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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,220 6,255 5,719
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.71% 10.31% 12.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.99% 32.25% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,670 3,855 4,480
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,911 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,346 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +3.45% +2.84%
75th Percentile £93,548 £100,000 £93,750
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 10,823 19,395 19,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.92% 31.96% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,678 11,548 16,066
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

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 6 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 6 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 2,160 £85,000 -5.56% 4,811
North of England +10 841 £60,000 -4.00% 1,006
North West +10 545 £60,000 -4.00% 612
South East -29 403 £57,500 -4.17% 3,541
Midlands +8 341 £62,500 +2.88% 472
South West -10 244 £57,250 -15.19% 395
Yorkshire 0 240 £65,000 +7.88% 283
West Midlands +11 234 £62,500 -3.85% 280
East of England -13 187 £55,000 -15.38% 495
East Midlands -6 110 £61,250 +18.93% 178
North East -15 58 £45,000 -30.77% 116
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
1 228 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 157 (3.72%) Apache
4 78 (1.85%) Confluence
5 43 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.59%) nginx
8 23 (0.55%) SAS
9 22 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 18 (0.43%) CMS
12 16 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
13 14 (0.33%) Jupyter
13 14 (0.33%) WordPress
14 13 (0.31%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.28%) Appian
16 11 (0.26%) IIS
17 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 211 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.43%) Simulink
4 11 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.26%) Mathcad
5 8 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
6 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.12%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.095%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.071%) CATIA
10 3 (0.071%) Stata
10 3 (0.071%) Windchill
11 2 (0.047%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.24%) Shopify
4 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.17%) thinkFolio
5 6 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.047%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.047%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.024%) FastStats
9 1 (0.024%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.024%) Lorenzo
9 1 (0.024%) Magento
9 1 (0.024%) Odoo
9 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.024%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.024%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,591 (37.70%) AWS
2 1,352 (32.04%) Azure
3 581 (13.77%) GCP
4 443 (10.50%) Power Platform
5 343 (8.13%) GitHub
6 305 (7.23%) Serverless
7 220 (5.21%) Snowflake
8 210 (4.98%) dbt
9 209 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 199 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
12 150 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (3.34%) SaaS
14 121 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
15 116 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
16 114 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
17 112 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
18 109 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
19 103 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 81 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 341 (8.08%) VPN
2 273 (6.47%) Cisco IOS
3 197 (4.67%) Firewall
4 123 (2.91%) Internet
5 91 (2.16%) DNS
6 79 (1.87%) WAN
7 74 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 59 (1.40%) LAN
9 52 (1.23%) HTTP
10 47 (1.11%) Network Security
11 43 (1.02%) BGP
12 41 (0.97%) VLAN
13 37 (0.88%) OSPF
14 36 (0.85%) SSL
14 36 (0.85%) Wireless
15 33 (0.78%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.76%) SAN
16 32 (0.76%) SSH
17 31 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
18 30 (0.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (9.55%) Power BI
2 314 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
3 303 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
4 248 (5.88%) Tableau
5 216 (5.12%) SQL Server
6 208 (4.93%) Relational Database
7 185 (4.38%) NoSQL
8 163 (3.86%) Data Lake
9 146 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
10 142 (3.36%) Apache Iceberg
11 120 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
12 118 (2.80%) Apache Arrow
12 118 (2.80%) Dremio
13 110 (2.61%) MongoDB
14 109 (2.58%) Big Data
15 105 (2.49%) MySQL
16 97 (2.30%) BigQuery
17 95 (2.25%) DynamoDB
18 82 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
19 78 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 448 (10.62%) Git
2 264 (6.26%) Jenkins
3 173 (4.10%) JIRA
4 130 (3.08%) GitLab
5 61 (1.45%) Selenium
6 47 (1.11%) MLflow
7 42 (1.00%) Vagrant
8 40 (0.95%) JUnit
9 34 (0.81%) JMeter
10 28 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (0.57%) Postman
12 23 (0.55%) Mockito
13 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.40%) Bitbucket
15 17 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.36%) Artifactory
17 13 (0.31%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.31%) Maven
17 13 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 1,254 (29.72%) Finance
2 938 (22.23%) Social Skills
3 822 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 638 (15.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 395 (9.36%) Banking
6 376 (8.91%) Law
7 287 (6.80%) Front Office
8 267 (6.33%) Marketing
9 204 (4.83%) Public Sector
10 163 (3.86%) Retail
11 123 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 120 (2.84%) Investment Banking
13 106 (2.51%) Multimedia
14 102 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 86 (2.04%) Electronics
16 85 (2.01%) Financial Institution
17 82 (1.94%) Legal
18 69 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
19 68 (1.61%) Games
20 56 (1.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 879 (20.83%) Senior
2 704 (16.68%) Developer
3 553 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 436 (10.33%) Data Engineer
5 404 (9.57%) Analyst
6 369 (8.74%) Lead
7 327 (7.75%) Python Engineer
8 323 (7.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 285 (6.75%) Python Developer
10 246 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
11 240 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
12 230 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 199 (4.72%) Data Analyst
14 169 (4.00%) Architect
14 169 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 166 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 159 (3.77%) Trainee
17 158 (3.74%) Senior Developer
18 132 (3.13%) AWS Software Engineer
19 111 (2.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (8.39%) React
2 315 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
3 263 (6.23%) HTML
4 252 (5.97%) Node.js
5 220 (5.21%) .NET
5 220 (5.21%) Pandas
6 191 (4.53%) CSS
7 185 (4.38%) Kafka
8 174 (4.12%) NumPy
9 170 (4.03%) REST
10 137 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 132 (3.13%) PySpark
12 131 (3.10%) Django
13 128 (3.03%) RESTful
14 126 (2.99%) FastAPI
15 125 (2.96%) Vue
16 120 (2.84%) SciPy
17 108 (2.56%) Flask
18 101 (2.39%) PyTorch
19 92 (2.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 329 (7.80%) Cyberattack
2 297 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 230 (5.45%) Algorithms
4 211 (5.00%) Equities
5 183 (4.34%) Fixed Income
6 153 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 148 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 141 (3.34%) Linux Command Line
8 141 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
9 139 (3.29%) Derivative
10 133 (3.15%) Data Structures
11 128 (3.03%) Hedge funds
12 120 (2.84%) Management Information System
13 102 (2.42%) Onboarding
14 93 (2.20%) Public Cloud
15 71 (1.68%) Product Ownership
16 68 (1.61%) Data Centre
17 67 (1.59%) Pricing Data
18 66 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
19 50 (1.18%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 831 (19.69%) Linux
2 479 (11.35%) Windows
3 276 (6.54%) Android
4 179 (4.24%) Unix
5 69 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 63 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 50 (1.18%) VMS
8 37 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
10 25 (0.59%) Debian
11 17 (0.40%) CentOS
12 14 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.33%) Solaris
13 12 (0.28%) zOS
14 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.095%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
2 1,114 (26.40%) DevOps
3 1,111 (26.33%) Agile
4 1,057 (25.05%) CI/CD
5 885 (20.97%) Software Engineering
6 864 (20.47%) AI
7 788 (18.67%) Analytics
8 684 (16.21%) Machine Learning
9 612 (14.50%) Mentoring
10 544 (12.89%) Mathematics
11 542 (12.84%) Data Science
12 516 (12.23%) Business Intelligence
13 508 (12.04%) Data Engineering
14 485 (11.49%) Computer Science
15 439 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
16 438 (10.38%) ETL
17 422 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 421 (9.98%) Platform Engineering
19 410 (9.72%) Risk Management
20 409 (9.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,526 (36.16%) SQL
2 857 (20.31%) Java
3 740 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 630 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 621 (14.72%) Bash
6 446 (10.57%) TypeScript
7 353 (8.36%) C#
8 335 (7.94%) C++
9 252 (5.97%) Go
10 248 (5.88%) R
11 150 (3.55%) Rust
12 144 (3.41%) C
13 111 (2.63%) PHP
14 108 (2.56%) MATLAB
15 68 (1.61%) Ruby
16 67 (1.59%) Scala
17 64 (1.52%) Shell Script
18 62 (1.47%) Perl
19 61 (1.45%) T-SQL
20 56 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 857 (20.31%) Degree
2 463 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 315 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 255 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 228 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 207 (4.91%) Master's Degree
7 202 (4.79%) Azure Certification
8 191 (4.53%) DV Cleared
9 157 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 133 (3.15%) PhD
11 106 (2.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 102 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 70 (1.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 66 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
15 51 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
16 44 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
16 44 (1.04%) CCNP
17 32 (0.76%) CISSP
18 30 (0.71%) CCNA
19 26 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 147 (3.48%) QA
3 128 (3.03%) GDPR
4 82 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 65 (1.54%) NIST
6 58 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.85%) SLA
8 29 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 11 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.24%) GRC
15 6 (0.14%) PMO
16 5 (0.12%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
17 4 (0.095%) HL7
17 4 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 833 (19.74%) Docker
2 290 (6.87%) Hyper-V
3 283 (6.71%) vSphere
4 276 (6.54%) VMware NSX
5 115 (2.73%) Active Directory
6 83 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (0.69%) DFS Replication
8 27 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 19 (0.45%) Firmware
10 13 (0.31%) HDFS
11 12 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
11 12 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.26%) NFS
13 9 (0.21%) KVM
13 9 (0.21%) Postfix
14 8 (0.19%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.19%) ProxySG
14 8 (0.19%) Squid
15 5 (0.12%) Lustre
15 5 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 813 (19.27%) Terraform
2 602 (14.27%) Ansible
3 588 (13.93%) Kubernetes
4 171 (4.05%) Grafana
5 143 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.07%) Kibana
7 30 (0.71%) Kubeflow
8 23 (0.55%) Argo
9 22 (0.52%) Puppet
10 17 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.36%) Nessus
11 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.33%) Nagios
13 13 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.26%) QRadar
16 10 (0.24%) Nmap
17 9 (0.21%) Control-M
Vendors
1 599 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 360 (8.53%) Cisco
3 357 (8.46%) Splunk
4 337 (7.99%) Databricks
5 288 (6.82%) Juniper
6 262 (6.21%) 3PAR
7 206 (4.88%) Google
8 136 (3.22%) Oracle
9 116 (2.75%) VMware
10 83 (1.97%) Red Hat
11 79 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 73 (1.73%) SAP
13 45 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 44 (1.04%) Alteryx
14 44 (1.04%) IBM
15 43 (1.02%) Salesforce
16 40 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 38 (0.90%) Palantir
18 34 (0.81%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.76%) Bloomberg