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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,198 15,434 26,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 14.92% 16.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.71% 34.51% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,047 7,761 11,431
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,450 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.93% +8.61% +4.55%

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 33,195 44,728 84,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.69% 43.23% 53.73%
Number of salaries quoted 24,962 28,546 44,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

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 5 May 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 -5 7,475 £70,000 -3.45% 3,125
UK excluding London -13 5,346 £55,000 -11.93% 1,467
Work from Home -4 3,838 £70,000 - 1,488
London -3 3,560 £85,000 +3.03% 1,755
Scotland -8 1,312 £50,000 -23.08% 105
South East -12 1,136 £55,000 -12.00% 384
North of England -24 937 £55,000 -15.38% 253
South West -5 894 £56,500 -5.83% 238
North West -17 597 £56,509 -9.59% 155
Midlands -33 510 £55,000 -4.35% 205
East of England -10 385 £60,000 -4.00% 227
West Midlands -36 307 £55,000 -8.33% 133
Yorkshire -28 269 £55,000 -15.38% 78
East Midlands -25 202 £49,990 -9.11% 71
Wales -18 99 £51,528 -6.39% 31
Northern Ireland +6 83 £75,000 +25.00% 47
North East -25 71 £57,500 -11.54% 21

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
1 616 (6.70%) Apache
2 597 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 594 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
4 362 (3.94%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.63%) GeoServer
6 140 (1.52%) SAS
7 71 (0.77%) Confluence
8 63 (0.68%) nginx
9 43 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 41 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 39 (0.42%) SharePoint
12 37 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 20 (0.22%) Camunda
14 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 16 (0.17%) Drupal
16 15 (0.16%) CMS
17 14 (0.15%) WordPress
18 8 (0.087%) Ethereum
18 8 (0.087%) IIS
19 6 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 245 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (1.04%) Simulink
3 74 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 19 (0.21%) SPSS
7 18 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.14%) CANalyzer
9 11 (0.12%) GNU Octave
10 8 (0.087%) EViews
11 7 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.065%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.065%) Trello
13 5 (0.054%) Doxygen
13 5 (0.054%) Stata
14 2 (0.022%) Abaqus
14 2 (0.022%) InDesign
14 2 (0.022%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.022%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 23 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.16%) Fidessa
3 14 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.087%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.076%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.065%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.065%) Odoo
7 5 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.043%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.043%) Shopify
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.033%) R3 Corda
9 3 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.022%) Primavera
10 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,742 (40.68%) AWS
2 2,600 (28.27%) Azure
3 1,153 (12.54%) GCP
4 658 (7.15%) Serverless
5 645 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 449 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 405 (4.40%) Snowflake
8 391 (4.25%) Amazon S3
9 365 (3.97%) dbt
10 355 (3.86%) GitHub
11 331 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 331 (3.60%) SaaS
12 189 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
14 181 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 181 (1.97%) OpenShift
15 170 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 166 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
17 156 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
18 145 (1.58%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 323 (3.51%) Firewall
2 234 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 215 (2.34%) DNS
4 146 (1.59%) VPN
5 125 (1.36%) WAN
6 120 (1.30%) Internet
7 118 (1.28%) HTTP
8 111 (1.21%) Network Security
9 104 (1.13%) DHCP
9 104 (1.13%) Wireless
10 100 (1.09%) LAN
11 98 (1.07%) SNMP
12 67 (0.73%) IPsec
13 53 (0.58%) Bluetooth
14 49 (0.53%) 5G
15 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
16 41 (0.45%) MQTT
17 38 (0.41%) BGP
18 35 (0.38%) Wireshark
19 33 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,011 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
2 653 (7.10%) NoSQL
3 594 (6.46%) Power BI
4 561 (6.10%) Tableau
5 557 (6.06%) Big Data
6 514 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 476 (5.18%) SQL Server
8 457 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
9 448 (4.87%) MongoDB
9 448 (4.87%) Relational Database
10 401 (4.36%) GIS
11 335 (3.64%) QGIS
12 293 (3.19%) Hadoop
13 285 (3.10%) MySQL
14 279 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
15 274 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
16 242 (2.63%) Dremio
17 241 (2.62%) Apache Arrow
18 223 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
19 180 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,055 (11.47%) Git
2 650 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 302 (3.28%) JIRA
4 292 (3.17%) GitLab
5 89 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 83 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 72 (0.78%) LabVIEW
8 70 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 67 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 64 (0.70%) Selenium
11 60 (0.65%) Subversion
12 55 (0.60%) Maven
13 54 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 46 (0.50%) Artifactory
14 46 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 45 (0.49%) TeamCity
16 40 (0.43%) JUnit
17 37 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
18 36 (0.39%) JDeveloper
19 31 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 2,911 (31.65%) Finance
2 1,872 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 1,282 (13.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,141 (12.40%) Law
5 1,055 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
6 847 (9.21%) Marketing
7 760 (8.26%) Banking
8 690 (7.50%) Front Office
9 513 (5.58%) Legal
10 402 (4.37%) Public Sector
11 369 (4.01%) Retail
12 345 (3.75%) Investment Banking
13 287 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
14 243 (2.64%) Electronics
15 206 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 181 (1.97%) Games
16 181 (1.97%) Telecoms
17 172 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 151 (1.64%) Financial Institution
19 118 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,481 (26.97%) Software Engineer
2 2,094 (22.77%) Senior
3 1,705 (18.54%) Developer
4 997 (10.84%) Data Engineer
5 899 (9.77%) Python Engineer
6 872 (9.48%) Lead
7 736 (8.00%) Analyst
8 647 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 623 (6.77%) Python Software Engineer
10 542 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
11 535 (5.82%) Python Developer
12 437 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 359 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 347 (3.77%) Data Scientist
15 336 (3.65%) Data Analyst
16 330 (3.59%) Architect
17 318 (3.46%) Senior Developer
18 310 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
19 307 (3.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 272 (2.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,395 (15.17%) React
2 848 (9.22%) .NET
3 721 (7.84%) CSS
4 591 (6.43%) Node.js
5 549 (5.97%) AngularJS
6 530 (5.76%) HTML
7 473 (5.14%) Pandas
8 433 (4.71%) REST
9 385 (4.19%) PySpark
10 378 (4.11%) .NET Core
11 376 (4.09%) NumPy
12 371 (4.03%) gRPC
13 355 (3.86%) Kafka
14 351 (3.82%) PostGIS
15 341 (3.71%) OpenLayers
16 338 (3.67%) Protocol Buffers
17 337 (3.66%) Leaflet
18 331 (3.60%) Django
19 288 (3.13%) Web Services
20 280 (3.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1,071 (11.64%) Algorithms
2 574 (6.24%) Hedge funds
3 532 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 514 (5.59%) Fixed Income
5 435 (4.73%) Data Structures
6 416 (4.52%) Equities
7 403 (4.38%) Derivative
8 350 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 255 (2.77%) Onboarding
10 248 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 234 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 230 (2.50%) IoT
13 197 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 195 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 192 (2.09%) Management Information System
16 171 (1.86%) Data Centre
17 163 (1.77%) Blockchain
18 162 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
19 123 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
20 103 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,823 (19.82%) Linux
2 800 (8.70%) Windows
3 369 (4.01%) Unix
4 213 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 205 (2.23%) Android
6 172 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 149 (1.62%) Windows Server
8 143 (1.55%) CentOS
9 140 (1.52%) Ubuntu
10 105 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
11 75 (0.82%) Debian
12 54 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 20 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 19 (0.21%) Solaris
16 18 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
17 16 (0.17%) SUSE
18 14 (0.15%) Mac OS
18 14 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,545 (38.54%) Software Engineering
2 3,350 (36.42%) Agile
3 2,094 (22.77%) DevOps
4 1,908 (20.74%) CI/CD
5 1,853 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
6 1,783 (19.38%) Machine Learning
7 1,692 (18.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,360 (14.79%) Analytics
9 1,174 (12.76%) Computer Science
10 1,120 (12.18%) SDLC
11 1,043 (11.34%) Visualisation
12 1,041 (11.32%) Data Science
13 880 (9.57%) Actionable Insight
14 848 (9.22%) Full Stack Development
15 846 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
16 790 (8.59%) Mathematics
17 774 (8.41%) Operational Stability
18 771 (8.38%) ETL
19 767 (8.34%) Mentoring
20 739 (8.03%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,186 (34.64%) SQL
2 2,426 (26.38%) Java
3 2,022 (21.98%) JavaScript
4 1,317 (14.32%) C#
5 919 (9.99%) Bash
6 749 (8.14%) TypeScript
7 716 (7.78%) C
8 698 (7.59%) C++
9 686 (7.46%) PowerShell
10 517 (5.62%) R
11 449 (4.88%) Go
12 293 (3.19%) Perl
13 280 (3.04%) Ruby
14 230 (2.50%) Scala
15 215 (2.34%) MATLAB
16 181 (1.97%) PL/SQL
17 152 (1.65%) Rust
18 147 (1.60%) Embedded C
19 140 (1.52%) PHP
20 134 (1.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,934 (21.03%) Degree
2 1,264 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 767 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 525 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 461 (5.01%) Master's Degree
6 302 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 286 (3.11%) PhD
8 186 (2.02%) DBS Check
9 135 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 87 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (0.82%) CISSP
12 67 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 62 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 55 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
15 51 (0.55%) CCNA
16 43 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 40 (0.43%) CCNP
18 37 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 35 (0.38%) HND
20 32 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 326 (3.54%) QA
3 99 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 71 (0.77%) SLA
5 70 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (0.54%) GDPR
7 46 (0.50%) NIST
8 39 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 32 (0.35%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.22%) MISRA
12 18 (0.20%) CRD IV
13 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.18%) IFRS
13 17 (0.18%) ISO 13485
14 16 (0.17%) IFRS 9
15 15 (0.16%) COBIT
16 14 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
16 14 (0.15%) JTAG
System Software
1 1,106 (12.02%) Docker
2 219 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.25%) HDFS
5 113 (1.23%) Firmware
6 107 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 71 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 55 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 28 (0.30%) vSphere
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
12 20 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.11%) pfSense
14 7 (0.076%) KVM
14 7 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.054%) Ceph
15 5 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 3 (0.033%) Gluster
16 3 (0.033%) oVirt
16 3 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,286 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,024 (11.13%) Terraform
3 684 (7.44%) Ansible
4 282 (3.07%) Puppet
5 198 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 172 (1.87%) Grafana
7 111 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 87 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 29 (0.32%) HAProxy
9 29 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.30%) Salt
11 25 (0.27%) Packer
11 25 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 24 (0.26%) Kibana
13 23 (0.25%) Nagios
14 22 (0.24%) Nmap
15 20 (0.22%) logstash
16 19 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.20%) Argo
18 17 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 743 (8.08%) Databricks
2 683 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 521 (5.66%) Google
4 512 (5.57%) Oracle
5 392 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.87%) ESRI
7 288 (3.13%) VMware
8 172 (1.87%) IBM
9 144 (1.57%) Informatica
10 140 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 138 (1.50%) Splunk
12 133 (1.45%) Cisco
13 96 (1.04%) SAP
14 91 (0.99%) Cloudera
15 76 (0.83%) Bloomberg
16 71 (0.77%) Palo Alto
17 60 (0.65%) Atlassian
18 57 (0.62%) NetApp
19 54 (0.59%) SolidFire
20 51 (0.55%) Salesforce