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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 72 161 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.25% 13.64% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.03% 36.59% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 51 119 97
10th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £55,625 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,524
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.34% -4.13%

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 232 440 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 13.70% 37.29% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 185 263 367
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £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 £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £80,000
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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -1 15 £62,500 -8.76% 33
Redhill +3 14 £35,000 -54.55% 5
Reigate +5 8 £37,500 -44.44% 3
Woking +1 7 £50,000 -37.50% 19
Staines -2 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 5 (6.94%) IIS
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.17%) CATIA
3 3 (4.17%) Siemens NX
3 3 (4.17%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (4.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) Power Platform
2 13 (18.06%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) SaaS
4 10 (13.89%) AWS
4 10 (13.89%) Snowflake
5 9 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 6 (8.33%) Azure AI
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.39%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) HTTP
1 6 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 6 (8.33%) Wireless
2 5 (6.94%) DNS
2 5 (6.94%) Firewall
3 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (2.78%) RTP
4 2 (2.78%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.78%) VoIP
4 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) Power BI
2 14 (19.44%) Tableau
3 8 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.33%) MySQL
5 5 (6.94%) Big Data
5 5 (6.94%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.94%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.39%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.39%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Retail
4 9 (12.50%) Finance
5 6 (8.33%) Marketing
5 6 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.94%) Law
7 3 (4.17%) Games
7 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Local Government
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Analyst
2 13 (18.06%) Support Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 9 (12.50%) Help Desk Technician
5 8 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Linux Support
5 8 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (9.72%) IT Support
7 6 (8.33%) Junior
7 6 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Junior Data Analyst
8 5 (6.94%) Data Science Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Manager
9 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (5.56%) Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) Play Framework
2 4 (5.56%) CSS
3 3 (4.17%) Django
3 3 (4.17%) Flask
3 3 (4.17%) HTML
3 3 (4.17%) JSON
3 3 (4.17%) XML
4 2 (2.78%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (2.78%) Jinja
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.78%) pytest
4 2 (2.78%) REST
4 2 (2.78%) RFC 2833
4 2 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.78%) WebRTC
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) Kafka
5 1 (1.39%) NumPy
5 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.56%) Video on Demand
4 4 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Windows
3 9 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.11%) CentOS
4 8 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.94%) Unix
6 2 (2.78%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (30.56%) AI
3 15 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 10 (13.89%) Process Improvement
6 9 (12.50%) Agile
6 9 (12.50%) Analytics
6 9 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 9 (12.50%) Operations Research
6 9 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 8 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (9.72%) Data Science
8 7 (9.72%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 7 (9.72%) ETL
8 7 (9.72%) LLM
8 7 (9.72%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) SQL
2 23 (31.94%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.28%) Bash
4 9 (12.50%) Java
4 9 (12.50%) Perl
5 8 (11.11%) R
6 6 (8.33%) C++
7 5 (6.94%) C
7 5 (6.94%) Scala
8 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.56%) PHP
8 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.17%) Go
9 3 (4.17%) Julia
9 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.17%) VBA
10 2 (2.78%) C#
11 1 (1.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Degree
2 10 (13.89%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.94%) MBA
5 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.17%) PhD
7 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) GDPR
2 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.17%) QA
5 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
3 2 (2.78%) Kamailio
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Ansible
2 3 (4.17%) Grafana
2 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.17%) Proxmox
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Veeam
3 7 (9.72%) BT
3 7 (9.72%) Oracle
4 5 (6.94%) Databricks
4 5 (6.94%) Informatica
5 4 (5.56%) VMware
6 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.78%) Mitel
7 1 (1.39%) Samsung
7 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk