Python Jobs in England

Python
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 7,689 12,990 24,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.65% 15.00% 17.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.44% 34.86% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,652 6,717 10,124
10th Percentile £40,410 £43,411 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
England

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28,024 37,268 74,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 43.05% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,545 24,192 38,932
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Salary trend for Python in England

Python
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in England

Python
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
London -1 3,747 £87,500 +2.94% 1,545
South East -10 1,169 £55,000 -12.00% 366
North of England -24 935 £56,250 -13.46% 304
South West -7 903 £56,500 -5.83% 216
North West -19 606 £56,509 -13.06% 185
Midlands -36 512 £55,000 -4.35% 208
East of England -11 380 £60,000 -4.00% 181
West Midlands -33 320 £55,000 -8.33% 139
Yorkshire -34 258 £55,000 -15.38% 83
East Midlands -31 188 £47,500 -12.04% 68
North East -20 71 £57,500 -8.00% 36
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 695 (9.04%) Apache
2 627 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
3 274 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 228 (2.97%) ArcGIS
5 200 (2.60%) GeoServer
6 123 (1.60%) SAS
7 69 (0.90%) Confluence
8 63 (0.82%) nginx
9 42 (0.55%) Jupyter
10 39 (0.51%) OpenStack
11 34 (0.44%) SharePoint
12 32 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
13 16 (0.21%) CMS
14 14 (0.18%) Drupal
15 13 (0.17%) WordPress
16 12 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 9 (0.12%) IIS
17 9 (0.12%) Luigi
18 7 (0.091%) Ethereum
19 6 (0.078%) JBoss
Applications
1 211 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (1.42%) Simulink
3 73 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.33%) Stateflow
6 17 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.18%) SPSS
8 13 (0.17%) CANalyzer
9 7 (0.091%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.091%) GNU Octave
10 6 (0.078%) EViews
10 6 (0.078%) Trello
11 5 (0.065%) Doxygen
12 2 (0.026%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.026%) InDesign
12 2 (0.026%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.026%) Stata
12 2 (0.026%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 21 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 14 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.091%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.078%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.078%) Odoo
6 5 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.065%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.065%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.052%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.052%) Shopify
8 3 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.026%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.026%) Primavera
9 2 (0.026%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.026%) Relativity
9 2 (0.026%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.026%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3,031 (39.42%) AWS
2 2,325 (30.24%) Azure
3 1,058 (13.76%) GCP
4 600 (7.80%) Power Platform
5 580 (7.54%) Serverless
6 507 (6.59%) Snowflake
7 493 (6.41%) dbt
8 414 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 326 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 307 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 275 (3.58%) SaaS
12 264 (3.43%) GitHub
13 181 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 166 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
15 160 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 159 (2.07%) OpenShift
17 142 (1.85%) Azure API Management
17 142 (1.85%) Azure Functions
18 140 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
19 139 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 303 (3.94%) Firewall
2 215 (2.80%) DNS
3 207 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 126 (1.64%) VPN
5 111 (1.44%) Network Security
6 110 (1.43%) DHCP
7 99 (1.29%) HTTP
8 94 (1.22%) Internet
8 94 (1.22%) WAN
9 93 (1.21%) Wireless
10 84 (1.09%) LAN
11 74 (0.96%) SNMP
12 53 (0.69%) Bluetooth
13 49 (0.64%) IPsec
14 48 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.56%) 5G
16 35 (0.46%) AMQP
17 34 (0.44%) BGP
18 32 (0.42%) Wireshark
19 30 (0.39%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 877 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 558 (7.26%) Data Lake
3 552 (7.18%) Power BI
3 552 (7.18%) Tableau
4 467 (6.07%) NoSQL
5 451 (5.87%) SQL Server
6 418 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
7 408 (5.31%) Apache Ignite
8 399 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
9 377 (4.90%) Dremio
10 372 (4.84%) MongoDB
11 369 (4.80%) Apache Arrow
12 357 (4.64%) Relational Database
13 352 (4.58%) Big Data
14 262 (3.41%) GIS
15 246 (3.20%) MySQL
16 201 (2.61%) QGIS
17 181 (2.35%) Hadoop
18 163 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
19 159 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 906 (11.78%) Git
2 467 (6.07%) Jenkins
3 278 (3.62%) JIRA
4 272 (3.54%) GitLab
5 86 (1.12%) Cypress.io
6 72 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 59 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 56 (0.73%) Subversion
9 55 (0.72%) LabVIEW
10 45 (0.59%) Selenium
11 41 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 37 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 30 (0.39%) JUnit
15 29 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 27 (0.35%) Robot Framework
17 26 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
18 25 (0.33%) Eclipse
19 23 (0.30%) SonarQube
20 22 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,993 (25.92%) Finance
2 1,732 (22.53%) Social Skills
3 988 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 789 (10.26%) Front Office
5 748 (9.73%) Banking
6 368 (4.79%) Retail
7 355 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 353 (4.59%) Investment Banking
9 297 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 262 (3.41%) Marketing
11 243 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 221 (2.87%) Law
13 209 (2.72%) Electronics
14 177 (2.30%) Legal
15 168 (2.18%) Aerospace
16 165 (2.15%) Manufacturing
17 163 (2.12%) Telecoms
18 121 (1.57%) Games
19 114 (1.48%) Back Office
20 107 (1.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,940 (25.23%) Senior
2 1,586 (20.63%) Software Engineer
3 1,512 (19.66%) Developer
4 744 (9.68%) Analyst
5 731 (9.51%) Data Engineer
6 654 (8.51%) Lead
7 623 (8.10%) Python Engineer
8 556 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 519 (6.75%) Python Developer
10 407 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
11 394 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 352 (4.58%) Python Software Engineer
13 351 (4.56%) Data Analyst
14 325 (4.23%) Data Scientist
15 323 (4.20%) Full Stack Developer
16 292 (3.80%) Architect
17 287 (3.73%) Senior Developer
18 285 (3.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 265 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
20 244 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,118 (14.54%) React
2 673 (8.75%) .NET
3 566 (7.36%) CSS
4 536 (6.97%) Node.js
5 521 (6.78%) gRPC
6 515 (6.70%) Pandas
7 485 (6.31%) Protocol Buffers
8 483 (6.28%) AngularJS
9 480 (6.24%) HTML
10 413 (5.37%) NumPy
11 365 (4.75%) REST
12 304 (3.95%) SciPy
13 286 (3.72%) Vue
14 281 (3.65%) Django
15 259 (3.37%) .NET Core
16 241 (3.13%) Web Services
17 235 (3.06%) Kafka
17 235 (3.06%) Redux
18 225 (2.93%) ASP.NET
19 217 (2.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 708 (9.21%) Hedge funds
2 661 (8.60%) Algorithms
3 635 (8.26%) Fixed Income
4 530 (6.89%) Equities
5 495 (6.44%) Derivative
6 446 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 375 (4.88%) Data Structures
8 200 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 193 (2.51%) IoT
10 186 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 186 (2.42%) Product Ownership
11 177 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 158 (2.05%) Management Information System
13 156 (2.03%) Blockchain
14 153 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
15 142 (1.85%) Onboarding
16 134 (1.74%) Data Centre
17 131 (1.70%) Public Cloud
18 100 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
19 96 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,597 (20.77%) Linux
2 736 (9.57%) Windows
3 231 (3.00%) Unix
4 208 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 206 (2.68%) Android
6 167 (2.17%) Apple iOS
7 146 (1.90%) CentOS
8 132 (1.72%) Windows Server
9 129 (1.68%) Ubuntu
10 102 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
11 74 (0.96%) Debian
12 34 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 22 (0.29%) Solaris
14 21 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
15 20 (0.26%) Windows 10
16 19 (0.25%) CoreOS
17 18 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
18 16 (0.21%) SUSE
19 15 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
20 11 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,436 (31.68%) Software Engineering
2 2,388 (31.06%) Agile
3 1,801 (23.42%) DevOps
4 1,563 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1,206 (15.68%) Analytics
6 1,151 (14.97%) Machine Learning
7 1,117 (14.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,042 (13.55%) Computer Science
9 1,036 (13.47%) CI/CD
10 912 (11.86%) Data Science
11 842 (10.95%) Asset Management
12 756 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
13 740 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
14 719 (9.35%) Mathematics
15 697 (9.06%) Actionable Insight
16 681 (8.86%) Visualisation
17 669 (8.70%) Investment Management
18 622 (8.09%) Mentoring
19 621 (8.08%) Data Pipeline
20 607 (7.89%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,660 (34.59%) SQL
2 1,868 (24.29%) Java
3 1,808 (23.51%) JavaScript
4 1,096 (14.25%) C#
5 844 (10.98%) TypeScript
6 799 (10.39%) Bash
7 650 (8.45%) C
8 648 (8.43%) PowerShell
9 622 (8.09%) C++
10 480 (6.24%) R
11 335 (4.36%) Go
12 245 (3.19%) Perl
13 213 (2.77%) MATLAB
14 181 (2.35%) Ruby
15 167 (2.17%) Scala
16 132 (1.72%) Rust
17 126 (1.64%) Embedded C
18 117 (1.52%) PHP
19 111 (1.44%) Shell Script
20 108 (1.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,881 (24.46%) Degree
2 1,112 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 617 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 531 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 454 (5.90%) Master's Degree
6 320 (4.16%) DV Cleared
7 262 (3.41%) PhD
8 247 (3.21%) DBS Check
9 115 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 89 (1.16%) CISSP
11 77 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 67 (0.87%) Azure Certification
13 49 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
14 40 (0.52%) CCNA
15 38 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 37 (0.48%) CCNP
17 35 (0.46%) GIAC
18 34 (0.44%) CEH
19 33 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
20 32 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 254 (3.30%) QA
3 74 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 56 (0.73%) NIST
5 50 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 42 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 36 (0.47%) GDPR
7 36 (0.47%) SLA
8 25 (0.33%) PMO
9 21 (0.27%) ISO 26262
10 20 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.23%) MISRA
12 17 (0.22%) ISO 13485
13 16 (0.21%) COBIT
14 14 (0.18%) Automotive SPICE
14 14 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
15 13 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 12 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.13%) IEC 62304
17 10 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 953 (12.39%) Docker
2 185 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 107 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 87 (1.13%) Firmware
6 76 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 27 (0.35%) vSphere
9 23 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 20 (0.26%) NFS
12 12 (0.16%) HDFS
13 10 (0.13%) KVM
13 10 (0.13%) pfSense
14 8 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.065%) Ceph
15 5 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.065%) XenApp
16 4 (0.052%) VirtualBox
16 4 (0.052%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,001 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 834 (10.85%) Terraform
3 637 (8.28%) Ansible
4 273 (3.55%) Puppet
5 179 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 130 (1.69%) Grafana
7 100 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 66 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 30 (0.39%) Nagios
10 28 (0.36%) HAProxy
10 28 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.31%) ZABBIX
12 22 (0.29%) Kibana
12 22 (0.29%) Packer
13 21 (0.27%) Nmap
14 19 (0.25%) logstash
14 19 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.22%) WMI
16 16 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 647 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 526 (6.84%) Databricks
3 444 (5.77%) Google
4 376 (4.89%) Red Hat
5 306 (3.98%) Oracle
6 239 (3.11%) VMware
7 221 (2.87%) ESRI
8 166 (2.16%) IBM
9 122 (1.59%) Cisco
10 106 (1.38%) Splunk
11 88 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 80 (1.04%) SAP
13 76 (0.99%) Alteryx
14 62 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 55 (0.72%) Informatica
16 51 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 45 (0.59%) F5
18 44 (0.57%) Xilinx
19 42 (0.55%) OpenAI
19 42 (0.55%) SaltStack