Python
UK

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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 14 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,399 18,817 18,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.01% 14.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.57% 32.74% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 10,302 11,505
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £112,636 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,640 57,467 67,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.55% 45.85% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,902 36,547 45,642
10th Percentile £39,820 £38,302 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python.

Salary trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Top 18 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 2 December 2023. 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
England -3 5,650 £72,500 +3.57% 3,249
UK excluding London -2 3,265 £60,000 - 1,864
Work from Home +2 3,067 £73,750 +5.36% 1,654
London -4 2,753 £85,000 +6.25% 1,779
South East +3 833 £55,000 -8.33% 581
North of England -5 769 £60,000 -1.93% 337
South West -1 684 £60,000 +9.09% 261
North West -4 438 £60,000 - 188
Scotland +5 379 £60,000 - 187
Midlands -14 323 £56,500 -1.74% 171
Yorkshire -7 310 £59,763 -4.38% 116
West Midlands -27 178 £57,500 +4.55% 117
East Midlands -9 147 £55,000 -4.35% 53
East of England -13 139 £70,000 +7.69% 270
Wales -17 97 £57,165 +3.94% 48
Northern Ireland -5 65 £72,500 +31.82% 33
North East -15 26 £65,000 -7.14% 36
Isle of Man - 10 £60,000 -

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 254 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 242 (3.78%) Apache
3 229 (3.58%) Apache Spark
4 172 (2.69%) Confluence
5 128 (2.00%) SAS
6 60 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 40 (0.63%) Jupyter
8 39 (0.61%) nginx
9 26 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 18 (0.28%) CMS
10 18 (0.28%) IIS
10 18 (0.28%) Jetty
11 16 (0.25%) MS Exchange
12 13 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 11 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 10 (0.16%) Luigi
14 10 (0.16%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.14%) Ethereum
16 6 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 126 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.33%) Simulink
4 19 (0.30%) SPSS
5 17 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.063%) Stata
10 3 (0.047%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.031%) Campfire
11 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.031%) EViews
11 2 (0.031%) InDesign
11 2 (0.031%) Stateflow
12 1 (0.016%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 18 (0.28%) Elite 3E
1 18 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 12 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.063%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.063%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.063%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.047%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.031%) Endur
6 2 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.031%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.031%) Ripple
6 2 (0.031%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.016%) GoldMine
7 1 (0.016%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.016%) Summit
7 1 (0.016%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,495 (38.99%) AWS
2 1,897 (29.65%) Azure
3 1,127 (17.61%) GCP
4 731 (11.42%) Serverless
5 435 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 381 (5.95%) OpenShift
7 380 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
8 358 (5.59%) GitHub
9 293 (4.58%) SaaS
10 228 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.38%) Amazon S3
11 216 (3.38%) PaaS
12 215 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 167 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
14 161 (2.52%) dbt
15 158 (2.47%) Snowflake
16 154 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 147 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
18 137 (2.14%) IaaS
19 111 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 248 (3.88%) TCP/IP
2 247 (3.86%) DNS
3 211 (3.30%) Firewall
4 158 (2.47%) DHCP
5 147 (2.30%) HTTP
6 114 (1.78%) WAN
7 105 (1.64%) Internet
8 77 (1.20%) Network Security
9 75 (1.17%) VPN
10 67 (1.05%) LAN
11 58 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 56 (0.88%) Wireless
13 36 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 36 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 35 (0.55%) IPv4
14 35 (0.55%) MPLS
14 35 (0.55%) OSPF
15 34 (0.53%) BGP
15 34 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
16 32 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (6.39%) Power BI
2 389 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
3 342 (5.34%) Big Data
4 338 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 290 (4.53%) Tableau
6 261 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
7 259 (4.05%) NoSQL
8 233 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 206 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 184 (2.88%) MySQL
11 170 (2.66%) Hadoop
12 163 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 154 (2.41%) MongoDB
14 149 (2.33%) Oracle Database
15 146 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
16 139 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
17 127 (1.98%) BigQuery
18 121 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
19 99 (1.55%) RDBMS
20 93 (1.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 860 (13.44%) Git
2 666 (10.41%) Jenkins
3 293 (4.58%) JIRA
4 224 (3.50%) GitLab
5 140 (2.19%) Selenium
6 123 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 116 (1.81%) Maven
8 99 (1.55%) LabVIEW
9 98 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 79 (1.23%) Artifactory
11 75 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 72 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 70 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 60 (0.94%) Bitbucket
15 57 (0.89%) CircleCI
16 49 (0.77%) TeamCity
17 46 (0.72%) SoapUI
18 45 (0.70%) JUnit
19 44 (0.69%) Robot Framework
20 39 (0.61%) Postman
General
1 1,673 (26.14%) Finance
2 1,338 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 657 (10.27%) Banking
4 646 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 525 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 369 (5.77%) Front Office
7 268 (4.19%) Retail
8 233 (3.64%) Marketing
9 197 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 183 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 171 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 159 (2.48%) Police
13 149 (2.33%) Investment Banking
14 138 (2.16%) Law
15 129 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 123 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
17 96 (1.50%) Legal
18 87 (1.36%) Electronics
19 74 (1.16%) Financial Institution
20 71 (1.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,296 (20.25%) Senior
2 1,194 (18.66%) Developer
3 974 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 721 (11.27%) Data Engineer
5 708 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 546 (8.53%) Lead
7 478 (7.47%) Python Developer
8 477 (7.45%) Analyst
9 430 (6.72%) Python Engineer
10 284 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
11 243 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 241 (3.77%) Architect
13 231 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 227 (3.55%) Java Engineer
14 227 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 214 (3.34%) Java Software Engineer
16 213 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
17 209 (3.27%) Data Scientist
18 203 (3.17%) Software Developer
19 194 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 729 (11.39%) React
2 415 (6.49%) Node.js
3 352 (5.50%) HTML
4 342 (5.34%) .NET
5 289 (4.52%) Spring
6 258 (4.03%) CSS
7 235 (3.67%) JSON
8 224 (3.50%) Pandas
9 213 (3.33%) Kafka
10 208 (3.25%) Django
11 206 (3.22%) REST
12 188 (2.94%) AngularJS
13 182 (2.84%) J2EE
14 156 (2.44%) Ruby on Rails
15 155 (2.42%) NumPy
16 149 (2.33%) RESTful
17 143 (2.23%) PySpark
18 135 (2.11%) XML
19 130 (2.03%) Redux
20 129 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 361 (5.64%) Algorithms
2 280 (4.38%) Public Cloud
3 217 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 185 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 172 (2.69%) Hedge funds
6 157 (2.45%) Fixed Income
7 154 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 154 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 147 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 147 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 146 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 123 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 110 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 108 (1.69%) Derivative
13 106 (1.66%) Equities
14 98 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
15 94 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
16 91 (1.42%) Arduino
17 90 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 79 (1.23%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,468 (22.94%) Linux
2 611 (9.55%) Windows
3 290 (4.53%) Unix
4 228 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 209 (3.27%) Windows Server
6 120 (1.88%) Android
7 92 (1.44%) Ubuntu
8 87 (1.36%) CentOS
9 57 (0.89%) Mac OS
10 44 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 37 (0.58%) Solaris
12 35 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
13 28 (0.44%) Debian
14 25 (0.39%) Windows 10
15 20 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
16 17 (0.27%) VMS
17 12 (0.19%) Fedora
18 11 (0.17%) AIX
18 11 (0.17%) HPUX
19 7 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,955 (30.55%) Agile
2 1,867 (29.18%) DevOps
3 1,619 (25.30%) Software Engineering
4 1,490 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
5 1,414 (22.10%) CI/CD
6 985 (15.39%) Analytics
7 782 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 780 (12.19%) Microservices
9 771 (12.05%) Containerisation
10 765 (11.95%) Computer Science
11 743 (11.61%) Machine Learning
12 741 (11.58%) Data Science
13 709 (11.08%) Actionable Insight
14 665 (10.39%) Mentoring
15 618 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
16 576 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
17 535 (8.36%) ETL
18 523 (8.17%) Artificial Intelligence
19 507 (7.92%) Design Patterns
20 488 (7.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,947 (30.43%) SQL
2 1,852 (28.94%) Java
3 1,176 (18.38%) JavaScript
4 1,140 (17.82%) Bash
5 883 (13.80%) C#
6 880 (13.75%) PowerShell
7 724 (11.31%) C++
8 477 (7.45%) Go
8 477 (7.45%) Ruby
9 393 (6.14%) TypeScript
10 370 (5.78%) R
11 330 (5.16%) Perl
12 289 (4.52%) C
13 185 (2.89%) PHP
14 156 (2.44%) Scala
15 138 (2.16%) VB
16 135 (2.11%) Shell Script
17 125 (1.95%) MATLAB
18 118 (1.84%) Rust
19 113 (1.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,274 (19.91%) Degree
2 1,104 (17.25%) Security Cleared
3 635 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 402 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 342 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 313 (4.89%) Master's Degree
7 171 (2.67%) PhD
8 140 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 129 (2.02%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 83 (1.30%) HNC
12 44 (0.69%) CCNA
13 42 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 40 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 38 (0.59%) CCNP
16 37 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 37 (0.58%) CISSP
17 36 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
18 31 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
19 23 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (5.58%) QA
2 214 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 53 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (0.73%) GDPR
5 42 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.44%) NCSC
7 28 (0.44%) PMO
8 24 (0.38%) NIST
8 24 (0.38%) SLA
9 22 (0.34%) IFRS
10 21 (0.33%) IFRS 9
11 15 (0.23%) CRD IV
12 12 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.19%) MISRA
13 9 (0.14%) DO-178B
14 6 (0.094%) Basel III
14 6 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.094%) GAAP
14 6 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,198 (18.72%) Docker
2 247 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 214 (3.34%) Active Directory
4 102 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.81%) Firmware
6 47 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.23%) HDFS
9 14 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) KVM
10 11 (0.17%) NFS
10 11 (0.17%) OpenSIPS
10 11 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 10 (0.16%) vSphere
12 7 (0.11%) Ceph
12 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.078%) Varnish
14 4 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,301 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 1,085 (16.96%) Terraform
3 852 (13.31%) Ansible
4 349 (5.45%) Puppet
5 137 (2.14%) Grafana
6 117 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 102 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 47 (0.73%) Argo
9 46 (0.72%) Rancher
10 43 (0.67%) Packer
11 39 (0.61%) Istio
12 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
13 24 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
14 22 (0.34%) Nagios
15 21 (0.33%) Nessus
15 21 (0.33%) SCCM
15 21 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
16 20 (0.31%) ZABBIX
17 19 (0.30%) Salt
18 15 (0.23%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 521 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 448 (7.00%) Google
3 348 (5.44%) Oracle
4 293 (4.58%) VMware
5 266 (4.16%) Databricks
6 224 (3.50%) Red Hat
7 172 (2.69%) Cisco
8 149 (2.33%) Splunk
9 76 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 76 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.08%) SAP
11 56 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 55 (0.86%) HP
13 50 (0.78%) CheckPoint
14 48 (0.75%) Alteryx
14 48 (0.75%) New Relic
15 45 (0.70%) CyberArk
16 44 (0.69%) F5
17 43 (0.67%) IBM
18 34 (0.53%) TOWER Software