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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 146 73 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.49% 6.37% 9.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.33% 28.74% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 100 47 157
10th Percentile £38,278 £45,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,500 £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 466 254 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.73% 22.16% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 399 202 424
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,145 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.87% +2.08% -8.33%

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 1 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 1 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 +11 54 £80,000 +39.13% 8
Redhill - 17 £52,500 - 1
Reigate 0 13 £98,750 - 1
Staines +2 10 £50,000 - 1
Woking -16 8 £52,750 -34.06% 8
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 -
Epsom -17 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Camberley - 1 £52,500 - 1
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 11 (7.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.11%) Apache
4 5 (3.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.67%) Azure
2 46 (31.51%) AWS
3 26 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.70%) Azure AI
5 16 (10.96%) GCP
6 11 (7.53%) GitHub
6 11 (7.53%) SaaS
7 10 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.16%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.79%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.11%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.74%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.74%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) VoIP
2 7 (4.79%) VPN
3 6 (4.11%) DNS
4 5 (3.42%) Broadband
4 5 (3.42%) HTTP
5 4 (2.74%) Firewall
5 4 (2.74%) LAN
5 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.74%) WAN
6 3 (2.05%) BGP
6 3 (2.05%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.05%) IPsec
6 3 (2.05%) MPLS
6 3 (2.05%) Multicast
6 3 (2.05%) Network Security
6 3 (2.05%) OSPF
7 1 (0.68%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.68%) RTP
7 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.38%) Power BI
2 16 (10.96%) MySQL
2 16 (10.96%) Tableau
3 12 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.16%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.05%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.37%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.37%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.37%) Impala
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.37%) Parquet
9 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (18.49%) Git
2 10 (6.85%) JIRA
3 9 (6.16%) GitLab
4 5 (3.42%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.74%) Selenium
5 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.05%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.37%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.37%) MSI
7 2 (1.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) TestNG
8 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.16%) Finance
4 7 (4.79%) Games
4 7 (4.79%) Retail
5 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Banking
8 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Electronics
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 29 (19.86%) Senior
2 25 (17.12%) Analyst
3 24 (16.44%) Software Engineer
4 21 (14.38%) Developer
4 21 (14.38%) Python Engineer
5 19 (13.01%) Data Analyst
6 18 (12.33%) Junior
7 17 (11.64%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (10.27%) C++ Software Engineer
8 15 (10.27%) Python Software Engineer
9 14 (9.59%) Data Engineer
9 14 (9.59%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (7.53%) Lead
12 9 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.79%) Administrator
13 7 (4.79%) Systems Administrator
14 6 (4.11%) Python Developer
14 6 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
14 6 (4.11%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.22%) PySpark
2 10 (6.85%) React
3 8 (5.48%) REST
4 7 (4.79%) Node.js
5 6 (4.11%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.42%) HTML
7 4 (2.74%) CSS
7 4 (2.74%) JSON
7 4 (2.74%) Laravel
7 4 (2.74%) pytest
7 4 (2.74%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (2.74%) Vue
7 4 (2.74%) XML
8 3 (2.05%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.05%) Flask
8 3 (2.05%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.05%) Jest
8 3 (2.05%) LAMP
8 3 (2.05%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.42%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.74%) IoT
6 4 (2.74%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.74%) PKI
6 4 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.18%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.42%) Debian
4 4 (2.74%) CentOS
4 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.74%) Windows
4 4 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.95%) AI
2 42 (28.77%) CI/CD
3 40 (27.40%) Software Engineering
4 36 (24.66%) Agile
5 35 (23.97%) Machine Learning
6 31 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (13.01%) Analytics
10 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 17 (11.64%) Data Engineering
11 17 (11.64%) Data Modelling
11 17 (11.64%) DevOps
12 16 (10.96%) Computer Science
13 15 (10.27%) Test Automation
14 14 (9.59%) Observability
14 14 (9.59%) Scrum
15 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (8.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.88%) SQL
2 31 (21.23%) C++
3 23 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.38%) C#
5 18 (12.33%) Java
6 16 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.27%) PHP
8 12 (8.22%) Bash
9 10 (6.85%) TypeScript
10 8 (5.48%) Go
11 6 (4.11%) Perl
12 5 (3.42%) C
12 5 (3.42%) Julia
12 5 (3.42%) Scala
13 4 (2.74%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.68%) Groovy
15 1 (0.68%) Rust
15 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (24.66%) Degree
2 24 (16.44%) Azure Certification
2 24 (16.44%) Master's Degree
3 16 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.96%) PhD
4 7 (4.79%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.74%) CISM
7 4 (2.74%) CISSP
7 4 (2.74%) HND
8 3 (2.05%) CCNA
8 3 (2.05%) CCNP
8 3 (2.05%) CEH
8 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.05%) GIAC
9 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.68%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.53%) QA
2 10 (6.85%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.42%) GDPR
5 3 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.05%) NIST
5 3 (2.05%) SLA
6 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (12.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 26 (17.81%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.44%) Terraform
3 8 (5.48%) Ansible
3 8 (5.48%) Grafana
4 7 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.74%) Argo
5 4 (2.74%) Kibana
5 4 (2.74%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.05%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.68%) CASB
7 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.22%) Databricks
3 6 (4.11%) Google
4 5 (3.42%) VMware
5 4 (2.74%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.74%) New Relic
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 3 (2.05%) Cisco
6 3 (2.05%) Qualys
6 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
6 3 (2.05%) Veeam
6 3 (2.05%) Zerto
7 2 (1.37%) Informatica
7 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) BT
8 1 (0.68%) EMC
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Mitel