North West Python Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Python skills within the North West 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 20 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon 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 Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Horsham Inverness Kent Kings Langley Knaresborough Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands 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 20 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	247	265
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching permanent IT job ads	40	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.707 %	0.290 %
Salaries quoted	38	15
Average minimum salary	£29,079	£30,600
Average salary	£33,237	£37,000
% change on same period last year	-10.17 %
Average maximum salary	£37,395	£43,400
UK excluding London average salary	£36,570	£37,582
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5659	5862
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.755 %	2.591 %
Salaries quoted	4859	5010
Average minimum salary	£30,296	£29,721
Average salary	£33,248	£32,538
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Average maximum salary	£36,199	£35,354
UK excluding London average salary	£35,419	£35,494
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
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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 North West 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 North West region.

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Salary Histogram

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

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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 North West region over the past 3 months.

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
Manchester	+25	30	£33,190	-7.51 %
Merseyside	-7	6	£31,750	-42.27 %
Cheshire	+7	4	£36,667	+9.45 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West 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 85 (76.58 %) Perl 2 49 (44.14 %) Linux 3 46 (41.44 %) Unix 4 44 (39.64 %) PHP 5 43 (38.74 %) Web Development 6 37 (33.33 %) PKI 6 37 (33.33 %) SecurID 7 35 (31.53 %) Cryptography 8 32 (28.83 %) Windows 8 32 (28.83 %) SSL 8 32 (28.83 %) S/MIME 8 32 (28.83 %) IPsec 9 31 (27.93 %) Stakeholder Management 10 28 (25.23 %) CISSP 10 28 (25.23 %) Solaris

11 25 (22.52 %) Software Engineering 12 21 (18.92 %) Apache 13 19 (17.12 %) Django 14 18 (16.22 %) Java 15 17 (15.32 %) Zope 15 17 (15.32 %) Plone 16 15 (13.51 %) C++ 17 14 (12.61 %) HTML 18 13 (11.71 %) C 18 13 (11.71 %) JavaScript 18 13 (11.71 %) CSS 19 12 (10.81 %) PostgreSQL 20 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 21 9 (8.108 %) Banking 21 9 (8.108 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West 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 19 (17.12 %) Django 2 14 (12.61 %) HTML 3 13 (11.71 %) CSS 4 10 (9.009 %) AJAX 5 7 (6.306 %) Ruby on Rails 5 7 (6.306 %) ASP 6 5 (4.505 %) XML 7 4 (3.604 %) WebServices 7 4 (3.604 %) XHTML 8 2 (1.802 %) .NET 9 1 (0.901 %) ASP.NET 9 1 (0.901 %) XSL 9 1 (0.901 %) UIQ	Application Platforms 1 21 (18.92 %) Apache 2 17 (15.32 %) Zope 2 17 (15.32 %) Plone 3 1 (0.901 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (1.802 %) MATLAB 2 1 (0.901 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (0.901 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.901 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.901 %) ImageReady 2 1 (0.901 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 32 (28.83 %) SSL 1 32 (28.83 %) S/MIME 1 32 (28.83 %) IPsec 2 7 (6.306 %) TCP/IP 3 6 (5.405 %) Internet 4 3 (2.703 %) X.509 5 1 (0.901 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (10.81 %) PostgreSQL 2 8 (7.207 %) MySQL 3 3 (2.703 %) SQL Server 4 1 (0.901 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (0.901 %) Flash 1 1 (0.901 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.901 %) ClearQuest
General 1 9 (8.108 %) Banking 2 2 (1.802 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (0.901 %) Marketing 3 1 (0.901 %) Electronics 3 1 (0.901 %) Finance 3 1 (0.901 %) Automotive 3 1 (0.901 %) Education 3 1 (0.901 %) Health	Job Titles 1 32 (28.83 %) Consultant 2 28 (25.23 %) Systems Engineer 3 27 (24.32 %) Developer 4 16 (14.41 %) Security Consultant 5 7 (6.306 %) Applications Developer 5 7 (6.306 %) Programmer 5 7 (6.306 %) Web Developer 5 7 (6.306 %) Web Applications Developer 6 6 (5.405 %) Security Specialist 7 5 (4.505 %) Python Developer 7 5 (4.505 %) Software Engineer 8 3 (2.703 %) Senior Developer 9 2 (1.802 %) Analyst 9 2 (1.802 %) Graduate 9 2 (1.802 %) PHP Developer 10 1 (0.901 %) Electronics Engineer 10 1 (0.901 %) Linux Systems Administrator 10 1 (0.901 %) Linux Administrator 10 1 (0.901 %) Release Engineer 10 1 (0.901 %) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 37 (33.33 %) SecurID 1 37 (33.33 %) PKI 2 35 (31.53 %) Cryptography 3 4 (3.604 %) W3C 4 2 (1.802 %) ASIC 4 2 (1.802 %) VHDL 4 2 (1.802 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 2 (1.802 %) CPLD	Operating Systems 1 49 (44.14 %) Linux 2 46 (41.44 %) Unix 3 32 (28.83 %) Windows 4 28 (25.23 %) Solaris 5 1 (0.901 %) Symbian OS 5 1 (0.901 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 43 (38.74 %) Web Development 2 31 (27.93 %) Stakeholder Management 3 25 (22.52 %) Software Engineering 4 8 (7.207 %) OO 5 6 (5.405 %) Vulnerability Assessment 5 6 (5.405 %) Penetration Testing 5 6 (5.405 %) Validation 6 4 (3.604 %) UML 6 4 (3.604 %) Requirements Analysis 6 4 (3.604 %) Use Case 6 4 (3.604 %) OOD 7 2 (1.802 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (0.901 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (0.901 %) SEO 8 1 (0.901 %) Internet Marketing	Programming Languages 1 85 (76.58 %) Perl 2 44 (39.64 %) PHP 3 18 (16.22 %) Java 4 15 (13.51 %) C++ 5 13 (11.71 %) JavaScript 5 13 (11.71 %) C 6 9 (8.108 %) SQL 7 7 (6.306 %) Ruby 8 6 (5.405 %) Korn 9 4 (3.604 %) PHP5 9 4 (3.604 %) PHP4 9 4 (3.604 %) Simula 9 4 (3.604 %) Fortran 9 4 (3.604 %) Smalltalk 10 1 (0.901 %) AWK 10 1 (0.901 %) XPath 10 1 (0.901 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.901 %) VB 10 1 (0.901 %) ActionScript 10 1 (0.901 %) C#
Qualifications 1 28 (25.23 %) CISSP 2 1 (0.901 %) RHCE	System Software 1 6 (5.405 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 6 (5.405 %) Nessus	Vendors 1 2 (1.802 %) EMC 1 2 (1.802 %) Xilinx 2 1 (0.901 %) Red Hat 2 1 (0.901 %) Google 2 1 (0.901 %) Oracle 2 1 (0.901 %) Symbian