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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 11 25
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 113 127 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.69% 13.55% 7.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.87% 39.69% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 75 100 122
10th Percentile £32,500 £53,750 £43,875
25th Percentile £38,125 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +14.58% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £57,774
% change year-on-year -8.40% +13.37% -6.36%

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 315 320 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 15.86% 34.15% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 246 241 480
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £33,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +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 24 March 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 24 March 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 32 £62,500 -7.41% 15
Redhill +9 18 £35,000 -55.41% 3
Woking +2 12 £42,500 -46.88% 3
Reigate +5 10 £85,000 +25.93% 2
Staines -3 8 £47,500 -26.92%
Epsom -9 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 -
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 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.42%) IIS
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.65%) CATIA
3 3 (2.65%) Siemens NX
3 3 (2.65%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (2.65%) Windchill
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.43%) Azure
1 31 (27.43%) Power Platform
2 21 (18.58%) SaaS
3 20 (17.70%) AWS
4 15 (13.27%) Azure AI
5 13 (11.50%) Mimecast
6 12 (10.62%) Snowflake
7 10 (8.85%) GitHub
7 10 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.08%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.31%) GCP
11 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 1 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) HTTP
2 9 (7.96%) DNS
3 8 (7.08%) Firewall
4 7 (6.19%) VPN
5 5 (4.42%) Broadband
5 5 (4.42%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.54%) Wireless
7 3 (2.65%) RTP
7 3 (2.65%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.65%) VoIP
7 3 (2.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.43%) Power BI
2 23 (20.35%) Tableau
3 12 (10.62%) MySQL
4 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (6.19%) MongoDB
7 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.42%) Big Data
9 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
9 5 (4.42%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.77%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.77%) Impala
10 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.77%) Parquet
10 2 (1.77%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
2 2 (1.77%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.70%) Retail
4 13 (11.50%) Finance
5 7 (6.19%) Games
5 7 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (5.31%) Marketing
7 4 (3.54%) Law
8 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (29.20%) Analyst
2 24 (21.24%) Data Analyst
3 19 (16.81%) Senior
4 16 (14.16%) Support Engineer
5 15 (13.27%) Junior
5 15 (13.27%) Junior Analyst
5 15 (13.27%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (11.50%) Help Desk Technician
7 12 (10.62%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (10.62%) Linux Support
7 12 (10.62%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (9.73%) Python Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (7.08%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (7.08%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (7.08%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (7.08%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (6.19%) Administrator
10 7 (6.19%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 7 (6.19%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) JSON
1 8 (7.08%) XML
2 5 (4.42%) Play Framework
3 4 (3.54%) Django
3 4 (3.54%) Flask
3 4 (3.54%) REST
4 3 (2.65%) CSS
4 3 (2.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (2.65%) HTML
4 3 (2.65%) Jinja
4 3 (2.65%) OAuth
4 3 (2.65%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.65%) pytest
4 3 (2.65%) RFC 2833
4 3 (2.65%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (2.65%) WebRTC
5 2 (1.77%) PySpark
6 1 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.88%) LangChain
6 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.96%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.19%) Private Cloud
4 7 (6.19%) Video\Live Streaming
5 6 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.54%) Video on Demand
6 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.35%) Linux
2 12 (10.62%) CentOS
2 12 (10.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.08%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.54%) Unix
5 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.17%) AI
2 34 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (27.43%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (15.93%) Agile
5 17 (15.04%) Machine Learning
6 16 (14.16%) CI/CD
7 15 (13.27%) Data Modelling
8 12 (10.62%) ETL
9 11 (9.73%) Analytics
9 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
9 11 (9.73%) Test Automation
9 11 (9.73%) Validation
10 10 (8.85%) Cloud Security
10 10 (8.85%) Mathematics
10 10 (8.85%) Roadmaps
11 9 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (7.96%) Computer Science
11 9 (7.96%) Data Validation
11 9 (7.96%) Operations Research
11 9 (7.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (46.02%) SQL
2 30 (26.55%) PowerShell
3 15 (13.27%) Bash
4 12 (10.62%) Perl
5 10 (8.85%) C++
5 10 (8.85%) Java
6 9 (7.96%) Go
7 8 (7.08%) PHP
7 8 (7.08%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.19%) Scala
9 6 (5.31%) R
10 5 (4.42%) C
11 4 (3.54%) C#
11 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
11 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.65%) Julia
12 3 (2.65%) VBA
13 1 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (14.16%) Degree
2 15 (13.27%) Azure Certification
3 12 (10.62%) Master's Degree
4 7 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.42%) MBA
5 5 (4.42%) PhD
6 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.27%) Data Quality
1 15 (13.27%) GDPR
2 11 (9.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.19%) QA
4 5 (4.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.31%) Docker
3 3 (2.65%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.96%) Terraform
3 8 (7.08%) Ansible
4 7 (6.19%) Grafana
4 7 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.19%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.65%) Argo
6 1 (0.88%) CASB
6 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (31.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) Veeam
3 10 (8.85%) Oracle
4 8 (7.08%) BT
4 8 (7.08%) VMware
5 7 (6.19%) Informatica
6 5 (4.42%) Databricks
7 3 (2.65%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.65%) Mitel
8 2 (1.77%) Google
8 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.88%) Foundry
9 1 (0.88%) Typelevel