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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,987 6,234 5,301
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.20% 11.08% 11.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.62% 32.94% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 3,920 4,179
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £98,750 £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 10,325 18,925 18,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.24% 33.64% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 11,409 15,304
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 £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,695 £110,000
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 6 December 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 6 December 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 0 2,076 £85,000 -2.86% 1,130
North of England -9 602 £55,200 -11.68% 890
South East -37 425 £59,000 -9.23% 1,345
Midlands -8 368 £60,000 +4.35% 651
Yorkshire +3 289 £60,000 -4.58% 369
South West -5 283 £60,000 -11.11% 479
West Midlands +6 254 £60,000 -4.58% 360
North West -13 244 £57,500 -4.17% 437
East of England -17 196 £50,000 -28.57% 575
East Midlands -10 117 £65,000 +18.18% 262
North East -10 71 £40,000 -38.46% 90
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
1 202 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 140 (3.51%) Apache
4 53 (1.33%) Confluence
5 41 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.68%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) WordPress
8 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.50%) nginx
10 17 (0.43%) CMS
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 14 (0.35%) Appian
13 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
14 12 (0.30%) IIS
15 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
17 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 439 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.25%) Simulink
4 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
6 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.10%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.10%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) CATIA
9 3 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.025%) Actimize
6 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.025%) Endur
6 1 (0.025%) FastStats
6 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.025%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,505 (37.75%) Azure
2 1,459 (36.59%) AWS
3 637 (15.98%) Power Platform
4 485 (12.16%) GCP
5 443 (11.11%) GitHub
6 278 (6.97%) Serverless
7 223 (5.59%) Azure AI
8 202 (5.07%) Snowflake
9 183 (4.59%) dbt
10 177 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 171 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
12 169 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
13 156 (3.91%) SaaS
14 128 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 125 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 119 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
17 108 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
18 96 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
19 83 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
19 83 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.87%) Internet
2 163 (4.09%) Firewall
3 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 77 (1.93%) DNS
5 68 (1.71%) VPN
6 65 (1.63%) WAN
7 55 (1.38%) LAN
8 46 (1.15%) HTTP
9 43 (1.08%) Network Security
10 35 (0.88%) VLAN
10 35 (0.88%) Wireless
11 33 (0.83%) BGP
11 33 (0.83%) SAN
12 31 (0.78%) SSL
12 31 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (0.75%) OSPF
14 27 (0.68%) SD-WAN
15 26 (0.65%) DHCP
16 22 (0.55%) SMTP
16 22 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 603 (15.12%) Power BI
2 485 (12.16%) Tableau
3 283 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
4 267 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
5 215 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 181 (4.54%) Relational Database
7 171 (4.29%) NoSQL
8 145 (3.64%) Data Lake
9 113 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
10 112 (2.81%) Data Mining
11 108 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
12 105 (2.63%) BigQuery
12 105 (2.63%) MongoDB
13 104 (2.61%) Big Data
14 100 (2.51%) MySQL
15 97 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
16 90 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
16 90 (2.26%) Dremio
17 85 (2.13%) DynamoDB
18 80 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 498 (12.49%) Git
2 240 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 148 (3.71%) JIRA
4 131 (3.29%) GitLab
5 59 (1.48%) Selenium
6 55 (1.38%) MLflow
7 42 (1.05%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
9 30 (0.75%) Postman
10 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.58%) Vagrant
12 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.53%) Mockito
13 20 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (0.43%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 14 (0.35%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 1,144 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 1,123 (28.17%) Finance
3 575 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (7.32%) Banking
5 244 (6.12%) Law
6 218 (5.47%) Front Office
7 209 (5.24%) Marketing
8 181 (4.54%) Multimedia
9 169 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 166 (4.16%) Public Sector
11 142 (3.56%) Retail
12 118 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 101 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.46%) Investment Banking
15 90 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 79 (1.98%) Electronics
17 67 (1.68%) Legal
18 62 (1.56%) Games
19 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
20 58 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 729 (18.28%) Developer
2 691 (17.33%) Senior
3 631 (15.83%) Analyst
4 445 (11.16%) Data Analyst
5 422 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 376 (9.43%) Software Engineer
7 299 (7.50%) Lead
8 289 (7.25%) Python Developer
9 271 (6.80%) Trainee
10 264 (6.62%) Python Engineer
11 221 (5.54%) Junior
12 191 (4.79%) Junior Analyst
13 189 (4.74%) Junior Data Analyst
14 187 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
15 177 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
16 169 (4.24%) Architect
17 154 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
18 149 (3.74%) Software Developer
19 148 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
20 137 (3.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (8.70%) React
2 313 (7.85%) HTML
3 266 (6.67%) CSS
4 193 (4.84%) Node.js
5 190 (4.77%) Pandas
6 173 (4.34%) Kafka
7 167 (4.19%) REST
8 155 (3.89%) Django
9 143 (3.59%) NumPy
10 139 (3.49%) RESTful
11 133 (3.34%) PySpark
12 128 (3.21%) FastAPI
13 124 (3.11%) .NET
13 124 (3.11%) AngularJS
14 118 (2.96%) PyTorch
15 109 (2.73%) Vue
16 107 (2.68%) TensorFlow
17 103 (2.58%) Flask
18 95 (2.38%) JSON
19 92 (2.31%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 210 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 167 (4.19%) Equities
4 156 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 144 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 135 (3.39%) Data Structures
7 124 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 114 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 112 (2.81%) Onboarding
10 106 (2.66%) Hedge funds
11 104 (2.61%) Derivative
12 95 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
13 86 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.91%) Product Ownership
15 64 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
16 60 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
17 59 (1.48%) Public Cloud
18 57 (1.43%) Data Centre
19 54 (1.35%) AI Agents
20 51 (1.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 498 (12.49%) Linux
2 214 (5.37%) Windows
3 191 (4.79%) Unix
4 74 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 31 (0.78%) VMS
7 23 (0.58%) CentOS
7 23 (0.58%) Debian
8 16 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
8 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.40%) Solaris
9 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.30%) zOS
10 10 (0.25%) Android
10 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (26.31%) AI
2 1,013 (25.41%) CI/CD
3 881 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
4 872 (21.87%) Agile
5 823 (20.64%) Analytics
6 799 (20.04%) DevOps
7 705 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
8 702 (17.61%) Software Engineering
9 588 (14.75%) Mentoring
10 550 (13.79%) Machine Learning
11 513 (12.87%) Data Science
12 448 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
13 440 (11.04%) ETL
14 435 (10.91%) Data Engineering
15 428 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 414 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 406 (10.18%) Computer Science
18 393 (9.86%) Containerisation
19 389 (9.76%) Data Analysis
20 339 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,620 (40.63%) SQL
2 677 (16.98%) JavaScript
3 649 (16.28%) Java
4 374 (9.38%) Bash
5 362 (9.08%) TypeScript
6 359 (9.00%) PowerShell
7 284 (7.12%) C#
8 219 (5.49%) R
9 205 (5.14%) C++
10 170 (4.26%) Go
11 97 (2.43%) C
12 67 (1.68%) Scala
13 60 (1.50%) PHP
14 56 (1.40%) Perl
15 52 (1.30%) Shell Script
16 47 (1.18%) Bicep
17 45 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 44 (1.10%) MATLAB
19 41 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 39 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 795 (19.94%) Degree
2 453 (11.36%) Azure Certification
3 386 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 303 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 238 (5.97%) SC Cleared
6 234 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 205 (5.14%) Master's Degree
8 186 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 181 (4.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.44%) DV Cleared
11 123 (3.09%) PhD
12 66 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
14 46 (1.15%) CISSP
15 43 (1.08%) CCNP
16 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.68%) CCNA
19 25 (0.63%) OSCP
20 24 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 149 (3.74%) QA
3 116 (2.91%) GDPR
4 92 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.98%) NIST
6 63 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.95%) SLA
8 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.20%) PMO
14 7 (0.18%) GRC
15 6 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.13%) NCSC
17 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 549 (13.77%) Docker
2 91 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.55%) Firmware
7 19 (0.48%) vSphere
8 14 (0.35%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.30%) HDFS
9 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.23%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Postfix
14 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.13%) Lustre
14 5 (0.13%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 557 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 504 (12.64%) Terraform
3 315 (7.90%) Ansible
4 141 (3.54%) Grafana
5 121 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 38 (0.95%) Kibana
7 32 (0.80%) Argo
8 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
9 21 (0.53%) Puppet
10 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.33%) Nessus
14 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.25%) Control-M
15 10 (0.25%) Nagios
15 10 (0.25%) Nmap
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
16 9 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 892 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 311 (7.80%) Databricks
3 193 (4.84%) Google
4 136 (3.41%) Oracle
5 114 (2.86%) VMware
6 96 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 91 (2.28%) Cisco
8 85 (2.13%) Splunk
9 66 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.56%) SAP
11 55 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.28%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.20%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.10%) IBM
15 40 (1.00%) Bloomberg
16 38 (0.95%) Informatica
17 36 (0.90%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.90%) Palo Alto
18 33 (0.83%) Talend
19 32 (0.80%) Dell