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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,025 6,381 5,386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.59% 10.61% 11.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.99% 32.33% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 4,007 4,228
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 £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 10,595 19,737 18,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.81% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,907 11,856 15,399
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 27 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 27 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 2,172 £85,000 -2.86% 1,292
North of England -15 577 £60,000 -4.00% 561
South East -36 416 £57,500 -9.80% 1,134
Midlands +8 345 £60,000 +1.69% 412
South West -9 277 £60,000 -11.11% 319
Yorkshire 0 266 £62,500 -0.60% 180
North West -13 247 £59,875 -4.20% 323
West Midlands +14 241 £60,000 -7.69% 250
East of England -21 199 £52,500 -25.00% 324
East Midlands -5 107 £65,000 +18.18% 155
North East -7 66 £40,000 -38.46% 63
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
1 216 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 151 (3.75%) Apache
4 64 (1.59%) Confluence
5 44 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.67%) SAS
7 23 (0.57%) nginx
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 18 (0.45%) WordPress
10 17 (0.42%) CMS
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
15 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 346 (8.60%) 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 (0.099%) CATIA
8 4 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.099%) 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 (0.099%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) FastStats
8 1 (0.025%) Magento
8 1 (0.025%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (37.64%) AWS
2 1,421 (35.30%) Azure
3 549 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 504 (12.52%) GCP
5 409 (10.16%) GitHub
6 292 (7.25%) Serverless
7 214 (5.32%) Snowflake
8 199 (4.94%) dbt
9 185 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 182 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
12 157 (3.90%) SaaS
13 128 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
14 124 (3.08%) Azure AI
14 124 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 121 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 114 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
17 101 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 97 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
19 87 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 178 (4.42%) Firewall
2 167 (4.15%) Internet
3 84 (2.09%) DNS
4 82 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 73 (1.81%) VPN
5 73 (1.81%) WAN
6 59 (1.47%) LAN
7 50 (1.24%) HTTP
8 46 (1.14%) Network Security
9 40 (0.99%) VLAN
10 38 (0.94%) BGP
11 35 (0.87%) Wireless
12 33 (0.82%) OSPF
12 33 (0.82%) SAN
12 33 (0.82%) SSL
13 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 27 (0.67%) DHCP
16 24 (0.60%) FTP
16 24 (0.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (12.82%) Power BI
2 384 (9.54%) Tableau
3 295 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
4 287 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
5 226 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 206 (5.12%) Relational Database
7 186 (4.62%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.68%) Data Lake
9 127 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
10 124 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 112 (2.78%) MongoDB
12 106 (2.63%) Big Data
13 104 (2.58%) MySQL
14 103 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
15 102 (2.53%) BigQuery
15 102 (2.53%) Data Mining
16 101 (2.51%) Apache Arrow
16 101 (2.51%) Dremio
17 87 (2.16%) DynamoDB
18 84 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 485 (12.05%) Git
2 255 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 163 (4.05%) JIRA
4 138 (3.43%) GitLab
5 62 (1.54%) Selenium
6 51 (1.27%) MLflow
7 41 (1.02%) JUnit
8 31 (0.77%) 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
14 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.32%) Metasploit
General
1 1,228 (30.51%) Finance
2 1,074 (26.68%) Social Skills
3 594 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (8.87%) Banking
5 331 (8.22%) Law
6 267 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 255 (6.34%) Marketing
8 251 (6.24%) Front Office
9 186 (4.62%) Public Sector
10 151 (3.75%) Multimedia
11 148 (3.68%) Retail
12 131 (3.25%) Manufacturing
13 113 (2.81%) Investment Banking
14 107 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 85 (2.11%) Electronics
17 75 (1.86%) Legal
18 63 (1.57%) Games
19 60 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
19 60 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 761 (18.91%) Senior
2 746 (18.53%) Developer
3 543 (13.49%) Analyst
4 459 (11.40%) Software Engineer
5 439 (10.91%) Data Engineer
6 354 (8.80%) Lead
7 338 (8.40%) Data Analyst
8 308 (7.65%) Python Engineer
9 298 (7.40%) Python Developer
10 231 (5.74%) Trainee
11 224 (5.57%) Python Software Engineer
12 211 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
13 170 (4.22%) Architect
14 163 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
15 155 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
16 154 (3.83%) Senior Developer
17 139 (3.45%) Software Developer
18 138 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
19 129 (3.20%) Junior
20 114 (2.83%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (9.34%) React
2 287 (7.13%) HTML
3 242 (6.01%) CSS
4 207 (5.14%) Pandas
5 196 (4.87%) Node.js
6 180 (4.47%) REST
7 179 (4.45%) Kafka
8 160 (3.98%) Django
9 156 (3.88%) NumPy
10 143 (3.55%) .NET
11 139 (3.45%) RESTful
12 138 (3.43%) FastAPI
13 136 (3.38%) AngularJS
14 132 (3.28%) PySpark
15 117 (2.91%) PyTorch
15 117 (2.91%) Vue
16 111 (2.76%) Flask
17 106 (2.63%) TensorFlow
18 103 (2.56%) SciPy
19 96 (2.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 287 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 222 (5.52%) Algorithms
3 190 (4.72%) Equities
4 158 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 156 (3.88%) Fixed Income
6 140 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 129 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 124 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 122 (3.03%) Derivative
10 118 (2.93%) Hedge funds
11 114 (2.83%) Onboarding
12 96 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
13 84 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
14 79 (1.96%) Public Cloud
15 77 (1.91%) Product Ownership
16 67 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
17 62 (1.54%) Data Centre
18 61 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
19 59 (1.47%) Pricing Data
20 54 (1.34%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 509 (12.65%) Linux
2 217 (5.39%) Windows
3 199 (4.94%) Unix
4 73 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.92%) VMS
7 33 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.60%) Debian
9 22 (0.55%) CentOS
10 18 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.37%) Solaris
13 12 (0.30%) Android
13 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,066 (26.48%) CI/CD
2 982 (24.40%) AI
3 978 (24.30%) Agile
4 941 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 824 (20.47%) DevOps
6 820 (20.37%) Analytics
7 799 (19.85%) Software Engineering
8 622 (15.45%) Business Intelligence
9 584 (14.51%) Mentoring
10 577 (14.34%) Machine Learning
11 532 (13.22%) Data Science
12 456 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
13 451 (11.20%) Data Engineering
14 447 (11.11%) ETL
15 440 (10.93%) Computer Science
16 433 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 432 (10.73%) Data Modelling
18 412 (10.24%) Containerisation
19 389 (9.66%) Data Analysis
20 352 (8.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,585 (39.38%) SQL
2 709 (17.61%) Java
3 680 (16.89%) JavaScript
4 390 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 382 (9.49%) Bash
6 371 (9.22%) PowerShell
7 308 (7.65%) C#
8 222 (5.52%) C++
9 210 (5.22%) R
10 189 (4.70%) Go
11 103 (2.56%) C
12 67 (1.66%) Scala
13 64 (1.59%) PHP
14 60 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 56 (1.39%) Perl
16 52 (1.29%) MATLAB
17 51 (1.27%) T-SQL
18 44 (1.09%) Bicep
19 43 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 43 (1.07%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 831 (20.65%) Degree
2 402 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 333 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 284 (7.06%) AWS Certification
5 246 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 206 (5.12%) Master's Degree
7 205 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 193 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 151 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 142 (3.53%) DV Cleared
11 123 (3.06%) PhD
12 65 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 44 (1.09%) CISSP
15 42 (1.04%) CCNP
16 41 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.67%) OSCP
18 26 (0.65%) CCNA
18 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.68%) QA
3 127 (3.16%) GDPR
4 92 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.96%) NIST
6 62 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.97%) SLA
8 25 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.42%) 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 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 578 (14.36%) Docker
2 102 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.52%) 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
1 590 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 533 (13.24%) Terraform
3 333 (8.27%) Ansible
4 157 (3.90%) Grafana
5 128 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.02%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 26 (0.65%) Argo
9 23 (0.57%) Puppet
10 17 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 14 (0.35%) Nessus
13 13 (0.32%) 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
1 771 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 330 (8.20%) Databricks
3 206 (5.12%) Google
4 146 (3.63%) Oracle
5 116 (2.88%) VMware
6 95 (2.36%) Cisco
6 95 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 91 (2.26%) Splunk
8 72 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 70 (1.74%) SAP
10 53 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 49 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 48 (1.19%) Alteryx
13 43 (1.07%) IBM
14 41 (1.02%) Palo Alto
15 40 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.97%) Atlassian
17 37 (0.92%) Fortinet
18 35 (0.87%) Palantir
19 33 (0.82%) Informatica