Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,343 8,603 8,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.63% 13.92% 11.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.77% 34.44% 25.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 2,998 4,231
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,510 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,477 24,981 32,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.09% 40.42% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,345 14,015 21,422
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,463
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland -4 1,303 £50,000 -23.08% 103
South East -11 1,140 £55,000 -10.86% 315
North of England -23 943 £55,000 -15.38% 234
South West -5 882 £56,250 -6.25% 209
North West -17 599 £56,500 -9.60% 148
Midlands -31 516 £54,698 -4.87% 156
East of England -10 387 £60,000 -4.00% 206
West Midlands -35 305 £55,000 -8.33% 99
Yorkshire -28 274 £55,000 -15.38% 64
East Midlands -24 210 £49,990 -9.11% 57
Wales -18 99 £51,528 -6.39% 39
Northern Ireland +6 83 £75,000 +25.00% 35
North East -21 70 £60,141 -7.48% 22
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 409 (7.65%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.80%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.39%) GeoServer
4 201 (3.76%) Apache
5 157 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
6 71 (1.33%) SAS
7 42 (0.79%) Confluence
8 35 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 33 (0.62%) nginx
10 26 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 24 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 23 (0.43%) Jupyter
13 20 (0.37%) Camunda
14 10 (0.19%) WordPress
15 8 (0.15%) CMS
16 7 (0.13%) Drupal
17 5 (0.094%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 4 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
19 3 (0.056%) CloudStack
Applications
1 119 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (1.72%) Simulink
3 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 21 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) CANalyzer
7 9 (0.17%) SPSS
8 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.11%) Trello
10 5 (0.094%) Doxygen
10 5 (0.094%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.037%) EViews
11 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.019%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 22 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Odoo
3 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.056%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.056%) Shopify
5 2 (0.037%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.037%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) iTrent
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,938 (36.27%) AWS
2 1,404 (26.28%) Azure
3 387 (7.24%) GCP
4 356 (6.66%) Serverless
5 321 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 277 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 215 (4.02%) SaaS
8 201 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 163 (3.05%) GitHub
10 131 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 129 (2.41%) OpenShift
12 125 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
13 113 (2.11%) Azure API Management
13 113 (2.11%) Azure Functions
14 112 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 111 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
15 111 (2.08%) IBM Cloud
16 100 (1.87%) Snowflake
17 93 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
18 83 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 192 (3.59%) Firewall
2 135 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 105 (1.97%) DNS
4 97 (1.82%) VPN
5 96 (1.80%) Internet
6 95 (1.78%) Wireless
7 91 (1.70%) HTTP
8 88 (1.65%) WAN
9 83 (1.55%) LAN
10 70 (1.31%) Network Security
11 69 (1.29%) DHCP
12 66 (1.24%) SNMP
13 54 (1.01%) IPsec
14 53 (0.99%) Bluetooth
15 47 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
16 46 (0.86%) 5G
17 37 (0.69%) MQTT
18 31 (0.58%) LTE
19 30 (0.56%) AMQP
20 29 (0.54%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 663 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
2 442 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 362 (6.78%) Big Data
4 341 (6.38%) GIS
5 322 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 308 (5.76%) MongoDB
7 293 (5.48%) Power BI
8 286 (5.35%) SQL Server
9 285 (5.33%) QGIS
10 213 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
11 208 (3.89%) Tableau
12 204 (3.82%) Hadoop
13 191 (3.57%) Data Lake
14 162 (3.03%) MySQL
15 156 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
16 131 (2.45%) DB2
17 123 (2.30%) Apache Hive
18 104 (1.95%) HBase
19 75 (1.40%) Redis
20 70 (1.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 599 (11.21%) Git
2 383 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 186 (3.48%) JIRA
4 145 (2.71%) GitLab
5 87 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 72 (1.35%) LabVIEW
7 50 (0.94%) Maven
8 48 (0.90%) Visual Studio
9 47 (0.88%) Subversion
10 41 (0.77%) Selenium
11 35 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 30 (0.56%) JDeveloper
13 28 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.52%) Gradle
14 27 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.49%) Cucumber
16 24 (0.45%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.45%) Robot Framework
17 22 (0.41%) Travis CI
18 18 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,473 (27.57%) Finance
2 1,113 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,024 (19.17%) Law
4 941 (17.61%) Social Skills
5 720 (13.48%) Marketing
6 536 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
7 407 (7.62%) Legal
8 289 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 240 (4.49%) Banking
10 219 (4.10%) Electronics
11 184 (3.44%) Manufacturing
12 183 (3.43%) Retail
13 153 (2.86%) Aerospace
14 148 (2.77%) Telecoms
15 136 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
16 126 (2.36%) Games
17 120 (2.25%) Financial Institution
18 98 (1.83%) Investment Banking
19 97 (1.82%) Automotive
20 57 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,905 (35.65%) Software Engineer
2 1,084 (20.29%) Senior
3 834 (15.61%) Developer
4 576 (10.78%) Data Engineer
5 511 (9.56%) Lead
6 498 (9.32%) Python Engineer
7 440 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 400 (7.49%) Python Software Engineer
9 295 (5.52%) Analyst
10 251 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
11 244 (4.57%) Lead Software Engineer
12 201 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
13 199 (3.72%) Software Developer
14 191 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 173 (3.24%) AWS Software Engineer
16 169 (3.16%) Embedded Engineer
17 162 (3.03%) Architect
18 156 (2.92%) Big Data Engineer
19 149 (2.79%) Data Scientist
20 148 (2.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 897 (16.79%) React
2 557 (10.42%) .NET
3 525 (9.83%) CSS
4 407 (7.62%) Node.js
5 404 (7.56%) AngularJS
6 347 (6.49%) HTML
7 298 (5.58%) PostGIS
8 293 (5.48%) OpenLayers
9 291 (5.45%) .NET Core
10 290 (5.43%) Leaflet
11 287 (5.37%) REST
12 238 (4.45%) Spring
13 231 (4.32%) Kafka
14 230 (4.30%) PySpark
15 197 (3.69%) Web Services
16 179 (3.35%) Django
17 169 (3.16%) Vue
18 167 (3.13%) ASP.NET
19 164 (3.07%) Spring Boot
20 159 (2.98%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 853 (15.96%) Algorithms
2 426 (7.97%) Cloud Native
3 310 (5.80%) Data Structures
4 199 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 177 (3.31%) IoT
6 156 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 153 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 147 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 140 (2.62%) Product Ownership
10 120 (2.25%) Blockchain
11 113 (2.11%) Management Information System
12 103 (1.93%) Data Centre
13 97 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
14 65 (1.22%) Market Risk
15 60 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
16 59 (1.10%) Credit Risk
17 53 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
18 51 (0.95%) Robotics
19 49 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
20 45 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,311 (24.54%) Linux
2 608 (11.38%) Windows
3 264 (4.94%) Unix
4 166 (3.11%) Android
5 156 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 139 (2.60%) Apple iOS
7 101 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
8 100 (1.87%) Windows Server
9 97 (1.82%) Ubuntu
10 84 (1.57%) CentOS
11 57 (1.07%) Debian
12 49 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
13 20 (0.37%) CoreOS
13 20 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
14 17 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.22%) Mac OS
17 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,416 (45.22%) Software Engineering
2 2,158 (40.39%) Agile
3 1,263 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 1,256 (23.51%) DevOps
5 1,132 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 1,111 (20.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,086 (20.33%) Machine Learning
8 992 (18.57%) SDLC
9 761 (14.24%) Operational Stability
10 695 (13.01%) Computer Science
11 619 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
12 618 (11.57%) Visualisation
13 607 (11.36%) Community of Practice
14 580 (10.86%) Analytics
15 525 (9.83%) Web Development
16 490 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 482 (9.02%) Full Stack Development
18 459 (8.59%) Microservices
19 452 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
19 452 (8.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,601 (29.96%) SQL
2 1,593 (29.81%) Java
3 1,265 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 852 (15.95%) C#
5 635 (11.88%) Bash
6 592 (11.08%) C
7 479 (8.97%) C++
8 414 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 218 (4.08%) Go
10 216 (4.04%) TypeScript
11 205 (3.84%) R
12 177 (3.31%) Perl
13 166 (3.11%) Ruby
14 161 (3.01%) MATLAB
15 155 (2.90%) PL/SQL
16 146 (2.73%) Embedded C
17 130 (2.43%) Scala
18 123 (2.30%) PHP
19 105 (1.97%) Rust
20 93 (1.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,124 (21.04%) Degree
2 1,043 (19.52%) Security Cleared
3 612 (11.45%) SC Cleared
4 324 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 262 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 250 (4.68%) Master's Degree
7 176 (3.29%) PhD
8 86 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 62 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (0.88%) CCNA
11 39 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 34 (0.64%) HND
13 33 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 30 (0.56%) CCNP
15 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.41%) CISSP
16 22 (0.41%) HNC
17 21 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 187 (3.50%) QA
3 58 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 51 (0.95%) SLA
5 46 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (0.39%) ISO 26262
7 20 (0.37%) MISRA
7 20 (0.37%) NIST
8 19 (0.36%) PMO
9 18 (0.34%) GDPR
9 18 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.32%) CRD IV
11 15 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.28%) IFRS
11 15 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 12 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.21%) JTAG
System Software
1 605 (11.32%) Docker
2 196 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 107 (2.00%) Firmware
5 105 (1.97%) HDFS
6 95 (1.78%) Hyper-V
7 51 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
8 42 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.49%) vSphere
10 13 (0.24%) NFS
11 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.19%) pfSense
13 9 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.094%) KVM
14 5 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.056%) Ceph
15 3 (0.056%) Gluster
15 3 (0.056%) oVirt
15 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 712 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 516 (9.66%) Terraform
3 430 (8.05%) Ansible
4 177 (3.31%) Puppet
5 115 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 95 (1.78%) Grafana
7 72 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 44 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 14 (0.26%) Nmap
14 13 (0.24%) Fluentd
14 13 (0.24%) Kibana
14 13 (0.24%) logstash
15 11 (0.21%) Nessus
16 10 (0.19%) Podman
16 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 406 (7.60%) Databricks
2 389 (7.28%) Microsoft
3 359 (6.72%) Oracle
4 301 (5.63%) ESRI
5 293 (5.48%) Red Hat
6 243 (4.55%) VMware
7 214 (4.01%) Google
8 152 (2.84%) IBM
9 127 (2.38%) Informatica
10 106 (1.98%) Splunk
11 96 (1.80%) Cisco
12 91 (1.70%) Alteryx
13 80 (1.50%) SAP
14 75 (1.40%) Cloudera
15 53 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 51 (0.95%) NetApp
17 49 (0.92%) SolidFire
18 38 (0.71%) Dynatrace
19 35 (0.66%) Pega
19 35 (0.66%) Salesforce