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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,003 6,271 5,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.38% 11.04% 11.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.52% 32.92% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 3,954 4,128
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,816 £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 10,392 19,051 18,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.77% 33.53% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,784 11,474 15,115
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,972 £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 £112,500 £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 4 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 4 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 2,132 £85,000 -2.86% 961
North of England -9 591 £56,250 -10.00% 453
South East -37 415 £60,000 -7.69% 776
Midlands +4 356 £60,000 +4.35% 286
South West -6 280 £60,000 -11.11% 230
Yorkshire +1 277 £60,000 -4.58% 146
West Midlands +16 247 £60,000 -4.58% 182
North West -16 247 £57,500 -4.17% 249
East of England -18 192 £50,000 -28.57% 239
East Midlands -13 112 £65,000 +18.18% 102
North East -9 69 £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
1 209 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 145 (3.62%) Apache
4 56 (1.40%) Confluence
5 42 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) SAS
7 25 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.57%) WordPress
9 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
10 21 (0.52%) nginx
11 17 (0.42%) CMS
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.37%) Appian
14 13 (0.32%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.30%) IIS
15 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
17 5 (0.12%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 396 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.25%) Simulink
4 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.100%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.100%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) CATIA
9 3 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.100%) 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%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.025%) Endur
6 1 (0.025%) FastStats
6 1 (0.025%) Markit EDM
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 1,486 (37.12%) AWS
2 1,473 (36.80%) Azure
3 590 (14.74%) Power Platform
4 494 (12.34%) GCP
5 441 (11.02%) GitHub
6 280 (6.99%) Serverless
7 207 (5.17%) Snowflake
8 188 (4.70%) dbt
9 181 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 175 (4.37%) Azure AI
11 171 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
12 170 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
13 160 (4.00%) SaaS
14 127 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 127 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 121 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
16 109 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
17 99 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 87 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
19 82 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 191 (4.77%) Internet
2 170 (4.25%) Firewall
3 82 (2.05%) DNS
3 82 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 69 (1.72%) VPN
5 67 (1.67%) WAN
6 55 (1.37%) LAN
7 48 (1.20%) HTTP
8 45 (1.12%) Network Security
9 36 (0.90%) VLAN
10 35 (0.87%) Wireless
11 33 (0.82%) BGP
11 33 (0.82%) SAN
12 32 (0.80%) SSL
13 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (0.75%) OSPF
15 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.67%) DHCP
17 23 (0.57%) SMTP
17 23 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (13.96%) Power BI
2 440 (10.99%) Tableau
3 292 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
4 272 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
5 220 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 196 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 177 (4.42%) NoSQL
8 151 (3.77%) Data Lake
9 119 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
10 115 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 111 (2.77%) Data Mining
12 108 (2.70%) MongoDB
13 106 (2.65%) Big Data
14 103 (2.57%) BigQuery
14 103 (2.57%) MySQL
15 99 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (2.35%) Apache Arrow
16 94 (2.35%) Dremio
17 87 (2.17%) DynamoDB
18 81 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 502 (12.54%) Git
2 246 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 152 (3.80%) JIRA
4 134 (3.35%) GitLab
5 61 (1.52%) Selenium
6 55 (1.37%) MLflow
7 40 (1.00%) JUnit
8 33 (0.82%) JMeter
9 29 (0.72%) Postman
10 25 (0.62%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.52%) Mockito
12 21 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 15 (0.37%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 1,165 (29.10%) Finance
2 1,105 (27.60%) Social Skills
3 588 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (7.94%) Banking
5 285 (7.12%) Law
6 232 (5.80%) Marketing
7 229 (5.72%) Front Office
8 212 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 178 (4.45%) Multimedia
10 176 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 144 (3.60%) Retail
12 119 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.62%) Investment Banking
14 102 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.30%) Financial Institution
16 81 (2.02%) Electronics
17 69 (1.72%) Legal
18 63 (1.57%) Games
19 60 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
20 58 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 728 (18.19%) Developer
2 718 (17.94%) Senior
3 588 (14.69%) Analyst
4 438 (10.94%) Data Engineer
5 410 (10.24%) Software Engineer
6 397 (9.92%) Data Analyst
7 326 (8.14%) Lead
8 288 (7.19%) Python Developer
9 286 (7.14%) Python Engineer
10 267 (6.67%) Trainee
11 198 (4.95%) Python Software Engineer
12 195 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
13 174 (4.35%) Junior
14 168 (4.20%) Architect
15 159 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
16 151 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
17 149 (3.72%) Software Developer
18 144 (3.60%) Junior Analyst
19 142 (3.55%) Junior Data Analyst
20 140 (3.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (8.82%) React
2 310 (7.74%) HTML
3 264 (6.60%) CSS
4 196 (4.90%) Pandas
5 193 (4.82%) Node.js
6 175 (4.37%) Kafka
7 174 (4.35%) REST
8 155 (3.87%) Django
9 147 (3.67%) NumPy
10 138 (3.45%) RESTful
11 135 (3.37%) PySpark
12 130 (3.25%) FastAPI
13 129 (3.22%) .NET
14 126 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 121 (3.02%) PyTorch
16 110 (2.75%) TensorFlow
16 110 (2.75%) Vue
17 107 (2.67%) Flask
18 96 (2.40%) JSON
18 96 (2.40%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 269 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.32%) Algorithms
3 174 (4.35%) Equities
4 160 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 147 (3.67%) Fixed Income
6 137 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 124 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 119 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 113 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 111 (2.77%) Derivative
11 109 (2.72%) Hedge funds
12 95 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
13 86 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 79 (1.97%) Product Ownership
15 70 (1.75%) Public Cloud
16 64 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
17 60 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
18 58 (1.45%) Data Centre
19 55 (1.37%) AI Agents
19 55 (1.37%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 502 (12.54%) Linux
2 214 (5.35%) Windows
3 197 (4.92%) Unix
4 74 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.82%) VMS
7 31 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.57%) CentOS
8 23 (0.57%) Debian
9 17 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 16 (0.40%) Solaris
11 15 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.30%) zOS
13 10 (0.25%) Android
13 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (25.88%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (25.58%) AI
3 909 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
4 908 (22.68%) Agile
5 837 (20.91%) Analytics
6 810 (20.23%) DevOps
7 741 (18.51%) Software Engineering
8 665 (16.61%) Business Intelligence
9 594 (14.84%) Mentoring
10 568 (14.19%) Machine Learning
11 520 (12.99%) Data Science
12 455 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
13 451 (11.27%) ETL
14 446 (11.14%) Data Engineering
15 434 (10.84%) Data Modelling
16 423 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 419 (10.47%) Computer Science
18 404 (10.09%) Containerisation
19 390 (9.74%) Data Analysis
20 346 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,599 (39.95%) SQL
2 681 (17.01%) JavaScript
3 677 (16.91%) Java
4 380 (9.49%) Bash
5 372 (9.29%) TypeScript
6 364 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 285 (7.12%) C#
8 220 (5.50%) R
9 209 (5.22%) C++
10 175 (4.37%) Go
11 100 (2.50%) C
12 68 (1.70%) Scala
13 60 (1.50%) PHP
14 57 (1.42%) Perl
15 56 (1.40%) Shell Script
16 46 (1.15%) Bicep
16 46 (1.15%) T-SQL
17 44 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 44 (1.10%) MATLAB
18 38 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 804 (20.08%) Degree
2 403 (10.07%) Azure Certification
3 390 (9.74%) Security Cleared
4 305 (7.62%) AWS Certification
5 240 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 230 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 205 (5.12%) Master's Degree
8 186 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 178 (4.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.42%) DV Cleared
11 125 (3.12%) PhD
12 64 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.07%) CISSP
15 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
16 41 (1.02%) CCNP
17 39 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 26 (0.65%) CCNA
19 24 (0.60%) HND
19 24 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 147 (3.67%) QA
3 122 (3.05%) GDPR
4 91 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.97%) NIST
6 62 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.97%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.32%) 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 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.12%) NCSC
15 4 (0.100%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 567 (14.16%) Docker
2 97 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.52%) Firmware
7 19 (0.47%) vSphere
8 15 (0.37%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.22%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.12%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.12%) Lustre
14 5 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 577 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 513 (12.82%) Terraform
3 322 (8.04%) Ansible
4 149 (3.72%) Grafana
5 123 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.97%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Argo
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 22 (0.55%) Puppet
9 17 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.32%) Nessus
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.25%) Control-M
14 10 (0.25%) Nagios
14 10 (0.25%) Nmap
14 10 (0.25%) QRadar
14 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 845 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 320 (7.99%) Databricks
3 195 (4.87%) Google
4 139 (3.47%) Oracle
5 114 (2.85%) VMware
6 96 (2.40%) Red Hat
7 89 (2.22%) Cisco
8 87 (2.17%) Splunk
9 68 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 63 (1.57%) SAP
11 55 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.27%) Alteryx
13 49 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.10%) IBM
15 40 (1.00%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.97%) Informatica
17 36 (0.90%) Palo Alto
18 35 (0.87%) Atlassian
19 34 (0.85%) Fortinet
19 34 (0.85%) Palantir