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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,026 5,904 5,101
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.82% 11.47% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.01% 33.52% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,777 3,697 4,019
10th Percentile £32,703 £45,000 £42,859
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 10,320 17,613 17,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.04% 34.22% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 10,653 14,662
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £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 £85,420 £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 17 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 17 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 -2.86% 901
North of England -9 632 £55,000 -12.00% 568
South East -37 441 £60,000 -7.69% 800
Midlands -11 371 £60,000 +4.80% 373
Yorkshire +6 304 £57,500 -11.54% 207
South West -6 298 £60,000 -11.11% 289
West Midlands 0 259 £60,000 -4.00% 194
North West -15 255 £57,500 -4.17% 293
East of England -19 206 £50,000 -28.57% 330
East Midlands -28 115 £65,000 +18.18% 171
North East -9 75 £40,000 -38.46% 75
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
1 192 (4.77%) 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%) JBoss
Applications
1 494 (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 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 1,572 (39.05%) Azure
2 1,439 (35.74%) AWS
3 692 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 473 (11.75%) GitHub
5 462 (11.48%) GCP
6 273 (6.78%) Azure AI
7 266 (6.61%) Serverless
8 197 (4.89%) Snowflake
9 182 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
10 176 (4.37%) dbt
11 174 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 161 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 155 (3.85%) SaaS
14 134 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
15 133 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 106 (2.63%) 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 70 (1.74%) 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%) SD-WAN
15 29 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (0.57%) DHCP
17 21 (0.52%) SMTP
17 21 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 653 (16.22%) Power BI
2 540 (13.41%) Tableau
3 278 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
4 255 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 216 (5.37%) SQL Server
6 171 (4.25%) Relational Database
7 169 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 142 (3.53%) Data Lake
9 125 (3.10%) Data Mining
10 109 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 104 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 103 (2.56%) Big Data
13 97 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
14 96 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
14 96 (2.38%) MySQL
15 90 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
16 83 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
17 80 (1.99%) Apache Arrow
17 80 (1.99%) Dremio
17 80 (1.99%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 514 (12.77%) Git
2 238 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.58%) JIRA
4 139 (3.45%) 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 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 1,078 (26.78%) Finance
3 590 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (6.43%) Banking
5 199 (4.94%) Front Office
6 198 (4.92%) Multimedia
7 193 (4.79%) Law
8 191 (4.74%) Marketing
9 170 (4.22%) Public Sector
10 136 (3.38%) Retail
11 122 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 118 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 92 (2.29%) Financial Institution
15 89 (2.21%) Investment Banking
16 84 (2.09%) Electronics
17 65 (1.61%) Legal
18 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
19 60 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
20 57 (1.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 725 (18.01%) Developer
2 686 (17.04%) Analyst
3 683 (16.96%) Senior
4 497 (12.34%) Data Analyst
5 423 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 336 (8.35%) Software Engineer
7 298 (7.40%) Trainee
8 288 (7.15%) Python Developer
9 276 (6.86%) Lead
10 264 (6.56%) Junior
11 246 (6.11%) Python Engineer
12 237 (5.89%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.84%) Junior Data Analyst
14 170 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
15 168 (4.17%) Architect
16 158 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
17 155 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
17 155 (3.85%) Software Developer
18 154 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
19 138 (3.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (8.30%) React
2 329 (8.17%) HTML
3 276 (6.86%) CSS
4 187 (4.64%) Node.js
5 181 (4.50%) Pandas
6 168 (4.17%) Kafka
7 164 (4.07%) REST
8 155 (3.85%) Django
9 139 (3.45%) PySpark
10 137 (3.40%) RESTful
11 135 (3.35%) NumPy
12 134 (3.33%) FastAPI
13 121 (3.01%) .NET
14 119 (2.96%) PyTorch
15 118 (2.93%) AngularJS
16 111 (2.76%) TensorFlow
17 102 (2.53%) Flask
18 101 (2.51%) Vue
19 96 (2.38%) JSON
20 90 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 206 (5.12%) Algorithms
3 156 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 153 (3.80%) Equities
5 131 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 131 (3.25%) Fixed Income
6 121 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 117 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 102 (2.53%) Hedge funds
9 97 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 97 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
10 94 (2.33%) Derivative
11 88 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
12 77 (1.91%) Product Ownership
13 63 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 59 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
15 54 (1.34%) Data Centre
16 52 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 52 (1.29%) Low-Code
17 51 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 504 (12.52%) Linux
2 217 (5.39%) Windows
3 194 (4.82%) Unix
4 74 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.79%) 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
14 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 9 (0.22%) zOS
16 8 (0.20%) Android
17 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
18 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
19 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (27.20%) AI
2 1,001 (24.86%) CI/CD
3 875 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
4 838 (20.81%) Agile
5 826 (20.52%) Analytics
6 809 (20.09%) DevOps
7 761 (18.90%) Business Intelligence
8 648 (16.10%) Software Engineering
9 590 (14.65%) Mentoring
10 547 (13.59%) Machine Learning
11 510 (12.67%) Data Science
12 459 (11.40%) ETL
13 456 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
14 446 (11.08%) Data Modelling
15 435 (10.80%) Data Engineering
16 411 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 402 (9.99%) Computer Science
18 396 (9.84%) Data Analysis
19 394 (9.79%) Containerisation
20 343 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,656 (41.13%) SQL
2 682 (16.94%) JavaScript
3 624 (15.50%) Java
4 381 (9.46%) Bash
5 363 (9.02%) PowerShell
6 352 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 282 (7.00%) C#
8 227 (5.64%) R
9 196 (4.87%) C++
10 169 (4.20%) Go
11 100 (2.48%) C
12 77 (1.91%) Scala
13 57 (1.42%) Perl
13 57 (1.42%) PHP
14 52 (1.29%) Bicep
15 47 (1.17%) VBA
16 45 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 43 (1.07%) T-SQL
18 42 (1.04%) MATLAB
19 41 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 781 (19.40%) Degree
2 510 (12.67%) Azure Certification
3 394 (9.79%) Security Cleared
4 307 (7.63%) AWS Certification
5 252 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 238 (5.91%) SC Cleared
7 203 (5.04%) Master's Degree
8 195 (4.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 193 (4.79%) 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 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 28 (0.70%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) CCNA
20 23 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.68%) QA
3 111 (2.76%) GDPR
4 97 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (2.01%) NIST
6 63 (1.56%) 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
11 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 5 (0.12%) GRC
14 5 (0.12%) NCSC
15 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 551 (13.69%) Docker
2 85 (2.11%) 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 11 (0.27%) DFS Replication
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
8 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.17%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) KVM
12 6 (0.15%) Postfix
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.12%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 558 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 510 (12.67%) Terraform
3 313 (7.77%) Ansible
4 137 (3.40%) Grafana
5 118 (2.93%) 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%) Nessus
15 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (0.30%) Nagios
16 11 (0.27%) Nmap
17 10 (0.25%) QRadar
18 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 971 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 308 (7.65%) Databricks
3 187 (4.64%) Google
4 136 (3.38%) Oracle
5 114 (2.83%) VMware
6 97 (2.41%) Cisco
7 96 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 81 (2.01%) Splunk
9 67 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 65 (1.61%) SAP
11 60 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 49 (1.22%) Alteryx
12 49 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 47 (1.17%) IBM
14 41 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 40 (0.99%) Bloomberg
15 40 (0.99%) Informatica
16 39 (0.97%) Talend
17 36 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.75%) Dell