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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 1,219 1,344 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.62% 10.03% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.40% 25.17% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 871 691 1,132
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,061 £32,513
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £70,625 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +8.21%

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 5,209 5,339 10,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.29% 39.84% 48.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,111 3,596 6,312
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -13 492 £55,000 -15.38% 169
Hampshire -1 367 £55,000 -9.61% 63
Surrey -3 224 £60,000 - 42
Berkshire -17 214 £58,000 -17.14% 66
Oxfordshire -2 191 £54,750 +40.38% 66
Buckinghamshire -20 87 £51,000 -23.02% 37
East Sussex +5 54 £44,096 -37.01% 13
West Sussex -4 37 £62,000 +30.53% 4
Kent -20 34 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Sussex -20 7 £50,000 +5.26%
Middlesex -26 5 £60,000 -33.33% 2
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 28 (2.30%) ArcGIS
1 28 (2.30%) GeoServer
2 26 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 18 (1.48%) Apache
4 11 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.90%) Confluence
5 10 (0.82%) nginx
5 10 (0.82%) SAS
6 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Drupal
8 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.082%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 82 (6.73%) Simulink
2 19 (1.56%) Stateflow
3 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.57%) CANalyzer
5 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.41%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.16%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.082%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.082%) Revit
9 1 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.41%) Odoo
4 1 (0.082%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.082%) FastStats
4 1 (0.082%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 398 (32.65%) Azure
2 295 (24.20%) AWS
3 123 (10.09%) Serverless
4 96 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (6.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 76 (6.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 76 (6.23%) IBM Cloud
6 75 (6.15%) Azure API Management
6 75 (6.15%) Azure Functions
7 59 (4.84%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.53%) GitHub
9 39 (3.20%) GCP
10 32 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 32 (2.63%) SaaS
11 31 (2.54%) Amazon S3
12 28 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (1.97%) IaaS
14 23 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.76%) Firewall
2 37 (3.04%) VPN
2 37 (3.04%) Wireless
3 34 (2.79%) 5G
3 34 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.54%) DNS
5 27 (2.21%) Bluetooth
6 23 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.80%) GSM
7 22 (1.80%) ISDN
7 22 (1.80%) LTE
7 22 (1.80%) Network Security
7 22 (1.80%) PSTN
7 22 (1.80%) UMTS
8 20 (1.64%) SNMP
9 19 (1.56%) LAN
9 19 (1.56%) WAN
10 16 (1.31%) Internet
11 14 (1.15%) HTTP
11 14 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (18.62%) PostgreSQL
2 174 (14.27%) NoSQL
3 134 (10.99%) MongoDB
4 121 (9.93%) Relational Database
5 76 (6.23%) DB2
6 54 (4.43%) Power BI
7 51 (4.18%) Hadoop
8 45 (3.69%) MySQL
9 41 (3.36%) GIS
9 41 (3.36%) Tableau
10 39 (3.20%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.38%) Data Lake
12 28 (2.30%) QGIS
13 27 (2.21%) Big Data
14 24 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (1.15%) Redis
17 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 160 (13.13%) Git
2 81 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.41%) JIRA
4 44 (3.61%) GitLab
5 26 (2.13%) LabVIEW
6 25 (2.05%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.72%) Vagrant
8 20 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.64%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.15%) ClearCase
9 14 (1.15%) Plastic SCM
9 14 (1.15%) Subversion
10 13 (1.07%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.82%) Trac
12 8 (0.66%) JMeter
12 8 (0.66%) JUnit
13 7 (0.57%) ClearQuest
14 6 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 280 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 142 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.79%) Finance
5 68 (5.58%) Electronics
6 57 (4.68%) Telecoms
7 54 (4.43%) Manufacturing
8 35 (2.87%) Military
9 32 (2.63%) Automotive
9 32 (2.63%) Marketing
10 28 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 26 (2.13%) Legal
12 26 (2.13%) Retail
13 20 (1.64%) Games
14 18 (1.48%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.39%) Aviation
16 11 (0.90%) Law
16 11 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 304 (24.94%) Software Engineer
2 269 (22.07%) Developer
3 259 (21.25%) Senior
4 105 (8.61%) Full Stack Developer
5 94 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 81 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (6.56%) Azure Developer
8 70 (5.74%) Lead
9 59 (4.84%) Software Developer
10 58 (4.76%) Architect
11 55 (4.51%) Graduate
11 55 (4.51%) Python Engineer
12 50 (4.10%) Junior
13 47 (3.86%) Analyst
14 40 (3.28%) Data Engineer
15 39 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.79%) Python Developer
17 32 (2.63%) Hardware Engineer
17 32 (2.63%) Senior Developer
18 31 (2.54%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (16.82%) React
2 160 (13.13%) HTML
3 158 (12.96%) AngularJS
4 153 (12.55%) Node.js
5 152 (12.47%) CSS
6 150 (12.31%) .NET
7 122 (10.01%) REST
8 115 (9.43%) Web Services
9 92 (7.55%) ASP.NET
9 92 (7.55%) Vue
10 88 (7.22%) jQuery
11 79 (6.48%) Ember.js
12 78 (6.40%) ASP.NET Core
13 76 (6.23%) Backbone.js
13 76 (6.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 66 (5.41%) Kafka
15 52 (4.27%) Middleware
16 50 (4.10%) XML
17 36 (2.95%) Spring
18 34 (2.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 243 (19.93%) Algorithms
2 106 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 88 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (6.23%) Blockchain
5 67 (5.50%) IoT
6 32 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
9 26 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.80%) Acoustics
11 22 (1.80%) Satnav
12 20 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.64%) CUDA
12 20 (1.64%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.39%) Robotics
14 16 (1.31%) PKI
15 15 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 417 (34.21%) Linux
2 222 (18.21%) Windows
3 106 (8.70%) Android
4 82 (6.73%) Apple iOS
5 64 (5.25%) Unix
6 32 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (2.54%) CentOS
8 30 (2.46%) Embedded Linux
9 28 (2.30%) Ubuntu
10 22 (1.80%) Windows Server
11 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.57%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.41%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.25%) Debian
14 3 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (35.19%) Software Engineering
2 382 (31.34%) DevOps
3 359 (29.45%) Computer Science
4 323 (26.50%) Agile
5 287 (23.54%) Problem-Solving
6 254 (20.84%) Artificial Intelligence
7 174 (14.27%) Mathematics
8 169 (13.86%) Machine Learning
9 157 (12.88%) Physics
10 152 (12.47%) Full Stack Development
11 130 (10.66%) CI/CD
11 130 (10.66%) Web Development
12 122 (10.01%) OO
13 117 (9.60%) Software Testing
14 105 (8.61%) User Experience
15 102 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
16 99 (8.12%) Test Automation
17 97 (7.96%) Mentoring
18 96 (7.88%) OOP
19 91 (7.47%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 394 (32.32%) Java
2 346 (28.38%) JavaScript
3 342 (28.06%) SQL
4 254 (20.84%) C#
5 252 (20.67%) C++
6 213 (17.47%) C
7 139 (11.40%) Bash
8 96 (7.88%) Fortran
9 81 (6.64%) PowerShell
10 65 (5.33%) MATLAB
10 65 (5.33%) Perl
11 61 (5.00%) R
12 59 (4.84%) Kotlin
13 47 (3.86%) TypeScript
14 34 (2.79%) Go
15 26 (2.13%) Embedded C
16 25 (2.05%) Ruby
17 16 (1.31%) Haskell
17 16 (1.31%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 513 (42.08%) Degree
2 316 (25.92%) Security Cleared
3 207 (16.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 201 (16.49%) SC Cleared
5 125 (10.25%) Master's Degree
6 112 (9.19%) PhD
7 42 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.21%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.90%) HND
13 10 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.49%) JNCIE
17 5 (0.41%) CCIE
17 5 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.28%) QA
3 15 (1.23%) ISO 26262
4 14 (1.15%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (1.15%) MISRA
5 10 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.57%) ISO 13485
7 6 (0.49%) NIST
7 6 (0.49%) SLA
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.33%) GDPR
10 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.16%) PMO
10 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 175 (14.36%) Docker
2 47 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 40 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.95%) Firmware
5 33 (2.71%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.82%) NFS
8 10 (0.82%) pfSense
9 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.25%) HDFS
10 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.082%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 129 (10.58%) Terraform
2 127 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 116 (9.52%) Ansible
4 17 (1.39%) WMI
5 15 (1.23%) Puppet
6 14 (1.15%) ZABBIX
7 13 (1.07%) Grafana
8 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (0.82%) SCDPM
9 8 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.41%) Kibana
10 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.41%) SELinux
10 5 (0.41%) Suricata
10 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
12 2 (0.16%) Argo
12 2 (0.16%) Netcool
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 146 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.63%) IBM
3 87 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 51 (4.18%) VMware
5 45 (3.69%) Xilinx
6 31 (2.54%) SAP
7 29 (2.38%) Splunk
8 28 (2.30%) ESRI
9 25 (2.05%) Juniper
10 24 (1.97%) Databricks
11 23 (1.89%) Oracle
12 22 (1.80%) Google
13 15 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.23%) WSO2
14 14 (1.15%) Cisco
14 14 (1.15%) Lauterbach
14 14 (1.15%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.98%) Facebook
16 11 (0.90%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.82%) Veeam