Manchester Python Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Python skills within the Manchester 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Horsham Inverness Kent Kings Langley Knaresborough Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Saffron Walden Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	163	191
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.256 %	0.547 %
Salaries quoted	32	13
Average minimum salary	£29,125	£29,923
Average salary	£33,469	£35,885
% change on same period last year	-6.73 %
Average maximum salary	£37,813	£41,846
UK excluding London average salary	£36,526	£37,577
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
Programming Languages Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	2628	2741
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.289 %	1.213 %
Salaries quoted	2251	2389
Average minimum salary	£29,919	£29,057
Average salary	£33,136	£32,040
% change on same period last year	+3.42 %
Average maximum salary	£36,354	£35,023
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Python across the Manchester 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 ads citing Python across the Manchester region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Python also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Python.

1 76 (96.20 %) Perl 2 42 (53.16 %) Unix 3 38 (48.10 %) Linux 4 35 (44.30 %) Web Development 5 33 (41.77 %) PKI 5 33 (41.77 %) SecurID 5 33 (41.77 %) IPsec 5 33 (41.77 %) Stakeholder Management 5 33 (41.77 %) Cryptography 5 33 (41.77 %) Windows 5 33 (41.77 %) PHP 5 33 (41.77 %) SSL 5 33 (41.77 %) S/MIME 6 29 (36.71 %) CISSP 7 28 (35.44 %) Solaris

8 25 (31.65 %) Software Engineering 9 11 (13.92 %) Java 10 9 (11.39 %) C 11 7 (8.861 %) C++ 11 7 (8.861 %) Apache 11 7 (8.861 %) TCP/IP 12 6 (7.595 %) Internet 12 6 (7.595 %) Nessus 12 6 (7.595 %) Vulnerability Assessment 12 6 (7.595 %) Nmap 12 6 (7.595 %) Penetration Testing 13 4 (5.063 %) OOD 13 4 (5.063 %) Fortran 13 4 (5.063 %) Smalltalk 13 4 (5.063 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Python also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (3.797 %) ASP 2 2 (2.532 %) Django 3 1 (1.266 %) HTML 3 1 (1.266 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 7 (8.861 %) Apache 2 2 (2.532 %) Zope 2 2 (2.532 %) Plone 3 1 (1.266 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 33 (41.77 %) SSL 1 33 (41.77 %) S/MIME 1 33 (41.77 %) IPsec 2 7 (8.861 %) TCP/IP 3 6 (7.595 %) Internet 4 3 (3.797 %) X.509 5 1 (1.266 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.532 %) PostgreSQL 2 1 (1.266 %) MySQL
General 1 3 (3.797 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 30 (37.97 %) Consultant 2 28 (35.44 %) Systems Engineer 3 14 (17.72 %) Security Consultant 4 6 (7.595 %) Security Specialist 4 6 (7.595 %) Developer 5 5 (6.329 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (3.797 %) Programmer 7 2 (2.532 %) Graduate 7 2 (2.532 %) Analyst 8 1 (1.266 %) Systems Administrator 8 1 (1.266 %) Linux Systems Administrator 8 1 (1.266 %) Linux Administrator 8 1 (1.266 %) Release Engineer 8 1 (1.266 %) Python Developer 8 1 (1.266 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 33 (41.77 %) Cryptography 1 33 (41.77 %) SecurID 1 33 (41.77 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 42 (53.16 %) Unix 2 38 (48.10 %) Linux 3 33 (41.77 %) Windows 4 28 (35.44 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.266 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (44.30 %) Web Development 2 33 (41.77 %) Stakeholder Management 3 25 (31.65 %) Software Engineering 4 6 (7.595 %) Vulnerability Assessment 4 6 (7.595 %) Penetration Testing 5 4 (5.063 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (5.063 %) UML 5 4 (5.063 %) OO 5 4 (5.063 %) OOD 5 4 (5.063 %) Use Case 6 3 (3.797 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 76 (96.20 %) Perl 2 33 (41.77 %) PHP 3 11 (13.92 %) Java 4 9 (11.39 %) C 5 7 (8.861 %) C++ 6 4 (5.063 %) JavaScript 6 4 (5.063 %) SQL 6 4 (5.063 %) Fortran 6 4 (5.063 %) Smalltalk 6 4 (5.063 %) Simula 6 4 (5.063 %) Ruby 7 3 (3.797 %) Korn 8 1 (1.266 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 29 (36.71 %) CISSP 2 1 (1.266 %) RHCE	System Software 1 6 (7.595 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 6 (7.595 %) Nessus	Vendors 1 1 (1.266 %) Red Hat