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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,014 5,702 5,065
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.72% 11.45% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.08% 33.66% 28.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 3,494 3,969
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £123,000
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 10,272 16,939 17,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.75% 34.03% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,735 10,080 14,868
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,238 £39,749
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,452 £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 £106,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 2,016 £85,000 - 2,541
North of England -8 637 £52,500 -16.51% 2,259
South East -40 432 £60,000 -7.69% 2,737
Midlands -10 371 £60,000 +9.09% 1,714
South West -5 303 £58,750 -9.62% 1,125
Yorkshire +12 300 £53,500 -17.69% 939
North West -11 261 £55,000 -8.33% 1,142
West Midlands +1 260 £60,000 -2.04% 879
East of England -16 208 £50,000 -28.57% 1,470
East Midlands -25 114 £62,500 +13.64% 735
North East -5 78 £40,000 -38.46% 185
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
1 184 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 132 (3.29%) Apache
4 44 (1.10%) Confluence
5 35 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.47%) nginx
11 18 (0.45%) IIS
12 17 (0.42%) Appian
13 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 10 (0.25%) CMS
14 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 502 (12.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
8 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.100%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.100%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) CATIA
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
11 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.100%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,578 (39.31%) Azure
2 1,414 (35.23%) AWS
3 690 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 512 (12.76%) GitHub
5 445 (11.09%) GCP
6 278 (6.93%) Azure AI
7 263 (6.55%) Serverless
8 190 (4.73%) Snowflake
9 184 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 164 (4.09%) dbt
11 163 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
12 157 (3.91%) Amazon S3
13 150 (3.74%) SaaS
14 137 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
15 132 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 99 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 89 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
18 88 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
19 86 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 78 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 245 (6.10%) Internet
2 153 (3.81%) Firewall
3 88 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 71 (1.77%) VPN
4 71 (1.77%) WAN
5 68 (1.69%) DNS
6 59 (1.47%) LAN
7 43 (1.07%) Wireless
8 42 (1.05%) BGP
9 39 (0.97%) HTTP
9 39 (0.97%) Network Security
10 38 (0.95%) OSPF
11 34 (0.85%) VLAN
12 31 (0.77%) SAN
12 31 (0.77%) SSL
13 30 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.60%) Broadband
16 22 (0.55%) DHCP
17 20 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (16.19%) Power BI
2 550 (13.70%) Tableau
3 275 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 244 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 169 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 169 (4.21%) Relational Database
7 138 (3.44%) Data Lake
8 136 (3.39%) Data Mining
9 110 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 107 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 105 (2.62%) Big Data
12 93 (2.32%) MySQL
13 84 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
13 84 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
14 83 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 82 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 80 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
17 70 (1.74%) Hadoop
18 66 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 541 (13.48%) Git
2 225 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.44%) GitLab
4 128 (3.19%) JIRA
5 60 (1.49%) Selenium
6 43 (1.07%) MLflow
7 40 (1.00%) JUnit
8 32 (0.80%) Postman
9 27 (0.67%) JMeter
10 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.60%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.42%) Mockito
14 15 (0.37%) LabVIEW
15 13 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.27%) Artifactory
17 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 1,157 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 1,048 (26.11%) Finance
3 607 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (6.35%) Banking
5 230 (5.73%) Multimedia
6 194 (4.83%) Law
7 182 (4.53%) Marketing
8 171 (4.26%) Front Office
9 165 (4.11%) Public Sector
10 135 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 131 (3.26%) Retail
12 111 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 103 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 91 (2.27%) Financial Institution
15 82 (2.04%) Electronics
16 81 (2.02%) Investment Banking
17 72 (1.79%) Legal
18 62 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
19 58 (1.44%) Games
20 56 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 752 (18.73%) Developer
2 685 (17.07%) Analyst
3 667 (16.62%) Senior
4 501 (12.48%) Data Analyst
5 419 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 342 (8.52%) Trainee
7 323 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 299 (7.45%) Python Developer
9 284 (7.08%) Lead
10 264 (6.58%) Junior
11 238 (5.93%) Python Engineer
12 237 (5.90%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.85%) Junior Data Analyst
14 181 (4.51%) Software Developer
15 169 (4.21%) Architect
16 154 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
17 148 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
18 137 (3.41%) Python Software Engineer
19 136 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
19 136 (3.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (9.07%) HTML
2 327 (8.15%) React
3 315 (7.85%) CSS
4 178 (4.43%) Node.js
5 168 (4.19%) REST
6 154 (3.84%) Django
7 151 (3.76%) Kafka
7 151 (3.76%) Pandas
8 138 (3.44%) RESTful
9 134 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 117 (2.91%) .NET
10 117 (2.91%) PySpark
11 111 (2.77%) PyTorch
12 109 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 107 (2.67%) NumPy
14 103 (2.57%) Flask
15 98 (2.44%) TensorFlow
16 93 (2.32%) Vue
17 90 (2.24%) JSON
18 83 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 239 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 206 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 159 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (3.51%) Equities
5 136 (3.39%) Data Structures
6 115 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 114 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 106 (2.64%) Fixed Income
9 96 (2.39%) Hedge funds
10 89 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 87 (2.17%) Derivative
12 83 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 78 (1.94%) Product Ownership
14 77 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
15 62 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 59 (1.47%) Low-Code
17 54 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
18 53 (1.32%) AI Agents
19 52 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
20 50 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 495 (12.33%) Linux
2 209 (5.21%) Windows
3 184 (4.58%) Unix
4 71 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.60%) CentOS
8 22 (0.55%) Debian
9 19 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.47%) VMS
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.17%) zOS
15 6 (0.15%) Android
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.100%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (27.55%) AI
2 955 (23.79%) CI/CD
3 870 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
4 830 (20.68%) Analytics
5 798 (19.88%) Agile
6 778 (19.38%) DevOps
7 762 (18.98%) Business Intelligence
8 641 (15.97%) Software Engineering
9 632 (15.74%) Mentoring
10 539 (13.43%) Machine Learning
11 500 (12.46%) Data Science
12 462 (11.51%) Data Modelling
13 461 (11.48%) ETL
14 455 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
15 436 (10.86%) Data Engineering
16 418 (10.41%) Computer Science
17 403 (10.04%) Data Analysis
17 403 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 371 (9.24%) Containerisation
19 358 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,640 (40.86%) SQL
2 709 (17.66%) JavaScript
3 607 (15.12%) Java
4 366 (9.12%) Bash
5 340 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 332 (8.27%) PowerShell
7 276 (6.88%) C#
8 246 (6.13%) R
9 197 (4.91%) C++
10 164 (4.09%) Go
11 104 (2.59%) C
12 83 (2.07%) Scala
13 58 (1.44%) PHP
14 52 (1.30%) Perl
15 50 (1.25%) Bicep
16 49 (1.22%) VBA
17 43 (1.07%) MATLAB
18 41 (1.02%) Shell Script
19 40 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 39 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 785 (19.56%) Degree
2 533 (13.28%) Azure Certification
3 388 (9.67%) Security Cleared
4 338 (8.42%) AWS Certification
5 286 (7.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 235 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 227 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 200 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 199 (4.96%) Master's Degree
10 148 (3.69%) DV Cleared
11 120 (2.99%) PhD
12 77 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.37%) CCNP
14 53 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 42 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.65%) CCNA
20 24 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.76%) QA
3 108 (2.69%) GDPR
4 98 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.97%) NIST
6 63 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.90%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.30%) PMO
12 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 10 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.12%) GRC
14 5 (0.12%) NCSC
15 4 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
15 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 514 (12.81%) Docker
2 80 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 23 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.45%) vSphere
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 8 (0.20%) NFS
9 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
10 7 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.15%) KVM
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 4 (0.100%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.100%) Squid
Systems Management
1 529 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 476 (11.86%) Terraform
3 300 (7.47%) Ansible
4 124 (3.09%) Grafana
5 114 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.02%) Argo
7 28 (0.70%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (0.32%) Control-M
11 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.22%) Rancher
14 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,018 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.80%) Databricks
3 193 (4.81%) Google
4 132 (3.29%) Oracle
5 109 (2.72%) VMware
6 102 (2.54%) Cisco
7 91 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 76 (1.89%) Splunk
9 68 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.69%) SAP
10 59 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 51 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 46 (1.15%) Alteryx
12 46 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 45 (1.12%) IBM
14 42 (1.05%) Bloomberg
15 40 (1.00%) Informatica
15 40 (1.00%) Talend
16 33 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.75%) Atlassian