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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 October 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Python UK |
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6 months to
19 Oct 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
19 |
23 |
30 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+7 |
+22 |
| Permanent jobs citing Python |
16,267 |
14,318 |
12,629 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
9.87% |
8.19% |
6.60% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
17.77% |
14.82% |
12.51% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
12,941 |
11,672 |
10,902 |
| UK median annual salary |
£60,000 |
£55,000 |
£55,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+9.09% |
- |
+4.76% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35,000 |
£32,500 |
£32,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£92,500 |
£88,750 |
£85,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
£47,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+1.06% |
+6.82% |
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 with a requirement for coding skills.
| All Programming Languages UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills |
91,556 |
96,643 |
100,918 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
55.57% |
55.29% |
52.75% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
76,173 |
79,233 |
87,041 |
| UK median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£48,500 |
£47,500 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+3.09% |
+2.11% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£29,000 |
£28,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82,500 |
£77,500 |
£76,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
£41,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+3.66% |
+2.50% |
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Python
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Python as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Python
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Python.
Python
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 19 October 2018.
Python
Top 17 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK over the 6 months to 19 October 2018.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
+4 |
15,226 |
£60,000 |
+9.09% |
2,804 |
| London |
+9 |
8,582 |
£70,000 |
+7.69% |
1,425 |
| UK excluding London |
+7 |
7,413 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
1,551 |
| South East |
+2 |
2,399 |
£50,000 |
- |
397 |
| North of England |
+20 |
1,461 |
£50,000 |
+2.04% |
291 |
| South West |
+12 |
1,092 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
204 |
| East of England |
+4 |
1,072 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
349 |
| North West |
+22 |
767 |
£50,000 |
- |
132 |
| Scotland |
+11 |
635 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
119 |
| Yorkshire |
+9 |
604 |
£47,500 |
-5.00% |
115 |
| Midlands |
+20 |
598 |
£49,250 |
+15.88% |
137 |
| West Midlands |
+34 |
406 |
£49,500 |
+19.28% |
77 |
| East Midlands |
-17 |
191 |
£47,750 |
+15.76% |
60 |
| Wales |
+28 |
126 |
£47,500 |
+11.76% |
29 |
| North East |
+23 |
89 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
44 |
| Northern Ireland |
+12 |
56 |
£45,000 |
+12.50% |
25 |
| Channel Islands |
- |
1 |
£45,000 |
- |
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For the 6 months to 19 October 2018, IT jobs citing Python also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Python.
| 1 |
6,458 (39.70%) |
Java |
| 2 |
5,855 (35.99%) |
Linux |
| 3 |
5,470 (33.63%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 4 |
4,767 (29.30%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
4,473 (27.50%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
4,243 (26.08%) |
DevOps |
| 7 |
3,724 (22.89%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
3,686 (22.66%) |
JavaScript |
| 9 |
3,335 (20.50%) |
C++ |
| 10 |
3,223 (19.81%) |
Docker |
| 11 |
3,213 (19.75%) |
Software Engineering |
| 12 |
3,068 (18.86%) |
C# |
| 13 |
2,900 (17.83%) |
Degree |
| 14 |
2,629 (16.16%) |
Ansible |
| 15 |
2,618 (16.09%) |
Bash Shell |
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| 16 |
2,464 (15.15%) |
Ruby |
| 17 |
2,457 (15.10%) |
Jenkins |
| 18 |
2,403 (14.77%) |
Machine Learning |
| 19 |
2,328 (14.31%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 20 |
2,324 (14.29%) |
Git (software) |
| 21 |
2,322 (14.27%) |
Computer Science |
| 22 |
2,240 (13.77%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 23 |
2,202 (13.54%) |
Puppet |
| 24 |
2,201 (13.53%) |
Big Data |
| 25 |
2,151 (13.22%) |
Analytics |
| 26 |
2,001 (12.30%) |
Test Automation |
| 27 |
1,944 (11.95%) |
Perl |
| 28 |
1,906 (11.72%) |
Data Science |
| 29 |
1,889 (11.61%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 30 |
1,881 (11.56%) |
Windows |
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Python
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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| Processes & Methodologies |
| 1 |
5,470 (33.63%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
4,243 (26.08%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,213 (19.75%) |
Software Engineering |
| 4 |
2,403 (14.77%) |
Machine Learning |
| 5 |
2,240 (13.77%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 6 |
2,151 (13.22%) |
Analytics |
| 7 |
2,001 (12.30%) |
Test Automation |
| 8 |
1,906 (11.72%) |
Data Science |
| 9 |
1,889 (11.61%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 10 |
1,780 (10.94%) |
TDD |
| 11 |
1,682 (10.34%) |
Mathematics |
| 12 |
1,630 (10.02%) |
Scrum |
| 13 |
1,599 (9.83%) |
Open Source |
| 14 |
1,386 (8.52%) |
Configuration Management |
| 15 |
1,312 (8.07%) |
Artificial Intelligence |
| 16 |
1,217 (7.48%) |
Microservices |
| 17 |
1,180 (7.25%) |
OO |
| 18 |
982 (6.04%) |
SDLC |
| 19 |
932 (5.73%) |
Mentoring |
| 20 |
924 (5.68%) |
Business Intelligence |
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| Programming Languages |
| 1 |
6,458 (39.70%) |
Java |
| 2 |
4,767 (29.30%) |
SQL |
| 3 |
3,686 (22.66%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
3,335 (20.50%) |
C++ |
| 5 |
3,068 (18.86%) |
C# |
| 6 |
2,618 (16.09%) |
Bash Shell |
| 7 |
2,464 (15.15%) |
Ruby |
| 8 |
1,944 (11.95%) |
Perl |
| 9 |
1,624 (9.98%) |
C |
| 10 |
1,493 (9.18%) |
R |
| 11 |
1,409 (8.66%) |
PHP |
| 12 |
1,300 (7.99%) |
PowerShell |
| 13 |
1,265 (7.78%) |
Scala |
| 14 |
1,212 (7.45%) |
Go |
| 15 |
633 (3.89%) |
Shell Script |
| 16 |
303 (1.86%) |
MATLAB |
| 17 |
248 (1.52%) |
T-SQL |
| 18 |
244 (1.50%) |
Java 8 |
| 19 |
197 (1.21%) |
VBA |
| 20 |
182 (1.12%) |
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