Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 11 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 England region.

 Python
Location
3 months to
11 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank171182283
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Up+101
Matching permanent IT job ads9348781215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England1.185 %1.078 %0.640 %
As % of the Programming Languages category2.390 %2.271 %1.382 %
Salaries quoted8017171035
Average salary£42,500£45,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.550 %+12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£29,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %+7.140 %
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
390873866187906
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England49.59 %47.45 %46.29 %
Salaries quoted337763288073937
Average salary£40,000£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.100 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Python UKPython
UK

Python
Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the England region over the 3 months to 11 March 2010.

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 11 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-13562£55,000-
South EastUp+15135£35,500-11.25 %
East of EnglandUp+33122£35,000-
South WestUp+1456£35,000-10.25 %
West MidlandsUp+5427£40,000+36.75 %
North WestUp+417£33,500+6.34 %
YorkshireUp+1910£30,000-4.00 %
MidlandsDown-41£35,000-26.31 %
Python UKPython
UK

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, 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.

11018 (49.27 %)Perl
2960 (46.47 %)Linux
3856 (41.43 %)C++
4775 (37.51 %)Java
5667 (32.28 %)UNIX
6558 (27.01 %)SQL
7482 (23.33 %)Finance
8468 (22.65 %)Degree
9447 (21.64 %)C#
10437 (21.15 %)PHP
11428 (20.72 %)C
12368 (17.81 %)MySQL
13366 (17.72 %)OO
14358 (17.33 %)Ruby
15295 (14.28 %)JavaScript
16292 (14.13 %)Windows
17232 (11.23 %)HTML
18230 (11.13 %)XML
19226 (10.94 %)Banking
20212 (10.26 %).NET
21209 (10.12 %)Computer Science
22205 (9.923 %)Oracle
23201 (9.729 %)Open Source
24200 (9.681 %)Apache
25198 (9.584 %)CSS
26194 (9.390 %)SQL Server
27193 (9.342 %)Bash shell
28187 (9.051 %)Front Office
29183 (8.858 %)TCP/IP
30175 (8.470 %)Django

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, 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.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1232 (11.23 %)HTML
2230 (11.13 %)XML
3212 (10.26 %).NET
4198 (9.584 %)CSS
5175 (8.470 %)Django
6117 (5.663 %)STL
7107 (5.179 %)LAMP
8105 (5.082 %)AJAX
9103 (4.985 %)Web Services
10101 (4.889 %)XHTML
11100 (4.840 %)ASP.NET
1276 (3.679 %)J2EE
1372 (3.485 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1463 (3.049 %)SOAP
1557 (2.759 %)jQuery
1647 (2.275 %)Adobe Flex
1746 (2.227 %)Flash
1746 (2.227 %)WebSphere
1840 (1.936 %)XSLT
1938 (1.839 %)MVC
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1200 (9.681 %)Apache
247 (2.275 %)IIS
332 (1.549 %)WebLogic
332 (1.549 %)CMS
427 (1.307 %)Tomcat
522 (1.065 %)Drupal
616 (0.774 %)SAS
714 (0.678 %)nginx
714 (0.678 %)ColdFusion
714 (0.678 %)Rendezvous
714 (0.678 %)WebSphere MQ
812 (0.581 %)SharePoint
97 (0.339 %)WebSphere Application Server
97 (0.339 %)ActiveMQ
97 (0.339 %)Force.com
106 (0.290 %)Magento
106 (0.290 %)Zope
115 (0.242 %)BizTalk Server
115 (0.242 %)Plone
115 (0.242 %)Oracle Spatial
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
157 (2.759 %)MATLAB
241 (1.985 %)S-PLUS
329 (1.404 %)MS Excel
428 (1.355 %)MS Visio
521 (1.016 %)Photoshop
616 (0.774 %)MS Office
616 (0.774 %)SPSS
715 (0.726 %)Adobe Illustrator
84 (0.194 %)Spreadsheet
84 (0.194 %)Maya
93 (0.145 %)3ds Max
93 (0.145 %)MS PowerPoint
101 (0.048 %)QuarkXPress
101 (0.048 %)InDesign
101 (0.048 %)CA Clarity
101 (0.048 %)Blender
101 (0.048 %)SketchUp
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
129 (1.404 %)Front Arena
23 (0.145 %)SolArc RightAngle
31 (0.048 %)Endur
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1183 (8.858 %)TCP/IP
2140 (6.776 %)Internet
366 (3.195 %)DNS
451 (2.469 %)HTTP
537 (1.791 %)SNMP
634 (1.646 %)SAN
731 (1.500 %)VoIP
829 (1.404 %)Firewall
927 (1.307 %)SSL
1022 (1.065 %)Wireless
1120 (0.968 %)DSL
1217 (0.823 %)LTE
1315 (0.726 %)SMTP
1315 (0.726 %)SSH
1414 (0.678 %)iSCSI
1414 (0.678 %)Ethernet
1414 (0.678 %)LDAP
1512 (0.581 %)DVB
1611 (0.532 %)UMTS
1710 (0.484 %)Asterisk PBX
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1368 (17.81 %)MySQL
2194 (9.390 %)SQL Server
344 (2.130 %)PostgreSQL
441 (1.985 %)RDBMS
525 (1.210 %)SQL Server 2008
623 (1.113 %)SQL Server 2005
720 (0.968 %)Ingres
818 (0.871 %)Datawarehouse
917 (0.823 %)ETL
917 (0.823 %)DB2
1014 (0.678 %)KDB
1112 (0.581 %)Oracle 10g
1210 (0.484 %)BusinessObjects
1210 (0.484 %)OLTP
139 (0.436 %)Data Mining
146 (0.290 %)SimpleDB
146 (0.290 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
146 (0.290 %)GIS
155 (0.242 %)SQL Server 2000
155 (0.242 %)OLAP
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
188 (4.259 %)Subversion
248 (2.323 %)Selenium
331 (1.500 %)JUnit
331 (1.500 %)NUnit
427 (1.307 %)ClearCase
427 (1.307 %)FitNesse
522 (1.065 %)Git (software)
621 (1.016 %)Ant
720 (0.968 %)Mercurial
818 (0.871 %)Eclipse
916 (0.774 %)Maven
1015 (0.726 %)ClearQuest
1112 (0.581 %)CruiseControl
1210 (0.484 %)TeamCity
1210 (0.484 %)Visual Studio
1210 (0.484 %)QuickTest Pro
138 (0.387 %)JIRA
138 (0.387 %)LoadRunner
138 (0.387 %)WinRunner
147 (0.339 %)WATIR
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1482 (23.33 %)Finance
2226 (10.94 %)Banking
3187 (9.051 %)Front Office
4111 (5.373 %)Education
589 (4.308 %)Games
686 (4.163 %)Investment Banking
757 (2.759 %)Pensions
850 (2.420 %)Health
949 (2.372 %)Telecoms
1036 (1.742 %)Marketing
1130 (1.452 %)Back Office
1221 (1.016 %)Electric
1221 (1.016 %)Retail
1320 (0.968 %)Animation
1419 (0.920 %)Electronics
1419 (0.920 %)3D Graphics
1517 (0.823 %)Insurance
1615 (0.726 %)Government
1711 (0.532 %)Construction
189 (0.436 %)Publishing
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11075 (52.03 %)Developer
2204 (9.874 %)Senior Developer
3197 (9.535 %)C++ Developer
4168 (8.132 %)Web Developer
5159 (7.696 %)Software Engineer
6154 (7.454 %)Administrator
6154 (7.454 %)Python Developer
7139 (6.728 %)Java Developer
8123 (5.954 %)Systems Administrator
998 (4.743 %)Software Developer
1093 (4.501 %)PHP Developer
1190 (4.356 %)Analyst
1283 (4.017 %)Linux Administrator
1381 (3.921 %)Graduate
1381 (3.921 %)C# Developer
1472 (3.485 %)Consultant
1571 (3.437 %)Junior
1668 (3.291 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1765 (3.146 %)Programmer
1765 (3.146 %)Linux Engineer
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1209 (10.12 %)Computer Science
2201 (9.729 %)Open Source
3166 (8.035 %)Derivative
4127 (6.147 %)Mathematics
5117 (5.663 %)Fixed Income
691 (4.405 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
777 (3.727 %)Client/Server
876 (3.679 %)Equities
953 (2.565 %)Multithreading
1043 (2.081 %)Blog
1140 (1.936 %)Web 2.0
1237 (1.791 %)Social Network
1336 (1.742 %)Physics
1429 (1.404 %)Statistics
1527 (1.307 %)Clustering
1625 (1.210 %)Cloud Computing
1723 (1.113 %)Google App Engine
1822 (1.065 %)W3C
1921 (1.016 %)Interest Rate Derivative
2019 (0.920 %)SaaS
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1960 (46.47 %)Linux
2667 (32.28 %)UNIX
3292 (14.13 %)Windows
4144 (6.970 %)Solaris
5114 (5.518 %)Red Hat Linux
654 (2.614 %)Debian
747 (2.275 %)Ubuntu
846 (2.227 %)CentOS
934 (1.646 %)Windows Server 2003
1031 (1.500 %)HPUX
1123 (1.113 %)AIX
1222 (1.065 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1318 (0.871 %)Windows XP
1417 (0.823 %)OpenBSD
1417 (0.823 %)Fedora
1515 (0.726 %)Windows Vista
1611 (0.532 %)FreeBSD
1710 (0.484 %)SUSE
188 (0.387 %)Android
196 (0.290 %)Mac OS X
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1366 (17.72 %)OO
2168 (8.132 %)Agile Software Development
3120 (5.808 %)Scrum
4110 (5.324 %)E-Commerce
597 (4.695 %)Software Engineering
696 (4.647 %)Unit Testing
794 (4.550 %)Algorithmic Trading
882 (3.969 %)Web Development
981 (3.921 %)Risk Management
1080 (3.872 %)OOP
1178 (3.775 %)Automated Testing
1178 (3.775 %)Electronic Trading
1265 (3.146 %)TDD
1364 (3.098 %)Continuous Integration
1451 (2.469 %)Project Management
1546 (2.227 %)OOD
1638 (1.839 %)Software Testing
1737 (1.791 %)Configuration Management
1834 (1.646 %)Test Automation
1933 (1.597 %)Test Scripting
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11018 (49.27 %)Perl
2856 (41.43 %)C++
3775 (37.51 %)Java
4558 (27.01 %)SQL
5447 (21.64 %)C#
6437 (21.15 %)PHP
7428 (20.72 %)C
8358 (17.33 %)Ruby
9295 (14.28 %)JavaScript
10193 (9.342 %)Bash shell
11103 (4.985 %)Shell Script
1260 (2.904 %)Erlang
1354 (2.614 %)Jython
1453 (2.565 %)PHP5
1545 (2.178 %)Haskell
1545 (2.178 %)Delphi
1641 (1.985 %)Lisp
1737 (1.791 %)Assembly Language
1835 (1.694 %)ActionScript
1934 (1.646 %)PL/SQL
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1468 (22.65 %)Degree
287 (4.211 %)PhD
341 (1.985 %)RHCE
427 (1.307 %)Security Cleared
524 (1.162 %)RHCT
613 (0.629 %)CCNP
613 (0.629 %)CCNA
613 (0.629 %)Cisco Certification
710 (0.484 %)ISEB
88 (0.387 %)MBA
97 (0.339 %)ISTQB
97 (0.339 %)SC Cleared
104 (0.194 %)ITIL Certification
113 (0.145 %)PMP
113 (0.145 %)PMI Certification
113 (0.145 %)DV Cleared
122 (0.097 %)CISSP
122 (0.097 %)Microsoft Certification
131 (0.048 %)Sun Certification
131 (0.048 %)MCP
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1125 (6.050 %)QA
22 (0.097 %)SLA
31 (0.048 %)WCAG
31 (0.048 %)WAI
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
134 (1.646 %)NFS
219 (0.920 %)Xen
316 (0.774 %)VMware Infrastructure
414 (0.678 %)Samba
510 (0.484 %)Postfix
510 (0.484 %)VMware ESX
67 (0.339 %)Active Directory
67 (0.339 %)XenServer
75 (0.242 %)Veritas Volume Manager
75 (0.242 %)Veritas File System
75 (0.242 %)Veritas Cluster Server
84 (0.194 %)Oracle RMAN
92 (0.097 %)Squid
101 (0.048 %)MSMQ
101 (0.048 %)IMail Server
101 (0.048 %)OpenLDAP
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
126 (1.258 %)Nagios
210 (0.484 %)OpenView
36 (0.290 %)NetBackup
45 (0.242 %)Zenoss
54 (0.194 %)CA Wily
54 (0.194 %)BMC Performance Manager
54 (0.194 %)Data Guard
54 (0.194 %)BMC PATROL
63 (0.145 %)Backup Exec
63 (0.145 %)YUM
71 (0.048 %)MSI
71 (0.048 %)Cacti
71 (0.048 %)HP Quality Center
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1205 (9.923 %)Oracle
2107 (5.179 %)Red Hat
394 (4.550 %)Sybase
464 (3.098 %)HP
551 (2.469 %)Zend
643 (2.081 %)Microsoft
643 (2.081 %)Google
729 (1.404 %)TIBCO
826 (1.258 %)VMware
922 (1.065 %)JBoss
1019 (0.920 %)Cisco
1019 (0.920 %)Yahoo!
1115 (0.726 %)NetApp
1115 (0.726 %)Sun
1213 (0.629 %)Adobe
1213 (0.629 %)SAP
1311 (0.532 %)Bloomberg
1311 (0.532 %)Hyperion
1311 (0.532 %)BladeLogic
1410 (0.484 %)Wall Street Systems