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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,920 6,271 5,374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.33% 10.79% 11.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.42% 32.73% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 3,950 4,237
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,188 £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 10,203 19,160 18,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.69% 32.97% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,625 11,526 15,448
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £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 £110,000 £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 1 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 1 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 2,090 £85,000 -2.86% 1,167
North of England -9 573 £57,500 -8.00% 425
South East -36 408 £60,000 -7.69% 986
Midlands +4 349 £60,000 +4.35% 334
South West -6 275 £60,000 -11.11% 276
Yorkshire +3 269 £60,000 -4.58% 131
West Midlands +15 244 £60,000 -5.51% 210
North West -14 239 £58,625 -2.29% 239
East of England -23 190 £50,000 -28.57% 255
East Midlands -13 108 £62,500 +13.64% 120
North East -8 67 £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
1 204 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 143 (3.65%) Apache
4 57 (1.45%) 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 (0.54%) 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 (0.31%) IIS
15 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
17 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 386 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.31%) 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%) Mathcad
8 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.10%) CATIA
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.077%) 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 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.026%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.026%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.026%) Endur
6 1 (0.026%) FastStats
6 1 (0.026%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.026%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.026%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.026%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.026%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,456 (37.14%) AWS
2 1,434 (36.58%) Azure
3 582 (14.85%) Power Platform
4 484 (12.35%) GCP
5 416 (10.61%) GitHub
6 281 (7.17%) Serverless
7 204 (5.20%) Snowflake
8 188 (4.80%) dbt
9 179 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 173 (4.41%) Azure AI
11 172 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
12 165 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
13 152 (3.88%) SaaS
14 123 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
15 120 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
15 120 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 109 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
17 98 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 91 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
19 82 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 175 (4.46%) Internet
2 172 (4.39%) Firewall
3 80 (2.04%) DNS
4 79 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 70 (1.79%) VPN
6 66 (1.68%) WAN
7 55 (1.40%) LAN
8 47 (1.20%) HTTP
9 43 (1.10%) Network Security
10 36 (0.92%) VLAN
11 35 (0.89%) Wireless
12 34 (0.87%) BGP
13 33 (0.84%) SAN
14 32 (0.82%) 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 (0.59%) SSH
19 22 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 553 (14.11%) Power BI
2 430 (10.97%) Tableau
3 280 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 268 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 191 (4.87%) Relational Database
7 175 (4.46%) NoSQL
8 142 (3.62%) Data Lake
9 118 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
10 114 (2.91%) Apache Iceberg
11 103 (2.63%) Data Mining
11 103 (2.63%) MongoDB
12 102 (2.60%) BigQuery
13 100 (2.55%) MySQL
14 99 (2.53%) Big Data
15 97 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (2.40%) Apache Arrow
16 94 (2.40%) Dremio
17 84 (2.14%) DynamoDB
18 80 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 480 (12.24%) Git
2 246 (6.28%) Jenkins
3 153 (3.90%) JIRA
4 135 (3.44%) GitLab
5 62 (1.58%) Selenium
6 51 (1.30%) MLflow
7 40 (1.02%) JUnit
8 33 (0.84%) JMeter
9 29 (0.74%) Postman
10 26 (0.66%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.54%) Mockito
12 21 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 15 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.31%) Metasploit
General
1 1,141 (29.11%) Finance
2 1,081 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 570 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (8.01%) Banking
5 283 (7.22%) Law
6 232 (5.92%) Marketing
7 228 (5.82%) Front Office
8 211 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 175 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 163 (4.16%) Multimedia
11 145 (3.70%) Retail
12 117 (2.98%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.68%) Investment Banking
14 101 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 80 (2.04%) Electronics
17 68 (1.73%) Legal
18 62 (1.58%) Games
19 59 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
20 57 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 713 (18.19%) Senior
2 704 (17.96%) Developer
3 575 (14.67%) Analyst
4 433 (11.05%) Data Engineer
5 407 (10.38%) Software Engineer
6 386 (9.85%) Data Analyst
7 320 (8.16%) Lead
8 282 (7.19%) Python Engineer
9 280 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 245 (6.25%) Trainee
11 195 (4.97%) Python Software Engineer
12 194 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
13 173 (4.41%) Junior
14 163 (4.16%) Architect
15 159 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
16 151 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (3.67%) Junior Analyst
18 142 (3.62%) Junior Data Analyst
19 141 (3.60%) Software Developer
20 138 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (8.93%) React
2 294 (7.50%) HTML
3 248 (6.33%) CSS
4 193 (4.92%) Pandas
5 190 (4.85%) Node.js
6 170 (4.34%) Kafka
7 167 (4.26%) REST
8 154 (3.93%) Django
9 146 (3.72%) NumPy
10 131 (3.34%) RESTful
11 130 (3.32%) PySpark
12 128 (3.27%) .NET
13 126 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 126 (3.21%) FastAPI
14 115 (2.93%) PyTorch
15 110 (2.81%) Vue
16 104 (2.65%) Flask
17 103 (2.63%) TensorFlow
18 96 (2.45%) JSON
18 96 (2.45%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 265 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.43%) Algorithms
3 174 (4.44%) Equities
4 153 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 147 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 135 (3.44%) Data Structures
7 121 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 119 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 112 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 110 (2.81%) Derivative
11 109 (2.78%) Hedge funds
12 95 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
13 82 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.94%) Product Ownership
15 69 (1.76%) Public Cloud
16 63 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
17 58 (1.48%) Data Centre
18 56 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
19 55 (1.40%) Pricing Data
20 52 (1.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 496 (12.65%) Linux
2 212 (5.41%) Windows
3 194 (4.95%) Unix
4 74 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.87%) VMS
7 31 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.59%) CentOS
8 23 (0.59%) Debian
9 17 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.38%) Solaris
11 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.31%) zOS
12 11 (0.28%) Android
13 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.077%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,017 (25.94%) CI/CD
2 1,005 (25.64%) AI
3 898 (22.91%) Agile
4 893 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
5 802 (20.46%) Analytics
6 794 (20.26%) DevOps
7 727 (18.55%) Software Engineering
8 651 (16.61%) Business Intelligence
9 577 (14.72%) Mentoring
10 553 (14.11%) Machine Learning
11 508 (12.96%) Data Science
12 440 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
13 434 (11.07%) Data Engineering
13 434 (11.07%) ETL
14 419 (10.69%) Data Modelling
15 412 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
16 407 (10.38%) Computer Science
17 395 (10.08%) Containerisation
18 378 (9.64%) Data Analysis
19 339 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,566 (39.95%) SQL
2 663 (16.91%) Java
3 657 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 373 (9.52%) Bash
5 366 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 358 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 280 (7.14%) C#
8 209 (5.33%) R
9 206 (5.26%) C++
10 174 (4.44%) Go
11 98 (2.50%) C
12 65 (1.66%) Scala
13 60 (1.53%) PHP
14 56 (1.43%) Perl
14 56 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 46 (1.17%) Bicep
15 46 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 44 (1.12%) MATLAB
17 43 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 784 (20.00%) Degree
2 386 (9.85%) Azure Certification
3 385 (9.82%) Security Cleared
4 287 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 236 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 215 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 198 (5.05%) Master's Degree
8 181 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 163 (4.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 136 (3.47%) DV Cleared
11 121 (3.09%) PhD
12 65 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
14 43 (1.10%) CISSP
15 42 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 42 (1.07%) CCNP
16 38 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.69%) CCNA
18 24 (0.61%) OSCP
19 23 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.72%) QA
3 122 (3.11%) GDPR
4 91 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.99%) NIST
6 62 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.97%) SLA
8 24 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.31%) 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%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 5 (0.13%) NCSC
15 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 555 (14.16%) Docker
2 97 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.54%) Firmware
7 19 (0.48%) vSphere
8 16 (0.41%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.31%) HDFS
9 12 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.26%) 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
1 565 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 506 (12.91%) Terraform
3 319 (8.14%) Ansible
4 148 (3.78%) Grafana
5 123 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.99%) Kibana
7 30 (0.77%) Argo
7 30 (0.77%) 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 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.26%) Control-M
14 10 (0.26%) Nagios
14 10 (0.26%) Nmap
14 10 (0.26%) QRadar
14 10 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 817 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 313 (7.98%) Databricks
3 196 (5.00%) Google
4 137 (3.49%) Oracle
5 113 (2.88%) VMware
6 96 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 89 (2.27%) Cisco
8 88 (2.24%) Splunk
9 69 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.58%) SAP
11 51 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.28%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.12%) IBM
15 39 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 36 (0.92%) Palo Alto
17 35 (0.89%) Atlassian
18 34 (0.87%) Fortinet
18 34 (0.87%) Palantir
19 33 (0.84%) Informatica