Berkshire Python Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Python skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ely England Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Kings Langley Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Queensferry Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Royston Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Ayrshire South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stamford Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Troon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	226
Rank change on same period last year	+86
Matching permanent IT job ads	134	73
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	3.296 %	1.269 %
Salaries quoted	109	52
Average minimum salary	£35,658	£39,825
Average salary	£41,939	£44,833
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Average maximum salary	£48,220	£49,842
UK excluding London average salary	£36,257	£36,392
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4065	5754
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.146 %	2.356 %
Salaries quoted	3470	4883
Average minimum salary	£36,890	£36,671
Average salary	£40,925	£39,972
% change on same period last year	+2.38 %
Average maximum salary	£44,959	£43,273
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Python across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Python across the Berkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+44	66	£42,313	+6.31 %
Newbury	+12	14	£36,214	-24.55 %
Slough	+7	14	£42,938	-4.58 %
Bracknell	+27	2	£70,000	+7.69 %
Maidenhead	+1	2	£30,000	-43.60 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Python.

1 218 (84.17 %) Perl 2 148 (57.14 %) C++ 3 140 (54.05 %) C 4 132 (50.97 %) Linux 5 105 (40.54 %) UNIX 6 89 (34.36 %) Java 7 85 (32.82 %) TCP/IP 8 78 (30.12 %) PHP 9 57 (22.01 %) SQL 10 53 (20.46 %) ISDN 10 53 (20.46 %) VoIP 10 53 (20.46 %) Ethernet 11 52 (20.08 %) OO 12 47 (18.15 %) Internet 12 47 (18.15 %) Apache

13 43 (16.60 %) Cisco 14 41 (15.83 %) H.323 14 41 (15.83 %) Windows 15 39 (15.06 %) Ruby 16 38 (14.67 %) Degree 17 37 (14.29 %) Web Development 17 37 (14.29 %) PBX 18 33 (12.74 %) JBoss 19 32 (12.36 %) Tomcat 20 31 (11.97 %) JavaScript 21 30 (11.58 %) Fat Client 21 30 (11.58 %) Thin Client 22 29 (11.20 %) Computer Science 23 28 (10.81 %) Mathematics 23 28 (10.81 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 28 (10.81 %) JSP 1 28 (10.81 %) Servlets 2 25 (9.653 %) J2EE 3 24 (9.266 %) .NET 4 20 (7.722 %) WebServices 5 18 (6.950 %) EJB 6 15 (5.792 %) Struts 7 14 (5.405 %) XML 7 14 (5.405 %) ASP.NET 8 13 (5.019 %) MVC 8 13 (5.019 %) Hibernate 9 12 (4.633 %) HTML 10 8 (3.089 %) ActiveX 10 8 (3.089 %) DirectX 11 7 (2.703 %) Middleware 11 7 (2.703 %) STL 12 5 (1.931 %) Ruby on Rails 13 4 (1.544 %) Oracle Coherence 13 4 (1.544 %) XSLT 14 2 (0.772 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 47 (18.15 %) Apache 2 33 (12.74 %) JBoss 3 32 (12.36 %) Tomcat 4 3 (1.158 %) SAS 5 2 (0.772 %) WebLogic 6 1 (0.386 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (0.386 %) ESB
Applications 1 3 (1.158 %) MS Visio 1 3 (1.158 %) SPSS 2 1 (0.386 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.386 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 85 (32.82 %) TCP/IP 2 53 (20.46 %) ISDN 2 53 (20.46 %) VoIP 2 53 (20.46 %) Ethernet 3 47 (18.15 %) Internet 4 41 (15.83 %) H.323 5 37 (14.29 %) PBX 6 24 (9.266 %) Ethereal 6 24 (9.266 %) Wireshark 7 15 (5.792 %) Wireless 7 15 (5.792 %) DNS 8 14 (5.405 %) DHCP 9 6 (2.317 %) SMTP 10 4 (1.544 %) LDAP 11 2 (0.772 %) HTTP 11 2 (0.772 %) Firewall 12 1 (0.386 %) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (10.04 %) MySQL 2 18 (6.950 %) RDBMS 3 8 (3.089 %) ETL 4 3 (1.158 %) DB2 4 3 (1.158 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (1.158 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 22 (8.494 %) Subversion 2 20 (7.722 %) Eclipse 3 19 (7.336 %) Ant 4 1 (0.386 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 27 (10.42 %) Education 2 14 (5.405 %) Finance 3 9 (3.475 %) Telecoms 4 7 (2.703 %) Marketing 5 6 (2.317 %) Electronics 6 3 (1.158 %) Retail 7 2 (0.772 %) Pensions 7 2 (0.772 %) Government 7 2 (0.772 %) Health 7 2 (0.772 %) Advertising 8 1 (0.386 %) Electric 8 1 (0.386 %) Aerospace 8 1 (0.386 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 89 (34.36 %) Software Engineer 2 50 (19.31 %) Test Engineer 3 49 (18.92 %) Developer 4 31 (11.97 %) Analyst 4 31 (11.97 %) Test Development Engineer 5 27 (10.42 %) Software Developer 6 19 (7.336 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 11 (4.247 %) Graduate 8 10 (3.861 %) Administrator 9 9 (3.475 %) Systems Administrator 9 9 (3.475 %) UNIX Administrator 9 9 (3.475 %) Integration Engineer 9 9 (3.475 %) Linux Systems Administrator 9 9 (3.475 %) Linux Administrator 10 8 (3.089 %) Software Integration Engineer 10 8 (3.089 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 10 8 (3.089 %) Support Analyst 10 8 (3.089 %) C++ Developer 11 7 (2.703 %) Senior Software Engineer 11 7 (2.703 %) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 30 (11.58 %) Thin Client 1 30 (11.58 %) Fat Client 2 29 (11.20 %) Computer Science 3 28 (10.81 %) Mathematics 4 15 (5.792 %) Client/Server 5 10 (3.861 %) Video Conferencing 6 8 (3.089 %) MPEG 7 6 (2.317 %) Physics 8 1 (0.386 %) Russian Language 8 1 (0.386 %) Device Driver 8 1 (0.386 %) IPTV 8 1 (0.386 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 132 (50.97 %) Linux 2 105 (40.54 %) UNIX 3 41 (15.83 %) Windows 4 26 (10.04 %) Solaris 5 8 (3.089 %) AIX 5 8 (3.089 %) HPUX 5 8 (3.089 %) VxWorks 5 8 (3.089 %) SUSE 5 8 (3.089 %) Debian 5 8 (3.089 %) Fedora 5 8 (3.089 %) Ubuntu 6 2 (0.772 %) Embedded Linux 7 1 (0.386 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.386 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 52 (20.08 %) OO 2 37 (14.29 %) Web Development 3 21 (8.108 %) Agile Software Development 4 16 (6.178 %) SOA 5 15 (5.792 %) OOD 6 13 (5.019 %) Validation 6 13 (5.019 %) Requirements Analysis 6 13 (5.019 %) Performance Management 7 10 (3.861 %) OOP 8 9 (3.475 %) Document Management 8 9 (3.475 %) Problem Management 9 7 (2.703 %) Change Management 10 6 (2.317 %) TDD 10 6 (2.317 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (1.544 %) SC Cleared 12 3 (1.158 %) Direct Marketing 12 3 (1.158 %) Data Protection 12 3 (1.158 %) System Testing 12 3 (1.158 %) Data Modelling 12 3 (1.158 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 218 (84.17 %) Perl 2 148 (57.14 %) C++ 3 140 (54.05 %) C 4 89 (34.36 %) Java 5 78 (30.12 %) PHP 6 57 (22.01 %) SQL 7 39 (15.06 %) Ruby 8 31 (11.97 %) JavaScript 9 25 (9.653 %) AWK 10 21 (8.108 %) C# 11 19 (7.336 %) VBScript 12 9 (3.475 %) Embedded C 13 8 (3.089 %) Shell Script 14 2 (0.772 %) VC++ 14 2 (0.772 %) Embedded C++ 14 2 (0.772 %) DHTML 14 2 (0.772 %) PHP5 15 1 (0.386 %) VB 15 1 (0.386 %) Assembly Language 15 1 (0.386 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 38 (14.67 %) Degree 2 2 (0.772 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.386 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (3.861 %) QA 2 1 (0.386 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 14 (5.405 %) NFS 2 1 (0.386 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 43 (16.60 %) Cisco 2 25 (9.653 %) Red Hat 3 17 (6.564 %) Oracle 4 7 (2.703 %) Sun 5 3 (1.158 %) Teradata 5 3 (1.158 %) Netezza 5 3 (1.158 %) DATAllegro 5 3 (1.158 %) Greenplum 6 2 (0.772 %) Zend 6 2 (0.772 %) BEA 6 2 (0.772 %) IBM 6 2 (0.772 %) Microsoft 7 1 (0.386 %) ION Trading 7 1 (0.386 %) CheckPoint