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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,953 6,389 5,588
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.53% 10.42% 11.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.64% 32.15% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 4,020 4,366
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,000 £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 £122,500
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 10,502 19,873 19,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.67% 32.42% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,846 11,963 15,831
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £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 22 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 22 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 2,159 £85,000 -5.56% 3,107
North of England -18 553 £60,000 -4.00% 685
South East -37 405 £57,500 -8.00% 961
Midlands +9 335 £60,000 - 398
South West -9 268 £60,000 -11.11% 318
Yorkshire -2 253 £62,500 -0.60% 179
West Midlands +13 238 £60,000 -7.69% 258
North West -16 238 £60,000 -4.00% 434
East of England -22 192 £52,500 -25.00% 326
East Midlands -9 100 £62,500 +13.64% 138
North East -5 64 £40,000 -38.46% 79
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
1 214 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 149 (3.77%) Apache
4 67 (1.69%) Confluence
5 44 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.63%) SAS
8 23 (0.58%) nginx
9 22 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 21 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.43%) CMS
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 16 (0.40%) WordPress
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
14 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 11 (0.28%) Appian
16 6 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
16 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 293 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.46%) Simulink
4 10 (0.25%) Mathcad
5 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.10%) CATIA
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.051%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.051%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.051%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
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%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,512 (38.25%) AWS
2 1,361 (34.43%) Azure
3 504 (12.75%) GCP
4 500 (12.65%) Power Platform
5 402 (10.17%) GitHub
6 296 (7.49%) Serverless
7 211 (5.34%) Snowflake
8 200 (5.06%) dbt
9 188 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 186 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
12 157 (3.97%) SaaS
13 132 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
14 123 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 119 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 114 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
17 102 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
17 102 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 91 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 86 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 185 (4.68%) Firewall
2 159 (4.02%) Internet
3 85 (2.15%) DNS
4 80 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 76 (1.92%) VPN
6 75 (1.90%) WAN
7 60 (1.52%) LAN
8 51 (1.29%) HTTP
9 46 (1.16%) Network Security
10 41 (1.04%) BGP
11 40 (1.01%) VLAN
12 36 (0.91%) OSPF
13 35 (0.89%) Wireless
14 33 (0.83%) SAN
14 33 (0.83%) SSL
15 31 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (0.66%) DHCP
16 26 (0.66%) FTP
16 26 (0.66%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (11.79%) Power BI
2 332 (8.40%) Tableau
3 299 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
4 293 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 222 (5.62%) SQL Server
6 204 (5.16%) Relational Database
7 184 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 150 (3.79%) Data Lake
9 129 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
10 126 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
11 111 (2.81%) MongoDB
12 106 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
13 104 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
13 104 (2.63%) Big Data
13 104 (2.63%) Dremio
14 98 (2.48%) BigQuery
14 98 (2.48%) Data Mining
15 97 (2.45%) MySQL
16 89 (2.25%) DynamoDB
17 83 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 470 (11.89%) Git
2 260 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 166 (4.20%) JIRA
4 135 (3.42%) GitLab
5 63 (1.59%) Selenium
6 49 (1.24%) MLflow
7 41 (1.04%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
8 33 (0.83%) Vagrant
9 28 (0.71%) Postman
10 24 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (0.56%) Mockito
13 19 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 16 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1,233 (31.19%) Finance
2 1,020 (25.80%) Social Skills
3 589 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (9.18%) Banking
5 328 (8.30%) Law
6 269 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 259 (6.55%) Marketing
8 255 (6.45%) Front Office
9 200 (5.06%) Public Sector
10 151 (3.82%) Retail
11 144 (3.64%) Multimedia
12 131 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 113 (2.86%) Investment Banking
14 112 (2.83%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.33%) Financial Institution
16 89 (2.25%) Electronics
17 77 (1.95%) Legal
18 63 (1.59%) Games
19 62 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
20 61 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 762 (19.28%) Senior
2 747 (18.90%) Developer
3 488 (12.35%) Analyst
4 452 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 439 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 350 (8.85%) Lead
7 304 (7.69%) Python Engineer
8 298 (7.54%) Python Developer
9 286 (7.24%) Data Analyst
10 223 (5.64%) Python Software Engineer
11 221 (5.59%) Trainee
12 214 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
13 170 (4.30%) Architect
14 166 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
15 158 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
16 157 (3.97%) Senior Developer
17 136 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
18 134 (3.39%) Software Developer
19 116 (2.93%) AWS Software Engineer
20 101 (2.56%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (9.39%) React
2 273 (6.91%) HTML
3 235 (5.94%) CSS
4 208 (5.26%) Pandas
5 197 (4.98%) Node.js
6 178 (4.50%) REST
7 177 (4.48%) Kafka
8 158 (4.00%) NumPy
9 152 (3.85%) Django
10 145 (3.67%) .NET
11 139 (3.52%) RESTful
12 136 (3.44%) AngularJS
13 135 (3.42%) FastAPI
14 132 (3.34%) PySpark
15 119 (3.01%) Vue
16 112 (2.83%) PyTorch
17 109 (2.76%) Flask
18 106 (2.68%) SciPy
19 103 (2.61%) TensorFlow
20 91 (2.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 287 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 217 (5.49%) Algorithms
3 196 (4.96%) Equities
4 163 (4.12%) Fixed Income
5 154 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 137 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 133 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 123 (3.11%) Derivative
9 122 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 119 (3.01%) Hedge funds
11 109 (2.76%) Onboarding
12 91 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
13 82 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 80 (2.02%) Public Cloud
15 75 (1.90%) Product Ownership
16 63 (1.59%) Data Centre
17 62 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
18 60 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
19 59 (1.49%) Pricing Data
20 53 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 502 (12.70%) Linux
2 216 (5.46%) Windows
3 191 (4.83%) Unix
4 72 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.01%) VMS
7 34 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.61%) Debian
9 22 (0.56%) CentOS
10 20 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.38%) Solaris
13 14 (0.35%) Android
14 12 (0.30%) zOS
15 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
17 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
18 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
19 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
20 3 (0.076%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (26.71%) CI/CD
2 984 (24.89%) Agile
3 935 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 928 (23.48%) AI
5 823 (20.82%) DevOps
6 809 (20.47%) Analytics
7 782 (19.78%) Software Engineering
8 577 (14.60%) Mentoring
9 576 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
10 571 (14.44%) Machine Learning
11 530 (13.41%) Data Science
12 453 (11.46%) Data Engineering
13 450 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
14 442 (11.18%) ETL
15 434 (10.98%) Computer Science
16 428 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
17 423 (10.70%) Data Modelling
18 408 (10.32%) Containerisation
19 385 (9.74%) Data Analysis
20 350 (8.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,529 (38.68%) SQL
2 710 (17.96%) Java
3 679 (17.18%) JavaScript
4 391 (9.89%) TypeScript
5 377 (9.54%) Bash
6 374 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 304 (7.69%) C#
8 224 (5.67%) C++
9 208 (5.26%) R
10 188 (4.76%) Go
11 100 (2.53%) C
12 67 (1.69%) Scala
13 62 (1.57%) PHP
14 61 (1.54%) Shell Script
15 55 (1.39%) MATLAB
16 54 (1.37%) Perl
17 53 (1.34%) T-SQL
18 47 (1.19%) Groovy
19 44 (1.11%) Bicep
20 42 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 816 (20.64%) Degree
2 409 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 280 (7.08%) Azure Certification
4 278 (7.03%) AWS Certification
5 252 (6.37%) SC Cleared
6 202 (5.11%) Master's Degree
7 196 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 186 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 144 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 142 (3.59%) DV Cleared
11 119 (3.01%) PhD
12 68 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
14 45 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.14%) CCNP
15 44 (1.11%) CISSP
16 40 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.73%) CCNA
18 27 (0.68%) OSCP
19 26 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.74%) QA
3 126 (3.19%) GDPR
4 90 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.97%) NIST
6 61 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.96%) SLA
8 27 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) GRC
14 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 8 (0.20%) PMO
16 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.13%) NCSC
18 4 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 570 (14.42%) Docker
2 103 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.56%) DFS Replication
7 21 (0.53%) Firmware
8 20 (0.51%) 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 10 (0.25%) NFS
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
12 7 (0.18%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.18%) ProxySG
12 7 (0.18%) Squid
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 585 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 530 (13.41%) Terraform
3 328 (8.30%) Ansible
4 158 (4.00%) Grafana
5 130 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.04%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 26 (0.66%) Argo
9 22 (0.56%) Puppet
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 15 (0.38%) Nessus
12 13 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.30%) Nagios
14 11 (0.28%) Control-M
14 11 (0.28%) Nmap
14 11 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 712 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 330 (8.35%) Databricks
3 202 (5.11%) Google
4 141 (3.57%) Oracle
5 114 (2.88%) VMware
6 96 (2.43%) Cisco
7 93 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 92 (2.33%) Splunk
9 75 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 70 (1.77%) SAP
11 51 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 49 (1.24%) Salesforce
13 48 (1.21%) Alteryx
14 42 (1.06%) IBM
14 42 (1.06%) Palo Alto
15 40 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.99%) Palantir
17 38 (0.96%) Fortinet
18 37 (0.94%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.78%) Informatica