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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -34 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 434 901 706
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.17% 9.96% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.86% 29.95% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 282 493 495
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,563 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,100 £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% +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 1,616 3,008 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.53% 33.26% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 1,763 2,325
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -10.64% 482
Hampshire -12 97 £67,500 -10.00% 154
Berkshire -30 83 £47,520 -32.11% 289
Surrey -41 52 £47,500 -26.92% 128
Oxfordshire -6 51 £67,500 - 110
Buckinghamshire -16 50 £60,000 +1.69% 84
East Sussex +17 37 £70,000 -14.89% 97
West Sussex +1 25 £61,250 +28.95% 103
Kent -29 22 £70,000 -6.67% 109
Middlesex -23 11 £47,500 - 11
Isle of Wight -9 3 £41,500 - 88
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 13 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.15%) Appian
3 5 (1.15%) IIS
4 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.69%) SAS
6 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (20.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.69%) CATIA
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%) MadCap Flare
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
1 166 (38.25%) Azure
2 130 (29.95%) Power Platform
3 81 (18.66%) AWS
4 50 (11.52%) Azure AI
5 35 (8.06%) GCP
6 33 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (6.22%) SaaS
8 24 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (5.30%) GitHub
10 19 (4.38%) Serverless
11 18 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (4.15%) Snowflake
12 16 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (3.00%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.53%) Amazon S3
17 7 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (1.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.15%) Firewall
2 15 (3.46%) Wireless
3 13 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.76%) Internet
5 11 (2.53%) DNS
6 8 (1.84%) VPN
7 6 (1.38%) BGP
7 6 (1.38%) LAN
7 6 (1.38%) MPLS
7 6 (1.38%) OSPF
7 6 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.38%) VXLAN
7 6 (1.38%) WAN
8 5 (1.15%) HTTP
9 3 (0.69%) MQTT
10 2 (0.46%) 5G
10 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
11 1 (0.23%) Multicast
11 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.23%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (26.50%) Power BI
2 78 (17.97%) Tableau
3 34 (7.83%) Relational Database
4 31 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (5.76%) BigQuery
6 22 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.53%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.30%) Metadata
10 9 (2.07%) Data Mining
10 9 (2.07%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.61%) Big Data
11 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.38%) Airbyte
12 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.15%) 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 (8.76%) Git
2 25 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.69%) Selenium
4 12 (2.76%) JIRA
5 11 (2.53%) GitLab
5 11 (2.53%) JMeter
5 11 (2.53%) JUnit
5 11 (2.53%) Mockito
6 7 (1.61%) MLflow
6 7 (1.61%) Robot Framework
7 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.15%) Postman
7 5 (1.15%) Snyk
8 4 (0.92%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.46%) Appium
10 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 166 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (12.21%) Finance
4 40 (9.22%) Law
5 31 (7.14%) Marketing
6 25 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.53%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.53%) Multimedia
8 11 (2.53%) Retail
9 9 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.38%) Electronics
12 6 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.92%) Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.46%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 97 (22.35%) Analyst
2 64 (14.75%) Data Analyst
3 63 (14.52%) Developer
4 61 (14.06%) Senior
5 52 (11.98%) Junior
6 51 (11.75%) Junior Analyst
7 50 (11.52%) Junior Data Analyst
8 41 (9.45%) Architect
9 30 (6.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (6.22%) Software Engineer
11 22 (5.07%) Consultant
12 20 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
12 20 (4.61%) GCP Architect
12 20 (4.61%) Lead
12 20 (4.61%) Platform Architect
13 18 (4.15%) Data Engineer
14 17 (3.92%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.46%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 15 (3.46%) React Developer
15 15 (3.46%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.37%) REST
2 28 (6.45%) React
3 23 (5.30%) HTML
4 15 (3.46%) .NET
4 15 (3.46%) SOAP
5 13 (3.00%) CSS
5 13 (3.00%) Spring
5 13 (3.00%) Spring Boot
5 13 (3.00%) XML
6 12 (2.76%) JSON
6 12 (2.76%) Web Services
7 11 (2.53%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (2.53%) Apache Camel
7 11 (2.53%) Hibernate
7 11 (2.53%) jQuery
7 11 (2.53%) Middleware
7 11 (2.53%) WireMock
8 8 (1.84%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.69%) Low-Code
4 14 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.00%) Life Science
6 12 (2.76%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.15%) Replication
11 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.92%) ARM Cortex
11 4 (0.92%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.92%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.92%) Video on Demand
11 4 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.99%) Linux
2 19 (4.38%) Windows
3 14 (3.23%) Unix
4 10 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.84%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Debian
7 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (26.50%) AI
3 107 (24.65%) Agile
4 104 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
5 87 (20.05%) Analytics
6 75 (17.28%) CI/CD
7 72 (16.59%) Data Science
8 66 (15.21%) Mentoring
9 59 (13.59%) ETL
10 58 (13.36%) DevOps
10 58 (13.36%) Software Engineering
11 57 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (12.90%) Decision-Making
13 52 (11.98%) Machine Learning
14 50 (11.52%) Data Modelling
15 47 (10.83%) Computer Science
16 41 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (9.45%) Roadmaps
17 39 (8.99%) Data Governance
18 38 (8.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 188 (43.32%) SQL
2 66 (15.21%) Java
3 61 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 49 (11.29%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.37%) Bash
6 27 (6.22%) Go
7 25 (5.76%) C++
7 25 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 21 (4.84%) C#
8 21 (4.84%) VBA
9 19 (4.38%) R
10 18 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.76%) Perl
12 10 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (2.30%) MATLAB
13 9 (2.07%) C
14 8 (1.84%) PHP
15 7 (1.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.61%) Bicep
15 7 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (21.89%) Degree
2 64 (14.75%) Azure Certification
3 63 (14.52%) Security Cleared
4 44 (10.14%) Master's Degree
5 41 (9.45%) SC Cleared
6 21 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.76%) MBA
9 11 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (2.53%) PhD
10 10 (2.30%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.61%) APMP
11 7 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.38%) ACCA
12 6 (1.38%) CCNP
12 6 (1.38%) CIMA
13 3 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.30%) QA
3 15 (3.46%) GDPR
4 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.15%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.69%) ECSS
7 3 (0.69%) GxP
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.23%) PERC
System Software
1 39 (8.99%) Docker
2 13 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.15%) 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 60 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.60%) Terraform
3 28 (6.45%) Ansible
4 12 (2.76%) Kibana
5 6 (1.38%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.92%) Grafana
7 4 (0.92%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.69%) Argo
9 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.46%) Nessus
9 2 (0.46%) Puppet
9 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.23%) Control-M
10 1 (0.23%) Nmap
10 1 (0.23%) WMI
10 1 (0.23%) WSUS
10 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (28.11%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.29%) Databricks
3 27 (6.22%) Google
4 17 (3.92%) Splunk
5 15 (3.46%) Oracle
6 13 (3.00%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.76%) SAP
7 12 (2.76%) VMware
8 9 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.84%) Zoho
10 7 (1.61%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.38%) Cisco
11 6 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.38%) Informatica
11 6 (1.38%) Meraki
11 6 (1.38%) Veeam
12 5 (1.15%) Black Duck
12 5 (1.15%) BT
12 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.15%) Talend