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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 22 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Python UK |
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6 months to
22 Nov 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
14 |
18 |
23 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+5 |
+5 |
| Permanent jobs citing Python |
15,275 |
16,448 |
15,063 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.30% |
10.10% |
8.35% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
21.02% |
18.28% |
15.13% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
12,072 |
13,259 |
12,337 |
| UK median annual salary |
£60,000 |
£60,000 |
£55,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+9.09% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£35,905 |
£35,000 |
£32,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£100,000 |
£95,000 |
£88,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
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 |
72,686 |
89,990 |
99,572 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
53.78% |
55.25% |
55.23% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
59,969 |
74,877 |
82,019 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
£49,700 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+0.60% |
+4.63% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,250 |
£31,250 |
£29,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£86,250 |
£83,750 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+2.41% |
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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 22 November 2019.
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 22 November 2019.
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 |
14,282 |
£62,500 |
+4.17% |
2,684 |
| London |
+2 |
8,326 |
£72,500 |
+3.57% |
1,273 |
| UK excluding London |
+2 |
6,727 |
£50,000 |
- |
1,607 |
| South East |
+3 |
2,122 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
391 |
| North of England |
+6 |
1,326 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
328 |
| South West |
+4 |
1,151 |
£50,000 |
- |
214 |
| East of England |
+2 |
745 |
£52,500 |
- |
336 |
| North West |
+1 |
663 |
£53,463 |
+4.11% |
160 |
| Yorkshire |
+14 |
589 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
121 |
| Scotland |
+1 |
589 |
£45,000 |
-10.00% |
147 |
| Midlands |
+10 |
553 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
143 |
| West Midlands |
+4 |
372 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
95 |
| Wales |
+14 |
176 |
£42,500 |
-15.00% |
35 |
| East Midlands |
+9 |
174 |
£47,500 |
+5.56% |
48 |
| Northern Ireland |
+3 |
79 |
£40,000 |
-11.11% |
14 |
| North East |
-3 |
75 |
£43,750 |
-2.78% |
47 |
| Channel Islands |
+9 |
1 |
£60,000 |
+14.29% |
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For the 6 months to 22 November 2019, 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 |
5,224 (34.20%) |
AWS |
| 2 |
5,198 (34.03%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
5,175 (33.88%) |
Java |
| 4 |
4,532 (29.67%) |
Linux |
| 5 |
4,219 (27.62%) |
SQL |
| 6 |
4,035 (26.42%) |
DevOps |
| 7 |
3,537 (23.16%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
3,447 (22.57%) |
Software Engineering |
| 9 |
3,335 (21.83%) |
Docker |
| 10 |
3,179 (20.81%) |
JavaScript |
| 11 |
2,588 (16.94%) |
C# |
| 12 |
2,586 (16.93%) |
Azure |
| 13 |
2,581 (16.90%) |
C++ |
| 14 |
2,467 (16.15%) |
Degree |
| 15 |
2,396 (15.69%) |
Kubernetes |
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| 16 |
2,246 (14.70%) |
Analytics |
| 17 |
2,242 (14.68%) |
Bash Shell |
| 18 |
2,220 (14.53%) |
Data Science |
| 19 |
2,198 (14.39%) |
Ansible |
| 20 |
2,133 (13.96%) |
Machine Learning |
| 21 |
2,120 (13.88%) |
Git (software) |
| 22 |
1,963 (12.85%) |
Jenkins |
| 23 |
1,818 (11.90%) |
Computer Science |
| 24 |
1,793 (11.74%) |
R |
| 25 |
1,773 (11.61%) |
Terraform |
| 26 |
1,767 (11.57%) |
GCP |
| 27 |
1,706 (11.17%) |
Big Data |
| 28 |
1,655 (10.83%) |
Test Automation |
| 29 |
1,628 (10.66%) |
Ruby |
| 30 |
1,578 (10.33%) |
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 |
5,198 (34.03%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
4,035 (26.42%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,447 (22.57%) |
Software Engineering |
| 4 |
2,246 (14.70%) |
Analytics |
| 5 |
2,220 (14.53%) |
Data Science |
| 6 |
2,133 (13.96%) |
Machine Learning |
| 7 |
1,818 (11.90%) |
Computer Science |
| 8 |
1,655 (10.83%) |
Test Automation |
| 9 |
1,571 (10.28%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 10 |
1,499 (9.81%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 11 |
1,461 (9.56%) |
Microservices |
| 12 |
1,313 (8.60%) |
Artificial Intelligence |
| 13 |
1,307 (8.56%) |
Business Intelligence |
| 14 |
1,209 (7.91%) |
Scrum |
| 15 |
1,206 (7.90%) |
Mathematics |
| 16 |
1,168 (7.65%) |
Mentoring |
| 17 |
1,104 (7.23%) |
TDD |
| 18 |
1,102 (7.21%) |
Fintech |
| 19 |
1,100 (7.20%) |
Open Source |
| 20 |
1,028 (6.73%) |
Configuration Management |
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| Programming Languages |
| 1 |
5,175 (33.88%) |
Java |
| 2 |
4,219 (27.62%) |
SQL |
| 3 |
3,179 (20.81%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
2,588 (16.94%) |
C# |
| 5 |
2,581 (16.90%) |
C++ |
| 6 |
2,242 (14.68%) |
Bash Shell |
| 7 |
1,793 (11.74%) |
R |
| 8 |
1,628 (10.66%) |
Ruby |
| 9 |
1,256 (8.22%) |
C |
| 10 |
1,207 (7.90%) |
PowerShell |
| 11 |
1,147 (7.51%) |
Go |
| 12 |
1,084 (7.10%) |
PHP |
| 13 |
1,075 (7.04%) |
Scala |
| 14 |
1,057 (6.92%) |
Perl |
| 15 |
528 (3.46%) |
Shell Script |
| 16 |
398 (2.61%) |
MATLAB |
| 17 |
376 (2.46%) |
TypeScript |
| 18 |
227 (1.49%) |
Kotlin |
| 19 |
195 (1.28%) |
VBA |
| 20 |
192 (1.26%) |
T-SQL |
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