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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,021 6,279 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.72% 10.43% 11.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.86% 32.33% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,771 3,927 4,319
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,150 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +3.66% +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 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 10,622 19,422 18,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.02% 32.26% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,875 11,556 15,630
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,789 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £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 20 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 20 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 2,205 £85,000 -5.56% 3,095
North of England -16 562 £60,000 -4.58% 685
South East -35 411 £57,500 -8.00% 910
Midlands +8 337 £60,000 -4.29% 398
South West -7 273 £60,000 -11.11% 320
Yorkshire -2 258 £62,500 -2.25% 189
North West -20 240 £60,000 -4.00% 422
West Midlands +12 237 £60,000 -7.69% 260
East of England -22 191 £53,750 -23.21% 332
East Midlands -5 103 £63,750 +15.91% 137
North East -8 66 £40,000 -38.68% 81
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
1 223 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
2 178 (4.43%) Apache Spark
3 156 (3.88%) Apache
4 68 (1.69%) Confluence
5 44 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
7 24 (0.60%) nginx
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 21 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 17 (0.42%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
11 16 (0.40%) WordPress
12 14 (0.35%) Jupyter
13 13 (0.32%) Apache Solr
13 13 (0.32%) Appian
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
16 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 291 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.42%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Mathcad
5 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.099%) CATIA
9 4 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.099%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.22%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.099%) 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
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.025%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,552 (38.60%) AWS
2 1,373 (34.15%) Azure
3 515 (12.81%) GCP
4 496 (12.34%) Power Platform
5 402 (10.00%) GitHub
6 300 (7.46%) Serverless
7 215 (5.35%) Snowflake
8 204 (5.07%) dbt
9 193 (4.80%) Amazon S3
10 190 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 169 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
12 154 (3.83%) SaaS
13 137 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
14 124 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 117 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
15 117 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 105 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
16 105 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 90 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 85 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.70%) Firewall
2 159 (3.95%) Internet
3 89 (2.21%) DNS
4 83 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 81 (2.01%) VPN
6 75 (1.87%) WAN
7 59 (1.47%) LAN
8 52 (1.29%) HTTP
9 49 (1.22%) Network Security
10 43 (1.07%) BGP
11 42 (1.04%) VLAN
12 37 (0.92%) OSPF
13 35 (0.87%) Wireless
14 34 (0.85%) SSL
15 33 (0.82%) SAN
16 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
17 30 (0.75%) SD-WAN
18 28 (0.70%) DHCP
19 25 (0.62%) FTP
19 25 (0.62%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (11.46%) Power BI
2 327 (8.13%) Tableau
3 302 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
4 299 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 222 (5.52%) SQL Server
6 213 (5.30%) Relational Database
7 192 (4.77%) NoSQL
8 156 (3.88%) Data Lake
9 135 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
10 133 (3.31%) Apache Iceberg
11 114 (2.84%) MongoDB
12 109 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
13 108 (2.69%) Apache Arrow
13 108 (2.69%) Dremio
14 105 (2.61%) Big Data
15 102 (2.54%) MySQL
16 98 (2.44%) BigQuery
16 98 (2.44%) Data Mining
17 93 (2.31%) DynamoDB
18 85 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 474 (11.79%) Git
2 263 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 168 (4.18%) JIRA
4 138 (3.43%) GitLab
5 67 (1.67%) Selenium
6 49 (1.22%) MLflow
7 41 (1.02%) JUnit
8 33 (0.82%) JMeter
8 33 (0.82%) Vagrant
9 29 (0.72%) Postman
10 26 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (0.55%) Mockito
13 20 (0.50%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.42%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
16 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 1,293 (32.16%) Finance
2 1,031 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 602 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 396 (9.85%) Banking
5 379 (9.43%) Law
6 319 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 277 (6.89%) Marketing
8 273 (6.79%) Front Office
9 202 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 152 (3.78%) Retail
11 142 (3.53%) Multimedia
12 131 (3.26%) Manufacturing
13 121 (3.01%) Investment Banking
14 111 (2.76%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 90 (2.24%) Electronics
17 81 (2.01%) Legal
18 64 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
19 62 (1.54%) Games
20 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 796 (19.80%) Senior
2 743 (18.48%) Developer
3 500 (12.43%) Software Engineer
4 487 (12.11%) Analyst
5 448 (11.14%) Data Engineer
6 383 (9.52%) Lead
7 331 (8.23%) Python Engineer
8 292 (7.26%) Python Developer
9 281 (6.99%) Data Analyst
10 247 (6.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 223 (5.55%) AWS Engineer
12 219 (5.45%) Trainee
13 172 (4.28%) Architect
14 170 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 161 (4.00%) Senior Developer
16 158 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 158 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
17 132 (3.28%) Software Developer
18 122 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
19 109 (2.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (9.40%) React
2 269 (6.69%) HTML
3 235 (5.84%) CSS
4 214 (5.32%) Pandas
5 199 (4.95%) Node.js
6 191 (4.75%) Kafka
7 184 (4.58%) REST
8 162 (4.03%) NumPy
9 151 (3.76%) Django
10 147 (3.66%) .NET
11 140 (3.48%) RESTful
12 138 (3.43%) AngularJS
13 136 (3.38%) FastAPI
14 131 (3.26%) PySpark
15 120 (2.98%) Vue
16 113 (2.81%) PyTorch
17 112 (2.79%) Flask
18 110 (2.74%) SciPy
19 104 (2.59%) TensorFlow
20 87 (2.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 229 (5.70%) Algorithms
3 205 (5.10%) Equities
4 169 (4.20%) Fixed Income
5 160 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 141 (3.51%) Data Structures
7 138 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 134 (3.33%) Derivative
9 127 (3.16%) Hedge funds
10 123 (3.06%) Management Information System
11 108 (2.69%) Onboarding
12 90 (2.24%) Public Cloud
13 88 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
14 80 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
15 77 (1.91%) Product Ownership
16 65 (1.62%) Data Centre
16 65 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
17 63 (1.57%) Pricing Data
18 58 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
19 54 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.63%) Linux
2 215 (5.35%) Windows
3 190 (4.73%) Unix
4 71 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 40 (0.99%) VMS
7 34 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.60%) Debian
9 22 (0.55%) CentOS
10 20 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.35%) Android
12 14 (0.35%) Solaris
13 12 (0.30%) zOS
14 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,090 (27.11%) CI/CD
2 1,036 (25.76%) Agile
3 967 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 931 (23.15%) AI
5 838 (20.84%) DevOps
6 835 (20.77%) Software Engineering
7 818 (20.34%) Analytics
8 587 (14.60%) Machine Learning
9 586 (14.57%) Mentoring
10 573 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
11 538 (13.38%) Data Science
12 461 (11.46%) Data Engineering
13 459 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
14 450 (11.19%) Computer Science
15 444 (11.04%) ETL
16 442 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 424 (10.54%) Data Modelling
18 419 (10.42%) Containerisation
19 377 (9.38%) Data Analysis
20 357 (8.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,556 (38.70%) SQL
2 753 (18.73%) Java
3 685 (17.04%) JavaScript
4 402 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 379 (9.43%) Bash
6 372 (9.25%) PowerShell
7 307 (7.63%) C#
8 230 (5.72%) C++
9 210 (5.22%) R
10 204 (5.07%) Go
11 102 (2.54%) C
12 68 (1.69%) Scala
13 65 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 64 (1.59%) PHP
15 56 (1.39%) MATLAB
15 56 (1.39%) Perl
16 55 (1.37%) T-SQL
17 47 (1.17%) Groovy
18 43 (1.07%) Bicep
18 43 (1.07%) Rust
Qualifications
1 822 (20.44%) Degree
2 412 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 282 (7.01%) AWS Certification
4 278 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 257 (6.39%) SC Cleared
6 203 (5.05%) Master's Degree
7 195 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 192 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 144 (3.58%) DV Cleared
10 142 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 121 (3.01%) PhD
12 68 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
14 45 (1.12%) CCNP
14 45 (1.12%) CISSP
15 44 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
16 42 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.72%) CCNA
18 28 (0.70%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.73%) QA
3 127 (3.16%) GDPR
4 91 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (1.99%) NIST
6 60 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.95%) SLA
8 27 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.27%) GRC
14 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 8 (0.20%) PMO
16 7 (0.17%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.12%) NCSC
18 4 (0.099%) Def Stans
System Software
1 580 (14.42%) Docker
2 104 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 21 (0.52%) Firmware
8 20 (0.50%) vSphere
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.27%) NFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
11 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
12 7 (0.17%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.17%) Lustre
12 7 (0.17%) Squid
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
14 5 (0.12%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 610 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 550 (13.68%) Terraform
3 338 (8.41%) Ansible
4 164 (4.08%) Grafana
5 134 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.07%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 25 (0.62%) 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 15 (0.37%) Nessus
13 13 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.32%) Nagios
14 12 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.27%) Nmap
15 11 (0.27%) QRadar
16 10 (0.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 714 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 340 (8.46%) Databricks
3 206 (5.12%) Google
4 143 (3.56%) Oracle
5 116 (2.88%) VMware
6 97 (2.41%) Splunk
7 96 (2.39%) Cisco
8 92 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 74 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.82%) SAP
11 52 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 48 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 46 (1.14%) Alteryx
14 42 (1.04%) IBM
14 42 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 39 (0.97%) Palantir
16 38 (0.95%) Bloomberg
17 37 (0.92%) Atlassian
17 37 (0.92%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.77%) Dell