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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,908 8,090 10,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.33% 8.72% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.98% 28.28% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,024 5,904 6,469
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £99,063 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £124,250 £125,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

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 15,158 28,607 32,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.07% 30.83% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 22,395 23,266
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,419
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 July 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 July 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 2,586 £90,000 - 4,668
North of England +11 1,302 £65,000 +13.04% 1,049
North West +14 1,059 £65,000 +8.33% 639
South East -1 759 £60,000 +9.09% 1,017
East of England +10 405 £66,206 +10.34% 547
Midlands +1 305 £57,500 +4.55% 442
South West -10 275 £58,000 -3.33% 385
Yorkshire +6 204 £65,000 +18.18% 330
West Midlands -4 178 £60,000 +4.35% 293
East Midlands +2 127 £55,000 +10.00% 144
North East +2 40 £62,500 -2.34% 89
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
1 303 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 249 (4.21%) Apache
3 218 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 85 (1.44%) Confluence
5 40 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 35 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.56%) CMS
7 33 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 32 (0.54%) SAS
9 26 (0.44%) nginx
10 25 (0.42%) IBM Domino
11 13 (0.22%) WordPress
12 9 (0.15%) IIS
13 7 (0.12%) Appian
14 6 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.10%) Drupal
14 6 (0.10%) Luigi
15 5 (0.085%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.085%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 143 (2.42%) Chatbot
2 117 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (1.78%) Simulink
4 94 (1.59%) Mathcad
5 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.12%) SPSS
8 5 (0.085%) InDesign
9 4 (0.068%) MadCap Flare
9 4 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.051%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.051%) Stata
11 2 (0.034%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.034%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.034%) Trello
12 1 (0.017%) Blender
12 1 (0.017%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 49 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 39 (0.66%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.22%) Shopify
4 12 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.068%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.051%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.034%) Odoo
8 2 (0.034%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.034%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.017%) Lorenzo
9 1 (0.017%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.017%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.017%) Summit
9 1 (0.017%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,433 (41.18%) AWS
2 1,757 (29.74%) Azure
3 1,034 (17.50%) GCP
4 696 (11.78%) Serverless
5 601 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
6 331 (5.60%) Power Platform
7 286 (4.84%) Snowflake
8 285 (4.82%) dbt
9 275 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 244 (4.13%) Pulumi
11 216 (3.66%) GitHub
12 192 (3.25%) SaaS
13 177 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
14 171 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
15 159 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
16 151 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
17 146 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 140 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
19 96 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 95 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 811 (13.73%) VPN
2 596 (10.09%) Broadband
3 509 (8.62%) DNS
4 291 (4.93%) Cisco IOS
5 212 (3.59%) Firewall
6 154 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 102 (1.73%) SSH
8 99 (1.68%) SSL
9 90 (1.52%) WAN
10 68 (1.15%) LAN
11 67 (1.13%) HTTP
12 61 (1.03%) Network Security
13 49 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 42 (0.71%) BGP
15 40 (0.68%) VLAN
16 36 (0.61%) OSPF
17 35 (0.59%) DHCP
18 34 (0.58%) SMTP
19 31 (0.52%) Ethernet
20 29 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (7.13%) Relational Database
2 392 (6.64%) NoSQL
3 310 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 300 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 299 (5.06%) Power BI
6 259 (4.38%) RDBMS
7 250 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
8 224 (3.79%) Apache Iceberg
9 222 (3.76%) Data Lake
10 210 (3.55%) Dremio
11 201 (3.40%) Apache Arrow
12 190 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
13 172 (2.91%) Tableau
14 163 (2.76%) DynamoDB
15 160 (2.71%) SQL Server
16 149 (2.52%) Big Data
17 126 (2.13%) MySQL
18 114 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
19 102 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
20 99 (1.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 411 (6.96%) Git
2 229 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 216 (3.66%) Jaeger
4 161 (2.73%) JIRA
5 117 (1.98%) GitLab
6 79 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 74 (1.25%) Robot Framework
8 63 (1.07%) Selenium
9 60 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 57 (0.96%) Artifactory
11 49 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 38 (0.64%) Vagrant
13 37 (0.63%) JMeter
14 32 (0.54%) JUnit
15 30 (0.51%) MLflow
16 26 (0.44%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.39%) Postman
18 22 (0.37%) Eclipse
19 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
20 19 (0.32%) Mockito
General
1 1,833 (31.03%) Finance
2 1,542 (26.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,462 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1,048 (17.74%) Social Skills
5 518 (8.77%) Banking
6 490 (8.29%) Front Office
7 401 (6.79%) Law
8 249 (4.21%) Marketing
9 170 (2.88%) Retail
10 161 (2.73%) Public Sector
11 158 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 155 (2.62%) Investment Banking
13 112 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 84 (1.42%) Games
15 77 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
16 76 (1.29%) Legal
17 71 (1.20%) Electronics
18 67 (1.13%) Advertising
19 49 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
20 41 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,539 (26.05%) Senior
2 1,258 (21.29%) Developer
3 952 (16.11%) Software Engineer
4 726 (12.29%) Lead
5 537 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 458 (7.75%) Data Engineer
7 452 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 416 (7.04%) Analyst
9 406 (6.87%) Python Engineer
10 327 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 323 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
12 293 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 276 (4.67%) Python Developer
14 256 (4.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 254 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
16 246 (4.16%) Senior Developer
17 232 (3.93%) Team Leader
18 189 (3.20%) AWS Software Engineer
19 184 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
20 180 (3.05%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (9.06%) React
2 515 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
3 462 (7.82%) Node.js
4 431 (7.30%) .NET
5 311 (5.26%) Pandas
6 294 (4.98%) HTML
7 264 (4.47%) PySpark
8 227 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 220 (3.72%) Kafka
10 210 (3.55%) NumPy
10 210 (3.55%) RESTful
11 202 (3.42%) REST
12 160 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 155 (2.62%) Django
14 144 (2.44%) SciPy
15 138 (2.34%) GraphQL
16 129 (2.18%) Web Services
17 117 (1.98%) Vue
18 116 (1.96%) CSS
19 115 (1.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 992 (16.79%) Cyberattack
2 435 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
3 314 (5.31%) Fixed Income
4 290 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
5 283 (4.79%) Algorithms
6 261 (4.42%) Hedge funds
7 255 (4.32%) Equities
8 232 (3.93%) Cloud Native
9 230 (3.89%) Derivative
10 198 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 193 (3.27%) Management Information System
12 175 (2.96%) Onboarding
13 117 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
14 114 (1.93%) Public Cloud
15 97 (1.64%) Data Structures
16 95 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
17 92 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
18 88 (1.49%) Product Ownership
19 86 (1.46%) Data Centre
20 84 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,737 (29.40%) Linux
2 724 (12.25%) Android
3 580 (9.82%) Windows
4 343 (5.81%) Unix
5 68 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 47 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (0.71%) VMS
8 31 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.39%) CentOS
10 19 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 19 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS X
11 12 (0.20%) Debian
12 11 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.17%) Rocky
14 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.12%) zOS
16 6 (0.10%) SUSE
17 5 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,380 (40.28%) Agile
2 1,549 (26.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1,530 (25.90%) DevOps
4 1,393 (23.58%) Software Engineering
5 1,378 (23.32%) CI/CD
6 1,233 (20.87%) Mentoring
7 1,170 (19.80%) Mathematics
8 1,052 (17.81%) Machine Learning
9 916 (15.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 803 (13.59%) Analytics
11 761 (12.88%) Data Science
12 730 (12.36%) Line Management
13 673 (11.39%) Containerisation
14 655 (11.09%) Data Engineering
15 620 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 600 (10.16%) Computer Science
17 579 (9.80%) Roadmaps
18 574 (9.72%) OO
19 570 (9.65%) Task Automation
20 532 (9.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,849 (31.30%) Java
2 1,651 (27.95%) SQL
3 1,362 (23.05%) JavaScript
4 1,091 (18.47%) C++
5 1,083 (18.33%) Go
6 936 (15.84%) Bash
7 825 (13.96%) TypeScript
8 769 (13.02%) PowerShell
9 520 (8.80%) C#
10 370 (6.26%) Rust
11 219 (3.71%) R
12 215 (3.64%) MATLAB
13 173 (2.93%) C
14 120 (2.03%) PHP
15 96 (1.62%) Scala
16 85 (1.44%) Ruby
17 82 (1.39%) Shell Script
18 76 (1.29%) Perl
19 56 (0.95%) T-SQL
20 52 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,371 (23.21%) Degree
2 981 (16.60%) Security Cleared
3 744 (12.59%) DV Cleared
4 577 (9.77%) AWS Certification
5 346 (5.86%) PhD
6 286 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 213 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 212 (3.59%) SC Cleared
9 209 (3.54%) Master's Degree
10 182 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 124 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 115 (1.95%) Azure Certification
13 62 (1.05%) DBS Check
14 56 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 55 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
16 45 (0.76%) CCNP
17 27 (0.46%) CCNA
17 27 (0.46%) CISSP
18 26 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
18 26 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (4.37%) QA
2 186 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 155 (2.62%) NIST
4 153 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 126 (2.13%) GDPR
6 89 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 75 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 28 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 27 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.34%) SLA
12 15 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.22%) IFRS
14 11 (0.19%) IFRS 9
15 9 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.15%) COBIT
15 9 (0.15%) GRC
16 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.10%) CDISC
System Software
1 1,609 (27.23%) Docker
2 308 (5.21%) VMware NSX
3 289 (4.89%) vSphere
4 282 (4.77%) Hyper-V
5 223 (3.77%) Active Directory
6 94 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 42 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (0.42%) DFS Replication
9 19 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.24%) Firmware
12 11 (0.19%) HDFS
13 9 (0.15%) NFS
14 8 (0.14%) Apache Flume
15 7 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
17 4 (0.068%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.068%) KVM
17 4 (0.068%) Postfix
17 4 (0.068%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1,299 (21.99%) Ansible
2 1,291 (21.85%) Terraform
3 963 (16.30%) Kubernetes
4 367 (6.21%) Prometheus
5 225 (3.81%) Argo
6 219 (3.71%) Kustomize
7 173 (2.93%) Grafana
8 48 (0.81%) Puppet
9 41 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 39 (0.66%) Kibana
11 32 (0.54%) Nagios
12 31 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 23 (0.39%) Istio
13 23 (0.39%) Kubeflow
14 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
15 19 (0.32%) SCCM
16 16 (0.27%) QRadar
17 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
18 14 (0.24%) Proxmox
19 13 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 462 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 461 (7.80%) Google
3 388 (6.57%) Databricks
4 371 (6.28%) Cisco
5 353 (5.97%) Splunk
6 287 (4.86%) Juniper
7 262 (4.43%) 3PAR
8 139 (2.35%) VMware
9 123 (2.08%) PayPal
10 116 (1.96%) Oracle
11 95 (1.61%) MathWorks
12 85 (1.44%) SAP
13 82 (1.39%) Thales
14 70 (1.18%) ServiceNow
15 62 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 49 (0.83%) BISAM
17 45 (0.76%) Charles River
17 45 (0.76%) SimCorp
18 39 (0.66%) Calypso
19 37 (0.63%) Atlassian