The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 22 46 24
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 28 12 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 11.57% 2.956% 6.452%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.89% 4.255% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 14
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +7.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,700 £55,000 £40,450
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
188 282 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 77.69% 69.46% 49.77%
Number of salaries quoted 150 203 88
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
Gloucestershire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the Gloucester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucester Python Salary Histogram

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 38 (84.44%) Linux
1 38 (84.44%) Bash shell
2 33 (73.33%) MS Exchange
2 33 (73.33%) Perl
2 33 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (73.33%) UNIX
3 31 (68.89%) LDAP
3 31 (68.89%) Cisco
3 31 (68.89%) Juniper
3 31 (68.89%) Internet
3 31 (68.89%) ISA Server
3 31 (68.89%) Shell Script
3 31 (68.89%) SMTP
3 31 (68.89%) HTTP
3 31 (68.89%) DNS
3 31 (68.89%) Firewall
3 31 (68.89%) Squid
3 31 (68.89%) Load Balancing
3 31 (68.89%) qmail
3 31 (68.89%) Postfix
3 31 (68.89%) Sendmail
4 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
4 28 (62.22%) Security Cleared
4 28 (62.22%) SaaS
5 26 (57.78%) DV Cleared
6 23 (51.11%) MS Excel
7 10 (22.22%) C++
8 8 (17.78%) Java
9 7 (15.56%) PHP
9 7 (15.56%) SQL

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 5 (11.11%) .NET
1 5 (11.11%) SOAP
1 5 (11.11%) XML
1 5 (11.11%) soapUI
2 3 (6.667%) MapReduce
3 2 (4.444%) STL
3 2 (4.444%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (4.444%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 33 (73.33%) MS Exchange
2 5 (11.11%) Apache
3 3 (6.667%) Apache Pig
4 2 (4.444%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 23 (51.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (68.89%) LDAP
1 31 (68.89%) Internet
1 31 (68.89%) SMTP
1 31 (68.89%) HTTP
1 31 (68.89%) DNS
1 31 (68.89%) Firewall
2 2 (4.444%) IPv4
2 2 (4.444%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.667%) HBase
1 3 (6.667%) Big Data
1 3 (6.667%) IBM InfoSphere
1 3 (6.667%) Apache Hive
1 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.444%) GIS
2 2 (4.444%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.444%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.444%) GCC
1 2 (4.444%) GDB
General
1 2 (4.444%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Technical Consultant
1 12 (26.67%) Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
2 10 (22.22%) UNIX Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) UNIX Support
2 10 (22.22%) Linux Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) UNIX Administrator
2 10 (22.22%) Technical Support Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Linux Support
2 10 (22.22%) Technical Support
2 10 (22.22%) Support Consultant
2 10 (22.22%) Administrator
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (4.444%) Software Developer
3 2 (4.444%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (4.444%) GIS Consultant
3 2 (4.444%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (62.22%) SaaS
2 3 (6.667%) Statistics
3 2 (4.444%) Open Source
3 2 (4.444%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 38 (84.44%) Linux
2 33 (73.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) Load Balancing
2 5 (11.11%) OO
2 5 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 3 (6.667%) Analytics
3 3 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (6.667%) Configuration Management
4 2 (4.444%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (4.444%) Business Development
4 2 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (4.444%) Multithreading
4 2 (4.444%) TDD
4 2 (4.444%) Data Management
4 2 (4.444%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (84.44%) Bash shell
2 33 (73.33%) Perl
3 31 (68.89%) Shell Script
4 10 (22.22%) C++
5 8 (17.78%) Java
6 7 (15.56%) PHP
6 7 (15.56%) SQL
7 5 (11.11%) VB.NET
7 5 (11.11%) C#
7 5 (11.11%) PHP5
8 2 (4.444%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.444%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (62.22%) SC Cleared
1 28 (62.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (57.78%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 31 (68.89%) ISA Server
1 31 (68.89%) Squid
1 31 (68.89%) qmail
1 31 (68.89%) Postfix
1 31 (68.89%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 33 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (68.89%) Cisco
2 31 (68.89%) Juniper
3 3 (6.667%) Twitter
3 3 (6.667%) IBM
4 2 (4.444%) ESRI
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Good knowledge of quality assurance processes and tools... Interest in emerging technologies and the internet... Experience with automated testing, particularly Robot Framework and behaviour driven development (BDD)... Experience...
Fasthosts Internet Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum depending on experience plus fantastic benefit
Posted: 23 May 2013