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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,995 6,360 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.57% 10.57% 11.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.90% 32.29% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 3,986 4,265
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
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 10,542 19,696 18,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.73% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,857 11,825 15,516
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £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 26 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 26 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 2,159 £85,000 -2.86% 1,261
North of England -15 567 £60,000 -4.00% 568
South East -37 414 £57,500 -8.00% 1,129
Midlands +6 343 £60,000 +1.69% 408
South West -8 275 £60,000 -11.11% 316
Yorkshire -1 260 £62,500 -0.60% 185
North West -15 242 £60,000 -4.00% 324
West Midlands +13 240 £60,000 -7.69% 250
East of England -21 198 £52,500 -25.00% 326
East Midlands -11 106 £62,500 +13.64% 152
North East -4 67 £40,000 -38.46% 64
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
1 212 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 149 (3.73%) Apache
4 64 (1.60%) Confluence
5 44 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.70%) SAS
7 27 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.58%) nginx
9 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
10 21 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.43%) CMS
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 16 (0.40%) WordPress
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
14 12 (0.30%) Appian
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
14 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
16 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 343 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.38%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Mathcad
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.10%) CATIA
8 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.10%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.20%) Shopify
2 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.025%) FastStats
7 1 (0.025%) Magento
7 1 (0.025%) Odoo
7 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.025%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,501 (37.57%) AWS
2 1,408 (35.24%) Azure
3 548 (13.72%) Power Platform
4 501 (12.54%) GCP
5 402 (10.06%) GitHub
6 289 (7.23%) Serverless
7 211 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 196 (4.91%) dbt
9 183 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 181 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
12 157 (3.93%) SaaS
13 128 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
14 124 (3.10%) Azure AI
15 123 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
16 121 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 113 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
18 101 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
19 97 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
20 88 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 180 (4.51%) Firewall
2 160 (4.01%) Internet
3 86 (2.15%) DNS
4 80 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.85%) WAN
6 73 (1.83%) VPN
7 59 (1.48%) LAN
8 51 (1.28%) HTTP
9 45 (1.13%) Network Security
10 40 (1.00%) VLAN
11 38 (0.95%) BGP
12 35 (0.88%) Wireless
13 33 (0.83%) OSPF
13 33 (0.83%) SAN
13 33 (0.83%) SSL
14 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.68%) DHCP
17 25 (0.63%) FTP
17 25 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 515 (12.89%) Power BI
2 379 (9.49%) Tableau
3 295 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
4 288 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
5 225 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 205 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 184 (4.61%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 125 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
10 123 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 111 (2.78%) MongoDB
12 106 (2.65%) Big Data
13 104 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
14 101 (2.53%) Apache Arrow
14 101 (2.53%) BigQuery
14 101 (2.53%) Dremio
14 101 (2.53%) MySQL
15 99 (2.48%) Data Mining
16 87 (2.18%) DynamoDB
17 83 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 475 (11.89%) Git
2 254 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 163 (4.08%) JIRA
4 136 (3.40%) GitLab
5 62 (1.55%) Selenium
6 51 (1.28%) MLflow
7 40 (1.00%) JUnit
8 31 (0.78%) JMeter
8 31 (0.78%) Vagrant
9 28 (0.70%) Postman
10 23 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (0.53%) Mockito
12 19 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,219 (30.51%) Finance
2 1,067 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 586 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 356 (8.91%) Banking
5 330 (8.26%) Law
6 268 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 257 (6.43%) Marketing
8 249 (6.23%) Front Office
9 189 (4.73%) Public Sector
10 147 (3.68%) Retail
11 144 (3.60%) Multimedia
12 132 (3.30%) Manufacturing
13 112 (2.80%) Investment Banking
14 109 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.30%) Financial Institution
16 87 (2.18%) Electronics
17 76 (1.90%) Legal
18 63 (1.58%) Games
19 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
20 59 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 756 (18.92%) Senior
2 740 (18.52%) Developer
3 535 (13.39%) Analyst
4 456 (11.41%) Software Engineer
5 435 (10.89%) Data Engineer
6 351 (8.79%) Lead
7 333 (8.34%) Data Analyst
8 307 (7.68%) Python Engineer
9 295 (7.38%) Python Developer
10 225 (5.63%) Python Software Engineer
11 221 (5.53%) Trainee
12 209 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
13 168 (4.21%) Architect
14 161 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 156 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 154 (3.85%) Senior Developer
17 137 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
18 135 (3.38%) Software Developer
19 128 (3.20%) Junior
20 113 (2.83%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (9.21%) React
2 280 (7.01%) HTML
3 235 (5.88%) CSS
4 207 (5.18%) Pandas
5 195 (4.88%) Node.js
6 178 (4.46%) REST
7 176 (4.41%) Kafka
8 157 (3.93%) Django
9 156 (3.90%) NumPy
10 143 (3.58%) .NET
11 139 (3.48%) FastAPI
11 139 (3.48%) RESTful
12 134 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 132 (3.30%) PySpark
14 116 (2.90%) PyTorch
15 115 (2.88%) Vue
16 111 (2.78%) Flask
17 105 (2.63%) TensorFlow
18 103 (2.58%) SciPy
19 97 (2.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 287 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 223 (5.58%) Algorithms
3 189 (4.73%) Equities
4 156 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 156 (3.90%) Fixed Income
5 139 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 128 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 123 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 121 (3.03%) Derivative
9 118 (2.95%) Hedge funds
10 114 (2.85%) Onboarding
11 96 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
12 82 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 79 (1.98%) Public Cloud
14 77 (1.93%) Product Ownership
15 65 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (1.55%) Data Centre
17 61 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
18 59 (1.48%) Pricing Data
19 54 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 504 (12.62%) Linux
2 215 (5.38%) Windows
3 198 (4.96%) Unix
4 72 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.95%) VMS
7 33 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.60%) Debian
9 22 (0.55%) CentOS
10 19 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.38%) Solaris
13 12 (0.30%) Android
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
19 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (26.48%) CI/CD
2 979 (24.51%) AI
3 974 (24.38%) Agile
4 935 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 820 (20.53%) DevOps
6 815 (20.40%) Analytics
7 792 (19.82%) Software Engineering
8 622 (15.57%) Business Intelligence
9 576 (14.42%) Mentoring
10 573 (14.34%) Machine Learning
11 530 (13.27%) Data Science
12 450 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
13 446 (11.16%) Data Engineering
14 443 (11.09%) ETL
15 438 (10.96%) Computer Science
16 431 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 425 (10.64%) Data Modelling
18 411 (10.29%) Containerisation
19 385 (9.64%) Data Analysis
20 351 (8.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,571 (39.32%) SQL
2 704 (17.62%) Java
3 671 (16.80%) JavaScript
4 387 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 379 (9.49%) Bash
6 372 (9.31%) PowerShell
7 307 (7.68%) C#
8 221 (5.53%) C++
9 208 (5.21%) R
10 187 (4.68%) Go
11 101 (2.53%) C
12 65 (1.63%) Scala
13 64 (1.60%) PHP
14 60 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 56 (1.40%) Perl
16 52 (1.30%) MATLAB
17 51 (1.28%) T-SQL
18 44 (1.10%) Bicep
18 44 (1.10%) Groovy
19 43 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 828 (20.73%) Degree
2 405 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 324 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 275 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 248 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 206 (5.16%) Master's Degree
7 196 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 191 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 144 (3.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 143 (3.58%) DV Cleared
11 123 (3.08%) PhD
12 65 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.10%) CISSP
15 43 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 42 (1.05%) CCNP
17 39 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.68%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) CCNA
19 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 147 (3.68%) QA
3 126 (3.15%) GDPR
4 92 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.98%) NIST
6 62 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.95%) SLA
8 25 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.25%) GRC
15 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 8 (0.20%) PMO
16 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.13%) NCSC
17 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 574 (14.37%) Docker
2 103 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.53%) Firmware
7 20 (0.50%) DFS Replication
7 20 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.30%) HDFS
8 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
8 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.25%) NFS
11 7 (0.18%) Postfix
11 7 (0.18%) ProxySG
12 6 (0.15%) Dovecot
12 6 (0.15%) KVM
12 6 (0.15%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) Squid
13 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 588 (14.72%) Kubernetes
2 533 (13.34%) Terraform
3 329 (8.24%) Ansible
4 156 (3.90%) Grafana
5 128 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.00%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 26 (0.65%) Argo
9 23 (0.58%) Puppet
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 14 (0.35%) Nessus
12 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.28%) Control-M
13 11 (0.28%) Nmap
13 11 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.25%) Nagios
14 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 759 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 325 (8.14%) Databricks
3 206 (5.16%) Google
4 144 (3.60%) Oracle
5 114 (2.85%) VMware
6 95 (2.38%) Cisco
7 93 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 89 (2.23%) Splunk
9 73 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 70 (1.75%) SAP
11 52 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 49 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 48 (1.20%) Alteryx
14 43 (1.08%) IBM
15 41 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 40 (1.00%) Bloomberg
17 38 (0.95%) Atlassian
18 37 (0.93%) Fortinet
19 33 (0.83%) Informatica
19 33 (0.83%) Palantir