Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,366 7,033 8,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.06% 12.44% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.31% 32.01% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,083 2,771 4,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,879 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland -6 1,255 £50,000 -23.08% 115
South East -10 1,182 £55,000 -15.38% 357
North of England -23 951 £56,500 -13.08% 283
South West -6 907 £56,500 -5.83% 195
North West -17 619 £56,754 -12.69% 165
Midlands -37 516 £55,000 -4.35% 195
East of England -4 381 £60,000 -4.00% 160
West Midlands -30 326 £55,000 -6.78% 138
Yorkshire -32 258 £55,000 -15.38% 74
East Midlands -27 186 £47,500 -12.04% 56
Wales -24 94 £56,250 +2.19% 30
Northern Ireland +8 83 £75,150 +25.25% 32
North East -3 74 £60,141 -3.77% 45
Channel Islands -2 1 £67,500 +92.86%
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 388 (7.23%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.78%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.37%) GeoServer
4 195 (3.63%) Apache
5 157 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
6 63 (1.17%) SAS
7 42 (0.78%) Confluence
8 34 (0.63%) nginx
9 32 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 25 (0.47%) SharePoint
11 24 (0.45%) Jupyter
12 18 (0.34%) Camunda
13 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (0.19%) CMS
14 10 (0.19%) WordPress
15 7 (0.13%) Drupal
16 6 (0.11%) Luigi
17 5 (0.093%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
18 4 (0.075%) JBoss
Applications
1 113 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (2.03%) Simulink
3 35 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 23 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.20%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.093%) Doxygen
9 5 (0.093%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.037%) Revit
10 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.019%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.019%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Odoo
3 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.056%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.056%) Shopify
5 2 (0.037%) iTrent
5 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (36.47%) AWS
2 1,449 (27.00%) Azure
3 396 (7.38%) GCP
4 325 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 322 (6.00%) Serverless
6 272 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (3.99%) SaaS
8 191 (3.56%) Amazon S3
9 170 (3.17%) GitHub
10 140 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
11 132 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 128 (2.39%) OpenShift
13 119 (2.22%) Azure API Management
13 119 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 117 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 117 (2.18%) IBM Cloud
15 116 (2.16%) Azure Functions
16 101 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 101 (1.88%) Snowflake
17 92 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.63%) Firewall
2 141 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 105 (1.96%) DNS
4 98 (1.83%) VPN
5 95 (1.77%) Internet
6 94 (1.75%) HTTP
7 92 (1.71%) Wireless
8 71 (1.32%) Network Security
9 70 (1.30%) DHCP
10 65 (1.21%) SNMP
11 56 (1.04%) WAN
12 55 (1.02%) LAN
13 54 (1.01%) Bluetooth
13 54 (1.01%) IPsec
14 48 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.78%) 5G
15 42 (0.78%) MQTT
16 35 (0.65%) AMQP
17 29 (0.54%) LTE
18 26 (0.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 479 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 349 (6.50%) Big Data
4 341 (6.35%) GIS
5 312 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 305 (5.68%) Relational Database
7 297 (5.53%) Power BI
8 285 (5.31%) QGIS
9 269 (5.01%) SQL Server
10 216 (4.03%) Hadoop
11 212 (3.95%) Tableau
12 208 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
13 191 (3.56%) Data Lake
14 165 (3.07%) MySQL
15 143 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
16 135 (2.52%) DB2
17 116 (2.16%) Apache Hive
18 99 (1.84%) HBase
19 72 (1.34%) Redis
20 68 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 572 (10.66%) Git
2 377 (7.03%) Jenkins
3 198 (3.69%) JIRA
4 165 (3.07%) GitLab
5 85 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (1.32%) LabVIEW
7 58 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 50 (0.93%) Subversion
9 45 (0.84%) Maven
10 42 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.63%) Selenium
12 28 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 26 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 25 (0.47%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.45%) Gradle
16 23 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 21 (0.39%) Cucumber
18 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
18 19 (0.35%) Travis CI
18 19 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 1,408 (26.24%) Finance
2 1,064 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 988 (18.41%) Law
4 964 (17.96%) Social Skills
5 698 (13.01%) Marketing
6 512 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
7 402 (7.49%) Legal
8 283 (5.27%) Public Sector
9 214 (3.99%) Electronics
10 197 (3.67%) Banking
11 181 (3.37%) Manufacturing
12 173 (3.22%) Aerospace
13 168 (3.13%) Retail
14 142 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 124 (2.31%) Games
16 120 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
17 116 (2.16%) Financial Institution
18 101 (1.88%) Automotive
19 92 (1.71%) Investment Banking
20 60 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,917 (35.72%) Software Engineer
2 1,129 (21.04%) Senior
3 822 (15.32%) Developer
4 562 (10.47%) Data Engineer
5 530 (9.88%) Lead
6 496 (9.24%) Python Engineer
7 472 (8.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 399 (7.44%) Python Software Engineer
9 285 (5.31%) Analyst
10 258 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 242 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
12 218 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 204 (3.80%) Full Stack Developer
14 188 (3.50%) Architect
15 184 (3.43%) Software Developer
16 173 (3.22%) AWS Software Engineer
17 170 (3.17%) Embedded Engineer
18 154 (2.87%) Data Scientist
19 151 (2.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
20 150 (2.80%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 836 (15.58%) React
2 565 (10.53%) .NET
3 519 (9.67%) CSS
4 420 (7.83%) Node.js
5 384 (7.16%) AngularJS
6 346 (6.45%) HTML
7 296 (5.52%) PostGIS
8 295 (5.50%) REST
9 293 (5.46%) OpenLayers
10 290 (5.40%) Leaflet
11 289 (5.39%) .NET Core
12 237 (4.42%) PySpark
13 235 (4.38%) Kafka
14 205 (3.82%) Web Services
15 204 (3.80%) Spring
16 200 (3.73%) Django
17 181 (3.37%) Vue
18 176 (3.28%) ASP.NET
19 166 (3.09%) jQuery
20 154 (2.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 855 (15.93%) Algorithms
2 424 (7.90%) Cloud Native
3 314 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 181 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 176 (3.28%) IoT
6 164 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 146 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 138 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 134 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 124 (2.31%) Blockchain
11 111 (2.07%) Data Centre
12 99 (1.84%) Management Information System
13 94 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
14 67 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 64 (1.19%) Market Risk
16 55 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
17 53 (0.99%) Robotics
18 49 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
19 43 (0.80%) Credit Risk
19 43 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1,371 (25.55%) Linux
2 588 (10.96%) Windows
3 261 (4.86%) Unix
4 179 (3.34%) Android
5 162 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (2.65%) Apple iOS
7 114 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 113 (2.11%) Embedded Linux
9 95 (1.77%) CentOS
10 84 (1.57%) Windows Server
11 63 (1.17%) Debian
12 49 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
13 22 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
14 19 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 14 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
17 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.17%) AIX
19 9 (0.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,456 (45.77%) Software Engineering
2 2,149 (40.05%) Agile
3 1,258 (23.44%) CI/CD
3 1,258 (23.44%) DevOps
4 1,162 (21.65%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1,118 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 1,087 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
7 972 (18.11%) SDLC
8 771 (14.37%) Computer Science
9 739 (13.77%) Operational Stability
10 621 (11.57%) Visualisation
11 590 (11.00%) Community of Practice
12 568 (10.59%) Analytics
13 560 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
14 513 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 506 (9.43%) Web Development
16 467 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
17 447 (8.33%) Test Automation
18 443 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
19 434 (8.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,607 (29.95%) SQL
2 1,577 (29.39%) Java
3 1,261 (23.50%) JavaScript
4 851 (15.86%) C#
5 618 (11.52%) C
6 594 (11.07%) Bash
7 512 (9.54%) C++
8 375 (6.99%) PowerShell
9 224 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 212 (3.95%) R
11 174 (3.24%) Go
12 166 (3.09%) MATLAB
13 148 (2.76%) Perl
14 147 (2.74%) PL/SQL
15 146 (2.72%) Embedded C
16 115 (2.14%) Ruby
17 112 (2.09%) Scala
18 104 (1.94%) Rust
19 101 (1.88%) Fortran
20 96 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,152 (21.47%) Degree
2 1,122 (20.91%) Security Cleared
3 670 (12.49%) SC Cleared
4 363 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 291 (5.42%) DV Cleared
6 266 (4.96%) Master's Degree
7 194 (3.62%) PhD
8 106 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 49 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 48 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.61%) CCNA
13 30 (0.56%) CCNP
14 29 (0.54%) HND
15 26 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.48%) CISSP
16 23 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.41%) HNC
17 22 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.02%) QA
3 56 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 47 (0.88%) SLA
6 37 (0.69%) NIST
7 23 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.41%) PMO
9 19 (0.35%) ISO 26262
9 19 (0.35%) MISRA
10 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.30%) GDPR
12 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
13 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
13 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
14 12 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.20%) JTAG
16 10 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.17%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 609 (11.35%) Docker
2 178 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (2.01%) Firmware
4 101 (1.88%) HDFS
5 98 (1.83%) Active Directory
6 93 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 52 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
8 45 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.50%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 13 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) pfSense
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.093%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 716 (13.34%) Kubernetes
2 520 (9.69%) Terraform
3 460 (8.57%) Ansible
4 183 (3.41%) Puppet
5 110 (2.05%) Prometheus
6 96 (1.79%) Grafana
7 73 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 48 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 18 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) HAProxy
12 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 13 (0.24%) Kibana
14 12 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 12 (0.22%) logstash
15 11 (0.20%) Nagios
15 11 (0.20%) Nmap
15 11 (0.20%) Podman
16 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 399 (7.44%) Databricks
2 388 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 316 (5.89%) Oracle
4 304 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 301 (5.61%) ESRI
6 224 (4.17%) VMware
7 206 (3.84%) Google
8 153 (2.85%) IBM
9 127 (2.37%) Informatica
10 110 (2.05%) Splunk
11 89 (1.66%) Alteryx
12 79 (1.47%) Cisco
13 71 (1.32%) Cloudera
14 70 (1.30%) SAP
15 54 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.97%) NetApp
17 49 (0.91%) SolidFire
18 47 (0.88%) Xilinx
19 41 (0.76%) Dynatrace
20 39 (0.73%) SaltStack