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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,014 5,687 5,098
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.70% 11.47% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.99% 33.62% 28.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,771 3,480 3,998
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £122,500
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 10,296 16,917 17,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.76% 34.11% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,767 10,056 14,986
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,063 £39,658
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 £106,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.17% -3.08%

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 30 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 30 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 -2 2,024 £85,000 - 2,481
North of England -8 635 £52,250 -16.40% 2,064
South East -34 431 £60,000 -7.69% 2,531
Midlands -13 366 £60,000 +9.09% 1,540
South West -5 302 £60,000 -7.69% 1,013
Yorkshire +12 299 £52,000 -20.00% 850
North West -11 259 £55,000 -8.33% 1,043
West Midlands 0 257 £60,000 -2.04% 794
East of England -17 208 £50,000 -28.57% 1,331
East Midlands -30 112 £62,500 +13.64% 654
North East -5 79 £40,000 -38.46% 178
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
1 184 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 133 (3.31%) Apache
4 43 (1.07%) Confluence
5 36 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.47%) nginx
11 18 (0.45%) IIS
12 17 (0.42%) Appian
13 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 10 (0.25%) CMS
14 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 503 (12.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
8 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.100%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.100%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) CATIA
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
11 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.100%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,576 (39.26%) Azure
2 1,413 (35.20%) AWS
3 693 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 509 (12.68%) GitHub
5 444 (11.06%) GCP
6 278 (6.93%) Azure AI
7 259 (6.45%) Serverless
8 191 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 183 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
10 166 (4.14%) dbt
11 161 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
12 155 (3.86%) Amazon S3
13 152 (3.79%) SaaS
14 136 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
15 134 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
16 99 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 89 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
18 87 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
19 86 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 78 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 245 (6.10%) Internet
2 153 (3.81%) Firewall
3 88 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 71 (1.77%) VPN
5 70 (1.74%) WAN
6 67 (1.67%) DNS
7 59 (1.47%) LAN
8 43 (1.07%) Wireless
9 42 (1.05%) BGP
10 39 (0.97%) HTTP
10 39 (0.97%) Network Security
11 38 (0.95%) OSPF
12 34 (0.85%) VLAN
13 31 (0.77%) SAN
13 31 (0.77%) SSL
14 30 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
15 28 (0.70%) SD-WAN
16 23 (0.57%) Broadband
17 22 (0.55%) DHCP
18 20 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 653 (16.27%) Power BI
2 548 (13.65%) Tableau
3 277 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 246 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 172 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 171 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 137 (3.41%) Data Lake
9 136 (3.39%) Data Mining
10 112 (2.79%) MongoDB
11 104 (2.59%) Big Data
11 104 (2.59%) BigQuery
12 93 (2.32%) MySQL
13 84 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
13 84 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
14 82 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 81 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
16 80 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
17 69 (1.72%) Hadoop
18 66 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 542 (13.50%) Git
2 224 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 137 (3.41%) GitLab
4 127 (3.16%) JIRA
5 58 (1.44%) Selenium
6 43 (1.07%) MLflow
7 39 (0.97%) JUnit
8 32 (0.80%) Postman
9 27 (0.67%) JMeter
10 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.60%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.40%) Mockito
15 14 (0.35%) LabVIEW
16 13 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
17 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
18 11 (0.27%) Artifactory
18 11 (0.27%) Maven
18 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 1,160 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 1,053 (26.23%) Finance
3 604 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (6.35%) Banking
5 230 (5.73%) Multimedia
6 196 (4.88%) Law
7 185 (4.61%) Marketing
8 173 (4.31%) Front Office
9 166 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 136 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 131 (3.26%) Retail
12 112 (2.79%) Manufacturing
13 104 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 92 (2.29%) Financial Institution
15 83 (2.07%) Electronics
16 81 (2.02%) Investment Banking
17 70 (1.74%) Legal
18 62 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
19 58 (1.44%) Games
20 54 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 748 (18.63%) Developer
2 684 (17.04%) Analyst
3 670 (16.69%) Senior
4 502 (12.51%) Data Analyst
5 424 (10.56%) Data Engineer
6 342 (8.52%) Trainee
7 321 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 296 (7.37%) Python Developer
9 282 (7.03%) Lead
10 264 (6.58%) Junior
11 240 (5.98%) Python Engineer
12 237 (5.90%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.85%) Junior Data Analyst
14 179 (4.46%) Software Developer
15 167 (4.16%) Architect
16 154 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
17 149 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
18 137 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 137 (3.41%) Python Software Engineer
18 137 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (9.02%) HTML
2 325 (8.10%) React
3 315 (7.85%) CSS
4 177 (4.41%) Node.js
5 169 (4.21%) REST
6 153 (3.81%) Django
6 153 (3.81%) Kafka
7 150 (3.74%) Pandas
8 138 (3.44%) RESTful
9 136 (3.39%) FastAPI
10 120 (2.99%) PySpark
11 117 (2.91%) .NET
12 110 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 109 (2.72%) AngularJS
14 106 (2.64%) NumPy
15 105 (2.62%) Flask
16 97 (2.42%) TensorFlow
17 93 (2.32%) Vue
18 90 (2.24%) JSON
19 83 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.03%) Algorithms
3 158 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (3.51%) Equities
5 134 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 115 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 114 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 106 (2.64%) Fixed Income
9 95 (2.37%) Hedge funds
10 88 (2.19%) Derivative
10 88 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 79 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 77 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
14 60 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
15 59 (1.47%) Low-Code
16 55 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
17 54 (1.35%) AI Agents
18 52 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
19 51 (1.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 495 (12.33%) Linux
2 206 (5.13%) Windows
3 182 (4.53%) Unix
4 72 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.62%) CentOS
8 22 (0.55%) Debian
9 19 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.47%) VMS
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 8 (0.20%) zOS
15 6 (0.15%) Android
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.100%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
18 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,109 (27.63%) AI
2 960 (23.92%) CI/CD
3 871 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
4 834 (20.78%) Analytics
5 795 (19.81%) Agile
6 779 (19.41%) DevOps
7 766 (19.08%) Business Intelligence
8 636 (15.84%) Software Engineering
9 624 (15.55%) Mentoring
10 543 (13.53%) Machine Learning
11 502 (12.51%) Data Science
12 464 (11.56%) ETL
13 463 (11.53%) Data Modelling
14 457 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
15 438 (10.91%) Data Engineering
16 414 (10.31%) Computer Science
17 404 (10.06%) Data Analysis
18 403 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 372 (9.27%) Containerisation
20 356 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,641 (40.88%) SQL
2 707 (17.61%) JavaScript
3 605 (15.07%) Java
4 367 (9.14%) Bash
5 339 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 331 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 275 (6.85%) C#
8 245 (6.10%) R
9 197 (4.91%) C++
10 165 (4.11%) Go
11 104 (2.59%) C
12 83 (2.07%) Scala
13 58 (1.44%) PHP
14 51 (1.27%) Perl
15 49 (1.22%) Bicep
15 49 (1.22%) VBA
16 42 (1.05%) MATLAB
17 41 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 41 (1.02%) Shell Script
18 40 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 780 (19.43%) Degree
2 531 (13.23%) Azure Certification
3 388 (9.67%) Security Cleared
4 336 (8.37%) AWS Certification
5 285 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 235 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 227 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 199 (4.96%) Master's Degree
9 196 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 148 (3.69%) DV Cleared
11 120 (2.99%) PhD
12 77 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.37%) CCNP
14 53 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 40 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.65%) CCNA
19 25 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
20 24 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.76%) QA
3 109 (2.72%) GDPR
4 97 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.94%) NIST
6 63 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.90%) SLA
8 21 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.30%) PMO
11 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 9 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.12%) GRC
14 5 (0.12%) NCSC
15 4 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
15 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 516 (12.86%) Docker
2 79 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 23 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.42%) vSphere
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 8 (0.20%) NFS
9 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 8 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
10 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.15%) KVM
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 4 (0.100%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.100%) Squid
Systems Management
1 529 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 477 (11.88%) Terraform
3 302 (7.52%) Ansible
4 124 (3.09%) Grafana
5 113 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.02%) Argo
7 28 (0.70%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (0.32%) Control-M
11 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 9 (0.22%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.22%) Rancher
15 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,012 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.90%) Databricks
3 190 (4.73%) Google
4 132 (3.29%) Oracle
5 108 (2.69%) VMware
6 101 (2.52%) Cisco
7 93 (2.32%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.84%) Splunk
9 69 (1.72%) SAP
10 68 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 58 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 51 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 46 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 46 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 46 (1.15%) IBM
14 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 40 (1.00%) Informatica
15 40 (1.00%) Talend
16 33 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.75%) Atlassian