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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -29 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 111 56 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.39% 4.96% 12.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.58% 27.45% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 82 38 144
10th Percentile £38,920 £38,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.04% +2.73%
75th Percentile £79,375 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%

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 434 204 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 17.16% 18.09% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 373 162 354
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £35,105
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £95,000 £69,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -2.61%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 0 39 £62,500 -16.67% 25
Reigate -11 11 £112,500 +200.00% 1
Staines -5 9 £52,500 - 6
Redhill +5 8 £52,500 +16.67% 2
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 4
Woking -21 5 £70,000 -1.75% 14
Camberley - 4 £53,750 - 2
Esher -2 1 £62,500 -3.85% 1
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 7 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.80%) R Markdown
4 2 (1.80%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.75%) AWS
2 38 (34.23%) Azure
3 17 (15.32%) GitHub
4 16 (14.41%) GCP
5 12 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.50%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.60%) dbt
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.41%) VPN
2 14 (12.61%) Firewall
3 11 (9.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.21%) DNS
5 7 (6.31%) VoIP
6 4 (3.60%) LAN
6 4 (3.60%) WAN
7 3 (2.70%) Network Security
8 2 (1.80%) BGP
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.80%) IPsec
8 2 (1.80%) MPLS
8 2 (1.80%) Multicast
8 2 (1.80%) OSPF
8 2 (1.80%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.90%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.90%) Broadband
9 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.90%) RS-232
9 1 (0.90%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) MySQL
2 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.41%) Power BI
4 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.60%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.80%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.80%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.80%) Redis
6 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (19.82%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) JIRA
3 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.50%) GitLab
4 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.60%) Selenium
5 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.70%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.80%) MSI
6 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.90%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.90%) JUnit
7 1 (0.90%) MLflow
7 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.90%) Subversion
7 1 (0.90%) TestNG
7 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Finance
4 9 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Retail
6 4 (3.60%) Games
6 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.70%) Legal
8 2 (1.80%) Marketing
8 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Senior
2 19 (17.12%) Developer
3 12 (10.81%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Administrator
4 11 (9.91%) Analyst
4 11 (9.91%) Python Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Systems Administrator
5 10 (9.01%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.01%) Lead
5 10 (9.01%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (7.21%) Security Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 7 (6.31%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Data Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.63%) Terraform
2 10 (9.01%) PySpark
3 9 (8.11%) React
4 7 (6.31%) Node.js
5 6 (5.41%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.41%) HTML
5 6 (5.41%) REST
6 5 (4.50%) CSS
7 4 (3.60%) Laravel
7 4 (3.60%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.60%) Vue
8 3 (2.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.70%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.70%) Jest
8 3 (2.70%) LAMP
8 3 (2.70%) Pulumi
8 3 (2.70%) pytest
9 2 (1.80%) ADO
9 2 (1.80%) SOAP
9 2 (1.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (7.21%) Private Cloud
3 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (4.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.60%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.60%) IoT
6 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.60%) PKI
6 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.70%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.90%) FPGA
9 1 (0.90%) Robotics
9 1 (0.90%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 38 (34.23%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Windows
2 6 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.50%) Debian
3 5 (4.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) AI
2 45 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 29 (26.13%) Software Engineering
4 26 (23.42%) Machine Learning
5 25 (22.52%) Agile
5 25 (22.52%) Analytics
6 24 (21.62%) DevOps
6 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (19.82%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (18.02%) Mentoring
10 18 (16.22%) Observability
11 15 (13.51%) Cloud Security
11 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.51%) Data Engineering
11 15 (13.51%) Decision-Making
12 14 (12.61%) DevSecOps
13 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
14 12 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.62%) Bash
1 24 (21.62%) SQL
2 22 (19.82%) C++
3 18 (16.22%) C#
4 16 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.61%) Java
6 13 (11.71%) Go
6 13 (11.71%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.91%) PHP
8 9 (8.11%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.50%) Julia
10 4 (3.60%) C
11 3 (2.70%) Bicep
12 2 (1.80%) Perl
12 2 (1.80%) R
12 2 (1.80%) Scala
13 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.90%) Groovy
13 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (25.23%) Degree
2 15 (13.51%) Master's Degree
3 13 (11.71%) PhD
4 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
5 9 (8.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.31%) CISSP
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.50%) CEH
8 5 (4.50%) CISM
8 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.50%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.50%) GIAC
9 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.60%) HND
10 3 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.80%) CCNA
11 2 (1.80%) CCNP
11 2 (1.80%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (9.91%) NIST
2 8 (7.21%) QA
3 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.90%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.32%) Ansible
3 13 (11.71%) Grafana
4 11 (9.91%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.21%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.60%) Kibana
8 3 (2.70%) Argo
9 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.80%) Istio
10 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.61%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) VMware
4 8 (7.21%) Google
5 5 (4.50%) New Relic
5 5 (4.50%) Qualys
5 5 (4.50%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.60%) Zerto
7 2 (1.80%) Cisco
7 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.90%) EMC
8 1 (0.90%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.90%) Xilinx