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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 140 119 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.33% 12.63% 7.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.11% 43.43% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 89 92 142
10th Percentile £32,500 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £62,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £84,250 £82,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -10.86%

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 358 274 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 16.20% 29.09% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 281 220 516
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,063 £66,563
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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +2 52 £62,500 -10.71% 7
Redhill +18 21 £35,000 -55.41% 2
Woking -1 10 £42,500 -46.88% 6
Reigate +3 8 £85,000 - 2
Staines -2 8 £47,500 -26.92% 2
Epsom -15 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher -4 1 £62,500 -
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 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.57%) IIS
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.14%) CATIA
3 3 (2.14%) Siemens NX
3 3 (2.14%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (2.14%) Windchill
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.57%) Azure
2 37 (26.43%) Power Platform
3 27 (19.29%) Azure AI
4 24 (17.14%) AWS
5 21 (15.00%) SaaS
6 13 (9.29%) Mimecast
7 12 (8.57%) Snowflake
8 11 (7.86%) GitHub
8 11 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.43%) GCP
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.71%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.14%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (2.14%) Prefect
12 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.86%) HTTP
2 10 (7.14%) VPN
3 8 (5.71%) DNS
3 8 (5.71%) Firewall
4 6 (4.29%) Broadband
5 5 (3.57%) VoIP
6 3 (2.14%) RTP
6 3 (2.14%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.14%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.43%) BGP
7 2 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.43%) IPsec
7 2 (1.43%) MPLS
7 2 (1.43%) Multicast
7 2 (1.43%) Network Security
7 2 (1.43%) OSPF
7 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.43%) Power BI
2 28 (20.00%) Tableau
3 14 (10.00%) MySQL
4 12 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.57%) Big Data
8 5 (3.57%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.57%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.43%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.43%) Impala
10 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.43%) Parquet
10 2 (1.43%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Git
2 5 (3.57%) GitLab
3 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.43%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.00%) Retail
4 13 (9.29%) Finance
5 7 (5.00%) Games
5 7 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.29%) Marketing
7 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.71%) Analyst
2 31 (22.14%) Data Analyst
3 23 (16.43%) Senior
4 21 (15.00%) Junior
4 21 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
4 21 (15.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 16 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 16 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 13 (9.29%) Help Desk Technician
8 12 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Linux Support
8 12 (8.57%) Linux Support Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.71%) SQL Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) JSON
1 8 (5.71%) XML
2 5 (3.57%) Play Framework
3 4 (2.86%) Django
3 4 (2.86%) Flask
3 4 (2.86%) HTML
3 4 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.14%) CSS
4 3 (2.14%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (2.14%) Jinja
4 3 (2.14%) OAuth
4 3 (2.14%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.14%) PySpark
4 3 (2.14%) pytest
4 3 (2.14%) RFC 2833
4 3 (2.14%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (2.14%) WebRTC
5 2 (1.43%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.43%) gRPC
6 1 (0.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 8 (5.71%) Video\Live Streaming
4 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.86%) Video on Demand
6 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.43%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.57%) Linux
2 12 (8.57%) CentOS
2 12 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.57%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (42.14%) AI
2 37 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (16.43%) Agile
5 22 (15.71%) Machine Learning
6 18 (12.86%) CI/CD
6 18 (12.86%) Data Modelling
6 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
7 14 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 14 (10.00%) ETL
8 13 (9.29%) Analytics
8 13 (9.29%) Decision-Making
9 12 (8.57%) Data Science
9 12 (8.57%) Mathematics
10 11 (7.86%) Cloud Security
10 11 (7.86%) Line Management
10 11 (7.86%) Validation
11 10 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.14%) Roadmaps
12 9 (6.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 61 (43.57%) SQL
2 31 (22.14%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.57%) C++
4 16 (11.43%) Bash
5 13 (9.29%) Java
6 12 (8.57%) Perl
7 11 (7.86%) Go
8 10 (7.14%) Scala
9 8 (5.71%) PHP
9 8 (5.71%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.29%) C#
10 6 (4.29%) R
11 5 (3.57%) C
11 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
13 3 (2.14%) VBA
14 2 (1.43%) Julia
15 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.71%) Groovy
15 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) Azure Certification
1 27 (19.29%) Degree
2 22 (15.71%) Master's Degree
3 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.14%) PhD
5 8 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.57%) MBA
7 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.43%) CCNA
9 2 (1.43%) CCNP
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.71%) CISM
10 1 (0.71%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.71%) GDPR
3 11 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.00%) QA
5 5 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.43%) Docker
3 3 (2.14%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.14%) Terraform
3 9 (6.43%) Ansible
4 8 (5.71%) Grafana
4 8 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.71%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.14%) Argo
6 2 (1.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.71%) CASB
Vendors
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.29%) Veeam
3 9 (6.43%) Oracle
4 8 (5.71%) BT
4 8 (5.71%) VMware
5 7 (5.00%) Databricks
5 7 (5.00%) Informatica
6 5 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.14%) Mitel
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Google
8 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.43%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.71%) Foundry