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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 45 17
Rank change year-on-year +14 -28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 121 58 208
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.83% 5.05% 11.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.63% 28.02% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 87 38 154
10th Percentile £38,920 £40,613 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.04% +2.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

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 438 207 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 17.48% 18.03% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 379 164 360
10th Percentile £38,920 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,625 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.33% +2.60% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 45 £66,250 -11.67% 24
Reigate -8 11 £112,500 +200.00% 6
Redhill +13 10 £52,500 +27.27% 4
Staines -9 9 £52,500 - 5
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 - 4
Woking -18 5 £70,000 -1.75% 26
Camberley - 4 £53,750 - 2
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85% 1
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 8 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.31%) Apache
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) R Markdown
4 2 (1.65%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (43.80%) AWS
2 41 (33.88%) Azure
3 17 (14.05%) GitHub
4 15 (12.40%) GCP
5 13 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (10.74%) Power Platform
6 12 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.61%) Azure AI
8 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.31%) dbt
11 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.22%) VPN
2 13 (10.74%) Firewall
3 9 (7.44%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.61%) VoIP
5 6 (4.96%) DNS
6 4 (3.31%) LAN
6 4 (3.31%) Network Security
6 4 (3.31%) WAN
7 3 (2.48%) BGP
7 3 (2.48%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.48%) IPsec
7 3 (2.48%) MPLS
7 3 (2.48%) Multicast
7 3 (2.48%) OSPF
8 2 (1.65%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.83%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.83%) Broadband
9 1 (0.83%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.83%) RS-232
9 1 (0.83%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) MySQL
2 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.61%) Power BI
3 6 (4.96%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.31%) DocumentDB
4 4 (3.31%) Tableau
5 3 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.65%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.65%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.65%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.83%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (20.66%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) JIRA
3 7 (5.79%) GitLab
4 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.31%) Selenium
6 3 (2.48%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.48%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.65%) MSI
7 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) MLflow
8 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.83%) Subversion
8 1 (0.83%) TestNG
8 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Finance
4 8 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Retail
6 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.31%) Games
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (24.79%) Senior
2 19 (15.70%) Developer
3 16 (13.22%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Analyst
4 13 (10.74%) Python Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) Administrator
5 12 (9.92%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (8.26%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.26%) Lead
8 9 (7.44%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.44%) DevOps Administrator
8 9 (7.44%) Python Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.61%) Junior
9 8 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.45%) Terraform
2 9 (7.44%) PySpark
2 9 (7.44%) React
3 7 (5.79%) Node.js
4 6 (4.96%) FastAPI
4 6 (4.96%) HTML
4 6 (4.96%) REST
5 5 (4.13%) CSS
6 4 (3.31%) Laravel
6 4 (3.31%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.31%) Vue
7 3 (2.48%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (2.48%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.48%) Jest
7 3 (2.48%) LAMP
7 3 (2.48%) pytest
8 2 (1.65%) ADO
8 2 (1.65%) SOAP
8 2 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (7.44%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.96%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.31%) IoT
6 4 (3.31%) PKI
6 4 (3.31%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.83%) FPGA
9 1 (0.83%) Robotics
9 1 (0.83%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.40%) Linux
2 6 (4.96%) Windows
2 6 (4.96%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.13%) Debian
3 5 (4.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.76%) AI
2 45 (37.19%) CI/CD
3 33 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 28 (23.14%) Agile
4 28 (23.14%) Machine Learning
5 24 (19.83%) Analytics
5 24 (19.83%) DevOps
6 23 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (17.36%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (15.70%) Mentoring
10 18 (14.88%) Observability
11 16 (13.22%) Decision-Making
12 15 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.57%) Cloud Security
13 14 (11.57%) Computer Science
13 14 (11.57%) Data Engineering
14 12 (9.92%) Data Science
14 12 (9.92%) DevSecOps
14 12 (9.92%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.14%) SQL
2 26 (21.49%) C++
3 23 (19.01%) Bash
4 20 (16.53%) C#
5 16 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.40%) Java
7 14 (11.57%) Go
7 14 (11.57%) PowerShell
8 11 (9.09%) PHP
9 9 (7.44%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.13%) Julia
11 4 (3.31%) C
12 3 (2.48%) Scala
13 2 (1.65%) Bicep
13 2 (1.65%) Perl
13 2 (1.65%) R
14 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (27.27%) Degree
2 20 (16.53%) Master's Degree
3 15 (12.40%) PhD
4 12 (9.92%) Azure Certification
5 10 (8.26%) AWS Certification
6 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
7 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (5.79%) CISSP
9 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
10 5 (4.13%) CEH
10 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (4.13%) CISM
10 5 (4.13%) GIAC
11 4 (3.31%) HND
11 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
12 3 (2.48%) CCNA
12 3 (2.48%) CCNP
12 3 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.65%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (7.44%) NIST
2 8 (6.61%) QA
3 5 (4.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (15.70%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Firmware
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (31.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.22%) Ansible
3 14 (11.57%) Grafana
4 12 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.44%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.31%) Kibana
6 4 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.48%) Argo
7 3 (2.48%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.65%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.92%) Databricks
3 10 (8.26%) VMware
4 6 (4.96%) Google
5 5 (4.13%) New Relic
5 5 (4.13%) Qualys
5 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 4 (3.31%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.31%) Zerto
7 3 (2.48%) Cisco
7 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.83%) EMC
9 1 (0.83%) Lattice Semiconductor
9 1 (0.83%) Xilinx