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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,008 6,373 5,424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.54% 10.64% 11.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.06% 32.39% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,761 4,001 4,264
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
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 £91,250 £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 10,532 19,678 18,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.45% 32.87% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,860 11,802 15,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,683 £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 £110,000 £110,000 £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 28 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 28 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 2,163 £85,000 -2.86% 1,329
North of England -16 571 £60,000 -4.00% 485
South East -37 415 £57,500 -9.80% 1,015
Midlands +7 346 £60,000 +1.69% 346
South West -9 275 £60,000 -11.11% 265
Yorkshire +2 264 £62,500 -0.60% 145
North West -16 244 £59,750 -4.40% 286
West Midlands +17 243 £60,000 -7.69% 220
East of England -20 198 £52,500 -25.00% 268
East Midlands -8 106 £65,000 +18.18% 124
North East -8 65 £40,000 -38.46% 60
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
1 212 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 147 (3.67%) Apache
4 63 (1.57%) Confluence
5 44 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.65%) SAS
8 24 (0.60%) nginx
9 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.45%) CMS
10 18 (0.45%) WordPress
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 13 (0.32%) Appian
12 13 (0.32%) IIS
13 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 342 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.37%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Mathcad
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.100%) CATIA
8 4 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.100%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.100%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.025%) Endur
7 1 (0.025%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.025%) Odoo
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 1,504 (37.52%) AWS
2 1,421 (35.45%) Azure
3 548 (13.67%) Power Platform
4 506 (12.62%) GCP
5 409 (10.20%) GitHub
6 287 (7.16%) Serverless
7 209 (5.21%) Snowflake
8 195 (4.87%) dbt
9 183 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 177 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 155 (3.87%) SaaS
13 125 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
13 125 (3.12%) Azure AI
14 124 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
15 121 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 113 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
17 100 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 95 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
19 87 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 176 (4.39%) Firewall
2 167 (4.17%) Internet
3 84 (2.10%) DNS
4 81 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.85%) WAN
6 70 (1.75%) VPN
7 60 (1.50%) LAN
8 50 (1.25%) HTTP
9 43 (1.07%) Network Security
10 37 (0.92%) VLAN
11 36 (0.90%) BGP
12 35 (0.87%) Wireless
13 34 (0.85%) SAN
14 33 (0.82%) SSL
15 31 (0.77%) OSPF
15 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
16 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.70%) DHCP
18 24 (0.60%) FTP
18 24 (0.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (12.87%) Power BI
2 383 (9.56%) Tableau
3 290 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
4 287 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
5 224 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 206 (5.14%) Relational Database
7 188 (4.69%) NoSQL
8 143 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 123 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
10 120 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
11 110 (2.74%) MongoDB
12 106 (2.64%) MySQL
13 105 (2.62%) Big Data
14 103 (2.57%) BigQuery
15 102 (2.54%) Data Mining
16 101 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
17 97 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
17 97 (2.42%) Dremio
18 89 (2.22%) DynamoDB
19 84 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 486 (12.13%) Git
2 256 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 161 (4.02%) JIRA
4 139 (3.47%) GitLab
5 63 (1.57%) Selenium
6 51 (1.27%) MLflow
7 40 (1.00%) JUnit
8 32 (0.80%) JMeter
9 30 (0.75%) Vagrant
10 28 (0.70%) Postman
11 23 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 21 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.52%) Mockito
13 17 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.32%) Metasploit
General
1 1,218 (30.39%) Finance
2 1,073 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 593 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 351 (8.76%) Banking
5 331 (8.26%) Law
6 268 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 252 (6.29%) Marketing
8 247 (6.16%) Front Office
9 183 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 151 (3.77%) Multimedia
11 149 (3.72%) Retail
12 127 (3.17%) Manufacturing
13 108 (2.69%) Investment Banking
14 105 (2.62%) Telecoms
15 93 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 82 (2.05%) Electronics
17 74 (1.85%) Legal
18 64 (1.60%) Games
19 60 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
19 60 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (18.91%) Senior
2 744 (18.56%) Developer
3 540 (13.47%) Analyst
4 449 (11.20%) Software Engineer
5 438 (10.93%) Data Engineer
6 353 (8.81%) Lead
7 339 (8.46%) Data Analyst
8 301 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 299 (7.46%) Python Developer
10 231 (5.76%) Trainee
11 216 (5.39%) Python Software Engineer
12 204 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
13 170 (4.24%) Architect
14 164 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
15 156 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
16 154 (3.84%) Senior Developer
17 139 (3.47%) Software Developer
18 132 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
19 129 (3.22%) Junior
20 109 (2.72%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (9.38%) React
2 288 (7.19%) HTML
3 243 (6.06%) CSS
4 203 (5.06%) Pandas
5 197 (4.92%) Node.js
6 181 (4.52%) REST
7 180 (4.49%) Kafka
8 160 (3.99%) Django
9 152 (3.79%) NumPy
10 141 (3.52%) .NET
11 140 (3.49%) RESTful
12 136 (3.39%) FastAPI
13 135 (3.37%) AngularJS
14 133 (3.32%) PySpark
15 117 (2.92%) PyTorch
15 117 (2.92%) Vue
16 111 (2.77%) Flask
17 106 (2.64%) TensorFlow
18 99 (2.47%) SciPy
19 97 (2.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 286 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 222 (5.54%) Algorithms
3 186 (4.64%) Equities
4 158 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 152 (3.79%) Fixed Income
6 139 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 125 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 124 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 117 (2.92%) Derivative
10 114 (2.84%) Hedge funds
10 114 (2.84%) Onboarding
11 96 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
12 85 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 80 (2.00%) Public Cloud
14 78 (1.95%) Product Ownership
15 65 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (1.55%) Data Centre
17 61 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
18 55 (1.37%) Pricing Data
19 54 (1.35%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 511 (12.75%) Linux
2 217 (5.41%) Windows
3 200 (4.99%) Unix
4 74 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.92%) VMS
7 33 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.60%) Debian
9 23 (0.57%) CentOS
10 18 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 15 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.37%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Android
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.30%) zOS
13 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 986 (24.60%) AI
3 971 (24.23%) Agile
4 942 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
5 826 (20.61%) DevOps
6 819 (20.43%) Analytics
7 790 (19.71%) Software Engineering
8 618 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
9 583 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 575 (14.35%) Machine Learning
11 529 (13.20%) Data Science
12 455 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
13 446 (11.13%) Data Engineering
14 444 (11.08%) ETL
15 439 (10.95%) Computer Science
16 435 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 430 (10.73%) Data Modelling
18 413 (10.30%) Containerisation
19 390 (9.73%) Data Analysis
20 349 (8.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,576 (39.32%) SQL
2 700 (17.47%) Java
3 673 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 382 (9.53%) Bash
5 381 (9.51%) TypeScript
6 370 (9.23%) PowerShell
7 306 (7.63%) C#
8 223 (5.56%) C++
9 207 (5.16%) R
10 189 (4.72%) Go
11 103 (2.57%) C
12 67 (1.67%) Scala
13 64 (1.60%) PHP
14 60 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 57 (1.42%) Perl
16 51 (1.27%) MATLAB
17 48 (1.20%) T-SQL
18 45 (1.12%) Bicep
19 43 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 43 (1.07%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 828 (20.66%) Degree
2 396 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 332 (8.28%) Azure Certification
4 284 (7.09%) AWS Certification
5 244 (6.09%) SC Cleared
6 205 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 205 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 193 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 151 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 138 (3.44%) DV Cleared
10 123 (3.07%) PhD
11 67 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 55 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
13 45 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 44 (1.10%) CCNP
14 44 (1.10%) CISSP
15 41 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.67%) CCNA
16 27 (0.67%) OSCP
17 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.69%) QA
3 127 (3.17%) GDPR
4 92 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.97%) NIST
6 63 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.97%) SLA
8 24 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.25%) GRC
15 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 8 (0.20%) PMO
16 5 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.100%) NIST 800
System Software
1 579 (14.45%) Docker
2 102 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) Firmware
7 20 (0.50%) DFS Replication
7 20 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.30%) HDFS
8 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
8 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.25%) NFS
11 7 (0.17%) Postfix
11 7 (0.17%) ProxySG
12 6 (0.15%) Dovecot
12 6 (0.15%) KVM
12 6 (0.15%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) Squid
13 5 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 593 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 534 (13.32%) Terraform
3 336 (8.38%) Ansible
4 157 (3.92%) Grafana
5 130 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.00%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 26 (0.65%) Argo
9 23 (0.57%) Puppet
10 17 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 14 (0.35%) Nessus
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.27%) Control-M
14 11 (0.27%) Nmap
14 11 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.25%) Nagios
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 770 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 328 (8.18%) Databricks
3 207 (5.16%) Google
4 142 (3.54%) Oracle
5 116 (2.89%) VMware
6 97 (2.42%) Cisco
6 97 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 92 (2.30%) Splunk
8 73 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 66 (1.65%) SAP
10 53 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 50 (1.25%) Alteryx
12 48 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 44 (1.10%) IBM
14 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
14 41 (1.02%) Palo Alto
15 39 (0.97%) Fortinet
16 38 (0.95%) Atlassian
17 34 (0.85%) Palantir
18 33 (0.82%) Informatica