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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,854 6,741 6,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.23% 9.77% 12.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.04% 31.80% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,673 4,316 5,220
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £133,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 11,827 21,201 22,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.37% 30.72% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,806 13,616 18,138
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 2,276 £90,000 - 1,848
North of England +24 1,285 £62,500 +4.17% 653
North West +23 1,035 £60,000 - 388
South East -20 481 £60,000 +9.09% 1,164
Midlands +7 313 £63,500 +5.83% 404
South West -11 230 £55,000 -18.52% 272
East of England -17 222 £55,000 -8.33% 289
Yorkshire +5 210 £65,000 +15.56% 198
West Midlands +11 197 £60,500 -6.92% 227
East Midlands 0 118 £65,000 +36.84% 168
North East -15 42 £47,500 -26.92% 74
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 264 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (3.71%) Apache
3 177 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 72 (1.48%) Confluence
5 33 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.58%) CMS
8 27 (0.56%) nginx
9 25 (0.52%) SAS
10 15 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 14 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 12 (0.25%) IIS
13 10 (0.21%) Appian
14 9 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
15 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.082%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.082%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 146 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.52%) Simulink
4 16 (0.33%) Mathcad
5 15 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.10%) GNU Octave
8 5 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.062%) InDesign
10 3 (0.062%) Stata
11 2 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.041%) SPSS
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) SPSS Modeler
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 33 (0.68%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.21%) Shopify
5 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.041%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.041%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.041%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.021%) Actimize
9 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.021%) Endur
9 1 (0.021%) Magento
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.021%) Summit
9 1 (0.021%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,775 (36.57%) AWS
2 1,509 (31.09%) Azure
3 773 (15.93%) GCP
4 411 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 296 (6.10%) Serverless
6 273 (5.62%) Snowflake
7 235 (4.84%) GitHub
8 233 (4.80%) dbt
9 209 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
10 203 (4.18%) Amazon S3
11 185 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
12 174 (3.58%) SaaS
13 166 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
14 157 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
15 146 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 131 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
17 108 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
18 105 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 99 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 84 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 804 (16.56%) VPN
2 491 (10.12%) DNS
3 281 (5.79%) Cisco IOS
4 206 (4.24%) Firewall
5 119 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 98 (2.02%) WAN
7 71 (1.46%) LAN
8 54 (1.11%) HTTP
8 54 (1.11%) Internet
9 52 (1.07%) Network Security
10 45 (0.93%) BGP
11 44 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 41 (0.84%) OSPF
13 34 (0.70%) SSL
13 34 (0.70%) VLAN
14 32 (0.66%) Wireless
15 31 (0.64%) FTP
15 31 (0.64%) SSH
16 29 (0.60%) DHCP
17 28 (0.58%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (7.58%) Power BI
2 340 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
3 296 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 215 (4.43%) Data Lake
5 202 (4.16%) Relational Database
6 199 (4.10%) SQL Server
7 195 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
8 194 (4.00%) Tableau
9 186 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 178 (3.67%) Apache Iceberg
11 162 (3.34%) Apache Arrow
11 162 (3.34%) Dremio
12 129 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
13 124 (2.55%) Big Data
14 112 (2.31%) DynamoDB
15 109 (2.25%) MongoDB
15 109 (2.25%) MySQL
16 106 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
17 99 (2.04%) BigQuery
18 89 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 386 (7.95%) Git
2 258 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 165 (3.40%) JIRA
4 115 (2.37%) GitLab
5 78 (1.61%) Robot Framework
6 72 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 58 (1.19%) Selenium
8 47 (0.97%) Vagrant
9 46 (0.95%) MLflow
10 44 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 42 (0.87%) JUnit
12 41 (0.84%) JMeter
13 30 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 28 (0.58%) Postman
15 27 (0.56%) Mockito
16 21 (0.43%) Maven
17 18 (0.37%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.33%) Appium
18 16 (0.33%) Artifactory
19 15 (0.31%) Locust
General
1 1,708 (35.19%) Finance
2 1,258 (25.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,186 (24.43%) Analytical Skills
4 910 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 437 (9.00%) Banking
6 412 (8.49%) Law
7 397 (8.18%) Front Office
8 278 (5.73%) Marketing
9 174 (3.58%) Public Sector
10 169 (3.48%) Retail
11 153 (3.15%) Telecoms
12 146 (3.01%) Investment Banking
13 104 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 78 (1.61%) Games
15 77 (1.59%) Legal
16 72 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
17 71 (1.46%) Electronics
18 60 (1.24%) Advertising
18 60 (1.24%) Financial Institution
19 49 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,143 (23.55%) Developer
2 1,100 (22.66%) Senior
3 745 (15.35%) Software Engineer
4 519 (10.69%) Software Developer
5 427 (8.80%) Data Engineer
6 407 (8.38%) Lead
7 403 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 374 (7.70%) Analyst
9 371 (7.64%) Python Engineer
10 327 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 303 (6.24%) Python Developer
12 289 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
13 285 (5.87%) Python Software Engineer
14 184 (3.79%) AWS Software Engineer
15 173 (3.56%) Senior Developer
16 171 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
17 163 (3.36%) Architect
18 159 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
19 153 (3.15%) Data Analyst
20 134 (2.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (8.96%) Node.js
2 404 (8.32%) React
3 402 (8.28%) .NET
4 323 (6.65%) Pandas
5 307 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
6 225 (4.64%) NumPy
7 186 (3.83%) HTML
8 180 (3.71%) Kafka
9 177 (3.65%) REST
10 166 (3.42%) SciPy
11 159 (3.28%) PySpark
12 153 (3.15%) AngularJS
13 133 (2.74%) RESTful
14 130 (2.68%) Vue
15 116 (2.39%) CSS
16 108 (2.22%) Django
17 102 (2.10%) gRPC
18 100 (2.06%) FastAPI
19 96 (1.98%) PyTorch
20 93 (1.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 890 (18.34%) Cyberattack
2 297 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
3 290 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 268 (5.52%) Fixed Income
5 265 (5.46%) Equities
6 255 (5.25%) Algorithms
7 226 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
8 207 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 191 (3.93%) Derivative
9 191 (3.93%) Hedge funds
10 135 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
11 127 (2.62%) Data Structures
12 119 (2.45%) Management Information System
13 103 (2.12%) Onboarding
14 99 (2.04%) Public Cloud
15 92 (1.90%) Pricing Data
16 80 (1.65%) Data Centre
17 76 (1.57%) Product Ownership
18 65 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
19 55 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,477 (30.43%) Linux
2 720 (14.83%) Android
3 546 (11.25%) Windows
4 136 (2.80%) Unix
5 63 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 61 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 53 (1.09%) VMS
8 41 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 26 (0.54%) Debian
10 18 (0.37%) CentOS
11 14 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.29%) Solaris
12 13 (0.27%) zOS
13 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,764 (36.34%) Agile
2 1,224 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1,159 (23.88%) DevOps
4 1,128 (23.24%) Software Engineering
5 1,069 (22.02%) CI/CD
6 990 (20.40%) Mathematics
7 795 (16.38%) Machine Learning
8 779 (16.05%) Artificial Intelligence
9 769 (15.84%) Analytics
10 732 (15.08%) Mentoring
11 727 (14.98%) Line Management
12 640 (13.19%) Data Engineering
13 552 (11.37%) OO
14 541 (11.15%) Data Science
15 526 (10.84%) OOP
16 500 (10.30%) Computer Science
17 482 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
18 477 (9.83%) Design Patterns
19 451 (9.29%) Microservices
20 446 (9.19%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,499 (30.88%) SQL
2 1,478 (30.45%) Java
3 947 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 912 (18.79%) C++
5 826 (17.02%) Go
6 704 (14.50%) Bash
7 702 (14.46%) PowerShell
8 512 (10.55%) TypeScript
9 332 (6.84%) C#
10 310 (6.39%) Rust
11 224 (4.61%) R
12 156 (3.21%) C
13 123 (2.53%) MATLAB
14 105 (2.16%) PHP
15 79 (1.63%) Scala
16 78 (1.61%) Shell Script
17 76 (1.57%) Perl
18 72 (1.48%) Ruby
19 65 (1.34%) T-SQL
20 60 (1.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 987 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 884 (18.21%) Degree
3 712 (14.67%) DV Cleared
4 349 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 239 (4.92%) SC Cleared
6 220 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 215 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 211 (4.35%) Master's Degree
9 184 (3.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 141 (2.90%) Azure Certification
11 139 (2.86%) PhD
12 85 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 65 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
14 49 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
15 45 (0.93%) CCNP
16 36 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 32 (0.66%) CISSP
18 31 (0.64%) CCNA
19 26 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
20 25 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (5.03%) QA
2 184 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 143 (2.95%) GDPR
4 77 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (1.57%) NIST
6 55 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 29 (0.60%) SLA
9 26 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 22 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.16%) GRC
14 8 (0.16%) IFRS
15 6 (0.12%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
17 4 (0.082%) HL7
System Software
1 1,283 (26.43%) Docker
2 290 (5.97%) Hyper-V
3 281 (5.79%) VMware NSX
4 278 (5.73%) vSphere
5 126 (2.60%) Active Directory
6 83 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 35 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.60%) DFS Replication
9 21 (0.43%) Firmware
10 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
12 11 (0.23%) HDFS
12 11 (0.23%) NFS
13 9 (0.19%) Postfix
14 8 (0.16%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.16%) KVM
14 8 (0.16%) ProxySG
14 8 (0.16%) Squid
15 7 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
16 5 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1,071 (22.06%) Ansible
2 898 (18.50%) Terraform
3 663 (13.66%) Kubernetes
4 163 (3.36%) Grafana
5 141 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 47 (0.97%) Kibana
7 35 (0.72%) Puppet
8 28 (0.58%) Kubeflow
9 25 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 23 (0.47%) Nagios
12 18 (0.37%) Nessus
13 17 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
13 17 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.31%) Argo
14 15 (0.31%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) Proxmox
16 13 (0.27%) Istio
16 13 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 461 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 370 (7.62%) Cisco
3 363 (7.48%) Splunk
4 340 (7.00%) Databricks
5 286 (5.89%) Juniper
6 262 (5.40%) 3PAR
7 225 (4.64%) Google
8 122 (2.51%) Oracle
8 122 (2.51%) VMware
9 81 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 77 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 63 (1.30%) SAP
12 53 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 43 (0.89%) Palo Alto
14 38 (0.78%) SimCorp
15 34 (0.70%) Fortinet
16 33 (0.68%) BISAM
16 33 (0.68%) Calypso
16 33 (0.68%) Charles River
17 32 (0.66%) Dynatrace