England Python Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Python skills within the England 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 24 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 West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	217	277
Rank change on same period last year	+60
Matching permanent IT job ads	1636	1482
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.862 %	0.608 %
As % of the category below	1.953 %	1.374 %
Salaries quoted	1421	1173
Average minimum salary	£39,728	£41,450
Average salary	£44,145	£46,194
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum salary	£48,563	£50,938
UK excluding London average salary	£36,178	£36,472
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	83780	107867
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.12 %	44.24 %
Salaries quoted	71290	87467
Average minimum salary	£37,412	£39,339
Average salary	£41,061	£43,175
% change on same period last year	-4.89 %
Average maximum salary	£44,710	£47,011
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
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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 England 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 England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London	+52	880	£51,834	-0.54 %
South East	+87	317	£39,066	+1.13 %
East of England	+38	281	£35,002	-1.07 %
South West	-5	62	£38,914	+13.66 %
North West	+52	44	£28,256	-7.63 %
Yorkshire	+32	36	£31,722	-13.72 %
West Midlands	-5	11	£30,278	-10.43 %
East Midlands	+21	6	£32,500	+1.56 %
North East	-	3	£28,000	-
Midlands	+23	3	£42,000	+20.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 1830 (59.75 %) Perl 2 1370 (44.73 %) Linux 3 1141 (37.25 %) C++ 4 1090 (35.59 %) Java 5 1043 (34.05 %) UNIX 6 940 (30.69 %) PHP 7 788 (25.73 %) SQL 8 657 (21.45 %) C 9 654 (21.35 %) Windows 10 644 (21.03 %) Finance 11 566 (18.48 %) MySQL 12 520 (16.98 %) Degree 13 515 (16.81 %) OO 14 514 (16.78 %) Ruby 15 485 (15.83 %) JavaScript

16 479 (15.64 %) C# 17 445 (14.53 %) XML 18 438 (14.30 %) Oracle 19 425 (13.88 %) SQL Server 20 413 (13.48 %) Apache 21 400 (13.06 %) .NET 22 362 (11.82 %) HTML 23 358 (11.69 %) CSS 24 313 (10.22 %) Banking 25 272 (8.880 %) Internet 26 271 (8.848 %) TCP/IP 27 270 (8.815 %) Solaris 28 217 (7.085 %) Computer Science 29 212 (6.921 %) AJAX 30 205 (6.693 %) XHTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 1 445 (14.53 %) XML 2 400 (13.06 %) .NET 3 362 (11.82 %) HTML 4 358 (11.69 %) CSS 5 212 (6.921 %) AJAX 6 205 (6.693 %) XHTML 7 155 (5.060 %) ASP.NET 7 155 (5.060 %) J2EE 8 148 (4.832 %) Ruby on Rails 9 127 (4.146 %) LAMP 10 125 (4.081 %) WebServices 11 117 (3.820 %) XSLT 12 115 (3.754 %) Django 13 100 (3.265 %) STL 14 95 (3.102 %) JSP 15 74 (2.416 %) ASP 16 60 (1.959 %) SOAP 17 56 (1.828 %) WebSphere 18 50 (1.632 %) Hibernate 19 49 (1.600 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 413 (13.48 %) Apache 2 111 (3.624 %) Tomcat 3 88 (2.873 %) JBoss 4 41 (1.339 %) IIS 5 37 (1.208 %) WebLogic 6 35 (1.143 %) CMS 7 31 (1.012 %) MS Exchange 8 29 (0.947 %) Zope 9 25 (0.816 %) EPiServer 10 22 (0.718 %) Plone 11 18 (0.588 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 11 (0.359 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 9 (0.294 %) Oracle Application Server 13 9 (0.294 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 9 (0.294 %) TIBCO EMS 14 7 (0.229 %) WebSphere MQ 15 6 (0.196 %) Rendezvous 16 5 (0.163 %) SAS 16 5 (0.163 %) MQSeries 17 4 (0.131 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 132 (4.310 %) MS Excel 2 86 (2.808 %) MATLAB 3 38 (1.241 %) MS Visio 4 24 (0.784 %) Photoshop 5 11 (0.359 %) Spreadsheet 6 10 (0.326 %) Maya 6 10 (0.326 %) 3ds Max 7 6 (0.196 %) MS PowerPoint 7 6 (0.196 %) MS Project 7 6 (0.196 %) MS Office 8 4 (0.131 %) S-PLUS 8 4 (0.131 %) SPSS 9 2 (0.065 %) PageMaker 9 2 (0.065 %) InDesign 10 1 (0.033 %) Houdini 10 1 (0.033 %) XSI 10 1 (0.033 %) RoboHelp 10 1 (0.033 %) Fireworks 10 1 (0.033 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 58 (1.894 %) FRONT ARENA 2 5 (0.163 %) Endur 3 4 (0.131 %) Murex MxG2000 4 3 (0.098 %) Teamcenter 4 3 (0.098 %) ENOVIA 4 3 (0.098 %) SMARTEAM 5 2 (0.065 %) assyst 5 2 (0.065 %) Summit 5 2 (0.065 %) WebTrends 6 1 (0.033 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 272 (8.880 %) Internet 2 271 (8.848 %) TCP/IP 3 142 (4.636 %) DNS 4 99 (3.232 %) Ethernet 5 87 (2.840 %) Firewall 6 66 (2.155 %) SSL 7 64 (2.089 %) SSH 8 62 (2.024 %) VoIP 9 60 (1.959 %) Wireless 10 54 (1.763 %) ISDN 11 44 (1.437 %) DHCP 12 43 (1.404 %) LAN 13 41 (1.339 %) HTTP 13 41 (1.339 %) H.323 13 41 (1.339 %) Network Security 14 37 (1.208 %) PBX 14 37 (1.208 %) WAN 15 31 (1.012 %) HTTPS 15 31 (1.012 %) SNMP 16 30 (0.979 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 566 (18.48 %) MySQL 2 425 (13.88 %) SQL Server 3 179 (5.844 %) RDBMS 4 103 (3.363 %) SQL Server 2000 5 88 (2.873 %) DB2 6 75 (2.449 %) SQL Server 2005 7 62 (2.024 %) PostgreSQL 8 31 (1.012 %) Crystal Reports 9 26 (0.849 %) Oracle 10g 10 23 (0.751 %) SQL Server 7 11 18 (0.588 %) Datawarehouse 11 18 (0.588 %) Data Mining 12 17 (0.555 %) BusinessObjects 13 13 (0.424 %) ETL 13 13 (0.424 %) GIS 13 13 (0.424 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 12 (0.392 %) MS Access 15 10 (0.326 %) Oracle Reports 16 7 (0.229 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 7 (0.229 %) KDB
Development Applications 1 134 (4.375 %) Ant 2 100 (3.265 %) Eclipse 3 98 (3.199 %) Subversion 4 97 (3.167 %) Flash 5 64 (2.089 %) ClearCase 6 42 (1.371 %) CruiseControl 7 33 (1.077 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 30 (0.979 %) Visual Studio 9 28 (0.914 %) Selenium 10 27 (0.881 %) JUnit 11 26 (0.849 %) Bugzilla 12 17 (0.555 %) WinRunner 13 16 (0.522 %) TestDirector 14 15 (0.490 %) QuickTest Pro 15 14 (0.457 %) FitNesse 16 10 (0.326 %) InstallShield 17 8 (0.261 %) TeamTrack 18 7 (0.229 %) JMeter 19 6 (0.196 %) ClearQuest 19 6 (0.196 %) WATIR	General 1 644 (21.03 %) Finance 2 313 (10.22 %) Banking 3 173 (5.648 %) Front Office 4 150 (4.897 %) Investment Banking 5 125 (4.081 %) Marketing 6 111 (3.624 %) Telecoms 7 92 (3.004 %) Health 8 80 (2.612 %) Education 9 78 (2.547 %) Pensions 10 67 (2.187 %) Games 11 61 (1.992 %) Retail 12 45 (1.469 %) Publishing 12 45 (1.469 %) Electronics 13 39 (1.273 %) Automotive 14 37 (1.208 %) Back Office 15 32 (1.045 %) Music 16 31 (1.012 %) Financial Institution 17 30 (0.979 %) Insurance 18 23 (0.751 %) Government 19 22 (0.718 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 1333 (43.52 %) Developer 2 460 (15.02 %) Software Engineer 3 248 (8.097 %) Analyst 4 229 (7.476 %) C++ Developer 5 183 (5.975 %) Java Developer 6 171 (5.583 %) Test Engineer 7 169 (5.517 %) Administrator 8 167 (5.452 %) Senior Developer 9 162 (5.289 %) Software Developer 10 140 (4.571 %) Python Developer 11 128 (4.179 %) Web Developer 12 111 (3.624 %) Linux Administrator 13 107 (3.493 %) C# Developer 13 107 (3.493 %) C++ Software Engineer 14 104 (3.395 %) Systems Administrator 15 101 (3.297 %) Systems Engineer 15 101 (3.297 %) PHP Developer 16 88 (2.873 %) Programmer 17 87 (2.840 %) Tester 18 74 (2.416 %) Linux Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 217 (7.085 %) Computer Science 2 187 (6.105 %) Derivative 3 127 (4.146 %) Fixed Income 4 103 (3.363 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 97 (3.167 %) Mathematics 6 68 (2.220 %) Multithreading 7 63 (2.057 %) Client/Server 8 62 (2.024 %) Equities 8 62 (2.024 %) Web 2.0 9 56 (1.828 %) W3C 10 54 (1.763 %) Equity Derivative 11 51 (1.665 %) Credit Derivative 12 34 (1.110 %) Statistical Arbitrage 13 33 (1.077 %) Cryptography 14 27 (0.881 %) PKI 15 26 (0.849 %) Fat Client 15 26 (0.849 %) Thin Client 16 24 (0.784 %) Statistics 17 22 (0.718 %) Management Information System 18 21 (0.686 %) Grid Computing
Operating Systems 1 1370 (44.73 %) Linux 2 1043 (34.05 %) UNIX 3 654 (21.35 %) Windows 4 270 (8.815 %) Solaris 5 96 (3.134 %) Windows Server 2003 6 78 (2.547 %) Debian 7 40 (1.306 %) Symbian OS 7 40 (1.306 %) Ubuntu 8 37 (1.208 %) Fedora 9 36 (1.175 %) HPUX 10 28 (0.914 %) SUSE 10 28 (0.914 %) Windows XP 11 24 (0.784 %) AIX 12 21 (0.686 %) FreeBSD 13 19 (0.620 %) Windows Mobile 14 13 (0.424 %) Windows NT 15 12 (0.392 %) Mac OS X 16 11 (0.359 %) Embedded Linux 17 9 (0.294 %) VxWorks 17 9 (0.294 %) OpenBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 515 (16.81 %) OO 2 181 (5.909 %) Web Development 3 163 (5.322 %) Agile Software Development 4 139 (4.538 %) E-Commerce 5 113 (3.689 %) Software Engineering 6 107 (3.493 %) Scrum 7 106 (3.461 %) OOD 8 91 (2.971 %) OOP 9 88 (2.873 %) Automated Testing 10 81 (2.644 %) UML 11 72 (2.351 %) Electronic Trading 12 68 (2.220 %) TDD 13 59 (1.926 %) Software Testing 14 55 (1.796 %) Content Management 15 54 (1.763 %) Risk Management 16 53 (1.730 %) Project Management 17 50 (1.632 %) Requirements Analysis 18 48 (1.567 %) Load Balancing 19 47 (1.534 %) Test Scripting 20 43 (1.404 %) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages 1 1830 (59.75 %) Perl 2 1141 (37.25 %) C++ 3 1090 (35.59 %) Java 4 940 (30.69 %) PHP 5 788 (25.73 %) SQL 6 657 (21.45 %) C 7 514 (16.78 %) Ruby 8 485 (15.83 %) JavaScript 9 479 (15.64 %) C# 10 119 (3.885 %) Shell Script 11 100 (3.265 %) Tcl 12 91 (2.971 %) Transact-SQL 13 82 (2.677 %) VB 14 80 (2.612 %) VBScript 15 74 (2.416 %) VB.NET 16 71 (2.318 %) VBA 17 67 (2.187 %) AWK 18 66 (2.155 %) ActionScript 19 64 (2.089 %) Lua 20 57 (1.861 %) Haskell	Qualifications 1 520 (16.98 %) Degree 2 45 (1.469 %) PhD 3 27 (0.881 %) Microsoft Certification 4 20 (0.653 %) ISEB 5 19 (0.620 %) Cisco Certification 6 18 (0.588 %) MCP 6 18 (0.588 %) MCSD 7 17 (0.555 %) MCAD 8 15 (0.490 %) CCNA 9 14 (0.457 %) CISSP 10 10 (0.326 %) RHCE 11 7 (0.229 %) CCIE 12 5 (0.163 %) HNC 13 4 (0.131 %) CCNP 13 4 (0.131 %) MCSA 13 4 (0.131 %) RHCT 14 3 (0.098 %) PRINCE2 Certification 15 2 (0.065 %) ISTQB 15 2 (0.065 %) Postgraduate 15 2 (0.065 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 200 (6.530 %) QA 2 23 (0.751 %) WAI 3 8 (0.261 %) SLA 4 3 (0.098 %) WCAG 5 1 (0.033 %) ISO9001 5 1 (0.033 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 1 (0.033 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 36 (1.175 %) NFS 2 26 (0.849 %) Active Directory 3 22 (0.718 %) Squid 3 22 (0.718 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 20 (0.653 %) Oracle RAC 5 9 (0.294 %) Samba 5 9 (0.294 %) VMware ESX 6 6 (0.196 %) Xen 7 5 (0.163 %) Nmap 8 4 (0.131 %) ISA Server 9 3 (0.098 %) Cronacle 9 3 (0.098 %) Oracle RMAN 9 3 (0.098 %) Snort
Systems Management 1 50 (1.632 %) SCOM 2 14 (0.457 %) Nessus 3 13 (0.424 %) Nagios 4 7 (0.229 %) Tivoli 5 5 (0.163 %) CiscoWorks 5 5 (0.163 %) AppManager 6 4 (0.131 %) OpenView 7 3 (0.098 %) Tivoli Monitoring 7 3 (0.098 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 438 (14.30 %) Oracle 2 155 (5.060 %) Red Hat 3 108 (3.526 %) Sybase 4 96 (3.134 %) Microsoft 5 87 (2.840 %) Cisco 6 75 (2.449 %) Symbian 7 42 (1.371 %) TIBCO 8 41 (1.339 %) Sun 9 32 (1.045 %) HP 10 25 (0.816 %) VMware 11 24 (0.784 %) Interwoven 12 17 (0.555 %) Business Objects 13 16 (0.522 %) Google 14 15 (0.490 %) Yahoo! 15 14 (0.457 %) SeeBeyond 16 13 (0.424 %) IBM 16 13 (0.424 %) Perforce 17 12 (0.392 %) SunGard 18 11 (0.359 %) Reuters 18 11 (0.359 %) Bloomberg