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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 150 100 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.30% 9.84% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.46% 38.02% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 93 76 160
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 390 263 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.98% 25.89% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 306 213 536
10th Percentile £38,125 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -5.98%

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 21 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 21 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 +8 57 £71,250 +7.55% 13
Redhill - 20 £35,000 - 8
Reigate +6 12 £85,000 - 2
Staines -1 11 £47,500 -26.92%
Woking -4 10 £42,500 -48.48% 3
Epsom -14 2 - - 2
Egham - 2 £72,500 - 1
Esher -1 1 £62,500 - 4
Godalming - 1 £32,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 2
Leatherhead - 1 - - 2
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 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.33%) IIS
4 4 (2.67%) Apache
5 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.00%) Azure
2 38 (25.33%) Power Platform
3 36 (24.00%) AWS
4 26 (17.33%) Azure AI
5 19 (12.67%) SaaS
6 12 (8.00%) GCP
6 12 (8.00%) GitHub
6 12 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 11 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 10 (6.67%) Mimecast
9 9 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 4 (2.67%) Prefect
12 3 (2.00%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.00%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.33%) HTTP
1 11 (7.33%) VPN
2 10 (6.67%) DNS
3 8 (5.33%) Firewall
4 7 (4.67%) VoIP
5 6 (4.00%) Broadband
6 3 (2.00%) BGP
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.00%) IPsec
6 3 (2.00%) MPLS
6 3 (2.00%) Multicast
6 3 (2.00%) Network Security
6 3 (2.00%) OSPF
6 3 (2.00%) RTP
6 3 (2.00%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.00%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.00%) Power BI
2 27 (18.00%) Tableau
3 16 (10.67%) MySQL
4 13 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.33%) Big Data
8 5 (3.33%) Data Mining
8 5 (3.33%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.33%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.33%) Impala
10 2 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.33%) Parquet
10 2 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) Git
2 8 (5.33%) GitLab
3 4 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.33%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.33%) MSI
5 2 (1.33%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.00%) Retail
4 15 (10.00%) Finance
5 7 (4.67%) Games
5 7 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (23.33%) Analyst
2 30 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 28 (18.67%) Senior
4 20 (13.33%) Junior
4 20 (13.33%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (13.33%) Junior Data Analyst
5 19 (12.67%) Python Engineer
5 19 (12.67%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) Developer
7 12 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Help Desk Technician
8 10 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) DevOps Administrator
9 8 (5.33%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (5.33%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.33%) JSON
1 8 (5.33%) XML
2 7 (4.67%) REST
3 6 (4.00%) HTML
4 5 (3.33%) CSS
4 5 (3.33%) Play Framework
4 5 (3.33%) PySpark
5 4 (2.67%) Django
5 4 (2.67%) Flask
5 4 (2.67%) pytest
5 4 (2.67%) React
6 3 (2.00%) 802.1X
6 3 (2.00%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (2.00%) Jinja
6 3 (2.00%) OAuth
6 3 (2.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.00%) RFC 2833
6 3 (2.00%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.00%) WebRTC
7 2 (1.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.67%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.33%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.67%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.33%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.33%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) CentOS
2 8 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.33%) Windows
4 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.67%) Debian
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.33%) AI
2 37 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (20.00%) Agile
5 28 (18.67%) Machine Learning
6 26 (17.33%) CI/CD
6 26 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 19 (12.67%) Computer Science
7 19 (12.67%) Data Modelling
8 16 (10.67%) Analytics
9 15 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 15 (10.00%) ETL
9 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (10.00%) Mathematics
10 14 (9.33%) Data Science
11 13 (8.67%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.67%) Test Automation
11 13 (8.67%) Validation
12 12 (8.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.33%) SQL
2 29 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 21 (14.00%) C++
4 15 (10.00%) Java
5 14 (9.33%) Bash
6 13 (8.67%) PHP
7 11 (7.33%) C#
7 11 (7.33%) Go
7 11 (7.33%) Scala
8 10 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.67%) Perl
9 8 (5.33%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.00%) R
11 5 (3.33%) C
11 5 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.00%) Julia
12 3 (2.00%) VBA
13 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.67%) Groovy
13 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (22.67%) Degree
2 29 (19.33%) Azure Certification
3 25 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 16 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (8.00%) PhD
6 9 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.33%) MBA
9 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.00%) CCNA
10 3 (2.00%) CCNP
10 3 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.33%) CISM
11 2 (1.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.67%) CEH
12 1 (0.67%) GIAC
12 1 (0.67%) HNC
12 1 (0.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.00%) GDPR
2 12 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.67%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.00%) SLA
7 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.67%) NIST
8 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.00%) Docker
2 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 20 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.33%) Terraform
3 11 (7.33%) Ansible
4 10 (6.67%) Grafana
4 10 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.33%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.00%) Argo
7 3 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.67%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.67%) Veeam
3 9 (6.00%) Databricks
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
3 9 (6.00%) VMware
4 8 (5.33%) BT
5 7 (4.67%) Informatica
6 6 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.67%) Google
8 3 (2.00%) Cisco
8 3 (2.00%) Mitel
9 2 (1.33%) New Relic
9 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.33%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.67%) EMC
10 1 (0.67%) Foundry
10 1 (0.67%) Qualys
10 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.67%) Splunk
10 1 (0.67%) Zerto