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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 45 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 116 57 206
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.62% 5.00% 11.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.48% 27.67% 34.68%
Number of salaries quoted 83 38 149
10th Percentile £38,920 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

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 438 206 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 17.46% 18.07% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 378 163 354
10th Percentile £38,918 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £69,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 October 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 October 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 42 £66,250 -11.67% 24
Reigate -9 11 £112,500 +200.00% 5
Redhill +13 10 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Staines -6 9 £52,500 - 5
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 7
Woking -17 5 £70,000 -1.75% 18
Camberley - 4 £53,750 - 2
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 7 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.45%) Apache
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.72%) R Markdown
4 2 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.83%) AWS
2 39 (33.62%) Azure
3 16 (13.79%) GitHub
4 15 (12.93%) GCP
5 12 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.17%) Azure AI
8 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.45%) dbt
10 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.79%) VPN
2 13 (11.21%) Firewall
3 10 (8.62%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.90%) VoIP
5 7 (6.03%) DNS
6 4 (3.45%) LAN
6 4 (3.45%) Network Security
6 4 (3.45%) WAN
7 3 (2.59%) BGP
7 3 (2.59%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.59%) IPsec
7 3 (2.59%) MPLS
7 3 (2.59%) Multicast
7 3 (2.59%) OSPF
8 2 (1.72%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.86%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.86%) Broadband
9 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.86%) RS-232
9 1 (0.86%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) MySQL
2 8 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.03%) Power BI
4 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.45%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.59%) Tableau
7 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.72%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.72%) Redis
7 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.86%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) Git
2 11 (9.48%) JIRA
3 6 (5.17%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.45%) Selenium
6 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.59%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.72%) MSI
7 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.86%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.86%) JUnit
8 1 (0.86%) MLflow
8 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.86%) Subversion
8 1 (0.86%) TestNG
8 1 (0.86%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.62%) Finance
4 9 (7.76%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Retail
6 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.45%) Games
8 3 (2.59%) Legal
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.86%) Electronics
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (24.14%) Senior
2 19 (16.38%) Developer
3 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Analyst
4 12 (10.34%) Python Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Administrator
5 11 (9.48%) Systems Administrator
6 10 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.76%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps Administrator
8 8 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Junior
9 7 (6.03%) Security Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.59%) Terraform
2 9 (7.76%) PySpark
2 9 (7.76%) React
3 7 (6.03%) Node.js
4 6 (5.17%) FastAPI
4 6 (5.17%) HTML
4 6 (5.17%) REST
5 5 (4.31%) CSS
6 4 (3.45%) Laravel
6 4 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.45%) Vue
7 3 (2.59%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (2.59%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.59%) Jest
7 3 (2.59%) LAMP
7 3 (2.59%) pytest
8 2 (1.72%) Faiss
8 2 (1.72%) OpenTofu
8 2 (1.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.17%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (4.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.45%) IoT
6 4 (3.45%) PKI
6 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.86%) FPGA
9 1 (0.86%) Robotics
9 1 (0.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.76%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Windows
2 6 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.31%) Debian
3 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.41%) AI
2 44 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.72%) Software Engineering
4 27 (23.28%) Machine Learning
5 26 (22.41%) Agile
6 23 (19.83%) Analytics
6 23 (19.83%) DevOps
6 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (16.38%) Mentoring
10 17 (14.66%) Observability
11 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
12 14 (12.07%) Cloud Security
13 13 (11.21%) Data Engineering
13 13 (11.21%) DevSecOps
14 12 (10.34%) Computer Science
14 12 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.41%) SQL
2 24 (20.69%) C++
3 23 (19.83%) Bash
4 19 (16.38%) C#
5 16 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.07%) Java
6 14 (12.07%) PowerShell
7 13 (11.21%) Go
8 11 (9.48%) PHP
9 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.31%) Julia
11 4 (3.45%) C
12 2 (1.72%) Bicep
12 2 (1.72%) Perl
12 2 (1.72%) R
12 2 (1.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.86%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (25.86%) Degree
2 17 (14.66%) Master's Degree
3 14 (12.07%) PhD
4 10 (8.62%) Azure Certification
4 10 (8.62%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.76%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.03%) CISSP
7 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.31%) CEH
8 5 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.31%) CISM
8 5 (4.31%) GIAC
8 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.45%) HND
10 3 (2.59%) CCNA
10 3 (2.59%) CCNP
10 3 (2.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (8.62%) NIST
2 8 (6.90%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (17.24%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Firmware
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (32.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.79%) Ansible
3 13 (11.21%) Grafana
4 11 (9.48%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.90%) Proxmox
6 5 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.45%) Kibana
8 3 (2.59%) Argo
8 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) Databricks
3 9 (7.76%) VMware
4 7 (6.03%) Google
5 5 (4.31%) New Relic
5 5 (4.31%) Qualys
5 5 (4.31%) Splunk
6 4 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.45%) Zerto
7 3 (2.59%) Cisco
7 3 (2.59%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.86%) EMC
9 1 (0.86%) Lattice Semiconductor
9 1 (0.86%) Xilinx