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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 67 72 97
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +25
Permanent jobs citing Python 68 61 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 3.135% 2.694% 1.273%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.532% 5.174% 2.513%
Number of salaries quoted 62 53 22
Average salary £39,250 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.14% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £21,150
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £40,800 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
797 1179 955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.75% 52.08% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 704 1063 799
Average salary £42,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
Berkshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

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

Reading Python Salary Histogram

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 88 (74.58%) PHP
2 83 (70.34%) Java
3 73 (61.86%) Perl
4 70 (59.32%) Ruby
5 61 (51.69%) SQL
6 56 (47.46%) Linux
7 54 (45.76%) MySQL
8 51 (43.22%) JavaScript
9 44 (37.29%) HTML
9 44 (37.29%) OO
10 43 (36.44%) SQL Server
10 43 (36.44%) CSS
11 42 (35.59%) OOP
12 38 (32.20%) Degree
13 35 (29.66%) Zend
13 35 (29.66%) Client/Server
13 35 (29.66%) SQL Server 2000
14 34 (28.81%) MVC
15 33 (27.97%) .NET
16 31 (26.27%) C++
17 28 (23.73%) Zend Framework
17 28 (23.73%) .NET Framework
18 27 (22.88%) Bash shell
19 21 (17.80%) UNIX
19 21 (17.80%) Service Delivery
20 20 (16.95%) TCP/IP
20 20 (16.95%) Scala
20 20 (16.95%) Computer Science
21 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
22 18 (15.25%) HTTP

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 44 (37.29%) HTML
2 43 (36.44%) CSS
3 33 (27.97%) .NET
4 28 (23.73%) Zend Framework
4 28 (23.73%) .NET Framework
5 14 (11.86%) LAMP
5 14 (11.86%) Node.js
6 8 (6.780%) XML
6 8 (6.780%) jQuery
6 8 (6.780%) Memcached
7 7 (5.932%) RESTful
7 7 (5.932%) Symfony
7 7 (5.932%) Django
7 7 (5.932%) CodeIgniter
7 7 (5.932%) CakePHP
7 7 (5.932%) Web Services
7 7 (5.932%) XSLT
8 6 (5.085%) REST
9 5 (4.237%) COM
10 4 (3.390%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 11 (9.322%) Apache
2 9 (7.627%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.847%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.95%) TCP/IP
2 18 (15.25%) HTTP
3 16 (13.56%) DNS
4 13 (11.02%) Softswitch
4 13 (11.02%) ISUP
4 13 (11.02%) FTP
4 13 (11.02%) DHCP
4 13 (11.02%) ISDN
4 13 (11.02%) PBX
4 13 (11.02%) PSTN
4 13 (11.02%) VoIP
5 10 (8.475%) Firewall
6 8 (6.780%) SAN
7 3 (2.542%) Internet
8 2 (1.695%) OSPF
8 2 (1.695%) BGP
9 1 (0.847%) HSRP
9 1 (0.847%) VLAN
9 1 (0.847%) 3G
9 1 (0.847%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (45.76%) MySQL
2 43 (36.44%) SQL Server
3 35 (29.66%) SQL Server 2000
4 17 (14.41%) Big Data
5 10 (8.475%) Hadoop
6 8 (6.780%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (6.780%) Redis
7 4 (3.390%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.695%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.695%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.847%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.627%) Maven
1 9 (7.627%) Ant
2 5 (4.237%) Git (software)
2 5 (4.237%) Eclipse
3 4 (3.390%) Gradle
4 2 (1.695%) Subversion
5 1 (0.847%) WATIR
5 1 (0.847%) Selenium
5 1 (0.847%) FitNesse
General
1 5 (4.237%) Finance
2 4 (3.390%) Banking
3 2 (1.695%) Billing
4 1 (0.847%) Games
4 1 (0.847%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Developer
2 21 (17.80%) Software Developer
3 20 (16.95%) Junior
4 18 (15.25%) Junior Developer
5 17 (14.41%) Software Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) Web Developer
6 16 (13.56%) Graduate
7 14 (11.86%) Administrator
8 13 (11.02%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (11.02%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (10.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (9.322%) PHP Developer
10 11 (9.322%) Analyst
11 10 (8.475%) Analyst Developer
11 10 (8.475%) Voice Engineer
12 9 (7.627%) Java Developer
12 9 (7.627%) Support Engineer
13 8 (6.780%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (6.780%) Analyst Programmer
13 8 (6.780%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.66%) Client/Server
2 20 (16.95%) Computer Science
3 14 (11.86%) SaaS
4 13 (11.02%) Handset
5 8 (6.780%) Clustering
5 8 (6.780%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.237%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.542%) Open Source
7 3 (2.542%) Social Media
8 2 (1.695%) Semantic Web
8 2 (1.695%) Visualisation
9 1 (0.847%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.847%) Physics
9 1 (0.847%) Social Network
9 1 (0.847%) RIA
9 1 (0.847%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 56 (47.46%) Linux
2 21 (17.80%) UNIX
3 15 (12.71%) Windows
4 13 (11.02%) Solaris
5 11 (9.322%) CentOS
5 11 (9.322%) Debian
6 9 (7.627%) Ubuntu
7 8 (6.780%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (5.932%) Mac OS X
9 2 (1.695%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.847%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.847%) Android
10 1 (0.847%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.847%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.29%) OO
2 42 (35.59%) OOP
3 34 (28.81%) MVC
4 21 (17.80%) Service Delivery
5 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
6 12 (10.17%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (8.475%) RDF
7 10 (8.475%) CAD
8 9 (7.627%) Data Modelling
9 8 (6.780%) ITIL
10 7 (5.932%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (5.932%) Unit Testing
10 7 (5.932%) Configuration Management
11 5 (4.237%) Waterfall
11 5 (4.237%) MODAF
11 5 (4.237%) SOA
12 4 (3.390%) Release Management
12 4 (3.390%) Build Automation
12 4 (3.390%) Automation Testing
13 3 (2.542%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 88 (74.58%) PHP
2 83 (70.34%) Java
3 73 (61.86%) Perl
4 70 (59.32%) Ruby
5 61 (51.69%) SQL
6 51 (43.22%) JavaScript
7 31 (26.27%) C++
8 27 (22.88%) Bash shell
9 20 (16.95%) Scala
10 12 (10.17%) C
11 11 (9.322%) Shell Script
12 8 (6.780%) C#
13 5 (4.237%) Ada
14 1 (0.847%) Clojure
14 1 (0.847%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.847%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.847%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 38 (32.20%) Degree
2 8 (6.780%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.847%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.847%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.847%) CCIE
3 1 (0.847%) CCNP
3 1 (0.847%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.475%) QA
2 9 (7.627%) SLA
3 5 (4.237%) DO-178B
System Software
1 8 (6.780%) VMware ESX
1 8 (6.780%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (6.780%) vSphere
1 8 (6.780%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (6.780%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (11.02%) Puppet
2 7 (5.932%) Ganglia
2 7 (5.932%) Zenoss
3 5 (4.237%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (29.66%) Zend
2 15 (12.71%) Cisco
3 13 (11.02%) Acme Packet
3 13 (11.02%) Polycom
3 13 (11.02%) Oracle
4 10 (8.475%) Red Hat
5 9 (7.627%) JBoss
6 8 (6.780%) Microsoft
6 8 (6.780%) VMware
7 4 (3.390%) BroadSoft
8 3 (2.542%) Twitter
8 3 (2.542%) Sonus
9 2 (1.695%) Websense
9 2 (1.695%) Juniper
9 2 (1.695%) Foundry
10 1 (0.847%) F5
10 1 (0.847%) Dell
10 1 (0.847%) Autodesk
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