Python
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 7,592 7,688 22,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.58% 12.54% 15.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.13% 30.75% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,387 5,423 10,866
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £98,500 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £126,600 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,630 24,999 71,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.81% 40.78% 49.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,871 19,435 39,398
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 6 October 2024.

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 6 October 2024. 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 -1 7,020 £75,000 - 2,031
UK excluding London -4 3,830 £60,000 - 1,199
London +3 3,595 £90,000 +5.88% 1,017
Work from Home -2 3,211 £80,000 +10.34% 1,162
South East -3 1,091 £56,000 -6.67% 315
North of England -11 834 £60,000 - 282
South West -8 613 £67,500 +12.50% 148
Midlands +8 506 £58,002 +3.57% 156
North West -10 465 £60,000 - 153
East of England +19 332 £62,500 -3.85% 123
West Midlands +7 307 £65,000 +13.04% 98
Scotland -22 307 £65,000 +13.04% 75
Yorkshire -14 253 £60,000 +4.35% 75
East Midlands -3 198 £45,000 -12.20% 57
North East +11 116 £65,000 - 55
Wales +2 89 £65,000 +18.18% 26
Northern Ireland +8 73 £80,000 +10.34% 89
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1

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
1 788 (10.38%) Apache
2 746 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
3 201 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 158 (2.08%) SAS
5 81 (1.07%) Confluence
6 68 (0.90%) ArcGIS
7 58 (0.76%) GeoServer
8 57 (0.75%) SharePoint
9 44 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 39 (0.51%) nginx
11 35 (0.46%) CMS
12 30 (0.40%) WordPress
13 27 (0.36%) Jupyter
14 17 (0.22%) IIS
15 12 (0.16%) OpenStack
16 11 (0.14%) Tuxedo
17 9 (0.12%) Mule
18 8 (0.11%) Luigi
19 7 (0.092%) Tomcat
20 6 (0.079%) Solana
Applications
1 172 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (1.67%) Simulink
3 68 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.092%) Sketch
8 6 (0.079%) Fusion 360
9 5 (0.066%) Weka
10 4 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.053%) Revit
10 4 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.053%) Trello
11 3 (0.040%) GNU Octave
11 3 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.040%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 55 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 29 (0.38%) Ripple
3 20 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.26%) Shopify
4 7 (0.092%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.092%) Odoo
5 5 (0.066%) GoldMine
5 5 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.053%) Eagle PACE
6 4 (0.053%) Endur
6 4 (0.053%) Magento
6 4 (0.053%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.040%) Findur
7 3 (0.040%) Maximo
7 3 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.026%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.026%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.026%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.026%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3,009 (39.63%) AWS
2 2,031 (26.75%) Azure
3 1,059 (13.95%) GCP
4 726 (9.56%) dbt
5 628 (8.27%) Snowflake
6 532 (7.01%) Power Platform
7 528 (6.95%) GitHub
8 443 (5.84%) Serverless
9 321 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 286 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 245 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 214 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 206 (2.71%) SaaS
14 204 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
15 195 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
16 168 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
17 154 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 143 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
19 137 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 111 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 237 (3.12%) Firewall
2 218 (2.87%) Broadband
3 188 (2.48%) DNS
4 171 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 157 (2.07%) Network Security
6 111 (1.46%) DHCP
7 109 (1.44%) Internet
8 101 (1.33%) HTTP
9 99 (1.30%) VPN
10 79 (1.04%) WAN
11 54 (0.71%) SNMP
12 49 (0.65%) LAN
13 46 (0.61%) Wireless
14 43 (0.57%) IPsec
15 41 (0.54%) SD-WAN
16 38 (0.50%) BGP
17 37 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
18 33 (0.43%) Wireshark
19 32 (0.42%) SSL
20 29 (0.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 740 (9.75%) Data Lake
2 603 (7.94%) Amazon Athena
3 594 (7.82%) Dremio
4 559 (7.36%) Apache Ignite
5 545 (7.18%) Apache Arrow
6 524 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
7 513 (6.76%) Power BI
8 454 (5.98%) Tableau
9 406 (5.35%) NoSQL
10 381 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
11 318 (4.19%) SQL Server
12 281 (3.70%) Big Data
13 274 (3.61%) MongoDB
14 225 (2.96%) Relational Database
15 181 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
16 171 (2.25%) MySQL
17 138 (1.82%) Hadoop
18 133 (1.75%) DynamoDB
19 131 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
20 110 (1.45%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 772 (10.17%) Git
2 339 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 321 (4.23%) GitLab
4 224 (2.95%) JIRA
5 73 (0.96%) Selenium
6 63 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 59 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 47 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 46 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 44 (0.58%) Subversion
11 42 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 42 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 42 (0.55%) Vagrant
12 38 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 38 (0.50%) LabVIEW
13 29 (0.38%) Robot Framework
14 24 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 22 (0.29%) JUnit
16 20 (0.26%) Postman
17 18 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,094 (27.58%) Finance
2 1,739 (22.91%) Social Skills
3 1,065 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 985 (12.97%) Banking
5 898 (11.83%) Front Office
6 601 (7.92%) Investment Banking
7 391 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 292 (3.85%) Retail
9 266 (3.50%) Multimedia
10 241 (3.17%) Marketing
11 209 (2.75%) Legal
12 207 (2.73%) Law
12 207 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 195 (2.57%) Public Sector
14 190 (2.50%) Electronics
15 125 (1.65%) Games
16 109 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 100 (1.32%) Aerospace
18 95 (1.25%) Tech for Good
19 93 (1.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,744 (22.97%) Senior
2 1,593 (20.98%) Software Engineer
3 1,475 (19.43%) Developer
4 958 (12.62%) Lead
5 770 (10.14%) Analyst
6 715 (9.42%) Python Engineer
7 581 (7.65%) Data Engineer
8 532 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 464 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
10 461 (6.07%) Python Software Engineer
11 403 (5.31%) Architect
12 379 (4.99%) Python Developer
13 324 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 299 (3.94%) AWS Software Engineer
15 277 (3.65%) Web Developer
16 266 (3.50%) Trainee Developer
16 266 (3.50%) Trainee Web Developer
17 261 (3.44%) Java Engineer
18 260 (3.42%) Data Analyst
18 260 (3.42%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (10.77%) React
2 687 (9.05%) HTML
3 682 (8.98%) Pandas
4 658 (8.67%) CSS
5 619 (8.15%) NumPy
6 615 (8.10%) gRPC
7 602 (7.93%) Protocol Buffers
8 537 (7.07%) SciPy
9 518 (6.82%) Node.js
10 392 (5.16%) Django
11 386 (5.08%) .NET
12 320 (4.21%) PySpark
13 302 (3.98%) HTML5
14 290 (3.82%) AngularJS
15 282 (3.71%) CSS3
16 272 (3.58%) REST
17 226 (2.98%) Kafka
18 197 (2.59%) RESTful
19 172 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
20 153 (2.02%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 772 (10.17%) Hedge funds
2 768 (10.12%) Fixed Income
3 654 (8.61%) Equities
4 628 (8.27%) Derivative
5 625 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 416 (5.48%) Algorithms
7 302 (3.98%) Product Ownership
8 205 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 186 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 173 (2.28%) Data Centre
11 157 (2.07%) Private Cloud
12 156 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 147 (1.94%) Management Information System
14 146 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
15 129 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
16 124 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
17 114 (1.50%) Public Cloud
18 108 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
19 107 (1.41%) IoT
20 104 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,386 (18.26%) Linux
2 539 (7.10%) Windows
3 259 (3.41%) Unix
4 182 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 145 (1.91%) Android
6 122 (1.61%) Windows Server
7 114 (1.50%) Ubuntu
8 99 (1.30%) CentOS
9 88 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
10 67 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 32 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
12 28 (0.37%) Debian
13 18 (0.24%) Solaris
14 17 (0.22%) VxWorks
15 16 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
16 14 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
16 14 (0.18%) Rocky
16 14 (0.18%) VMS
17 12 (0.16%) Mac OS
18 11 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,436 (32.09%) Software Engineering
2 2,285 (30.10%) Agile
3 1,648 (21.71%) DevOps
4 1,539 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
5 1,280 (16.86%) CI/CD
6 1,161 (15.29%) Computer Science
7 1,133 (14.92%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,123 (14.79%) Machine Learning
9 1,106 (14.57%) Analytics
10 940 (12.38%) Asset Management
11 845 (11.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 822 (10.83%) Data Science
13 802 (10.56%) Mathematics
14 782 (10.30%) Mentoring
15 698 (9.19%) Investment Management
16 627 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
17 616 (8.11%) Containerisation
18 609 (8.02%) Visualisation
19 602 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
20 593 (7.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,490 (32.80%) SQL
2 1,875 (24.70%) Java
3 1,832 (24.13%) JavaScript
4 963 (12.68%) TypeScript
5 877 (11.55%) C++
6 785 (10.34%) C#
7 766 (10.09%) Bash
8 628 (8.27%) PowerShell
9 487 (6.41%) C
10 398 (5.24%) R
11 292 (3.85%) Go
12 237 (3.12%) Shell Script
13 209 (2.75%) VBA
14 198 (2.61%) Perl
15 185 (2.44%) MATLAB
16 134 (1.77%) Scala
17 133 (1.75%) PHP
18 122 (1.61%) Kotlin
19 120 (1.58%) Ruby
20 114 (1.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,011 (26.49%) Degree
2 992 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 662 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 561 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 490 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 292 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 221 (2.91%) DBS Check
8 161 (2.12%) PhD
9 123 (1.62%) LPIC
9 123 (1.62%) RHCSA
10 111 (1.46%) Chartered Engineer
11 92 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 91 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 87 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 83 (1.09%) CISSP
15 57 (0.75%) CCNP
16 46 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 44 (0.58%) CEH
18 42 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
19 35 (0.46%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 244 (3.21%) QA
3 174 (2.29%) NIST
4 133 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 86 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 68 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (0.66%) GDPR
8 43 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.45%) SLA
10 31 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 18 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.22%) HL7
13 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.16%) IFRS
14 12 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.13%) IFRS 9
16 9 (0.12%) PMO
16 9 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
16 9 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,030 (13.57%) Docker
2 203 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 117 (1.54%) Firmware
5 72 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 58 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
7 56 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 39 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 33 (0.43%) vSphere
10 32 (0.42%) XenApp
10 32 (0.42%) XenDesktop
11 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 15 (0.20%) VMware Server
13 13 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 10 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
15 9 (0.12%) KVM
16 8 (0.11%) Ceph
17 7 (0.092%) Lustre
18 6 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
18 6 (0.079%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 928 (12.22%) Kubernetes
2 890 (11.72%) Terraform
3 774 (10.19%) Ansible
4 296 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 257 (3.39%) Grafana
6 187 (2.46%) Puppet
7 78 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 32 (0.42%) Nagios
10 27 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 25 (0.33%) Istio
12 22 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.26%) Argo
13 20 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (0.24%) Packer
14 18 (0.24%) Salt
15 17 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.22%) HAProxy
15 17 (0.22%) Kibana
16 16 (0.21%) CASB
Vendors
1 684 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 515 (6.78%) Databricks
3 470 (6.19%) Google
4 273 (3.60%) VMware
5 197 (2.59%) Red Hat
6 178 (2.34%) Oracle
7 174 (2.29%) Bloomberg
8 152 (2.00%) Splunk
9 121 (1.59%) Xilinx
10 91 (1.20%) Cisco
11 77 (1.01%) Reuters
12 75 (0.99%) IBM
13 70 (0.92%) Atlassian
14 68 (0.90%) ESRI
15 61 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 61 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 60 (0.79%) Citrix
17 53 (0.70%) SAP
18 51 (0.67%) BISAM
19 49 (0.65%) OpenAI