Python Job Trends in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,000 6,252 5,608
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.70% 10.40% 12.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.74% 32.28% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,753 3,903 4,373
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,150 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +3.66% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

All Programming Languages
England

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,599 19,371 19,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.06% 32.23% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,842 11,499 15,779
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Python job vacancy trend in England

Python
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in England

Python
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. 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
London +1 2,200 £85,000 -5.56% 3,259
North of England -18 555 £60,000 -4.58% 701
South East -35 409 £57,500 -8.00% 894
Midlands +7 334 £61,250 -2.30% 414
South West -8 271 £57,500 -14.81% 318
Yorkshire -5 254 £65,000 - 197
North West -20 238 £60,000 -4.00% 432
West Midlands +12 235 £60,000 -7.69% 273
East of England -22 189 £53,750 -23.21% 334
East Midlands -4 102 £62,500 +13.64% 140
North East -9 65 £40,000 -38.68% 78
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 223 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 179 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 155 (3.88%) Apache
4 68 (1.70%) Confluence
5 44 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
7 24 (0.60%) nginx
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 21 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 18 (0.45%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
11 16 (0.40%) WordPress
12 15 (0.38%) Appian
13 14 (0.35%) Jupyter
14 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.30%) IIS
16 7 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
17 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 286 (7.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.43%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Mathcad
5 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.10%) CATIA
10 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.10%) Windchill
11 3 (0.075%) GNU Octave
11 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.075%) Stata
12 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.075%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FastStats
8 1 (0.025%) Magento
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,547 (38.68%) AWS
2 1,368 (34.20%) Azure
3 514 (12.85%) GCP
4 499 (12.48%) Power Platform
5 397 (9.93%) GitHub
6 304 (7.60%) Serverless
7 212 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 201 (5.03%) dbt
9 198 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 194 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 172 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 153 (3.83%) SaaS
13 137 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
14 122 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
15 118 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
16 115 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 105 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
18 103 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
19 89 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 85 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 190 (4.75%) Firewall
2 157 (3.93%) Internet
3 90 (2.25%) DNS
4 84 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 81 (2.03%) VPN
6 76 (1.90%) WAN
7 60 (1.50%) LAN
8 54 (1.35%) HTTP
9 48 (1.20%) Network Security
10 44 (1.10%) BGP
11 42 (1.05%) VLAN
12 37 (0.93%) OSPF
12 37 (0.93%) SSL
13 35 (0.88%) Wireless
14 33 (0.83%) SAN
15 31 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.70%) DHCP
17 27 (0.68%) SSH
18 25 (0.63%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (11.53%) Power BI
2 323 (8.08%) Tableau
3 302 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
4 300 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 220 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 211 (5.28%) Relational Database
7 189 (4.73%) NoSQL
8 157 (3.93%) Data Lake
9 136 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
10 132 (3.30%) Apache Iceberg
11 114 (2.85%) MongoDB
12 110 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
13 108 (2.70%) Apache Arrow
13 108 (2.70%) Dremio
14 107 (2.68%) Big Data
15 101 (2.53%) MySQL
16 97 (2.43%) BigQuery
17 96 (2.40%) DynamoDB
18 92 (2.30%) Data Mining
19 84 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 470 (11.75%) Git
2 261 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 168 (4.20%) JIRA
4 137 (3.43%) GitLab
5 69 (1.73%) Selenium
6 48 (1.20%) MLflow
7 41 (1.03%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
8 33 (0.83%) Vagrant
9 29 (0.73%) Postman
10 25 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (0.55%) Mockito
13 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.35%) Cypress.io
16 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,281 (32.03%) Finance
2 1,028 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 594 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (9.95%) Banking
5 375 (9.38%) Law
6 319 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 276 (6.90%) Marketing
8 274 (6.85%) Front Office
9 199 (4.98%) Public Sector
10 149 (3.73%) Retail
11 140 (3.50%) Multimedia
12 129 (3.23%) Manufacturing
13 121 (3.03%) Investment Banking
14 109 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.28%) Financial Institution
16 88 (2.20%) Electronics
17 82 (2.05%) Legal
18 64 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
19 62 (1.55%) Games
20 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 795 (19.88%) Senior
2 739 (18.48%) Developer
3 494 (12.35%) Software Engineer
4 478 (11.95%) Analyst
5 444 (11.10%) Data Engineer
6 383 (9.58%) Lead
7 329 (8.23%) Python Engineer
8 292 (7.30%) Python Developer
9 276 (6.90%) Data Analyst
10 245 (6.13%) Python Software Engineer
11 221 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
12 211 (5.28%) Trainee
13 176 (4.40%) Architect
14 166 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 161 (4.03%) Senior Developer
16 159 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
17 158 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
18 132 (3.30%) Software Developer
19 121 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
20 109 (2.73%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (9.28%) React
2 264 (6.60%) HTML
3 231 (5.78%) CSS
4 211 (5.28%) Pandas
5 195 (4.88%) Node.js
6 193 (4.83%) Kafka
7 183 (4.58%) REST
8 162 (4.05%) NumPy
9 150 (3.75%) Django
10 145 (3.63%) .NET
11 140 (3.50%) RESTful
12 135 (3.38%) FastAPI
13 133 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 127 (3.18%) PySpark
15 119 (2.98%) Vue
16 113 (2.83%) Flask
17 112 (2.80%) PyTorch
18 110 (2.75%) SciPy
19 103 (2.58%) TensorFlow
20 86 (2.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 309 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 229 (5.73%) Algorithms
3 204 (5.10%) Equities
4 168 (4.20%) Fixed Income
5 158 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 141 (3.53%) Data Structures
7 137 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 134 (3.35%) Derivative
9 126 (3.15%) Hedge funds
10 124 (3.10%) Management Information System
11 110 (2.75%) Onboarding
12 91 (2.28%) Public Cloud
13 87 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
14 82 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
15 76 (1.90%) Product Ownership
16 66 (1.65%) Data Centre
17 65 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
18 63 (1.58%) Pricing Data
19 58 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
20 54 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 505 (12.63%) Linux
2 211 (5.28%) Windows
3 187 (4.68%) Unix
4 71 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.00%) VMS
7 36 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.63%) Debian
9 22 (0.55%) CentOS
10 20 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.35%) Android
12 14 (0.35%) Solaris
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,081 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 1,038 (25.95%) Agile
3 964 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
4 928 (23.20%) AI
5 834 (20.85%) DevOps
6 828 (20.70%) Software Engineering
7 810 (20.25%) Analytics
8 586 (14.65%) Mentoring
9 583 (14.58%) Machine Learning
10 571 (14.28%) Business Intelligence
11 536 (13.40%) Data Science
12 455 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
13 454 (11.35%) Data Engineering
14 451 (11.28%) Computer Science
15 443 (11.08%) ETL
16 440 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 422 (10.55%) Data Modelling
18 417 (10.43%) Containerisation
19 368 (9.20%) Data Analysis
20 355 (8.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,545 (38.63%) SQL
2 743 (18.58%) Java
3 675 (16.88%) JavaScript
4 395 (9.88%) TypeScript
5 377 (9.43%) Bash
6 368 (9.20%) PowerShell
7 307 (7.68%) C#
8 229 (5.73%) C++
9 207 (5.18%) R
10 202 (5.05%) Go
11 97 (2.43%) C
12 69 (1.73%) Scala
13 65 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 64 (1.60%) PHP
15 56 (1.40%) MATLAB
15 56 (1.40%) Perl
16 55 (1.38%) T-SQL
17 47 (1.18%) Groovy
18 43 (1.08%) Bicep
18 43 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 820 (20.50%) Degree
2 408 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 283 (7.08%) AWS Certification
4 276 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 257 (6.43%) SC Cleared
6 203 (5.08%) Master's Degree
7 193 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 190 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 140 (3.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 140 (3.50%) DV Cleared
10 121 (3.03%) PhD
11 68 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
12 54 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
13 45 (1.13%) CCNP
14 43 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 43 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 43 (1.08%) CISSP
15 29 (0.73%) CCNA
16 28 (0.70%) OSCP
17 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.70%) QA
3 126 (3.15%) GDPR
4 94 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.98%) NIST
6 59 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 37 (0.93%) SLA
8 26 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) GRC
14 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.18%) PMO
16 5 (0.13%) NCSC
17 4 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.10%) Def Stans
System Software
1 574 (14.35%) Docker
2 106 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 80 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 20 (0.50%) Firmware
7 20 (0.50%) vSphere
8 13 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.28%) NFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
12 7 (0.18%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.18%) Lustre
12 7 (0.18%) Squid
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
14 5 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 604 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 552 (13.80%) Terraform
3 341 (8.53%) Ansible
4 163 (4.08%) Grafana
5 132 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.10%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 24 (0.60%) Argo
9 23 (0.58%) Puppet
10 17 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 15 (0.38%) Nessus
13 13 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.33%) Nagios
14 12 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.28%) Nmap
15 11 (0.28%) QRadar
16 10 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 703 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 338 (8.45%) Databricks
3 205 (5.13%) Google
4 142 (3.55%) Oracle
5 120 (3.00%) VMware
6 98 (2.45%) Cisco
7 97 (2.43%) Splunk
8 92 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 74 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 71 (1.78%) SAP
11 51 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 47 (1.18%) Salesforce
13 46 (1.15%) Alteryx
14 42 (1.05%) IBM
14 42 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 39 (0.98%) Palantir
16 38 (0.95%) Bloomberg
17 37 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 37 (0.93%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.78%) Dell