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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,130 1,575 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.73% 10.78% 11.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.73% 26.90% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 825 752 1,167
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,807 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +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 4,972 5,856 9,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.62% 40.09% 49.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,006 3,844 6,410
10th Percentile £34,125 £34,993 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £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 £72,500
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -17 464 £55,000 -12.00% 149
Hampshire +3 340 £55,000 -8.33% 81
Surrey -10 197 £60,000 - 60
Berkshire -25 196 £60,000 -14.29% 60
Oxfordshire -4 186 £55,000 +57.14% 62
Buckinghamshire -30 82 £52,500 -16.00% 27
East Sussex +9 50 £42,500 -39.29% 5
West Sussex -13 35 £64,000 +34.74% 6
Kent -31 27 £55,000 - 7
Sussex -15 8 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Middlesex -28 5 £60,000 -40.00% 2
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 (2.74%) OpenStack
2 29 (2.57%) ArcGIS
2 29 (2.57%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.59%) Apache
4 12 (1.06%) Confluence
5 10 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.88%) nginx
6 8 (0.71%) SAS
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.18%) Drupal
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.088%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (5.75%) Simulink
2 20 (1.77%) Stateflow
3 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.62%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.18%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.088%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.088%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.44%) Odoo
4 1 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.088%) FastStats
4 1 (0.088%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 363 (32.12%) Azure
2 269 (23.81%) AWS
3 131 (11.59%) Serverless
4 100 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 76 (6.73%) IBM Cloud
6 75 (6.64%) Azure API Management
6 75 (6.64%) Azure Functions
7 74 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 53 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.89%) GitHub
10 36 (3.19%) GCP
11 33 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 27 (2.39%) SaaS
14 26 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.78%) Firewall
2 38 (3.36%) Wireless
3 35 (3.10%) VPN
4 34 (3.01%) 5G
4 34 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.48%) DNS
6 27 (2.39%) Bluetooth
7 23 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.95%) GSM
8 22 (1.95%) ISDN
8 22 (1.95%) LTE
8 22 (1.95%) Network Security
8 22 (1.95%) PSTN
8 22 (1.95%) UMTS
9 21 (1.86%) SNMP
10 18 (1.59%) LAN
10 18 (1.59%) WAN
11 16 (1.42%) HTTP
11 16 (1.42%) Internet
12 14 (1.24%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (13.72%) NoSQL
3 122 (10.80%) Relational Database
4 116 (10.27%) MongoDB
5 76 (6.73%) DB2
6 50 (4.42%) Power BI
7 43 (3.81%) MySQL
7 43 (3.81%) Tableau
8 41 (3.63%) GIS
9 33 (2.92%) SQL Server
10 32 (2.83%) Hadoop
11 31 (2.74%) Data Lake
12 29 (2.57%) QGIS
13 26 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (1.95%) Big Data
15 20 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (1.33%) Redis
17 11 (0.97%) RDBMS
18 10 (0.88%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 160 (14.16%) Git
2 84 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.22%) JIRA
4 37 (3.27%) GitLab
5 25 (2.21%) Robot Framework
6 22 (1.95%) LabVIEW
7 19 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.24%) ClearCase
9 14 (1.24%) Plastic SCM
10 13 (1.15%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.15%) Vagrant
11 12 (1.06%) Subversion
12 11 (0.97%) JMeter
13 10 (0.88%) Selenium
13 10 (0.88%) Trac
14 8 (0.71%) JUnit
15 7 (0.62%) ClearQuest
16 6 (0.53%) Maven
16 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 262 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 137 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 136 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.61%) Finance
5 69 (6.11%) Electronics
6 60 (5.31%) Telecoms
7 57 (5.04%) Manufacturing
8 35 (3.10%) Marketing
9 32 (2.83%) Military
10 27 (2.39%) Automotive
10 27 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.30%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.30%) Retail
12 23 (2.04%) Legal
13 21 (1.86%) Games
14 15 (1.33%) Aviation
15 14 (1.24%) Tech for Good
16 11 (0.97%) Law
16 11 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (23.81%) Software Engineer
2 257 (22.74%) Developer
3 237 (20.97%) Senior
4 103 (9.12%) Full Stack Developer
5 85 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 80 (7.08%) Azure Developer
7 61 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 58 (5.13%) Lead
9 52 (4.60%) Python Engineer
10 49 (4.34%) Software Developer
11 46 (4.07%) Architect
11 46 (4.07%) Junior
12 45 (3.98%) Analyst
12 45 (3.98%) Graduate
13 39 (3.45%) Data Engineer
14 37 (3.27%) Java Developer
15 34 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (2.83%) Hardware Engineer
17 30 (2.65%) Python Developer
17 30 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (18.41%) React
2 158 (13.98%) AngularJS
3 155 (13.72%) HTML
4 148 (13.10%) CSS
5 144 (12.74%) .NET
6 139 (12.30%) Node.js
7 127 (11.24%) REST
8 120 (10.62%) Web Services
9 89 (7.88%) Vue
10 87 (7.70%) ASP.NET
10 87 (7.70%) jQuery
11 79 (6.99%) Ember.js
12 76 (6.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.73%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 53 (4.69%) XML
14 47 (4.16%) Kafka
14 47 (4.16%) Spring
15 35 (3.10%) Django
16 34 (3.01%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 225 (19.91%) Algorithms
2 110 (9.73%) Data Structures
3 88 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (6.73%) Blockchain
5 63 (5.58%) IoT
6 32 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
10 22 (1.95%) Acoustics
10 22 (1.95%) Satnav
11 20 (1.77%) CUDA
11 20 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.77%) PKI
12 19 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.59%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.24%) Robotics
15 13 (1.15%) CMDB
15 13 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 384 (33.98%) Linux
2 233 (20.62%) Windows
3 97 (8.58%) Android
4 82 (7.26%) Apple iOS
5 51 (4.51%) Unix
6 33 (2.92%) Windows Server
7 28 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (2.21%) CentOS
9 22 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
10 21 (1.86%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.44%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.27%) Debian
14 3 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (32.48%) Software Engineering
2 353 (31.24%) DevOps
3 310 (27.43%) Agile
4 306 (27.08%) Computer Science
5 267 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
6 217 (19.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 151 (13.36%) Mathematics
8 147 (13.01%) Full Stack Development
9 140 (12.39%) Machine Learning
10 130 (11.50%) Web Development
11 129 (11.42%) Physics
12 128 (11.33%) OO
13 123 (10.88%) CI/CD
14 104 (9.20%) User Experience
15 101 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
16 100 (8.85%) Mentoring
17 97 (8.58%) OOP
18 95 (8.41%) Containerisation
19 92 (8.14%) Software Testing
20 89 (7.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 354 (31.33%) Java
2 321 (28.41%) JavaScript
3 300 (26.55%) SQL
4 248 (21.95%) C#
5 215 (19.03%) C++
6 190 (16.81%) C
7 123 (10.88%) Bash
8 95 (8.41%) PowerShell
9 79 (6.99%) Fortran
10 64 (5.66%) Perl
11 57 (5.04%) MATLAB
12 54 (4.78%) R
13 40 (3.54%) Kotlin
14 36 (3.19%) Go
14 36 (3.19%) TypeScript
15 32 (2.83%) Ruby
16 27 (2.39%) Embedded C
17 18 (1.59%) Shell Script
18 16 (1.42%) Scala
19 15 (1.33%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 449 (39.73%) Degree
2 261 (23.10%) Security Cleared
3 174 (15.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 173 (15.31%) SC Cleared
5 115 (10.18%) Master's Degree
6 101 (8.94%) PhD
7 29 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.97%) HND
12 9 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.53%) JNCIE
16 5 (0.44%) CCIE
16 5 (0.44%) CISSP
16 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.89%) QA
2 37 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.33%) ISO 26262
3 15 (1.33%) MISRA
4 14 (1.24%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (1.24%) AUTOSAR
5 10 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.62%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.53%) NIST
7 6 (0.53%) SLA
8 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.27%) GDPR
10 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.18%) PMO
10 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
System Software
1 177 (15.66%) Docker
2 55 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 50 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (3.36%) Hyper-V
5 30 (2.65%) Firmware
6 22 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.88%) NFS
8 10 (0.88%) pfSense
9 5 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.27%) HDFS
10 3 (0.27%) 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 (11.15%) Terraform
2 122 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 112 (9.91%) Ansible
4 17 (1.50%) WMI
5 14 (1.24%) Puppet
5 14 (1.24%) ZABBIX
6 13 (1.15%) Grafana
7 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 10 (0.88%) SCDPM
8 8 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 5 (0.44%) SELinux
9 5 (0.44%) Suricata
9 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.35%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) Nessus
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) Argo
12 2 (0.18%) Netcool
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 124 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.23%) IBM
3 87 (7.70%) Red Hat
4 61 (5.40%) VMware
5 34 (3.01%) SAP
6 29 (2.57%) ESRI
7 28 (2.48%) Splunk
8 27 (2.39%) Xilinx
9 26 (2.30%) Databricks
10 25 (2.21%) Juniper
10 25 (2.21%) Oracle
11 20 (1.77%) Google
11 20 (1.77%) WSO2
12 15 (1.33%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.24%) Cisco
13 14 (1.24%) Lauterbach
14 13 (1.15%) Facebook
15 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.97%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.88%) Veeam