Python Jobs in the South East

Python
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,140 1,670 2,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.87% 11.08% 11.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.98% 27.57% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 834 779 1,171
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,200 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +7.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
South East

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,960 6,058 9,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.87% 40.18% 48.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,005 3,939 6,450
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,324 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Salary trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -18 483 £55,000 -10.20% 140
Hampshire +5 335 £55,000 -8.33% 76
Berkshire -25 195 £58,000 -14.07% 60
Surrey -10 192 £60,000 - 50
Oxfordshire -4 190 £55,000 +45.60% 53
Buckinghamshire -24 98 £52,500 -19.23% 27
East Sussex +6 53 £44,096 -37.01% 7
West Sussex -13 35 £64,000 +24.88% 8
Kent -29 28 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Sussex -17 8 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Middlesex -28 4 £60,000 -40.00% 1
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.72%) OpenStack
2 29 (2.54%) ArcGIS
2 29 (2.54%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.58%) Apache
3 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.14%) Confluence
5 10 (0.88%) nginx
6 9 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.61%) SAS
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 2 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.18%) WordPress
10 1 (0.088%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 61 (5.35%) Simulink
2 20 (1.75%) Stateflow
3 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.61%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.18%) SPSS
9 2 (0.18%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.44%) Odoo
4 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.088%) FastStats
5 1 (0.088%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 352 (30.88%) Azure
2 265 (23.25%) AWS
3 129 (11.32%) Serverless
4 96 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (6.23%) Azure Functions
6 70 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 70 (6.14%) IBM Cloud
7 69 (6.05%) Azure API Management
8 68 (5.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 57 (5.00%) Power Platform
10 44 (3.86%) GitHub
11 34 (2.98%) GCP
12 33 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.81%) Amazon S3
14 27 (2.37%) SaaS
15 26 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
18 22 (1.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.30%) Firewall
2 37 (3.25%) Wireless
3 33 (2.89%) 5G
3 33 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 32 (2.81%) VPN
5 31 (2.72%) DNS
6 26 (2.28%) Bluetooth
7 23 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.93%) GSM
8 22 (1.93%) ISDN
8 22 (1.93%) LTE
8 22 (1.93%) PSTN
8 22 (1.93%) UMTS
9 21 (1.84%) SNMP
10 20 (1.75%) Network Security
11 18 (1.58%) HTTP
11 18 (1.58%) LAN
11 18 (1.58%) WAN
12 15 (1.32%) Internet
13 14 (1.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (17.37%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (12.11%) NoSQL
3 116 (10.18%) MongoDB
4 115 (10.09%) Relational Database
5 70 (6.14%) DB2
6 53 (4.65%) Power BI
7 43 (3.77%) MySQL
7 43 (3.77%) Tableau
8 41 (3.60%) GIS
9 34 (2.98%) SQL Server
10 32 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 29 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (2.54%) QGIS
12 22 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (1.93%) Hadoop
13 18 (1.58%) Big Data
14 16 (1.40%) Redis
15 11 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 158 (13.86%) Git
2 84 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 58 (5.09%) JIRA
4 33 (2.89%) GitLab
5 23 (2.02%) Robot Framework
6 22 (1.93%) LabVIEW
7 19 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.23%) ClearCase
8 14 (1.23%) Plastic SCM
9 13 (1.14%) Eclipse
9 13 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 12 (1.05%) Subversion
11 11 (0.96%) JMeter
12 10 (0.88%) Selenium
12 10 (0.88%) Trac
12 10 (0.88%) Vagrant
13 7 (0.61%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.61%) JUnit
14 6 (0.53%) Maven
14 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 260 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 139 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
3 132 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 95 (8.33%) Finance
5 70 (6.14%) Electronics
6 62 (5.44%) Manufacturing
7 61 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (3.16%) Marketing
10 32 (2.81%) Military
11 27 (2.37%) Automotive
12 26 (2.28%) Retail
13 23 (2.02%) Aerospace
13 23 (2.02%) Legal
14 21 (1.84%) Games
15 16 (1.40%) Aviation
16 13 (1.14%) Tech for Good
17 10 (0.88%) Law
17 10 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (22.81%) Developer
2 258 (22.63%) Software Engineer
3 242 (21.23%) Senior
4 101 (8.86%) Full Stack Developer
5 84 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
6 74 (6.49%) Azure Developer
7 57 (5.00%) Lead
8 53 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (4.56%) Python Engineer
10 47 (4.12%) Software Developer
11 46 (4.04%) Graduate
11 46 (4.04%) Junior
12 45 (3.95%) Analyst
13 41 (3.60%) Architect
14 40 (3.51%) Data Engineer
14 40 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (3.33%) Java Developer
16 34 (2.98%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.89%) Hardware Engineer
17 33 (2.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (18.33%) React
2 154 (13.51%) AngularJS
3 148 (12.98%) HTML
4 143 (12.54%) CSS
5 141 (12.37%) .NET
6 125 (10.96%) Node.js
7 122 (10.70%) REST
8 112 (9.82%) Web Services
9 83 (7.28%) Vue
10 81 (7.11%) ASP.NET
10 81 (7.11%) jQuery
11 73 (6.40%) Ember.js
12 70 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
12 70 (6.14%) Backbone.js
12 70 (6.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 54 (4.74%) XML
14 49 (4.30%) Spring
15 39 (3.42%) Kafka
16 35 (3.07%) Django
17 34 (2.98%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 220 (19.30%) Algorithms
2 104 (9.12%) Data Structures
3 80 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (6.14%) Blockchain
5 68 (5.96%) IoT
6 36 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
9 24 (2.11%) PKI
10 23 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.93%) Acoustics
11 22 (1.93%) Satnav
12 20 (1.75%) CUDA
13 19 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.58%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.23%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 364 (31.93%) Linux
2 237 (20.79%) Windows
3 90 (7.89%) Android
4 78 (6.84%) Apple iOS
5 51 (4.47%) Unix
6 36 (3.16%) Windows Server
7 26 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.93%) CentOS
9 19 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (1.49%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.26%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.18%) Debian
15 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (31.32%) DevOps
2 354 (31.05%) Software Engineering
3 304 (26.67%) Agile
4 298 (26.14%) Computer Science
5 269 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 207 (18.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 150 (13.16%) Mathematics
8 145 (12.72%) Full Stack Development
9 139 (12.19%) Machine Learning
10 126 (11.05%) CI/CD
11 124 (10.88%) Physics
12 123 (10.79%) OO
12 123 (10.79%) Web Development
13 103 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
14 99 (8.68%) Mentoring
15 98 (8.60%) User Experience
16 92 (8.07%) Containerisation
17 91 (7.98%) OOP
18 87 (7.63%) Data Science
18 87 (7.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 332 (29.12%) Java
2 319 (27.98%) JavaScript
3 296 (25.96%) SQL
4 245 (21.49%) C#
5 211 (18.51%) C++
6 190 (16.67%) C
7 138 (12.11%) Bash
8 115 (10.09%) PowerShell
9 77 (6.75%) Fortran
10 69 (6.05%) Perl
11 56 (4.91%) MATLAB
12 52 (4.56%) R
13 40 (3.51%) TypeScript
14 35 (3.07%) Go
15 33 (2.89%) Ruby
16 29 (2.54%) Kotlin
17 27 (2.37%) Embedded C
18 20 (1.75%) Shell Script
19 17 (1.49%) PHP
20 16 (1.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 455 (39.91%) Degree
2 252 (22.11%) Security Cleared
3 170 (14.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (14.74%) SC Cleared
5 115 (10.09%) Master's Degree
6 101 (8.86%) PhD
7 27 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.58%) CCNA
11 15 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (0.96%) HND
14 9 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.53%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.53%) JNCIE
17 5 (0.44%) CCIE
17 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.95%) QA
2 43 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.32%) ISO 26262
3 15 (1.32%) MISRA
4 14 (1.23%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
5 8 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.61%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.53%) SLA
8 5 (0.44%) GDPR
9 4 (0.35%) NIST
10 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.18%) PMO
11 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 179 (15.70%) Docker
2 80 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 61 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 29 (2.54%) Firmware
6 25 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.88%) NFS
8 10 (0.88%) pfSense
9 5 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.26%) HDFS
10 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.088%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 126 (11.05%) Terraform
2 118 (10.35%) Kubernetes
3 105 (9.21%) Ansible
4 17 (1.49%) WMI
5 13 (1.14%) Grafana
5 13 (1.14%) Puppet
5 13 (1.14%) ZABBIX
6 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 10 (0.88%) SCDPM
7 8 (0.70%) Nessus
7 8 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 5 (0.44%) SELinux
8 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.35%) Kibana
10 3 (0.26%) Suricata
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.18%) Netcool
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 128 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.63%) IBM
3 81 (7.11%) Red Hat
4 72 (6.32%) VMware
5 35 (3.07%) SAP
6 29 (2.54%) Databricks
6 29 (2.54%) ESRI
7 26 (2.28%) Cisco
8 25 (2.19%) Oracle
9 24 (2.11%) Splunk
10 23 (2.02%) Juniper
10 23 (2.02%) Xilinx
11 20 (1.75%) Google
11 20 (1.75%) WSO2
12 15 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.23%) Lauterbach
14 13 (1.14%) Facebook
15 11 (0.96%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.88%) McAfee
16 10 (0.88%) Veeam