The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 80 91 108
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 3274 3187 2665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 3.216% 2.812% 2.194%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.052% 5.162% 4.141%
Number of salaries quoted 2825 2725 2233
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +1.29%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54102 61745 64363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.14% 54.48% 52.98%
Number of salaries quoted 47063 54692 56354
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
UK

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Python across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England Python Jobs Demand Trend

Python
Salary Trend

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

England Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Python Salary Histogram

Python
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +14 1876 £50,000 - 261
South East +23 602 £37,500 -6.25% 82
East of England +16 398 £42,500 - 66
South West +14 128 £35,000 -12.50% 25
North West +9 93 £37,500 +7.14% 9
Yorkshire +16 76 £32,500 -7.14% 17
West Midlands -2 61 £32,500 - 11
East Midlands +10 30 £40,000 +23.07% 4
North East -18 16 £27,250 -22.14% 6
Python
UK

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 3013 (49.25%) Linux
2 2614 (42.73%) Java
3 2353 (38.46%) Perl
4 1903 (31.10%) C++
5 1809 (29.57%) SQL
6 1647 (26.92%) PHP
7 1536 (25.11%) Degree
8 1475 (24.11%) JavaScript
9 1468 (23.99%) Ruby
10 1395 (22.80%) MySQL
11 1265 (20.68%) UNIX
12 1254 (20.50%) C#
13 1168 (19.09%) Windows
14 1076 (17.59%) Computer Science
15 1045 (17.08%) OO
16 1032 (16.87%) C
17 1019 (16.66%) Agile Software Development
18 959 (15.68%) HTML
18 959 (15.68%) Bash shell
19 948 (15.50%) Finance
20 931 (15.22%) CSS
21 875 (14.30%) Apache
22 720 (11.77%) .NET
23 699 (11.43%) Oracle
24 690 (11.28%) Open Source
25 678 (11.08%) TDD
26 653 (10.67%) Web Services
27 627 (10.25%) XML
28 623 (10.18%) Django
29 584 (9.546%) QA

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 959 (15.68%) HTML
2 931 (15.22%) CSS
3 720 (11.77%) .NET
4 653 (10.67%) Web Services
5 627 (10.25%) XML
6 623 (10.18%) Django
7 494 (8.075%) jQuery
8 362 (5.917%) HTML5
9 361 (5.901%) LAMP
10 291 (4.756%) Ajax
11 245 (4.005%) REST
12 223 (3.645%) CSS3
13 222 (3.629%) Ruby on Rails
14 220 (3.596%) Spring
15 201 (3.285%) SOAP
16 192 (3.138%) ASP.NET
17 177 (2.893%) J2EE
18 171 (2.795%) JSON
19 163 (2.664%) RESTful
20 161 (2.632%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 875 (14.30%) Apache
2 296 (4.838%) Tomcat
3 238 (3.890%) Amazon AWS
4 185 (3.024%) nginx
5 138 (2.256%) CMS
6 107 (1.749%) IIS
7 102 (1.667%) WebLogic
8 90 (1.471%) Amazon EC2
9 88 (1.438%) Apache Solr
10 85 (1.389%) Drupal
11 82 (1.340%) MS Exchange
12 74 (1.210%) SharePoint
13 67 (1.095%) Apache Pig
14 62 (1.013%) Windows Azure
15 55 (0.899%) WordPress
16 35 (0.572%) Magento
17 34 (0.556%) Jetty
18 33 (0.539%) Documentum
19 30 (0.490%) ColdFusion
19 30 (0.490%) Confluence
Applications
1 205 (3.351%) MS Excel
2 53 (0.866%) MS Office
3 35 (0.572%) Photoshop
4 21 (0.343%) Google Apps
5 10 (0.163%) Maya
6 9 (0.147%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.147%) MS PowerPoint
6 9 (0.147%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.131%) InDesign
8 7 (0.114%) SPSS
9 6 (0.098%) 3ds Max
9 6 (0.098%) PowerPivot
9 6 (0.098%) ZBrush
10 5 (0.082%) Stata
11 4 (0.065%) QuarkXPress
12 3 (0.049%) Simulink
13 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.016%) Blender
14 1 (0.016%) Mudbox
14 1 (0.016%) Maple
Business Applications
1 12 (0.196%) Front Arena
2 11 (0.180%) SAP Business One
3 9 (0.147%) SAP LE
4 8 (0.131%) Google Analytics
5 5 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.082%) Kondor+
6 4 (0.065%) Endur
7 3 (0.049%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.033%) WebTrends
8 2 (0.033%) SiteCatalyst
8 2 (0.033%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
8 2 (0.033%) Optimost
9 1 (0.016%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.016%) Taleo
9 1 (0.016%) Cognos Controller
9 1 (0.016%) Bond Adapt
9 1 (0.016%) Summit
9 1 (0.016%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.016%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 481 (7.862%) HTTP
2 473 (7.731%) TCP/IP
3 395 (6.456%) DNS
4 353 (5.770%) Internet
5 226 (3.694%) Firewall
6 182 (2.975%) SAN
7 148 (2.419%) LDAP
8 131 (2.141%) DHCP
9 98 (1.602%) VoIP
10 86 (1.406%) SMTP
11 81 (1.324%) FTP
12 79 (1.291%) SSH
13 72 (1.177%) Network Security
14 71 (1.161%) NAS
15 60 (0.981%) VLAN
16 57 (0.932%) Wireless
17 52 (0.850%) iSCSI
18 46 (0.752%) SSL
18 46 (0.752%) Ethernet
19 45 (0.736%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1395 (22.80%) MySQL
2 523 (8.549%) SQL Server
3 447 (7.306%) NoSQL
4 416 (6.800%) PostgreSQL
5 377 (6.162%) Big Data
6 279 (4.560%) MongoDB
7 267 (4.364%) Hadoop
8 175 (2.860%) RDBMS
9 149 (2.435%) Redis
10 125 (2.043%) Apache Cassandra
11 62 (1.013%) Apache Hive
12 59 (0.964%) Data Mining
13 54 (0.883%) GIS
14 50 (0.817%) Data Warehouse
14 50 (0.817%) Oracle 8/8i
15 45 (0.736%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (0.686%) SQL Server 2005
17 41 (0.670%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 38 (0.621%) SQL Server 2008
19 35 (0.572%) KDB
Development Applications
1 536 (8.761%) Git (software)
2 468 (7.650%) Subversion
3 335 (5.476%) Selenium
4 166 (2.713%) Jenkins
5 162 (2.648%) Maven
6 136 (2.223%) Ant
7 121 (1.978%) JIRA
8 116 (1.896%) JUnit
9 115 (1.880%) Mercurial
10 111 (1.814%) Cucumber
11 103 (1.684%) Visual Studio
12 95 (1.553%) Hudson
13 84 (1.373%) FitNesse
14 83 (1.357%) WebDriver
15 73 (1.193%) Eclipse
15 73 (1.193%) QuickTest Pro
16 59 (0.964%) GitHub
17 58 (0.948%) LabVIEW
18 52 (0.850%) ClearCase
19 44 (0.719%) WATIR
General
1 948 (15.50%) Finance
2 356 (5.819%) Front Office
3 315 (5.149%) Banking
4 260 (4.250%) Games
5 169 (2.762%) Telecoms
6 131 (2.141%) Retail
7 130 (2.125%) Marketing
8 118 (1.929%) Investment Banking
9 112 (1.831%) Electronics
10 108 (1.765%) Financial Institution
11 84 (1.373%) Back Office
12 68 (1.111%) Publishing
13 53 (0.866%) Advertising
14 38 (0.621%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (0.605%) Billing
16 34 (0.556%) Military
17 19 (0.311%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.294%) Automotive
18 18 (0.294%) French Language
19 16 (0.262%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2755 (45.03%) Developer
2 698 (11.41%) Software Engineer
3 509 (8.320%) Administrator
4 490 (8.009%) Python Developer
5 455 (7.437%) Software Developer
6 448 (7.323%) Analyst
7 428 (6.996%) Senior Developer
8 421 (6.881%) Systems Administrator
9 326 (5.329%) Java Developer
10 322 (5.263%) Web Developer
11 308 (5.034%) Linux Administrator
12 272 (4.446%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 250 (4.086%) Graduate
14 216 (3.531%) Junior
15 199 (3.253%) C++ Developer
16 198 (3.236%) Systems Engineer
17 194 (3.171%) PHP Developer
18 190 (3.106%) Programmer
19 187 (3.057%) Test Engineer
20 170 (2.779%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1076 (17.59%) Computer Science
2 690 (11.28%) Open Source
3 291 (4.756%) Mathematics
4 241 (3.939%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 204 (3.334%) Hedge funds
6 202 (3.302%) Derivative
7 188 (3.073%) SaaS
8 179 (2.926%) Digital Media
9 178 (2.909%) Mobile App
10 160 (2.615%) Fixed Income
11 136 (2.223%) Equities
12 119 (1.945%) Physics
13 115 (1.880%) Cloud Computing
14 110 (1.798%) Client/Server
15 109 (1.782%) Statistics
16 97 (1.585%) Replication
17 94 (1.536%) Embedded Systems
18 77 (1.259%) Management Information System
18 77 (1.259%) Visualisation
19 76 (1.242%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 3013 (49.25%) Linux
2 1265 (20.68%) UNIX
3 1168 (19.09%) Windows
4 378 (6.178%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 273 (4.462%) Solaris
6 259 (4.233%) CentOS
7 253 (4.135%) Apple iOS
8 239 (3.907%) Ubuntu
9 235 (3.841%) Android
10 199 (3.253%) Debian
11 101 (1.651%) Windows Server 2008
12 90 (1.471%) Windows Server 2003
13 54 (0.883%) Embedded Linux
14 46 (0.752%) FreeBSD
15 44 (0.719%) Windows 7
16 42 (0.686%) Mac OS X
17 41 (0.670%) Mac OS
18 37 (0.605%) Windows XP
19 33 (0.539%) VxWorks
20 28 (0.458%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1045 (17.08%) OO
2 1019 (16.66%) Agile Software Development
3 678 (11.08%) TDD
4 554 (9.055%) Scrum
5 552 (9.023%) E-Commerce
6 414 (6.767%) Continuous Integration
7 390 (6.375%) OOP
7 390 (6.375%) Software Engineering
8 381 (6.228%) MVC
9 364 (5.950%) Web Development
10 266 (4.348%) Multithreading
11 258 (4.217%) Automated Testing
12 246 (4.021%) Configuration Management
13 231 (3.776%) Test Automation
14 228 (3.727%) Project Management
15 220 (3.596%) Analytics
16 218 (3.563%) Unit Testing
17 196 (3.204%) OOD
18 195 (3.187%) Software Testing
19 189 (3.089%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2614 (42.73%) Java
2 2353 (38.46%) Perl
3 1903 (31.10%) C++
4 1809 (29.57%) SQL
5 1647 (26.92%) PHP
6 1475 (24.11%) JavaScript
7 1468 (23.99%) Ruby
8 1254 (20.50%) C#
9 1032 (16.87%) C
10 959 (15.68%) Bash shell
11 399 (6.522%) Shell Script
12 213 (3.482%) Scala
13 205 (3.351%) PowerShell
14 159 (2.599%) MATLAB
15 135 (2.207%) VBA
16 116 (1.896%) Objective-C
17 108 (1.765%) VBScript
18 95 (1.553%) PL/SQL
19 94 (1.536%) R
19 94 (1.536%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1536 (25.11%) Degree
2 191 (3.122%) Security Cleared
3 165 (2.697%) ISEB
4 154 (2.517%) PhD
5 126 (2.059%) SC Cleared
6 108 (1.765%) ISTQB
7 78 (1.275%) RHCE
8 70 (1.144%) DV Cleared
9 51 (0.834%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (0.736%) Postgraduate
11 41 (0.670%) Microsoft Certification
12 33 (0.539%) CCNA
12 33 (0.539%) RHCT
13 31 (0.507%) MCSE
14 19 (0.311%) OCA
14 19 (0.311%) Oracle Certification
15 17 (0.278%) MCP
16 15 (0.245%) CCNP
17 10 (0.163%) CCIE
18 9 (0.147%) CNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (9.546%) QA
2 41 (0.670%) ISO 9001
3 38 (0.621%) SLA
4 24 (0.392%) DO-178B
5 16 (0.262%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.229%) ISO 9000
7 11 (0.180%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.147%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.131%) TickIT
9 8 (0.131%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.098%) WAI
11 2 (0.033%) JTAG
System Software
1 217 (3.547%) VMware Infrastructure
2 145 (2.370%) NFS
3 90 (1.471%) Active Directory
4 87 (1.422%) vSphere
5 75 (1.226%) Xen
6 74 (1.210%) Hyper-V
7 67 (1.095%) Squid
8 57 (0.932%) Postfix
9 56 (0.915%) Samba
10 49 (0.801%) Varnish
11 48 (0.785%) Sendmail
12 43 (0.703%) qmail
13 38 (0.621%) ISA Server
14 32 (0.523%) VMware ESX
15 24 (0.392%) VMware ESXi
16 11 (0.180%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 9 (0.147%) Apache Flume
18 8 (0.131%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
19 7 (0.114%) XenServer
19 7 (0.114%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 542 (8.859%) Puppet
2 223 (3.645%) Nagios
3 59 (0.964%) Cacti
4 55 (0.899%) ZABBIX
5 40 (0.654%) YUM
6 36 (0.588%) Splunk
6 36 (0.588%) SCCM
7 35 (0.572%) Zenoss
7 35 (0.572%) CFEngine
8 33 (0.539%) Munin
9 29 (0.474%) HP Quality Center
10 27 (0.441%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 22 (0.360%) AppManager
11 22 (0.360%) Opalis
12 21 (0.343%) Cobbler
13 20 (0.327%) NetBackup
13 20 (0.327%) Ganglia
14 19 (0.311%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (0.294%) Vagrant
16 15 (0.245%) SCOM
Vendors
1 699 (11.43%) Oracle
2 446 (7.290%) Red Hat
3 392 (6.407%) Microsoft
4 344 (5.623%) VMware
5 291 (4.756%) Cisco
6 200 (3.269%) Zend
7 148 (2.419%) Google
8 120 (1.961%) JBoss
9 100 (1.635%) HP
10 97 (1.585%) Facebook
11 95 (1.553%) Rackspace
12 83 (1.357%) Juniper
12 83 (1.357%) Sybase
13 71 (1.161%) IBM
14 61 (0.997%) Twitter
15 53 (0.866%) NetApp
16 52 (0.850%) Sun
17 51 (0.834%) Veritas
18 49 (0.801%) Perforce
19 45 (0.736%) TIBCO
Cambridge, East Anglia
You will be working across the full development lifecycle adding additional functionality to their existing web applications and also complete a number of new projects as they expand...
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will be working across the full development lifecycle adding additional functionality to their existing web applications and also complete a number of new projects as they expand...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
My client based in Bristol are looking for a Perl / Python Developer to join their established team... The successful candidate will have a strong academic or commercial knowledge...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
We're looking for a Software Developer to come on board to work on this system and continue to build it moving forward, the codebase is Perl and...
Stott & May
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Extensive Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Dorset
Due to continued growth they are looking to add to their existing, highly skilled software engineering team... Key experience - OO programming. Ideally with C/C++, Java, Python or...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £45000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
Berkshire
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
North London
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
Oxfordshire
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £70k + 25 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £70k + 25 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
ISL
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Flex Associates
Salary: From £40,000 to £65,000 per annum + Stock
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
South West
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £22000.00 - £60000.00
Posted: 14 June 2013
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 4 June 2013
Coventry, West Midlands
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013