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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,345 7,777 8,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.17% 13.40% 11.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.38% 33.89% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,049 2,802 4,076
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 £77,500 £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 22,861 22,951 33,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.66% 39.56% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 16,543 13,080 21,036
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,194 £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 29 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 29 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 1,276 £50,000 -23.08% 133
South East -11 1,173 £55,000 -15.38% 365
North of England -24 931 £55,500 -14.62% 303
South West -7 902 £56,500 -5.83% 217
North West -19 606 £56,500 -13.08% 185
Midlands -36 512 £55,000 -3.51% 210
East of England -12 381 £60,000 -4.00% 189
West Midlands -34 321 £55,000 -5.17% 141
Yorkshire -32 254 £55,000 -15.38% 82
East Midlands -36 187 £47,500 -10.38% 68
Wales -27 92 £55,000 -0.08% 35
Northern Ireland +5 81 £75,000 +25.00% 42
North East -18 71 £57,500 -8.00% 36
Channel Islands -2 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
1 393 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.80%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.39%) GeoServer
4 195 (3.65%) Apache
5 158 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
6 60 (1.12%) SAS
7 41 (0.77%) Confluence
8 34 (0.64%) nginx
9 32 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 24 (0.45%) 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 (0.094%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 4 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 113 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (2.04%) Simulink
3 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 23 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.21%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.094%) Doxygen
9 5 (0.094%) 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%) CATIA
11 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.019%) Revit
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 1,959 (36.65%) AWS
2 1,442 (26.98%) Azure
3 393 (7.35%) GCP
4 329 (6.16%) Serverless
5 319 (5.97%) Power Platform
6 271 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (3.99%) SaaS
8 191 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 168 (3.14%) GitHub
10 139 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 129 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 127 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 119 (2.23%) Azure API Management
14 118 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Functions
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.19%) IBM Cloud
16 101 (1.89%) Snowflake
17 98 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
18 91 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Firewall
2 141 (2.64%) TCP/IP
3 105 (1.96%) DNS
4 97 (1.81%) VPN
5 95 (1.78%) Internet
6 93 (1.74%) HTTP
6 93 (1.74%) Wireless
7 70 (1.31%) DHCP
7 70 (1.31%) Network Security
8 65 (1.22%) SNMP
9 54 (1.01%) Bluetooth
9 54 (1.01%) IPsec
9 54 (1.01%) LAN
9 54 (1.01%) WAN
10 48 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 42 (0.79%) 5G
12 41 (0.77%) MQTT
13 34 (0.64%) AMQP
14 29 (0.54%) LTE
15 26 (0.49%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 477 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 358 (6.70%) Big Data
4 341 (6.38%) GIS
5 314 (5.87%) MongoDB
6 313 (5.86%) Relational Database
7 291 (5.44%) Power BI
8 285 (5.33%) QGIS
9 266 (4.98%) SQL Server
10 221 (4.13%) Hadoop
11 211 (3.95%) Tableau
12 207 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
13 191 (3.57%) Data Lake
14 166 (3.11%) MySQL
15 145 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
16 136 (2.54%) DB2
17 120 (2.25%) Apache Hive
18 101 (1.89%) HBase
19 74 (1.38%) Redis
20 68 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 581 (10.87%) Git
2 379 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 196 (3.67%) JIRA
4 164 (3.07%) GitLab
5 86 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 69 (1.29%) LabVIEW
7 56 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 49 (0.92%) Subversion
9 46 (0.86%) Maven
10 42 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.64%) Selenium
12 28 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 25 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.47%) Eclipse
13 25 (0.47%) Gradle
14 24 (0.45%) CircleCI
15 21 (0.39%) Cucumber
16 20 (0.37%) Travis CI
17 19 (0.36%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 1,426 (26.68%) Finance
2 1,082 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,010 (18.90%) Law
4 964 (18.04%) Social Skills
5 714 (13.36%) Marketing
6 512 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
7 407 (7.61%) Legal
8 282 (5.28%) Public Sector
9 213 (3.99%) Electronics
10 200 (3.74%) Banking
11 178 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 169 (3.16%) Aerospace
13 167 (3.12%) Retail
14 142 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 124 (2.32%) Games
16 122 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
17 119 (2.23%) Financial Institution
18 98 (1.83%) Automotive
19 94 (1.76%) Investment Banking
20 58 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,928 (36.07%) Software Engineer
2 1,116 (20.88%) Senior
3 810 (15.15%) Developer
4 567 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 526 (9.84%) Lead
6 498 (9.32%) Python Engineer
7 468 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 401 (7.50%) Python Software Engineer
9 284 (5.31%) Analyst
10 258 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
11 245 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
12 219 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 202 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
14 180 (3.37%) Software Developer
15 176 (3.29%) Architect
16 175 (3.27%) AWS Software Engineer
17 168 (3.14%) Embedded Engineer
18 154 (2.88%) Data Scientist
19 152 (2.84%) Big Data Engineer
20 151 (2.83%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 833 (15.58%) React
2 562 (10.51%) .NET
3 517 (9.67%) CSS
4 417 (7.80%) Node.js
5 382 (7.15%) AngularJS
6 342 (6.40%) HTML
7 297 (5.56%) PostGIS
8 294 (5.50%) REST
9 293 (5.48%) OpenLayers
10 290 (5.43%) Leaflet
11 289 (5.41%) .NET Core
12 239 (4.47%) Kafka
13 236 (4.42%) PySpark
14 204 (3.82%) Spring
15 203 (3.80%) Web Services
16 188 (3.52%) Django
17 182 (3.41%) Vue
18 173 (3.24%) ASP.NET
19 165 (3.09%) jQuery
20 153 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 859 (16.07%) Algorithms
2 431 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 314 (5.87%) Data Structures
4 187 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 175 (3.27%) IoT
6 164 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 145 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 139 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 139 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 125 (2.34%) Blockchain
10 108 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 100 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 94 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
13 66 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 65 (1.22%) Market Risk
15 54 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
16 51 (0.95%) Robotics
17 48 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
18 43 (0.80%) Credit Risk
18 43 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1,368 (25.59%) Linux
2 589 (11.02%) Windows
3 262 (4.90%) Unix
4 179 (3.35%) Android
5 161 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 143 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 113 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 112 (2.10%) 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 21 (0.39%) 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 2,466 (46.14%) Software Engineering
2 2,157 (40.36%) Agile
3 1,269 (23.74%) CI/CD
4 1,259 (23.55%) DevOps
5 1,162 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,122 (20.99%) Machine Learning
7 1,096 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 989 (18.50%) SDLC
9 768 (14.37%) Computer Science
10 756 (14.14%) Operational Stability
11 626 (11.71%) Visualisation
12 602 (11.26%) Community of Practice
13 570 (10.66%) Actionable Insight
14 563 (10.53%) Analytics
15 518 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 506 (9.47%) Web Development
17 464 (8.68%) Full Stack Development
18 448 (8.38%) Test Automation
19 445 (8.33%) Decision-Making
20 442 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,605 (30.03%) SQL
2 1,596 (29.86%) Java
3 1,258 (23.54%) JavaScript
4 846 (15.83%) C#
5 611 (11.43%) C
6 606 (11.34%) Bash
7 500 (9.35%) C++
8 375 (7.02%) PowerShell
9 221 (4.13%) TypeScript
10 210 (3.93%) R
11 188 (3.52%) Go
12 164 (3.07%) MATLAB
13 158 (2.96%) Perl
14 152 (2.84%) PL/SQL
15 145 (2.71%) Embedded C
16 127 (2.38%) Ruby
17 118 (2.21%) Scala
18 102 (1.91%) Rust
19 99 (1.85%) Fortran
20 96 (1.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,146 (21.44%) Degree
2 1,110 (20.77%) Security Cleared
3 658 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 361 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 287 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 265 (4.96%) Master's Degree
7 193 (3.61%) PhD
8 105 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 48 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 46 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 32 (0.60%) CCNA
12 29 (0.54%) CCNP
12 29 (0.54%) HND
13 26 (0.49%) CISSP
14 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 22 (0.41%) SANS
16 21 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 169 (3.16%) QA
3 56 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 54 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (0.94%) SLA
6 35 (0.65%) NIST
7 23 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.41%) PMO
9 19 (0.36%) ISO 26262
9 19 (0.36%) MISRA
10 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.28%) GDPR
11 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 11 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.21%) JTAG
14 10 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.17%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 605 (11.32%) Docker
2 177 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (2.00%) Firmware
4 103 (1.93%) HDFS
5 98 (1.83%) Active Directory
6 93 (1.74%) Hyper-V
7 52 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
8 45 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.51%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 13 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) pfSense
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.094%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 716 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 523 (9.78%) Terraform
3 457 (8.55%) Ansible
4 182 (3.41%) Puppet
5 110 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 96 (1.80%) Grafana
7 73 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 48 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) HAProxy
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
1 405 (7.58%) Databricks
2 383 (7.17%) Microsoft
3 329 (6.16%) Oracle
4 303 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 301 (5.63%) ESRI
6 222 (4.15%) VMware
7 205 (3.84%) Google
8 153 (2.86%) IBM
9 126 (2.36%) Informatica
10 108 (2.02%) Splunk
11 90 (1.68%) Alteryx
12 78 (1.46%) Cisco
13 73 (1.37%) Cloudera
14 70 (1.31%) 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