Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,346 4,913 8,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.66% 10.20% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.84% 27.99% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,517 2,671 4,226
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,354 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,228 17,552 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.93% 36.46% 43.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,662 11,914 21,248
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,231 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
South East -5 1,085 £55,000 -15.38% 190
Scotland -2 842 £55,000 -15.38% 53
North of England -15 842 £60,000 -7.69% 141
South West -7 733 £62,500 +4.17% 120
North West -12 533 £60,000 -7.69% 75
Midlands -21 425 £57,503 +0.01% 102
East of England +4 257 £60,000 - 69
West Midlands -32 254 £62,190 +5.41% 67
Yorkshire -16 233 £55,000 -15.38% 31
East Midlands -8 166 £50,000 -4.76% 33
Wales -12 84 £60,000 +6.63% 13
Northern Ireland +4 77 £75,275 +3.83% 72
North East +12 76 £62,783 -3.41% 35
Channel Islands -3 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1
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
1 292 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 201 (4.62%) ArcGIS
3 185 (4.26%) GeoServer
4 176 (4.05%) Apache
5 104 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
6 76 (1.75%) SAS
7 45 (1.04%) Confluence
8 37 (0.85%) SharePoint
9 34 (0.78%) nginx
10 24 (0.55%) Jupyter
11 23 (0.53%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.32%) CMS
13 11 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (0.25%) Tuxedo
14 9 (0.21%) WordPress
15 8 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.16%) Luigi
17 6 (0.14%) IIS
18 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
19 4 (0.092%) JBoss
Applications
1 113 (2.60%) Simulink
2 92 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.18%) Trello
6 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) Stateflow
7 6 (0.14%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.092%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.092%) Revit
8 4 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.092%) SPSS
9 3 (0.069%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
9 3 (0.069%) GNU Octave
9 3 (0.069%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.046%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.046%) Maya
10 2 (0.046%) NUKE
10 2 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.14%) Shopify
3 5 (0.12%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.12%) Odoo
4 3 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.069%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.046%) iTrent
5 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.023%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.023%) FastStats
6 1 (0.023%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,540 (35.43%) AWS
2 1,239 (28.51%) Azure
3 315 (7.25%) GCP
4 299 (6.88%) Serverless
5 254 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 230 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
7 203 (4.67%) GitHub
8 163 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 135 (3.11%) SaaS
10 122 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
11 120 (2.76%) Azure API Management
11 120 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 118 (2.72%) Azure Functions
13 117 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 116 (2.67%) IBM Cloud
15 111 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
16 107 (2.46%) OpenShift
17 97 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
18 65 (1.50%) dbt
19 61 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.77%) Firewall
2 101 (2.32%) TCP/IP
3 94 (2.16%) DNS
4 93 (2.14%) VPN
5 82 (1.89%) Internet
6 77 (1.77%) HTTP
7 65 (1.50%) Network Security
8 63 (1.45%) DHCP
9 58 (1.33%) SNMP
10 55 (1.27%) Wireless
11 53 (1.22%) IPsec
12 44 (1.01%) WAN
13 38 (0.87%) LAN
14 37 (0.85%) MQTT
15 35 (0.81%) AMQP
16 29 (0.67%) 5G
17 25 (0.58%) Bluetooth
18 20 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
19 19 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
20 18 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 425 (9.78%) NoSQL
3 286 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 273 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 272 (6.26%) Big Data
6 229 (5.27%) GIS
7 223 (5.13%) Power BI
8 189 (4.35%) QGIS
9 181 (4.16%) Hadoop
10 175 (4.03%) SQL Server
11 164 (3.77%) Tableau
12 158 (3.64%) MySQL
13 140 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
14 116 (2.67%) DB2
15 110 (2.53%) Data Lake
16 106 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
17 77 (1.77%) Apache Hive
18 67 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
19 61 (1.40%) HBase
20 56 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 458 (10.54%) Git
2 286 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 155 (3.57%) JIRA
4 137 (3.15%) GitLab
5 62 (1.43%) LabVIEW
6 60 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 52 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 43 (0.99%) Selenium
9 40 (0.92%) Subversion
10 38 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 33 (0.76%) Vagrant
12 26 (0.60%) Maven
12 26 (0.60%) SonarQube
13 24 (0.55%) Robot Framework
14 20 (0.46%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.35%) Cucumber
17 13 (0.30%) JUnit
18 12 (0.28%) Postman
19 11 (0.25%) GDB
General
1 1,003 (23.08%) Finance
2 833 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 700 (16.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 605 (13.92%) Law
5 473 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
6 364 (8.38%) Marketing
7 320 (7.36%) Legal
8 215 (4.95%) Public Sector
9 147 (3.38%) Electronics
10 143 (3.29%) Aerospace
11 136 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 132 (3.04%) Retail
13 125 (2.88%) Banking
14 91 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 88 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
16 79 (1.82%) Automotive
17 65 (1.50%) Games
18 60 (1.38%) Investment Banking
19 55 (1.27%) Financial Institution
20 46 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,413 (32.51%) Software Engineer
2 896 (20.62%) Senior
3 711 (16.36%) Developer
4 399 (9.18%) Data Engineer
5 396 (9.11%) Lead
6 373 (8.58%) Python Engineer
7 353 (8.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 298 (6.86%) Python Software Engineer
9 244 (5.61%) Analyst
10 226 (5.20%) Architect
11 214 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 208 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
13 176 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
14 174 (4.00%) Software Developer
15 139 (3.20%) Embedded Engineer
15 139 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
16 126 (2.90%) AWS Software Engineer
16 126 (2.90%) Consultant
17 125 (2.88%) Azure Developer
18 124 (2.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (14.59%) React
2 472 (10.86%) .NET
3 465 (10.70%) CSS
4 415 (9.55%) Node.js
5 353 (8.12%) HTML
6 299 (6.88%) AngularJS
7 259 (5.96%) REST
8 214 (4.92%) .NET Core
9 198 (4.56%) Kafka
10 193 (4.44%) OpenLayers
10 193 (4.44%) Web Services
11 192 (4.42%) PostGIS
12 190 (4.37%) Leaflet
13 186 (4.28%) PySpark
14 177 (4.07%) Django
15 165 (3.80%) ASP.NET
16 158 (3.64%) Vue
17 142 (3.27%) jQuery
18 127 (2.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 124 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 628 (14.45%) Algorithms
2 276 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 215 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 174 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 126 (2.90%) IoT
6 117 (2.69%) Blockchain
7 112 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 110 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 108 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 96 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 95 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 70 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
13 62 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 61 (1.40%) Credit Risk
15 53 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 53 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
16 48 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
17 43 (0.99%) Reinsurance
18 41 (0.94%) Market Risk
19 40 (0.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,145 (26.35%) Linux
2 503 (11.57%) Windows
3 207 (4.76%) Unix
4 180 (4.14%) Android
5 167 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 131 (3.01%) Apple iOS
7 118 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
8 97 (2.23%) Ubuntu
9 92 (2.12%) CentOS
10 78 (1.79%) Windows Server
11 54 (1.24%) Debian
12 49 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
13 15 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
14 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.23%) Windows 10
16 9 (0.21%) AIX
16 9 (0.21%) Kali Linux
17 8 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
18 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,881 (43.28%) Software Engineering
2 1,571 (36.15%) Agile
3 1,034 (23.79%) DevOps
4 887 (20.41%) CI/CD
4 887 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 877 (20.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 766 (17.63%) Machine Learning
7 695 (15.99%) Computer Science
8 668 (15.37%) SDLC
9 458 (10.54%) Analytics
10 445 (10.24%) Operational Stability
11 431 (9.92%) Visualisation
12 426 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 401 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
14 399 (9.18%) Mentoring
15 394 (9.07%) Actionable Insight
16 393 (9.04%) Mathematics
17 392 (9.02%) Web Development
18 365 (8.40%) Community of Practice
19 347 (7.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,311 (30.17%) SQL
2 1,174 (27.01%) Java
3 993 (22.85%) JavaScript
4 689 (15.85%) C#
5 584 (13.44%) C++
6 503 (11.57%) Bash
7 499 (11.48%) C
8 304 (6.99%) PowerShell
9 191 (4.39%) R
10 179 (4.12%) TypeScript
11 148 (3.41%) Perl
12 144 (3.31%) MATLAB
13 119 (2.74%) Go
14 101 (2.32%) Embedded C
15 93 (2.14%) Fortran
16 91 (2.09%) PL/SQL
17 89 (2.05%) Kotlin
18 84 (1.93%) Rust
19 76 (1.75%) Shell Script
20 70 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,038 (23.88%) Degree
2 1,000 (23.01%) Security Cleared
3 598 (13.76%) SC Cleared
4 348 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 261 (6.01%) DV Cleared
6 223 (5.13%) Master's Degree
7 140 (3.22%) PhD
8 77 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 43 (0.99%) DBS Check
10 33 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 30 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
13 27 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 25 (0.58%) CCNA
15 22 (0.51%) HND
16 19 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 19 (0.44%) CCNP
17 18 (0.41%) CISSP
18 14 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.54%) QA
2 151 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 57 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (0.85%) NIST
5 30 (0.69%) SLA
6 29 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 26 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 25 (0.58%) GDPR
9 21 (0.48%) PMO
10 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.23%) IFRS
12 10 (0.23%) JTAG
13 8 (0.18%) IFRS 9
13 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.14%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.14%) MISRA
15 6 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.14%) TickIT
System Software
1 507 (11.67%) Docker
2 153 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 85 (1.96%) Firmware
5 69 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 63 (1.45%) HDFS
7 48 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 37 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
9 24 (0.55%) vSphere
10 14 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 13 (0.30%) NFS
12 10 (0.23%) Lustre
13 9 (0.21%) Ceph
13 9 (0.21%) pfSense
13 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
14 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.14%) KVM
16 5 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 3 (0.069%) GPFS
17 3 (0.069%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 605 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 496 (11.41%) Terraform
3 449 (10.33%) Ansible
4 158 (3.64%) Puppet
5 110 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.05%) Grafana
7 66 (1.52%) vCenter Server
8 58 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.39%) ZABBIX
10 16 (0.37%) HAProxy
10 16 (0.37%) Kibana
10 16 (0.37%) Salt
11 15 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 13 (0.30%) Nagios
13 11 (0.25%) Podman
14 10 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.21%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 368 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.30%) Databricks
3 259 (5.96%) Red Hat
4 204 (4.69%) Oracle
5 199 (4.58%) ESRI
6 188 (4.33%) VMware
7 172 (3.96%) Google
8 139 (3.20%) IBM
9 107 (2.46%) Informatica
10 90 (2.07%) Splunk
11 82 (1.89%) Xilinx
12 64 (1.47%) Alteryx
13 61 (1.40%) Palo Alto
14 55 (1.27%) Cisco
15 54 (1.24%) NetApp
16 50 (1.15%) SAP
17 49 (1.13%) SolidFire
18 40 (0.92%) Micro Focus
18 40 (0.92%) ServiceNow
19 33 (0.76%) Cloudera