Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,352 7,815 8,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.23% 13.45% 11.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.50% 33.93% 25.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 2,820 4,101
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,775 23,032 33,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 39.65% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,521 13,122 21,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland -9 1,283 £50,000 -23.08% 126
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
Wales -25 91 £53,750 -2.35% 34
Northern Ireland +4 82 £75,000 +25.00% 42
North East -20 71 £57,500 -8.00% 36
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86%
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 395 (7.38%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.79%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.38%) GeoServer
4 196 (3.66%) Apache
5 158 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
6 64 (1.20%) SAS
7 41 (0.77%) Confluence
8 35 (0.65%) nginx
9 34 (0.64%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 25 (0.47%) Jupyter
12 19 (0.36%) Camunda
13 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (0.19%) CMS
14 10 (0.19%) WordPress
15 7 (0.13%) Drupal
16 6 (0.11%) Luigi
17 5 (0.093%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
18 4 (0.075%) JBoss
Applications
1 112 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (2.06%) Simulink
3 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.093%) Doxygen
9 5 (0.093%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.019%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.019%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Odoo
3 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.056%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.056%) Shopify
5 2 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) iTrent
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,956 (36.55%) AWS
2 1,444 (26.98%) Azure
3 403 (7.53%) GCP
4 341 (6.37%) Serverless
5 319 (5.96%) Power Platform
6 273 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (4.00%) SaaS
8 193 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 166 (3.10%) GitHub
10 140 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
11 129 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 128 (2.39%) OpenShift
13 119 (2.22%) Azure API Management
14 118 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Functions
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.19%) IBM Cloud
16 100 (1.87%) Snowflake
17 97 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 93 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Firewall
2 139 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 105 (1.96%) DNS
4 98 (1.83%) VPN
5 95 (1.78%) Internet
6 93 (1.74%) HTTP
7 92 (1.72%) Wireless
8 70 (1.31%) DHCP
9 69 (1.29%) Network Security
10 65 (1.21%) SNMP
11 56 (1.05%) WAN
12 55 (1.03%) LAN
13 54 (1.01%) IPsec
14 53 (0.99%) Bluetooth
15 47 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.80%) 5G
17 41 (0.77%) MQTT
18 34 (0.64%) AMQP
19 29 (0.54%) LTE
20 28 (0.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
2 480 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 360 (6.73%) Big Data
4 341 (6.37%) GIS
5 323 (6.04%) Relational Database
6 313 (5.85%) MongoDB
7 291 (5.44%) Power BI
8 285 (5.33%) QGIS
9 265 (4.95%) SQL Server
10 222 (4.15%) Hadoop
11 211 (3.94%) Tableau
12 207 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
13 191 (3.57%) Data Lake
14 165 (3.08%) MySQL
15 146 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
16 136 (2.54%) DB2
17 120 (2.24%) Apache Hive
18 101 (1.89%) HBase
19 75 (1.40%) Redis
20 68 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 591 (11.04%) Git
2 384 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 196 (3.66%) JIRA
4 161 (3.01%) GitLab
5 86 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (1.31%) LabVIEW
7 56 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 49 (0.92%) Subversion
9 46 (0.86%) Maven
10 41 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 35 (0.65%) Selenium
12 28 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 25 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.47%) Gradle
14 24 (0.45%) CircleCI
14 24 (0.45%) Eclipse
15 21 (0.39%) Cucumber
16 20 (0.37%) JDeveloper
16 20 (0.37%) Travis CI
17 19 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 1,437 (26.85%) Finance
2 1,084 (20.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,015 (18.96%) Law
4 962 (17.97%) Social Skills
5 716 (13.38%) Marketing
6 516 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
7 408 (7.62%) Legal
8 283 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 213 (3.98%) Electronics
10 211 (3.94%) Banking
11 178 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 170 (3.18%) Aerospace
12 170 (3.18%) Retail
13 142 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 124 (2.32%) Games
15 123 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
16 119 (2.22%) Financial Institution
17 99 (1.85%) Automotive
18 94 (1.76%) Investment Banking
19 58 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,934 (36.14%) Software Engineer
2 1,120 (20.93%) Senior
3 806 (15.06%) Developer
4 570 (10.65%) Data Engineer
5 523 (9.77%) Lead
6 500 (9.34%) Python Engineer
7 469 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 402 (7.51%) Python Software Engineer
9 286 (5.34%) Analyst
10 259 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
11 244 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 216 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 199 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
14 181 (3.38%) Architect
15 180 (3.36%) Software Developer
16 176 (3.29%) AWS Software Engineer
17 166 (3.10%) Embedded Engineer
18 153 (2.86%) Big Data Engineer
18 153 (2.86%) Data Analyst
19 151 (2.82%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 841 (15.71%) React
2 561 (10.48%) .NET
3 515 (9.62%) CSS
4 424 (7.92%) Node.js
5 385 (7.19%) AngularJS
6 340 (6.35%) HTML
7 297 (5.55%) PostGIS
8 295 (5.51%) REST
9 293 (5.47%) OpenLayers
10 290 (5.42%) Leaflet
11 289 (5.40%) .NET Core
12 239 (4.47%) Kafka
13 234 (4.37%) PySpark
14 209 (3.91%) Spring
15 205 (3.83%) Web Services
16 185 (3.46%) Django
17 180 (3.36%) Vue
18 172 (3.21%) ASP.NET
19 165 (3.08%) jQuery
20 158 (2.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 859 (16.05%) Algorithms
2 436 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 315 (5.89%) Data Structures
4 191 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 175 (3.27%) IoT
6 164 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 146 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 141 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 139 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 125 (2.34%) Blockchain
11 109 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 100 (1.87%) Management Information System
13 94 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
14 65 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 65 (1.21%) Market Risk
15 54 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
16 50 (0.93%) Robotics
17 49 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (0.84%) Credit Risk
19 42 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1,362 (25.45%) Linux
2 590 (11.02%) Windows
3 262 (4.90%) Unix
4 178 (3.33%) Android
5 161 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (2.65%) Apple iOS
7 112 (2.09%) Ubuntu
8 111 (2.07%) Embedded Linux
9 94 (1.76%) CentOS
10 83 (1.55%) Windows Server
11 62 (1.16%) Debian
12 49 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
13 20 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
14 19 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 14 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
17 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Kali Linux
18 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,469 (46.13%) Software Engineering
2 2,169 (40.53%) Agile
3 1,272 (23.77%) CI/CD
4 1,269 (23.71%) DevOps
5 1,165 (21.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,125 (21.02%) Machine Learning
7 1,106 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
8 990 (18.50%) SDLC
9 763 (14.26%) Computer Science
10 758 (14.16%) Operational Stability
11 627 (11.72%) Visualisation
12 603 (11.27%) Community of Practice
13 581 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
14 570 (10.65%) Analytics
15 517 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 505 (9.44%) Web Development
17 462 (8.63%) Full Stack Development
18 449 (8.39%) Decision-Making
18 449 (8.39%) Test Automation
19 441 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,611 (30.10%) Java
2 1,607 (30.03%) SQL
3 1,271 (23.75%) JavaScript
4 843 (15.75%) C#
5 614 (11.47%) Bash
6 607 (11.34%) C
7 494 (9.23%) C++
8 375 (7.01%) PowerShell
9 218 (4.07%) TypeScript
10 209 (3.91%) R
11 199 (3.72%) Go
12 167 (3.12%) Perl
13 166 (3.10%) MATLAB
14 151 (2.82%) PL/SQL
15 145 (2.71%) Embedded C
16 137 (2.56%) Ruby
17 119 (2.22%) Scala
18 101 (1.89%) Rust
19 98 (1.83%) Fortran
20 95 (1.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,146 (21.41%) Degree
2 1,107 (20.68%) Security Cleared
3 657 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 358 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 288 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 263 (4.91%) Master's Degree
7 191 (3.57%) PhD
8 105 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 49 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 47 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.62%) CCNA
13 30 (0.56%) HND
14 29 (0.54%) CCNP
15 26 (0.49%) CISSP
16 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.41%) SANS
18 21 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 179 (3.34%) QA
3 56 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 54 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (0.93%) SLA
6 35 (0.65%) NIST
7 23 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.41%) PMO
9 21 (0.39%) ISO 26262
10 19 (0.36%) MISRA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.28%) GDPR
12 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
13 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
13 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
14 11 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.21%) JTAG
15 10 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.17%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 606 (11.32%) Docker
2 177 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (1.96%) Firmware
4 103 (1.92%) HDFS
5 98 (1.83%) Active Directory
6 96 (1.79%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
8 45 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.49%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) pfSense
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.093%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 722 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 527 (9.85%) Terraform
3 459 (8.58%) Ansible
4 182 (3.40%) Puppet
5 111 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 97 (1.81%) Grafana
7 72 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 47 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 12 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 12 (0.22%) Kibana
13 12 (0.22%) logstash
13 12 (0.22%) Nmap
14 11 (0.21%) Nagios
14 11 (0.21%) Podman
15 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 404 (7.55%) Databricks
2 380 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 341 (6.37%) Oracle
4 303 (5.66%) Red Hat
5 301 (5.62%) ESRI
6 222 (4.15%) VMware
7 213 (3.98%) Google
8 153 (2.86%) IBM
9 126 (2.35%) Informatica
10 108 (2.02%) Splunk
11 91 (1.70%) Alteryx
12 79 (1.48%) Cisco
13 73 (1.36%) Cloudera
14 71 (1.33%) SAP
15 54 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.97%) NetApp
17 49 (0.92%) SolidFire
18 46 (0.86%) Xilinx
19 40 (0.75%) Dynatrace
20 38 (0.71%) SaltStack