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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 761 1,218 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.46% 7.25% 10.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.83% 24.96% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 362 840 691
10th Percentile £37,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

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 2,551 4,880 4,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.00% 29.06% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 3,793 3,425
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -8 286 £55,283 +0.51% 245
Surrey +3 129 £65,000 +8.33% 60
Hampshire -10 128 £57,500 +4.55% 124
Berkshire -20 113 £47,500 -20.83% 110
Oxfordshire +2 97 £61,250 +13.81% 89
Isle of Wight - 94 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire +9 76 £65,000 +27.45% 53
Middlesex +22 40 - - 42
Kent +39 36 £67,500 +77.63% 45
East Sussex +9 25 £60,000 +14.29% 20
West Sussex +14 19 £52,500 -12.50% 33
Sussex +17 3 £77,500 +138.46% 19
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 23 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.50%) Apache
3 17 (2.23%) IBM Domino
4 9 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.92%) Appian
5 7 (0.92%) CMS
6 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 4 (0.53%) IIS
7 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) R Markdown
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 109 (14.32%) Simulink
2 101 (13.27%) Mathcad
3 24 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.92%) MadCap Flare
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.26%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.13%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.13%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 244 (32.06%) Azure
2 222 (29.17%) AWS
3 93 (12.22%) GCP
4 80 (10.51%) Serverless
5 75 (9.86%) Power Platform
6 55 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (4.47%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.47%) Snowflake
9 33 (4.34%) SaaS
10 32 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 30 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.29%) Pulumi
16 22 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (2.63%) IaaS
18 19 (2.50%) GitHub
19 16 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.46%) Broadband
2 50 (6.57%) VPN
3 43 (5.65%) TCP/IP
4 28 (3.68%) Firewall
5 20 (2.63%) DNS
6 14 (1.84%) SSL
6 14 (1.84%) VSAN
7 13 (1.71%) SSH
8 9 (1.18%) LAN
9 8 (1.05%) WAN
10 6 (0.79%) DHCP
10 6 (0.79%) HTTP
11 5 (0.66%) MQTT
11 5 (0.66%) SMTP
11 5 (0.66%) Wireless
12 4 (0.53%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.53%) Modbus
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.33%) Relational Database
2 65 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (8.02%) Power BI
4 46 (6.04%) RDBMS
5 40 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 38 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 34 (4.47%) Metadata
9 32 (4.20%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (2.50%) Big Data
12 18 (2.37%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.10%) MySQL
14 13 (1.71%) Tableau
15 12 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 12 (1.58%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.92%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (6.83%) Git
2 41 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 40 (5.26%) Robot Framework
4 39 (5.12%) Cucumber
5 25 (3.29%) Jaeger
6 20 (2.63%) JMeter
7 19 (2.50%) JUnit
7 19 (2.50%) Mockito
8 13 (1.71%) JIRA
9 11 (1.45%) Selenium
10 6 (0.79%) GitLab
10 6 (0.79%) MLflow
10 6 (0.79%) Snyk
11 5 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.39%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.39%) git-flow
13 3 (0.39%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 181 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (8.41%) Law
5 56 (7.36%) Finance
6 54 (7.10%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.42%) Marketing
8 25 (3.29%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.37%) Aerospace
10 17 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.10%) Retail
12 13 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.45%) Electronics
14 8 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.92%) Banking
15 7 (0.92%) Games
16 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.66%) Back Office
17 5 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 215 (28.25%) Senior
2 86 (11.30%) Lead
3 85 (11.17%) Mathematical Modeller
4 78 (10.25%) Developer
5 66 (8.67%) Analyst
6 62 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 44 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 41 (5.39%) Test Engineer
9 35 (4.60%) Test Automation Engineer
10 28 (3.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 27 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (3.29%) Team Leader
13 24 (3.15%) Architect
14 23 (3.02%) Software Developer
15 21 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
16 19 (2.50%) Java Developer
17 18 (2.37%) Data Analyst
17 18 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
18 17 (2.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.94%) .NET
2 43 (5.65%) HTML
3 38 (4.99%) REST
4 35 (4.60%) Node.js
4 35 (4.60%) Pandas
4 35 (4.60%) React
5 30 (3.94%) Web Services
6 28 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (2.76%) jQuery
8 21 (2.76%) Spring
9 20 (2.63%) Kafka
10 19 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (2.50%) Apache Camel
10 19 (2.50%) Hibernate
10 19 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 19 (2.50%) WireMock
11 18 (2.37%) XML
12 16 (2.10%) Middleware
13 15 (1.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.10%) Algorithms
2 43 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
3 32 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.94%) Cyberattack
6 25 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
9 16 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.71%) IoT
11 13 (1.71%) SCADA
12 11 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 11 (1.45%) PKI
13 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.18%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 164 (21.55%) Linux
2 61 (8.02%) Windows
3 38 (4.99%) Unix
4 19 (2.50%) Android
5 8 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) SUSE
7 5 (0.66%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.39%) Debian
8 3 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.39%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
2 192 (25.23%) Agile
3 160 (21.02%) Validation
4 153 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 153 (20.11%) Mathematics
4 153 (20.11%) Mentoring
5 148 (19.45%) DevOps
6 120 (15.77%) Analytics
7 117 (15.37%) Verification and Validation
8 114 (14.98%) Software Engineering
9 107 (14.06%) Systems Engineering
10 104 (13.67%) Mathematical Modelling
11 101 (13.27%) Performance Analysis
12 92 (12.09%) Machine Learning
13 90 (11.83%) Data Engineering
14 81 (10.64%) Roadmaps
15 74 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (9.72%) Data Science
16 71 (9.33%) Computer Science
16 71 (9.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 234 (30.75%) SQL
2 171 (22.47%) Java
3 161 (21.16%) JavaScript
4 145 (19.05%) MATLAB
5 123 (16.16%) PowerShell
6 121 (15.90%) Bash
7 90 (11.83%) C#
7 90 (11.83%) C++
8 76 (9.99%) TypeScript
9 73 (9.59%) Go
10 52 (6.83%) C
11 36 (4.73%) R
11 36 (4.73%) Rust
12 29 (3.81%) Shell Script
13 27 (3.55%) Ruby
14 26 (3.42%) PHP
15 19 (2.50%) T-SQL
16 16 (2.10%) Dart
17 13 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 219 (28.78%) Degree
2 103 (13.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 89 (11.70%) Security Cleared
4 46 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 40 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 36 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.73%) PhD
7 31 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.68%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 19 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.31%) CEH
10 10 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (1.31%) OSCP
11 7 (0.92%) CISM
11 7 (0.92%) CISSP
12 6 (0.79%) MCSE
12 6 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (12.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 76 (9.99%) QA
3 39 (5.12%) Accessibility
4 38 (4.99%) Data Quality
5 29 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (3.55%) GDPR
7 26 (3.42%) NIST
8 9 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.26%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) CDISC
10 1 (0.13%) ECSS
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 110 (14.45%) Docker
2 38 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.94%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.84%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.84%) vSphere
6 12 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.05%) NFS
8 7 (0.92%) HDFS
8 7 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.39%) GPFS
10 3 (0.39%) Lustre
10 3 (0.39%) vCloud
11 2 (0.26%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 131 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 109 (14.32%) Terraform
3 87 (11.43%) Ansible
4 33 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.42%) Kustomize
6 25 (3.29%) Argo
7 19 (2.50%) Kibana
8 7 (0.92%) Grafana
8 7 (0.92%) QRadar
9 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.66%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.53%) SCCM
11 4 (0.53%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.39%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.39%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.39%) Nessus
12 3 (0.39%) Nmap
12 3 (0.39%) Rundeck
12 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (13.40%) MathWorks
2 75 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 55 (7.23%) Google
4 49 (6.44%) Databricks
5 46 (6.04%) VMware
6 28 (3.68%) Splunk
7 19 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.37%) SAP
8 18 (2.37%) Siemens
9 16 (2.10%) Cisco
10 15 (1.97%) Oracle
11 13 (1.71%) Citrix
11 13 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.45%) Thales
13 10 (1.31%) Rockwell
14 8 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.92%) NVIDIA
15 7 (0.92%) UiPath
16 6 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
16 6 (0.79%) Mellanox