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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 164 84 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.57% 7.59% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.89% 32.06% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 111 58 176
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £84,375 £70,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,375 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 470 262 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.70% 23.67% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 395 211 527
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £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 £90,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +13 63 £62,500 +2.04% 10
Redhill - 21 £45,000 -
Woking -10 12 £42,500 -48.48% 9
Staines +4 11 £48,750 -27.78% 1
Reigate -2 11 £85,000 - 4
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 -
Epsom -19 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
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 (6.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.66%) Apache
4 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.98%) Azure
2 45 (27.44%) AWS
3 34 (20.73%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.41%) Azure AI
5 17 (10.37%) GitHub
6 16 (9.76%) SaaS
7 15 (9.15%) GCP
8 14 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (7.93%) Entra ID
10 12 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.66%) Mimecast
12 6 (3.66%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.66%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.44%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.71%) VoIP
1 11 (6.71%) VPN
2 8 (4.88%) Firewall
2 8 (4.88%) HTTP
3 7 (4.27%) Broadband
3 7 (4.27%) DNS
4 4 (2.44%) LAN
4 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.44%) WAN
5 3 (1.83%) BGP
5 3 (1.83%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.83%) IPsec
5 3 (1.83%) MPLS
5 3 (1.83%) Multicast
5 3 (1.83%) Network Security
5 3 (1.83%) OSPF
5 3 (1.83%) RTP
5 3 (1.83%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.83%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.68%) Power BI
2 22 (13.41%) MySQL
3 18 (10.98%) Tableau
4 16 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (7.32%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.27%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.83%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.22%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.22%) Impala
11 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.22%) Parquet
11 2 (1.22%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (15.85%) Git
2 10 (6.10%) JIRA
3 9 (5.49%) GitLab
4 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.22%) MSI
7 2 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.61%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.61%) JUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.61%) TestNG
8 1 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.54%) Retail
4 11 (6.71%) Finance
5 7 (4.27%) Games
6 6 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.22%) Banking
8 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Electronics
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (20.12%) Senior
2 32 (19.51%) Analyst
3 26 (15.85%) Data Analyst
4 25 (15.24%) Developer
5 24 (14.63%) Software Engineer
6 23 (14.02%) Python Engineer
7 19 (11.59%) Junior
8 18 (10.98%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (9.76%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (9.15%) C++ Software Engineer
10 15 (9.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 13 (7.93%) Data Engineer
12 12 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (7.32%) Lead
13 11 (6.71%) Administrator
13 11 (6.71%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (5.49%) Python Developer
15 9 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
16 8 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.10%) PySpark
1 10 (6.10%) React
1 10 (6.10%) REST
2 8 (4.88%) JSON
2 8 (4.88%) XML
3 7 (4.27%) Node.js
4 6 (3.66%) FastAPI
4 6 (3.66%) Flask
4 6 (3.66%) HTML
4 6 (3.66%) pytest
5 5 (3.05%) CSS
6 4 (2.44%) Django
6 4 (2.44%) Laravel
6 4 (2.44%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (2.44%) Vue
7 3 (1.83%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.83%) Jinja
7 3 (1.83%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.83%) RFC 2833
7 3 (1.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.76%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.49%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.88%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.66%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.05%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.44%) IoT
8 4 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.44%) PKI
9 3 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.22%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.34%) Linux
2 8 (4.88%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.05%) CentOS
3 5 (3.05%) Debian
3 5 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.44%) Windows
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (45.12%) AI
2 44 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 39 (23.78%) Software Engineering
4 35 (21.34%) Agile
4 35 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (20.73%) Machine Learning
6 32 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (12.80%) Data Modelling
8 21 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (12.20%) DevOps
10 18 (10.98%) Mentoring
11 17 (10.37%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.76%) Analytics
12 16 (9.76%) Computer Science
12 16 (9.76%) Data Engineering
13 15 (9.15%) Observability
13 15 (9.15%) Validation
14 14 (8.54%) ETL
14 14 (8.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.54%) SQL
2 34 (20.73%) C++
3 30 (18.29%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.98%) C#
5 17 (10.37%) Java
6 16 (9.76%) PHP
7 15 (9.15%) Bash
7 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.32%) Go
9 8 (4.88%) C
9 8 (4.88%) T-SQL
9 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.27%) Perl
11 6 (3.66%) Scala
12 5 (3.05%) Julia
13 2 (1.22%) Bicep
14 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.61%) Groovy
14 1 (0.61%) Rust
14 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (21.95%) Degree
2 26 (15.85%) Azure Certification
3 24 (14.63%) Master's Degree
4 16 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (9.76%) PhD
5 9 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.27%) Security Cleared
7 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.44%) CISM
8 4 (2.44%) CISSP
8 4 (2.44%) HND
9 3 (1.83%) CCNA
9 3 (1.83%) CCNP
9 3 (1.83%) CEH
9 3 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.83%) GIAC
10 2 (1.22%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.32%) QA
4 8 (4.88%) GDPR
5 4 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.83%) NIST
6 3 (1.83%) SLA
7 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (11.59%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.63%) Terraform
3 12 (7.32%) Ansible
4 11 (6.71%) Grafana
4 11 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.88%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.66%) Argo
7 4 (2.44%) Kibana
8 3 (1.83%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.61%) CASB
9 1 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 40 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.49%) Databricks
2 9 (5.49%) VMware
3 6 (3.66%) Fortinet
3 6 (3.66%) Google
3 6 (3.66%) Oracle
3 6 (3.66%) Veeam
4 4 (2.44%) Informatica
4 4 (2.44%) New Relic
5 3 (1.83%) BT
5 3 (1.83%) Cisco
5 3 (1.83%) Mitel
5 3 (1.83%) Qualys
5 3 (1.83%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.83%) Splunk
5 3 (1.83%) Zerto
6 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.22%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.61%) EMC