The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the Plymouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 17 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 Plymouth region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 6.780% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £27,127 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.75% -
All Programming Languages
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
38 15 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 64.41% 71.43% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 9
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% +1.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,400 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £29,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
Devon

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plymouth 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 Plymouth region.

Plymouth Python Salary Trend

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 6 (85.71%) Perl
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Fortran
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) FTP
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
2 4 (57.14%) C
2 4 (57.14%) MS Office
2 4 (57.14%) NFS
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 4 (57.14%) Nagios
2 4 (57.14%) Fedora
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Mac OS
2 4 (57.14%) Ganglia
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) LAMP
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Puppet
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 2 (28.57%) LAMP
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) Ajax
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) FTP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Riak
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Support
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Fedora
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Mac OS
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) OOP
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) C
2 4 (57.14%) Fortran
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Nagios
1 4 (57.14%) Ganglia
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat