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 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 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,400 6,730 8,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.84% 12.09% 11.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.12% 31.38% 25.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,135 2,764 4,064
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,885 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,350 £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 £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,472 £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 23,352 21,449 34,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.56% 38.54% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,842 12,866 21,023
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 9 June 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 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
South East -6 1,219 £55,000 -15.38% 336
Scotland -7 1,190 £52,500 -19.23% 99
North of England -22 967 £56,500 -13.08% 255
South West -7 923 £57,500 -4.17% 201
North West -17 638 £57,500 -11.54% 163
Midlands -33 532 £55,000 -4.35% 183
East of England -3 393 £60,000 -4.00% 147
West Midlands -33 338 £55,000 -8.33% 120
Yorkshire -32 254 £55,000 -15.38% 64
East Midlands -28 190 £47,500 -11.63% 61
Wales -24 97 £57,500 +4.46% 32
Northern Ireland +4 82 £75,150 +7.36% 35
North East -7 75 £62,783 +0.45% 28
Channel Islands -2 1 £67,500 +92.86%
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
1 370 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 300 (5.56%) ArcGIS
3 278 (5.15%) GeoServer
4 187 (3.46%) Apache
5 153 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
6 63 (1.17%) SAS
7 44 (0.81%) Confluence
8 34 (0.63%) nginx
9 30 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.48%) SharePoint
11 24 (0.44%) Jupyter
12 14 (0.26%) Camunda
13 10 (0.19%) CMS
13 10 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (0.19%) WordPress
14 7 (0.13%) Drupal
15 6 (0.11%) Luigi
16 5 (0.093%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.074%) JBoss
Applications
1 112 (2.07%) Simulink
2 111 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.44%) Stateflow
5 23 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.20%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.13%) Trello
8 6 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
9 5 (0.093%) Doxygen
9 5 (0.093%) GNU Octave
10 4 (0.074%) Revit
11 3 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.056%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.056%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.037%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.037%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 19 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Odoo
3 4 (0.074%) 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%) iTrent
5 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.019%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.019%) FastStats
6 1 (0.019%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.019%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,937 (35.87%) AWS
2 1,460 (27.04%) Azure
3 387 (7.17%) GCP
4 328 (6.07%) Power Platform
5 327 (6.06%) Serverless
6 270 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (4.02%) SaaS
8 192 (3.56%) Amazon S3
9 169 (3.13%) GitHub
10 138 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 134 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
12 126 (2.33%) OpenShift
13 120 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 119 (2.20%) Azure API Management
15 117 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
15 117 (2.17%) IBM Cloud
16 116 (2.15%) Azure Functions
17 102 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
18 101 (1.87%) Snowflake
19 85 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.61%) Firewall
2 139 (2.57%) TCP/IP
3 108 (2.00%) DNS
4 100 (1.85%) VPN
5 95 (1.76%) Internet
6 92 (1.70%) HTTP
7 91 (1.69%) Wireless
8 71 (1.31%) Network Security
9 69 (1.28%) DHCP
10 65 (1.20%) SNMP
11 54 (1.00%) Bluetooth
11 54 (1.00%) IPsec
11 54 (1.00%) WAN
12 53 (0.98%) LAN
13 48 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
14 42 (0.78%) 5G
15 41 (0.76%) MQTT
16 35 (0.65%) AMQP
17 29 (0.54%) LTE
18 26 (0.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
2 473 (8.76%) NoSQL
3 333 (6.17%) Big Data
4 331 (6.13%) GIS
5 315 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 305 (5.65%) Relational Database
7 299 (5.54%) Power BI
8 276 (5.11%) SQL Server
9 275 (5.09%) QGIS
10 214 (3.96%) Hadoop
11 210 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
12 207 (3.83%) Tableau
13 192 (3.56%) Data Lake
14 174 (3.22%) MySQL
15 144 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
16 132 (2.44%) DB2
17 108 (2.00%) Apache Hive
18 92 (1.70%) HBase
19 73 (1.35%) Redis
20 67 (1.24%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 579 (10.72%) Git
2 362 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 204 (3.78%) JIRA
4 170 (3.15%) GitLab
5 82 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
6 74 (1.37%) LabVIEW
7 59 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 53 (0.98%) Subversion
9 43 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 40 (0.74%) Maven
11 37 (0.69%) Selenium
12 29 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.50%) Robot Framework
14 25 (0.46%) Eclipse
15 22 (0.41%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.39%) Vagrant
17 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
17 20 (0.37%) Gradle
18 18 (0.33%) JUnit
18 18 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1,340 (24.81%) Finance
2 1,003 (18.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 970 (17.96%) Social Skills
4 923 (17.09%) Law
5 651 (12.06%) Marketing
6 509 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
7 392 (7.26%) Legal
8 283 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 217 (4.02%) Electronics
10 183 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 176 (3.26%) Banking
12 173 (3.20%) Aerospace
13 165 (3.06%) Retail
14 141 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 125 (2.31%) Games
16 109 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
17 106 (1.96%) Financial Institution
18 103 (1.91%) Automotive
19 86 (1.59%) Investment Banking
20 61 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,900 (35.19%) Software Engineer
2 1,146 (21.22%) Senior
3 837 (15.50%) Developer
4 563 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 523 (9.69%) Lead
6 491 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 473 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 393 (7.28%) Python Software Engineer
9 286 (5.30%) Analyst
10 253 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
11 228 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
12 220 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 207 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
14 197 (3.65%) Architect
15 190 (3.52%) Software Developer
16 175 (3.24%) Embedded Engineer
17 166 (3.07%) AWS Software Engineer
18 158 (2.93%) Data Scientist
19 155 (2.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
20 148 (2.74%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 832 (15.41%) React
2 569 (10.54%) .NET
3 528 (9.78%) CSS
4 433 (8.02%) Node.js
5 380 (7.04%) AngularJS
6 357 (6.61%) HTML
7 292 (5.41%) REST
8 289 (5.35%) .NET Core
9 286 (5.30%) PostGIS
10 283 (5.24%) OpenLayers
11 280 (5.19%) Leaflet
12 235 (4.35%) PySpark
13 233 (4.31%) Kafka
14 210 (3.89%) Web Services
15 196 (3.63%) Django
16 185 (3.43%) Spring
17 184 (3.41%) Vue
18 181 (3.35%) ASP.NET
19 166 (3.07%) jQuery
20 140 (2.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 843 (15.61%) Algorithms
2 397 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 314 (5.81%) Data Structures
4 179 (3.31%) IoT
5 166 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 165 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 148 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 131 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 125 (2.31%) Product Ownership
10 124 (2.30%) Blockchain
11 112 (2.07%) Data Centre
12 95 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
13 93 (1.72%) Management Information System
14 70 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
15 60 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
15 60 (1.11%) Market Risk
16 54 (1.00%) Robotics
17 47 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (0.85%) Reinsurance
19 40 (0.74%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,371 (25.39%) Linux
2 589 (10.91%) Windows
3 261 (4.83%) Unix
4 180 (3.33%) Android
5 161 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 141 (2.61%) Apple iOS
7 117 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
8 106 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 97 (1.80%) CentOS
10 84 (1.56%) Windows Server
11 62 (1.15%) Debian
12 49 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
13 23 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
14 19 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 16 (0.30%) SUSE
16 14 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
17 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
18 10 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.17%) AIX
19 9 (0.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,437 (45.13%) Software Engineering
2 2,094 (38.78%) Agile
3 1,261 (23.35%) DevOps
4 1,214 (22.48%) CI/CD
5 1,137 (21.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,090 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
7 1,073 (19.87%) Machine Learning
8 930 (17.22%) SDLC
9 785 (14.54%) Computer Science
10 683 (12.65%) Operational Stability
11 602 (11.15%) Visualisation
12 558 (10.33%) Analytics
13 550 (10.19%) Community of Practice
14 545 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
15 494 (9.15%) Web Development
16 493 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 476 (8.81%) Full Stack Development
18 445 (8.24%) Test Automation
19 438 (8.11%) Mentoring
20 437 (8.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,608 (29.78%) SQL
2 1,547 (28.65%) Java
3 1,275 (23.61%) JavaScript
4 872 (16.15%) C#
5 636 (11.78%) C
6 602 (11.15%) Bash
7 537 (9.94%) C++
8 374 (6.93%) PowerShell
9 235 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 214 (3.96%) R
11 170 (3.15%) Go
12 168 (3.11%) MATLAB
13 155 (2.87%) Perl
14 149 (2.76%) Embedded C
15 140 (2.59%) PL/SQL
16 114 (2.11%) Ruby
17 110 (2.04%) Scala
18 106 (1.96%) Rust
19 103 (1.91%) Fortran
20 100 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,173 (21.72%) Degree
2 1,142 (21.15%) Security Cleared
3 677 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 378 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 301 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 269 (4.98%) Master's Degree
7 193 (3.57%) PhD
8 104 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 50 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 48 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 47 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 33 (0.61%) CCNA
13 30 (0.56%) CCNP
14 29 (0.54%) HND
15 28 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (0.46%) CISSP
17 24 (0.44%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.43%) HNC
19 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 166 (3.07%) QA
3 57 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 44 (0.81%) SLA
6 37 (0.69%) NIST
7 22 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 22 (0.41%) PMO
8 19 (0.35%) ISO 26262
8 19 (0.35%) MISRA
9 18 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.31%) GDPR
11 15 (0.28%) ISO 13485
12 14 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
12 14 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 13 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.20%) JTAG
15 10 (0.19%) IEC 62304
15 10 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 607 (11.24%) Docker
2 179 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (2.11%) Firmware
4 100 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 94 (1.74%) HDFS
6 90 (1.67%) Hyper-V
7 54 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
8 50 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.50%) vSphere
10 15 (0.28%) NFS
11 13 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) pfSense
14 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.093%) KVM
16 3 (0.056%) Ceph
16 3 (0.056%) Gluster
16 3 (0.056%) oVirt
16 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 706 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 510 (9.44%) Terraform
3 467 (8.65%) Ansible
4 184 (3.41%) Puppet
5 109 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 92 (1.70%) Grafana
7 73 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 50 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 17 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.31%) WMI
11 16 (0.30%) HAProxy
11 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 13 (0.24%) Kibana
13 11 (0.20%) Fluentd
13 11 (0.20%) logstash
13 11 (0.20%) Nagios
13 11 (0.20%) Podman
14 10 (0.19%) Nmap
14 10 (0.19%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 396 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.06%) Databricks
3 307 (5.69%) Oracle
4 301 (5.57%) Red Hat
5 291 (5.39%) ESRI
6 225 (4.17%) VMware
7 199 (3.69%) Google
8 153 (2.83%) IBM
9 129 (2.39%) Informatica
10 104 (1.93%) Splunk
11 85 (1.57%) Alteryx
12 78 (1.44%) Cisco
13 69 (1.28%) SAP
14 64 (1.19%) Cloudera
15 54 (1.00%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.96%) NetApp
17 51 (0.94%) Xilinx
18 49 (0.91%) SolidFire
19 39 (0.72%) SaltStack
20 38 (0.70%) Dynatrace