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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,984 6,220 5,676
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.70% 10.27% 12.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.61% 32.14% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 3,851 4,417
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £43,750
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 £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 10,593 19,354 19,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.14% 31.95% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,807 11,495 15,869
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £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 £111,250 £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 13 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 13 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 0 2,202 £85,000 -5.56% 3,277
North of England -15 558 £60,000 -4.00% 746
South East -36 407 £57,500 -4.17% 951
Midlands +9 337 £60,000 - 415
South West -8 255 £57,500 -14.81% 305
Yorkshire -4 251 £65,000 +8.33% 214
North West -18 247 £60,000 - 460
West Midlands +13 237 £61,250 -5.77% 268
East of England -25 185 £55,000 -18.52% 334
East Midlands -8 103 £57,600 +8.68% 145
North East -10 62 £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
1 224 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 156 (3.92%) Apache
4 74 (1.86%) Confluence
5 45 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.65%) nginx
7 24 (0.60%) SAS
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
12 14 (0.35%) Jupyter
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
15 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 232 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.43%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.25%) Mathcad
5 8 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
6 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.10%) CATIA
8 4 (0.10%) GNU Octave
8 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.10%) 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%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.25%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.075%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
7 2 (0.050%) SimCorp Dimension
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%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,552 (38.96%) AWS
2 1,318 (33.08%) Azure
3 518 (13.00%) GCP
4 453 (11.37%) Power Platform
5 376 (9.44%) GitHub
6 302 (7.58%) Serverless
7 215 (5.40%) Snowflake
8 203 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 202 (5.07%) dbt
10 195 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 174 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 147 (3.69%) SaaS
13 143 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
14 121 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
15 118 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
16 114 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 108 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 107 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
19 100 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 85 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 198 (4.97%) Firewall
2 144 (3.61%) Internet
3 92 (2.31%) DNS
4 84 (2.11%) VPN
5 81 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 79 (1.98%) WAN
7 61 (1.53%) LAN
8 54 (1.36%) HTTP
9 50 (1.26%) Network Security
10 46 (1.15%) BGP
11 43 (1.08%) VLAN
12 39 (0.98%) OSPF
13 37 (0.93%) SSL
14 35 (0.88%) Wireless
15 33 (0.83%) SAN
15 33 (0.83%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
17 30 (0.75%) SSH
18 28 (0.70%) FTP
19 27 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (10.39%) Power BI
2 304 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 302 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 273 (6.85%) Tableau
5 221 (5.55%) SQL Server
6 207 (5.20%) Relational Database
7 191 (4.79%) NoSQL
8 157 (3.94%) Data Lake
9 141 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
10 135 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
11 117 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
12 113 (2.84%) Big Data
12 113 (2.84%) MongoDB
13 111 (2.79%) Apache Arrow
13 111 (2.79%) Dremio
14 106 (2.66%) MySQL
15 98 (2.46%) BigQuery
16 96 (2.41%) DynamoDB
17 92 (2.31%) Data Mining
18 84 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 469 (11.77%) Git
2 264 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 173 (4.34%) JIRA
4 138 (3.46%) GitLab
5 65 (1.63%) Selenium
6 47 (1.18%) MLflow
7 41 (1.03%) JUnit
8 38 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 33 (0.83%) JMeter
10 25 (0.63%) Postman
11 24 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.55%) Mockito
13 18 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.45%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.33%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,287 (32.30%) Finance
2 960 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 587 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (10.09%) Banking
5 372 (9.34%) Law
6 316 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 280 (7.03%) Front Office
8 272 (6.83%) Marketing
9 204 (5.12%) Public Sector
10 158 (3.97%) Retail
11 127 (3.19%) Multimedia
12 125 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 120 (3.01%) Investment Banking
14 103 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 90 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 86 (2.16%) Electronics
17 82 (2.06%) Legal
18 66 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
19 64 (1.61%) Games
20 56 (1.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 806 (20.23%) Senior
2 737 (18.50%) Developer
3 492 (12.35%) Software Engineer
4 443 (11.12%) Data Engineer
5 425 (10.67%) Analyst
6 373 (9.36%) Lead
7 330 (8.28%) Python Engineer
8 292 (7.33%) Python Developer
9 243 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
10 233 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
11 223 (5.60%) Data Analyst
12 198 (4.97%) Trainee
13 173 (4.34%) Architect
14 169 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
15 163 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
16 162 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
17 161 (4.04%) Senior Developer
18 128 (3.21%) Software Developer
19 125 (3.14%) AWS Software Engineer
20 108 (2.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (9.14%) React
2 292 (7.33%) HTML
3 216 (5.42%) CSS
3 216 (5.42%) Pandas
4 194 (4.87%) Kafka
5 192 (4.82%) Node.js
6 177 (4.44%) REST
7 167 (4.19%) NumPy
8 153 (3.84%) .NET
9 145 (3.64%) Django
10 139 (3.49%) RESTful
11 134 (3.36%) AngularJS
12 133 (3.34%) FastAPI
12 133 (3.34%) PySpark
13 123 (3.09%) Vue
14 117 (2.94%) Flask
15 113 (2.84%) SciPy
16 106 (2.66%) PyTorch
17 98 (2.46%) TensorFlow
18 81 (2.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 233 (5.85%) Algorithms
3 208 (5.22%) Equities
4 173 (4.34%) Fixed Income
5 157 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 142 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 137 (3.44%) Data Structures
8 135 (3.39%) Derivative
9 126 (3.16%) Management Information System
10 125 (3.14%) Hedge funds
11 102 (2.56%) Onboarding
12 92 (2.31%) Public Cloud
13 83 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
14 79 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
15 73 (1.83%) Product Ownership
16 67 (1.68%) Data Centre
16 67 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
17 63 (1.58%) Pricing Data
18 55 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
19 54 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 510 (12.80%) Linux
2 216 (5.42%) Windows
3 185 (4.64%) Unix
4 69 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.15%) VMS
7 38 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.65%) Debian
9 23 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
10 21 (0.53%) CentOS
11 16 (0.40%) Android
12 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.35%) Solaris
14 12 (0.30%) zOS
15 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
17 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
19 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
20 4 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 1,052 (26.41%) Agile
3 958 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 901 (22.62%) AI
5 852 (21.39%) DevOps
6 833 (20.91%) Software Engineering
7 806 (20.23%) Analytics
8 633 (15.89%) Machine Learning
9 569 (14.28%) Mentoring
10 545 (13.68%) Data Science
11 520 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
12 496 (12.45%) Computer Science
13 451 (11.32%) Data Engineering
13 451 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
14 445 (11.17%) ETL
15 435 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 416 (10.44%) Data Modelling
17 407 (10.22%) Containerisation
18 366 (9.19%) Visualisation
19 360 (9.04%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,546 (38.81%) SQL
2 795 (19.95%) Java
3 702 (17.62%) JavaScript
4 445 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 375 (9.41%) Bash
5 375 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 360 (9.04%) C#
7 281 (7.05%) C++
8 252 (6.33%) R
9 192 (4.82%) Go
10 145 (3.64%) C
11 112 (2.81%) PHP
12 108 (2.71%) MATLAB
13 87 (2.18%) Rust
14 69 (1.73%) Scala
15 68 (1.71%) Ruby
16 65 (1.63%) Shell Script
17 60 (1.51%) Perl
18 54 (1.36%) T-SQL
19 52 (1.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 863 (21.66%) Degree
2 407 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 274 (6.88%) AWS Certification
4 257 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 235 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 221 (5.55%) Azure Certification
7 204 (5.12%) Master's Degree
8 181 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 137 (3.44%) DV Cleared
10 127 (3.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 126 (3.16%) PhD
12 69 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
14 46 (1.15%) CCNP
15 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
16 41 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.95%) CISSP
18 31 (0.78%) CCNA
19 27 (0.68%) OSCP
20 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 145 (3.64%) QA
3 129 (3.24%) GDPR
4 90 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.83%) NIST
6 58 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 37 (0.93%) SLA
8 27 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 22 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.45%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.28%) GRC
15 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.15%) PMO
17 4 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
17 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 583 (14.63%) Docker
2 111 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 82 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.63%) DFS Replication
5 25 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.53%) vSphere
7 19 (0.48%) Firmware
8 15 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.33%) HDFS
10 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.28%) NFS
12 9 (0.23%) KVM
12 9 (0.23%) Postfix
13 8 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.20%) Squid
14 5 (0.13%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 605 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 560 (14.06%) Terraform
3 345 (8.66%) Ansible
4 166 (4.17%) Grafana
5 139 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.13%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 24 (0.60%) Puppet
9 23 (0.58%) Argo
10 18 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.40%) Nessus
11 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 15 (0.38%) Nagios
13 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.28%) Nmap
15 11 (0.28%) QRadar
16 9 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 642 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 343 (8.61%) Databricks
3 205 (5.15%) Google
4 142 (3.56%) Oracle
5 117 (2.94%) VMware
6 101 (2.54%) Cisco
7 97 (2.43%) Splunk
8 87 (2.18%) Red Hat
9 78 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.83%) SAP
11 48 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 46 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 44 (1.10%) Alteryx
14 43 (1.08%) IBM
15 42 (1.05%) Palo Alto
16 38 (0.95%) Palantir
17 36 (0.90%) Fortinet
18 35 (0.88%) Bloomberg
19 34 (0.85%) Atlassian
20 31 (0.78%) Dell