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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 44 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 126 55 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.06% 4.77% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.75% 26.96% 34.77%
Number of salaries quoted 91 35 151
10th Percentile £38,920 £42,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +16.07% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 454 204 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.22% 17.68% 31.32%
Number of salaries quoted 393 160 361
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
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% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +3 47 £70,000 - 26
Redhill +14 13 £55,000 +46.67% 6
Reigate -5 11 £112,500 +200.00% 4
Staines -4 9 £52,500 - 6
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 2
Woking -19 4 £70,000 -12.50% 24
Camberley - 4 £53,750 - 2
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
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 8 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Apache
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 51 (40.48%) AWS
2 42 (33.33%) Azure
3 15 (11.90%) GitHub
4 14 (11.11%) GCP
4 14 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.73%) Azure AI
6 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.32%) VPN
2 10 (7.94%) Firewall
3 8 (6.35%) VoIP
4 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.17%) DNS
5 4 (3.17%) LAN
5 4 (3.17%) Network Security
5 4 (3.17%) WAN
6 3 (2.38%) BGP
6 3 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.38%) IPsec
6 3 (2.38%) MPLS
6 3 (2.38%) Multicast
6 3 (2.38%) OSPF
7 2 (1.59%) Broadband
8 1 (0.79%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.79%) RS-232
8 1 (0.79%) RS-485
8 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) MySQL
2 9 (7.14%) Power BI
3 8 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.97%) Tableau
6 4 (3.17%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.59%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.59%) Redis
9 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (19.05%) Git
2 11 (8.73%) JIRA
3 7 (5.56%) GitLab
4 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.17%) Selenium
6 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.38%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.59%) MSI
7 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.79%) JUnit
8 1 (0.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.79%) Subversion
8 1 (0.79%) TestNG
8 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.94%) Finance
4 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.56%) Retail
5 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.17%) Games
7 3 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 29 (23.02%) Senior
2 19 (15.08%) Developer
2 19 (15.08%) Software Engineer
3 14 (11.11%) Analyst
3 14 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Administrator
5 11 (8.73%) Systems Administrator
6 10 (7.94%) C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Data Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Lead
6 10 (7.94%) Python Software Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.14%) Junior
8 8 (6.35%) DevOps Administrator
8 8 (6.35%) Junior Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.02%) Terraform
2 9 (7.14%) PySpark
2 9 (7.14%) React
3 7 (5.56%) HTML
3 7 (5.56%) Node.js
4 6 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 6 (4.76%) REST
5 5 (3.97%) CSS
6 4 (3.17%) Laravel
6 4 (3.17%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.17%) Vue
7 3 (2.38%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (2.38%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.38%) Jest
7 3 (2.38%) LAMP
7 3 (2.38%) pytest
8 2 (1.59%) SOAP
8 2 (1.59%) Spring
8 2 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.35%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.97%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.17%) IoT
6 4 (3.17%) PKI
6 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.78%) Linux
2 6 (4.76%) Windows
2 6 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.97%) Debian
3 5 (3.97%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.21%) AI
2 44 (34.92%) CI/CD
3 36 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 30 (23.81%) Machine Learning
5 28 (22.22%) Agile
6 23 (18.25%) Analytics
6 23 (18.25%) DevOps
6 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 18 (14.29%) Observability
9 15 (11.90%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.32%) Data Engineering
11 13 (10.32%) Data Science
12 12 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (9.52%) Cloud Security
12 12 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.60%) SQL
2 28 (22.22%) C++
3 20 (15.87%) Bash
3 20 (15.87%) C#
4 17 (13.49%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.49%) PowerShell
5 16 (12.70%) Java
6 14 (11.11%) Go
7 11 (8.73%) PHP
8 10 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.97%) C
9 5 (3.97%) Julia
10 4 (3.17%) Scala
11 2 (1.59%) Bicep
11 2 (1.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.79%) R
12 1 (0.79%) Rust
12 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (26.98%) Degree
2 20 (15.87%) Master's Degree
3 15 (11.90%) Azure Certification
3 15 (11.90%) PhD
4 9 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.76%) CISSP
6 6 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.97%) CEH
7 5 (3.97%) CISM
7 5 (3.97%) GIAC
8 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.17%) HND
9 3 (2.38%) CCNA
9 3 (2.38%) CCNP
9 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.79%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) QA
2 7 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.56%) NIST
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.32%) Ansible
2 13 (10.32%) Grafana
3 11 (8.73%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.35%) Proxmox
5 4 (3.17%) Kibana
6 3 (2.38%) Argo
6 3 (2.38%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.59%) Istio
7 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Databricks
3 9 (7.14%) VMware
4 5 (3.97%) Google
4 5 (3.97%) New Relic
4 5 (3.97%) Qualys
4 5 (3.97%) Splunk
5 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.17%) Zerto
6 3 (2.38%) Cisco
6 3 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.59%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.79%) EMC
8 1 (0.79%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 1 (0.79%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.79%) Xilinx