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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,025 5,890 5,138
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.84% 11.45% 11.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 33.47% 28.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,777 3,681 4,054
10th Percentile £32,703 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £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 10,315 17,598 17,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.09% 34.20% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,804 10,639 14,789
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,117 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
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 16 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 16 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 2,036 £85,000 -2.86% 1,363
North of England -9 631 £55,000 -12.00% 543
South East -34 441 £60,000 -7.69% 735
Midlands -13 371 £60,000 +5.26% 325
Yorkshire +9 305 £58,750 -9.62% 190
South West -5 296 £60,000 -11.11% 308
West Midlands +3 258 £60,000 -4.00% 197
North West -14 253 £57,500 -4.17% 287
East of England -19 203 £50,000 -28.57% 290
East Midlands -28 116 £65,000 +18.18% 126
North East -9 75 £40,000 -38.46% 73
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
1 193 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 164 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 135 (3.35%) Apache
4 50 (1.24%) Confluence
5 38 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) WordPress
7 25 (0.62%) SAS
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.47%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.37%) Appian
12 15 (0.37%) IIS
13 12 (0.30%) CMS
14 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.099%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 494 (12.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
6 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.099%) 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%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.099%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.025%) Actimize
7 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.025%) Endur
7 1 (0.025%) FastStats
7 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,573 (39.08%) Azure
2 1,440 (35.78%) AWS
3 692 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 471 (11.70%) GitHub
5 461 (11.45%) GCP
6 272 (6.76%) Azure AI
7 271 (6.73%) Serverless
8 201 (4.99%) Snowflake
9 181 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
10 178 (4.42%) dbt
11 176 (4.37%) Amazon S3
12 163 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
13 156 (3.88%) SaaS
14 134 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
15 133 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 107 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
17 103 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
18 101 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 86 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 85 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 212 (5.27%) Internet
2 165 (4.10%) Firewall
3 88 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 74 (1.84%) DNS
4 74 (1.84%) VPN
5 69 (1.71%) WAN
6 60 (1.49%) LAN
7 45 (1.12%) HTTP
8 43 (1.07%) Network Security
9 40 (0.99%) Wireless
10 38 (0.94%) BGP
11 37 (0.92%) VLAN
12 35 (0.87%) OSPF
13 33 (0.82%) SAN
14 30 (0.75%) SSL
15 29 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.70%) SD-WAN
17 23 (0.57%) DHCP
18 21 (0.52%) SMTP
18 21 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (16.25%) Power BI
2 541 (13.44%) Tableau
3 279 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
4 255 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 170 (4.22%) Relational Database
7 167 (4.15%) NoSQL
8 142 (3.53%) Data Lake
9 125 (3.11%) Data Mining
10 108 (2.68%) MongoDB
11 104 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 102 (2.53%) Big Data
13 97 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
13 97 (2.41%) MySQL
14 96 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
15 91 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
16 82 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (2.01%) DynamoDB
18 80 (1.99%) Apache Arrow
18 80 (1.99%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 515 (12.80%) Git
2 237 (5.89%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.58%) JIRA
4 140 (3.48%) GitLab
5 57 (1.42%) MLflow
6 56 (1.39%) Selenium
7 40 (0.99%) JUnit
8 30 (0.75%) JMeter
8 30 (0.75%) Postman
9 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (0.47%) Vagrant
12 18 (0.45%) CircleCI
12 18 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.45%) Mockito
13 13 (0.32%) Artifactory
13 13 (0.32%) Burp Suite
13 13 (0.32%) Metasploit
13 13 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 1,186 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 1,079 (26.81%) Finance
3 587 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (6.41%) Banking
5 198 (4.92%) Front Office
5 198 (4.92%) Multimedia
6 193 (4.80%) Law
7 192 (4.77%) Marketing
8 169 (4.20%) Public Sector
9 137 (3.40%) Retail
10 123 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 119 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 102 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 92 (2.29%) Financial Institution
14 89 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 84 (2.09%) Electronics
16 64 (1.59%) Legal
17 62 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
18 59 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
19 57 (1.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 725 (18.01%) Developer
2 687 (17.07%) Analyst
3 684 (16.99%) Senior
4 498 (12.37%) Data Analyst
5 424 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 334 (8.30%) Software Engineer
7 298 (7.40%) Trainee
8 287 (7.13%) Python Developer
9 271 (6.73%) Lead
10 265 (6.58%) Junior
11 246 (6.11%) Python Engineer
12 237 (5.89%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.84%) Junior Data Analyst
14 170 (4.22%) Architect
14 170 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
15 158 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
16 156 (3.88%) Software Developer
17 154 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
17 154 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
18 138 (3.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (8.32%) React
2 328 (8.15%) HTML
3 277 (6.88%) CSS
4 186 (4.62%) Node.js
5 181 (4.50%) Pandas
6 168 (4.17%) Kafka
7 164 (4.07%) REST
8 153 (3.80%) Django
9 139 (3.45%) PySpark
10 138 (3.43%) RESTful
11 135 (3.35%) NumPy
12 133 (3.30%) FastAPI
13 120 (2.98%) .NET
14 119 (2.96%) PyTorch
15 117 (2.91%) AngularJS
16 110 (2.73%) TensorFlow
17 101 (2.51%) Flask
18 100 (2.48%) Vue
19 95 (2.36%) JSON
20 88 (2.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 207 (5.14%) Algorithms
3 153 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 152 (3.78%) Equities
5 131 (3.25%) Fixed Income
6 129 (3.20%) Data Structures
7 121 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 115 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 103 (2.56%) Hedge funds
10 97 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 95 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
12 94 (2.34%) Derivative
13 88 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.89%) Product Ownership
15 63 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
16 59 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
17 57 (1.42%) Data Centre
18 52 (1.29%) AI Agents
19 51 (1.27%) Low-Code
20 50 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 505 (12.55%) Linux
2 215 (5.34%) Windows
3 191 (4.75%) Unix
4 74 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.70%) VMS
8 24 (0.60%) CentOS
9 23 (0.57%) Debian
10 18 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.42%) Solaris
12 15 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
13 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.20%) Android
16 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (26.98%) AI
2 1,000 (24.84%) CI/CD
3 874 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 839 (20.84%) Agile
5 824 (20.47%) Analytics
6 809 (20.10%) DevOps
7 762 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
8 647 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 588 (14.61%) Mentoring
10 546 (13.57%) Machine Learning
11 511 (12.70%) Data Science
12 459 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
12 459 (11.40%) ETL
13 448 (11.13%) Data Modelling
14 435 (10.81%) Data Engineering
15 413 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 403 (10.01%) Computer Science
17 394 (9.79%) Containerisation
17 394 (9.79%) Data Analysis
18 342 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,658 (41.19%) SQL
2 682 (16.94%) JavaScript
3 622 (15.45%) Java
4 381 (9.47%) Bash
5 364 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 351 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 281 (6.98%) C#
8 227 (5.64%) R
9 200 (4.97%) C++
10 169 (4.20%) Go
11 101 (2.51%) C
12 77 (1.91%) Scala
13 58 (1.44%) PHP
14 56 (1.39%) Perl
15 52 (1.29%) Bicep
16 47 (1.17%) VBA
17 45 (1.12%) Shell Script
18 43 (1.07%) T-SQL
19 41 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 41 (1.02%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 780 (19.38%) Degree
2 510 (12.67%) Azure Certification
3 393 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 308 (7.65%) AWS Certification
5 252 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 237 (5.89%) SC Cleared
7 203 (5.04%) Master's Degree
8 195 (4.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 194 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 146 (3.63%) DV Cleared
11 119 (2.96%) PhD
12 72 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
14 50 (1.24%) CCNP
15 48 (1.19%) CISSP
16 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.67%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) CCNA
20 23 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.73%) QA
3 111 (2.76%) GDPR
4 97 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (2.01%) NIST
6 64 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.94%) SLA
8 20 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.30%) PMO
12 11 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 6 (0.15%) GRC
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 550 (13.66%) Docker
2 84 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.62%) Firmware
4 25 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.45%) vSphere
7 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
8 11 (0.27%) DFS Replication
9 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
11 7 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.15%) KVM
12 6 (0.15%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) Postfix
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.12%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 555 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 509 (12.65%) Terraform
3 313 (7.78%) Ansible
4 138 (3.43%) Grafana
5 119 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 36 (0.89%) Argo
7 33 (0.82%) Kibana
8 29 (0.72%) Kubeflow
9 19 (0.47%) Puppet
10 17 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 15 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 14 (0.35%) Control-M
14 13 (0.32%) Nagios
14 13 (0.32%) Nessus
15 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
16 11 (0.27%) Nmap
17 10 (0.25%) QRadar
18 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 967 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 307 (7.63%) Databricks
3 186 (4.62%) Google
4 136 (3.38%) Oracle
5 114 (2.83%) VMware
6 97 (2.41%) Cisco
7 96 (2.39%) Red Hat
8 81 (2.01%) Splunk
9 67 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 65 (1.61%) SAP
11 59 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.24%) Alteryx
13 49 (1.22%) IBM
13 49 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 41 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 40 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.97%) Informatica
17 38 (0.94%) Talend
18 36 (0.89%) Palo Alto
19 33 (0.82%) Dell