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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,309 6,499 6,060
As % of all permanent jobs in England 10.13% 10.39% 12.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.46% 32.68% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,563 4,020 4,782
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,100 £130,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £72,250 £75,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +4.17% +2.86%

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 10,919 19,888 20,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.67% 31.81% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,416 12,002 16,981
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £50,000
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 £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 2,143 £85,000 -5.56% 1,605
North of England +14 976 £60,000 -0.83% 691
North West +13 715 £60,000 - 399
South East -34 409 £57,500 - 1,224
Midlands -3 318 £60,000 - 345
South West -8 225 £55,000 -18.52% 317
Yorkshire -2 217 £65,000 +8.33% 204
West Midlands +7 213 £60,000 -7.69% 219
East of England -29 194 £57,500 -11.54% 283
East Midlands -14 108 £65,000 +30.00% 125
North East -16 46 £45,000 -30.77% 93
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
1 242 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 162 (3.76%) Apache
4 75 (1.74%) Confluence
5 39 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 30 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.60%) nginx
8 22 (0.51%) SAS
9 21 (0.49%) CMS
9 21 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 15 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 14 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.30%) Apache Solr
13 12 (0.28%) Appian
14 10 (0.23%) IIS
15 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.12%) JBoss
16 5 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 4 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 184 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.44%) Simulink
4 12 (0.28%) Mathcad
5 11 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.093%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.093%) GNU Octave
9 4 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.070%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.070%) Stata
11 2 (0.046%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.046%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.023%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.023%) Blender
12 1 (0.023%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.44%) thinkFolio
3 13 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.093%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.046%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.046%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.023%) Endur
9 1 (0.023%) FastStats
9 1 (0.023%) Magento
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.023%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,679 (38.96%) AWS
2 1,424 (33.05%) Azure
3 695 (16.13%) GCP
4 440 (10.21%) Power Platform
5 282 (6.54%) Serverless
6 269 (6.24%) GitHub
7 248 (5.76%) Snowflake
8 222 (5.15%) dbt
9 199 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 192 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
11 178 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
12 151 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
13 150 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
14 139 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 139 (3.23%) SaaS
15 113 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 106 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
17 105 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
18 93 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 79 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 419 (9.72%) VPN
2 275 (6.38%) Cisco IOS
3 193 (4.48%) Firewall
4 174 (4.04%) DNS
5 89 (2.07%) WAN
6 75 (1.74%) Internet
7 65 (1.51%) LAN
8 63 (1.46%) TCP/IP
9 51 (1.18%) HTTP
10 45 (1.04%) Network Security
11 41 (0.95%) BGP
12 38 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 36 (0.84%) OSPF
14 34 (0.79%) SSL
15 32 (0.74%) SSH
15 32 (0.74%) Wireless
16 31 (0.72%) FTP
16 31 (0.72%) VLAN
17 30 (0.70%) SAN
18 28 (0.65%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (9.24%) Power BI
2 317 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
3 292 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
4 224 (5.20%) Tableau
5 207 (4.80%) SQL Server
6 206 (4.78%) Relational Database
7 183 (4.25%) Data Lake
8 180 (4.18%) NoSQL
9 169 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
10 161 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
11 139 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
11 139 (3.23%) Dremio
12 115 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
13 112 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
14 111 (2.58%) Big Data
15 106 (2.46%) MongoDB
16 99 (2.30%) MySQL
17 98 (2.27%) DynamoDB
18 93 (2.16%) BigQuery
19 80 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 396 (9.19%) Git
2 252 (5.85%) Jenkins
3 169 (3.92%) JIRA
4 120 (2.78%) GitLab
5 56 (1.30%) Selenium
6 47 (1.09%) MLflow
7 44 (1.02%) Vagrant
8 34 (0.79%) JUnit
9 32 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 30 (0.70%) JMeter
11 23 (0.53%) Mockito
11 23 (0.53%) Postman
12 22 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 16 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.35%) Maven
16 12 (0.28%) Appium
16 12 (0.28%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 1,321 (30.66%) Finance
2 899 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
3 886 (20.56%) Social Skills
4 866 (20.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 394 (9.14%) Banking
6 378 (8.77%) Law
7 327 (7.59%) Front Office
8 264 (6.13%) Marketing
9 188 (4.36%) Public Sector
10 158 (3.67%) Retail
11 130 (3.02%) Investment Banking
12 110 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 93 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.83%) Electronics
15 73 (1.69%) Legal
15 73 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 70 (1.62%) Games
17 67 (1.55%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.37%) Multimedia
19 53 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,001 (23.23%) Senior
2 794 (18.43%) Developer
3 682 (15.83%) Software Engineer
4 417 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 384 (8.91%) Analyst
6 356 (8.26%) Lead
6 356 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 342 (7.94%) Python Engineer
8 320 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 283 (6.57%) Python Developer
10 263 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
11 257 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
12 201 (4.66%) Software Developer
13 177 (4.11%) Data Analyst
14 159 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 157 (3.64%) Architect
15 157 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
16 155 (3.60%) AWS Software Engineer
17 153 (3.55%) Senior Developer
18 116 (2.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (9.54%) Node.js
2 375 (8.70%) .NET
3 361 (8.38%) React
4 311 (7.22%) Elastic Stack
5 277 (6.43%) Pandas
6 202 (4.69%) HTML
7 193 (4.48%) NumPy
8 177 (4.11%) Kafka
9 165 (3.83%) REST
10 141 (3.27%) SciPy
11 137 (3.18%) PySpark
12 136 (3.16%) AngularJS
13 135 (3.13%) CSS
14 124 (2.88%) Vue
15 113 (2.62%) FastAPI
16 110 (2.55%) RESTful
17 109 (2.53%) Django
18 94 (2.18%) Flask
18 94 (2.18%) PyTorch
19 88 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 566 (13.14%) Cyberattack
2 278 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 241 (5.59%) Linux Command Line
4 236 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 235 (5.45%) Equities
6 231 (5.36%) Algorithms
7 214 (4.97%) Fixed Income
8 173 (4.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 162 (3.76%) Derivative
10 154 (3.57%) Hedge funds
11 143 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
12 124 (2.88%) Data Structures
13 120 (2.78%) Management Information System
14 96 (2.23%) Onboarding
15 90 (2.09%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.83%) Pricing Data
17 72 (1.67%) Product Ownership
18 69 (1.60%) Data Centre
19 62 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
20 51 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,045 (24.25%) Linux
2 471 (10.93%) Windows
3 398 (9.24%) Android
4 153 (3.55%) Unix
5 65 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 61 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 50 (1.16%) VMS
8 35 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (0.53%) Debian
11 15 (0.35%) CentOS
12 13 (0.30%) Solaris
13 12 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 12 (0.28%) zOS
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.093%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,353 (31.40%) Agile
2 1,124 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
3 1,071 (24.85%) DevOps
4 1,039 (24.11%) Software Engineering
5 1,030 (23.90%) CI/CD
6 787 (18.26%) AI
7 778 (18.06%) Machine Learning
8 755 (17.52%) Analytics
9 660 (15.32%) Mathematics
10 659 (15.29%) Mentoring
11 621 (14.41%) Data Engineering
12 531 (12.32%) Data Science
13 505 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
14 465 (10.79%) Computer Science
15 434 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
16 431 (10.00%) Microservices
17 426 (9.89%) ETL
18 412 (9.56%) Risk Management
19 409 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
20 403 (9.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,494 (34.67%) SQL
2 1,088 (25.25%) Java
3 840 (19.49%) JavaScript
4 613 (14.23%) Bash
4 613 (14.23%) PowerShell
5 562 (13.04%) C++
6 483 (11.21%) Go
7 464 (10.77%) TypeScript
8 330 (7.66%) C#
9 303 (7.03%) Rust
10 232 (5.38%) R
11 137 (3.18%) C
12 107 (2.48%) MATLAB
12 107 (2.48%) PHP
13 72 (1.67%) T-SQL
14 68 (1.58%) Ruby
15 67 (1.55%) Scala
16 66 (1.53%) Perl
17 59 (1.37%) Shell Script
18 58 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 816 (18.94%) Degree
2 675 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 409 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 377 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 239 (5.55%) SC Cleared
6 215 (4.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 208 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 200 (4.64%) Master's Degree
9 184 (4.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 156 (3.62%) Azure Certification
11 135 (3.13%) PhD
12 108 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 63 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
14 59 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 48 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
16 43 (1.00%) CCNP
17 37 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
18 31 (0.72%) CISSP
19 28 (0.65%) CCNA
20 25 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 149 (3.46%) QA
3 120 (2.78%) GDPR
4 76 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 65 (1.51%) NIST
6 59 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.77%) SLA
8 29 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.19%) GRC
15 6 (0.14%) PMO
15 6 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
17 4 (0.093%) HL7
17 4 (0.093%) IFRS
18 3 (0.070%) SEPA
System Software
1 896 (20.79%) Docker
2 290 (6.73%) Hyper-V
3 282 (6.54%) vSphere
4 276 (6.41%) VMware NSX
5 108 (2.51%) Active Directory
6 81 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (0.67%) DFS Replication
8 28 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (0.49%) Firmware
10 12 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
10 12 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.26%) HDFS
11 11 (0.26%) NFS
12 9 (0.21%) Postfix
13 8 (0.19%) Dovecot
13 8 (0.19%) KVM
13 8 (0.19%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.19%) Squid
14 5 (0.12%) zsh
15 4 (0.093%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 832 (19.31%) Terraform
2 723 (16.78%) Ansible
3 585 (13.58%) Kubernetes
4 157 (3.64%) Grafana
5 138 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.04%) Kibana
7 28 (0.65%) Kubeflow
8 26 (0.60%) Puppet
9 20 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
12 16 (0.37%) Argo
13 15 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.35%) Nagios
14 14 (0.32%) Nessus
14 14 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.28%) SCCM
16 11 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.23%) QRadar
17 10 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 503 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 359 (8.33%) Cisco
3 358 (8.31%) Splunk
4 330 (7.66%) Databricks
5 285 (6.61%) Juniper
6 262 (6.08%) 3PAR
7 203 (4.71%) Google
8 125 (2.90%) Oracle
9 112 (2.60%) VMware
10 82 (1.90%) Red Hat
11 77 (1.79%) ServiceNow
12 63 (1.46%) SAP
13 46 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 42 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 38 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 37 (0.86%) IBM
17 36 (0.84%) Fortinet
18 33 (0.77%) Alteryx
19 32 (0.74%) Palantir
20 30 (0.70%) Dynatrace