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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 40 17
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 124 64 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.44% 5.38% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.13% 27.47% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 88 41 153
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £85,313 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 457 233 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.04% 19.58% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 393 185 384
10th Percentile £43,550 £37,500 £36,250
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 £71,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,000 £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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +8 49 £81,250 +25.00% 26
Redhill - 14 £55,000 -
Reigate -5 11 £112,500 - 3
Staines -2 9 £50,000 - 3
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 2
Woking -23 3 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 4
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 (6.45%) 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 46 (37.10%) Azure
2 45 (36.29%) AWS
3 17 (13.71%) Power Platform
4 16 (12.90%) Azure AI
5 13 (10.48%) GCP
6 10 (8.06%) GitHub
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.03%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.23%) SaaS
12 3 (2.42%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (2.42%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) VoIP
2 7 (5.65%) VPN
3 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.23%) Broadband
4 4 (3.23%) DNS
4 4 (3.23%) Firewall
4 4 (3.23%) LAN
4 4 (3.23%) Network Security
4 4 (3.23%) WAN
5 3 (2.42%) BGP
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.42%) IPsec
5 3 (2.42%) MPLS
5 3 (2.42%) Multicast
5 3 (2.42%) OSPF
6 2 (1.61%) HTTP
7 1 (0.81%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.81%) RS-232
7 1 (0.81%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) Power BI
2 10 (8.06%) MySQL
2 10 (8.06%) Tableau
3 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.61%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
7 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 40 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (4.84%) Finance
4 5 (4.03%) Games
4 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.23%) Retail
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 26 (20.97%) Senior
2 21 (16.94%) Software Engineer
3 20 (16.13%) Developer
4 17 (13.71%) Python Engineer
5 16 (12.90%) Analyst
6 14 (11.29%) Junior
7 13 (10.48%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) Junior Analyst
7 13 (10.48%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Data Analyst
9 10 (8.06%) Data Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (7.26%) Lead
11 8 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Administrator
12 7 (5.65%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.84%) Systems Developer
14 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.55%) 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
6 5 (4.03%) HTML
7 4 (3.23%) 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
3 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
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%) Private Cloud
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 28 (22.58%) Linux
2 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.03%) Debian
3 5 (4.03%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.61%) CentOS
4 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.42%) AI
2 39 (31.45%) Software Engineering
3 38 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 34 (27.42%) Machine Learning
5 29 (23.39%) Agile
6 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.94%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (14.52%) Analytics
10 17 (13.71%) DevOps
10 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
11 15 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (12.10%) Data Engineering
11 15 (12.10%) Observability
12 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.48%) Computer Science
13 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making
13 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
14 12 (9.68%) Data Science
14 12 (9.68%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.23%) SQL
2 29 (23.39%) C++
3 21 (16.94%) C#
4 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
5 15 (12.10%) Java
5 15 (12.10%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.48%) PHP
7 12 (9.68%) Bash
8 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
9 9 (7.26%) Go
10 6 (4.84%) Julia
11 4 (3.23%) C
11 4 (3.23%) Perl
11 4 (3.23%) Scala
12 2 (1.61%) Bicep
13 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.81%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Rust
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (27.42%) Degree
2 22 (17.74%) Master's Degree
3 20 (16.13%) Azure Certification
4 16 (12.90%) PhD
5 12 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.03%) CEH
7 5 (4.03%) CISM
7 5 (4.03%) CISSP
7 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.03%) GIAC
8 4 (3.23%) HND
9 3 (2.42%) CCNA
9 3 (2.42%) CCNP
9 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.81%) HNC
10 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.26%) Grafana
3 7 (5.65%) Ansible
3 7 (5.65%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.23%) Kibana
4 4 (3.23%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.42%) Argo
5 3 (2.42%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.61%) Istio
7 1 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Databricks
3 5 (4.03%) Google
3 5 (4.03%) New Relic
3 5 (4.03%) Qualys
3 5 (4.03%) Splunk
3 5 (4.03%) VMware
4 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.23%) Zerto
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco
5 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.81%) EMC
7 1 (0.81%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 1 (0.81%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.81%) Xilinx