Python Jobs in Kent

Python
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 75 43
Rank change year-on-year +43 -32 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 34 28 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.83% 1.89% 5.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.52% 7.49% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 18 14
10th Percentile £39,059 £35,500 £39,900
25th Percentile £57,750 £36,688 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% +36.36%
75th Percentile £77,250 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £96,800 £68,875
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,700
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.86% +7.30%

All Programming Languages
Kent

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 158 374 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.44% 25.24% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 133 315 164
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £73,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Kent

Python
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Kent.

Salary trend for Python in Kent

Python
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Kent over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Kent

Python
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Rochester -20 14 £60,000 +62.16% 2
Chatham +14 5 £90,000 +4.65% 2
Maidstone - 3 £70,000 - 8
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (2.94%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Simulink
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) Datadog
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Alation
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.94%) dbt
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.82%) Redis
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.94%) GIS
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Subversion
3 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.94%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (2.94%) LabVIEW
General
1 11 (32.35%) Electronics
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Aerospace
3 5 (14.71%) Military
3 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Avionics
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Senior
1 17 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Software Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Lead
4 5 (14.71%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Hardware Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Principal Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.94%) Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) Node.js
3 5 (14.71%) GraphQL
4 4 (11.76%) Kafka
5 3 (8.82%) Pandas
6 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.88%) React
6 2 (5.88%) RESTful
7 1 (2.94%) CSS
7 1 (2.94%) HTML
7 1 (2.94%) JSP
7 1 (2.94%) Middleware
7 1 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Analogue Electronics
1 5 (14.71%) FPGA
1 5 (14.71%) Life Science
1 5 (14.71%) VHDL
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Cyberattack
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Software Engineering
2 13 (38.24%) Mathematics
3 11 (32.35%) Physics
4 7 (20.59%) Validation
4 7 (20.59%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Software Architecture
5 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Analytics
6 5 (14.71%) Architectural Design
6 5 (14.71%) CAD
6 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (14.71%) Prototyping
6 5 (14.71%) Schematic Capture
7 4 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (11.76%) OO
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Management
7 4 (11.76%) UML
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) C
1 16 (47.06%) C++
2 15 (44.12%) C#
2 15 (44.12%) Java
3 11 (32.35%) MATLAB
4 6 (17.65%) Rust
5 3 (8.82%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 2 (5.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.94%) Ada
7 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.94%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
1 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) EMC
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Siemens
3 1 (2.94%) Google