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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,238 15,481 26,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.37% 14.92% 17.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.77% 34.50% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,067 7,779 11,426
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £41,500
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 £91,250 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.86% +7.30% +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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 7,514 £70,000 -3.45% 2,707
UK excluding London -13 5,368 £55,000 -10.86% 1,359
Work from Home -4 3,846 £70,000 - 1,255
London -3 3,576 £85,000 +3.03% 1,430
Scotland -7 1,312 £50,000 -23.08% 95
South East -10 1,144 £55,000 -12.00% 327
North of England -24 940 £55,000 -15.38% 253
South West -5 893 £56,500 -5.83% 221
North West -17 599 £56,500 -9.60% 154
Midlands -31 521 £55,000 -4.35% 201
East of England -10 386 £60,000 -4.00% 210
West Midlands -35 307 £55,000 -8.33% 130
Yorkshire -29 270 £55,000 -15.38% 77
East Midlands -17 213 £49,990 -9.11% 70
Wales -20 99 £51,528 -6.39% 37
Northern Ireland +7 83 £75,000 +25.00% 37
North East -23 71 £62,783 -3.41% 22

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
1 619 (6.70%) Apache
2 597 (6.46%) Apache Spark
3 595 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
4 362 (3.92%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.62%) GeoServer
6 140 (1.52%) SAS
7 72 (0.78%) Confluence
8 63 (0.68%) nginx
9 45 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 43 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 41 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 39 (0.42%) SharePoint
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%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 245 (2.65%) 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 (0.19%) 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 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 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.032%) R3 Corda
9 3 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.022%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.022%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 3,750 (40.59%) AWS
2 2,610 (28.25%) Azure
3 1,156 (12.51%) GCP
4 662 (7.17%) Serverless
5 649 (7.03%) Power Platform
6 451 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 405 (4.38%) Snowflake
8 392 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 366 (3.96%) dbt
10 357 (3.86%) GitHub
11 333 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 333 (3.60%) SaaS
12 192 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
14 182 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
15 181 (1.96%) OpenShift
16 172 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 166 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
18 156 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
19 145 (1.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 325 (3.52%) Firewall
2 234 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 216 (2.34%) DNS
4 146 (1.58%) VPN
5 140 (1.52%) WAN
6 120 (1.30%) Internet
7 119 (1.29%) HTTP
8 113 (1.22%) LAN
9 112 (1.21%) Network Security
10 105 (1.14%) Wireless
11 104 (1.13%) DHCP
12 99 (1.07%) SNMP
13 67 (0.73%) IPsec
14 53 (0.57%) Bluetooth
15 50 (0.54%) 5G
16 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
17 41 (0.44%) MQTT
18 38 (0.41%) BGP
19 35 (0.38%) Wireshark
20 33 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,012 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 655 (7.09%) NoSQL
3 598 (6.47%) Power BI
4 560 (6.06%) Tableau
5 557 (6.03%) Big Data
6 515 (5.57%) Data Lake
7 488 (5.28%) SQL Server
8 459 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
9 455 (4.93%) MongoDB
10 448 (4.85%) Relational Database
11 401 (4.34%) GIS
12 335 (3.63%) QGIS
13 293 (3.17%) Hadoop
14 284 (3.07%) MySQL
15 279 (3.02%) Apache Ignite
16 275 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
17 242 (2.62%) Dremio
18 241 (2.61%) Apache Arrow
19 223 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
20 180 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,054 (11.41%) Git
2 650 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 302 (3.27%) JIRA
4 293 (3.17%) GitLab
5 89 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 83 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 72 (0.78%) LabVIEW
8 70 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 68 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 64 (0.69%) Selenium
11 60 (0.65%) Subversion
12 55 (0.60%) Maven
13 54 (0.58%) 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 2,917 (31.58%) Finance
2 1,876 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 1,289 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,141 (12.35%) Law
5 1,054 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
6 850 (9.20%) Marketing
7 761 (8.24%) Banking
8 692 (7.49%) Front Office
9 513 (5.55%) Legal
10 402 (4.35%) Public Sector
11 366 (3.96%) Retail
12 346 (3.75%) Investment Banking
13 283 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
14 243 (2.63%) Electronics
15 206 (2.23%) Manufacturing
16 181 (1.96%) Games
16 181 (1.96%) Telecoms
17 173 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 152 (1.65%) Financial Institution
19 118 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,483 (26.88%) Software Engineer
2 2,099 (22.72%) Senior
3 1,720 (18.62%) Developer
4 1,001 (10.84%) Data Engineer
5 903 (9.77%) Python Engineer
6 874 (9.46%) Lead
7 736 (7.97%) Analyst
8 649 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 625 (6.77%) Python Software Engineer
10 542 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
11 537 (5.81%) Python Developer
12 441 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
13 360 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 347 (3.76%) Data Scientist
15 333 (3.60%) Data Analyst
16 330 (3.57%) Architect
17 319 (3.45%) Senior Developer
18 310 (3.36%) Lead Software Engineer
19 307 (3.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 284 (3.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,407 (15.23%) React
2 851 (9.21%) .NET
3 733 (7.93%) CSS
4 603 (6.53%) Node.js
5 561 (6.07%) AngularJS
6 541 (5.86%) HTML
7 476 (5.15%) Pandas
8 434 (4.70%) REST
9 386 (4.18%) PySpark
10 378 (4.09%) .NET Core
11 377 (4.08%) NumPy
12 371 (4.02%) gRPC
13 357 (3.86%) Kafka
14 351 (3.80%) PostGIS
15 341 (3.69%) OpenLayers
16 338 (3.66%) Protocol Buffers
17 337 (3.65%) Leaflet
18 331 (3.58%) Django
19 288 (3.12%) Web Services
20 280 (3.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1,070 (11.58%) Algorithms
2 575 (6.22%) Hedge funds
3 532 (5.76%) Cloud Native
4 516 (5.59%) Fixed Income
5 434 (4.70%) Data Structures
6 416 (4.50%) Equities
7 404 (4.37%) Derivative
8 351 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 257 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 249 (2.70%) Product Ownership
11 234 (2.53%) Public Cloud
12 230 (2.49%) IoT
13 200 (2.16%) Management Information System
14 197 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
15 195 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 172 (1.86%) Data Centre
17 163 (1.76%) Blockchain
18 162 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
19 123 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
20 103 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,829 (19.80%) Linux
2 802 (8.68%) Windows
3 369 (3.99%) Unix
4 215 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 205 (2.22%) Android
6 172 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 151 (1.63%) Windows Server
8 145 (1.57%) CentOS
9 140 (1.52%) Ubuntu
10 105 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
11 75 (0.81%) Debian
12 54 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 20 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 19 (0.21%) Solaris
15 19 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
16 16 (0.17%) SUSE
17 14 (0.15%) Mac OS
17 14 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,548 (38.41%) Software Engineering
2 3,357 (36.34%) Agile
3 2,110 (22.84%) DevOps
4 1,915 (20.73%) CI/CD
5 1,857 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
6 1,784 (19.31%) Machine Learning
7 1,692 (18.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,361 (14.73%) Analytics
9 1,180 (12.77%) Computer Science
10 1,122 (12.15%) SDLC
11 1,046 (11.32%) Data Science
12 1,040 (11.26%) Visualisation
13 876 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
14 861 (9.32%) Full Stack Development
15 848 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
16 785 (8.50%) Mathematics
17 776 (8.40%) ETL
18 774 (8.38%) Operational Stability
19 769 (8.32%) Mentoring
20 740 (8.01%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,209 (34.74%) SQL
2 2,428 (26.28%) Java
3 2,034 (22.02%) JavaScript
4 1,321 (14.30%) C#
5 933 (10.10%) Bash
6 750 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 716 (7.75%) C
8 700 (7.58%) C++
9 695 (7.52%) PowerShell
10 518 (5.61%) R
11 449 (4.86%) Go
12 296 (3.20%) Perl
13 281 (3.04%) Ruby
14 231 (2.50%) Scala
15 214 (2.32%) MATLAB
16 181 (1.96%) PL/SQL
17 152 (1.65%) PHP
17 152 (1.65%) Rust
18 147 (1.59%) Embedded C
19 135 (1.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,958 (21.20%) Degree
2 1,263 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 767 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 531 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 464 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 301 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 287 (3.11%) PhD
8 181 (1.96%) DBS Check
9 137 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 95 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (0.81%) CISSP
12 67 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 62 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 58 (0.63%) CCNA
15 54 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 41 (0.44%) CCNP
18 37 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 35 (0.38%) HND
20 32 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 328 (3.55%) QA
3 101 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 71 (0.77%) SLA
5 70 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (0.55%) GDPR
7 46 (0.50%) NIST
8 39 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.36%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.22%) MISRA
12 18 (0.19%) 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 1,111 (12.03%) Docker
2 220 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 175 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.24%) HDFS
5 113 (1.22%) 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%) NFS
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 20 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.11%) pfSense
13 7 (0.076%) KVM
13 7 (0.076%) 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 1,289 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 1,029 (11.14%) Terraform
3 687 (7.44%) Ansible
4 283 (3.06%) Puppet
5 198 (2.14%) 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 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 (0.19%) Argo
18 17 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 741 (8.02%) Databricks
2 696 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 524 (5.67%) Google
4 512 (5.54%) Oracle
5 395 (4.28%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.85%) ESRI
7 289 (3.13%) VMware
8 172 (1.86%) IBM
9 145 (1.57%) Informatica
10 141 (1.53%) Cisco
11 140 (1.52%) Alteryx
12 138 (1.49%) Splunk
13 96 (1.04%) SAP
14 91 (0.99%) Cloudera
15 76 (0.82%) Bloomberg
16 72 (0.78%) Palo Alto
17 60 (0.65%) Atlassian
18 57 (0.62%) NetApp
19 54 (0.58%) SolidFire
20 51 (0.55%) Salesforce