Python Job Trends in Watford

Python
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 23 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 10 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 3.86% 6.90% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.73% 21.82% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £70,625 £32,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £56,250 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +33.14% -32.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £44,594
90th Percentile £85,625 - £59,375
Hertfordshire median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% - +4.00%

All Programming Languages
Watford

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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 55 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 16.99% 31.61% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 40 36 75
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £27,763
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,438 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +25.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Python job vacancy trend in Watford

Python
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Watford over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Watford

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Confluence
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (10.00%) Dagster
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (30.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (30.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (20.00%) Impala
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) Parquet
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Tableau
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Anti-Piracy
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) ETL Development
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (20.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat