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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,049 5,787 5,051
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.78% 11.48% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.18% 33.58% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,783 3,588 3,960
10th Percentile £31,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,250 £122,750
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 10,335 17,231 17,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.87% 34.17% 39.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,792 10,323 14,526
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,524 £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 £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,050 £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 24 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 24 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 2,032 £85,000 - 1,699
North of England -7 645 £55,000 -12.00% 846
South East -37 436 £60,000 -7.69% 1,172
Midlands -11 374 £60,000 +9.09% 603
Yorkshire +11 306 £55,000 -15.38% 350
South West -6 301 £60,000 -7.69% 467
West Midlands +4 263 £60,000 -4.00% 321
North West -12 261 £55,000 -8.33% 403
East of England -18 212 £51,250 -26.79% 499
East Midlands -30 114 £63,750 +15.91% 252
North East -5 80 £40,000 -38.90% 100
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
1 191 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 167 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 137 (3.38%) Apache
4 46 (1.14%) Confluence
5 37 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.64%) WordPress
7 25 (0.62%) SAS
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.47%) nginx
11 18 (0.44%) IIS
12 16 (0.40%) Appian
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 11 (0.27%) CMS
14 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 497 (12.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.09%) 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 4 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.099%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.099%) Windchill
9 3 (0.074%) CATIA
9 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.074%) Stata
10 2 (0.049%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.049%) Mathcad
10 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.099%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.025%) Actimize
6 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.025%) Endur
6 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.025%) Odoo
6 1 (0.025%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,591 (39.29%) Azure
2 1,444 (35.66%) AWS
3 694 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 497 (12.27%) GitHub
5 458 (11.31%) GCP
6 276 (6.82%) Azure AI
7 265 (6.54%) Serverless
8 196 (4.84%) Snowflake
9 184 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 175 (4.32%) dbt
11 172 (4.25%) Amazon S3
12 161 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 151 (3.73%) SaaS
14 137 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 137 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 98 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
15 98 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 94 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
17 88 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 88 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 230 (5.68%) Internet
2 161 (3.98%) Firewall
3 90 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 76 (1.88%) VPN
5 71 (1.75%) DNS
5 71 (1.75%) WAN
6 60 (1.48%) LAN
7 44 (1.09%) Wireless
8 42 (1.04%) BGP
9 41 (1.01%) HTTP
9 41 (1.01%) Network Security
10 38 (0.94%) OSPF
11 35 (0.86%) VLAN
12 32 (0.79%) SAN
13 31 (0.77%) SSL
14 30 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
15 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 23 (0.57%) Broadband
16 23 (0.57%) DHCP
17 20 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (16.15%) Power BI
2 545 (13.46%) Tableau
3 278 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 222 (5.48%) SQL Server
6 178 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 175 (4.32%) Relational Database
8 139 (3.43%) Data Lake
9 132 (3.26%) Data Mining
10 109 (2.69%) MongoDB
11 106 (2.62%) Big Data
12 105 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 96 (2.37%) MySQL
14 90 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
14 90 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
15 83 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
15 83 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
16 80 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 80 (1.98%) Metadata
17 76 (1.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 529 (13.06%) Git
2 228 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.41%) GitLab
4 135 (3.33%) JIRA
5 60 (1.48%) MLflow
6 58 (1.43%) Selenium
7 41 (1.01%) JUnit
8 31 (0.77%) Postman
9 29 (0.72%) JMeter
10 25 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.44%) Mockito
13 17 (0.42%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
15 14 (0.35%) LabVIEW
15 14 (0.35%) Vagrant
16 13 (0.32%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.32%) Metasploit
16 13 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 1,182 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 1,066 (26.33%) Finance
3 599 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (6.27%) Banking
5 216 (5.33%) Multimedia
6 197 (4.87%) Law
7 187 (4.62%) Marketing
8 186 (4.59%) Front Office
9 167 (4.12%) Public Sector
10 135 (3.33%) Retail
11 131 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 117 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 104 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 91 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 85 (2.10%) Investment Banking
16 84 (2.07%) Electronics
17 66 (1.63%) Legal
18 62 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
19 58 (1.43%) Games
19 58 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 741 (18.30%) Developer
2 686 (16.94%) Analyst
3 681 (16.82%) Senior
4 500 (12.35%) Data Analyst
5 435 (10.74%) Data Engineer
6 330 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 323 (7.98%) Trainee
8 294 (7.26%) Python Developer
9 290 (7.16%) Lead
10 265 (6.54%) Junior
11 240 (5.93%) Python Engineer
12 237 (5.85%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.80%) Junior Data Analyst
14 173 (4.27%) Architect
15 169 (4.17%) Software Developer
16 161 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
17 157 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
18 145 (3.58%) Python Software Engineer
19 142 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
20 137 (3.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (8.57%) HTML
2 334 (8.25%) React
3 296 (7.31%) CSS
4 183 (4.52%) Node.js
5 174 (4.30%) Pandas
6 171 (4.22%) REST
7 164 (4.05%) Kafka
8 154 (3.80%) Django
9 141 (3.48%) PySpark
10 137 (3.38%) RESTful
11 136 (3.36%) FastAPI
12 130 (3.21%) NumPy
13 124 (3.06%) PyTorch
14 119 (2.94%) .NET
15 114 (2.82%) AngularJS
15 114 (2.82%) TensorFlow
16 103 (2.54%) Flask
17 98 (2.42%) Vue
18 93 (2.30%) JSON
19 87 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 242 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 207 (5.11%) Algorithms
3 157 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.61%) Equities
5 131 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 119 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 118 (2.91%) Fixed Income
8 116 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 99 (2.45%) Hedge funds
10 96 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
11 91 (2.25%) Derivative
11 91 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 87 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
13 76 (1.88%) Product Ownership
14 62 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
15 58 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
16 55 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
16 55 (1.36%) Low-Code
17 53 (1.31%) AI Agents
18 52 (1.28%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 503 (12.42%) Linux
2 212 (5.24%) Windows
3 200 (4.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.62%) CentOS
8 23 (0.57%) VMS
9 22 (0.54%) Debian
10 18 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.44%) Solaris
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.20%) zOS
14 7 (0.17%) Android
15 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (27.41%) AI
2 988 (24.40%) CI/CD
3 879 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 842 (20.80%) Analytics
5 822 (20.30%) Agile
6 792 (19.56%) DevOps
7 760 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
8 640 (15.81%) Software Engineering
9 614 (15.16%) Mentoring
10 550 (13.58%) Machine Learning
11 518 (12.79%) Data Science
12 469 (11.58%) ETL
13 463 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
14 460 (11.36%) Data Modelling
15 447 (11.04%) Data Engineering
16 406 (10.03%) Computer Science
17 404 (9.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 400 (9.88%) Data Analysis
19 397 (9.80%) Containerisation
20 350 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,670 (41.24%) SQL
2 704 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 619 (15.29%) Java
4 374 (9.24%) Bash
5 349 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 346 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 281 (6.94%) C#
8 240 (5.93%) R
9 196 (4.84%) C++
10 170 (4.20%) Go
11 103 (2.54%) C
12 82 (2.03%) Scala
13 58 (1.43%) PHP
14 54 (1.33%) Perl
15 50 (1.23%) Bicep
16 48 (1.19%) VBA
17 43 (1.06%) Shell Script
18 42 (1.04%) MATLAB
19 41 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 40 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 777 (19.19%) Degree
2 524 (12.94%) Azure Certification
3 390 (9.63%) Security Cleared
4 327 (8.08%) AWS Certification
5 273 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 234 (5.78%) SC Cleared
7 213 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 202 (4.99%) Master's Degree
9 195 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 147 (3.63%) DV Cleared
11 118 (2.91%) PhD
12 78 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.38%) CCNP
14 53 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.21%) CISSP
16 41 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 28 (0.69%) OSCP
19 27 (0.67%) CCNA
20 25 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.73%) QA
3 112 (2.77%) GDPR
4 99 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 84 (2.07%) NIST
6 63 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 37 (0.91%) SLA
8 21 (0.52%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.30%) PMO
11 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.12%) GRC
13 5 (0.12%) NCSC
14 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 544 (13.44%) Docker
2 82 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 23 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.44%) 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
9 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.17%) DFS Replication
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) KVM
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 4 (0.099%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.099%) Squid
Systems Management
1 552 (13.63%) Kubernetes
2 499 (12.32%) Terraform
3 307 (7.58%) Ansible
4 126 (3.11%) Grafana
5 113 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.01%) Argo
7 31 (0.77%) Kibana
8 28 (0.69%) Kubeflow
9 19 (0.47%) Puppet
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 14 (0.35%) Control-M
11 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.32%) Nagios
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.30%) Nessus
14 11 (0.27%) Nmap
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,001 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 308 (7.61%) Databricks
3 192 (4.74%) Google
4 137 (3.38%) Oracle
5 111 (2.74%) VMware
6 103 (2.54%) Cisco
7 96 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 80 (1.98%) Splunk
9 67 (1.65%) SAP
10 63 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 63 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 50 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 48 (1.19%) Alteryx
13 47 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 46 (1.14%) IBM
15 41 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.99%) Informatica
17 39 (0.96%) Talend
18 37 (0.91%) Palo Alto
19 31 (0.77%) Atlassian