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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 32 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 140 71 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.15% 6.13% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.04% 28.98% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 97 46 154
10th Percentile £38,920 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.04% +2.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,625 £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 466 245 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.47% 21.14% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 399 194 399
10th Percentile £43,200 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,875 £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 10 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 10 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 +8 51 £82,500 +43.48% 10
Redhill - 16 £53,750 -
Reigate -4 13 £98,750 -
Staines +3 10 £50,000 - 3
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 -
Woking -18 5 £67,500 -15.63% 8
Epsom -16 2 - -
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 1
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85% 1
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 11 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.29%) Apache
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.14%) Azure
2 47 (33.57%) AWS
3 20 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.57%) Azure AI
5 16 (11.43%) GCP
6 9 (6.43%) GitHub
7 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.71%) SaaS
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.57%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 4 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) VoIP
2 6 (4.29%) DNS
2 6 (4.29%) VPN
3 5 (3.57%) Broadband
3 5 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.86%) HTTP
4 4 (2.86%) LAN
4 4 (2.86%) WAN
5 3 (2.14%) BGP
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.14%) Firewall
5 3 (2.14%) IPsec
5 3 (2.14%) MPLS
5 3 (2.14%) Multicast
5 3 (2.14%) Network Security
5 3 (2.14%) OSPF
6 1 (0.71%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.71%) RS-232
6 1 (0.71%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.71%) Power BI
1 15 (10.71%) Tableau
2 12 (8.57%) MySQL
3 9 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.14%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.43%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.43%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.43%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.43%) Impala
9 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.43%) Parquet
9 2 (1.43%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.43%) Redis
10 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (18.57%) Git
2 10 (7.14%) JIRA
3 9 (6.43%) GitLab
4 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) Selenium
5 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.14%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.43%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.43%) MSI
7 2 (1.43%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.71%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.71%) JUnit
8 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) TestNG
8 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.00%) Finance
3 7 (5.00%) Games
4 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Retail
5 5 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (1.43%) Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (20.00%) Senior
2 24 (17.14%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.00%) Analyst
3 21 (15.00%) Python Engineer
4 20 (14.29%) Developer
5 17 (12.14%) Junior
6 16 (11.43%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (10.71%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (10.71%) Data Analyst
7 15 (10.71%) Python Software Engineer
8 13 (9.29%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (8.57%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Lead
10 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Administrator
11 6 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (4.29%) Systems Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) PySpark
2 10 (7.14%) React
3 7 (5.00%) Node.js
3 7 (5.00%) REST
4 6 (4.29%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.57%) HTML
6 4 (2.86%) CSS
6 4 (2.86%) Laravel
6 4 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (2.86%) Vue
7 3 (2.14%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (2.14%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.14%) Jest
7 3 (2.14%) LAMP
7 3 (2.14%) pytest
7 3 (2.14%) Spring
8 2 (1.43%) ADO
8 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Algorithms
1 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.29%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.86%) IoT
4 4 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.86%) PKI
4 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Debian
2 5 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 5 (3.57%) Windows
2 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.86%) CentOS
3 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.57%) AI
2 41 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 40 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 36 (25.71%) Agile
5 35 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (13.57%) Analytics
10 18 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 17 (12.14%) Data Engineering
11 17 (12.14%) DevOps
12 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
13 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 14 (10.00%) Observability
14 14 (10.00%) Scrum
15 12 (8.57%) Decision-Making
15 12 (8.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (30.00%) SQL
2 30 (21.43%) C++
3 21 (15.00%) C#
4 20 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 18 (12.86%) Java
6 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.71%) PHP
8 12 (8.57%) Bash
9 10 (7.14%) TypeScript
10 8 (5.71%) Go
11 6 (4.29%) Perl
12 5 (3.57%) Julia
12 5 (3.57%) Scala
13 4 (2.86%) C
14 2 (1.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.71%) Groovy
15 1 (0.71%) Rust
15 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (26.43%) Degree
2 24 (17.14%) Master's Degree
3 23 (16.43%) Azure Certification
4 16 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (11.43%) PhD
5 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.57%) CISM
7 5 (3.57%) CISSP
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.86%) CEH
8 4 (2.86%) GIAC
8 4 (2.86%) HND
9 3 (2.14%) CCNA
9 3 (2.14%) CCNP
9 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.71%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.86%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) NIST
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (17.14%) Terraform
3 8 (5.71%) Grafana
4 7 (5.00%) Ansible
5 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.86%) Kibana
7 3 (2.14%) Argo
7 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.14%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.43%) Istio
9 1 (0.71%) CASB
9 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) Databricks
3 6 (4.29%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) New Relic
4 4 (2.86%) Qualys
4 4 (2.86%) Splunk
4 4 (2.86%) VMware
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco
5 3 (2.14%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.14%) Zerto
6 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle
6 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.43%) Veeam
7 1 (0.71%) EMC
7 1 (0.71%) Foundry
7 1 (0.71%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 1 (0.71%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.71%) Xilinx