Python Jobs in the South East

Python
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,169 1,496 2,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.71% 10.61% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.16% 26.45% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 848 704 1,157
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,377 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.85%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 5,655 9,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.99% 40.12% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,033 3,705 6,349
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Salary trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South East 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
Thames Valley -16 479 £55,000 -15.38% 166
Hampshire +1 347 £55,000 -8.33% 78
Surrey -6 214 £60,000 - 51
Berkshire -22 209 £60,000 -14.29% 71
Oxfordshire -3 186 £55,000 +57.14% 64
Buckinghamshire -31 84 £51,000 -16.73% 32
East Sussex +3 49 £42,500 -39.29% 13
West Sussex -11 37 £62,000 +30.53% 6
Kent -32 29 £55,000 - 13
Sussex -18 7 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Middlesex -28 5 £60,000 -36.84% 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (2.57%) OpenStack
2 29 (2.48%) ArcGIS
2 29 (2.48%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.54%) Apache
4 11 (0.94%) Confluence
5 10 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.86%) nginx
5 10 (0.86%) SAS
6 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.17%) CMS
7 2 (0.17%) Drupal
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.17%) WordPress
8 1 (0.086%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.086%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 79 (6.76%) Simulink
2 20 (1.71%) Stateflow
3 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.60%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.43%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.17%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.086%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.086%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.43%) Odoo
4 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.086%) FastStats
4 1 (0.086%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 381 (32.59%) Azure
2 286 (24.47%) AWS
3 128 (10.95%) Serverless
4 95 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (6.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 76 (6.50%) IBM Cloud
6 75 (6.42%) Azure API Management
6 75 (6.42%) Azure Functions
7 74 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 54 (4.62%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.68%) GitHub
10 35 (2.99%) GCP
11 32 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 30 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (2.48%) SaaS
15 26 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (1.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.79%) Firewall
2 37 (3.17%) Wireless
3 35 (2.99%) VPN
4 34 (2.91%) 5G
4 34 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.31%) Bluetooth
5 27 (2.31%) DNS
6 23 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.88%) GSM
7 22 (1.88%) ISDN
7 22 (1.88%) LTE
7 22 (1.88%) PSTN
7 22 (1.88%) UMTS
8 21 (1.80%) Network Security
9 20 (1.71%) SNMP
10 18 (1.54%) LAN
10 18 (1.54%) WAN
11 17 (1.45%) Internet
12 14 (1.20%) HTTP
12 14 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 127 (10.86%) MongoDB
4 122 (10.44%) Relational Database
5 76 (6.50%) DB2
6 51 (4.36%) Power BI
7 44 (3.76%) Hadoop
8 43 (3.68%) MySQL
9 42 (3.59%) GIS
9 42 (3.59%) Tableau
10 35 (2.99%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.48%) Data Lake
11 29 (2.48%) QGIS
12 25 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (2.05%) Big Data
14 20 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (1.20%) Redis
16 10 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 9 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 160 (13.69%) Git
2 84 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.22%) JIRA
4 43 (3.68%) GitLab
5 26 (2.22%) Robot Framework
6 23 (1.97%) LabVIEW
7 20 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.63%) Vagrant
8 19 (1.63%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.20%) ClearCase
9 14 (1.20%) Plastic SCM
10 13 (1.11%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.11%) Subversion
11 10 (0.86%) Trac
12 8 (0.68%) JMeter
13 7 (0.60%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.60%) JUnit
14 6 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 271 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 135 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 90 (7.70%) Finance
5 66 (5.65%) Electronics
6 57 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 54 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 33 (2.82%) Military
9 32 (2.74%) Marketing
10 30 (2.57%) Automotive
11 27 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.22%) Aerospace
12 26 (2.22%) Legal
12 26 (2.22%) Retail
13 20 (1.71%) Games
14 16 (1.37%) Tech for Good
15 15 (1.28%) Aviation
16 11 (0.94%) Law
16 11 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (25.06%) Software Engineer
2 261 (22.33%) Developer
3 250 (21.39%) Senior
4 102 (8.73%) Full Stack Developer
5 93 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 80 (6.84%) Azure Developer
7 75 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (5.30%) Lead
9 55 (4.70%) Architect
9 55 (4.70%) Python Engineer
10 54 (4.62%) Software Developer
11 48 (4.11%) Graduate
12 47 (4.02%) Junior
13 46 (3.93%) Analyst
14 39 (3.34%) Data Engineer
15 36 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (3.08%) Java Developer
16 32 (2.74%) Hardware Engineer
17 31 (2.65%) Consultant
17 31 (2.65%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (17.37%) React
2 157 (13.43%) AngularJS
3 154 (13.17%) HTML
4 151 (12.92%) Node.js
5 148 (12.66%) CSS
6 146 (12.49%) .NET
7 126 (10.78%) REST
8 118 (10.09%) Web Services
9 91 (7.78%) Vue
10 87 (7.44%) ASP.NET
10 87 (7.44%) jQuery
11 79 (6.76%) Ember.js
12 77 (6.59%) ASP.NET Core
13 76 (6.50%) Backbone.js
13 76 (6.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 59 (5.05%) Kafka
15 54 (4.62%) XML
16 48 (4.11%) Middleware
17 40 (3.42%) Spring
18 35 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 236 (20.19%) Algorithms
2 109 (9.32%) Data Structures
3 88 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (6.50%) Blockchain
5 65 (5.56%) IoT
6 31 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.05%) Embedded Systems
11 22 (1.88%) Acoustics
11 22 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.88%) Satnav
12 20 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.71%) CUDA
13 19 (1.63%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.37%) PKI
15 14 (1.20%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.20%) Robotics
16 13 (1.11%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 410 (35.07%) Linux
2 220 (18.82%) Windows
3 103 (8.81%) Android
4 82 (7.01%) Apple iOS
5 60 (5.13%) Unix
6 30 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (2.48%) CentOS
8 28 (2.40%) Embedded Linux
9 27 (2.31%) Ubuntu
10 22 (1.88%) Windows Server
11 12 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.43%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.26%) Debian
14 3 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (34.56%) Software Engineering
2 374 (31.99%) DevOps
3 339 (29.00%) Computer Science
4 318 (27.20%) Agile
5 275 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
6 237 (20.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 166 (14.20%) Mathematics
8 158 (13.52%) Machine Learning
9 149 (12.75%) Full Stack Development
10 148 (12.66%) Physics
11 130 (11.12%) CI/CD
11 130 (11.12%) Web Development
12 124 (10.61%) OO
13 108 (9.24%) Software Testing
14 104 (8.90%) User Experience
15 100 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
16 96 (8.21%) OOP
17 95 (8.13%) Containerisation
17 95 (8.13%) Mentoring
17 95 (8.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 383 (32.76%) Java
2 331 (28.31%) JavaScript
3 328 (28.06%) SQL
4 244 (20.87%) C#
5 233 (19.93%) C++
6 202 (17.28%) C
7 130 (11.12%) Bash
8 93 (7.96%) Fortran
9 80 (6.84%) PowerShell
10 63 (5.39%) MATLAB
10 63 (5.39%) Perl
11 58 (4.96%) R
12 55 (4.70%) Kotlin
13 41 (3.51%) TypeScript
14 37 (3.17%) Go
15 27 (2.31%) Ruby
16 26 (2.22%) Embedded C
17 17 (1.45%) Shell Script
18 16 (1.37%) Haskell
19 15 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 486 (41.57%) Degree
2 293 (25.06%) Security Cleared
3 193 (16.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 187 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 123 (10.52%) Master's Degree
6 110 (9.41%) PhD
7 37 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.94%) HND
12 9 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.51%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.51%) JNCIE
16 5 (0.43%) CCIE
16 5 (0.43%) CISSP
16 5 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.59%) QA
2 39 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.28%) ISO 26262
4 14 (1.20%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (1.20%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (1.20%) MISRA
5 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.60%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.51%) NIST
7 6 (0.51%) SLA
8 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.17%) GDPR
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.17%) PMO
9 2 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
System Software
1 177 (15.14%) Docker
2 45 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 30 (2.57%) Firmware
6 24 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.86%) NFS
8 10 (0.86%) pfSense
9 5 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.26%) HDFS
10 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 131 (11.21%) Terraform
2 128 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 117 (10.01%) Ansible
4 17 (1.45%) WMI
5 14 (1.20%) Puppet
5 14 (1.20%) ZABBIX
6 13 (1.11%) Grafana
7 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 10 (0.86%) SCDPM
8 8 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 5 (0.43%) SELinux
9 5 (0.43%) Suricata
9 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.34%) Kibana
11 3 (0.26%) Nagios
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.17%) Netcool
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 134 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.96%) IBM
3 87 (7.44%) Red Hat
4 49 (4.19%) VMware
5 41 (3.51%) Xilinx
6 31 (2.65%) SAP
7 29 (2.48%) ESRI
8 28 (2.40%) Splunk
9 25 (2.14%) Juniper
9 25 (2.14%) Oracle
10 24 (2.05%) Databricks
11 20 (1.71%) Google
12 19 (1.63%) WSO2
13 15 (1.28%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.20%) Cisco
14 14 (1.20%) Lauterbach
14 14 (1.20%) ServiceNow
15 13 (1.11%) Facebook
16 11 (0.94%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.86%) Veeam