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 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 15 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,375 14,492 29,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.14% 14.89% 17.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.93% 34.61% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,137 7,357 11,252
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £112,500
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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%

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 28 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 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
England -5 7,689 £70,000 -6.67% 2,878
UK excluding London -14 5,352 £55,000 -12.00% 1,446
Work from Home -4 3,980 £72,900 +1.25% 1,285
London -1 3,747 £87,500 +2.94% 1,547
Scotland -9 1,283 £50,000 -23.08% 125
South East -10 1,169 £55,000 -12.00% 365
North of England -24 935 £56,250 -13.46% 303
South West -7 903 £56,500 -5.83% 216
North West -19 606 £56,509 -13.06% 183
Midlands -36 512 £55,000 -4.35% 208
East of England -11 380 £60,000 -4.00% 180
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% 37
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86%

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
1 757 (8.07%) Apache
2 749 (7.99%) Apache Airflow
3 576 (6.14%) Apache Spark
4 363 (3.87%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.56%) GeoServer
6 136 (1.45%) SAS
7 71 (0.76%) Confluence
8 67 (0.71%) nginx
9 44 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 40 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 37 (0.39%) SharePoint
12 32 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
13 19 (0.20%) Camunda
14 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 16 (0.17%) CMS
16 14 (0.15%) Drupal
17 13 (0.14%) WordPress
18 9 (0.096%) IIS
18 9 (0.096%) Luigi
19 7 (0.075%) Ethereum
Applications
1 237 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (1.17%) Simulink
3 73 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 17 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.18%) SPSS
7 13 (0.14%) CANalyzer
8 11 (0.12%) GNU Octave
9 7 (0.075%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.064%) EViews
10 6 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.064%) Trello
11 5 (0.053%) Doxygen
11 5 (0.053%) Stata
12 2 (0.021%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.021%) InDesign
12 2 (0.021%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.021%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 21 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 14 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.075%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.064%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.064%) Odoo
6 5 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.053%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.043%) Shopify
8 3 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.021%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.021%) Primavera
9 2 (0.021%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.021%) Relativity
9 2 (0.021%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3,914 (41.75%) AWS
2 2,697 (28.77%) Azure
3 1,211 (12.92%) GCP
4 648 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 623 (6.65%) Serverless
6 519 (5.54%) Snowflake
7 503 (5.37%) dbt
8 437 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
9 375 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 333 (3.55%) SaaS
11 322 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
11 322 (3.43%) GitHub
12 213 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 198 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
15 168 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 167 (1.78%) OpenShift
17 160 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
18 153 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
19 145 (1.55%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 331 (3.53%) Firewall
2 242 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 217 (2.31%) DNS
4 146 (1.56%) VPN
5 123 (1.31%) Network Security
6 118 (1.26%) HTTP
7 117 (1.25%) Internet
8 110 (1.17%) DHCP
9 103 (1.10%) Wireless
10 102 (1.09%) WAN
11 95 (1.01%) SNMP
12 84 (0.90%) LAN
13 69 (0.74%) IPsec
14 53 (0.57%) Bluetooth
15 48 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.46%) 5G
16 43 (0.46%) MQTT
17 38 (0.41%) BGP
17 38 (0.41%) Wireshark
18 35 (0.37%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,040 (11.09%) PostgreSQL
2 682 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 642 (6.85%) Data Lake
4 599 (6.39%) Tableau
5 597 (6.37%) Power BI
6 572 (6.10%) Big Data
7 466 (4.97%) SQL Server
8 454 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
9 449 (4.79%) MongoDB
10 447 (4.77%) Relational Database
11 408 (4.35%) Apache Ignite
12 402 (4.29%) GIS
13 401 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
14 377 (4.02%) Dremio
15 369 (3.94%) Apache Arrow
16 335 (3.57%) QGIS
17 297 (3.17%) Hadoop
18 275 (2.93%) MySQL
19 207 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
20 170 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,080 (11.52%) Git
2 648 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 316 (3.37%) GitLab
4 305 (3.25%) JIRA
5 94 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 86 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
7 72 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 71 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 71 (0.76%) LabVIEW
9 60 (0.64%) Selenium
9 60 (0.64%) Subversion
10 53 (0.57%) Maven
11 52 (0.55%) CircleCI
12 47 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 39 (0.42%) JUnit
14 38 (0.41%) Cucumber
15 33 (0.35%) Artifactory
16 31 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 30 (0.32%) SonarQube
18 29 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 3,015 (32.16%) Finance
2 1,947 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 1,279 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,134 (12.10%) Law
5 1,063 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
6 865 (9.23%) Banking
7 832 (8.87%) Marketing
8 808 (8.62%) Front Office
9 518 (5.53%) Legal
10 437 (4.66%) Investment Banking
11 388 (4.14%) Retail
12 385 (4.11%) Public Sector
13 308 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
14 244 (2.60%) Electronics
15 200 (2.13%) Manufacturing
16 184 (1.96%) Aerospace
17 172 (1.83%) Telecoms
18 170 (1.81%) Games
19 145 (1.55%) Financial Institution
20 114 (1.22%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,604 (27.78%) Software Engineer
2 2,218 (23.66%) Senior
3 1,712 (18.26%) Developer
4 981 (10.46%) Data Engineer
5 969 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 915 (9.76%) Lead
7 771 (8.22%) Analyst
8 719 (7.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 688 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
10 584 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
11 561 (5.98%) Python Developer
12 444 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 375 (4.00%) Data Analyst
14 368 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
15 355 (3.79%) Architect
16 351 (3.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 346 (3.69%) Data Scientist
18 329 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
19 315 (3.36%) AWS Software Engineer
20 313 (3.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,378 (14.70%) React
2 834 (8.90%) .NET
3 730 (7.79%) CSS
4 627 (6.69%) Node.js
5 588 (6.27%) Pandas
6 553 (5.90%) AngularJS
7 538 (5.74%) HTML
8 521 (5.56%) gRPC
9 485 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
10 480 (5.12%) NumPy
11 432 (4.61%) REST
12 406 (4.33%) PySpark
13 376 (4.01%) .NET Core
14 361 (3.85%) Kafka
15 349 (3.72%) PostGIS
16 341 (3.64%) OpenLayers
17 340 (3.63%) Django
18 337 (3.59%) Leaflet
19 307 (3.27%) SciPy
20 289 (3.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,074 (11.46%) Algorithms
2 712 (7.59%) Hedge funds
3 636 (6.78%) Fixed Income
4 542 (5.78%) Cloud Native
5 530 (5.65%) Equities
6 495 (5.28%) Derivative
7 446 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 423 (4.51%) Data Structures
9 274 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 251 (2.68%) Onboarding
11 230 (2.45%) IoT
12 220 (2.35%) Public Cloud
13 194 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 189 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 188 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
16 170 (1.81%) Data Centre
17 159 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
18 157 (1.67%) Blockchain
19 119 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
20 99 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,838 (19.61%) Linux
2 777 (8.29%) Windows
3 380 (4.05%) Unix
4 212 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 208 (2.22%) Android
6 169 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 155 (1.65%) Ubuntu
8 150 (1.60%) CentOS
9 133 (1.42%) Windows Server
10 114 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
11 78 (0.83%) Debian
12 54 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 22 (0.23%) Solaris
14 21 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 20 (0.21%) Windows 10
16 19 (0.20%) CoreOS
17 18 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
18 16 (0.17%) SUSE
19 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
20 11 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,699 (39.46%) Software Engineering
2 3,512 (37.46%) Agile
3 2,093 (22.33%) DevOps
4 1,905 (20.32%) CI/CD
5 1,871 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 1,835 (19.57%) Machine Learning
7 1,751 (18.68%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,400 (14.93%) Analytics
9 1,233 (13.15%) Computer Science
10 1,109 (11.83%) SDLC
11 1,077 (11.49%) Visualisation
12 1,018 (10.86%) Data Science
13 898 (9.58%) Asset Management
14 891 (9.50%) Full Stack Development
15 880 (9.39%) Actionable Insight
16 842 (8.98%) Mathematics
17 826 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
18 763 (8.14%) Operational Stability
19 756 (8.06%) Mentoring
20 745 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 3,252 (34.69%) SQL
2 2,526 (26.94%) Java
3 2,178 (23.23%) JavaScript
4 1,293 (13.79%) C#
5 891 (9.50%) TypeScript
6 888 (9.47%) Bash
7 730 (7.79%) C
8 687 (7.33%) C++
9 671 (7.16%) PowerShell
10 509 (5.43%) R
11 435 (4.64%) Go
12 273 (2.91%) Perl
13 243 (2.59%) Ruby
14 223 (2.38%) Scala
15 218 (2.33%) MATLAB
16 175 (1.87%) PL/SQL
17 147 (1.57%) Embedded C
18 143 (1.53%) Rust
19 132 (1.41%) Shell Script
20 120 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2,018 (21.53%) Degree
2 1,315 (14.03%) Security Cleared
3 799 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 573 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 488 (5.21%) Master's Degree
6 330 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 295 (3.15%) PhD
8 247 (2.63%) DBS Check
9 151 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 89 (0.95%) CISSP
11 81 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 79 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 58 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 54 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
15 44 (0.47%) CCNA
15 44 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (0.44%) CCNP
17 38 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.37%) GIAC
19 34 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 321 (3.42%) QA
3 98 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 74 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (0.74%) SLA
6 57 (0.61%) NIST
7 48 (0.51%) GDPR
8 42 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.27%) PMO
10 21 (0.22%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.20%) MISRA
13 17 (0.18%) ISO 13485
14 16 (0.17%) COBIT
15 15 (0.16%) JTAG
16 14 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
16 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
17 13 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 12 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (0.12%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,079 (11.51%) Docker
2 208 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 113 (1.21%) Firmware
5 112 (1.19%) HDFS
6 108 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 76 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
9 27 (0.29%) vSphere
10 23 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 20 (0.21%) NFS
13 10 (0.11%) KVM
13 10 (0.11%) pfSense
14 8 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.053%) Ceph
15 5 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.053%) XenApp
16 4 (0.043%) VirtualBox
16 4 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,301 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 1,037 (11.06%) Terraform
3 713 (7.61%) Ansible
4 279 (2.98%) Puppet
5 221 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 169 (1.80%) Grafana
7 108 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 86 (0.92%) vCenter Server
9 30 (0.32%) Nagios
10 28 (0.30%) HAProxy
10 28 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.29%) ZABBIX
12 23 (0.25%) Kibana
13 22 (0.23%) Packer
14 21 (0.22%) Nmap
15 20 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 19 (0.20%) logstash
17 17 (0.18%) Argo
17 17 (0.18%) WMI
18 16 (0.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 793 (8.46%) Databricks
2 675 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 531 (5.66%) Google
4 490 (5.23%) Oracle
5 397 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 357 (3.81%) ESRI
7 273 (2.91%) VMware
8 168 (1.79%) IBM
9 144 (1.54%) Splunk
10 141 (1.50%) Informatica
11 135 (1.44%) Alteryx
12 122 (1.30%) Cisco
13 90 (0.96%) Cloudera
14 88 (0.94%) Bloomberg
15 87 (0.93%) SAP
16 71 (0.76%) Palo Alto
17 63 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 58 (0.62%) NetApp
19 57 (0.61%) Salesforce
20 54 (0.58%) SolidFire