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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,240 15,103 27,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.31% 14.95% 17.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.84% 34.54% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,088 7,585 11,252
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £41,263
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £114,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £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 £107,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 10 May 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 10 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 7,528 £70,000 -6.67% 2,601
UK excluding London -13 5,332 £55,000 -12.00% 1,308
Work from Home -4 3,873 £70,576 +0.82% 1,324
London -3 3,627 £85,000 +3.03% 1,380
Scotland -8 1,311 £50,000 -23.08% 95
South East -13 1,138 £55,000 -12.00% 314
North of England -24 936 £55,000 -15.38% 238
South West -4 893 £56,250 -6.25% 218
North West -18 599 £56,509 -13.06% 136
Midlands -35 498 £55,000 -4.35% 204
East of England -10 386 £60,000 -4.00% 182
West Midlands -34 306 £55,000 -8.33% 137
Yorkshire -28 266 £55,000 -15.38% 76
East Midlands -32 189 £47,500 -13.64% 67
Wales -22 96 £51,528 -6.31% 34
Northern Ireland +2 80 £75,200 +25.33% 43
North East -23 71 £57,500 -9.80% 26
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 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
1 665 (7.20%) Apache
2 649 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
3 597 (6.46%) Apache Spark
4 362 (3.92%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.61%) GeoServer
6 143 (1.55%) SAS
7 72 (0.78%) Confluence
8 65 (0.70%) nginx
9 44 (0.48%) Jupyter
10 41 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 37 (0.40%) SharePoint
12 31 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
13 20 (0.22%) Camunda
14 17 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 16 (0.17%) CMS
16 15 (0.16%) Drupal
17 13 (0.14%) WordPress
18 9 (0.097%) IIS
19 7 (0.076%) Ethereum
19 7 (0.076%) Luigi
Applications
1 247 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (1.09%) Simulink
3 75 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 19 (0.21%) SPSS
7 18 (0.19%) 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 22 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 14 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.076%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.076%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.065%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.065%) Odoo
6 5 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.043%) Shopify
8 3 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.022%) Primavera
9 2 (0.022%) Relativity
9 2 (0.022%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,801 (41.14%) AWS
2 2,620 (28.35%) Azure
3 1,171 (12.67%) GCP
4 643 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 637 (6.89%) Serverless
6 443 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
7 437 (4.73%) Snowflake
8 403 (4.36%) dbt
9 393 (4.25%) Amazon S3
10 348 (3.77%) GitHub
11 329 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
11 329 (3.56%) SaaS
12 187 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 187 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
13 181 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
14 177 (1.92%) OpenShift
15 169 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
17 162 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
18 145 (1.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 326 (3.53%) Firewall
2 234 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 213 (2.31%) DNS
4 147 (1.59%) VPN
5 120 (1.30%) Internet
6 114 (1.23%) HTTP
6 114 (1.23%) Network Security
7 111 (1.20%) WAN
8 105 (1.14%) DHCP
9 103 (1.11%) Wireless
10 97 (1.05%) SNMP
11 87 (0.94%) LAN
12 67 (0.73%) IPsec
13 53 (0.57%) Bluetooth
14 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
15 47 (0.51%) 5G
16 40 (0.43%) MQTT
17 36 (0.39%) Wireshark
18 35 (0.38%) BGP
19 33 (0.36%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,029 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 668 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 592 (6.41%) Power BI
4 576 (6.23%) Tableau
5 569 (6.16%) Big Data
6 548 (5.93%) Data Lake
7 466 (5.04%) SQL Server
8 459 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
9 451 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 448 (4.85%) MongoDB
11 401 (4.34%) GIS
12 335 (3.63%) QGIS
13 320 (3.46%) Apache Ignite
14 308 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
15 295 (3.19%) Hadoop
16 283 (3.06%) MySQL
17 278 (3.01%) Dremio
18 275 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
19 223 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
20 173 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,057 (11.44%) Git
2 648 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 301 (3.26%) JIRA
4 290 (3.14%) GitLab
5 95 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 89 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
7 72 (0.78%) LabVIEW
8 70 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 70 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 66 (0.71%) Selenium
10 60 (0.65%) Subversion
11 54 (0.58%) Maven
12 53 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 46 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 45 (0.49%) TeamCity
15 42 (0.45%) Artifactory
16 40 (0.43%) JUnit
17 36 (0.39%) JDeveloper
17 36 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
18 31 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 2,971 (32.15%) Finance
2 1,903 (20.60%) Social Skills
3 1,288 (13.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,155 (12.50%) Law
5 1,075 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 846 (9.16%) Marketing
7 800 (8.66%) Banking
8 733 (7.93%) Front Office
9 515 (5.57%) Legal
10 393 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 382 (4.13%) Retail
12 369 (3.99%) Investment Banking
13 301 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
14 246 (2.66%) Electronics
15 202 (2.19%) Manufacturing
16 179 (1.94%) Telecoms
17 177 (1.92%) Games
18 176 (1.90%) Aerospace
19 150 (1.62%) Financial Institution
20 118 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,517 (27.24%) Software Engineer
2 2,131 (23.06%) Senior
3 1,698 (18.38%) Developer
4 1,001 (10.83%) Data Engineer
5 924 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 878 (9.50%) Lead
7 756 (8.18%) Analyst
8 669 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 648 (7.01%) Python Software Engineer
10 558 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
11 545 (5.90%) Python Developer
12 440 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 360 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 353 (3.82%) Data Scientist
15 351 (3.80%) Data Analyst
16 332 (3.59%) Architect
17 326 (3.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 318 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
19 313 (3.39%) Senior Developer
20 279 (3.02%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,379 (14.92%) React
2 845 (9.15%) .NET
3 714 (7.73%) CSS
4 591 (6.40%) Node.js
5 542 (5.87%) AngularJS
6 527 (5.70%) HTML
7 510 (5.52%) Pandas
8 429 (4.64%) REST
9 419 (4.53%) gRPC
10 406 (4.39%) NumPy
11 396 (4.29%) PySpark
12 385 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
13 380 (4.11%) .NET Core
14 363 (3.93%) Kafka
15 351 (3.80%) PostGIS
16 341 (3.69%) OpenLayers
17 337 (3.65%) Leaflet
18 326 (3.53%) Django
19 286 (3.10%) Web Services
20 282 (3.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,072 (11.60%) Algorithms
2 623 (6.74%) Hedge funds
3 556 (6.02%) Fixed Income
4 531 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 456 (4.94%) Equities
6 435 (4.71%) Data Structures
7 432 (4.68%) Derivative
8 376 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 259 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 252 (2.73%) Product Ownership
11 232 (2.51%) Public Cloud
12 229 (2.48%) IoT
13 194 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 193 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
15 188 (2.03%) Management Information System
16 168 (1.82%) Data Centre
17 164 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
18 159 (1.72%) Blockchain
19 118 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
20 101 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,825 (19.75%) Linux
2 790 (8.55%) Windows
3 369 (3.99%) Unix
4 211 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 208 (2.25%) Android
6 172 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 148 (1.60%) CentOS
8 147 (1.59%) Ubuntu
9 144 (1.56%) Windows Server
10 108 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
11 74 (0.80%) Debian
12 54 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
13 21 (0.23%) Solaris
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
15 17 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 16 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 16 (0.17%) SUSE
17 13 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,584 (38.79%) Software Engineering
2 3,410 (36.90%) Agile
3 2,082 (22.53%) DevOps
4 1,894 (20.50%) CI/CD
5 1,852 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
6 1,814 (19.63%) Machine Learning
7 1,718 (18.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,378 (14.91%) Analytics
9 1,189 (12.87%) Computer Science
10 1,108 (11.99%) SDLC
11 1,062 (11.49%) Visualisation
12 1,039 (11.24%) Data Science
13 871 (9.43%) Actionable Insight
14 852 (9.22%) Full Stack Development
15 841 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
16 819 (8.86%) Mathematics
17 801 (8.67%) Asset Management
18 774 (8.38%) Operational Stability
19 761 (8.24%) ETL
20 750 (8.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3,221 (34.86%) SQL
2 2,456 (26.58%) Java
3 2,059 (22.28%) JavaScript
4 1,303 (14.10%) C#
5 901 (9.75%) Bash
6 800 (8.66%) TypeScript
7 717 (7.76%) C
8 699 (7.56%) C++
9 667 (7.22%) PowerShell
10 529 (5.73%) R
11 451 (4.88%) Go
12 286 (3.10%) Perl
13 257 (2.78%) Ruby
14 230 (2.49%) Scala
15 216 (2.34%) MATLAB
16 179 (1.94%) PL/SQL
17 149 (1.61%) Rust
18 147 (1.59%) Embedded C
19 133 (1.44%) Shell Script
20 125 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,957 (21.18%) Degree
2 1,261 (13.65%) Security Cleared
3 769 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 534 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 464 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 305 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 290 (3.14%) PhD
8 207 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 137 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 81 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 78 (0.84%) CISSP
12 69 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 57 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 57 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (0.48%) CCNA
14 44 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.44%) CCNP
16 36 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 34 (0.37%) HND
18 33 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 325 (3.52%) QA
3 96 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 71 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (0.77%) SLA
5 50 (0.54%) GDPR
5 50 (0.54%) NIST
6 39 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 30 (0.32%) PMO
8 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
9 20 (0.22%) MISRA
10 18 (0.19%) CRD IV
11 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.18%) IFRS
11 17 (0.18%) ISO 13485
12 16 (0.17%) COBIT
12 16 (0.17%) IFRS 9
13 15 (0.16%) JTAG
14 14 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
14 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1,090 (11.80%) Docker
2 209 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.24%) HDFS
5 113 (1.22%) Firmware
6 105 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 68 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
9 28 (0.30%) vSphere
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
11 21 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.11%) pfSense
13 8 (0.087%) KVM
13 8 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.054%) Ceph
14 5 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 3 (0.032%) Gluster
15 3 (0.032%) oVirt
15 3 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,290 (13.96%) Kubernetes
2 1,015 (10.98%) Terraform
3 682 (7.38%) Ansible
4 281 (3.04%) Puppet
5 207 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 172 (1.86%) Grafana
7 111 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 87 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 29 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 29 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.29%) Nagios
11 26 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 24 (0.26%) Kibana
12 24 (0.26%) Salt
13 23 (0.25%) Packer
14 21 (0.23%) Nmap
14 21 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (0.22%) logstash
16 18 (0.19%) Argo
17 17 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 771 (8.34%) Databricks
2 664 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 530 (5.74%) Google
4 514 (5.56%) Oracle
5 389 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.85%) ESRI
7 277 (3.00%) VMware
8 170 (1.84%) IBM
9 144 (1.56%) Informatica
10 140 (1.52%) Splunk
11 139 (1.50%) Alteryx
12 123 (1.33%) Cisco
13 91 (0.98%) Cloudera
13 91 (0.98%) SAP
14 83 (0.90%) Bloomberg
15 72 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 61 (0.66%) Atlassian
17 57 (0.62%) NetApp
18 54 (0.58%) SolidFire
19 53 (0.57%) Salesforce