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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 82 161 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.68% 14.11% 8.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.41% 37.35% 25.30%
Number of salaries quoted 57 121 102
10th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £56,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 253 431 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 14.45% 37.77% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 201 262 402
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,125 £33,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,125 £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 £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £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 4 February 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 4 February 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 0 18 £62,500 -7.41% 15
Redhill +8 15 £35,000 -54.55% 8
Reigate +5 9 £37,500 -44.44% 4
Woking +2 9 £42,500 -46.88% 3
Staines -3 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 (6.10%) IIS
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.66%) CATIA
3 3 (3.66%) Siemens NX
3 3 (3.66%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (3.66%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.17%) Power Platform
2 16 (19.51%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) SaaS
4 12 (14.63%) AWS
5 11 (13.41%) Snowflake
6 10 (12.20%) Mimecast
7 7 (8.54%) Azure AI
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.44%) GCP
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) HTTP
2 6 (7.32%) Firewall
2 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.32%) Wireless
3 5 (6.10%) DNS
4 4 (4.88%) VPN
5 3 (3.66%) RTP
5 3 (3.66%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.66%) VoIP
5 3 (3.66%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) Power BI
2 15 (18.29%) Tableau
3 9 (10.98%) MySQL
4 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.10%) Big Data
6 5 (6.10%) Data Mining
6 5 (6.10%) Hadoop
6 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) FileMaker
7 1 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.22%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) Xcode
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.29%) Retail
4 10 (12.20%) Finance
5 6 (7.32%) Marketing
5 6 (7.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.10%) Law
7 4 (4.88%) Games
8 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (24.39%) Analyst
2 13 (15.85%) Data Analyst
2 13 (15.85%) Support Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) Help Desk Technician
3 10 (12.20%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Linux Support
4 8 (9.76%) Linux Support Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) IT Support
5 7 (8.54%) Junior
5 7 (8.54%) Junior Analyst
5 7 (8.54%) Junior Data Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Manager
7 5 (6.10%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) JSON
1 5 (6.10%) Play Framework
1 5 (6.10%) XML
2 4 (4.88%) CSS
2 4 (4.88%) Django
2 4 (4.88%) Flask
3 3 (3.66%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (3.66%) HTML
3 3 (3.66%) Jinja
3 3 (3.66%) OAuth
3 3 (3.66%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.66%) pytest
3 3 (3.66%) REST
3 3 (3.66%) RFC 2833
3 3 (3.66%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (3.66%) WebRTC
4 2 (2.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.22%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.32%) Video\Live Streaming
3 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.88%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Video on Demand
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.76%) CentOS
4 8 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.10%) Unix
6 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (31.71%) AI
3 19 (23.17%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (17.07%) Machine Learning
5 10 (12.20%) Agile
5 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.20%) Process Improvement
6 9 (10.98%) Analytics
6 9 (10.98%) Data Modelling
6 9 (10.98%) Data Science
6 9 (10.98%) Mathematics
6 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
6 9 (10.98%) Operations Research
6 9 (10.98%) Visualisation
7 8 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 8 (9.76%) Decision-Making
7 8 (9.76%) ETL
7 8 (9.76%) Test Automation
8 7 (8.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (47.56%) SQL
2 26 (31.71%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.63%) Bash
4 9 (10.98%) Java
4 9 (10.98%) Perl
5 8 (9.76%) R
6 7 (8.54%) C++
7 6 (7.32%) C
7 6 (7.32%) Scala
8 5 (6.10%) Go
8 5 (6.10%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.88%) PHP
9 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.66%) Julia
10 3 (3.66%) VBA
11 2 (2.44%) C#
12 1 (1.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.54%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.10%) MBA
5 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.66%) PhD
7 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) GDPR
2 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
3 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (4.88%) QA
6 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.10%) Docker
3 3 (3.66%) Kamailio
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Ansible
2 4 (4.88%) Grafana
2 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.88%) Proxmox
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Argo
4 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) Veeam
3 8 (9.76%) BT
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle
4 6 (7.32%) Informatica
5 5 (6.10%) Databricks
5 5 (6.10%) VMware
6 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.66%) Mitel
7 1 (1.22%) Samsung
7 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Splunk
7 1 (1.22%) Typelevel