Python
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,257 15,037 27,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 14.99% 17.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.95% 34.68% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,099 7,524 11,325
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,118 43,362 86,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.21% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24,897 27,723 43,724
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -5 7,547 £70,000 -6.67% 2,798
UK excluding London -13 5,326 £55,000 -12.00% 1,431
Work from Home -4 3,884 £72,250 +1.40% 1,393
London -3 3,651 £87,500 +6.06% 1,475
Scotland -8 1,309 £50,000 -23.08% 106
South East -12 1,135 £55,000 -12.00% 345
North of England -24 936 £55,000 -15.38% 279
South West -5 889 £56,500 -5.83% 236
North West -18 601 £57,000 -12.31% 168
Midlands -35 499 £55,000 -4.35% 216
East of England -10 388 £60,000 -4.00% 187
West Midlands -37 307 £55,000 -8.33% 146
Yorkshire -29 264 £55,000 -15.38% 85
East Midlands -31 189 £47,500 -13.64% 69
Wales -19 96 £51,528 -6.39% 37
Northern Ireland +3 79 £75,200 +25.33% 45
North East -19 71 £57,500 -8.00% 26
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 689 (7.44%) Apache
2 677 (7.31%) Apache Airflow
3 598 (6.46%) Apache Spark
4 362 (3.91%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.61%) GeoServer
6 143 (1.54%) SAS
7 72 (0.78%) Confluence
8 66 (0.71%) nginx
9 44 (0.48%) Jupyter
10 41 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 38 (0.41%) SharePoint
12 31 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 20 (0.22%) Camunda
14 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 16 (0.17%) CMS
16 15 (0.16%) Drupal
17 13 (0.14%) WordPress
18 9 (0.097%) IIS
19 7 (0.076%) Ethereum
19 7 (0.076%) Luigi
Applications
1 244 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (1.09%) Simulink
3 75 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 19 (0.21%) SPSS
7 18 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.14%) CANalyzer
9 11 (0.12%) GNU Octave
10 8 (0.086%) EViews
11 7 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.065%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.065%) Trello
13 5 (0.054%) Doxygen
13 5 (0.054%) Stata
14 2 (0.022%) Abaqus
14 2 (0.022%) InDesign
14 2 (0.022%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.022%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 21 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 14 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.076%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.076%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.065%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.065%) Odoo
6 5 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.043%) Shopify
8 3 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.022%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.022%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,822 (41.29%) AWS
2 2,624 (28.35%) Azure
3 1,179 (12.74%) GCP
4 639 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 633 (6.84%) Serverless
6 457 (4.94%) Snowflake
7 439 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
8 425 (4.59%) dbt
9 393 (4.25%) Amazon S3
10 343 (3.71%) GitHub
11 326 (3.52%) SaaS
12 325 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
13 189 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
14 185 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 180 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
16 173 (1.87%) OpenShift
17 168 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
18 162 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
19 161 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
20 145 (1.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 325 (3.51%) Firewall
2 232 (2.51%) TCP/IP
3 211 (2.28%) DNS
4 147 (1.59%) VPN
5 120 (1.30%) Internet
6 115 (1.24%) Network Security
7 111 (1.20%) HTTP
7 111 (1.20%) WAN
8 105 (1.13%) DHCP
9 104 (1.12%) Wireless
10 97 (1.05%) SNMP
11 87 (0.94%) LAN
12 67 (0.72%) IPsec
13 53 (0.57%) Bluetooth
14 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
15 47 (0.51%) 5G
16 40 (0.43%) MQTT
17 36 (0.39%) Wireshark
18 35 (0.38%) BGP
19 33 (0.36%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,031 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 673 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 587 (6.34%) Power BI
4 582 (6.29%) Tableau
5 576 (6.22%) Big Data
6 572 (6.18%) Data Lake
7 462 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 459 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
9 454 (4.90%) Relational Database
10 449 (4.85%) MongoDB
11 401 (4.33%) GIS
12 344 (3.72%) Apache Ignite
13 335 (3.62%) QGIS
14 333 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
15 302 (3.26%) Dremio
16 299 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
17 296 (3.20%) Hadoop
18 283 (3.06%) MySQL
19 222 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
20 173 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,062 (11.47%) Git
2 645 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 297 (3.21%) JIRA
4 288 (3.11%) GitLab
5 99 (1.07%) Cypress.io
6 88 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 72 (0.78%) LabVIEW
8 70 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 69 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 64 (0.69%) Selenium
11 60 (0.65%) Subversion
12 54 (0.58%) Maven
13 53 (0.57%) CircleCI
14 46 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 44 (0.48%) TeamCity
16 40 (0.43%) Artifactory
17 38 (0.41%) JUnit
18 36 (0.39%) JDeveloper
18 36 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
19 30 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 2,991 (32.31%) Finance
2 1,916 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 1,286 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,152 (12.44%) Law
5 1,078 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 848 (9.16%) Marketing
7 819 (8.85%) Banking
8 752 (8.12%) Front Office
9 516 (5.57%) Legal
10 392 (4.23%) Public Sector
11 388 (4.19%) Retail
12 383 (4.14%) Investment Banking
13 309 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
14 247 (2.67%) Electronics
15 202 (2.18%) Manufacturing
16 179 (1.93%) Telecoms
17 177 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 177 (1.91%) Games
18 150 (1.62%) Financial Institution
19 118 (1.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,529 (27.32%) Software Engineer
2 2,140 (23.12%) Senior
3 1,703 (18.40%) Developer
4 998 (10.78%) Data Engineer
5 930 (10.05%) Python Engineer
6 889 (9.60%) Lead
7 761 (8.22%) Analyst
8 672 (7.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 657 (7.10%) Python Software Engineer
10 564 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
11 551 (5.95%) Python Developer
12 437 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 361 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 358 (3.87%) Data Analyst
15 352 (3.80%) Data Scientist
16 338 (3.65%) Architect
17 336 (3.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 322 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
19 314 (3.39%) Senior Developer
20 285 (3.08%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (14.91%) React
2 847 (9.15%) .NET
3 714 (7.71%) CSS
4 598 (6.46%) Node.js
5 543 (5.87%) AngularJS
6 526 (5.68%) HTML
7 525 (5.67%) Pandas
8 449 (4.85%) gRPC
9 429 (4.63%) REST
10 421 (4.55%) NumPy
11 415 (4.48%) Protocol Buffers
12 395 (4.27%) PySpark
13 381 (4.12%) .NET Core
14 364 (3.93%) Kafka
15 351 (3.79%) PostGIS
16 341 (3.68%) OpenLayers
17 337 (3.64%) Leaflet
18 326 (3.52%) Django
19 286 (3.09%) Web Services
20 285 (3.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,069 (11.55%) Algorithms
2 650 (7.02%) Hedge funds
3 578 (6.24%) Fixed Income
4 532 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 476 (5.14%) Equities
6 445 (4.81%) Derivative
7 434 (4.69%) Data Structures
8 390 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 261 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 253 (2.73%) Product Ownership
11 232 (2.51%) Public Cloud
12 227 (2.45%) IoT
13 193 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 193 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 188 (2.03%) Management Information System
15 170 (1.84%) Data Centre
16 161 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
17 158 (1.71%) Blockchain
18 118 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
19 101 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,816 (19.62%) Linux
2 783 (8.46%) Windows
3 368 (3.98%) Unix
4 208 (2.25%) Android
5 204 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 172 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 147 (1.59%) Ubuntu
8 146 (1.58%) CentOS
9 140 (1.51%) Windows Server
10 108 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
11 74 (0.80%) Debian
12 54 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
13 21 (0.23%) Solaris
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 16 (0.17%) SUSE
15 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
16 12 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,602 (38.91%) Software Engineering
2 3,423 (36.98%) Agile
3 2,079 (22.46%) DevOps
4 1,890 (20.42%) CI/CD
5 1,858 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 1,812 (19.57%) Machine Learning
7 1,724 (18.62%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,376 (14.86%) Analytics
9 1,186 (12.81%) Computer Science
10 1,108 (11.97%) SDLC
11 1,067 (11.53%) Visualisation
12 1,037 (11.20%) Data Science
13 872 (9.42%) Actionable Insight
14 854 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
15 835 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
16 828 (8.94%) Mathematics
17 827 (8.93%) Asset Management
18 774 (8.36%) Operational Stability
19 755 (8.16%) ETL
20 744 (8.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3,226 (34.85%) SQL
2 2,471 (26.69%) Java
3 2,082 (22.49%) JavaScript
4 1,306 (14.11%) C#
5 898 (9.70%) Bash
6 823 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 717 (7.75%) C
8 692 (7.48%) C++
9 662 (7.15%) PowerShell
10 527 (5.69%) R
11 455 (4.92%) Go
12 282 (3.05%) Perl
13 254 (2.74%) Ruby
14 228 (2.46%) Scala
15 217 (2.34%) MATLAB
16 178 (1.92%) PL/SQL
17 149 (1.61%) Rust
18 147 (1.59%) Embedded C
19 134 (1.45%) Shell Script
20 124 (1.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,964 (21.22%) Degree
2 1,258 (13.59%) Security Cleared
3 769 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 534 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 465 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 304 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 287 (3.10%) PhD
8 215 (2.32%) DBS Check
9 137 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 81 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 79 (0.85%) CISSP
12 69 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 58 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 56 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
15 44 (0.48%) CCNA
15 44 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (0.44%) CCNP
17 36 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 34 (0.37%) HND
19 33 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 325 (3.51%) QA
3 97 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 71 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (0.77%) SLA
5 50 (0.54%) NIST
6 49 (0.53%) GDPR
7 39 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.29%) PMO
9 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
10 20 (0.22%) MISRA
11 18 (0.19%) CRD IV
12 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.18%) IFRS
12 17 (0.18%) ISO 13485
13 16 (0.17%) COBIT
13 16 (0.17%) IFRS 9
14 15 (0.16%) JTAG
15 14 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
15 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1,080 (11.67%) Docker
2 205 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.24%) HDFS
5 113 (1.22%) Firmware
6 104 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 69 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
9 28 (0.30%) vSphere
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
11 21 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.11%) pfSense
13 8 (0.086%) KVM
13 8 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.054%) Ceph
14 5 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 3 (0.032%) Gluster
15 3 (0.032%) Lustre
15 3 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,290 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 1,017 (10.99%) Terraform
3 681 (7.36%) Ansible
4 278 (3.00%) Puppet
5 213 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 172 (1.86%) Grafana
7 110 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 87 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 30 (0.32%) HAProxy
10 29 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.29%) Nagios
11 27 (0.29%) ZABBIX
12 24 (0.26%) Kibana
13 23 (0.25%) Packer
14 22 (0.24%) Salt
15 21 (0.23%) Nmap
15 21 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
16 20 (0.22%) logstash
17 18 (0.19%) Argo
18 17 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 776 (8.38%) Databricks
2 664 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 532 (5.75%) Google
4 509 (5.50%) Oracle
5 386 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.85%) ESRI
7 272 (2.94%) VMware
8 171 (1.85%) IBM
9 143 (1.54%) Informatica
10 139 (1.50%) Splunk
11 138 (1.49%) Alteryx
12 123 (1.33%) Cisco
13 91 (0.98%) Cloudera
13 91 (0.98%) SAP
14 86 (0.93%) Bloomberg
15 72 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 62 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 58 (0.63%) NetApp
18 54 (0.58%) Salesforce
18 54 (0.58%) SolidFire