The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 120 118 108
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 28 16 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 1.078% 0.767% 0.649%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.900% 1.368% 1.141%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 12
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £34,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1474 1170 1052
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 56.74% 56.09% 56.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1199 1055 909
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
West Yorkshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds Python Salary Histogram

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 33 (58.93%) PHP
2 28 (50.00%) Perl
3 26 (46.43%) Java
4 23 (41.07%) Linux
5 18 (32.14%) MySQL
6 17 (30.36%) Oracle
7 15 (26.79%) JavaScript
8 13 (23.21%) WebLogic
8 13 (23.21%) Jython
8 13 (23.21%) Ruby
8 13 (23.21%) Stress Testing
9 12 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (21.43%) Oracle Service Bus
9 12 (21.43%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
9 12 (21.43%) Shell Script
9 12 (21.43%) Middleware
9 12 (21.43%) SOA
10 11 (19.64%) SQL
10 11 (19.64%) HTML
11 10 (17.86%) Subversion
11 10 (17.86%) jQuery
12 9 (16.07%) CSS
13 8 (14.29%) UNIX
13 8 (14.29%) SMS
13 8 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (12.50%) Bash shell
14 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (12.50%) Billing
14 7 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (12.50%) Telecoms

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 12 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
1 12 (21.43%) Middleware
2 11 (19.64%) HTML
3 10 (17.86%) jQuery
4 9 (16.07%) CSS
5 5 (8.929%) HTML5
5 5 (8.929%) ASP
5 5 (8.929%) JSP
6 4 (7.143%) JMS
7 3 (5.357%) Symfony
7 3 (5.357%) Ajax
7 3 (5.357%) Node.js
7 3 (5.357%) XML
8 2 (3.571%) XSL
8 2 (3.571%) .NET
8 2 (3.571%) LAMP
8 2 (3.571%) Web Services
8 2 (3.571%) Memcached
8 2 (3.571%) RESTful
9 1 (1.786%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 13 (23.21%) WebLogic
2 12 (21.43%) Oracle Service Bus
3 8 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (12.50%) Apache
4 7 (12.50%) Tomcat
5 4 (7.143%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (5.357%) WordPress
6 3 (5.357%) Magento
6 3 (5.357%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.571%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.571%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.786%) ArcSDE
8 1 (1.786%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.786%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) SMS
2 6 (10.71%) Internet
3 4 (7.143%) Broadband
4 3 (5.357%) NAS
4 3 (5.357%) Firewall
4 3 (5.357%) SAN
5 2 (3.571%) VPN
6 1 (1.786%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.786%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.786%) Intranet
6 1 (1.786%) DNS
6 1 (1.786%) LAN
6 1 (1.786%) WAN
6 1 (1.786%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) MySQL
2 5 (8.929%) GIS
3 3 (5.357%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.571%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.571%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.571%) Redis
5 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.786%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Subversion
2 2 (3.571%) Maven
2 2 (3.571%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.786%) Selenium
3 1 (1.786%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.786%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.786%) OpenSTA
3 1 (1.786%) Xcode
3 1 (1.786%) JMeter
3 1 (1.786%) Ant
3 1 (1.786%) JUnit
3 1 (1.786%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.786%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.786%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (12.50%) Billing
1 7 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.571%) Automotive
2 2 (3.571%) Manufacturing
2 2 (3.571%) Publishing
2 2 (3.571%) Games
3 1 (1.786%) Retail
3 1 (1.786%) Marketing
3 1 (1.786%) Back Office
3 1 (1.786%) Law
3 1 (1.786%) Finance
3 1 (1.786%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Developer
2 19 (33.93%) Administrator
3 12 (21.43%) Technical Administrator
4 8 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.50%) MySQL Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.71%) PHP Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.929%) Front-End Developer
7 5 (8.929%) Web Developer
8 3 (5.357%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) UNIX Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.357%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.571%) Systems Developer
9 2 (3.571%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.571%) Analyst
9 2 (3.571%) Operations Team Leader
9 2 (3.571%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.786%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.357%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (5.357%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.571%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.571%) Open Source
2 2 (3.571%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.571%) Online Games
3 1 (1.786%) iPhone
3 1 (1.786%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.786%) iPad
3 1 (1.786%) Clustering
3 1 (1.786%) NHS
3 1 (1.786%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.07%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) UNIX
3 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.71%) Debian
5 5 (8.929%) CentOS
5 5 (8.929%) Windows
6 2 (3.571%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.786%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.786%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.786%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) Stress Testing
2 12 (21.43%) SOA
3 7 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (12.50%) CRM
3 7 (12.50%) B2B
3 7 (12.50%) OOP
3 7 (12.50%) OO
4 5 (8.929%) Scrum
4 5 (8.929%) B2C
5 4 (7.143%) E-Commerce
5 4 (7.143%) Load Balancing
6 3 (5.357%) Unit Testing
6 3 (5.357%) Kanban
6 3 (5.357%) TDD
6 3 (5.357%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.357%) Service Delivery
6 3 (5.357%) MVC
7 2 (3.571%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.571%) Information Security
7 2 (3.571%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) PHP
2 28 (50.00%) Perl
3 26 (46.43%) Java
4 15 (26.79%) JavaScript
5 13 (23.21%) Jython
5 13 (23.21%) Ruby
6 12 (21.43%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 12 (21.43%) Shell Script
7 11 (19.64%) SQL
8 7 (12.50%) Bash shell
9 5 (8.929%) PHP5
10 4 (7.143%) C++
10 4 (7.143%) PL/SQL
10 4 (7.143%) Objective-C
11 2 (3.571%) C#
12 1 (1.786%) AWK
12 1 (1.786%) C
12 1 (1.786%) VC++
Qualifications
1 4 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.143%) Security Cleared
1 4 (7.143%) Degree
2 2 (3.571%) PhD
2 2 (3.571%) SSCP
2 2 (3.571%) CISSP
2 2 (3.571%) GCED
2 2 (3.571%) CEH
2 2 (3.571%) GCIH
2 2 (3.571%) GCFA
3 1 (1.786%) GCIA
3 1 (1.786%) CISM
3 1 (1.786%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.786%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.786%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.571%) vSphere
1 2 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.786%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Puppet
2 2 (3.571%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.571%) Splunk
3 1 (1.786%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Oracle
2 3 (5.357%) Zend
2 3 (5.357%) ArcSight
2 3 (5.357%) JBoss
2 3 (5.357%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.571%) Cisco
3 2 (3.571%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.571%) VMware
3 2 (3.571%) Juniper
3 2 (3.571%) CheckPoint
3 2 (3.571%) Tealeaf
3 2 (3.571%) Riverbed
3 2 (3.571%) Google
4 1 (1.786%) Tripwire
4 1 (1.786%) Lombardi
4 1 (1.786%) Q1 Labs
4 1 (1.786%) LogLogic
4 1 (1.786%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.786%) Symantec
4 1 (1.786%) ESRI
Leeds, West Yorkshire
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