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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,210 15,433 26,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 14.90% 17.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.74% 34.48% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,046 7,750 11,441
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £120,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.29% +7.83% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
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 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 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 4 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 7,487 £70,000 -3.45% 2,614
UK excluding London -14 5,361 £55,000 -11.29% 1,316
Work from Home -4 3,835 £70,000 - 1,271
London -3 3,558 £85,000 +3.03% 1,374
Scotland -8 1,312 £50,000 -23.08% 95
South East -12 1,139 £55,000 -12.00% 318
North of England -24 937 £55,000 -15.38% 236
South West -5 894 £56,500 -5.83% 224
North West -17 597 £56,509 -9.59% 145
Midlands -32 522 £55,000 -4.35% 191
East of England -11 385 £60,000 -4.00% 205
West Midlands -36 307 £55,000 -8.33% 123
Yorkshire -28 269 £55,000 -15.38% 71
East Midlands -21 214 £49,990 -9.11% 67
Wales -18 99 £51,528 -6.39% 30
Northern Ireland +5 83 £75,000 +25.00% 39
North East -24 71 £57,500 -11.54% 21

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
1 617 (6.70%) Apache
2 598 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 594 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
4 362 (3.93%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.63%) GeoServer
6 140 (1.52%) SAS
7 71 (0.77%) Confluence
8 63 (0.68%) nginx
9 43 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 41 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 40 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (2.66%) 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 (0.20%) 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 (0.033%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.033%) R3 Corda
9 3 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.022%) Primavera
10 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,740 (40.61%) AWS
2 2,601 (28.24%) Azure
3 1,153 (12.52%) GCP
4 658 (7.14%) Serverless
5 646 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 449 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 405 (4.40%) Snowflake
8 391 (4.25%) Amazon S3
9 365 (3.96%) dbt
10 355 (3.85%) GitHub
11 331 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
11 331 (3.59%) SaaS
12 189 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 186 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
14 181 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 181 (1.97%) OpenShift
15 170 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 166 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
17 156 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
18 145 (1.57%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 323 (3.51%) Firewall
2 234 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 215 (2.33%) DNS
4 146 (1.59%) VPN
5 137 (1.49%) WAN
6 120 (1.30%) Internet
7 118 (1.28%) HTTP
8 112 (1.22%) LAN
9 111 (1.21%) Network Security
10 104 (1.13%) DHCP
10 104 (1.13%) Wireless
11 98 (1.06%) SNMP
12 67 (0.73%) IPsec
13 53 (0.58%) Bluetooth
14 49 (0.53%) 5G
15 48 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
16 41 (0.45%) MQTT
17 38 (0.41%) BGP
18 35 (0.38%) Wireshark
19 33 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,011 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 653 (7.09%) NoSQL
3 595 (6.46%) Power BI
4 559 (6.07%) Tableau
5 557 (6.05%) Big Data
6 514 (5.58%) Data Lake
7 488 (5.30%) SQL Server
8 458 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
9 451 (4.90%) MongoDB
10 448 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 401 (4.35%) GIS
12 335 (3.64%) QGIS
13 293 (3.18%) Hadoop
14 285 (3.09%) MySQL
15 279 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
16 274 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
17 242 (2.63%) Dremio
18 241 (2.62%) Apache Arrow
19 223 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
20 180 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,052 (11.42%) Git
2 650 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 302 (3.28%) JIRA
4 292 (3.17%) GitLab
5 89 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 83 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 72 (0.78%) LabVIEW
8 70 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 67 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 64 (0.69%) Selenium
11 60 (0.65%) Subversion
12 55 (0.60%) Maven
13 54 (0.59%) 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 2,911 (31.61%) Finance
2 1,870 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 1,285 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,141 (12.39%) Law
5 1,052 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
6 847 (9.20%) Marketing
7 760 (8.25%) Banking
8 690 (7.49%) Front Office
9 513 (5.57%) Legal
10 402 (4.36%) Public Sector
11 365 (3.96%) Retail
12 345 (3.75%) Investment Banking
13 284 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
14 243 (2.64%) Electronics
15 206 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 181 (1.97%) Games
16 181 (1.97%) Telecoms
17 172 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 151 (1.64%) Financial Institution
19 118 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,481 (26.94%) Software Engineer
2 2,091 (22.70%) Senior
3 1,717 (18.64%) Developer
4 998 (10.84%) Data Engineer
5 898 (9.75%) Python Engineer
6 872 (9.47%) Lead
7 733 (7.96%) Analyst
8 647 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 623 (6.76%) Python Software Engineer
10 542 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 535 (5.81%) Python Developer
12 437 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 359 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 347 (3.77%) Data Scientist
15 333 (3.62%) Data Analyst
16 330 (3.58%) Architect
17 318 (3.45%) Senior Developer
18 310 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
19 307 (3.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 284 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,407 (15.28%) React
2 848 (9.21%) .NET
3 733 (7.96%) CSS
4 603 (6.55%) Node.js
5 561 (6.09%) AngularJS
6 542 (5.88%) HTML
7 473 (5.14%) Pandas
8 433 (4.70%) REST
9 385 (4.18%) PySpark
10 378 (4.10%) .NET Core
11 376 (4.08%) NumPy
12 371 (4.03%) gRPC
13 355 (3.85%) Kafka
14 351 (3.81%) PostGIS
15 341 (3.70%) OpenLayers
16 338 (3.67%) Protocol Buffers
17 337 (3.66%) Leaflet
18 331 (3.59%) Django
19 288 (3.13%) Web Services
20 280 (3.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1,071 (11.63%) Algorithms
2 574 (6.23%) Hedge funds
3 532 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 514 (5.58%) Fixed Income
5 435 (4.72%) Data Structures
6 416 (4.52%) Equities
7 403 (4.38%) Derivative
8 350 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 255 (2.77%) Onboarding
10 248 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 234 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 230 (2.50%) IoT
13 197 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 196 (2.13%) Management Information System
15 195 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 171 (1.86%) Data Centre
17 163 (1.77%) Blockchain
18 162 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
19 123 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
20 103 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,823 (19.79%) Linux
2 800 (8.69%) Windows
3 369 (4.01%) Unix
4 213 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 205 (2.23%) Android
6 172 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 149 (1.62%) Windows Server
8 143 (1.55%) CentOS
9 140 (1.52%) Ubuntu
10 105 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
11 75 (0.81%) Debian
12 54 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 20 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 19 (0.21%) Solaris
16 18 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
17 16 (0.17%) SUSE
18 14 (0.15%) Mac OS
18 14 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,546 (38.50%) Software Engineering
2 3,350 (36.37%) Agile
3 2,098 (22.78%) DevOps
4 1,908 (20.72%) CI/CD
5 1,850 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1,783 (19.36%) Machine Learning
7 1,692 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,358 (14.74%) Analytics
9 1,175 (12.76%) Computer Science
10 1,120 (12.16%) SDLC
11 1,041 (11.30%) Data Science
11 1,041 (11.30%) Visualisation
12 877 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
13 860 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
14 846 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
15 787 (8.55%) Mathematics
16 774 (8.40%) Operational Stability
17 772 (8.38%) ETL
18 767 (8.33%) Mentoring
19 739 (8.02%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,198 (34.72%) SQL
2 2,426 (26.34%) Java
3 2,034 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 1,317 (14.30%) C#
5 922 (10.01%) Bash
6 749 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 716 (7.77%) C
8 698 (7.58%) C++
9 689 (7.48%) PowerShell
10 517 (5.61%) R
11 449 (4.88%) Go
12 293 (3.18%) Perl
13 280 (3.04%) Ruby
14 231 (2.51%) Scala
15 215 (2.33%) MATLAB
16 181 (1.97%) PL/SQL
17 152 (1.65%) PHP
17 152 (1.65%) Rust
18 147 (1.60%) Embedded C
19 134 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,947 (21.14%) Degree
2 1,264 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 767 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 526 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 461 (5.01%) Master's Degree
6 302 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 286 (3.11%) PhD
8 183 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 135 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 90 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (0.81%) CISSP
12 67 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 62 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 55 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
15 54 (0.59%) CCNA
16 43 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 40 (0.43%) CCNP
18 37 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 35 (0.38%) HND
20 32 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 326 (3.54%) QA
3 99 (1.07%) 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 32 (0.35%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.22%) MISRA
12 18 (0.20%) 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 1,106 (12.01%) Docker
2 219 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 170 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 115 (1.25%) HDFS
5 113 (1.23%) 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%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
12 20 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.11%) pfSense
14 7 (0.076%) KVM
14 7 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.054%) Ceph
15 5 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 3 (0.033%) Gluster
16 3 (0.033%) oVirt
16 3 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,286 (13.96%) Kubernetes
2 1,024 (11.12%) Terraform
3 684 (7.43%) Ansible
4 282 (3.06%) Puppet
5 198 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 172 (1.87%) Grafana
7 111 (1.21%) 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 (0.20%) Argo
18 17 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 741 (8.05%) Databricks
2 695 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 522 (5.67%) Google
4 512 (5.56%) Oracle
5 392 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.87%) ESRI
7 288 (3.13%) VMware
8 172 (1.87%) IBM
9 145 (1.57%) Informatica
10 140 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 138 (1.50%) Splunk
12 136 (1.48%) Cisco
13 96 (1.04%) SAP
14 91 (0.99%) Cloudera
15 76 (0.83%) Bloomberg
16 71 (0.77%) Palo Alto
17 60 (0.65%) Atlassian
18 57 (0.62%) NetApp
19 54 (0.59%) SolidFire
20 51 (0.55%) Salesforce