Python Job Trends in West Sussex

Python
South East > West Sussex

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 25 28 20
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 6.27% 9.09% 4.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.06% 31.46% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 20 20 12
10th Percentile £34,250 £43,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £47,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -29.63% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,625 £53,438 £73,125
90th Percentile £72,625 £75,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 64 89 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 16.04% 28.90% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52 53 79
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Python job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Python
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in West Sussex

Python
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Chichester - 8 £70,000 - 2
Worthing +5 6 £70,000 +47.37% 2
Crawley +2 5 £40,000 - 48
Haywards Heath -4 2 £61,250 +28.95% 1
Burgess Hill -2 1 £65,000 +52.94%
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (8.00%) OpenStack
1 2 (8.00%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) OrCAD
2 2 (8.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.00%) AWS
5 3 (12.00%) IaaS
5 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Internet
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Tableau
2 6 (24.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Appium
2 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Electronics
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.00%) Multimedia
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Advertising
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) International Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
1 7 (28.00%) Data Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Junior
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Trainee
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (12.00%) React Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) CloudOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (4.00%) Playwright
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) AI
2 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) Bicep
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) MATLAB
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (8.00%) LPIC
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cadence
2 2 (8.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (8.00%) EMC
2 2 (8.00%) Informatica
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Talend
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) ESRI
3 1 (4.00%) Google