The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Python over the 3 months to 20 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 129 148 142
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 43 21 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.177% 0.648% 0.410%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.161% 1.208% 0.758%
Number of salaries quoted 37 20 12
Average salary £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.49% +1.99%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,950 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.75% -
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1990 1738 1583
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 54.48% 53.61% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1622 1562 1378
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Python Salary Trend

Python
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Python across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Python Salary Histogram

Python
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -6 25 £25,000 -37.50%
Wakefield - 2 £32,500 -
Halifax +6 1 £35,000 -
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 50 (60.98%) Perl
2 35 (42.68%) Oracle
3 32 (39.02%) WebLogic
3 32 (39.02%) Java
3 32 (39.02%) Jython
4 31 (37.80%) Middleware
4 31 (37.80%) Linux
4 31 (37.80%) SOA
4 31 (37.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 30 (36.59%) Stress Testing
5 30 (36.59%) PHP
6 29 (35.37%) Shell Script
6 29 (35.37%) Oracle Service Bus
6 29 (35.37%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
7 28 (34.15%) Subversion
7 28 (34.15%) SQL
8 27 (32.93%) UNIX
9 25 (30.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 22 (26.83%) Scrum
11 21 (25.61%) PL/SQL
11 21 (25.61%) JMS
12 19 (23.17%) MySQL
13 12 (14.63%) JavaScript
13 12 (14.63%) HTML
14 11 (13.41%) Ruby
15 10 (12.20%) Bash shell
16 9 (10.98%) Agile Software Development
16 9 (10.98%) jQuery
17 8 (9.756%) Internet
17 8 (9.756%) CSS

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Development
1 31 (37.80%) Middleware
1 31 (37.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (25.61%) JMS
3 12 (14.63%) HTML
4 9 (10.98%) jQuery
5 8 (9.756%) CSS
6 6 (7.317%) JSP
6 6 (7.317%) ASP
6 6 (7.317%) HTML5
7 5 (6.098%) Web Services
8 3 (3.659%) Spring
8 3 (3.659%) Ajax
8 3 (3.659%) WebSphere
8 3 (3.659%) Symfony
9 2 (2.439%) jBPM
9 2 (2.439%) XML
9 2 (2.439%) XSL
9 2 (2.439%) .NET
9 2 (2.439%) J2EE
9 2 (2.439%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 32 (39.02%) WebLogic
2 29 (35.37%) Oracle Service Bus
3 25 (30.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (8.537%) Apache
5 4 (4.878%) Tomcat
5 4 (4.878%) WebLogic Portal
5 4 (4.878%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.659%) WordPress
6 3 (3.659%) Magento
6 3 (3.659%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.220%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.220%) ArcSDE
Applications
1 1 (1.220%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.220%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.756%) SMS
1 8 (9.756%) Internet
2 5 (6.098%) Firewall
3 3 (3.659%) NAS
3 3 (3.659%) SAN
3 3 (3.659%) DNS
4 2 (2.439%) IPv4
4 2 (2.439%) SMTP
4 2 (2.439%) HTTP
4 2 (2.439%) VoIP
4 2 (2.439%) Broadband
4 2 (2.439%) VPN
4 2 (2.439%) OSPF
4 2 (2.439%) BGP
5 1 (1.220%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.220%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.220%) LAN
5 1 (1.220%) WAN
5 1 (1.220%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) MySQL
2 5 (6.098%) GIS
3 2 (2.439%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.220%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.220%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.220%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (34.15%) Subversion
2 3 (3.659%) Maven
2 3 (3.659%) Ant
2 3 (3.659%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.439%) Selenium
4 1 (1.220%) OpenSTA
4 1 (1.220%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.220%) JUnit
4 1 (1.220%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.220%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (1.220%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.220%) JMeter
4 1 (1.220%) Xcode
General
1 7 (8.537%) Telecoms
1 7 (8.537%) Billing
2 3 (3.659%) Marketing
3 2 (2.439%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.439%) Publishing
4 1 (1.220%) Finance
4 1 (1.220%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (45.12%) Administrator
2 30 (36.59%) Developer
3 17 (20.73%) Middleware Administrator
4 12 (14.63%) Java Developer
4 12 (14.63%) Technical Administrator
5 9 (10.98%) Analyst
6 7 (8.537%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (8.537%) MySQL Developer
6 7 (8.537%) Middleware Analyst
7 6 (7.317%) Front-End Developer
7 6 (7.317%) PHP Developer
8 5 (6.098%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.878%) Web Developer
10 3 (3.659%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.659%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.659%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.659%) UNIX Engineer
10 3 (3.659%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.659%) Release Engineer
10 3 (3.659%) Configuration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.098%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.659%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (3.659%) Open Source
3 2 (2.439%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.439%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.439%) Grid Computing
3 2 (2.439%) STB
3 2 (2.439%) Ontologies
4 1 (1.220%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.220%) iPhone
4 1 (1.220%) Clustering
4 1 (1.220%) NHS
4 1 (1.220%) Firmware
4 1 (1.220%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.220%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 31 (37.80%) Linux
2 27 (32.93%) UNIX
3 6 (7.317%) Debian
4 5 (6.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.098%) Windows
5 3 (3.659%) CentOS
6 2 (2.439%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.439%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.220%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.220%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) SOA
2 30 (36.59%) Stress Testing
3 22 (26.83%) Scrum
4 9 (10.98%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (8.537%) B2B
5 7 (8.537%) OO
5 7 (8.537%) CRM
6 6 (7.317%) E-Commerce
6 6 (7.317%) OOP
6 6 (7.317%) B2C
7 5 (6.098%) Configuration Management
8 4 (4.878%) Load Balancing
9 3 (3.659%) Unit Testing
9 3 (3.659%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (3.659%) Kanban
9 3 (3.659%) Service Delivery
9 3 (3.659%) MVC
10 2 (2.439%) Workflow
10 2 (2.439%) Business Continuity
10 2 (2.439%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.98%) Perl
2 32 (39.02%) Java
2 32 (39.02%) Jython
3 30 (36.59%) PHP
4 29 (35.37%) Shell Script
4 29 (35.37%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 28 (34.15%) SQL
6 21 (25.61%) PL/SQL
7 12 (14.63%) JavaScript
8 11 (13.41%) Ruby
9 10 (12.20%) Bash shell
10 5 (6.098%) PHP5
11 4 (4.878%) Objective-C
12 3 (3.659%) AWK
13 2 (2.439%) MATLAB
13 2 (2.439%) Groovy
13 2 (2.439%) C
13 2 (2.439%) Tcl
13 2 (2.439%) C++
13 2 (2.439%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (4.878%) PhD
1 4 (4.878%) Degree
1 4 (4.878%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.878%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.439%) GCED
2 2 (2.439%) ISEB
2 2 (2.439%) CISSP
2 2 (2.439%) SSCP
2 2 (2.439%) GCIH
2 2 (2.439%) GCFA
2 2 (2.439%) CEH
3 1 (1.220%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.220%) CISM
3 1 (1.220%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.439%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.220%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.220%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (6.098%) vSphere
2 4 (4.878%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.439%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.220%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.220%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.878%) Puppet
2 2 (2.439%) Splunk
2 2 (2.439%) Backup Exec
2 2 (2.439%) YUM
3 1 (1.220%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (42.68%) Oracle
2 5 (6.098%) VMware
3 4 (4.878%) Cisco
4 3 (3.659%) IBM
4 3 (3.659%) JBoss
4 3 (3.659%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.659%) Zend
4 3 (3.659%) ArcSight
5 2 (2.439%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.439%) Endeca
5 2 (2.439%) Google
5 2 (2.439%) Juniper
6 1 (1.220%) Novell
6 1 (1.220%) Cognos
6 1 (1.220%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.220%) HP
6 1 (1.220%) EMC
6 1 (1.220%) Citrix
6 1 (1.220%) Tripwire
6 1 (1.220%) Salesforce.com
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