Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 8 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkPython
Location
3 months to
8 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank173223282
Rank change year-on-year
Up+50Up+59
Matching permanent IT job ads9218791259
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.173 %0.865 %0.634 %
As % of the Programming Languages category2.402 %1.859 %1.402 %
Salaries quoted8047611044
Average salary£42,500£45,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.550 %+8.430 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£70,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
383364729689778
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.81 %46.52 %45.19 %
Salaries quoted330464093074559
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

Python
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Python within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Python Demand Trend

Python
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Python within the UK.

Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python over the 3 months to 8 February 2010 within the UK.

Python Salary Histogram

Python
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+43917£42,500-5.55 %
LondonUp+29604£55,000-4.34 %
City of LondonDown-21214£50,250-28.21 %
South EastUp+62120£35,000-6.66 %
East of EnglandUp+2980£35,000-3.44 %
CambridgeshireUp+2269£35,000-10.25 %
CambridgeUp+1161£35,000-12.50 %
South WestUp+2060£35,000-12.50 %
BerkshireUp+2335£40,000-5.88 %
West MidlandsUp+6627£40,000+6.66 %
GloucestershireUp+4427£35,000-
SurreyUp+3326£40,000+45.45 %
OxfordshireUp+625£27,500-17.29 %
ReadingUp+2618£42,500-
HampshireUp+3917£40,000-5.88 %
North WestUp+3416£33,500-16.25 %
BrightonUp+914£50,000+7.52 %
East SussexUp+814£50,000+9.28 %
DevonUp+1913£37,500-11.76 %
ManchesterUp+3312£33,500+8.06 %
BristolUp+2311£22,500-43.75 %
NorwichNew entry-9£40,000-
NorfolkNew entry-9£40,000-
OxfordUp+138£34,250+5.38 %
KentNew entry-7£27,500-
EssexUp+296£35,000-17.64 %
YorkshireUp+156£30,000-
PlymouthNew entry-6£35,500-
BasingstokeNew entry-6£42,500-
BirminghamNew entry-6£40,000-

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11007 (49.24 %)Perl
2959 (46.89 %)Linux
3793 (38.78 %)C++
4765 (37.41 %)Java
5657 (32.13 %)UNIX
6538 (26.31 %)SQL
7509 (24.89 %)Finance
8466 (22.79 %)Degree
9442 (21.61 %)PHP
10432 (21.12 %)C#
11386 (18.88 %)OO
12383 (18.73 %)MySQL
13377 (18.44 %)C
14336 (16.43 %)Ruby
15311 (15.21 %)JavaScript
16297 (14.52 %)Windows
17230 (11.25 %)HTML
18226 (11.05 %)XML
19214 (10.46 %)SQL Server
19214 (10.46 %)Bash shell
20209 (10.22 %)Banking
21207 (10.12 %).NET
22206 (10.07 %)Oracle
23205 (10.02 %)CSS
24196 (9.584 %)Computer Science
25192 (9.389 %)Front Office
26185 (9.046 %)TCP/IP
26185 (9.046 %)Open Source
27184 (8.998 %)Apache
28174 (8.509 %)Django

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1230 (11.25 %)HTML
2226 (11.05 %)XML
3207 (10.12 %).NET
4205 (10.02 %)CSS
5174 (8.509 %)Django
6117 (5.721 %)STL
7116 (5.672 %)LAMP
8114 (5.575 %)AJAX
996 (4.694 %)Web Services
996 (4.694 %)ASP.NET
1095 (4.645 %)XHTML
1176 (3.716 %)J2EE
1272 (3.521 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1355 (2.689 %)SOAP
1355 (2.689 %)jQuery
1452 (2.543 %)Flash
1551 (2.494 %)Ruby on Rails
1649 (2.396 %)MVC
1649 (2.396 %)Adobe Flex
1746 (2.249 %)Spring
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1184 (8.998 %)Apache
236 (1.760 %)IIS
329 (1.418 %)Tomcat
428 (1.369 %)Drupal
523 (1.125 %)CMS
622 (1.076 %)WebLogic
714 (0.685 %)WebSphere MQ
714 (0.685 %)Rendezvous
714 (0.685 %)SharePoint
813 (0.636 %)ColdFusion
912 (0.587 %)SAS
912 (0.587 %)nginx
1010 (0.489 %)WebSphere Application Server
117 (0.342 %)ActiveMQ
125 (0.244 %)Magento
125 (0.244 %)lighttpd
125 (0.244 %)Oracle Spatial
134 (0.196 %)Zope
143 (0.147 %)WordPress
143 (0.147 %)Jetty
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
142 (2.054 %)MATLAB
239 (1.907 %)S-PLUS
330 (1.467 %)MS Excel
428 (1.369 %)MS Visio
519 (0.929 %)MS Office
616 (0.782 %)Photoshop
712 (0.587 %)Adobe Illustrator
712 (0.587 %)SPSS
84 (0.196 %)Spreadsheet
93 (0.147 %)Maya
93 (0.147 %)3ds Max
102 (0.098 %)MS PowerPoint
111 (0.049 %)SketchUp
111 (0.049 %)Blender
111 (0.049 %)PrintSoft PReS
111 (0.049 %)QuarkXPress
111 (0.049 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
135 (1.711 %)Front Arena
23 (0.147 %)SolArc RightAngle
32 (0.098 %)GoldMine
41 (0.049 %)Microsoft CRM
41 (0.049 %)Endur
41 (0.049 %)Findur
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1185 (9.046 %)TCP/IP
2106 (5.183 %)Internet
362 (3.032 %)DNS
441 (2.005 %)SAN
539 (1.907 %)HTTP
630 (1.467 %)SNMP
630 (1.467 %)Firewall
727 (1.320 %)VoIP
820 (0.978 %)SSH
918 (0.880 %)Wireless
1016 (0.782 %)SSL
1115 (0.733 %)LTE
1115 (0.733 %)VLAN
1212 (0.587 %)DVB
1311 (0.538 %)DSL
1410 (0.489 %)HSDPA
1410 (0.489 %)DHCP
1410 (0.489 %)HSUPA
1410 (0.489 %)iSCSI
1410 (0.489 %)HSPA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1383 (18.73 %)MySQL
2214 (10.46 %)SQL Server
359 (2.885 %)RDBMS
454 (2.641 %)PostgreSQL
532 (1.565 %)SQL Server 2005
624 (1.174 %)SQL Server 2008
720 (0.978 %)DB2
720 (0.978 %)ETL
720 (0.978 %)KDB
819 (0.929 %)Datawarehouse
915 (0.733 %)OLTP
915 (0.733 %)SQL Server 2000
1014 (0.685 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1110 (0.489 %)Oracle 10g
1110 (0.489 %)SQL Server Integration Services
129 (0.440 %)Ingres
138 (0.391 %)OLAP
147 (0.342 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
147 (0.342 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
156 (0.293 %)GIS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
183 (4.059 %)Subversion
241 (2.005 %)Selenium
328 (1.369 %)Git (software)
427 (1.320 %)NUnit
526 (1.271 %)JUnit
625 (1.222 %)FitNesse
718 (0.880 %)Eclipse
816 (0.782 %)Ant
915 (0.733 %)Visual Studio
1014 (0.685 %)ClearCase
1113 (0.636 %)Mercurial
1212 (0.587 %)QuickTest Pro
1212 (0.587 %)Maven
138 (0.391 %)CruiseControl
147 (0.342 %)TeamCity
147 (0.342 %)WebDriver
147 (0.342 %)WATIR
156 (0.293 %)ClearQuest
156 (0.293 %)LoadRunner
164 (0.196 %)Introscope
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1509 (24.89 %)Finance
2209 (10.22 %)Banking
3192 (9.389 %)Front Office
4104 (5.086 %)Education
584 (4.108 %)Games
673 (3.570 %)Investment Banking
765 (3.178 %)Pensions
856 (2.738 %)Health
945 (2.200 %)Marketing
1041 (2.005 %)Telecoms
1130 (1.467 %)Back Office
1222 (1.076 %)Electric
1315 (0.733 %)Insurance
1315 (0.733 %)3D Graphics
1315 (0.733 %)Electronics
1315 (0.733 %)Government
1414 (0.685 %)Construction
1513 (0.636 %)Retail
1612 (0.587 %)Publishing
1612 (0.587 %)Animation
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11105 (54.03 %)Developer
2190 (9.291 %)Senior Developer
3182 (8.900 %)C++ Developer
4176 (8.606 %)Python Developer
5156 (7.628 %)Web Developer
6153 (7.482 %)Java Developer
7147 (7.188 %)Software Engineer
8146 (7.139 %)Administrator
9112 (5.477 %)Systems Administrator
1095 (4.645 %)Software Developer
1095 (4.645 %)Analyst
1187 (4.254 %)PHP Developer
1284 (4.108 %)Graduate
1378 (3.814 %)Linux Engineer
1378 (3.814 %)C# Developer
1476 (3.716 %)Programmer
1574 (3.619 %)Linux Administrator
1668 (3.325 %)Junior
1761 (2.983 %)Support Engineer
1860 (2.934 %)Linux Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1196 (9.584 %)Computer Science
2185 (9.046 %)Open Source
3168 (8.215 %)Derivative
4135 (6.601 %)Mathematics
5113 (5.526 %)Fixed Income
674 (3.619 %)Equities
772 (3.521 %)Client/Server
870 (3.423 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
955 (2.689 %)Multithreading
1042 (2.054 %)Physics
1139 (1.907 %)Blog
1235 (1.711 %)Social Network
1330 (1.467 %)Statistics
1422 (1.076 %)Clustering
1422 (1.076 %)Web 2.0
1520 (0.978 %)Credit Derivative
1520 (0.978 %)Visualisation
1619 (0.929 %)Management Information System
1716 (0.782 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1815 (0.733 %)W3C
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1959 (46.89 %)Linux
2657 (32.13 %)UNIX
3297 (14.52 %)Windows
4165 (8.068 %)Solaris
5124 (6.064 %)Red Hat Linux
655 (2.689 %)Debian
749 (2.396 %)Ubuntu
848 (2.347 %)CentOS
940 (1.956 %)Windows Server 2003
1031 (1.516 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1129 (1.418 %)AIX
1228 (1.369 %)HPUX
1318 (0.880 %)Windows XP
1414 (0.685 %)OpenBSD
1414 (0.685 %)Windows Vista
1513 (0.636 %)Fedora
1610 (0.489 %)SUSE
176 (0.293 %)Mac OS X
176 (0.293 %)Windows 2000
176 (0.293 %)FreeBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1386 (18.88 %)OO
2152 (7.433 %)Agile Software Development
3111 (5.428 %)Unit Testing
4110 (5.379 %)Scrum
5103 (5.037 %)Electronic Trading
5103 (5.037 %)Software Engineering
6101 (4.939 %)Risk Management
791 (4.450 %)Algorithmic Trading
890 (4.401 %)E-Commerce
982 (4.010 %)Web Development
1080 (3.912 %)TDD
1171 (3.472 %)Automated Testing
1270 (3.423 %)OOP
1357 (2.787 %)Continuous Integration
1450 (2.445 %)OOD
1549 (2.396 %)Project Management
1632 (1.565 %)Software Testing
1728 (1.369 %)Test Automation
1827 (1.320 %)Test Scripting
1827 (1.320 %)Data Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11007 (49.24 %)Perl
2793 (38.78 %)C++
3765 (37.41 %)Java
4538 (26.31 %)SQL
5442 (21.61 %)PHP
6432 (21.12 %)C#
7377 (18.44 %)C
8336 (16.43 %)Ruby
9311 (15.21 %)JavaScript
10214 (10.46 %)Bash shell
1197 (4.743 %)Shell Script
1258 (2.836 %)Erlang
1355 (2.689 %)Jython
1355 (2.689 %)PHP5
1444 (2.152 %)Lisp
1543 (2.103 %)Haskell
1640 (1.956 %)ActionScript
1739 (1.907 %)VB.NET
1837 (1.809 %)PL/SQL
1935 (1.711 %)Delphi
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1466 (22.79 %)Degree
292 (4.499 %)PhD
341 (2.005 %)RHCE
417 (0.831 %)RHCT
514 (0.685 %)CCNA
514 (0.685 %)Cisco Certification
613 (0.636 %)Security Cleared
79 (0.440 %)CCNP
88 (0.391 %)MBA
88 (0.391 %)ISEB
97 (0.342 %)Microsoft Certification
106 (0.293 %)ISTQB
106 (0.293 %)SC Cleared
113 (0.147 %)DV Cleared
113 (0.147 %)PMP
113 (0.147 %)PMI Certification
122 (0.098 %)ITIL Certification
131 (0.049 %)ACDT
131 (0.049 %)ACPT
131 (0.049 %)MCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
198 (4.792 %)QA
22 (0.098 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
135 (1.711 %)NFS
214 (0.685 %)Active Directory
312 (0.587 %)Samba
312 (0.587 %)Xen
48 (0.391 %)VMware ESX
48 (0.391 %)VMware Infrastructure
57 (0.342 %)Postfix
57 (0.342 %)Oracle RAC
66 (0.293 %)NetBackup
66 (0.293 %)XenServer
75 (0.244 %)Veritas Volume Manager
75 (0.244 %)Veritas File System
75 (0.244 %)Veritas Cluster Server
84 (0.196 %)Oracle RMAN
93 (0.147 %)OpenLDAP
93 (0.147 %)Backup Exec
102 (0.098 %)Squid
102 (0.098 %)Sendmail
111 (0.049 %)IMail Server
111 (0.049 %)MSMQ
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
125 (1.222 %)Nagios
210 (0.489 %)YUM
39 (0.440 %)OpenView
47 (0.342 %)CONTROL-M
54 (0.196 %)BMC PATROL
54 (0.196 %)CA Wily
54 (0.196 %)BMC Performance Manager
54 (0.196 %)Data Guard
63 (0.147 %)HP Quality Center
72 (0.098 %)AutoSys
72 (0.098 %)Munin
72 (0.098 %)Zenoss
81 (0.049 %)Cacti
81 (0.049 %)Tivoli
81 (0.049 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
81 (0.049 %)MSI
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1206 (10.07 %)Oracle
2119 (5.819 %)Red Hat
386 (4.205 %)Sybase
468 (3.325 %)HP
551 (2.494 %)Zend
650 (2.445 %)Microsoft
735 (1.711 %)TIBCO
826 (1.271 %)VMware
826 (1.271 %)Google
923 (1.125 %)Cisco
1019 (0.929 %)JBoss
1019 (0.929 %)Sun
1117 (0.831 %)Adobe
1117 (0.831 %)Bloomberg
1214 (0.685 %)Reuters
1313 (0.636 %)BladeLogic
1412 (0.587 %)SAP
1511 (0.538 %)Yahoo!
1610 (0.489 %)NetApp
1610 (0.489 %)SunGard