Python Job Trends in the South East

Python
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -35 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 433 902 706
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.20% 9.89% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.00% 29.63% 24.89%
Number of salaries quoted 280 490 493
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,100
25th Percentile £43,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +18.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,288 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +2.26%

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 1,604 3,044 2,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.55% 33.39% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 1,788 2,230
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Python job vacancy trend in the South East

Python
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

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 5 January 2026. 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 -24 184 £60,000 -11.11% 517
Hampshire -12 98 £65,000 -10.34% 183
Berkshire -31 85 £47,520 -32.11% 325
Surrey -39 52 £50,000 -23.08% 142
Buckinghamshire -17 51 £60,000 +1.69% 96
Oxfordshire -7 48 £67,500 - 97
East Sussex +18 37 £65,250 -20.67% 47
West Sussex 0 24 £60,000 +26.32% 58
Kent -34 21 £70,000 -6.67% 125
Middlesex -20 11 £47,500 - 73
Isle of Wight -9 3 £41,500 - 37
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.39%) Appian
3 5 (1.15%) Apache
3 5 (1.15%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.69%) CATIA
4 3 (0.69%) MadCap Flare
4 3 (0.69%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.69%) Simulink
4 3 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.69%) Windchill
5 2 (0.46%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.23%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.23%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 170 (39.26%) Azure
2 130 (30.02%) Power Platform
3 87 (20.09%) AWS
4 50 (11.55%) Azure AI
5 36 (8.31%) GCP
6 34 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.00%) SaaS
8 24 (5.54%) GitHub
8 24 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (4.62%) Serverless
10 18 (4.16%) Snowflake
11 17 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.77%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.77%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.16%) Firewall
2 16 (3.70%) Wireless
3 14 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.77%) Internet
5 10 (2.31%) DNS
6 8 (1.85%) VPN
7 7 (1.62%) LAN
8 6 (1.39%) BGP
8 6 (1.39%) MPLS
8 6 (1.39%) OSPF
8 6 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.39%) VXLAN
8 6 (1.39%) WAN
9 5 (1.15%) HTTP
10 3 (0.69%) MQTT
11 2 (0.46%) 5G
11 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.46%) NAS
11 2 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (26.33%) Power BI
2 79 (18.24%) Tableau
3 35 (8.08%) Relational Database
4 31 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (5.77%) BigQuery
6 23 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.16%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.77%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.31%) Data Mining
9 10 (2.31%) Metadata
10 9 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.62%) Airbyte
11 7 (1.62%) Big Data
11 7 (1.62%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.15%) Looker
13 5 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
14 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 38 (8.78%) Git
2 26 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.93%) Selenium
4 12 (2.77%) JIRA
4 12 (2.77%) JMeter
4 12 (2.77%) JUnit
4 12 (2.77%) Mockito
5 10 (2.31%) GitLab
6 8 (1.85%) Robot Framework
7 7 (1.62%) MLflow
8 6 (1.39%) Snyk
9 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.15%) Postman
10 4 (0.92%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
12 2 (0.46%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.46%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 164 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (12.24%) Finance
4 40 (9.24%) Law
5 31 (7.16%) Marketing
6 26 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.54%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.54%) Multimedia
9 10 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.31%) Retail
10 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.39%) Electronics
13 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.92%) Banking
15 3 (0.69%) Advertising
15 3 (0.69%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Analyst
2 63 (14.55%) Data Analyst
3 62 (14.32%) Developer
4 61 (14.09%) Senior
5 52 (12.01%) Junior
6 51 (11.78%) Junior Analyst
7 50 (11.55%) Junior Data Analyst
8 41 (9.47%) Architect
9 28 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (6.24%) Software Engineer
11 21 (4.85%) Consultant
12 20 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
12 20 (4.62%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.62%) GCP Architect
12 20 (4.62%) Platform Architect
13 19 (4.39%) Lead
14 15 (3.46%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.46%) Trainee
15 14 (3.23%) Java Developer
16 13 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.85%) REST
2 26 (6.00%) React
3 24 (5.54%) HTML
4 15 (3.46%) .NET
4 15 (3.46%) SOAP
4 15 (3.46%) Spring
5 14 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 14 (3.23%) XML
6 13 (3.00%) CSS
6 13 (3.00%) JSON
6 13 (3.00%) Web Services
7 12 (2.77%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (2.77%) Apache Camel
7 12 (2.77%) Hibernate
7 12 (2.77%) jQuery
7 12 (2.77%) WireMock
8 11 (2.54%) Middleware
9 8 (1.85%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.62%) Lightning Web Components
10 7 (1.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 14 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.77%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.77%) Life Science
6 11 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.15%) Replication
10 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.92%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.92%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.92%) Video on Demand
10 4 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (0.69%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.01%) Linux
2 19 (4.39%) Windows
3 14 (3.23%) Unix
4 10 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.62%) CentOS
7 2 (0.46%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (26.33%) AI
3 108 (24.94%) Agile
4 105 (24.25%) Business Intelligence
5 89 (20.55%) Analytics
6 76 (17.55%) CI/CD
7 70 (16.17%) Data Science
8 66 (15.24%) Mentoring
9 59 (13.63%) DevOps
9 59 (13.63%) ETL
10 56 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (12.93%) Software Engineering
11 54 (12.47%) Decision-Making
12 52 (12.01%) Machine Learning
13 50 (11.55%) Data Modelling
14 46 (10.62%) Computer Science
15 43 (9.93%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (9.47%) Roadmaps
17 38 (8.78%) Data Governance
18 37 (8.55%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 188 (43.42%) SQL
2 67 (15.47%) Java
3 63 (14.55%) JavaScript
4 50 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.62%) Bash
6 27 (6.24%) Go
7 24 (5.54%) C++
8 23 (5.31%) TypeScript
9 21 (4.85%) C#
10 20 (4.62%) R
11 19 (4.39%) Shell Script
11 19 (4.39%) VBA
12 10 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (2.31%) MATLAB
12 10 (2.31%) Perl
13 9 (2.08%) C
14 7 (1.62%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.62%) Bicep
14 7 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (21.71%) Degree
2 66 (15.24%) Security Cleared
3 64 (14.78%) Azure Certification
4 43 (9.93%) Master's Degree
5 41 (9.47%) SC Cleared
6 21 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.54%) MBA
8 11 (2.54%) PhD
9 7 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.39%) APMP
10 6 (1.39%) CCNP
11 5 (1.15%) ACCA
11 5 (1.15%) CIMA
12 3 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.31%) QA
3 15 (3.46%) GDPR
4 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.39%) NIST
6 3 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) ECSS
6 3 (0.69%) GxP
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 40 (9.24%) Docker
2 13 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.46%) vCloud
5 1 (0.23%) Ceph
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) Lustre
5 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.85%) Terraform
3 29 (6.70%) Ansible
4 13 (3.00%) Kibana
5 7 (1.62%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.92%) Grafana
7 4 (0.92%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.69%) Argo
8 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.46%) Nessus
9 2 (0.46%) Nmap
9 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) SCCM
10 1 (0.23%) WMI
10 1 (0.23%) WSUS
10 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 123 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.31%) Databricks
3 28 (6.47%) Google
4 19 (4.39%) Splunk
5 15 (3.46%) Oracle
6 14 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.23%) VMware
7 11 (2.54%) SAP
8 9 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.85%) Zoho
10 7 (1.62%) Cisco
10 7 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (1.39%) Black Duck
11 6 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.39%) Informatica
11 6 (1.39%) Meraki
11 6 (1.39%) UiPath
12 5 (1.15%) Talend
12 5 (1.15%) Veeam