The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 21 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 36 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing Python 3 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.613% 5.882% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.030% 9.412% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £55,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.75% -
All Programming Languages
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
99 85 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 53.23% 62.50% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 67 63 54
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £28,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £45,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
Hertfordshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Python Salary Trend

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (66.67%) Fortran
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Chemistry
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Cacti
3 1 (33.33%) Postfix
3 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (33.33%) snoop
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) IPv4

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) snoop
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) IPv4
1 1 (33.33%) IPv6
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) OpenBSD
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) FreeBSD
1 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Fortran
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
1 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
1 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cacti
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle