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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 160 89 218
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.04% 8.98% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 35.60% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 105 66 172
10th Percentile £34,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 410 250 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.59% 25.23% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 329 200 564
10th Percentile £39,950 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -6.78%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +11 60 £62,500 -5.66% 8
Redhill - 22 £45,000 - 5
Reigate +2 12 £85,000 - 1
Staines +2 12 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Woking -4 11 £42,500 -48.48% 4
Epsom -15 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 -
Leatherhead - 2 - - 2
Esher +1 1 £62,500 -
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 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.13%) Apache
4 4 (2.50%) IIS
5 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.13%) Azure
2 41 (25.63%) AWS
3 35 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.75%) Azure AI
5 18 (11.25%) SaaS
6 15 (9.38%) GitHub
7 14 (8.75%) GCP
8 12 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (6.88%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.88%) Snowflake
10 10 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.00%) Mimecast
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.50%) Prefect
13 3 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.88%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.88%) VPN
2 10 (6.25%) HTTP
2 10 (6.25%) VoIP
3 9 (5.63%) DNS
4 8 (5.00%) Firewall
5 7 (4.38%) Broadband
6 3 (1.88%) BGP
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.88%) IPsec
6 3 (1.88%) LAN
6 3 (1.88%) MPLS
6 3 (1.88%) Multicast
6 3 (1.88%) Network Security
6 3 (1.88%) OSPF
6 3 (1.88%) RTP
6 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.88%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.88%) WAN
6 3 (1.88%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.00%) Power BI
2 22 (13.75%) Tableau
3 21 (13.13%) MySQL
4 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.13%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.50%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.50%) Big Data
9 4 (2.50%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.25%) Impala
10 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.25%) Parquet
10 2 (1.25%) Redis
10 2 (1.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) GitLab
3 7 (4.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.25%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.25%) MSI
6 2 (1.25%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) TestNG
7 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
3 16 (10.00%) Retail
4 8 (5.00%) Games
5 6 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.13%) Marketing
6 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (21.25%) Senior
2 32 (20.00%) Analyst
3 26 (16.25%) Data Analyst
4 23 (14.38%) Software Engineer
5 22 (13.75%) Developer
5 22 (13.75%) Python Engineer
6 16 (10.00%) Junior
6 16 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (10.00%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (9.38%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.63%) Administrator
10 9 (5.63%) Lead
10 9 (5.63%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.63%) React
1 9 (5.63%) REST
2 8 (5.00%) HTML
2 8 (5.00%) JSON
2 8 (5.00%) XML
3 7 (4.38%) CSS
4 6 (3.75%) FastAPI
4 6 (3.75%) Flask
4 6 (3.75%) Node.js
4 6 (3.75%) PySpark
4 6 (3.75%) pytest
5 4 (2.50%) Django
5 4 (2.50%) Laravel
5 4 (2.50%) Play Framework
5 4 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (2.50%) Vue
6 3 (1.88%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (1.88%) OAuth
6 3 (1.88%) Spring
6 3 (1.88%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.75%) Onboarding
2 13 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.50%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.63%) IoT
10 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.63%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) CentOS
2 7 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.50%) Debian
4 2 (1.25%) Windows
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.38%) AI
2 39 (24.38%) Agile
3 37 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.88%) Machine Learning
6 33 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 20 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 19 (11.88%) Computer Science
9 19 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (10.63%) Analytics
12 16 (10.00%) Data Science
12 16 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 16 (10.00%) ETL
12 16 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 14 (8.75%) DevOps
13 14 (8.75%) Mathematics
13 14 (8.75%) Validation
14 13 (8.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.13%) SQL
2 29 (18.13%) C++
3 28 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.25%) Java
5 17 (10.63%) PHP
6 14 (8.75%) Bash
6 14 (8.75%) C#
6 14 (8.75%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.50%) Go
8 10 (6.25%) Scala
9 9 (5.63%) Perl
10 8 (5.00%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.38%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.75%) C
13 5 (3.13%) R
14 4 (2.50%) Julia
15 3 (1.88%) VBA
16 2 (1.25%) Groovy
17 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (23.13%) Degree
2 27 (16.88%) Master's Degree
3 25 (15.63%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (9.38%) PhD
6 9 (5.63%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.50%) MBA
10 3 (1.88%) CCNA
10 3 (1.88%) CCNP
10 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.25%) CISM
11 2 (1.25%) CISSP
11 2 (1.25%) HND
12 1 (0.63%) CEH
12 1 (0.63%) GIAC
12 1 (0.63%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.88%) QA
4 10 (6.25%) GDPR
5 4 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.88%) SLA
7 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) NIST
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (8.75%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.88%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.13%) Terraform
3 11 (6.88%) Ansible
4 10 (6.25%) Grafana
4 10 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.00%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.75%) Argo
7 3 (1.88%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.63%) CASB
8 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.63%) Databricks
2 9 (5.63%) Oracle
2 9 (5.63%) VMware
3 8 (5.00%) Veeam
4 7 (4.38%) BT
4 7 (4.38%) Informatica
5 6 (3.75%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.75%) Google
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco
6 3 (1.88%) Mitel
7 2 (1.25%) New Relic
7 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.25%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.63%) EMC
8 1 (0.63%) Qualys
8 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.63%) Splunk
8 1 (0.63%) Zerto