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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,971 6,242 5,294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.37% 10.98% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.49% 32.83% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,741 3,934 4,173
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 10,318 19,012 18,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.74% 33.44% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,719 11,438 15,245
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £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 £108,750
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 3 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 3 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 +1 2,120 £85,000 -2.86% 1,224
North of England -12 585 £57,000 -8.80% 636
South East -35 410 £60,000 -7.69% 1,167
Midlands +3 350 £60,000 +4.35% 418
South West -7 278 £60,000 -11.11% 317
Yorkshire 0 275 £60,000 -4.58% 214
West Midlands +16 244 £60,000 -5.05% 257
North West -15 243 £57,500 -4.17% 342
East of England -17 191 £50,000 -28.57% 350
East Midlands -13 109 £63,750 +15.91% 152
North East -8 69 £40,000 -38.46% 86
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
1 207 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 144 (3.63%) Apache
4 57 (1.44%) Confluence
5 42 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.68%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 21 (0.53%) nginx
9 21 (0.53%) WordPress
10 18 (0.45%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 14 (0.35%) Appian
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
14 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 392 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.25%) Simulink
4 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.10%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.10%) Windchill
9 3 (0.076%) CATIA
9 3 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.076%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.025%) Actimize
6 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.025%) Endur
6 1 (0.025%) FastStats
6 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,476 (37.17%) AWS
2 1,457 (36.69%) Azure
3 588 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 492 (12.39%) GCP
5 432 (10.88%) GitHub
6 279 (7.03%) Serverless
7 207 (5.21%) Snowflake
8 188 (4.73%) dbt
9 179 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 175 (4.41%) Azure AI
11 170 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
12 167 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
13 158 (3.98%) SaaS
14 125 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 125 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
15 121 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
16 109 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
17 99 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 87 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
19 82 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.68%) Internet
2 171 (4.31%) Firewall
3 81 (2.04%) DNS
4 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 70 (1.76%) VPN
6 67 (1.69%) WAN
7 55 (1.39%) LAN
8 48 (1.21%) HTTP
9 44 (1.11%) Network Security
10 36 (0.91%) VLAN
11 35 (0.88%) Wireless
12 34 (0.86%) BGP
13 33 (0.83%) SAN
14 32 (0.81%) SSL
15 31 (0.78%) OSPF
15 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 29 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.65%) DHCP
18 23 (0.58%) SMTP
18 23 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (14.03%) Power BI
2 436 (10.98%) Tableau
3 288 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
4 271 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 219 (5.51%) SQL Server
6 195 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 176 (4.43%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 118 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
10 114 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 108 (2.72%) Data Mining
12 107 (2.69%) MongoDB
13 104 (2.62%) Big Data
14 103 (2.59%) BigQuery
15 102 (2.57%) MySQL
16 99 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
17 94 (2.37%) Apache Arrow
17 94 (2.37%) Dremio
18 86 (2.17%) DynamoDB
19 81 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 493 (12.42%) Git
2 246 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 153 (3.85%) JIRA
4 134 (3.37%) GitLab
5 61 (1.54%) Selenium
6 53 (1.33%) MLflow
7 40 (1.01%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
9 29 (0.73%) Postman
10 25 (0.63%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.53%) Mockito
12 21 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 1,157 (29.14%) Finance
2 1,097 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 581 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (8.01%) Banking
5 283 (7.13%) Law
6 231 (5.82%) Marketing
7 229 (5.77%) Front Office
8 212 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 175 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 173 (4.36%) Multimedia
11 144 (3.63%) Retail
12 118 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.64%) Investment Banking
14 101 (2.54%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 80 (2.01%) Electronics
17 69 (1.74%) Legal
18 63 (1.59%) Games
19 60 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
20 58 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 723 (18.21%) Developer
2 717 (18.06%) Senior
3 583 (14.68%) Analyst
4 434 (10.93%) Data Engineer
5 409 (10.30%) Software Engineer
6 392 (9.87%) Data Analyst
7 321 (8.08%) Lead
8 287 (7.23%) Python Developer
9 284 (7.15%) Python Engineer
10 259 (6.52%) Trainee
11 196 (4.94%) Python Software Engineer
12 195 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
13 174 (4.38%) Junior
14 167 (4.21%) Architect
15 159 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
16 151 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
17 149 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 144 (3.63%) Junior Analyst
19 142 (3.58%) Junior Data Analyst
20 140 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (8.86%) React
2 305 (7.68%) HTML
3 259 (6.52%) CSS
4 196 (4.94%) Pandas
5 192 (4.84%) Node.js
6 174 (4.38%) Kafka
7 170 (4.28%) REST
8 154 (3.88%) Django
9 147 (3.70%) NumPy
10 137 (3.45%) RESTful
11 129 (3.25%) .NET
11 129 (3.25%) FastAPI
11 129 (3.25%) PySpark
12 126 (3.17%) AngularJS
13 117 (2.95%) PyTorch
14 110 (2.77%) Vue
15 107 (2.69%) Flask
16 105 (2.64%) TensorFlow
17 96 (2.42%) JSON
17 96 (2.42%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 266 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 174 (4.38%) Equities
4 157 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 147 (3.70%) Fixed Income
6 137 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 123 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 119 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 113 (2.85%) Onboarding
10 111 (2.80%) Derivative
11 109 (2.74%) Hedge funds
12 95 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
13 85 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 78 (1.96%) Product Ownership
15 70 (1.76%) Public Cloud
16 64 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
17 58 (1.46%) Data Centre
17 58 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
18 55 (1.39%) Pricing Data
19 54 (1.36%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 499 (12.57%) Linux
2 213 (5.36%) Windows
3 196 (4.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.83%) VMS
7 31 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.58%) CentOS
8 23 (0.58%) Debian
9 17 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.38%) Solaris
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.30%) zOS
12 10 (0.25%) Android
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.076%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (25.89%) CI/CD
2 1,019 (25.66%) AI
3 905 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
4 904 (22.77%) Agile
5 823 (20.73%) Analytics
6 802 (20.20%) DevOps
7 735 (18.51%) Software Engineering
8 660 (16.62%) Business Intelligence
9 589 (14.83%) Mentoring
10 561 (14.13%) Machine Learning
11 513 (12.92%) Data Science
12 448 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 443 (11.16%) ETL
14 442 (11.13%) Data Engineering
15 427 (10.75%) Data Modelling
16 419 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 415 (10.45%) Computer Science
18 401 (10.10%) Containerisation
19 384 (9.67%) Data Analysis
20 344 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,586 (39.94%) SQL
2 672 (16.92%) JavaScript
3 671 (16.90%) Java
4 377 (9.49%) Bash
5 371 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 360 (9.07%) PowerShell
7 285 (7.18%) C#
8 215 (5.41%) R
9 208 (5.24%) C++
10 174 (4.38%) Go
11 100 (2.52%) C
12 66 (1.66%) Scala
13 60 (1.51%) PHP
14 57 (1.44%) Perl
15 56 (1.41%) Shell Script
16 46 (1.16%) Bicep
16 46 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 44 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 44 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 37 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 798 (20.10%) Degree
2 398 (10.02%) Azure Certification
3 388 (9.77%) Security Cleared
4 300 (7.55%) AWS Certification
5 238 (5.99%) SC Cleared
6 225 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 201 (5.06%) Master's Degree
8 184 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 173 (4.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.45%) DV Cleared
11 124 (3.12%) PhD
12 65 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.08%) CISSP
15 42 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 42 (1.06%) CCNP
16 39 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.68%) CCNA
18 24 (0.60%) HND
18 24 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.68%) QA
3 122 (3.07%) GDPR
4 91 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.96%) NIST
6 62 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.96%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.20%) GRC
13 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.20%) PMO
14 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.13%) NCSC
15 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 562 (14.15%) Docker
2 96 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.53%) Firmware
7 19 (0.48%) vSphere
8 15 (0.38%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.23%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.13%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 573 (14.43%) Kubernetes
2 509 (12.82%) Terraform
3 319 (8.03%) Ansible
4 149 (3.75%) Grafana
5 123 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.98%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Argo
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 22 (0.55%) Puppet
9 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.33%) Nessus
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.28%) Nagios
15 10 (0.25%) Control-M
15 10 (0.25%) Nmap
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 832 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 315 (7.93%) Databricks
3 196 (4.94%) Google
4 139 (3.50%) Oracle
5 113 (2.85%) VMware
6 96 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 89 (2.24%) Cisco
8 87 (2.19%) Splunk
9 68 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 61 (1.54%) SAP
11 52 (1.31%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.28%) Alteryx
13 49 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.11%) IBM
15 40 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 36 (0.91%) Informatica
16 36 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 35 (0.88%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.86%) Fortinet
18 34 (0.86%) Palantir