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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,274 14,992 27,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 15.04% 17.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.96% 34.78% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,082 7,468 11,254
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 33,170 43,111 86,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.24% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,518 43,441
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 15 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 15 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 7,565 £70,000 -6.67% 2,756
UK excluding London -14 5,327 £55,000 -12.00% 1,398
Work from Home -4 3,900 £72,000 +1.48% 1,368
London -2 3,669 £85,000 +3.03% 1,459
Scotland -8 1,309 £50,000 -23.08% 101
South East -13 1,135 £55,000 -12.00% 340
North of England -24 934 £55,000 -15.38% 278
South West -5 889 £56,500 -5.83% 237
North West -18 602 £57,000 -12.31% 167
Midlands -31 503 £53,500 -6.96% 205
East of England -10 386 £60,000 -4.00% 178
West Midlands -34 306 £55,000 -8.33% 139
Yorkshire -30 261 £55,000 -15.38% 84
East Midlands -28 193 £47,500 -13.64% 65
Wales -18 95 £52,014 -5.50% 36
Northern Ireland +3 80 £75,200 +25.33% 44
North East -20 71 £57,500 -8.00% 27
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
1 688 (7.42%) Apache
2 677 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
3 597 (6.44%) Apache Spark
4 362 (3.90%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.60%) GeoServer
6 140 (1.51%) SAS
7 71 (0.77%) Confluence
8 66 (0.71%) nginx
9 43 (0.46%) 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 (0.075%) Ethereum
19 7 (0.075%) Luigi
Applications
1 246 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (1.09%) Simulink
3 74 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 19 (0.20%) 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 (0.075%) 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 (0.075%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.075%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.075%) 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%) Primavera
9 2 (0.022%) Relativity
9 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,839 (41.40%) AWS
2 2,628 (28.34%) Azure
3 1,181 (12.73%) GCP
4 645 (6.95%) Power Platform
5 643 (6.93%) Serverless
6 457 (4.93%) Snowflake
7 435 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 424 (4.57%) dbt
9 390 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 341 (3.68%) GitHub
11 335 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 327 (3.53%) SaaS
13 190 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
14 184 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 181 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
16 173 (1.87%) OpenShift
17 170 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
18 163 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
19 161 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
20 145 (1.56%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 326 (3.52%) Firewall
2 233 (2.51%) TCP/IP
3 211 (2.28%) DNS
4 146 (1.57%) VPN
5 119 (1.28%) Internet
6 115 (1.24%) Network Security
7 113 (1.22%) HTTP
8 108 (1.16%) WAN
9 105 (1.13%) DHCP
10 104 (1.12%) Wireless
11 96 (1.04%) SNMP
12 86 (0.93%) LAN
13 67 (0.72%) IPsec
14 53 (0.57%) Bluetooth
15 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
16 46 (0.50%) 5G
17 41 (0.44%) MQTT
18 36 (0.39%) Wireshark
19 35 (0.38%) BGP
20 34 (0.37%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,030 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 674 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 594 (6.41%) Tableau
4 593 (6.39%) Power BI
5 574 (6.19%) Big Data
6 573 (6.18%) Data Lake
7 463 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
8 462 (4.98%) SQL Server
9 453 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 447 (4.82%) MongoDB
11 401 (4.32%) GIS
12 344 (3.71%) Apache Ignite
13 335 (3.61%) QGIS
14 333 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
15 302 (3.26%) Dremio
16 299 (3.22%) Apache Arrow
17 296 (3.19%) Hadoop
18 283 (3.05%) MySQL
19 219 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
20 177 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,082 (11.67%) Git
2 645 (6.95%) Jenkins
3 299 (3.22%) JIRA
4 298 (3.21%) GitLab
5 98 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 88 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 71 (0.77%) LabVIEW
7 71 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 70 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 64 (0.69%) Selenium
10 60 (0.65%) Subversion
11 55 (0.59%) Maven
12 53 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 45 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 45 (0.49%) TeamCity
14 39 (0.42%) Artifactory
15 38 (0.41%) JUnit
16 36 (0.39%) JDeveloper
17 35 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
18 30 (0.32%) Gradle
General
1 2,988 (32.22%) Finance
2 1,941 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 1,288 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,152 (12.42%) Law
5 1,086 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
6 847 (9.13%) Marketing
7 814 (8.78%) Banking
8 750 (8.09%) Front Office
9 516 (5.56%) Legal
10 392 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 392 (4.23%) Retail
11 383 (4.13%) Investment Banking
12 312 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 248 (2.67%) Electronics
14 202 (2.18%) Manufacturing
15 181 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 178 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 177 (1.91%) Games
18 150 (1.62%) Financial Institution
19 119 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,540 (27.39%) Software Engineer
2 2,152 (23.20%) Senior
3 1,700 (18.33%) Developer
4 1,002 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 934 (10.07%) Python Engineer
6 892 (9.62%) Lead
7 765 (8.25%) Analyst
8 672 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 660 (7.12%) Python Software Engineer
10 568 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
11 551 (5.94%) Python Developer
12 436 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 365 (3.94%) Data Analyst
14 361 (3.89%) Full Stack Developer
15 356 (3.84%) Data Scientist
16 338 (3.64%) Architect
17 336 (3.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 323 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
19 312 (3.36%) Senior Developer
20 288 (3.11%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,381 (14.89%) React
2 842 (9.08%) .NET
3 716 (7.72%) CSS
4 601 (6.48%) Node.js
5 542 (5.84%) AngularJS
6 530 (5.71%) HTML
7 529 (5.70%) Pandas
8 450 (4.85%) gRPC
9 432 (4.66%) REST
10 421 (4.54%) NumPy
11 415 (4.47%) Protocol Buffers
12 401 (4.32%) PySpark
13 378 (4.08%) .NET Core
14 364 (3.92%) Kafka
15 349 (3.76%) PostGIS
16 341 (3.68%) OpenLayers
17 337 (3.63%) Leaflet
18 332 (3.58%) Django
19 287 (3.09%) Web Services
20 282 (3.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,075 (11.59%) Algorithms
2 651 (7.02%) Hedge funds
3 578 (6.23%) Fixed Income
4 530 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 476 (5.13%) Equities
6 444 (4.79%) Derivative
7 434 (4.68%) Data Structures
8 391 (4.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 260 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 252 (2.72%) Product Ownership
11 231 (2.49%) Public Cloud
12 228 (2.46%) IoT
13 192 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 192 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 191 (2.06%) Management Information System
15 169 (1.82%) Data Centre
16 163 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
17 158 (1.70%) Blockchain
18 119 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
19 101 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,818 (19.60%) Linux
2 782 (8.43%) Windows
3 367 (3.96%) Unix
4 207 (2.23%) Android
5 206 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 172 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 148 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 146 (1.57%) CentOS
9 138 (1.49%) Windows Server
10 108 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
11 75 (0.81%) Debian
12 54 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
13 21 (0.23%) Solaris
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 19 (0.20%) 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 3,612 (38.95%) Software Engineering
2 3,435 (37.04%) Agile
3 2,078 (22.41%) DevOps
4 1,902 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 1,881 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 1,814 (19.56%) Machine Learning
7 1,729 (18.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,385 (14.93%) Analytics
9 1,192 (12.85%) Computer Science
10 1,108 (11.95%) SDLC
11 1,079 (11.63%) Visualisation
12 1,040 (11.21%) Data Science
13 887 (9.56%) Actionable Insight
14 866 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
15 840 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
16 838 (9.04%) Mathematics
17 826 (8.91%) Asset Management
18 775 (8.36%) Operational Stability
19 759 (8.18%) ETL
20 749 (8.08%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 3,245 (34.99%) SQL
2 2,478 (26.72%) Java
3 2,082 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 1,306 (14.08%) C#
5 899 (9.69%) Bash
6 818 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 719 (7.75%) C
8 695 (7.49%) C++
9 660 (7.12%) PowerShell
10 524 (5.65%) R
11 454 (4.90%) Go
12 283 (3.05%) Perl
13 252 (2.72%) Ruby
14 229 (2.47%) Scala
15 216 (2.33%) MATLAB
16 179 (1.93%) PL/SQL
17 148 (1.60%) Rust
18 147 (1.59%) Embedded C
19 133 (1.43%) Shell Script
20 124 (1.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,983 (21.38%) Degree
2 1,256 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 765 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 537 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 471 (5.08%) Master's Degree
6 305 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 289 (3.12%) PhD
8 238 (2.57%) DBS Check
9 136 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 81 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 80 (0.86%) CISSP
12 69 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 58 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 56 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
15 45 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 44 (0.47%) CCNA
17 41 (0.44%) CCNP
18 36 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.36%) GIAC
19 33 (0.36%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 327 (3.53%) QA
3 98 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 71 (0.77%) SLA
5 70 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (0.53%) NIST
7 48 (0.52%) GDPR
8 39 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.29%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.22%) MISRA
12 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.18%) ISO 13485
13 16 (0.17%) COBIT
14 15 (0.16%) CRD IV
14 15 (0.16%) JTAG
15 14 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
15 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
15 14 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,075 (11.59%) Docker
2 202 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.24%) HDFS
5 113 (1.22%) Firmware
6 104 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 70 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
9 28 (0.30%) vSphere
10 22 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
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 1,286 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 1,016 (10.96%) Terraform
3 678 (7.31%) Ansible
4 278 (3.00%) Puppet
5 211 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 170 (1.83%) Grafana
7 109 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 87 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 29 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 29 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.30%) Nagios
11 27 (0.29%) ZABBIX
12 24 (0.26%) Kibana
13 23 (0.25%) Packer
14 22 (0.24%) Salt
14 22 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.23%) Nmap
16 20 (0.22%) logstash
17 18 (0.19%) Argo
18 17 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 791 (8.53%) Databricks
2 666 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 535 (5.77%) Google
4 509 (5.49%) Oracle
5 388 (4.18%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.84%) ESRI
7 269 (2.90%) VMware
8 171 (1.84%) 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 63 (0.68%) Atlassian
17 58 (0.63%) NetApp
18 54 (0.58%) Salesforce
18 54 (0.58%) SolidFire