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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 28 January 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Python UK |
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6 months to
28 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
14 |
17 |
22 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+3 |
+5 |
+7 |
| Permanent jobs citing Python |
14,226 |
16,057 |
14,743 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.32% |
10.63% |
8.57% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
20.93% |
19.36% |
15.41% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
11,504 |
13,089 |
12,201 |
| UK median annual salary |
£62,500 |
£60,000 |
£55,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+4.17% |
+9.09% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£36,250 |
£35,000 |
£32,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£105,000 |
£95,000 |
£90,000 |
| 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 |
67,956 |
82,938 |
95,690 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
54.09% |
54.91% |
55.60% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
56,122 |
68,580 |
80,115 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£52,000 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+0.96% |
+4.00% |
+5.26% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31,750 |
£31,250 |
£29,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£87,500 |
£85,000 |
£77,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£42,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
- |
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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 28 January 2020.
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 28 January 2020.
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 |
+3 |
13,347 |
£64,000 |
+6.67% |
2,843 |
| London |
+1 |
8,050 |
£72,500 |
+3.57% |
1,415 |
| UK excluding London |
+1 |
5,950 |
£50,000 |
- |
1,593 |
| South East |
+1 |
1,945 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
413 |
| North of England |
+2 |
1,111 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
315 |
| South West |
+2 |
996 |
£48,500 |
+2.11% |
236 |
| East of England |
+3 |
613 |
£55,000 |
+4.76% |
275 |
| North West |
-2 |
558 |
£55,000 |
- |
143 |
| Midlands |
+15 |
556 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
190 |
| Scotland |
-1 |
486 |
£47,500 |
- |
109 |
| Yorkshire |
+10 |
473 |
£50,000 |
+4.17% |
130 |
| West Midlands |
+25 |
402 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
119 |
| Wales |
+12 |
181 |
£45,000 |
-6.25% |
47 |
| East Midlands |
-16 |
152 |
£47,500 |
+11.76% |
70 |
| North East |
-6 |
80 |
£45,000 |
- |
42 |
| Northern Ireland |
-1 |
72 |
£40,000 |
-13.51% |
9 |
| Channel Islands |
+4 |
1 |
£60,000 |
+14.29% |
1 |
For the 6 months to 28 January 2020, 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 |
4,924 (34.61%) |
Java |
| 2 |
4,899 (34.44%) |
AWS |
| 3 |
4,835 (33.99%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 4 |
4,128 (29.02%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
3,924 (27.58%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
3,621 (25.45%) |
DevOps |
| 7 |
3,502 (24.62%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
3,347 (23.53%) |
Software Engineering |
| 9 |
3,214 (22.59%) |
JavaScript |
| 10 |
3,043 (21.39%) |
Docker |
| 11 |
2,538 (17.84%) |
Azure |
| 12 |
2,513 (17.66%) |
C# |
| 13 |
2,426 (17.05%) |
C++ |
| 14 |
2,262 (15.90%) |
Analytics |
| 15 |
2,239 (15.74%) |
Kubernetes |
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| 16 |
2,221 (15.61%) |
Degree |
| 17 |
2,042 (14.35%) |
Data Science |
| 18 |
2,007 (14.11%) |
Ansible |
| 19 |
1,951 (13.71%) |
Machine Learning |
| 20 |
1,939 (13.63%) |
Git (software) |
| 21 |
1,873 (13.17%) |
Jenkins |
| 22 |
1,867 (13.12%) |
Bash Shell |
| 23 |
1,706 (11.99%) |
R |
| 24 |
1,644 (11.56%) |
GCP |
| 25 |
1,637 (11.51%) |
Terraform |
| 25 |
1,637 (11.51%) |
Computer Science |
| 26 |
1,520 (10.68%) |
Windows |
| 27 |
1,509 (10.61%) |
Big Data |
| 28 |
1,503 (10.57%) |
Test Automation |
| 29 |
1,502 (10.56%) |
Ruby |
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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 |
4,835 (33.99%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,621 (25.45%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,347 (23.53%) |
Software Engineering |
| 4 |
2,262 (15.90%) |
Analytics |
| 5 |
2,042 (14.35%) |
Data Science |
| 6 |
1,951 (13.71%) |
Machine Learning |
| 7 |
1,637 (11.51%) |
Computer Science |
| 8 |
1,503 (10.57%) |
Test Automation |
| 9 |
1,432 (10.07%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 10 |
1,372 (9.64%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
1,329 (9.34%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 12 |
1,290 (9.07%) |
Artificial Intelligence |
| 13 |
1,215 (8.54%) |
Business Intelligence |
| 14 |
1,173 (8.25%) |
Scrum |
| 15 |
1,152 (8.10%) |
Mentoring |
| 16 |
1,098 (7.72%) |
Fintech |
| 17 |
1,079 (7.58%) |
TDD |
| 18 |
1,019 (7.16%) |
Mathematics |
| 19 |
986 (6.93%) |
Open Source |
| 20 |
936 (6.58%) |
Configuration Management |
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| Programming Languages |
| 1 |
4,924 (34.61%) |
Java |
| 2 |
4,128 (29.02%) |
SQL |
| 3 |
3,214 (22.59%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
2,513 (17.66%) |
C# |
| 5 |
2,426 (17.05%) |
C++ |
| 6 |
1,867 (13.12%) |
Bash Shell |
| 7 |
1,706 (11.99%) |
R |
| 8 |
1,502 (10.56%) |
Ruby |
| 9 |
1,116 (7.84%) |
PowerShell |
| 10 |
1,050 (7.38%) |
C |
| 10 |
1,050 (7.38%) |
Go |
| 11 |
1,008 (7.09%) |
PHP |
| 12 |
918 (6.45%) |
Scala |
| 13 |
878 (6.17%) |
Perl |
| 14 |
502 (3.53%) |
Shell Script |
| 15 |
403 (2.83%) |
TypeScript |
| 16 |
377 (2.65%) |
MATLAB |
| 17 |
283 (1.99%) |
Kotlin |
| 18 |
199 (1.40%) |
VBA |
| 19 |
176 (1.24%) |
Java 8 |
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