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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,968 6,225 5,683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.67% 10.37% 12.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.66% 32.22% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,729 3,884 4,439
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £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 10,535 19,318 19,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.03% 32.19% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,787 11,448 15,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £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 £110,000 £111,075 £107,500
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 18 November 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 18 November 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 2,182 £85,000 -5.56% 3,364
North of England -17 553 £60,000 -4.58% 751
South East -37 405 £57,500 -8.00% 915
Midlands +8 334 £61,250 -2.59% 405
South West -8 268 £57,500 -14.81% 316
Yorkshire -5 254 £65,000 - 198
North West -19 236 £60,000 -4.00% 482
West Midlands +14 235 £60,000 -7.69% 267
East of England -25 186 £55,000 -21.43% 335
East Midlands -5 102 £62,500 +13.64% 137
North East -6 65 £40,000 -38.46% 77
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
1 221 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 178 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 154 (3.88%) Apache
4 67 (1.69%) Confluence
5 43 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 24 (0.60%) nginx
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 18 (0.45%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
11 16 (0.40%) WordPress
12 14 (0.35%) Appian
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
13 13 (0.33%) Jupyter
14 11 (0.28%) IIS
15 7 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
16 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 286 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.43%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Mathcad
5 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.10%) CATIA
10 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.10%) Windchill
11 3 (0.076%) GNU Octave
11 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.076%) Stata
12 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.076%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FastStats
8 1 (0.025%) Magento
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,537 (38.73%) AWS
2 1,359 (34.25%) Azure
3 510 (12.85%) GCP
4 496 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 393 (9.90%) GitHub
6 304 (7.66%) Serverless
7 211 (5.32%) Snowflake
8 200 (5.04%) dbt
9 198 (4.99%) Amazon S3
10 194 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 170 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
12 151 (3.81%) SaaS
13 137 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
14 121 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
15 118 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
16 112 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
17 105 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
18 103 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
19 89 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 85 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.76%) Firewall
2 156 (3.93%) Internet
3 88 (2.22%) DNS
4 83 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.02%) VPN
6 75 (1.89%) WAN
7 59 (1.49%) LAN
8 53 (1.34%) HTTP
9 48 (1.21%) Network Security
10 43 (1.08%) BGP
11 42 (1.06%) VLAN
12 37 (0.93%) SSL
13 36 (0.91%) OSPF
14 34 (0.86%) Wireless
15 33 (0.83%) SAN
16 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
17 30 (0.76%) SD-WAN
18 28 (0.71%) DHCP
19 27 (0.68%) SSH
20 25 (0.63%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 458 (11.54%) Power BI
2 322 (8.11%) Tableau
3 302 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 211 (5.32%) Relational Database
7 188 (4.74%) NoSQL
8 155 (3.91%) Data Lake
9 136 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
10 132 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 114 (2.87%) MongoDB
12 110 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
13 108 (2.72%) Apache Arrow
13 108 (2.72%) Dremio
14 107 (2.70%) Big Data
15 101 (2.55%) MySQL
16 96 (2.42%) DynamoDB
17 95 (2.39%) BigQuery
18 92 (2.32%) Data Mining
19 84 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 464 (11.69%) Git
2 257 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 167 (4.21%) JIRA
4 136 (3.43%) GitLab
5 68 (1.71%) Selenium
6 47 (1.18%) MLflow
7 41 (1.03%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
8 33 (0.83%) Vagrant
9 29 (0.73%) Postman
10 25 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (0.55%) Mockito
13 19 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.38%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
18 13 (0.33%) Cypress.io
18 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,273 (32.08%) Finance
2 1,022 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 591 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 397 (10.01%) Banking
5 373 (9.40%) Law
6 319 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 274 (6.91%) Front Office
8 273 (6.88%) Marketing
9 198 (4.99%) Public Sector
10 149 (3.76%) Retail
11 139 (3.50%) Multimedia
12 128 (3.23%) Manufacturing
13 120 (3.02%) Investment Banking
14 108 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 87 (2.19%) Electronics
17 82 (2.07%) Legal
18 64 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
19 61 (1.54%) Games
20 60 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 791 (19.93%) Senior
2 737 (18.57%) Developer
3 489 (12.32%) Software Engineer
4 476 (12.00%) Analyst
5 440 (11.09%) Data Engineer
6 376 (9.48%) Lead
7 328 (8.27%) Python Engineer
8 291 (7.33%) Python Developer
9 275 (6.93%) Data Analyst
10 244 (6.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 221 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
12 210 (5.29%) Trainee
13 174 (4.39%) Architect
14 165 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
15 161 (4.06%) Senior Developer
16 159 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 157 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
18 132 (3.33%) Software Developer
19 121 (3.05%) AWS Software Engineer
20 108 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (9.22%) React
2 262 (6.60%) HTML
3 229 (5.77%) CSS
4 209 (5.27%) Pandas
5 192 (4.84%) Kafka
6 190 (4.79%) Node.js
7 180 (4.54%) REST
8 160 (4.03%) NumPy
9 147 (3.70%) Django
10 143 (3.60%) .NET
11 139 (3.50%) RESTful
12 134 (3.38%) FastAPI
13 131 (3.30%) AngularJS
14 126 (3.18%) PySpark
15 117 (2.95%) Vue
16 112 (2.82%) Flask
17 110 (2.77%) PyTorch
17 110 (2.77%) SciPy
18 102 (2.57%) TensorFlow
19 86 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 227 (5.72%) Algorithms
3 204 (5.14%) Equities
4 168 (4.23%) Fixed Income
5 156 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 139 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 137 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 134 (3.38%) Derivative
9 126 (3.18%) Hedge funds
10 124 (3.13%) Management Information System
11 106 (2.67%) Onboarding
12 91 (2.29%) Public Cloud
13 87 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
14 81 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
15 76 (1.92%) Product Ownership
16 65 (1.64%) Data Centre
17 64 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
18 63 (1.59%) Pricing Data
19 56 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
20 53 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 499 (12.58%) Linux
2 208 (5.24%) Windows
3 187 (4.71%) Unix
4 69 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.01%) VMS
7 36 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.63%) Debian
9 21 (0.53%) CentOS
10 20 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.35%) Android
12 14 (0.35%) Solaris
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,072 (27.02%) CI/CD
2 1,029 (25.93%) Agile
3 961 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
4 919 (23.16%) AI
5 830 (20.92%) DevOps
6 820 (20.67%) Software Engineering
7 807 (20.34%) Analytics
8 584 (14.72%) Mentoring
9 579 (14.59%) Machine Learning
10 567 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 534 (13.46%) Data Science
12 451 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
13 450 (11.34%) Data Engineering
14 449 (11.32%) Computer Science
15 441 (11.11%) ETL
16 436 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 419 (10.56%) Data Modelling
18 414 (10.43%) Containerisation
19 368 (9.27%) Data Analysis
20 355 (8.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,537 (38.73%) SQL
2 735 (18.52%) Java
3 669 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 389 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 373 (9.40%) Bash
6 364 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 307 (7.74%) C#
8 227 (5.72%) C++
9 206 (5.19%) R
10 200 (5.04%) Go
11 96 (2.42%) C
12 69 (1.74%) Scala
13 64 (1.61%) PHP
13 64 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 56 (1.41%) MATLAB
15 55 (1.39%) Perl
15 55 (1.39%) T-SQL
16 47 (1.18%) Groovy
17 43 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (1.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 817 (20.59%) Degree
2 406 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 282 (7.11%) AWS Certification
4 275 (6.93%) Azure Certification
5 256 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 203 (5.12%) Master's Degree
7 192 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 188 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 140 (3.53%) DV Cleared
10 139 (3.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 121 (3.05%) PhD
12 67 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.11%) CCNP
15 43 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 42 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
16 42 (1.06%) CISSP
17 29 (0.73%) CCNA
18 28 (0.71%) OSCP
19 26 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.68%) QA
3 126 (3.18%) GDPR
4 92 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.94%) NIST
6 58 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 37 (0.93%) SLA
8 26 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) GRC
14 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.18%) PMO
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.13%) NCSC
18 4 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 4 (0.10%) Def Stans
System Software
1 570 (14.36%) Docker
2 105 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 20 (0.50%) Firmware
7 20 (0.50%) vSphere
8 13 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.28%) NFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
12 7 (0.18%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.18%) Lustre
12 7 (0.18%) Squid
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
14 5 (0.13%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 599 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 549 (13.84%) Terraform
3 339 (8.54%) Ansible
4 162 (4.08%) Grafana
5 131 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.11%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 23 (0.58%) Argo
9 22 (0.55%) Puppet
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 15 (0.38%) Nessus
12 13 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.33%) Nagios
13 12 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.28%) Nmap
14 11 (0.28%) QRadar
15 10 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 701 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 337 (8.49%) Databricks
3 205 (5.17%) Google
4 141 (3.55%) Oracle
5 117 (2.95%) VMware
6 97 (2.44%) Cisco
6 97 (2.44%) Splunk
7 89 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 70 (1.76%) SAP
10 50 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 46 (1.16%) Alteryx
11 46 (1.16%) Salesforce
12 42 (1.06%) IBM
12 42 (1.06%) Palo Alto
13 39 (0.98%) Palantir
14 38 (0.96%) Bloomberg
15 36 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 36 (0.91%) Fortinet
16 31 (0.78%) Dell