Python Jobs in the South East

Python
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 772 1,147 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.12% 6.87% 10.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.09% 22.96% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 447 838 769
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,200 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.86% +7.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,406 4,995 5,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.43% 29.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 4,034 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,589
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Salary trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South East 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
Thames Valley +7 298 £59,000 +7.27% 217
Hampshire +1 144 £73,750 +34.09% 126
Surrey +15 116 £70,000 +16.67% 65
Berkshire +7 116 £55,565 -4.20% 81
Oxfordshire +5 109 £55,000 - 88
Isle of Wight - 78 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire +16 73 £60,000 +14.29% 68
Middlesex +30 68 - - 10
Kent +43 34 £67,500 +22.73% 32
West Sussex +20 18 £70,000 +9.38% 26
East Sussex +1 12 £67,250 +52.51% 38
Sussex +15 3 £77,500 +55.00% 40
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 27 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.37%) Apache
3 11 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.30%) Confluence
5 5 (0.65%) IIS
6 3 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 81 (10.49%) Simulink
2 72 (9.33%) Mathcad
3 24 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.26%) Zemax
8 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.13%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 221 (28.63%) Azure
2 170 (22.02%) AWS
3 68 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 48 (6.22%) GCP
5 44 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (5.70%) IaaS
6 40 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (4.92%) SaaS
8 37 (4.79%) GitHub
9 36 (4.66%) Serverless
10 34 (4.40%) Snowflake
11 32 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.50%) Amazon S3
14 24 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (2.46%) PaaS
18 17 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.22%) VPN
2 42 (5.44%) TCP/IP
3 28 (3.63%) VSAN
4 22 (2.85%) Firewall
5 17 (2.20%) DNS
6 9 (1.17%) 5G
6 9 (1.17%) Bluetooth
6 9 (1.17%) LTE
6 9 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.78%) Internet
7 6 (0.78%) SSL
7 6 (0.78%) WAN
8 5 (0.65%) Network Security
9 4 (0.52%) LAN
10 3 (0.39%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.39%) HTTP
10 3 (0.39%) MPLS
10 3 (0.39%) SMTP
11 2 (0.26%) IPv4
11 2 (0.26%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.03%) Power BI
2 58 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 50 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (5.18%) Data Lake
6 36 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.89%) Metadata
8 26 (3.37%) Big Data
9 21 (2.72%) NoSQL
10 20 (2.59%) MySQL
10 20 (2.59%) RDBMS
11 18 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.20%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.81%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.55%) Tableau
15 9 (1.17%) QlikView
16 8 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (1.04%) Delta Lake
16 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (9.46%) Git
2 60 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 45 (5.83%) Cucumber
4 43 (5.57%) Robot Framework
5 24 (3.11%) GitLab
6 22 (2.85%) JIRA
7 19 (2.46%) JMeter
8 18 (2.33%) JUnit
8 18 (2.33%) Mockito
9 10 (1.30%) git-flow
10 9 (1.17%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.91%) Gradle
13 6 (0.78%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.65%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.65%) Eclipse RCP
14 5 (0.65%) Selenium
14 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 169 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 85 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (9.97%) Law
4 73 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.68%) Finance
6 65 (8.42%) Telecoms
7 39 (5.05%) Electronics
8 36 (4.66%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.72%) Banking
11 20 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 16 (2.07%) Retail
13 15 (1.94%) Games
14 14 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.42%) Automotive
17 9 (1.17%) Marketing
17 9 (1.17%) Military
17 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 226 (29.27%) Senior
2 131 (16.97%) Software Engineer
3 94 (12.18%) Developer
4 67 (8.68%) Lead
4 67 (8.68%) Mathematical Modeller
5 63 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 52 (6.74%) Analyst
7 44 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 40 (5.18%) Test Engineer
9 36 (4.66%) VMware Specialist
10 35 (4.53%) Test Automation Engineer
11 34 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
12 33 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 31 (4.02%) Principal Engineer
14 29 (3.76%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.50%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (2.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
18 21 (2.72%) Junior
19 20 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (9.59%) .NET
2 62 (8.03%) React
3 58 (7.51%) Node.js
4 47 (6.09%) HTML
5 46 (5.96%) REST
6 36 (4.66%) Pandas
7 28 (3.63%) Kafka
8 27 (3.50%) CSS
9 26 (3.37%) Django
9 26 (3.37%) jQuery
10 25 (3.24%) Spring Boot
11 24 (3.11%) Web Services
12 23 (2.98%) Spring
13 18 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (2.33%) Apache Camel
13 18 (2.33%) Hibernate
13 18 (2.33%) PySpark
13 18 (2.33%) WireMock
14 16 (2.07%) Middleware
15 15 (1.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.46%) Algorithms
2 50 (6.48%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.33%) Cyberattack
5 18 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 18 (2.33%) IoT
6 17 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.94%) Robotics
8 14 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.42%) Molecular Biology
10 11 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.30%) Life Science
12 9 (1.17%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.17%) NB-IoT
13 8 (1.04%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 181 (23.45%) Linux
2 81 (10.49%) Windows
3 23 (2.98%) Unix
4 19 (2.46%) Android
5 16 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.17%) Rocky
7 8 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.65%) Debian
10 5 (0.65%) SUSE
10 5 (0.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
2 190 (24.61%) Software Engineering
3 168 (21.76%) CI/CD
4 157 (20.34%) Agile
5 149 (19.30%) Mathematics
6 134 (17.36%) DevOps
7 130 (16.84%) Analytics
8 126 (16.32%) Validation
9 102 (13.21%) Machine Learning
10 97 (12.56%) Mentoring
11 93 (12.05%) Artificial Intelligence
11 93 (12.05%) Verification and Validation
12 90 (11.66%) Computer Science
13 87 (11.27%) Systems Engineering
14 82 (10.62%) Test Automation
15 80 (10.36%) Performance Analysis
16 75 (9.72%) Mathematical Modelling
17 74 (9.59%) Data Engineering
18 64 (8.29%) Collaborative Working
18 64 (8.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 226 (29.27%) SQL
2 162 (20.98%) Java
3 156 (20.21%) PowerShell
4 137 (17.75%) JavaScript
5 121 (15.67%) C++
6 106 (13.73%) MATLAB
7 98 (12.69%) Bash
8 95 (12.31%) C#
9 63 (8.16%) C
10 54 (6.99%) TypeScript
11 52 (6.74%) Go
12 49 (6.35%) Rust
13 32 (4.15%) Shell Script
14 27 (3.50%) R
15 17 (2.20%) Ruby
15 17 (2.20%) Scala
16 14 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (1.68%) Perl
18 11 (1.42%) Fortran
19 10 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 231 (29.92%) Degree
2 129 (16.71%) Security Cleared
3 82 (10.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 82 (10.62%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.90%) SC Cleared
5 45 (5.83%) Master's Degree
6 30 (3.89%) Azure Certification
7 26 (3.37%) PhD
8 25 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.91%) OCP
12 7 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.78%) CEH
13 6 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.52%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 66 (8.55%) QA
3 62 (8.03%) Accessibility
4 48 (6.22%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.55%) GDPR
7 7 (0.91%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.39%) ECSS
10 2 (0.26%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) CDISC
11 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 92 (11.92%) Docker
2 63 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (5.83%) vSphere
4 37 (4.79%) VMware NSX
5 23 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (2.46%) Active Directory
7 13 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (1.55%) HDFS
9 6 (0.78%) Firmware
10 5 (0.65%) NFS
11 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 137 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 92 (11.92%) Terraform
3 75 (9.72%) Ansible
4 18 (2.33%) Kibana
5 10 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.17%) Puppet
7 8 (1.04%) vRealize
7 8 (1.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 7 (0.91%) Grafana
9 6 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.52%) Nessus
11 4 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.39%) Packer
12 3 (0.39%) QRadar
12 3 (0.39%) SCCM
13 2 (0.26%) Graylog
13 2 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 91 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.33%) MathWorks
3 67 (8.68%) Databricks
4 66 (8.55%) VMware
5 26 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.98%) Splunk
7 22 (2.85%) SAP
8 21 (2.72%) Google
9 18 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.33%) Oracle
10 11 (1.42%) IBM
11 10 (1.30%) Citrix
12 9 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.17%) Siemens
13 8 (1.04%) Apple
13 8 (1.04%) Cisco
13 8 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.91%) EMC
14 7 (0.91%) Informatica
15 6 (0.78%) Sawtooth Software