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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,799 6,622 6,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.17% 9.69% 12.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.08% 31.73% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,615 4,284 5,340
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 11,681 20,872 22,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.19% 30.54% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,668 13,605 18,613
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 0 2,252 £90,000 - 1,919
North of England +24 1,267 £62,500 +4.17% 705
North West +21 1,029 £60,000 - 413
South East -22 483 £60,000 +9.09% 1,306
Midlands +6 306 £65,000 +8.33% 457
East of England -15 224 £55,000 -8.33% 335
South West -12 222 £55,000 -18.52% 295
Yorkshire +4 201 £65,000 +13.04% 225
West Midlands +7 191 £64,750 -0.38% 255
East Midlands -2 116 £66,250 +43.24% 190
North East -18 39 £53,750 -17.31% 75
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 258 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (3.67%) Apache
3 173 (3.60%) Apache Spark
4 72 (1.50%) Confluence
5 33 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.56%) CMS
8 26 (0.54%) nginx
9 25 (0.52%) SAS
10 24 (0.50%) IBM Domino
11 14 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 11 (0.23%) IIS
15 10 (0.21%) Appian
16 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 8 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.10%) ArcGIS
18 4 (0.083%) JBoss
18 4 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 133 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.52%) Simulink
4 16 (0.33%) Mathcad
5 14 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.15%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.10%) GNU Octave
10 4 (0.083%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.063%) InDesign
11 3 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.063%) Stata
12 2 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.042%) SPSS
13 1 (0.021%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.021%) Blender
13 1 (0.021%) CATIA
13 1 (0.021%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 36 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 33 (0.69%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.21%) Shopify
5 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.042%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.042%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.042%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.021%) Actimize
9 1 (0.021%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.021%) Endur
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.021%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.021%) Summit
9 1 (0.021%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,747 (36.40%) AWS
2 1,495 (31.15%) Azure
3 775 (16.15%) GCP
4 406 (8.46%) Power Platform
5 293 (6.11%) Serverless
6 270 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 227 (4.73%) dbt
8 218 (4.54%) GitHub
9 206 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
10 201 (4.19%) Amazon S3
11 182 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
12 175 (3.65%) SaaS
13 166 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
14 157 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
15 144 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 131 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
17 108 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
18 104 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
19 99 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 84 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 804 (16.75%) VPN
2 491 (10.23%) DNS
3 281 (5.86%) Cisco IOS
4 204 (4.25%) Firewall
5 119 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 97 (2.02%) WAN
7 72 (1.50%) LAN
8 55 (1.15%) HTTP
9 53 (1.10%) Network Security
10 44 (0.92%) BGP
11 43 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 40 (0.83%) OSPF
13 39 (0.81%) Internet
14 33 (0.69%) SSL
14 33 (0.69%) VLAN
15 32 (0.67%) FTP
16 31 (0.65%) SSH
17 30 (0.63%) Wireless
18 29 (0.60%) DHCP
18 29 (0.60%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (7.56%) Power BI
2 340 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 289 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 211 (4.40%) Data Lake
5 200 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 194 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 190 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
8 184 (3.83%) NoSQL
9 181 (3.77%) Tableau
10 173 (3.60%) Apache Iceberg
11 159 (3.31%) Apache Arrow
11 159 (3.31%) Dremio
12 129 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
13 122 (2.54%) Big Data
14 110 (2.29%) DynamoDB
15 108 (2.25%) MongoDB
15 108 (2.25%) MySQL
16 106 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
17 98 (2.04%) BigQuery
18 88 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 369 (7.69%) Git
2 254 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 164 (3.42%) JIRA
4 113 (2.35%) GitLab
5 78 (1.63%) Robot Framework
6 72 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 57 (1.19%) Selenium
8 47 (0.98%) Vagrant
9 45 (0.94%) MLflow
10 44 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 43 (0.90%) JUnit
12 41 (0.85%) JMeter
13 30 (0.63%) SonarQube
14 27 (0.56%) Mockito
15 26 (0.54%) Postman
16 22 (0.46%) Maven
17 18 (0.38%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.33%) Appium
19 15 (0.31%) Artifactory
19 15 (0.31%) Locust
General
1 1,682 (35.05%) Finance
2 1,260 (26.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,175 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 896 (18.67%) Social Skills
5 432 (9.00%) Banking
6 419 (8.73%) Law
7 391 (8.15%) Front Office
8 273 (5.69%) Marketing
9 175 (3.65%) Public Sector
10 171 (3.56%) Retail
11 152 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 142 (2.96%) Investment Banking
13 103 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 79 (1.65%) Games
15 77 (1.60%) Legal
16 72 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
17 71 (1.48%) Electronics
18 60 (1.25%) Advertising
19 59 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 49 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,130 (23.55%) Developer
2 1,089 (22.69%) Senior
3 742 (15.46%) Software Engineer
4 512 (10.67%) Software Developer
5 423 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 410 (8.54%) Lead
7 401 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 364 (7.58%) Python Engineer
9 357 (7.44%) Analyst
10 326 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 299 (6.23%) Python Developer
12 282 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
13 279 (5.81%) Python Software Engineer
14 181 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
15 172 (3.58%) Senior Developer
16 168 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 165 (3.44%) Architect
18 155 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
19 141 (2.94%) Data Analyst
20 133 (2.77%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (9.02%) Node.js
2 402 (8.38%) .NET
3 401 (8.36%) React
4 318 (6.63%) Pandas
5 306 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
6 222 (4.63%) NumPy
7 177 (3.69%) Kafka
8 173 (3.60%) REST
9 172 (3.58%) HTML
10 163 (3.40%) SciPy
11 156 (3.25%) PySpark
12 150 (3.13%) AngularJS
13 133 (2.77%) RESTful
14 128 (2.67%) Vue
15 106 (2.21%) Django
16 102 (2.13%) CSS
17 101 (2.10%) gRPC
18 96 (2.00%) PyTorch
19 95 (1.98%) FastAPI
20 94 (1.96%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 890 (18.55%) Cyberattack
2 296 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
3 287 (5.98%) Cloud Native
4 266 (5.54%) Fixed Income
5 260 (5.42%) Equities
6 256 (5.33%) Algorithms
7 225 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
8 204 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 189 (3.94%) Hedge funds
10 188 (3.92%) Derivative
11 137 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
12 124 (2.58%) Data Structures
13 118 (2.46%) Management Information System
14 102 (2.13%) Onboarding
15 97 (2.02%) Public Cloud
16 91 (1.90%) Pricing Data
17 80 (1.67%) Data Centre
18 77 (1.60%) Product Ownership
19 64 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
20 56 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,475 (30.74%) Linux
2 720 (15.00%) Android
3 543 (11.31%) Windows
4 136 (2.83%) Unix
5 64 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 59 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 53 (1.10%) VMS
8 40 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 26 (0.54%) Debian
10 18 (0.38%) CentOS
11 14 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.29%) Solaris
12 13 (0.27%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,751 (36.49%) Agile
2 1,212 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1,152 (24.01%) DevOps
4 1,120 (23.34%) Software Engineering
5 1,055 (21.98%) CI/CD
6 990 (20.63%) Mathematics
7 792 (16.50%) Machine Learning
8 771 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 758 (15.79%) Analytics
10 728 (15.17%) Line Management
11 716 (14.92%) Mentoring
12 632 (13.17%) Data Engineering
13 551 (11.48%) OO
14 543 (11.31%) Data Science
15 524 (10.92%) OOP
16 504 (10.50%) Computer Science
17 477 (9.94%) Design Patterns
18 471 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
19 449 (9.36%) Microservices
20 446 (9.29%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 1,480 (30.84%) Java
2 1,475 (30.74%) SQL
3 925 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 911 (18.98%) C++
5 829 (17.27%) Go
6 701 (14.61%) Bash
7 698 (14.54%) PowerShell
8 507 (10.56%) TypeScript
9 331 (6.90%) C#
10 309 (6.44%) Rust
11 221 (4.61%) R
12 157 (3.27%) C
13 122 (2.54%) MATLAB
14 103 (2.15%) PHP
15 84 (1.75%) Scala
16 78 (1.63%) Shell Script
17 77 (1.60%) Perl
18 72 (1.50%) Ruby
19 63 (1.31%) T-SQL
20 60 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 983 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 891 (18.57%) Degree
3 711 (14.82%) DV Cleared
4 332 (6.92%) AWS Certification
5 234 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 223 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 215 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 213 (4.44%) Master's Degree
9 184 (3.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 139 (2.90%) PhD
11 129 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 71 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 64 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 49 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 44 (0.92%) CCNP
16 31 (0.65%) CCNA
16 31 (0.65%) CISSP
17 26 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
18 24 (0.50%) OSCP
19 22 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (5.13%) QA
2 179 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 144 (3.00%) GDPR
4 77 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (1.60%) NIST
5 56 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 30 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 28 (0.58%) SLA
8 26 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.17%) GRC
14 8 (0.17%) IFRS
15 6 (0.13%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
17 4 (0.083%) HL7
System Software
1 1,280 (26.67%) Docker
2 290 (6.04%) Hyper-V
3 281 (5.86%) VMware NSX
4 277 (5.77%) vSphere
5 125 (2.60%) Active Directory
6 83 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.60%) DFS Replication
9 21 (0.44%) Firmware
10 17 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
12 11 (0.23%) HDFS
13 10 (0.21%) NFS
14 9 (0.19%) Postfix
15 8 (0.17%) Dovecot
15 8 (0.17%) KVM
15 8 (0.17%) ProxySG
15 8 (0.17%) Squid
16 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
17 5 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1,066 (22.21%) Ansible
2 899 (18.73%) Terraform
3 660 (13.75%) Kubernetes
4 161 (3.35%) Grafana
5 141 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 47 (0.98%) Kibana
7 34 (0.71%) Puppet
8 28 (0.58%) Kubeflow
9 25 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 23 (0.48%) Nagios
12 18 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (0.38%) Nessus
13 17 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
13 17 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.31%) SCCM
15 14 (0.29%) Istio
15 14 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.29%) QRadar
16 13 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 436 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 367 (7.65%) Cisco
3 364 (7.58%) Splunk
4 336 (7.00%) Databricks
5 286 (5.96%) Juniper
6 262 (5.46%) 3PAR
7 227 (4.73%) Google
8 122 (2.54%) VMware
9 121 (2.52%) Oracle
10 79 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 78 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 65 (1.35%) SAP
13 53 (1.10%) OpenAI
14 43 (0.90%) Palo Alto
15 38 (0.79%) SimCorp
16 34 (0.71%) Fortinet
17 33 (0.69%) BISAM
17 33 (0.69%) Calypso
17 33 (0.69%) Charles River
18 32 (0.67%) Dynatrace