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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 85 158 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.83% 13.86% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.95% 36.66% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 59 117 103
10th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £56,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -

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 258 431 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 14.66% 37.81% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 204 262 408
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £50,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,063 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £80,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 February 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 February 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 20 £62,500 -7.41% 13
Redhill +9 15 £35,000 -54.55% 7
Woking +2 10 £42,500 -46.88% 3
Reigate +5 9 £37,500 -44.44% 2
Staines -1 5 £47,500 -26.92% 2
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 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.53%) CATIA
3 3 (3.53%) Siemens NX
3 3 (3.53%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (3.53%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.71%) Power Platform
2 18 (21.18%) Azure
3 15 (17.65%) SaaS
4 13 (15.29%) AWS
5 11 (12.94%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.76%) Mimecast
7 8 (9.41%) Azure AI
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.35%) GCP
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
1 7 (8.24%) HTTP
2 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.06%) Wireless
3 5 (5.88%) DNS
3 5 (5.88%) VPN
4 3 (3.53%) RTP
4 3 (3.53%) Unified Communications
4 3 (3.53%) VoIP
4 3 (3.53%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.71%) Power BI
2 16 (18.82%) Tableau
3 10 (11.76%) MySQL
4 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (5.88%) Big Data
7 5 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
7 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.18%) FileMaker
8 1 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.18%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) Xcode
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (18.82%) Retail
4 10 (11.76%) Finance
5 6 (7.06%) Marketing
5 6 (7.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.88%) Law
7 4 (4.71%) Games
8 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Analyst
2 15 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 13 (15.29%) Support Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) Senior
5 10 (11.76%) Help Desk Technician
6 8 (9.41%) Junior
6 8 (9.41%) Junior Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Junior Data Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Linux Support
6 8 (9.41%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) IT Support
8 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Python Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) SQL Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) SQL Data Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) SSRS Analyst
9 5 (5.88%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) JSON
1 6 (7.06%) XML
2 5 (5.88%) Play Framework
3 4 (4.71%) CSS
3 4 (4.71%) Django
3 4 (4.71%) Flask
4 3 (3.53%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (3.53%) HTML
4 3 (3.53%) Jinja
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.53%) pytest
4 3 (3.53%) REST
4 3 (3.53%) RFC 2833
4 3 (3.53%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (3.53%) WebRTC
5 2 (2.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.35%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.06%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.06%) Video\Live Streaming
3 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.71%) Video on Demand
4 4 (4.71%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Windows
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.41%) CentOS
4 8 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.88%) Unix
6 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) AI
2 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (24.71%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
5 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
6 10 (11.76%) Agile
6 10 (11.76%) Data Modelling
6 10 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 9 (10.59%) Analytics
7 9 (10.59%) Data Science
7 9 (10.59%) Mathematics
7 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
7 9 (10.59%) Operations Research
7 9 (10.59%) Visualisation
8 8 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
8 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
8 8 (9.41%) ETL
8 8 (9.41%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.24%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.24%) SQL
2 27 (31.76%) PowerShell
3 13 (15.29%) Bash
4 9 (10.59%) Java
4 9 (10.59%) Perl
5 8 (9.41%) R
6 7 (8.24%) C++
7 6 (7.06%) C
7 6 (7.06%) Go
7 6 (7.06%) Scala
7 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.71%) PHP
8 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.53%) Julia
9 3 (3.53%) VBA
10 2 (2.35%) C#
11 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.88%) MBA
5 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) PhD
7 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.76%) GDPR
2 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (4.71%) QA
5 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Docker
3 3 (3.53%) Kamailio
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Ansible
2 5 (5.88%) Grafana
2 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 5 (5.88%) Proxmox
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Argo
4 1 (1.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Veeam
3 8 (9.41%) BT
3 8 (9.41%) Oracle
4 6 (7.06%) Informatica
4 6 (7.06%) VMware
5 5 (5.88%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.53%) Mitel
7 1 (1.18%) Samsung
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Typelevel