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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,342 8,046 8,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.30% 13.79% 11.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.57% 34.51% 25.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,054 2,814 4,071
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £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 £77,715 £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 22,664 23,315 33,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.96% 39.95% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,452 13,156 20,982
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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,000 £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 25 May 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 25 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
Scotland -9 1,297 £50,000 -23.08% 129
South East -11 1,158 £55,000 -12.00% 1,086
North of England -24 930 £56,000 -13.85% 276
South West -6 902 £56,500 -5.83% 219
North West -19 601 £56,504 -13.07% 165
Midlands -36 508 £55,000 -4.35% 202
East of England -9 378 £60,000 -4.00% 213
West Midlands -36 315 £55,000 -8.33% 135
Yorkshire -31 259 £55,000 -15.38% 74
East Midlands -31 189 £47,500 -13.64% 59
Wales -25 91 £52,500 -4.62% 35
Northern Ireland +2 81 £75,000 +25.00% 41
North East -21 70 £60,141 -3.77% 37
Channel Islands -3 1 £67,500 +92.86% 1
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
1 405 (7.58%) Apache Spark
2 310 (5.80%) ArcGIS
3 288 (5.39%) GeoServer
4 199 (3.73%) Apache
5 160 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
6 65 (1.22%) SAS
7 41 (0.77%) Confluence
8 35 (0.66%) nginx
8 35 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 26 (0.49%) SharePoint
10 25 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.37%) Camunda
12 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.19%) CMS
13 10 (0.19%) WordPress
14 7 (0.13%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) Luigi
16 5 (0.094%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.094%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.075%) JBoss
Applications
1 113 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (2.06%) Simulink
3 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.47%) Stateflow
5 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.094%) Doxygen
9 5 (0.094%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.019%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.019%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (0.36%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) iTrent
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,955 (36.60%) AWS
2 1,433 (26.83%) Azure
3 403 (7.54%) GCP
4 336 (6.29%) Serverless
5 319 (5.97%) Power Platform
6 274 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (4.01%) SaaS
8 195 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 166 (3.11%) GitHub
10 139 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 129 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 127 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 119 (2.23%) Azure API Management
14 118 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Functions
15 117 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.19%) IBM Cloud
16 101 (1.89%) Snowflake
17 96 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
18 95 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.61%) Firewall
2 137 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 104 (1.95%) DNS
4 99 (1.85%) VPN
5 94 (1.76%) Internet
6 92 (1.72%) Wireless
7 91 (1.70%) HTTP
8 69 (1.29%) DHCP
9 68 (1.27%) Network Security
10 65 (1.22%) SNMP
11 57 (1.07%) WAN
12 56 (1.05%) LAN
13 54 (1.01%) IPsec
14 53 (0.99%) Bluetooth
15 47 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.80%) 5G
17 39 (0.73%) MQTT
18 34 (0.64%) AMQP
19 29 (0.54%) LTE
20 28 (0.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
2 478 (8.95%) NoSQL
3 367 (6.87%) Big Data
4 341 (6.38%) GIS
5 323 (6.05%) Relational Database
6 310 (5.80%) MongoDB
7 291 (5.45%) Power BI
8 285 (5.34%) QGIS
9 263 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 222 (4.16%) Hadoop
11 212 (3.97%) Tableau
12 207 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
13 191 (3.58%) Data Lake
14 163 (3.05%) MySQL
15 147 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
16 137 (2.56%) DB2
17 122 (2.28%) Apache Hive
18 103 (1.93%) HBase
19 77 (1.44%) Redis
20 70 (1.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 588 (11.01%) Git
2 390 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 195 (3.65%) JIRA
4 159 (2.98%) GitLab
5 87 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (1.31%) LabVIEW
7 56 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 48 (0.90%) Subversion
9 47 (0.88%) Maven
10 41 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 35 (0.66%) Selenium
12 28 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 26 (0.49%) Gradle
14 25 (0.47%) CircleCI
14 25 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 24 (0.45%) Eclipse
16 21 (0.39%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.39%) Travis CI
17 20 (0.37%) JDeveloper
18 19 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 1,460 (27.33%) Finance
2 1,099 (20.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,031 (19.30%) Law
4 962 (18.01%) Social Skills
5 727 (13.61%) Marketing
6 521 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
7 410 (7.68%) Legal
8 285 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 219 (4.10%) Banking
10 212 (3.97%) Electronics
11 178 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 173 (3.24%) Retail
13 168 (3.14%) Aerospace
14 142 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
16 123 (2.30%) Games
17 122 (2.28%) Financial Institution
18 99 (1.85%) Automotive
19 96 (1.80%) Investment Banking
20 57 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,932 (36.17%) Software Engineer
2 1,116 (20.89%) Senior
3 803 (15.03%) Developer
4 571 (10.69%) Data Engineer
5 522 (9.77%) Lead
6 501 (9.38%) Python Engineer
7 464 (8.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 404 (7.56%) Python Software Engineer
9 290 (5.43%) Analyst
10 257 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 247 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
12 215 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
13 200 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
14 181 (3.39%) Software Developer
15 178 (3.33%) Architect
16 176 (3.29%) AWS Software Engineer
17 165 (3.09%) Embedded Engineer
18 156 (2.92%) Big Data Engineer
19 152 (2.85%) Data Analyst
19 152 (2.85%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 837 (15.67%) React
2 558 (10.45%) .NET
3 512 (9.58%) CSS
4 419 (7.84%) Node.js
5 381 (7.13%) AngularJS
6 337 (6.31%) HTML
7 297 (5.56%) PostGIS
8 296 (5.54%) REST
9 293 (5.48%) OpenLayers
10 290 (5.43%) Leaflet
11 289 (5.41%) .NET Core
12 240 (4.49%) Kafka
13 235 (4.40%) PySpark
14 211 (3.95%) Spring
15 205 (3.84%) Web Services
16 184 (3.44%) Django
17 177 (3.31%) Vue
18 170 (3.18%) ASP.NET
19 165 (3.09%) jQuery
20 159 (2.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 861 (16.12%) Algorithms
2 440 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 316 (5.92%) Data Structures
4 194 (3.63%) Public Cloud
5 174 (3.26%) IoT
6 164 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 146 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 144 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 141 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 125 (2.34%) Blockchain
11 108 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 102 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 94 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
14 66 (1.24%) Market Risk
15 64 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 54 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
17 50 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
17 50 (0.94%) Robotics
18 48 (0.90%) Credit Risk
19 42 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1,352 (25.31%) Linux
2 591 (11.06%) Windows
3 259 (4.85%) Unix
4 178 (3.33%) Android
5 162 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (2.66%) Apple iOS
7 112 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 110 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
9 94 (1.76%) CentOS
10 86 (1.61%) Windows Server
11 62 (1.16%) Debian
12 49 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
13 20 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
14 19 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 14 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
17 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Kali Linux
18 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,463 (46.11%) Software Engineering
2 2,176 (40.73%) Agile
3 1,284 (24.04%) CI/CD
4 1,269 (23.76%) DevOps
5 1,174 (21.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,138 (21.30%) Machine Learning
7 1,106 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
8 997 (18.66%) SDLC
9 772 (14.45%) Operational Stability
10 757 (14.17%) Computer Science
11 631 (11.81%) Visualisation
12 613 (11.48%) Community of Practice
13 581 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
14 573 (10.73%) Analytics
15 519 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 504 (9.43%) Web Development
17 458 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
18 452 (8.46%) Decision-Making
19 450 (8.42%) Test Automation
20 442 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,614 (30.21%) Java
2 1,604 (30.03%) SQL
3 1,265 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 837 (15.67%) C#
5 609 (11.40%) Bash
6 601 (11.25%) C
7 486 (9.10%) C++
8 376 (7.04%) PowerShell
9 216 (4.04%) TypeScript
10 210 (3.93%) R
11 201 (3.76%) Go
12 165 (3.09%) MATLAB
13 164 (3.07%) Perl
14 154 (2.88%) PL/SQL
15 145 (2.71%) Embedded C
16 137 (2.56%) Ruby
17 122 (2.28%) Scala
18 101 (1.89%) Rust
19 94 (1.76%) Fortran
19 94 (1.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,139 (21.32%) Degree
2 1,099 (20.57%) Security Cleared
3 655 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 355 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 287 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 258 (4.83%) Master's Degree
7 186 (3.48%) PhD
8 105 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 49 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 48 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.62%) CCNA
13 30 (0.56%) CCNP
13 30 (0.56%) HND
14 26 (0.49%) CISSP
15 25 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.41%) SANS
17 21 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 178 (3.33%) QA
3 57 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 53 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (0.95%) SLA
6 34 (0.64%) NIST
7 23 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.41%) PMO
9 21 (0.39%) ISO 26262
10 19 (0.36%) MISRA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.28%) GDPR
12 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
13 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
13 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
14 11 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.21%) JTAG
15 10 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.17%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 602 (11.27%) Docker
2 178 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (1.97%) HDFS
4 104 (1.95%) Firmware
5 101 (1.89%) Active Directory
6 96 (1.80%) Hyper-V
7 49 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
8 44 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.49%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) pfSense
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.094%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 725 (13.57%) Kubernetes
2 528 (9.88%) Terraform
3 458 (8.57%) Ansible
4 181 (3.39%) Puppet
5 111 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 97 (1.82%) Grafana
7 72 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 47 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 17 (0.32%) WMI
12 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 12 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 12 (0.22%) Kibana
13 12 (0.22%) logstash
13 12 (0.22%) Nmap
14 11 (0.21%) Nagios
14 11 (0.21%) Podman
15 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 411 (7.69%) Databricks
2 377 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 344 (6.44%) Oracle
4 303 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 301 (5.63%) ESRI
6 224 (4.19%) VMware
7 213 (3.99%) Google
8 154 (2.88%) IBM
9 126 (2.36%) Informatica
10 106 (1.98%) Splunk
11 92 (1.72%) Alteryx
12 81 (1.52%) Cisco
13 75 (1.40%) Cloudera
14 71 (1.33%) SAP
15 55 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.97%) NetApp
17 49 (0.92%) SolidFire
18 46 (0.86%) Xilinx
19 40 (0.75%) Dynatrace
20 38 (0.71%) SaltStack