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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,327 8,149 8,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.45% 13.81% 11.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.71% 34.51% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 2,837 4,092
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 22,464 23,615 32,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,334 13,300 21,054
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
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 17 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 17 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 -9 1,304 £50,000 -23.08% 109
South East -11 1,145 £55,000 -12.00% 600
North of England -25 930 £55,000 -15.38% 262
South West -5 893 £56,500 -5.83% 232
North West -18 598 £57,000 -12.31% 154
Midlands -37 501 £53,500 -6.96% 210
East of England -9 384 £60,000 -4.00% 199
West Midlands -37 306 £55,000 -7.17% 147
Yorkshire -32 262 £55,000 -15.38% 84
East Midlands -28 191 £47,500 -13.64% 62
Wales -20 94 £51,528 -6.39% 41
Northern Ireland +2 80 £75,200 +25.33% 45
North East -21 70 £60,141 -3.77% 24
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
1 414 (7.77%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.82%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.41%) GeoServer
4 202 (3.79%) Apache
5 159 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
6 69 (1.30%) SAS
7 38 (0.71%) Confluence
8 35 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.64%) nginx
10 25 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 25 (0.47%) SharePoint
11 20 (0.38%) Camunda
12 12 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.19%) CMS
13 10 (0.19%) WordPress
14 7 (0.13%) Drupal
15 5 (0.094%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.075%) Luigi
16 4 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 118 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (1.99%) Simulink
3 37 (0.69%) 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 (0.038%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.038%) EViews
11 2 (0.038%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.038%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.019%) CATIA
12 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (0.36%) 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 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,941 (36.44%) AWS
2 1,414 (26.54%) Azure
3 393 (7.38%) GCP
4 345 (6.48%) Serverless
5 320 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 273 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (3.98%) SaaS
8 198 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 163 (3.06%) GitHub
10 130 (2.44%) OpenShift
11 129 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 126 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
13 119 (2.23%) Azure API Management
14 118 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 117 (2.20%) Azure Functions
15 117 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.20%) IBM Cloud
16 99 (1.86%) Snowflake
17 95 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
18 83 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 192 (3.60%) Firewall
2 136 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 100 (1.88%) DNS
4 99 (1.86%) VPN
5 96 (1.80%) Internet
6 93 (1.75%) Wireless
7 88 (1.65%) HTTP
8 68 (1.28%) DHCP
8 68 (1.28%) Network Security
9 66 (1.24%) SNMP
10 59 (1.11%) WAN
11 57 (1.07%) LAN
12 54 (1.01%) IPsec
13 53 (0.99%) Bluetooth
14 47 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 44 (0.83%) 5G
16 39 (0.73%) MQTT
17 33 (0.62%) AMQP
18 30 (0.56%) LTE
19 28 (0.53%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
2 473 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 369 (6.93%) Big Data
4 341 (6.40%) GIS
5 331 (6.21%) Relational Database
6 314 (5.89%) MongoDB
7 292 (5.48%) Power BI
8 285 (5.35%) QGIS
9 263 (4.94%) SQL Server
10 220 (4.13%) Hadoop
11 212 (3.98%) Tableau
12 209 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
13 192 (3.60%) Data Lake
14 163 (3.06%) MySQL
15 156 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
16 137 (2.57%) DB2
17 122 (2.29%) Apache Hive
18 103 (1.93%) HBase
19 78 (1.46%) Redis
20 72 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 590 (11.08%) Git
2 384 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 183 (3.44%) JIRA
4 151 (2.83%) GitLab
5 87 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (1.33%) LabVIEW
7 55 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 48 (0.90%) Maven
9 47 (0.88%) Subversion
10 39 (0.73%) Selenium
11 37 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 31 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.56%) JDeveloper
14 27 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 27 (0.51%) Gradle
14 27 (0.51%) Robot Framework
15 25 (0.47%) CircleCI
16 24 (0.45%) Eclipse
17 21 (0.39%) Travis CI
18 17 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,472 (27.63%) Finance
2 1,108 (20.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,034 (19.41%) Law
4 965 (18.12%) Social Skills
5 730 (13.70%) Marketing
6 530 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
7 410 (7.70%) Legal
8 290 (5.44%) Public Sector
9 232 (4.36%) Banking
10 217 (4.07%) Electronics
11 182 (3.42%) Retail
12 179 (3.36%) Manufacturing
13 164 (3.08%) Aerospace
14 145 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 136 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
16 124 (2.33%) Games
17 122 (2.29%) Financial Institution
18 98 (1.84%) Automotive
19 97 (1.82%) Investment Banking
20 57 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,933 (36.29%) Software Engineer
2 1,099 (20.63%) Senior
3 803 (15.07%) Developer
4 573 (10.76%) Data Engineer
5 520 (9.76%) Lead
6 499 (9.37%) Python Engineer
7 451 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 403 (7.57%) Python Software Engineer
9 296 (5.56%) Analyst
10 256 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 249 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 200 (3.75%) Full Stack Developer
13 199 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
14 182 (3.42%) Software Developer
15 176 (3.30%) AWS Software Engineer
16 172 (3.23%) Architect
17 167 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
18 156 (2.93%) Big Data Engineer
19 151 (2.83%) Data Analyst
19 151 (2.83%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 849 (15.94%) React
2 560 (10.51%) .NET
3 509 (9.56%) CSS
4 413 (7.75%) Node.js
5 379 (7.11%) AngularJS
6 336 (6.31%) HTML
7 297 (5.58%) PostGIS
8 293 (5.50%) OpenLayers
8 293 (5.50%) REST
9 290 (5.44%) Leaflet
10 289 (5.43%) .NET Core
11 239 (4.49%) Kafka
12 232 (4.36%) PySpark
13 214 (4.02%) Spring
14 204 (3.83%) Web Services
15 181 (3.40%) Django
16 175 (3.29%) Vue
17 171 (3.21%) ASP.NET
18 165 (3.10%) jQuery
19 160 (3.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 862 (16.18%) Algorithms
2 429 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 317 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 197 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 172 (3.23%) IoT
6 164 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 148 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 143 (2.68%) Onboarding
9 136 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 125 (2.35%) Blockchain
11 106 (1.99%) Data Centre
12 102 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 96 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
14 66 (1.24%) Market Risk
15 64 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 56 (1.05%) Credit Risk
17 54 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
18 51 (0.96%) Robotics
19 46 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
20 42 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1,341 (25.17%) Linux
2 594 (11.15%) Windows
3 254 (4.77%) Unix
4 177 (3.32%) Android
5 157 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 143 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 108 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 107 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
9 91 (1.71%) CentOS
10 90 (1.69%) Windows Server
11 60 (1.13%) Debian
12 49 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
13 20 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
14 19 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 15 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
17 12 (0.23%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Kali Linux
18 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,457 (46.12%) Software Engineering
2 2,170 (40.74%) Agile
3 1,267 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 1,259 (23.63%) DevOps
5 1,160 (21.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,127 (21.16%) Machine Learning
7 1,122 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
8 993 (18.64%) SDLC
9 772 (14.49%) Operational Stability
10 738 (13.85%) Computer Science
11 631 (11.85%) Visualisation
12 613 (11.51%) Community of Practice
13 596 (11.19%) Actionable Insight
14 575 (10.79%) Analytics
15 506 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 505 (9.48%) Web Development
17 458 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
18 452 (8.49%) Decision-Making
19 446 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
19 446 (8.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,625 (30.50%) Java
2 1,601 (30.05%) SQL
3 1,258 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 843 (15.83%) C#
5 620 (11.64%) Bash
6 603 (11.32%) C
7 500 (9.39%) C++
8 377 (7.08%) PowerShell
9 215 (4.04%) Go
10 214 (4.02%) R
11 209 (3.92%) TypeScript
12 174 (3.27%) Perl
13 166 (3.12%) MATLAB
14 155 (2.91%) PL/SQL
15 148 (2.78%) Ruby
16 146 (2.74%) Embedded C
17 126 (2.37%) Scala
18 104 (1.95%) Rust
19 95 (1.78%) PHP
20 90 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,134 (21.29%) Degree
2 1,071 (20.11%) Security Cleared
3 634 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 342 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 280 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 253 (4.75%) Master's Degree
7 181 (3.40%) PhD
8 92 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 48 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 41 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 33 (0.62%) CCNA
13 31 (0.58%) HND
14 30 (0.56%) CCNP
15 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (0.47%) CISSP
16 22 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.41%) SANS
17 21 (0.39%) HNC
17 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 187 (3.51%) QA
3 58 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 51 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (0.96%) SLA
5 29 (0.54%) NIST
6 22 (0.41%) PMO
7 21 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 20 (0.38%) MISRA
8 20 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.28%) GDPR
9 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
10 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
10 14 (0.26%) CRD IV
11 12 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.23%) IFRS
11 12 (0.23%) IFRS 9
12 11 (0.21%) JTAG
System Software
1 593 (11.13%) Docker
2 177 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (1.99%) Firmware
4 105 (1.97%) HDFS
5 103 (1.93%) Active Directory
6 94 (1.76%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
8 43 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.49%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 12 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.094%) KVM
15 3 (0.056%) Ceph
15 3 (0.056%) Gluster
15 3 (0.056%) oVirt
15 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 714 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 512 (9.61%) Terraform
3 438 (8.22%) Ansible
4 178 (3.34%) Puppet
5 111 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 96 (1.80%) Grafana
7 72 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 45 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 13 (0.24%) Kibana
14 12 (0.23%) Fluentd
14 12 (0.23%) logstash
14 12 (0.23%) Nmap
15 11 (0.21%) Podman
16 10 (0.19%) Nagios
16 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 413 (7.75%) Databricks
2 371 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 355 (6.66%) Oracle
4 301 (5.65%) ESRI
5 300 (5.63%) Red Hat
6 223 (4.19%) VMware
7 216 (4.05%) Google
8 155 (2.91%) IBM
9 127 (2.38%) Informatica
10 104 (1.95%) Splunk
11 93 (1.75%) Alteryx
12 81 (1.52%) Cisco
13 75 (1.41%) Cloudera
14 74 (1.39%) SAP
15 55 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.98%) NetApp
17 49 (0.92%) SolidFire
18 41 (0.77%) Xilinx
19 40 (0.75%) Dynatrace
20 37 (0.69%) SaltStack