Python Jobs in the South East

Python
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 20 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,186 1,384 2,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.64% 10.06% 11.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.19% 25.15% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 858 698 1,132
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.02%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,114 5,503 10,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.62% 39.98% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,072 3,680 6,299
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Salary trend for Python in the South East

Python
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley -13 484 £55,000 -15.38% 182
Hampshire -1 352 £55,000 -8.33% 66
Surrey -3 218 £60,000 - 47
Berkshire -19 211 £60,000 -14.29% 66
Oxfordshire -2 189 £55,000 +41.02% 68
Buckinghamshire -27 84 £51,000 -21.54% 49
East Sussex +6 51 £42,500 -39.29% 14
West Sussex -10 37 £62,000 +30.53% 5
Kent -28 30 £55,000 - 18
Sussex -20 7 £50,000 +5.26%
Middlesex -27 5 £60,000 -33.33% 1
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (2.45%) ArcGIS
1 29 (2.45%) GeoServer
2 28 (2.36%) OpenStack
3 18 (1.52%) Apache
4 11 (0.93%) Confluence
5 10 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.84%) nginx
5 10 (0.84%) SAS
6 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.17%) CMS
7 2 (0.17%) Drupal
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.17%) WordPress
8 1 (0.084%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 83 (7.00%) Simulink
2 20 (1.69%) Stateflow
3 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.59%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.42%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.17%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.084%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.084%) Revit
10 1 (0.084%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.42%) Odoo
4 1 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.084%) FastStats
4 1 (0.084%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 387 (32.63%) Azure
2 291 (24.54%) AWS
3 125 (10.54%) Serverless
4 95 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (6.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 76 (6.41%) IBM Cloud
6 75 (6.32%) Azure API Management
6 75 (6.32%) Azure Functions
6 75 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 55 (4.64%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.63%) GitHub
9 38 (3.20%) GCP
10 31 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 31 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
11 30 (2.53%) SaaS
12 25 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.81%) Firewall
2 37 (3.12%) Wireless
3 36 (3.04%) VPN
4 34 (2.87%) 5G
4 34 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.28%) Bluetooth
5 27 (2.28%) DNS
6 23 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.85%) GSM
7 22 (1.85%) ISDN
7 22 (1.85%) LTE
7 22 (1.85%) Network Security
7 22 (1.85%) PSTN
7 22 (1.85%) UMTS
8 20 (1.69%) SNMP
9 19 (1.60%) LAN
9 19 (1.60%) WAN
10 17 (1.43%) Internet
11 14 (1.18%) HTTP
11 14 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (18.80%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (14.59%) NoSQL
3 128 (10.79%) MongoDB
4 121 (10.20%) Relational Database
5 76 (6.41%) DB2
6 51 (4.30%) Power BI
7 45 (3.79%) Hadoop
8 43 (3.63%) MySQL
9 42 (3.54%) GIS
10 41 (3.46%) Tableau
11 37 (3.12%) SQL Server
12 29 (2.45%) Data Lake
12 29 (2.45%) QGIS
13 25 (2.11%) Big Data
13 25 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
14 20 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (1.18%) Redis
16 10 (0.84%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 160 (13.49%) Git
2 83 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 62 (5.23%) JIRA
4 44 (3.71%) GitLab
5 26 (2.19%) Robot Framework
6 24 (2.02%) LabVIEW
7 21 (1.77%) Vagrant
8 20 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.18%) ClearCase
9 14 (1.18%) Plastic SCM
10 13 (1.10%) Eclipse
10 13 (1.10%) Subversion
11 10 (0.84%) Trac
12 8 (0.67%) JMeter
12 8 (0.67%) JUnit
13 7 (0.59%) ClearQuest
14 6 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.42%) Maven
15 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 275 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 136 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 90 (7.59%) Finance
5 67 (5.65%) Electronics
6 57 (4.81%) Telecoms
7 54 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 34 (2.87%) Military
9 32 (2.70%) Marketing
10 30 (2.53%) Automotive
11 27 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 26 (2.19%) Legal
12 26 (2.19%) Retail
13 20 (1.69%) Games
14 17 (1.43%) Tech for Good
15 16 (1.35%) Aviation
16 11 (0.93%) Law
16 11 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (25.04%) Software Engineer
2 268 (22.60%) Developer
3 252 (21.25%) Senior
4 105 (8.85%) Full Stack Developer
5 93 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 80 (6.75%) Azure Developer
7 77 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (5.40%) Lead
9 58 (4.89%) Software Developer
10 56 (4.72%) Architect
11 55 (4.64%) Python Engineer
12 50 (4.22%) Graduate
13 48 (4.05%) Junior
14 46 (3.88%) Analyst
15 39 (3.29%) Data Engineer
16 36 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.87%) Java Developer
18 32 (2.70%) Hardware Engineer
18 32 (2.70%) Python Developer
19 31 (2.61%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (17.12%) React
2 157 (13.24%) AngularJS
2 157 (13.24%) HTML
3 150 (12.65%) CSS
4 148 (12.48%) .NET
4 148 (12.48%) Node.js
5 125 (10.54%) REST
6 117 (9.87%) Web Services
7 91 (7.67%) Vue
8 89 (7.50%) ASP.NET
9 88 (7.42%) jQuery
10 79 (6.66%) Ember.js
11 77 (6.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (6.41%) Backbone.js
12 76 (6.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 60 (5.06%) Kafka
14 52 (4.38%) XML
15 50 (4.22%) Middleware
16 39 (3.29%) Spring
17 35 (2.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 240 (20.24%) Algorithms
2 109 (9.19%) Data Structures
3 88 (7.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (6.41%) Blockchain
5 65 (5.48%) IoT
6 31 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
10 22 (1.85%) Acoustics
10 22 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (1.85%) Satnav
11 21 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.69%) CUDA
13 19 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.35%) PKI
14 16 (1.35%) Robotics
15 15 (1.26%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.10%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 417 (35.16%) Linux
2 220 (18.55%) Windows
3 106 (8.94%) Android
4 82 (6.91%) Apple iOS
5 61 (5.14%) Unix
6 32 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (2.61%) CentOS
8 30 (2.53%) Embedded Linux
9 29 (2.45%) Ubuntu
10 22 (1.85%) Windows Server
11 12 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.42%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.25%) Debian
14 3 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (34.82%) Software Engineering
2 376 (31.70%) DevOps
3 349 (29.43%) Computer Science
4 319 (26.90%) Agile
5 278 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
6 247 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 168 (14.17%) Mathematics
8 166 (14.00%) Machine Learning
9 152 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
10 151 (12.73%) Physics
11 131 (11.05%) CI/CD
12 130 (10.96%) Web Development
13 124 (10.46%) OO
14 112 (9.44%) Software Testing
15 104 (8.77%) User Experience
16 100 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
17 96 (8.09%) Mentoring
17 96 (8.09%) OOP
18 95 (8.01%) Test Automation
19 93 (7.84%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 384 (32.38%) Java
2 336 (28.33%) JavaScript
3 330 (27.82%) SQL
4 248 (20.91%) C#
5 243 (20.49%) C++
6 208 (17.54%) C
7 133 (11.21%) Bash
8 95 (8.01%) Fortran
9 81 (6.83%) PowerShell
10 64 (5.40%) MATLAB
11 61 (5.14%) Perl
12 58 (4.89%) R
13 57 (4.81%) Kotlin
14 45 (3.79%) TypeScript
15 34 (2.87%) Go
16 26 (2.19%) Embedded C
17 24 (2.02%) Ruby
18 17 (1.43%) Shell Script
19 16 (1.35%) Haskell
20 15 (1.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 498 (41.99%) Degree
2 301 (25.38%) Security Cleared
3 199 (16.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 190 (16.02%) SC Cleared
5 124 (10.46%) Master's Degree
6 112 (9.44%) PhD
7 40 (3.37%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.93%) HND
13 10 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.51%) JNCIE
17 5 (0.42%) CCIE
17 5 (0.42%) CCNA
17 5 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.37%) QA
2 39 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.26%) ISO 26262
4 14 (1.18%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (1.18%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (1.18%) MISRA
5 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.59%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.51%) NIST
7 6 (0.51%) SLA
8 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) GDPR
10 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.17%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
System Software
1 178 (15.01%) Docker
2 45 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 31 (2.61%) Firmware
6 24 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.84%) NFS
8 10 (0.84%) pfSense
9 5 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.084%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 131 (11.05%) Terraform
2 129 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 118 (9.95%) Ansible
4 17 (1.43%) WMI
5 15 (1.26%) Puppet
6 14 (1.18%) ZABBIX
7 13 (1.10%) Grafana
8 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (0.84%) SCDPM
9 8 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.42%) Kibana
10 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.42%) SELinux
10 5 (0.42%) Suricata
10 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.17%) Netcool
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 140 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.84%) IBM
3 87 (7.34%) Red Hat
4 49 (4.13%) VMware
5 45 (3.79%) Xilinx
6 31 (2.61%) SAP
7 29 (2.45%) ESRI
7 29 (2.45%) Splunk
8 25 (2.11%) Juniper
9 24 (2.02%) Databricks
10 23 (1.94%) Oracle
11 21 (1.77%) Google
12 17 (1.43%) WSO2
13 15 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.18%) Cisco
14 14 (1.18%) Lauterbach
14 14 (1.18%) ServiceNow
15 13 (1.10%) Facebook
16 11 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.84%) Veeam