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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 156 85 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.14% 7.57% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.40% 31.72% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 105 59 170
10th Percentile £34,000 £45,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 467 268 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.38% 23.86% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 395 217 505
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,042
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £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 £85,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +13 58 £80,000 +30.61% 9
Redhill - 20 £48,750 -
Woking -15 12 £42,500 -46.88% 7
Staines +3 11 £48,750 -27.78% 2
Reigate -2 10 £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 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.18%) Azure
2 43 (27.56%) AWS
3 32 (20.51%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.46%) Azure AI
5 16 (10.26%) SaaS
6 15 (9.62%) GCP
7 14 (8.97%) GitHub
7 14 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 11 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.21%) Mimecast
12 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.56%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.41%) VoIP
2 9 (5.77%) VPN
3 7 (4.49%) Broadband
3 7 (4.49%) DNS
3 7 (4.49%) HTTP
4 6 (3.85%) Firewall
5 4 (2.56%) LAN
5 4 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.56%) WAN
6 3 (1.92%) BGP
6 3 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.92%) IPsec
6 3 (1.92%) MPLS
6 3 (1.92%) Multicast
6 3 (1.92%) Network Security
6 3 (1.92%) OSPF
7 2 (1.28%) RTP
7 2 (1.28%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.28%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.64%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.31%) Power BI
2 21 (13.46%) MySQL
3 17 (10.90%) Tableau
4 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.41%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.49%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.92%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.28%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.28%) Impala
10 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.28%) Parquet
10 2 (1.28%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (16.03%) Git
2 10 (6.41%) JIRA
3 9 (5.77%) GitLab
4 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.92%) Selenium
7 2 (1.28%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.28%) MSI
7 2 (1.28%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.28%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.64%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.64%) JUnit
8 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.64%) TestNG
8 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.05%) Retail
4 10 (6.41%) Finance
5 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.85%) Games
6 5 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.56%) Legal
8 2 (1.28%) Banking
8 2 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (19.87%) Analyst
1 31 (19.87%) Senior
2 25 (16.03%) Data Analyst
3 24 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 23 (14.74%) Developer
5 22 (14.10%) Python Engineer
6 18 (11.54%) Junior
7 17 (10.90%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (9.62%) C++ Software Engineer
8 15 (9.62%) Junior Data Analyst
8 15 (9.62%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 11 (7.05%) Lead
11 9 (5.77%) Administrator
11 9 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
12 8 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 8 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.41%) PySpark
1 10 (6.41%) React
2 9 (5.77%) REST
3 8 (5.13%) JSON
3 8 (5.13%) XML
4 7 (4.49%) Node.js
5 6 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.85%) HTML
6 5 (3.21%) CSS
6 5 (3.21%) pytest
7 4 (2.56%) Flask
7 4 (2.56%) Laravel
7 4 (2.56%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (2.56%) Vue
8 3 (1.92%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (1.92%) Jest
8 3 (1.92%) LAMP
8 3 (1.92%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Onboarding
2 13 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (3.21%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.56%) IoT
7 4 (2.56%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.56%) PKI
8 3 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.87%) Linux
2 7 (4.49%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.21%) CentOS
3 5 (3.21%) Debian
3 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.56%) Windows
4 4 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.87%) AI
2 41 (26.28%) CI/CD
3 39 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 34 (21.79%) Agile
4 34 (21.79%) Machine Learning
4 34 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (12.82%) Data Modelling
7 20 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (11.54%) DevOps
8 18 (11.54%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.26%) Analytics
9 16 (10.26%) Computer Science
9 16 (10.26%) Data Engineering
9 16 (10.26%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.62%) Validation
11 14 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (8.97%) Scrum
12 13 (8.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.97%) SQL
2 32 (20.51%) C++
3 29 (18.59%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.54%) C#
5 17 (10.90%) Java
6 16 (10.26%) PHP
7 15 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 13 (8.33%) Bash
9 10 (6.41%) Go
10 8 (5.13%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.13%) TypeScript
11 7 (4.49%) Perl
12 6 (3.85%) C
12 6 (3.85%) Scala
13 5 (3.21%) Julia
14 2 (1.28%) Bicep
15 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.64%) Groovy
15 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (23.08%) Degree
2 25 (16.03%) Azure Certification
3 24 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 16 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (10.26%) PhD
5 7 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.49%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.56%) CISM
7 4 (2.56%) CISSP
7 4 (2.56%) HND
8 3 (1.92%) CCNA
8 3 (1.92%) CCNP
8 3 (1.92%) CEH
8 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) GIAC
9 2 (1.28%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.64%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.05%) QA
4 7 (4.49%) GDPR
5 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.92%) SLA
6 2 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (10.90%) Docker
2 8 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.28%) Firmware
3 2 (1.28%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 25 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.10%) Terraform
3 10 (6.41%) Ansible
4 9 (5.77%) Grafana
4 9 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.85%) Proxmox
6 5 (3.21%) Argo
7 4 (2.56%) Kibana
8 3 (1.92%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.64%) CASB
9 1 (0.64%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 37 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Databricks
3 7 (4.49%) VMware
4 6 (3.85%) Google
5 5 (3.21%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.21%) Oracle
5 5 (3.21%) Veeam
6 4 (2.56%) New Relic
7 3 (1.92%) Cisco
7 3 (1.92%) Informatica
7 3 (1.92%) Qualys
7 3 (1.92%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.92%) Splunk
7 3 (1.92%) Zerto
8 2 (1.28%) BT
8 2 (1.28%) Mitel
8 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.28%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.64%) EMC