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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 14 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,470 18,792 18,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.01% 14.87% 14.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.58% 32.29% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,637 10,313 11,437
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 £113,000 £107,500
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 21,870 58,197 67,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 46.05% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17,139 36,667 45,610
10th Percentile £39,788 £38,250 £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 £105,000 £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 30 November 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 30 November 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 5,731 £72,500 +3.57% 3,331
UK excluding London -2 3,282 £60,000 - 1,902
Work from Home +1 3,115 £75,000 +7.14% 1,732
London -4 2,796 £85,000 +6.25% 1,880
South East +3 844 £55,050 -8.25% 624
North of England -4 784 £60,000 -2.18% 327
South West -1 691 £60,000 +9.09% 272
North West -2 448 £60,000 - 182
Scotland +4 361 £60,000 - 171
Midlands -17 324 £57,000 -0.87% 167
Yorkshire -5 314 £59,526 -2.70% 111
West Midlands -26 179 £57,500 +4.55% 117
East Midlands -5 147 £55,000 -4.35% 50
East of England -16 137 £70,000 +7.69% 286
Wales -18 99 £56,083 +1.97% 51
Northern Ireland -5 66 £72,500 +31.82% 32
North East -10 27 £65,000 -7.14% 37
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
1 265 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
2 251 (3.88%) Apache
3 229 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 178 (2.75%) Confluence
5 130 (2.01%) SAS
6 63 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 41 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 41 (0.63%) nginx
8 32 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 24 (0.37%) Jetty
10 19 (0.29%) CMS
11 18 (0.28%) IIS
12 16 (0.25%) MS Exchange
13 14 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 13 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.19%) ArcGIS
16 10 (0.15%) Luigi
16 10 (0.15%) WebLogic
17 9 (0.14%) Ethereum
18 6 (0.093%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 132 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.32%) Simulink
4 19 (0.29%) SPSS
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.062%) Stata
9 4 (0.062%) Trello
10 3 (0.046%) Mathcad
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 (0.015%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 19 (0.29%) Elite 3E
1 19 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 12 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.062%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.062%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.062%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.046%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.031%) Endur
6 2 (0.031%) Odoo
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 (0.015%) Eikon
7 1 (0.015%) FastStats
7 1 (0.015%) GoldMine
7 1 (0.015%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,532 (39.13%) AWS
2 1,932 (29.86%) Azure
3 1,153 (17.82%) GCP
4 721 (11.14%) Serverless
5 443 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 386 (5.97%) OpenShift
7 383 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
8 373 (5.77%) GitHub
9 294 (4.54%) SaaS
10 228 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 219 (3.38%) PaaS
12 216 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 180 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
14 162 (2.50%) dbt
14 162 (2.50%) Snowflake
15 155 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 151 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
17 140 (2.16%) IaaS
18 112 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 248 (3.83%) TCP/IP
2 246 (3.80%) DNS
3 211 (3.26%) Firewall
4 159 (2.46%) DHCP
5 147 (2.27%) HTTP
6 114 (1.76%) WAN
7 110 (1.70%) Internet
8 79 (1.22%) Network Security
8 79 (1.22%) VPN
9 67 (1.04%) LAN
10 58 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 56 (0.87%) Wireless
12 37 (0.57%) OSPF
13 36 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 36 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 36 (0.56%) IPv4
13 36 (0.56%) MPLS
14 35 (0.54%) BGP
15 34 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
16 33 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (6.43%) Power BI
2 391 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 345 (5.33%) Big Data
4 343 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 296 (4.57%) Tableau
6 274 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 259 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 226 (3.49%) Relational Database
9 208 (3.21%) Data Lake
10 185 (2.86%) MySQL
11 175 (2.70%) Hadoop
12 165 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 154 (2.38%) MongoDB
14 146 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
15 141 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
16 139 (2.15%) Oracle Database
17 131 (2.02%) BigQuery
18 127 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
19 97 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
20 94 (1.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 872 (13.48%) Git
2 684 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 308 (4.76%) JIRA
4 231 (3.57%) GitLab
5 155 (2.40%) Selenium
6 129 (1.99%) Maven
7 128 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 99 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 99 (1.53%) LabVIEW
9 79 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 75 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 74 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 71 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 63 (0.97%) Bitbucket
14 58 (0.90%) CircleCI
15 49 (0.76%) SoapUI
15 49 (0.76%) TeamCity
16 46 (0.71%) JUnit
17 45 (0.70%) Robot Framework
18 41 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 1,684 (26.03%) Finance
2 1,367 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 666 (10.29%) Banking
4 662 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 507 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 380 (5.87%) Front Office
7 282 (4.36%) Retail
8 226 (3.49%) Marketing
9 200 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 183 (2.83%) Aerospace
11 171 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 159 (2.46%) Police
13 147 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 130 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 121 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
16 120 (1.85%) Law
17 93 (1.44%) Legal
18 87 (1.34%) Electronics
19 73 (1.13%) Financial Institution
20 72 (1.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,308 (20.22%) Senior
2 1,213 (18.75%) Developer
3 961 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 726 (11.22%) Data Engineer
5 723 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 551 (8.52%) Lead
7 490 (7.57%) Analyst
8 483 (7.47%) Python Developer
9 429 (6.63%) Python Engineer
10 289 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
11 249 (3.85%) Architect
12 242 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 233 (3.60%) Senior Developer
14 232 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 227 (3.51%) Java Engineer
16 214 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
16 214 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
17 205 (3.17%) Data Scientist
18 204 (3.15%) Software Developer
19 197 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 727 (11.24%) React
2 426 (6.58%) Node.js
3 365 (5.64%) HTML
4 349 (5.39%) .NET
5 296 (4.57%) Spring
6 268 (4.14%) CSS
7 257 (3.97%) JSON
8 224 (3.46%) Pandas
9 217 (3.35%) Kafka
10 214 (3.31%) Django
11 207 (3.20%) REST
12 189 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 182 (2.81%) J2EE
14 157 (2.43%) Ruby on Rails
15 155 (2.40%) NumPy
16 153 (2.36%) RESTful
17 145 (2.24%) PySpark
18 144 (2.23%) XML
19 134 (2.07%) Redux
20 133 (2.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 362 (5.60%) Algorithms
2 283 (4.37%) Public Cloud
3 214 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 187 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 174 (2.69%) Hedge funds
6 162 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 161 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 154 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 151 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 147 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 146 (2.26%) Data Structures
12 123 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 122 (1.89%) Data Centre
14 114 (1.76%) Derivative
15 107 (1.65%) Equities
16 100 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
17 94 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
18 91 (1.41%) Arduino
19 90 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 79 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,499 (23.17%) Linux
2 619 (9.57%) Windows
3 295 (4.56%) Unix
4 232 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 211 (3.26%) Windows Server
6 122 (1.89%) Android
7 94 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 89 (1.38%) CentOS
9 58 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 45 (0.70%) Apple iOS
11 37 (0.57%) Solaris
12 35 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
13 29 (0.45%) Debian
14 25 (0.39%) Windows 10
15 20 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
16 17 (0.26%) 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 1,992 (30.79%) Agile
2 1,899 (29.35%) DevOps
3 1,604 (24.79%) Software Engineering
4 1,485 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 1,428 (22.07%) CI/CD
6 1,009 (15.60%) Analytics
7 804 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 779 (12.04%) Microservices
9 777 (12.01%) Containerisation
10 776 (11.99%) Computer Science
11 747 (11.55%) Data Science
12 728 (11.25%) Machine Learning
13 711 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
14 677 (10.46%) Mentoring
15 625 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
16 585 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
17 539 (8.33%) ETL
18 513 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
19 497 (7.68%) Design Patterns
20 493 (7.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,974 (30.51%) SQL
2 1,864 (28.81%) Java
3 1,202 (18.58%) JavaScript
4 1,150 (17.77%) Bash
5 897 (13.86%) C#
6 888 (13.72%) PowerShell
7 737 (11.39%) C++
8 484 (7.48%) Ruby
9 472 (7.30%) Go
10 402 (6.21%) TypeScript
11 379 (5.86%) R
12 320 (4.95%) Perl
13 294 (4.54%) C
14 200 (3.09%) PHP
15 154 (2.38%) Scala
16 142 (2.19%) Shell Script
17 138 (2.13%) VB
18 127 (1.96%) MATLAB
19 118 (1.82%) Rust
20 113 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,285 (19.86%) Degree
2 1,118 (17.28%) Security Cleared
3 643 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 405 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 345 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 321 (4.96%) Master's Degree
7 172 (2.66%) PhD
8 141 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 130 (2.01%) AWS Certification
10 85 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 83 (1.28%) HNC
12 44 (0.68%) CCNA
13 42 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 39 (0.60%) CCNP
16 38 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 37 (0.57%) CISSP
18 36 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
19 31 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
20 23 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (5.35%) QA
2 222 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 65 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (0.74%) GDPR
5 41 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.43%) NCSC
7 28 (0.43%) PMO
8 24 (0.37%) NIST
9 23 (0.36%) IFRS
10 22 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 21 (0.32%) SLA
12 15 (0.23%) CRD IV
13 12 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.19%) MISRA
14 9 (0.14%) DO-178B
15 6 (0.093%) Basel III
15 6 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.093%) GAAP
15 6 (0.093%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1,234 (19.07%) Docker
2 250 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 218 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 102 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 65 (1.00%) Firmware
6 47 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.25%) LXC
9 14 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) KVM
10 13 (0.20%) HDFS
11 11 (0.17%) NFS
11 11 (0.17%) OpenSIPS
11 11 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.15%) vSphere
13 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.11%) Ceph
15 5 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.077%) Varnish
16 4 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,334 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 1,098 (16.97%) Terraform
3 877 (13.55%) Ansible
4 353 (5.46%) Puppet
5 137 (2.12%) Grafana
6 131 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 103 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 47 (0.73%) Argo
9 46 (0.71%) Rancher
10 42 (0.65%) Packer
11 39 (0.60%) Istio
12 33 (0.51%) Nagios
13 31 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 26 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
15 21 (0.32%) Nessus
15 21 (0.32%) SCCM
15 21 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
16 20 (0.31%) ZABBIX
17 19 (0.29%) Salt
18 18 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 545 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 465 (7.19%) Google
3 338 (5.22%) Oracle
4 296 (4.57%) VMware
5 263 (4.06%) Databricks
6 228 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 174 (2.69%) Cisco
8 163 (2.52%) Splunk
9 79 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 77 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 70 (1.08%) SAP
12 58 (0.90%) HP
13 57 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 50 (0.77%) CheckPoint
15 48 (0.74%) Alteryx
15 48 (0.74%) New Relic
16 45 (0.70%) CyberArk
16 45 (0.70%) F5
17 43 (0.66%) IBM
18 38 (0.59%) Remedy