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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,974 6,184 5,321
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.07% 11.11% 11.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.71% 32.98% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,736 3,889 4,195
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 £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 10,267 18,752 18,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.86% 33.68% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,712 11,339 15,351
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £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 £111,250 £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 7 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 7 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 2,069 £85,000 -2.86% 1,112
North of England -11 604 £55,000 -12.00% 1,285
South East -32 421 £57,500 -11.54% 1,658
Midlands -7 366 £60,000 +4.35% 1,053
Yorkshire +2 290 £60,000 -4.58% 532
South West -8 282 £60,000 -11.11% 674
West Midlands +7 252 £60,000 -5.51% 562
North West -15 245 £57,500 -4.17% 643
East of England -21 195 £50,000 -28.57% 884
East Midlands -14 117 £65,000 +18.18% 431
North East -12 71 £40,000 -38.46% 116
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 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 168 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 139 (3.50%) Apache
4 52 (1.31%) Confluence
5 41 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.68%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) 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 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.23%) Simulink
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.18%) MadCap Flare
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) CATIA
10 3 (0.075%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
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 1,497 (37.67%) Azure
2 1,456 (36.64%) AWS
3 635 (15.98%) Power Platform
4 485 (12.20%) GCP
5 445 (11.20%) GitHub
6 275 (6.92%) Serverless
7 223 (5.61%) Azure AI
8 202 (5.08%) Snowflake
9 183 (4.60%) dbt
10 176 (4.43%) Amazon S3
11 171 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 167 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 155 (3.90%) SaaS
14 128 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
15 125 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 118 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
17 108 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
18 96 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
19 83 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
20 81 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (4.93%) Internet
2 162 (4.08%) Firewall
3 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 76 (1.91%) DNS
5 68 (1.71%) VPN
6 64 (1.61%) WAN
7 55 (1.38%) LAN
8 46 (1.16%) 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 26 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 25 (0.63%) DHCP
16 22 (0.55%) SMTP
16 22 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 601 (15.12%) Power BI
2 485 (12.20%) Tableau
3 283 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
4 266 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
5 214 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 181 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 170 (4.28%) NoSQL
8 145 (3.65%) Data Lake
9 113 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 112 (2.82%) Data Mining
11 108 (2.72%) Apache Iceberg
12 105 (2.64%) BigQuery
13 104 (2.62%) Big Data
14 103 (2.59%) MongoDB
15 100 (2.52%) MySQL
16 96 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
17 90 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
17 90 (2.26%) Dremio
18 85 (2.14%) DynamoDB
19 80 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 499 (12.56%) Git
2 239 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 147 (3.70%) JIRA
4 131 (3.30%) GitLab
5 59 (1.48%) Selenium
6 55 (1.38%) MLflow
7 42 (1.06%) JUnit
8 33 (0.83%) JMeter
9 30 (0.75%) Postman
10 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.55%) 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 1,141 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (28.18%) Finance
3 573 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (7.32%) Banking
5 243 (6.11%) Law
6 217 (5.46%) Front Office
7 209 (5.26%) Marketing
8 183 (4.60%) Multimedia
9 168 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 165 (4.15%) Public Sector
11 139 (3.50%) Retail
12 117 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 101 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.47%) Investment Banking
15 90 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 79 (1.99%) Electronics
17 66 (1.66%) Legal
18 62 (1.56%) Games
19 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
20 57 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 729 (18.34%) Developer
2 688 (17.31%) Senior
3 630 (15.85%) Analyst
4 444 (11.17%) Data Analyst
5 422 (10.62%) Data Engineer
6 374 (9.41%) Software Engineer
7 296 (7.45%) Lead
8 290 (7.30%) Python Developer
9 273 (6.87%) Trainee
10 263 (6.62%) Python Engineer
11 221 (5.56%) Junior
12 191 (4.81%) Junior Analyst
13 189 (4.76%) Junior Data Analyst
14 186 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
15 177 (4.45%) Python Software Engineer
16 168 (4.23%) Architect
17 154 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
18 150 (3.77%) Software Developer
19 148 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
20 137 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (8.73%) React
2 315 (7.93%) HTML
3 268 (6.74%) CSS
4 192 (4.83%) Node.js
5 190 (4.78%) Pandas
6 173 (4.35%) Kafka
7 166 (4.18%) REST
8 155 (3.90%) Django
9 143 (3.60%) NumPy
10 139 (3.50%) RESTful
11 133 (3.35%) PySpark
12 127 (3.20%) FastAPI
13 124 (3.12%) AngularJS
14 122 (3.07%) .NET
15 118 (2.97%) PyTorch
16 109 (2.74%) Vue
17 107 (2.69%) TensorFlow
18 103 (2.59%) Flask
19 95 (2.39%) JSON
20 92 (2.32%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 258 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 210 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 167 (4.20%) Equities
4 155 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 144 (3.62%) Fixed Income
6 135 (3.40%) Data Structures
7 124 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 114 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 111 (2.79%) Onboarding
10 106 (2.67%) Hedge funds
11 104 (2.62%) Derivative
12 95 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
13 86 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
14 76 (1.91%) Product Ownership
15 64 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
16 60 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
17 59 (1.48%) Public Cloud
18 56 (1.41%) Data Centre
19 54 (1.36%) AI Agents
20 51 (1.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 495 (12.46%) Linux
2 212 (5.33%) Windows
3 191 (4.81%) Unix
4 74 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.75%) VMS
8 23 (0.58%) CentOS
8 23 (0.58%) Debian
9 16 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 16 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.40%) Solaris
10 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.30%) zOS
11 10 (0.25%) Android
11 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.075%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,047 (26.35%) AI
2 1,013 (25.49%) CI/CD
3 876 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
4 869 (21.87%) Agile
5 820 (20.63%) Analytics
6 795 (20.01%) DevOps
7 703 (17.69%) Business Intelligence
8 700 (17.61%) Software Engineering
9 589 (14.82%) Mentoring
10 548 (13.79%) Machine Learning
11 510 (12.83%) Data Science
12 448 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
13 441 (11.10%) ETL
14 435 (10.95%) Data Engineering
15 428 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 414 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 403 (10.14%) Computer Science
18 392 (9.86%) Containerisation
19 387 (9.74%) Data Analysis
20 336 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,612 (40.56%) SQL
2 679 (17.09%) JavaScript
3 646 (16.26%) Java
4 372 (9.36%) Bash
5 361 (9.08%) TypeScript
6 357 (8.98%) PowerShell
7 283 (7.12%) C#
8 221 (5.56%) R
9 203 (5.11%) C++
10 170 (4.28%) Go
11 97 (2.44%) C
12 67 (1.69%) Scala
13 61 (1.53%) PHP
14 55 (1.38%) Perl
15 52 (1.31%) Shell Script
16 47 (1.18%) Bicep
17 45 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 42 (1.06%) MATLAB
19 41 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 41 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 789 (19.85%) Degree
2 454 (11.42%) Azure Certification
3 384 (9.66%) Security Cleared
4 305 (7.67%) AWS Certification
5 237 (5.96%) SC Cleared
6 234 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 204 (5.13%) Master's Degree
8 185 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 183 (4.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 137 (3.45%) DV Cleared
11 122 (3.07%) PhD
12 66 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
14 46 (1.16%) CISSP
15 43 (1.08%) CCNP
16 41 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
17 38 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.68%) CCNA
19 25 (0.63%) OSCP
20 24 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (6.04%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.72%) QA
3 116 (2.92%) GDPR
4 92 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.99%) NIST
6 63 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.96%) SLA
8 19 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 8 (0.20%) PMO
13 7 (0.18%) GRC
14 6 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 548 (13.79%) Docker
2 89 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.86%) 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 13 (0.33%) 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 8 (0.20%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) KVM
13 6 (0.15%) Postfix
14 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.13%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Squid
15 4 (0.10%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 556 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 503 (12.66%) Terraform
3 314 (7.90%) Ansible
4 140 (3.52%) Grafana
5 120 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 38 (0.96%) Kibana
7 32 (0.81%) 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
1 890 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 310 (7.80%) Databricks
3 193 (4.86%) Google
4 136 (3.42%) Oracle
5 113 (2.84%) VMware
6 96 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 91 (2.29%) Cisco
8 84 (2.11%) Splunk
9 65 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.56%) SAP
11 55 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 51 (1.28%) Alteryx
13 48 (1.21%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.11%) IBM
15 40 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.98%) Informatica
17 36 (0.91%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.91%) Palo Alto
18 34 (0.86%) Talend
19 32 (0.81%) Dell