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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,005 6,299 5,565
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.64% 10.43% 11.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.73% 32.35% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,752 3,944 4,345
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,125 £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 £121,500
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 10,615 19,473 19,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.89% 32.26% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,861 11,604 15,751
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,852 £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 £83,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,556 £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 21 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 21 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 2,200 £85,000 -5.56% 3,240
North of England -18 554 £60,000 -4.58% 707
South East -35 408 £57,500 -8.00% 1,029
Midlands +9 336 £60,000 -4.00% 401
South West -6 273 £60,000 -11.11% 313
Yorkshire -3 254 £62,500 -0.60% 197
North West -18 238 £60,000 -4.00% 435
West Midlands +15 237 £60,000 -7.69% 264
East of England -23 191 £52,500 -25.00% 333
East Midlands -5 102 £63,750 +15.91% 136
North East -9 64 £40,000 -38.68% 82
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
1 218 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 152 (3.80%) Apache
4 68 (1.70%) Confluence
5 44 (1.10%) 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 13 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.30%) Appian
13 12 (0.30%) IIS
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
15 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 292 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.07%) 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 (0.100%) CATIA
9 4 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.100%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.22%) Shopify
3 8 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.20%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.050%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.025%) Endur
7 1 (0.025%) FastStats
7 1 (0.025%) Magento
7 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.025%) Summit
7 1 (0.025%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 1,537 (38.38%) AWS
2 1,367 (34.13%) Azure
3 511 (12.76%) GCP
4 496 (12.38%) Power Platform
5 402 (10.04%) GitHub
6 298 (7.44%) Serverless
7 209 (5.22%) Snowflake
8 200 (4.99%) dbt
9 190 (4.74%) Amazon S3
10 188 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 158 (3.95%) SaaS
13 134 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
14 123 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
15 118 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
16 116 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 105 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
18 104 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
19 90 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 86 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.67%) Firewall
2 160 (4.00%) Internet
3 89 (2.22%) DNS
4 82 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 78 (1.95%) VPN
6 75 (1.87%) WAN
7 60 (1.50%) LAN
8 52 (1.30%) HTTP
9 47 (1.17%) Network Security
10 41 (1.02%) BGP
10 41 (1.02%) VLAN
11 36 (0.90%) OSPF
12 35 (0.87%) Wireless
13 34 (0.85%) SSL
14 33 (0.82%) SAN
15 31 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.70%) DHCP
17 25 (0.62%) FTP
17 25 (0.62%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (11.54%) Power BI
2 330 (8.24%) Tableau
3 300 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
5 221 (5.52%) SQL Server
6 210 (5.24%) Relational Database
7 191 (4.77%) NoSQL
8 152 (3.80%) Data Lake
9 131 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
10 129 (3.22%) Apache Iceberg
11 114 (2.85%) MongoDB
12 108 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
13 106 (2.65%) Big Data
14 104 (2.60%) Apache Arrow
14 104 (2.60%) Dremio
15 101 (2.52%) MySQL
16 98 (2.45%) BigQuery
16 98 (2.45%) Data Mining
17 91 (2.27%) DynamoDB
18 84 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 473 (11.81%) Git
2 264 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 167 (4.17%) JIRA
4 137 (3.42%) GitLab
5 65 (1.62%) Selenium
6 49 (1.22%) MLflow
7 41 (1.02%) JUnit
8 33 (0.82%) JMeter
8 33 (0.82%) Vagrant
9 27 (0.67%) Postman
10 25 (0.62%) 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%) Metasploit
General
1 1,284 (32.06%) Finance
2 1,035 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 601 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 392 (9.79%) Banking
5 377 (9.41%) Law
6 318 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 277 (6.92%) Marketing
8 267 (6.67%) Front Office
9 201 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 153 (3.82%) Retail
11 143 (3.57%) Multimedia
12 131 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 117 (2.92%) Investment Banking
14 111 (2.77%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.30%) Financial Institution
16 88 (2.20%) Electronics
17 80 (2.00%) Legal
18 64 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
19 63 (1.57%) Games
20 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 782 (19.53%) Senior
2 741 (18.50%) Developer
3 494 (12.33%) Software Engineer
4 488 (12.18%) Analyst
5 446 (11.14%) Data Engineer
6 380 (9.49%) Lead
7 326 (8.14%) Python Engineer
8 293 (7.32%) Python Developer
9 284 (7.09%) Data Analyst
10 244 (6.09%) Python Software Engineer
11 220 (5.49%) Trainee
12 218 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
13 171 (4.27%) Architect
14 169 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
15 160 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
16 157 (3.92%) Senior Developer
17 150 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
18 132 (3.30%) Software Developer
19 118 (2.95%) AWS Software Engineer
20 109 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (9.39%) React
2 269 (6.72%) HTML
3 235 (5.87%) CSS
4 210 (5.24%) Pandas
5 198 (4.94%) Node.js
6 187 (4.67%) Kafka
7 182 (4.54%) REST
8 158 (3.95%) NumPy
9 152 (3.80%) Django
10 146 (3.65%) .NET
11 141 (3.52%) RESTful
12 137 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 136 (3.40%) FastAPI
14 130 (3.25%) PySpark
15 120 (3.00%) Vue
16 113 (2.82%) PyTorch
17 110 (2.75%) Flask
18 106 (2.65%) SciPy
19 104 (2.60%) TensorFlow
20 87 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 305 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 226 (5.64%) Algorithms
3 201 (5.02%) Equities
4 163 (4.07%) Fixed Income
5 160 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 142 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 134 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 128 (3.20%) Derivative
9 123 (3.07%) Management Information System
10 120 (3.00%) Hedge funds
11 108 (2.70%) Onboarding
12 90 (2.25%) Public Cloud
13 87 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
14 81 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
15 77 (1.92%) Product Ownership
16 64 (1.60%) Data Centre
16 64 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
17 60 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
18 59 (1.47%) Pricing Data
19 54 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 507 (12.66%) Linux
2 217 (5.42%) Windows
3 190 (4.74%) Unix
4 71 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.00%) 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%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.100%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,084 (27.07%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (25.57%) Agile
3 967 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 937 (23.40%) AI
5 832 (20.77%) DevOps
5 832 (20.77%) Software Engineering
6 816 (20.37%) Analytics
7 588 (14.68%) Machine Learning
8 580 (14.48%) Mentoring
9 573 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
10 536 (13.38%) Data Science
11 458 (11.44%) Data Engineering
12 457 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
13 452 (11.29%) Computer Science
14 444 (11.09%) ETL
15 439 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 424 (10.59%) Data Modelling
17 417 (10.41%) Containerisation
18 379 (9.46%) Data Analysis
19 354 (8.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,550 (38.70%) SQL
2 741 (18.50%) Java
3 679 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 395 (9.86%) TypeScript
5 378 (9.44%) Bash
6 372 (9.29%) PowerShell
7 308 (7.69%) C#
8 229 (5.72%) C++
9 209 (5.22%) R
10 199 (4.97%) Go
11 102 (2.55%) C
12 68 (1.70%) Scala
13 65 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 62 (1.55%) PHP
15 55 (1.37%) MATLAB
15 55 (1.37%) Perl
16 53 (1.32%) T-SQL
17 47 (1.17%) Groovy
18 44 (1.10%) Bicep
19 43 (1.07%) Rust
Qualifications
1 822 (20.52%) Degree
2 411 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 283 (7.07%) AWS Certification
4 279 (6.97%) Azure Certification
5 253 (6.32%) SC Cleared
6 203 (5.07%) Master's Degree
7 196 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 191 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 145 (3.62%) DV Cleared
10 143 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 121 (3.02%) PhD
12 68 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
14 45 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.12%) CCNP
15 44 (1.10%) CISSP
16 42 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.72%) CCNA
18 27 (0.67%) OSCP
19 26 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.65%) QA
3 124 (3.10%) GDPR
4 89 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.92%) NIST
6 61 (1.52%) 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 15 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.32%) 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 (0.100%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 581 (14.51%) Docker
2 104 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.92%) 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
1 606 (15.13%) Kubernetes
2 543 (13.56%) Terraform
3 335 (8.36%) Ansible
4 163 (4.07%) Grafana
5 135 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.05%) Kibana
7 30 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 25 (0.62%) Argo
9 23 (0.57%) Puppet
10 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 15 (0.37%) Nessus
12 13 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.32%) Nagios
13 12 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.27%) Control-M
14 11 (0.27%) Nmap
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 712 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 335 (8.36%) Databricks
3 207 (5.17%) Google
4 143 (3.57%) Oracle
5 115 (2.87%) VMware
6 96 (2.40%) Splunk
7 95 (2.37%) Cisco
8 92 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 75 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 72 (1.80%) SAP
11 52 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 49 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 47 (1.17%) Alteryx
14 42 (1.05%) IBM
14 42 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 40 (1.00%) Palantir
16 39 (0.97%) Bloomberg
17 38 (0.95%) Fortinet
18 37 (0.92%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.77%) Dell