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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 144 110 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.13% 10.85% 8.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.99% 40.89% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 89 86 154
10th Percentile £32,500 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £86,250 £84,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%

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 379 269 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.77% 26.53% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 299 218 536
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +6 55 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Redhill +25 20 £35,000 -60.45% 7
Staines 0 11 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Woking -4 10 £42,500 -48.48% 6
Reigate +7 9 £85,000 - 2
Epsom -12 2 - - 2
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher -1 1 £62,500 -
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 1
Leatherhead - 1 - - 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 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.47%) IIS
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.72%) Azure
2 38 (26.39%) Power Platform
3 31 (21.53%) AWS
4 27 (18.75%) Azure AI
5 19 (13.19%) SaaS
6 12 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 11 (7.64%) GCP
7 11 (7.64%) GitHub
7 11 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.64%) Mimecast
8 9 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.78%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 4 (2.78%) Prefect
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) HTTP
1 11 (7.64%) VPN
2 9 (6.25%) DNS
3 8 (5.56%) Firewall
4 6 (4.17%) Broadband
4 6 (4.17%) VoIP
5 3 (2.08%) BGP
5 3 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.08%) IPsec
5 3 (2.08%) MPLS
5 3 (2.08%) Multicast
5 3 (2.08%) Network Security
5 3 (2.08%) OSPF
5 3 (2.08%) RTP
5 3 (2.08%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (25.69%) Power BI
2 28 (19.44%) Tableau
3 15 (10.42%) MySQL
4 13 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.94%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.47%) Big Data
8 5 (3.47%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.47%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.39%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.39%) Impala
10 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.39%) Parquet
10 2 (1.39%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) Git
2 7 (4.86%) GitLab
3 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.69%) JIRA
5 1 (0.69%) MSI
5 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 58 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.19%) Retail
4 14 (9.72%) Finance
5 7 (4.86%) Games
5 7 (4.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.17%) Marketing
7 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Banking
9 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.00%) Analyst
2 31 (21.53%) Data Analyst
3 24 (16.67%) Senior
4 21 (14.58%) Junior
4 21 (14.58%) Junior Analyst
4 21 (14.58%) Junior Data Analyst
5 17 (11.81%) Python Engineer
5 17 (11.81%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Help Desk Technician
7 10 (6.94%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Python Software Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Linux Support
8 9 (6.25%) Linux Support Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Administrator
9 8 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) JSON
1 8 (5.56%) XML
2 6 (4.17%) REST
3 5 (3.47%) HTML
3 5 (3.47%) Play Framework
3 5 (3.47%) PySpark
4 4 (2.78%) CSS
4 4 (2.78%) Django
4 4 (2.78%) Flask
5 3 (2.08%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.08%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (2.08%) Jinja
5 3 (2.08%) OAuth
5 3 (2.08%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.08%) pytest
5 3 (2.08%) RFC 2833
5 3 (2.08%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (2.08%) WebRTC
6 2 (1.39%) gRPC
6 2 (1.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.03%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.47%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.75%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) CentOS
2 9 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.75%) AI
2 37 (25.69%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (19.44%) Agile
5 24 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 23 (15.97%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.28%) CI/CD
8 19 (13.19%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 15 (10.42%) Analytics
10 15 (10.42%) ETL
11 14 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (9.72%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.72%) Mathematics
12 13 (9.03%) Data Science
13 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 12 (8.33%) Validation
14 11 (7.64%) Cloud Security
14 11 (7.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.06%) SQL
2 26 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.19%) C++
4 15 (10.42%) Java
5 13 (9.03%) Bash
6 11 (7.64%) Go
6 11 (7.64%) Perl
6 11 (7.64%) PHP
6 11 (7.64%) Scala
7 8 (5.56%) C#
7 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.17%) R
9 5 (3.47%) C
10 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.08%) VBA
11 2 (1.39%) Julia
12 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (20.14%) Degree
2 28 (19.44%) Azure Certification
3 23 (15.97%) Master's Degree
4 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.94%) PhD
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.47%) MBA
7 5 (3.47%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.08%) CCNA
9 3 (2.08%) CCNP
9 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.39%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.69%) CISM
11 1 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.03%) GDPR
3 11 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.25%) QA
5 5 (3.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.08%) SLA
8 2 (1.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.64%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 17 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.72%) Terraform
3 11 (7.64%) Ansible
4 9 (6.25%) Grafana
4 9 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.56%) Proxmox
6 4 (2.78%) Argo
7 3 (2.08%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.69%) CASB
8 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.64%) Veeam
3 9 (6.25%) Databricks
3 9 (6.25%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) BT
4 8 (5.56%) VMware
5 7 (4.86%) Informatica
6 6 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco
7 3 (2.08%) Google
7 3 (2.08%) Mitel
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.39%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.69%) Foundry