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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,936 6,238 5,344
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.35% 10.89% 11.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.42% 32.81% 28.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,714 3,928 4,215
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,750 £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 £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
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 10,245 19,014 18,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.72% 33.20% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,662 11,425 15,383
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,603 £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 £110,822 £108,750
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 2 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 2 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 2,105 £85,000 -2.86% 1,186
North of England -10 573 £57,500 -8.00% 561
South East -38 409 £60,000 -7.69% 1,033
Midlands +4 348 £60,000 +4.35% 333
South West -7 275 £60,000 -11.11% 276
Yorkshire 0 269 £60,000 -4.58% 178
West Midlands +15 243 £60,000 -5.51% 208
North West -16 239 £58,625 -2.29% 310
East of England -18 190 £50,000 -28.57% 274
East Midlands -13 108 £62,500 +13.64% 121
North East -8 67 £40,000 -38.46% 78
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
1 207 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 144 (3.66%) Apache
4 56 (1.42%) Confluence
5 42 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 21 (0.53%) nginx
10 20 (0.51%) WordPress
11 18 (0.46%) CMS
12 16 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
13 13 (0.33%) Appian
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
15 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
17 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 387 (9.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Simulink
4 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.10%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) CATIA
10 3 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.051%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.051%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.051%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.051%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.025%) Endur
6 1 (0.025%) FastStats
6 1 (0.025%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,460 (37.09%) AWS
2 1,443 (36.66%) Azure
3 586 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 490 (12.45%) GCP
5 419 (10.65%) GitHub
6 280 (7.11%) Serverless
7 207 (5.26%) Snowflake
8 188 (4.78%) dbt
9 178 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 173 (4.40%) Azure AI
11 169 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
12 165 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
13 153 (3.89%) SaaS
14 125 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
15 124 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 119 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
17 108 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
18 99 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
19 87 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
20 81 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 176 (4.47%) Internet
2 171 (4.34%) Firewall
3 80 (2.03%) DNS
4 79 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 70 (1.78%) VPN
6 66 (1.68%) WAN
7 55 (1.40%) LAN
8 47 (1.19%) HTTP
9 44 (1.12%) Network Security
10 36 (0.91%) VLAN
11 35 (0.89%) Wireless
12 34 (0.86%) BGP
13 33 (0.84%) SAN
14 32 (0.81%) SSL
15 31 (0.79%) OSPF
15 31 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.66%) DHCP
18 23 (0.58%) SSH
19 22 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (14.10%) Power BI
2 430 (10.92%) Tableau
3 285 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
4 270 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
5 216 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 193 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 176 (4.47%) NoSQL
8 147 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 118 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
10 114 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
11 104 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 103 (2.62%) BigQuery
12 103 (2.62%) Data Mining
13 102 (2.59%) Big Data
14 101 (2.57%) MySQL
15 96 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (2.39%) Apache Arrow
16 94 (2.39%) Dremio
17 85 (2.16%) DynamoDB
18 80 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 480 (12.20%) Git
2 245 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 152 (3.86%) JIRA
4 134 (3.40%) GitLab
5 61 (1.55%) Selenium
6 51 (1.30%) MLflow
7 40 (1.02%) JUnit
8 33 (0.84%) JMeter
9 29 (0.74%) Postman
10 25 (0.64%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.53%) Mockito
12 21 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 1,145 (29.09%) Finance
2 1,085 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 570 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (8.00%) Banking
5 284 (7.22%) Law
6 230 (5.84%) Marketing
7 229 (5.82%) Front Office
8 211 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 174 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 163 (4.14%) Multimedia
11 143 (3.63%) Retail
12 117 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.67%) Investment Banking
14 101 (2.57%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 79 (2.01%) Electronics
17 69 (1.75%) Legal
18 63 (1.60%) Games
19 59 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
20 57 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 715 (18.17%) Senior
2 713 (18.11%) Developer
3 575 (14.61%) Analyst
4 435 (11.05%) Data Engineer
5 406 (10.32%) Software Engineer
6 386 (9.81%) Data Analyst
7 321 (8.16%) Lead
8 285 (7.24%) Python Developer
9 282 (7.16%) Python Engineer
10 245 (6.22%) Trainee
11 194 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 194 (4.93%) Python Software Engineer
12 174 (4.42%) Junior
13 165 (4.19%) Architect
14 159 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 151 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
16 144 (3.66%) Junior Analyst
16 144 (3.66%) Software Developer
17 142 (3.61%) Junior Data Analyst
18 139 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (8.94%) React
2 294 (7.47%) HTML
3 248 (6.30%) CSS
4 194 (4.93%) Pandas
5 191 (4.85%) Node.js
6 172 (4.37%) Kafka
7 168 (4.27%) REST
8 155 (3.94%) Django
9 146 (3.71%) NumPy
10 135 (3.43%) RESTful
11 130 (3.30%) PySpark
12 127 (3.23%) FastAPI
13 126 (3.20%) .NET
13 126 (3.20%) AngularJS
14 115 (2.92%) PyTorch
15 110 (2.79%) Vue
16 105 (2.67%) Flask
17 103 (2.62%) TensorFlow
18 96 (2.44%) JSON
18 96 (2.44%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 266 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 174 (4.42%) Equities
4 154 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 147 (3.73%) Fixed Income
6 136 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 122 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 119 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 112 (2.85%) Onboarding
10 111 (2.82%) Derivative
11 109 (2.77%) Hedge funds
12 95 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
13 82 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 77 (1.96%) Product Ownership
15 70 (1.78%) Public Cloud
16 63 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
17 58 (1.47%) Data Centre
18 57 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
19 55 (1.40%) Pricing Data
20 52 (1.32%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 497 (12.63%) Linux
2 211 (5.36%) Windows
3 195 (4.95%) Unix
4 74 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.84%) VMS
7 31 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.58%) CentOS
8 23 (0.58%) Debian
9 17 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.38%) Solaris
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.30%) zOS
12 10 (0.25%) Android
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.076%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (25.99%) CI/CD
2 1,010 (25.66%) AI
3 903 (22.94%) Agile
4 898 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
5 812 (20.63%) Analytics
6 799 (20.30%) DevOps
7 730 (18.55%) Software Engineering
8 656 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 579 (14.71%) Mentoring
10 554 (14.08%) Machine Learning
11 510 (12.96%) Data Science
12 444 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 441 (11.20%) Data Engineering
14 440 (11.18%) ETL
15 422 (10.72%) Data Modelling
16 417 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 410 (10.42%) Computer Science
18 398 (10.11%) Containerisation
19 379 (9.63%) Data Analysis
20 340 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,574 (39.99%) SQL
2 666 (16.92%) Java
3 658 (16.72%) JavaScript
4 376 (9.55%) Bash
5 368 (9.35%) TypeScript
6 359 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 281 (7.14%) C#
8 209 (5.31%) R
9 207 (5.26%) C++
10 174 (4.42%) Go
11 100 (2.54%) C
12 66 (1.68%) Scala
13 60 (1.52%) PHP
14 57 (1.45%) Perl
15 56 (1.42%) Shell Script
16 46 (1.17%) Bicep
16 46 (1.17%) T-SQL
17 44 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (1.07%) MATLAB
19 37 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 787 (19.99%) Degree
2 387 (9.83%) Azure Certification
3 385 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 288 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 237 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 215 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 199 (5.06%) Master's Degree
8 181 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 163 (4.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 136 (3.46%) DV Cleared
11 122 (3.10%) PhD
12 65 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.09%) CISSP
15 42 (1.07%) CCNP
16 41 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.69%) CCNA
19 24 (0.61%) OSCP
20 23 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.71%) QA
3 122 (3.10%) GDPR
4 91 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.98%) NIST
6 62 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.97%) SLA
8 22 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.20%) GRC
13 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.20%) PMO
14 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.13%) NCSC
15 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 559 (14.20%) Docker
2 96 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.53%) Firmware
7 19 (0.48%) vSphere
8 15 (0.38%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.23%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Postfix
13 6 (0.15%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.13%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 568 (14.43%) Kubernetes
2 508 (12.91%) Terraform
3 319 (8.10%) Ansible
4 148 (3.76%) Grafana
5 122 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.99%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Argo
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 22 (0.56%) Puppet
9 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
10 16 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.33%) Nessus
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.28%) Nagios
15 10 (0.25%) Control-M
15 10 (0.25%) Nmap
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 818 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 316 (8.03%) Databricks
3 196 (4.98%) Google
4 138 (3.51%) Oracle
5 113 (2.87%) VMware
6 96 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 89 (2.26%) Cisco
8 87 (2.21%) Splunk
9 68 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 61 (1.55%) SAP
11 51 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.27%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.12%) IBM
15 39 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 36 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 35 (0.89%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.86%) Fortinet
18 34 (0.86%) Informatica
18 34 (0.86%) Palantir