%) Bicep
15 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.81%) Groovy
15 1 (0.81%) Rust
15 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (27.42%) Degree
2 21 (16.94%) Master's Degree
3 19 (15.32%) Azure Certification
4 15 (12.10%) PhD
5 11 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.65%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
8 5 (4.03%) CEH
8 5 (4.03%) CISM
8 5 (4.03%) CISSP
8 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.03%) GIAC
9 4 (3.23%) HND
10 3 (2.42%) CCNA
10 3 (2.42%) CCNP
10 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.81%) HNC
11 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.03%) NIST
3 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.87%) Grafana
3 9 (7.26%) Ansible
3 9 (7.26%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.84%) Proxmox
5 4 (3.23%) Kibana
6 3 (2.42%) Argo
6 3 (2.42%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.61%) Istio
8 1 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Databricks
3 7 (5.65%) VMware
4 5 (4.03%) Google
4 5 (4.03%) New Relic
4 5 (4.03%) Qualys
4 5 (4.03%) Splunk
5 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.23%) Zerto
6 3 (2.42%) Cisco
6 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) EMC
8 1 (0.81%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.81%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.81%) Xilinx