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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,939 6,320 5,396
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.38% 10.78% 11.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.41% 32.69% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,708 3,988 4,255
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,750 £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 £120,000
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 10,256 19,332 18,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.82% 32.97% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,651 11,646 15,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,603 £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 £110,000 £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 30 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 30 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 2,101 £85,000 -2.86% 1,126
North of England -13 575 £59,750 -4.40% 433
South East -36 408 £60,000 -7.69% 963
Midlands +4 354 £60,000 +4.35% 335
South West -4 273 £60,000 -11.11% 268
Yorkshire +1 270 £62,000 -1.40% 135
West Midlands +19 246 £60,000 -7.69% 212
North West -16 241 £59,875 -2.61% 245
East of England -19 191 £50,000 -28.57% 242
East Midlands -13 111 £63,750 +15.91% 122
North East -12 66 £40,000 -38.46% 59
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
1 208 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 143 (3.63%) Apache
4 59 (1.50%) Confluence
5 43 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 23 (0.58%) nginx
8 22 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 22 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.48%) WordPress
10 18 (0.46%) CMS
11 16 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 13 (0.33%) Appian
12 13 (0.33%) IIS
13 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 387 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.30%) Simulink
4 9 (0.23%) 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%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.18%) Shopify
5 6 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.051%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
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%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
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 1,469 (37.29%) AWS
2 1,438 (36.51%) Azure
3 584 (14.83%) Power Platform
4 491 (12.47%) GCP
5 413 (10.48%) GitHub
6 282 (7.16%) Serverless
7 205 (5.20%) Snowflake
8 193 (4.90%) dbt
9 181 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 173 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 172 (4.37%) Azure AI
12 165 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
13 152 (3.86%) SaaS
14 124 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
15 123 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
16 120 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 110 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
18 99 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 93 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
20 85 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 174 (4.42%) Firewall
2 172 (4.37%) Internet
3 81 (2.06%) DNS
4 79 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 70 (1.78%) VPN
6 68 (1.73%) WAN
7 57 (1.45%) LAN
8 49 (1.24%) HTTP
9 43 (1.09%) Network Security
10 36 (0.91%) VLAN
11 35 (0.89%) Wireless
12 34 (0.86%) BGP
13 33 (0.84%) SAN
14 32 (0.81%) SSL
15 31 (0.79%) OSPF
15 31 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.66%) DHCP
18 24 (0.61%) FTP
18 24 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (14.09%) Power BI
2 431 (10.94%) Tableau
3 280 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
4 277 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
5 214 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 191 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 175 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 142 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 121 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
10 117 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
11 104 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 103 (2.61%) Data Mining
13 102 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 102 (2.59%) MySQL
14 100 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
14 100 (2.54%) Big Data
15 97 (2.46%) Apache Arrow
15 97 (2.46%) Dremio
16 85 (2.16%) DynamoDB
17 81 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 479 (12.16%) Git
2 249 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 155 (3.94%) JIRA
4 136 (3.45%) GitLab
5 62 (1.57%) Selenium
6 51 (1.29%) MLflow
7 39 (0.99%) JUnit
8 33 (0.84%) JMeter
9 29 (0.74%) Postman
10 28 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.53%) Mockito
14 17 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.41%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.38%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.38%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.33%) Burp Suite
17 13 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1,154 (29.30%) Finance
2 1,088 (27.62%) Social Skills
3 573 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (8.07%) Banking
5 284 (7.21%) Law
6 236 (5.99%) Front Office
7 234 (5.94%) Marketing
8 219 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 175 (4.44%) Public Sector
10 159 (4.04%) Multimedia
11 147 (3.73%) Retail
12 118 (3.00%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.67%) Investment Banking
14 102 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 80 (2.03%) Electronics
17 69 (1.75%) Legal
18 62 (1.57%) Games
19 59 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
19 59 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 716 (18.18%) Senior
2 712 (18.08%) Developer
3 575 (14.60%) Analyst
4 434 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 411 (10.43%) Software Engineer
6 386 (9.80%) Data Analyst
7 321 (8.15%) Lead
8 285 (7.24%) Python Developer
9 284 (7.21%) Python Engineer
10 241 (6.12%) Trainee
11 199 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 197 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
13 174 (4.42%) Junior
14 164 (4.16%) Architect
15 162 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
16 153 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (3.66%) Junior Analyst
18 142 (3.60%) Junior Data Analyst
19 137 (3.48%) Senior Developer
19 137 (3.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (9.11%) React
2 291 (7.39%) HTML
3 245 (6.22%) CSS
4 198 (5.03%) Pandas
5 195 (4.95%) Node.js
6 171 (4.34%) Kafka
7 170 (4.32%) REST
8 156 (3.96%) Django
9 151 (3.83%) NumPy
10 131 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 131 (3.33%) RESTful
11 130 (3.30%) PySpark
12 129 (3.27%) .NET
13 128 (3.25%) FastAPI
14 116 (2.94%) PyTorch
15 114 (2.89%) Vue
16 105 (2.67%) Flask
17 104 (2.64%) TensorFlow
18 99 (2.51%) SciPy
19 97 (2.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 266 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 179 (4.54%) Equities
4 153 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 152 (3.86%) Fixed Income
6 135 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 124 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 121 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 113 (2.87%) Hedge funds
10 112 (2.84%) Onboarding
11 111 (2.82%) Derivative
12 95 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
13 84 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.93%) Product Ownership
15 70 (1.78%) Public Cloud
16 63 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
17 58 (1.47%) Data Centre
17 58 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
18 55 (1.40%) Pricing Data
19 53 (1.35%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 500 (12.69%) Linux
2 215 (5.46%) Windows
3 194 (4.93%) Unix
4 74 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.91%) VMS
7 33 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.61%) Debian
9 23 (0.58%) CentOS
10 18 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.38%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.30%) zOS
13 11 (0.28%) Android
14 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.076%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (25.97%) CI/CD
2 1,006 (25.54%) AI
3 913 (23.18%) Agile
4 893 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 807 (20.49%) Analytics
6 799 (20.28%) DevOps
7 732 (18.58%) Software Engineering
8 653 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
9 575 (14.60%) Mentoring
10 555 (14.09%) Machine Learning
11 510 (12.95%) Data Science
12 443 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
13 436 (11.07%) Data Engineering
14 434 (11.02%) ETL
15 421 (10.69%) Data Modelling
16 416 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 411 (10.43%) Computer Science
18 397 (10.08%) Containerisation
19 383 (9.72%) Data Analysis
20 339 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,577 (40.04%) SQL
2 666 (16.91%) Java
3 664 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 376 (9.55%) Bash
5 370 (9.39%) TypeScript
6 364 (9.24%) PowerShell
7 284 (7.21%) C#
8 208 (5.28%) C++
9 207 (5.26%) R
10 174 (4.42%) Go
11 99 (2.51%) C
12 66 (1.68%) Scala
13 62 (1.57%) PHP
14 56 (1.42%) Perl
14 56 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 46 (1.17%) Bicep
15 46 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 44 (1.12%) MATLAB
17 43 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 41 (1.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 792 (20.11%) Degree
2 390 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 383 (9.72%) Azure Certification
4 284 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 241 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 211 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 199 (5.05%) Master's Degree
8 182 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 159 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 138 (3.50%) DV Cleared
11 121 (3.07%) PhD
12 65 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
14 44 (1.12%) CISSP
15 42 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 42 (1.07%) CCNP
16 38 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.69%) CCNA
17 27 (0.69%) OSCP
18 24 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.71%) QA
3 122 (3.10%) GDPR
4 92 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.01%) NIST
6 62 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.96%) SLA
8 24 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.23%) 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
1 560 (14.22%) Docker
2 100 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.53%) Firmware
7 19 (0.48%) vSphere
8 18 (0.46%) 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 7 (0.18%) Postfix
14 6 (0.15%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.15%) KVM
14 6 (0.15%) ProxySG
14 6 (0.15%) Squid
15 5 (0.13%) Lustre
15 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 568 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 512 (13.00%) Terraform
3 323 (8.20%) Ansible
4 151 (3.83%) Grafana
5 126 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 39 (0.99%) Kibana
7 30 (0.76%) Argo
7 30 (0.76%) Kubeflow
8 22 (0.56%) Puppet
9 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
10 16 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 14 (0.36%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.28%) Nmap
13 11 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.25%) Control-M
14 10 (0.25%) Nagios
14 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 814 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 315 (8.00%) Databricks
3 197 (5.00%) Google
4 137 (3.48%) Oracle
5 113 (2.87%) VMware
6 96 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 91 (2.31%) Cisco
8 89 (2.26%) Splunk
9 71 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.57%) SAP
11 52 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 50 (1.27%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.12%) IBM
15 40 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 38 (0.96%) Palo Alto
17 36 (0.91%) Atlassian
17 36 (0.91%) Fortinet
18 34 (0.86%) Palantir
19 33 (0.84%) Informatica