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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,981 6,348 5,426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.47% 10.70% 11.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.15% 32.52% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,996 4,269
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £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 £120,500
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 10,435 19,518 18,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.20% 32.89% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,796 11,739 15,559
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 £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 29 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 29 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 2,153 £85,000 -2.86% 1,204
North of England -13 570 £59,875 -4.20% 443
South East -34 407 £57,750 -9.41% 986
Midlands +6 345 £60,000 +4.35% 337
South West -8 271 £60,000 -11.11% 276
Yorkshire +1 264 £61,500 -2.19% 138
North West -16 243 £59,750 -2.82% 253
West Midlands +16 242 £60,000 -6.61% 212
East of England -18 196 £52,500 -25.00% 247
East Midlands -8 106 £65,000 +18.18% 124
North East -6 65 £40,000 -38.46% 58
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
1 210 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 143 (3.59%) Apache
4 62 (1.56%) Confluence
5 43 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
7 24 (0.60%) nginx
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.48%) WordPress
10 18 (0.45%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 13 (0.33%) Appian
12 13 (0.33%) IIS
13 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
16 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
Applications
1 339 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.30%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) 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 5 (0.13%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.10%) CATIA
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.10%) 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 (37.78%) AWS
2 1,413 (35.49%) Azure
3 543 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 500 (12.56%) GCP
5 416 (10.45%) GitHub
6 289 (7.26%) Serverless
7 206 (5.17%) Snowflake
8 193 (4.85%) dbt
9 185 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 179 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
12 157 (3.94%) SaaS
13 127 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
14 125 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
14 125 (3.14%) Azure AI
15 120 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 114 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
17 99 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 95 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
19 86 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 175 (4.40%) Firewall
2 170 (4.27%) Internet
3 84 (2.11%) DNS
4 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 71 (1.78%) WAN
6 70 (1.76%) VPN
7 58 (1.46%) LAN
8 50 (1.26%) HTTP
9 44 (1.11%) Network Security
10 37 (0.93%) VLAN
11 35 (0.88%) BGP
11 35 (0.88%) Wireless
12 34 (0.85%) SAN
13 33 (0.83%) SSL
14 31 (0.78%) OSPF
14 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
15 29 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.70%) DHCP
17 24 (0.60%) FTP
17 24 (0.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (12.86%) Power BI
2 382 (9.60%) Tableau
3 286 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
4 285 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
5 221 (5.55%) SQL Server
6 199 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 185 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 143 (3.59%) Data Lake
9 122 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
10 119 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
11 107 (2.69%) MongoDB
11 107 (2.69%) MySQL
12 103 (2.59%) Big Data
12 103 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 101 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
13 101 (2.54%) Data Mining
14 97 (2.44%) Apache Arrow
14 97 (2.44%) Dremio
15 88 (2.21%) DynamoDB
16 82 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 485 (12.18%) Git
2 255 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 160 (4.02%) JIRA
4 137 (3.44%) GitLab
5 64 (1.61%) Selenium
6 51 (1.28%) MLflow
7 39 (0.98%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
9 29 (0.73%) Vagrant
10 28 (0.70%) Postman
11 23 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (0.53%) Mockito
14 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.40%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,203 (30.22%) Finance
2 1,064 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 587 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 343 (8.62%) Banking
5 323 (8.11%) Law
6 259 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 248 (6.23%) Marketing
8 245 (6.15%) Front Office
9 181 (4.55%) Public Sector
10 157 (3.94%) Multimedia
11 148 (3.72%) Retail
12 122 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 108 (2.71%) Investment Banking
14 103 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 80 (2.01%) Electronics
17 72 (1.81%) Legal
18 63 (1.58%) Games
19 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
20 60 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 744 (18.69%) Developer
2 743 (18.66%) Senior
3 532 (13.36%) Analyst
4 442 (11.10%) Software Engineer
5 439 (11.03%) Data Engineer
6 350 (8.79%) Lead
7 338 (8.49%) Data Analyst
8 297 (7.46%) Python Developer
8 297 (7.46%) Python Engineer
9 237 (5.95%) Trainee
10 213 (5.35%) Python Software Engineer
11 203 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
12 167 (4.19%) Architect
13 163 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
14 155 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 149 (3.74%) Senior Developer
16 139 (3.49%) Software Developer
17 130 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
18 128 (3.22%) Junior
19 108 (2.71%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (9.37%) React
2 293 (7.36%) HTML
3 247 (6.20%) CSS
4 202 (5.07%) Pandas
5 197 (4.95%) Node.js
6 179 (4.50%) Kafka
7 176 (4.42%) REST
8 157 (3.94%) Django
9 151 (3.79%) NumPy
10 140 (3.52%) .NET
10 140 (3.52%) RESTful
11 134 (3.37%) AngularJS
12 133 (3.34%) FastAPI
13 130 (3.27%) PySpark
14 117 (2.94%) PyTorch
15 116 (2.91%) Vue
16 107 (2.69%) Flask
17 105 (2.64%) TensorFlow
18 99 (2.49%) SciPy
19 97 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 282 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 218 (5.48%) Algorithms
3 183 (4.60%) Equities
4 157 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 152 (3.82%) Fixed Income
6 138 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 125 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 121 (3.04%) Management Information System
9 117 (2.94%) Derivative
10 114 (2.86%) Onboarding
11 113 (2.84%) Hedge funds
12 96 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
13 85 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 79 (1.98%) Product Ownership
14 79 (1.98%) Public Cloud
15 63 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
16 61 (1.53%) Data Centre
17 59 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
18 55 (1.38%) Pricing Data
19 53 (1.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.76%) Linux
2 216 (5.43%) Windows
3 198 (4.97%) Unix
4 74 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.90%) VMS
7 33 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.60%) Debian
9 23 (0.58%) CentOS
10 18 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,060 (26.63%) CI/CD
2 979 (24.59%) AI
3 963 (24.19%) Agile
4 929 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
5 820 (20.60%) DevOps
6 818 (20.55%) Analytics
7 776 (19.49%) Software Engineering
8 612 (15.37%) Business Intelligence
9 588 (14.77%) Mentoring
10 569 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 521 (13.09%) Data Science
12 451 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
13 441 (11.08%) Data Engineering
14 440 (11.05%) ETL
15 431 (10.83%) Computer Science
16 429 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 426 (10.70%) Data Modelling
18 402 (10.10%) Containerisation
19 384 (9.65%) Data Analysis
20 348 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,561 (39.21%) SQL
2 693 (17.41%) Java
3 678 (17.03%) JavaScript
4 383 (9.62%) Bash
5 381 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 371 (9.32%) PowerShell
7 301 (7.56%) C#
8 217 (5.45%) C++
9 206 (5.17%) R
10 181 (4.55%) Go
11 103 (2.59%) C
12 66 (1.66%) Scala
13 65 (1.63%) PHP
14 60 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 57 (1.43%) Perl
16 47 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 46 (1.16%) Bicep
17 46 (1.16%) MATLAB
18 43 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 42 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 814 (20.45%) Degree
2 394 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 338 (8.49%) Azure Certification
4 287 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 243 (6.10%) SC Cleared
6 211 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 201 (5.05%) Master's Degree
8 191 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 157 (3.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.44%) DV Cleared
11 121 (3.04%) PhD
12 66 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.11%) CISSP
15 43 (1.08%) CCNP
16 42 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
17 39 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.68%) CCNA
18 27 (0.68%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.77%) QA
3 124 (3.11%) GDPR
4 93 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (2.01%) NIST
6 63 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.95%) SLA
8 24 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.25%) 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
1 575 (14.44%) Docker
2 101 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) Firmware
7 20 (0.50%) vSphere
8 19 (0.48%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.25%) NFS
12 7 (0.18%) Postfix
12 7 (0.18%) ProxySG
13 6 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Lustre
13 6 (0.15%) Squid
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 590 (14.82%) Kubernetes
2 525 (13.19%) Terraform
3 331 (8.31%) Ansible
4 156 (3.92%) Grafana
5 130 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.98%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 29 (0.73%) Argo
9 23 (0.58%) Puppet
10 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.43%) 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 (0.28%) Control-M
14 11 (0.28%) Nmap
14 11 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.25%) Nagios
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 774 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 320 (8.04%) Databricks
3 204 (5.12%) Google
4 140 (3.52%) Oracle
5 116 (2.91%) VMware
6 97 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 93 (2.34%) Cisco
8 91 (2.29%) Splunk
9 72 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.61%) SAP
11 53 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.26%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.21%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.11%) IBM
15 40 (1.00%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.98%) Palo Alto
17 37 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 37 (0.93%) Fortinet
18 34 (0.85%) Palantir
19 33 (0.83%) Informatica