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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 160 85 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.38% 7.67% 8.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.19% 32.08% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 108 59 173
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,563 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -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 468 265 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.58% 23.92% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 395 215 515
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +15 59 £80,000 +30.61% 11
Redhill - 21 £45,000 -
Woking -9 12 £42,500 -46.88% 9
Staines +3 11 £48,750 -27.78% 1
Reigate -1 11 £85,000 - 3
Leatherhead - 8 £35,000 -
Epsom -18 2 - -
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher 0 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 -
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 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.75%) Apache
4 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.25%) Azure
2 43 (26.88%) AWS
3 33 (20.63%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.13%) Azure AI
5 16 (10.00%) SaaS
6 15 (9.38%) GCP
7 14 (8.75%) GitHub
7 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (8.13%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.75%) Mimecast
11 6 (3.75%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.75%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 4 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) VoIP
2 9 (5.63%) VPN
3 7 (4.38%) Broadband
3 7 (4.38%) DNS
3 7 (4.38%) HTTP
4 6 (3.75%) Firewall
5 4 (2.50%) LAN
5 4 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.50%) WAN
6 3 (1.88%) BGP
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.88%) IPsec
6 3 (1.88%) MPLS
6 3 (1.88%) Multicast
6 3 (1.88%) Network Security
6 3 (1.88%) OSPF
7 2 (1.25%) RTP
7 2 (1.25%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.25%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.50%) Power BI
2 21 (13.13%) MySQL
3 17 (10.63%) Tableau
4 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.88%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.88%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.25%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.25%) Impala
11 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.25%) Parquet
11 2 (1.25%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Git
2 10 (6.25%) JIRA
3 9 (5.63%) GitLab
4 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.88%) Selenium
7 2 (1.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.25%) MSI
7 2 (1.25%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.25%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.63%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.63%) JUnit
8 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.63%) TestNG
8 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.50%) Retail
4 11 (6.88%) Finance
5 7 (4.38%) Games
6 6 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.25%) Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Analyst
1 31 (19.38%) Senior
2 25 (15.63%) Data Analyst
3 24 (15.00%) Developer
3 24 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 23 (14.38%) Python Engineer
5 18 (11.25%) Junior
6 17 (10.63%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (9.38%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (9.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 13 (8.13%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Lead
10 9 (5.63%) Administrator
10 9 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (5.00%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.25%) PySpark
1 10 (6.25%) React
2 9 (5.63%) REST
3 8 (5.00%) JSON
3 8 (5.00%) XML
4 7 (4.38%) Node.js
5 6 (3.75%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.75%) HTML
6 5 (3.13%) CSS
6 5 (3.13%) Flask
6 5 (3.13%) pytest
7 4 (2.50%) Laravel
7 4 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (2.50%) Vue
8 3 (1.88%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (1.88%) Jest
8 3 (1.88%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.88%) Spring
8 3 (1.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 13 (8.13%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.50%) IoT
7 4 (2.50%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.50%) PKI
8 3 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.13%) CentOS
3 5 (3.13%) Debian
3 5 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.50%) Windows
4 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (43.75%) AI
2 41 (25.63%) CI/CD
3 39 (24.38%) Software Engineering
4 35 (21.88%) Agile
4 35 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (21.25%) Machine Learning
6 31 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (13.13%) Data Modelling
7 21 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (11.25%) DevOps
9 18 (11.25%) Mentoring
10 17 (10.63%) Test Automation
11 16 (10.00%) Analytics
11 16 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 16 (10.00%) Data Engineering
12 15 (9.38%) Validation
13 14 (8.75%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (8.75%) ETL
13 14 (8.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (33.75%) SQL
2 33 (20.63%) C++
3 30 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.25%) C#
5 17 (10.63%) Java
6 16 (10.00%) PHP
7 15 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 13 (8.13%) Bash
9 10 (6.25%) Go
10 8 (5.00%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.00%) TypeScript
11 7 (4.38%) C
11 7 (4.38%) Perl
12 6 (3.75%) Scala
13 5 (3.13%) Julia
14 2 (1.25%) Bicep
15 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.63%) Groovy
15 1 (0.63%) Rust
15 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (22.50%) Degree
2 25 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 24 (15.00%) Master's Degree
4 16 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (10.00%) PhD
5 7 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.50%) CISM
7 4 (2.50%) CISSP
7 4 (2.50%) HND
8 3 (1.88%) CCNA
8 3 (1.88%) CCNP
8 3 (1.88%) CEH
8 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.88%) GIAC
9 2 (1.25%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.50%) QA
4 8 (5.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.88%) NIST
5 3 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.88%) SLA
6 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (11.25%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) Firmware
3 2 (1.25%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 26 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.75%) Terraform
3 10 (6.25%) Ansible
4 9 (5.63%) Grafana
4 9 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.75%) Proxmox
6 5 (3.13%) Argo
7 4 (2.50%) Kibana
8 3 (1.88%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.63%) CASB
9 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 38 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.63%) Databricks
3 7 (4.38%) VMware
4 6 (3.75%) Google
4 6 (3.75%) Oracle
4 6 (3.75%) Veeam
5 5 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.50%) Informatica
6 4 (2.50%) New Relic
7 3 (1.88%) Cisco
7 3 (1.88%) Qualys
7 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.88%) Splunk
7 3 (1.88%) Zerto
8 2 (1.25%) BT
8 2 (1.25%) Mitel
8 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.25%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.63%) EMC