Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,342 8,222 8,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.53% 13.64% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.73% 34.05% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,050 2,882 4,184
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,275 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,450 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +8.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland -6 1,313 £50,764 -21.90% 106
South East -13 1,130 £55,000 -12.00% 332
North of England -24 936 £55,000 -15.38% 276
South West -5 901 £56,250 -6.25% 232
North West -17 598 £57,000 -9.16% 155
Midlands -36 502 £53,500 -6.96% 221
East of England -10 385 £60,000 -4.00% 202
West Midlands -35 307 £55,000 -8.33% 144
Yorkshire -26 267 £55,000 -15.38% 94
East Midlands -27 192 £49,990 -9.11% 77
Wales -17 99 £51,528 -6.31% 36
Northern Ireland +6 82 £75,200 +25.33% 48
North East -23 71 £57,500 -11.54% 27
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 418 (7.82%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.80%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.39%) GeoServer
4 206 (3.86%) Apache
5 160 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.33%) SAS
7 39 (0.73%) Confluence
8 35 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 33 (0.62%) nginx
10 25 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 24 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 20 (0.37%) Camunda
13 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (0.19%) CMS
14 10 (0.19%) WordPress
15 7 (0.13%) Drupal
16 5 (0.094%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.075%) Luigi
17 4 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 120 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (1.80%) Simulink
3 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) CANalyzer
7 8 (0.15%) SPSS
8 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.11%) Trello
10 5 (0.094%) Doxygen
10 5 (0.094%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.037%) EViews
11 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.019%) CATIA
12 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Odoo
3 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.056%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.056%) Shopify
5 2 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.037%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) iTrent
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,949 (36.48%) AWS
2 1,413 (26.45%) Azure
3 393 (7.36%) GCP
4 361 (6.76%) Serverless
5 321 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 283 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 216 (4.04%) SaaS
8 198 (3.71%) Amazon S3
9 162 (3.03%) GitHub
10 132 (2.47%) OpenShift
11 129 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 125 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
13 119 (2.23%) Azure API Management
14 118 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Functions
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.19%) IBM Cloud
16 103 (1.93%) Snowflake
17 95 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
18 80 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 194 (3.63%) Firewall
2 139 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 105 (1.97%) DNS
4 100 (1.87%) VPN
5 96 (1.80%) Internet
6 93 (1.74%) Wireless
7 91 (1.70%) HTTP
8 71 (1.33%) DHCP
9 69 (1.29%) Network Security
10 66 (1.24%) SNMP
11 62 (1.16%) WAN
12 59 (1.10%) LAN
13 54 (1.01%) IPsec
14 53 (0.99%) Bluetooth
15 47 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
16 45 (0.84%) 5G
17 39 (0.73%) MQTT
18 32 (0.60%) AMQP
19 30 (0.56%) LTE
20 29 (0.54%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
2 462 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 372 (6.96%) Big Data
4 341 (6.38%) GIS
5 328 (6.14%) Relational Database
6 308 (5.77%) MongoDB
7 294 (5.50%) Power BI
8 285 (5.34%) QGIS
9 261 (4.89%) SQL Server
10 216 (4.04%) Hadoop
11 214 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
11 214 (4.01%) Tableau
12 194 (3.63%) Data Lake
13 162 (3.03%) MySQL
14 158 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
15 137 (2.56%) DB2
16 123 (2.30%) Apache Hive
17 104 (1.95%) HBase
18 77 (1.44%) Redis
19 73 (1.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 609 (11.40%) Git
2 386 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 184 (3.44%) JIRA
4 151 (2.83%) GitLab
5 87 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (1.33%) LabVIEW
7 51 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 47 (0.88%) Maven
9 46 (0.86%) Subversion
10 42 (0.79%) Selenium
11 36 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 30 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 30 (0.56%) JDeveloper
13 28 (0.52%) Gradle
14 27 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 27 (0.51%) Robot Framework
15 26 (0.49%) CircleCI
16 24 (0.45%) Eclipse
17 21 (0.39%) Travis CI
18 18 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,469 (27.50%) Finance
2 1,114 (20.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,039 (19.45%) Law
4 950 (17.78%) Social Skills
5 728 (13.63%) Marketing
6 535 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
7 410 (7.68%) Legal
8 291 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 239 (4.47%) Banking
10 219 (4.10%) Electronics
11 186 (3.48%) Retail
12 179 (3.35%) Manufacturing
13 160 (3.00%) Aerospace
14 145 (2.71%) Telecoms
15 138 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
16 126 (2.36%) Games
17 122 (2.28%) Financial Institution
18 98 (1.83%) Investment Banking
19 97 (1.82%) Automotive
20 57 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,928 (36.09%) Software Engineer
2 1,095 (20.50%) Senior
3 809 (15.14%) Developer
4 583 (10.91%) Data Engineer
5 521 (9.75%) Lead
6 497 (9.30%) Python Engineer
7 441 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 402 (7.53%) Python Software Engineer
9 301 (5.63%) Analyst
10 257 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 248 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 201 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
13 193 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 179 (3.35%) Software Developer
15 176 (3.29%) AWS Software Engineer
16 169 (3.16%) Architect
17 167 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
18 156 (2.92%) Big Data Engineer
18 156 (2.92%) Data Scientist
19 152 (2.85%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 871 (16.30%) React
2 563 (10.54%) .NET
3 506 (9.47%) CSS
4 400 (7.49%) Node.js
5 383 (7.17%) AngularJS
6 333 (6.23%) HTML
7 298 (5.58%) PostGIS
8 293 (5.48%) OpenLayers
9 292 (5.47%) REST
10 291 (5.45%) .NET Core
11 290 (5.43%) Leaflet
12 236 (4.42%) Kafka
13 234 (4.38%) Spring
14 233 (4.36%) PySpark
15 206 (3.86%) Web Services
16 181 (3.39%) Django
17 174 (3.26%) Vue
18 173 (3.24%) ASP.NET
19 165 (3.09%) jQuery
20 160 (3.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 862 (16.14%) Algorithms
2 431 (8.07%) Cloud Native
3 319 (5.97%) Data Structures
4 200 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 173 (3.24%) IoT
6 164 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 148 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
8 144 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 138 (2.58%) Product Ownership
10 126 (2.36%) Blockchain
11 105 (1.97%) Data Centre
12 102 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 96 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
14 66 (1.24%) Market Risk
15 61 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
16 59 (1.10%) Credit Risk
17 54 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
18 51 (0.95%) Robotics
19 49 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
20 42 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1,337 (25.03%) Linux
2 605 (11.33%) Windows
3 259 (4.85%) Unix
4 172 (3.22%) Android
5 161 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 143 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 104 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 103 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
9 97 (1.82%) Windows Server
10 89 (1.67%) CentOS
11 59 (1.10%) Debian
12 49 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
13 20 (0.37%) CoreOS
13 20 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
14 17 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
17 10 (0.19%) Kali Linux
17 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 9 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,444 (45.75%) Software Engineering
2 2,175 (40.72%) Agile
3 1,267 (23.72%) CI/CD
4 1,256 (23.51%) DevOps
5 1,137 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,133 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 1,108 (20.74%) Machine Learning
8 993 (18.59%) SDLC
9 771 (14.43%) Operational Stability
10 713 (13.35%) Computer Science
11 633 (11.85%) Visualisation
12 627 (11.74%) Actionable Insight
13 613 (11.48%) Community of Practice
14 585 (10.95%) Analytics
15 507 (9.49%) Web Development
16 500 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 459 (8.59%) Full Stack Development
17 459 (8.59%) Microservices
18 455 (8.52%) Decision-Making
19 454 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,628 (30.48%) Java
2 1,591 (29.78%) SQL
3 1,249 (23.38%) JavaScript
4 856 (16.02%) C#
5 624 (11.68%) Bash
6 597 (11.18%) C
7 487 (9.12%) C++
8 394 (7.38%) PowerShell
9 216 (4.04%) R
10 214 (4.01%) Go
11 204 (3.82%) TypeScript
12 174 (3.26%) Perl
13 166 (3.11%) Ruby
14 163 (3.05%) MATLAB
15 155 (2.90%) PL/SQL
16 146 (2.73%) Embedded C
17 131 (2.45%) Scala
18 104 (1.95%) Rust
19 97 (1.82%) PHP
20 90 (1.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,108 (20.74%) Degree
2 1,062 (19.88%) Security Cleared
3 621 (11.62%) SC Cleared
4 328 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 272 (5.09%) DV Cleared
6 249 (4.66%) Master's Degree
7 181 (3.39%) PhD
8 88 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 48 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 41 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 33 (0.62%) CCNA
13 32 (0.60%) HND
14 30 (0.56%) CCNP
15 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (0.47%) CISSP
16 22 (0.41%) HNC
16 22 (0.41%) SANS
17 21 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 185 (3.46%) QA
3 60 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 51 (0.95%) SLA
5 47 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.47%) NIST
7 21 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 20 (0.37%) MISRA
8 20 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.37%) PMO
9 17 (0.32%) CRD IV
10 16 (0.30%) GDPR
11 15 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.28%) IFRS
11 15 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 12 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 603 (11.29%) Docker
2 188 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 106 (1.98%) Firmware
5 105 (1.97%) HDFS
6 97 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 51 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
8 42 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.49%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.19%) pfSense
13 9 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.094%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 713 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 520 (9.73%) Terraform
3 440 (8.24%) Ansible
4 182 (3.41%) Puppet
5 113 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 96 (1.80%) Grafana
7 72 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 44 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
10 17 (0.32%) WMI
11 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 13 (0.24%) Fluentd
12 13 (0.24%) Kibana
12 13 (0.24%) logstash
13 12 (0.22%) Nmap
14 11 (0.21%) Podman
15 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
16 9 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 414 (7.75%) Databricks
2 367 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 359 (6.72%) Oracle
4 302 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 301 (5.63%) ESRI
6 234 (4.38%) VMware
7 217 (4.06%) Google
8 157 (2.94%) IBM
9 127 (2.38%) Informatica
10 107 (2.00%) Splunk
11 93 (1.74%) Alteryx
12 82 (1.54%) Cisco
13 75 (1.40%) Cloudera
13 75 (1.40%) SAP
14 55 (1.03%) Palo Alto
15 51 (0.95%) NetApp
16 49 (0.92%) SolidFire
17 40 (0.75%) Dynatrace
18 36 (0.67%) SaltStack
19 35 (0.66%) Pega