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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 162 88 218
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.02% 8.72% 8.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.76% 34.65% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 110 63 176
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 429 254 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.23% 25.17% 28.44%
Number of salaries quoted 354 204 571
10th Percentile £40,150 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +12 61 £62,500 -5.66% 12
Redhill - 23 £45,000 - 4
Staines +1 12 £47,500 -26.92%
Woking -5 12 £42,500 -48.48% 8
Reigate -2 10 £85,000 - 2
Leatherhead - 5 £35,000 - 3
Epsom -19 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 -
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
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 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.70%) Apache
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (33.95%) Azure
2 39 (24.07%) AWS
3 36 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.58%) Azure AI
5 18 (11.11%) SaaS
6 16 (9.88%) GitHub
7 14 (8.64%) GCP
8 13 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.41%) Entra ID
9 12 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.94%) Mimecast
11 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.47%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.47%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.47%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.79%) VoIP
1 11 (6.79%) VPN
2 10 (6.17%) HTTP
3 9 (5.56%) DNS
4 8 (4.94%) Firewall
5 7 (4.32%) Broadband
6 4 (2.47%) LAN
6 4 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.47%) WAN
7 3 (1.85%) BGP
7 3 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.85%) IPsec
7 3 (1.85%) MPLS
7 3 (1.85%) Multicast
7 3 (1.85%) Network Security
7 3 (1.85%) OSPF
7 3 (1.85%) RTP
7 3 (1.85%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.85%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.75%) Power BI
2 22 (13.58%) MySQL
3 18 (11.11%) Tableau
4 16 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.02%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.23%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.23%) Impala
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.23%) Parquet
9 2 (1.23%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.23%) Redis
9 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.58%) Git
2 9 (5.56%) JIRA
3 8 (4.94%) GitLab
4 5 (3.09%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.23%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.23%) MSI
7 2 (1.23%) Selenium
7 2 (1.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.62%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.62%) JUnit
8 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.62%) TestNG
8 1 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.88%) Finance
3 16 (9.88%) Retail
4 6 (3.70%) Games
4 6 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.85%) Legal
7 2 (1.23%) Banking
7 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.62%) Electronics
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (20.37%) Analyst
2 31 (19.14%) Senior
3 26 (16.05%) Data Analyst
4 24 (14.81%) Developer
4 24 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.96%) Python Engineer
6 18 (11.11%) Junior
7 17 (10.49%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (9.88%) Junior Data Analyst
9 15 (9.26%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (9.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 12 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 11 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (6.17%) Administrator
12 10 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (6.17%) Systems Administrator
13 9 (5.56%) Lead
13 9 (5.56%) Python Developer
13 9 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (4.94%) Help Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.17%) React
1 10 (6.17%) REST
2 8 (4.94%) HTML
2 8 (4.94%) JSON
2 8 (4.94%) XML
3 7 (4.32%) CSS
3 7 (4.32%) Node.js
3 7 (4.32%) PySpark
4 6 (3.70%) FastAPI
4 6 (3.70%) Flask
4 6 (3.70%) pytest
5 4 (2.47%) Django
5 4 (2.47%) Laravel
5 4 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (2.47%) Vue
6 3 (1.85%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (1.85%) LAMP
6 3 (1.85%) OAuth
6 3 (1.85%) Spring
6 3 (1.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.94%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.47%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.23%) PKI
9 2 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.60%) Linux
2 8 (4.94%) Ubuntu
3 7 (4.32%) CentOS
3 7 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.09%) Debian
5 3 (1.85%) Windows
5 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.98%) AI
2 39 (24.07%) CI/CD
3 37 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (20.99%) Agile
4 34 (20.99%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (20.99%) Software Engineering
5 30 (18.52%) Machine Learning
6 21 (12.96%) Data Modelling
7 20 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (10.49%) ETL
9 16 (9.88%) DevOps
10 15 (9.26%) Computer Science
10 15 (9.26%) Mentoring
10 15 (9.26%) Test Automation
11 14 (8.64%) Analytics
11 14 (8.64%) Scrum
11 14 (8.64%) Validation
12 13 (8.02%) Data Engineering
12 13 (8.02%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (35.80%) SQL
2 31 (19.14%) C++
3 30 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.11%) PHP
5 16 (9.88%) Java
6 15 (9.26%) C#
6 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.64%) Bash
8 12 (7.41%) Go
9 9 (5.56%) Perl
10 8 (4.94%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.32%) C
11 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
12 6 (3.70%) Scala
13 4 (2.47%) Julia
14 3 (1.85%) VBA
15 2 (1.23%) Bicep
15 2 (1.23%) Groovy
16 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (21.60%) Degree
2 25 (15.43%) Azure Certification
3 23 (14.20%) Master's Degree
4 16 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (9.26%) PhD
6 9 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
8 6 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.85%) CCNA
9 3 (1.85%) CCNP
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.85%) CISM
9 3 (1.85%) CISSP
9 3 (1.85%) HND
9 3 (1.85%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.23%) CEH
10 2 (1.23%) GIAC
11 1 (0.62%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.17%) GDPR
3 10 (6.17%) QA
4 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.85%) SLA
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (9.26%) Docker
2 8 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.85%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.58%) Terraform
3 11 (6.79%) Ansible
4 10 (6.17%) Grafana
4 10 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.94%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.70%) Argo
7 3 (1.85%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.62%) CASB
9 1 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 42 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) Oracle
2 9 (5.56%) VMware
3 8 (4.94%) Veeam
4 7 (4.32%) Informatica
5 6 (3.70%) Databricks
5 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.70%) Google
6 3 (1.85%) BT
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco
6 3 (1.85%) Mitel
6 3 (1.85%) New Relic
7 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.23%) Qualys
7 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) Typelevel
7 2 (1.23%) Zerto
8 1 (0.62%) Foundry