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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,955 6,290 5,277
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.16% 11.09% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.40% 32.97% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,754 3,963 4,157
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £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 10,299 19,076 18,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.26% 33.64% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,769 11,490 15,210
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 £108,875
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 5 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 5 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 0 2,088 £85,000 -2.86% 901
North of England -10 589 £56,500 -9.60% 509
South East -37 414 £59,000 -9.23% 830
Midlands -7 357 £60,000 +4.35% 340
Yorkshire +2 278 £60,000 -4.58% 178
South West -6 276 £60,000 -11.11% 266
West Midlands +4 248 £60,000 -4.58% 203
North West -16 244 £57,500 -4.17% 270
East of England -16 194 £50,000 -28.57% 296
East Midlands -13 112 £65,000 +18.18% 129
North East -10 69 £40,000 -38.46% 67
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
1 204 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 140 (3.54%) Apache
4 55 (1.39%) Confluence
5 40 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.68%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 24 (0.61%) WordPress
9 22 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 22 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 20 (0.51%) nginx
11 17 (0.43%) CMS
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.38%) Appian
14 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.30%) IIS
16 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
17 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
18 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
18 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 396 (10.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Simulink
4 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) CATIA
10 3 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.051%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.051%) 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 (0.051%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.051%) 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 1,462 (36.97%) Azure
2 1,458 (36.86%) AWS
3 592 (14.97%) Power Platform
4 488 (12.34%) GCP
5 440 (11.13%) GitHub
6 275 (6.95%) Serverless
7 203 (5.13%) Snowflake
8 184 (4.65%) dbt
9 178 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 175 (4.42%) Azure AI
11 170 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 167 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 157 (3.97%) SaaS
14 126 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 126 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
15 121 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 106 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
17 97 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
18 83 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 83 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (4.85%) Internet
2 165 (4.17%) Firewall
3 81 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.97%) DNS
5 68 (1.72%) VPN
6 65 (1.64%) WAN
7 55 (1.39%) LAN
8 47 (1.19%) HTTP
9 43 (1.09%) Network Security
10 35 (0.88%) VLAN
10 35 (0.88%) Wireless
11 33 (0.83%) BGP
11 33 (0.83%) SAN
12 31 (0.78%) SSL
12 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (0.76%) OSPF
14 27 (0.68%) SD-WAN
15 26 (0.66%) DHCP
16 23 (0.58%) SMTP
16 23 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (14.13%) Power BI
2 441 (11.15%) Tableau
3 286 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
4 270 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 187 (4.73%) Relational Database
7 173 (4.37%) NoSQL
8 146 (3.69%) Data Lake
9 113 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
10 111 (2.81%) Data Mining
11 108 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
12 106 (2.68%) MongoDB
13 104 (2.63%) Big Data
14 103 (2.60%) BigQuery
15 100 (2.53%) MySQL
16 99 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
17 90 (2.28%) Apache Arrow
17 90 (2.28%) Dremio
18 85 (2.15%) DynamoDB
19 80 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 499 (12.62%) Git
2 242 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 150 (3.79%) JIRA
4 132 (3.34%) GitLab
5 60 (1.52%) Selenium
6 55 (1.39%) MLflow
7 41 (1.04%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
9 30 (0.76%) Postman
10 25 (0.63%) Vagrant
11 24 (0.61%) 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%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.35%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 1,127 (28.50%) Finance
2 1,102 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 575 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (7.38%) Banking
5 244 (6.17%) Law
6 218 (5.51%) Front Office
7 214 (5.41%) Marketing
8 179 (4.53%) Multimedia
9 170 (4.30%) Public Sector
10 169 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 143 (3.62%) Retail
12 118 (2.98%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.58%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.48%) Investment Banking
15 91 (2.30%) Financial Institution
16 81 (2.05%) Electronics
17 68 (1.72%) Legal
18 63 (1.59%) Games
19 59 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
20 58 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 728 (18.41%) Developer
2 700 (17.70%) Senior
3 588 (14.87%) Analyst
4 430 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 398 (10.06%) Data Analyst
6 371 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 300 (7.59%) Lead
8 290 (7.33%) Python Developer
9 268 (6.78%) Trainee
10 264 (6.68%) Python Engineer
11 189 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
12 176 (4.45%) Python Software Engineer
13 174 (4.40%) Junior
14 169 (4.27%) Architect
15 157 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
16 148 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 148 (3.74%) Software Developer
17 144 (3.64%) Junior Analyst
18 142 (3.59%) Junior Data Analyst
19 141 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (8.70%) React
2 310 (7.84%) HTML
3 264 (6.68%) CSS
4 193 (4.88%) Node.js
5 191 (4.83%) Pandas
6 171 (4.32%) Kafka
7 169 (4.27%) REST
8 154 (3.89%) Django
9 143 (3.62%) NumPy
10 136 (3.44%) RESTful
11 134 (3.39%) PySpark
12 129 (3.26%) FastAPI
13 127 (3.21%) .NET
14 124 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 120 (3.03%) PyTorch
16 109 (2.76%) TensorFlow
16 109 (2.76%) Vue
17 106 (2.68%) Flask
18 95 (2.40%) JSON
19 92 (2.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 208 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 168 (4.25%) Equities
4 155 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 144 (3.64%) Fixed Income
6 134 (3.39%) Data Structures
7 127 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 114 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 113 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 108 (2.73%) Hedge funds
11 104 (2.63%) Derivative
12 95 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
13 87 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.92%) Product Ownership
15 62 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
16 60 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
17 59 (1.49%) Public Cloud
18 57 (1.44%) Data Centre
19 54 (1.37%) AI Agents
20 51 (1.29%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 503 (12.72%) Linux
2 214 (5.41%) Windows
3 194 (4.91%) Unix
4 74 (1.87%) 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 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.40%) 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 1,016 (25.69%) CI/CD
2 1,006 (25.44%) AI
3 885 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
4 869 (21.97%) Agile
5 827 (20.91%) Analytics
6 803 (20.30%) DevOps
7 698 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 664 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
9 589 (14.89%) Mentoring
10 554 (14.01%) Machine Learning
11 515 (13.02%) Data Science
12 451 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
13 448 (11.33%) ETL
14 440 (11.13%) Data Engineering
15 431 (10.90%) Data Modelling
16 416 (10.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 406 (10.27%) Computer Science
18 399 (10.09%) Containerisation
19 388 (9.81%) Data Analysis
20 336 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,587 (40.13%) SQL
2 674 (17.04%) JavaScript
3 653 (16.51%) Java
4 379 (9.58%) Bash
5 361 (9.13%) PowerShell
6 360 (9.10%) TypeScript
7 285 (7.21%) C#
8 222 (5.61%) R
9 206 (5.21%) C++
10 170 (4.30%) Go
11 98 (2.48%) C
12 68 (1.72%) Scala
13 60 (1.52%) PHP
14 58 (1.47%) Perl
15 52 (1.31%) Shell Script
16 46 (1.16%) Bicep
17 45 (1.14%) T-SQL
18 44 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 44 (1.11%) MATLAB
19 38 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 799 (20.20%) Degree
2 403 (10.19%) Azure Certification
3 389 (9.84%) Security Cleared
4 301 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 240 (6.07%) SC Cleared
6 232 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 205 (5.18%) Master's Degree
8 183 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 179 (4.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.46%) DV Cleared
11 125 (3.16%) PhD
12 66 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
14 46 (1.16%) CISSP
15 43 (1.09%) CCNP
16 42 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.68%) CCNA
19 25 (0.63%) OSCP
20 24 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 149 (3.77%) QA
3 120 (3.03%) GDPR
4 92 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.00%) NIST
6 63 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.99%) SLA
8 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.20%) PMO
14 7 (0.18%) GRC
15 6 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.13%) NCSC
17 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 554 (14.01%) Docker
2 94 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.58%) Firmware
5 23 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.48%) vSphere
7 15 (0.38%) DFS Replication
8 12 (0.30%) HDFS
8 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.23%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) KVM
12 6 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.13%) Lustre
13 5 (0.13%) ProxySG
13 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 559 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 506 (12.79%) Terraform
3 318 (8.04%) Ansible
4 147 (3.72%) Grafana
5 123 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 38 (0.96%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Argo
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 21 (0.53%) 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 10 (0.25%) Control-M
14 10 (0.25%) Nagios
14 10 (0.25%) Nmap
14 10 (0.25%) QRadar
15 9 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 848 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 315 (7.96%) Databricks
3 193 (4.88%) Google
4 137 (3.46%) Oracle
5 114 (2.88%) VMware
6 97 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 91 (2.30%) Cisco
8 86 (2.17%) Splunk
9 68 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 63 (1.59%) SAP
11 54 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.29%) Alteryx
13 49 (1.24%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.11%) IBM
15 40 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.99%) Informatica
17 36 (0.91%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.91%) Palo Alto
18 34 (0.86%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.86%) Talend