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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 13 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Python UK |
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6 months to
13 Nov 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
14 |
19 |
23 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+5 |
+4 |
+5 |
| Permanent jobs citing Python |
15,668 |
16,299 |
14,964 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.39% |
10.01% |
8.33% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
21.19% |
18.12% |
15.05% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
12,305 |
13,099 |
12,228 |
| UK median annual salary |
£60,000 |
£60,000 |
£55,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+9.09% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£36,000 |
£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 |
73,952 |
89,966 |
99,397 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
53.76% |
55.24% |
55.36% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
60,929 |
74,943 |
81,793 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
£49,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+2.04% |
+3.16% |
| 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 13 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 13 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 |
+5 |
14,645 |
£62,500 |
+4.17% |
2,615 |
| London |
+2 |
8,523 |
£72,500 |
+3.57% |
1,210 |
| UK excluding London |
+3 |
6,916 |
£50,000 |
- |
1,575 |
| South East |
+3 |
2,162 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
395 |
| North of England |
+8 |
1,404 |
£52,500 |
+5.00% |
316 |
| South West |
+3 |
1,174 |
£50,000 |
+2.04% |
246 |
| East of England |
+2 |
758 |
£52,500 |
-4.55% |
325 |
| North West |
+5 |
695 |
£52,925 |
+5.85% |
155 |
| Yorkshire |
+14 |
634 |
£50,000 |
+11.11% |
119 |
| Scotland |
+1 |
606 |
£45,000 |
-10.00% |
118 |
| Midlands |
+13 |
567 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
124 |
| West Midlands |
+7 |
371 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
87 |
| East Midlands |
+13 |
187 |
£47,500 |
- |
36 |
| Wales |
+14 |
173 |
£42,500 |
-12.37% |
36 |
| Northern Ireland |
+4 |
85 |
£43,750 |
-7.89% |
15 |
| North East |
+4 |
76 |
£45,000 |
- |
42 |
| Channel Islands |
+9 |
1 |
£60,000 |
+14.29% |
1 |
For the 6 months to 13 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 |
5,359 (34.20%) |
AWS |
| 2 |
5,320 (33.95%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
5,265 (33.60%) |
Java |
| 4 |
4,770 (30.44%) |
Linux |
| 5 |
4,329 (27.63%) |
SQL |
| 6 |
4,217 (26.91%) |
DevOps |
| 7 |
3,542 (22.61%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
3,488 (22.26%) |
Software Engineering |
| 9 |
3,429 (21.89%) |
Docker |
| 10 |
3,221 (20.56%) |
JavaScript |
| 11 |
2,702 (17.25%) |
Azure |
| 12 |
2,614 (16.68%) |
C# |
| 13 |
2,599 (16.59%) |
C++ |
| 14 |
2,536 (16.19%) |
Degree |
| 15 |
2,454 (15.66%) |
Kubernetes |
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| 16 |
2,375 (15.16%) |
Bash Shell |
| 17 |
2,286 (14.59%) |
Data Science |
| 18 |
2,281 (14.56%) |
Analytics |
| 19 |
2,268 (14.48%) |
Ansible |
| 20 |
2,176 (13.89%) |
Machine Learning |
| 21 |
2,162 (13.80%) |
Git (software) |
| 22 |
2,013 (12.85%) |
Jenkins |
| 23 |
1,850 (11.81%) |
Computer Science |
| 24 |
1,844 (11.77%) |
GCP |
| 25 |
1,825 (11.65%) |
Terraform |
| 26 |
1,817 (11.60%) |
R |
| 27 |
1,751 (11.18%) |
Big Data |
| 28 |
1,706 (10.89%) |
Test Automation |
| 29 |
1,698 (10.84%) |
Ruby |
| 30 |
1,622 (10.35%) |
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 |
5,320 (33.95%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
4,217 (26.91%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,488 (22.26%) |
Software Engineering |
| 4 |
2,286 (14.59%) |
Data Science |
| 5 |
2,281 (14.56%) |
Analytics |
| 6 |
2,176 (13.89%) |
Machine Learning |
| 7 |
1,850 (11.81%) |
Computer Science |
| 8 |
1,706 (10.89%) |
Test Automation |
| 9 |
1,600 (10.21%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 10 |
1,548 (9.88%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 11 |
1,449 (9.25%) |
Microservices |
| 12 |
1,340 (8.55%) |
Business Intelligence |
| 13 |
1,319 (8.42%) |
Artificial Intelligence |
| 14 |
1,266 (8.08%) |
Mathematics |
| 15 |
1,254 (8.00%) |
Scrum |
| 16 |
1,179 (7.52%) |
Mentoring |
| 17 |
1,151 (7.35%) |
Open Source |
| 18 |
1,145 (7.31%) |
TDD |
| 19 |
1,107 (7.07%) |
Fintech |
| 20 |
1,061 (6.77%) |
Configuration Management |
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| Programming Languages |
| 1 |
5,265 (33.60%) |
Java |
| 2 |
4,329 (27.63%) |
SQL |
| 3 |
3,221 (20.56%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
2,614 (16.68%) |
C# |
| 5 |
2,599 (16.59%) |
C++ |
| 6 |
2,375 (15.16%) |
Bash Shell |
| 7 |
1,817 (11.60%) |
R |
| 8 |
1,698 (10.84%) |
Ruby |
| 9 |
1,325 (8.46%) |
C |
| 10 |
1,230 (7.85%) |
PowerShell |
| 11 |
1,179 (7.52%) |
Go |
| 12 |
1,143 (7.30%) |
Scala |
| 13 |
1,128 (7.20%) |
Perl |
| 14 |
1,121 (7.15%) |
PHP |
| 15 |
533 (3.40%) |
Shell Script |
| 16 |
407 (2.60%) |
MATLAB |
| 17 |
364 (2.32%) |
TypeScript |
| 18 |
216 (1.38%) |
Kotlin |
| 19 |
204 (1.30%) |
Groovy |
| 20 |
202 (1.29%) |
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