Python Jobs in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,518 6,696 15,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 9.85% 15.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.08% 27.09% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 5,098 7,877
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £117,236
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -5.59% +2.14%

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 16,683 24,721 44,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.59% 36.38% 45.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,984 20,587 28,568
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £38,999
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Salary trend for Python in England

Python
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 18 February 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 February 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 2,667 £87,500 +6.06% 2,498
South East +9 904 £67,500 +12.50% 843
North of England -1 709 £60,465 +9.94% 384
East of England +10 419 £66,230 +5.97% 211
Midlands -3 409 £55,000 +2.80% 172
North West -10 409 £60,000 +9.09% 204
South West -6 396 £60,000 +0.80% 198
Yorkshire +10 230 £65,000 +18.18% 121
West Midlands -11 227 £55,000 - 110
East Midlands +10 182 £55,000 +10.00% 59
North East +28 74 £65,000 +15.56% 61
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
1 352 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 315 (5.71%) Apache
3 238 (4.31%) Apache Spark
4 92 (1.67%) SAS
5 91 (1.65%) Confluence
6 61 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 55 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 46 (0.83%) WordPress
9 45 (0.82%) CMS
9 45 (0.82%) Jupyter
10 34 (0.62%) nginx
11 10 (0.18%) Drupal
12 8 (0.14%) Mule
12 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.091%) CICS
14 5 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
14 5 (0.091%) Luigi
14 5 (0.091%) Smallworld
14 5 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 173 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 69 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.74%) Simulink
5 20 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.18%) Weka
9 7 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.091%) Sketch
10 5 (0.091%) Stata
11 4 (0.072%) InDesign
11 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.072%) Trello
12 3 (0.054%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 3 (0.054%) SPSS
13 2 (0.036%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 27 (0.49%) Aladdin
1 27 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 27 (0.49%) Shopify
2 9 (0.16%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.13%) Odoo
4 6 (0.11%) GoldMine
5 5 (0.091%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.072%) Magento
6 4 (0.072%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.054%) Maximo
8 2 (0.036%) Endur
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.036%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.036%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.036%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.036%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.036%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.036%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,903 (34.49%) AWS
2 1,399 (25.35%) Azure
3 740 (13.41%) GCP
4 446 (8.08%) GitHub
5 431 (7.81%) Serverless
6 428 (7.76%) Power Platform
7 338 (6.13%) dbt
8 297 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 254 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
11 223 (4.04%) Snowflake
12 203 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
13 201 (3.64%) SaaS
14 179 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
15 177 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 175 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 150 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 129 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
19 124 (2.25%) OpenShift
20 111 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (3.77%) Firewall
2 129 (2.34%) DNS
3 125 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 120 (2.17%) Broadband
5 105 (1.90%) Network Security
6 76 (1.38%) HTTP
7 75 (1.36%) DHCP
8 67 (1.21%) VPN
9 66 (1.20%) WAN
10 60 (1.09%) LAN
11 51 (0.92%) Internet
12 47 (0.85%) BGP
13 45 (0.82%) Ethernet
14 39 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 39 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
15 38 (0.69%) SAN
16 37 (0.67%) Wireless
17 36 (0.65%) MPLS
18 32 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
18 32 (0.58%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (7.19%) Power BI
2 393 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 276 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 270 (4.89%) Tableau
5 263 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
6 247 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 247 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 245 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 244 (4.42%) Dremio
9 243 (4.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 198 (3.59%) Apache Ignite
11 195 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 191 (3.46%) Apache Arrow
13 174 (3.15%) MySQL
14 163 (2.95%) MongoDB
15 158 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 157 (2.85%) Big Data
17 153 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
18 89 (1.61%) DynamoDB
19 73 (1.32%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 539 (9.77%) Git
2 291 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 196 (3.55%) JIRA
4 191 (3.46%) GitLab
5 118 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 72 (1.30%) Selenium
7 45 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 40 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 37 (0.67%) JUnit
10 34 (0.62%) LabVIEW
10 34 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 33 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.56%) Eclipse
12 31 (0.56%) JMeter
13 29 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 28 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 28 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
14 28 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
15 26 (0.47%) Postman
16 25 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,448 (26.24%) Finance
2 1,289 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 778 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 518 (9.39%) Front Office
5 465 (8.43%) Banking
6 191 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 190 (3.44%) Electronics
8 184 (3.33%) Marketing
9 167 (3.03%) Law
10 161 (2.92%) Public Sector
11 157 (2.85%) Multimedia
12 145 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 143 (2.59%) Retail
14 131 (2.37%) Legal
15 130 (2.36%) Manufacturing
16 123 (2.23%) Games
17 116 (2.10%) Investment Banking
17 116 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
18 109 (1.98%) Advertising
19 69 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,200 (21.75%) Senior
2 1,019 (18.47%) Developer
3 992 (17.98%) Software Engineer
4 557 (10.09%) Lead
5 501 (9.08%) Data Engineer
6 486 (8.81%) Python Engineer
7 476 (8.63%) Analyst
8 354 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 327 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 303 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 293 (5.31%) Python Developer
12 198 (3.59%) Data Scientist
13 189 (3.43%) Python Software Engineer
14 186 (3.37%) Architect
15 173 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 171 (3.10%) Web Developer
17 160 (2.90%) Junior
18 157 (2.85%) Trainee Developer
18 157 (2.85%) Trainee Web Developer
19 156 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 633 (11.47%) React
2 502 (9.10%) HTML
3 354 (6.42%) CSS
4 338 (6.13%) Node.js
5 302 (5.47%) Pandas
6 258 (4.68%) Django
6 258 (4.68%) NumPy
7 250 (4.53%) PySpark
8 249 (4.51%) Kafka
9 238 (4.31%) .NET
10 231 (4.19%) REST
11 205 (3.72%) AngularJS
12 189 (3.43%) SciPy
13 185 (3.35%) HTML5
14 167 (3.03%) CSS3
15 149 (2.70%) RESTful
16 135 (2.45%) Flask
17 133 (2.41%) gRPC
18 131 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
19 130 (2.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.40%) Algorithms
2 275 (4.98%) Fixed Income
3 211 (3.82%) Hedge funds
4 176 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 164 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 163 (2.95%) Equities
7 162 (2.94%) Derivative
8 138 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 136 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 131 (2.37%) Cloud Native
10 131 (2.37%) Public Cloud
11 125 (2.27%) Private Cloud
12 107 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 104 (1.88%) Data Centre
14 100 (1.81%) Robotics
15 85 (1.54%) Data Structures
16 84 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
17 78 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
18 63 (1.14%) Mobile App
19 61 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 926 (16.78%) Linux
2 403 (7.30%) Windows
3 207 (3.75%) Unix
4 99 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 69 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 62 (1.12%) Android
7 45 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 35 (0.63%) CentOS
9 30 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 25 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 23 (0.42%) Rocky
12 19 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.31%) VMS
14 14 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 14 (0.25%) Debian
14 14 (0.25%) VxWorks
15 13 (0.24%) SUSE
16 12 (0.22%) Solaris
17 9 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,608 (29.14%) Software Engineering
2 1,473 (26.69%) Agile
3 1,279 (23.18%) CI/CD
4 1,173 (21.26%) DevOps
5 1,061 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 949 (17.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 877 (15.89%) Analytics
8 852 (15.44%) Computer Science
9 843 (15.28%) Machine Learning
10 687 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 649 (11.76%) Data Science
12 534 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 518 (9.39%) Containerisation
14 508 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
15 493 (8.93%) Data Engineering
16 492 (8.92%) Visualisation
17 487 (8.83%) Mathematics
18 469 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
19 454 (8.23%) Asset Management
20 443 (8.03%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,684 (30.52%) SQL
2 1,157 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 1,095 (19.84%) Java
4 685 (12.41%) C#
5 659 (11.94%) C++
6 571 (10.35%) PowerShell
7 539 (9.77%) Bash
8 535 (9.70%) TypeScript
9 295 (5.35%) C
10 290 (5.26%) R
11 281 (5.09%) Go
12 172 (3.12%) Shell Script
13 152 (2.75%) Rust
14 151 (2.74%) MATLAB
15 139 (2.52%) Scala
16 118 (2.14%) PHP
17 109 (1.98%) Ruby
18 105 (1.90%) Perl
19 96 (1.74%) VBA
20 70 (1.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,617 (29.30%) Degree
2 554 (10.04%) Security Cleared
3 441 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 371 (6.72%) Master's Degree
5 261 (4.73%) DV Cleared
6 259 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 142 (2.57%) PhD
8 87 (1.58%) DBS Check
9 84 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 84 (1.52%) RHCSA
10 83 (1.50%) LPIC
11 79 (1.43%) Azure Certification
12 78 (1.41%) AWS Certification
13 58 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 53 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
15 50 (0.91%) CCNP
16 47 (0.85%) Chartered Engineer
16 47 (0.85%) CISSP
17 38 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
18 32 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 191 (3.46%) QA
3 153 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.28%) NIST
5 86 (1.56%) SOC 2
6 84 (1.52%) GDPR
7 51 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 44 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 38 (0.69%) SLA
10 20 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 18 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.24%) HL7
14 11 (0.20%) IFRS
14 11 (0.20%) IFRS 9
15 10 (0.18%) CDISC
15 10 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 945 (17.13%) Docker
2 178 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (2.41%) Active Directory
4 89 (1.61%) VMware NSX
5 77 (1.40%) vSphere
6 67 (1.21%) Firmware
7 56 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 43 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.29%) VMware Server
12 15 (0.27%) HDFS
13 14 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.11%) NFS
14 6 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 5 (0.091%) Apache Flume
16 4 (0.072%) XenApp
16 4 (0.072%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.054%) KVM
17 3 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 907 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 809 (14.66%) Terraform
3 558 (10.11%) Ansible
4 201 (3.64%) Grafana
5 184 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 111 (2.01%) Puppet
7 73 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.54%) vRealize
9 29 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 28 (0.51%) Istio
10 28 (0.51%) SCCM
11 27 (0.49%) Nagios
12 26 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 26 (0.47%) Kibana
12 26 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 23 (0.42%) WSUS
14 22 (0.40%) Argo
14 22 (0.40%) CASB
15 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 21 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 578 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 353 (6.40%) Databricks
3 295 (5.35%) Google
4 267 (4.84%) VMware
5 146 (2.65%) Oracle
6 122 (2.21%) PayPal
7 113 (2.05%) Red Hat
8 104 (1.88%) Cisco
9 84 (1.52%) SAP
10 72 (1.30%) Splunk
11 61 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 57 (1.03%) IBM
13 49 (0.89%) Citrix
14 48 (0.87%) Apple
15 47 (0.85%) F5
16 40 (0.72%) Xilinx
17 35 (0.63%) Veeam
18 34 (0.62%) OpenAI
19 32 (0.58%) Palo Alto
20 31 (0.56%) SolarWinds