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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

 Python
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank13357187
Rank change year-on-year
Down-76Up+130
Matching permanent IT job ads168291165
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London1.480 %3.512 %0.882 %
As % of the Programming Languages category2.746 %6.497 %1.673 %
Salaries quoted151233145
Average salary£52,500£70,000£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00 %+27.27 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,000£40,000£35,100
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
611844799863
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London53.89 %54.06 %52.72 %
Salaries quoted539537287976
Average salary£52,500£50,000£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-4.760 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£75,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Python LondonPython
London

Python
Demand Trend

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

City of London Python Demand Trend

Python
Salary Trend

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

City of London Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the City of London region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

City of London Python Salary Histogram

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1178 (45.52 %)Linux
2170 (43.48 %)C++
3169 (43.22 %)Perl
4159 (40.66 %)UNIX
4159 (40.66 %)Finance
5149 (38.11 %)Java
6106 (27.11 %)SQL
7102 (26.09 %)OO
891 (23.27 %)Degree
981 (20.72 %)Banking
1080 (20.46 %)C#
1159 (15.09 %)Ruby
1256 (14.32 %)Derivative
1354 (13.81 %).NET
1453 (13.55 %)PHP
1552 (13.30 %)Windows
1651 (13.04 %)Front Office
1749 (12.53 %)Fixed Income
1749 (12.53 %)STL
1749 (12.53 %)Algorithmic Trading
1749 (12.53 %)Bash shell
1846 (11.76 %)Computer Science
1944 (11.25 %)MySQL
2043 (11.00 %)TCP/IP
2043 (11.00 %)Investment Banking
2142 (10.74 %)JavaScript
2241 (10.49 %)C
2241 (10.49 %)HTML
2241 (10.49 %)SQL Server
2241 (10.49 %)Mathematics

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
154 (13.81 %).NET
249 (12.53 %)STL
341 (10.49 %)HTML
433 (8.440 %)CSS
529 (7.417 %)Boost C++ Libraries
628 (7.161 %)XML
724 (6.138 %)Django
819 (4.859 %)ASP.NET
917 (4.348 %)SOAP
917 (4.348 %)Adobe Flex
1014 (3.581 %)AJAX
119 (2.302 %).NET Framework
128 (2.046 %)Web Services
128 (2.046 %)Middleware
137 (1.790 %)MVC
137 (1.790 %)Silverlight
137 (1.790 %)Ruby on Rails
146 (1.535 %)FIX Protocol
146 (1.535 %)jQuery
146 (1.535 %)XSLT
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (3.836 %)Apache
29 (2.302 %)SAS
29 (2.302 %)Tomcat
36 (1.535 %)SharePoint
45 (1.279 %)CMS
53 (0.767 %)Drupal
62 (0.512 %)SharePoint Server 2007
62 (0.512 %)ActiveMQ
71 (0.256 %)ColdFusion
71 (0.256 %)WebLogic
71 (0.256 %)IIS
71 (0.256 %)MQSeries
71 (0.256 %)Force.com
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
132 (8.184 %)MATLAB
223 (5.882 %)S-PLUS
39 (2.302 %)SPSS
44 (1.023 %)MS Excel
51 (0.256 %)Photoshop
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (1.535 %)Front Arena
24 (1.023 %)SolArc RightAngle
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
143 (11.00 %)TCP/IP
26 (1.535 %)VLAN
33 (0.767 %)Intranet
42 (0.512 %)Asterisk PBX
42 (0.512 %)AMQP
42 (0.512 %)DNS
42 (0.512 %)VoIP
42 (0.512 %)Internet
51 (0.256 %)LDAP
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (11.25 %)MySQL
241 (10.49 %)SQL Server
313 (3.325 %)RDBMS
410 (2.558 %)PostgreSQL
54 (1.023 %)ETL
54 (1.023 %)BusinessObjects
63 (0.767 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
63 (0.767 %)Oracle 8/8i
63 (0.767 %)SQL Server 2008
63 (0.767 %)SQL Server 2005
63 (0.767 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71 (0.256 %)Sybase IQ
71 (0.256 %)SQL Navigator
71 (0.256 %)TOAD
71 (0.256 %)Datawarehouse
71 (0.256 %)DB2
71 (0.256 %)Reference Data
71 (0.256 %)KDB
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
124 (6.138 %)Selenium
218 (4.604 %)JUnit
316 (4.092 %)NUnit
414 (3.581 %)FitNesse
512 (3.069 %)Subversion
69 (2.302 %)QuickTest Pro
76 (1.535 %)JIRA
85 (1.279 %)WinRunner
85 (1.279 %)LoadRunner
85 (1.279 %)Mercurial
93 (0.767 %)Ant
93 (0.767 %)WATIR
102 (0.512 %)Rational Robot
102 (0.512 %)CruiseControl
111 (0.256 %)Eclipse
111 (0.256 %)Team Foundation Server
111 (0.256 %)TeamCity
111 (0.256 %)Git (software)
111 (0.256 %)QALoad
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1159 (40.66 %)Finance
281 (20.72 %)Banking
351 (13.04 %)Front Office
443 (11.00 %)Investment Banking
524 (6.138 %)Education
616 (4.092 %)Pensions
712 (3.069 %)Back Office
712 (3.069 %)Games
811 (2.813 %)Health
99 (2.302 %)Telecoms
99 (2.302 %)Animation
106 (1.535 %)Marketing
113 (0.767 %)Insurance
113 (0.767 %)Government
113 (0.767 %)Auditing
122 (0.512 %)Financial Institution
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1195 (49.87 %)Developer
262 (15.86 %)C++ Developer
348 (12.28 %)Python Developer
442 (10.74 %)Tester
531 (7.928 %)Analyst
628 (7.161 %)Administrator
726 (6.650 %)Senior Developer
823 (5.882 %)Programmer
823 (5.882 %)Quantitative Developer
922 (5.627 %)Systems Administrator
1019 (4.859 %)Senior C++ Developer
1116 (4.092 %)Junior
1116 (4.092 %)Systems Engineer
1214 (3.581 %)Software Engineer
1214 (3.581 %)C# Developer
1214 (3.581 %)Linux Administrator
1313 (3.325 %)Web Tester
1412 (3.069 %)Java Developer
1412 (3.069 %)Applications Support
1511 (2.813 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
156 (14.32 %)Derivative
249 (12.53 %)Fixed Income
346 (11.76 %)Computer Science
441 (10.49 %)Mathematics
523 (5.882 %)Equities
619 (4.859 %)Web 2.0
619 (4.859 %)Open Source
717 (4.348 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
815 (3.836 %)Interest Rate Derivative
913 (3.325 %)Multithreading
1010 (2.558 %)Visualisation
1010 (2.558 %)Management Information System
119 (2.302 %)Client/Server
128 (2.046 %)Statistics
128 (2.046 %)Social Network
136 (1.535 %)Equity Derivative
136 (1.535 %)Clustering
145 (1.279 %)iPhone
154 (1.023 %)W3C
162 (0.512 %)Physics
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1178 (45.52 %)Linux
2159 (40.66 %)UNIX
352 (13.30 %)Windows
429 (7.417 %)Solaris
57 (1.790 %)HPUX
66 (1.535 %)Red Hat Linux
75 (1.279 %)Android
84 (1.023 %)Windows Server 2003
93 (0.767 %)Ubuntu
93 (0.767 %)CentOS
93 (0.767 %)Windows Server 2008
102 (0.512 %)AIX
111 (0.256 %)Debian
111 (0.256 %)MVS
111 (0.256 %)Windows XP
111 (0.256 %)FreeBSD
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1102 (26.09 %)OO
249 (12.53 %)Algorithmic Trading
341 (10.49 %)Electronic Trading
424 (6.138 %)Risk Management
521 (5.371 %)Software Testing
521 (5.371 %)Software Engineering
620 (5.115 %)Agile Software Development
718 (4.604 %)OOP
815 (3.836 %)Scrum
815 (3.836 %)Web Testing
914 (3.581 %)Project Management
914 (3.581 %)Automated Testing
1013 (3.325 %)OOD
1112 (3.069 %)Release Management
1112 (3.069 %)E-Commerce
1211 (2.813 %)Data Analysis
1211 (2.813 %)TDD
1211 (2.813 %)ITIL
1211 (2.813 %)Test Automation
138 (2.046 %)Web Development
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1170 (43.48 %)C++
2169 (43.22 %)Perl
3149 (38.11 %)Java
4106 (27.11 %)SQL
580 (20.46 %)C#
659 (15.09 %)Ruby
753 (13.55 %)PHP
849 (12.53 %)Bash shell
942 (10.74 %)JavaScript
1041 (10.49 %)C
1130 (7.673 %)Jython
1223 (5.882 %)Shell Script
1317 (4.348 %)Erlang
1414 (3.581 %)Korn
1513 (3.325 %)VB.NET
1612 (3.069 %)Haskell
1711 (2.813 %)PHP5
1810 (2.558 %)C-shell
1810 (2.558 %)ActionScript
1810 (2.558 %)VB
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
191 (23.27 %)Degree
235 (8.951 %)PhD
311 (2.813 %)RHCE
46 (1.535 %)RHCT
53 (0.767 %)ISEB
53 (0.767 %)PMP
53 (0.767 %)PMI Certification
53 (0.767 %)ISTQB
62 (0.512 %)Security Cleared
71 (0.256 %)MBA
71 (0.256 %)Sun Certification
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
137 (9.463 %)QA
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.512 %)Postfix
21 (0.256 %)MSMQ
21 (0.256 %)OpenLDAP
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.767 %)BMC PATROL
13 (0.767 %)BMC Performance Manager
21 (0.256 %)Nagios
21 (0.256 %)Cacti
21 (0.256 %)YUM
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
139 (9.974 %)Oracle
224 (6.138 %)Sybase
319 (4.859 %)TIBCO
412 (3.069 %)HP
59 (2.302 %)Microsoft
68 (2.046 %)Zend
77 (1.790 %)Red Hat
86 (1.535 %)SunGard
95 (1.279 %)Hyperion
95 (1.279 %)Symbian
104 (1.023 %)BladeLogic
104 (1.023 %)SolArc
104 (1.023 %)Cognos
104 (1.023 %)SAP
104 (1.023 %)Business Objects
104 (1.023 %)OpenLink
113 (0.767 %)Sun
113 (0.767 %)BMC
122 (0.512 %)NetApp
131 (0.256 %)Caplin