Python Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 26 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,126 5,326 8,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.00% 7.52% 13.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.65% 23.76% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 3,059 2,864
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.32% -4.14% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,544 22,416 23,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.98% 31.63% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,034 16,326 13,415
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,175 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
North of England +18 1,266 £65,000 +18.18% 1,149
North West +14 1,052 £65,000 +14.04% 673
South East +11 771 £62,500 +13.64% 1,962
East of England +8 360 £66,206 +10.34% 601
South West -9 266 £57,500 +1.77% 516
Midlands -21 257 £55,000 - 456
Yorkshire +7 177 £62,500 +13.64% 338
Scotland -28 162 £57,500 +15.00% 320
West Midlands -28 136 £55,000 - 280
East Midlands -4 121 £50,000 +5.26% 151
Wales +6 51 £60,625 +17.65% 91
North East +9 41 £65,000 +13.04% 143
Northern Ireland -6 11 £50,000 -33.51% 108
Channel Islands +2 2 £78,750 +16.67%
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 - 2
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (2.37%) Apache Spark
2 70 (2.24%) Apache
3 45 (1.44%) Confluence
4 36 (1.15%) SAS
5 34 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 26 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.74%) CMS
8 20 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 17 (0.54%) WordPress
10 16 (0.51%) IBM Domino
11 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.26%) IIS
13 6 (0.19%) nginx
14 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.064%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.064%) CICS
16 1 (0.032%) Joomla!
16 1 (0.032%) OpenEdge
16 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 125 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 94 (3.01%) Simulink
3 83 (2.66%) Mathcad
4 70 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 25 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.064%) EngageOne
9 2 (0.064%) LaTeX
9 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.064%) SPSS
9 2 (0.064%) Zemax
10 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.032%) Pipeline Pilot
10 1 (0.032%) Trello
10 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.38%) Shopify
2 5 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.096%) Odoo
5 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.064%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.032%) GoldMine
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 875 (27.99%) AWS
2 857 (27.42%) Azure
3 450 (14.40%) GCP
4 183 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 180 (5.76%) Serverless
6 137 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
7 130 (4.16%) GitHub
8 96 (3.07%) Snowflake
9 78 (2.50%) SaaS
10 76 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 74 (2.37%) Pulumi
12 72 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 70 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 62 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
16 55 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (1.66%) IaaS
18 46 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
19 39 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 758 (24.25%) VPN
2 445 (14.24%) DNS
3 280 (8.96%) Cisco IOS
4 136 (4.35%) Broadband
5 120 (3.84%) TCP/IP
6 89 (2.85%) Firewall
7 44 (1.41%) WAN
8 29 (0.93%) LAN
9 28 (0.90%) VSAN
10 27 (0.86%) Network Security
11 25 (0.80%) 5G
11 25 (0.80%) Wireless
12 19 (0.61%) HTTP
13 18 (0.58%) Internet
14 17 (0.54%) DHCP
15 16 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.48%) SSL
17 14 (0.45%) LTE
18 13 (0.42%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.34%) Power BI
2 159 (5.09%) Relational Database
3 142 (4.54%) NoSQL
4 139 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
5 106 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 95 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 93 (2.98%) MySQL
7 93 (2.98%) Tableau
8 87 (2.78%) Big Data
9 85 (2.72%) RDBMS
10 76 (2.43%) Data Lake
11 63 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
12 49 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 41 (1.31%) Metadata
14 35 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
15 32 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (0.93%) Redis
17 25 (0.80%) Hadoop
18 22 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 229 (7.33%) Git
2 142 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.50%) JIRA
4 73 (2.34%) Cucumber
5 69 (2.21%) GitLab
6 68 (2.18%) Robot Framework
7 66 (2.11%) Jaeger
8 32 (1.02%) Selenium
9 31 (0.99%) JUnit
10 28 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 25 (0.80%) Eclipse RCP
13 23 (0.74%) JMeter
14 19 (0.61%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.48%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.48%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.45%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.42%) Appium
17 13 (0.42%) Maven
17 13 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 1,094 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,019 (32.60%) Analytical Skills
3 768 (24.57%) Finance
4 528 (16.89%) Social Skills
5 153 (4.89%) Banking
6 121 (3.87%) Law
7 120 (3.84%) Telecoms
8 98 (3.13%) Retail
9 81 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 75 (2.40%) Electronics
11 64 (2.05%) Public Sector
12 57 (1.82%) Marketing
13 54 (1.73%) Legal
14 47 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 30 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (0.74%) Games
18 20 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.61%) Automotive
19 19 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 793 (25.37%) Senior
2 694 (22.20%) Developer
3 524 (16.76%) Software Engineer
4 474 (15.16%) Software Developer
5 305 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 304 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 293 (9.37%) Lead
8 198 (6.33%) Analyst
9 161 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 113 (3.61%) Trainer
11 102 (3.26%) Test Engineer
12 98 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 81 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
14 78 (2.50%) Team Leader
15 77 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 77 (2.46%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 77 (2.46%) Mathematical Modeller
15 77 (2.46%) Test Automation Engineer
16 67 (2.14%) Senior Data Engineer
17 62 (1.98%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (10.97%) Elastic Stack
2 327 (10.46%) .NET
3 301 (9.63%) Node.js
4 211 (6.75%) HTML
5 145 (4.64%) React
6 77 (2.46%) CSS
7 75 (2.40%) REST
8 74 (2.37%) Kafka
9 70 (2.24%) Pandas
10 66 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
11 63 (2.02%) Django
12 62 (1.98%) PySpark
13 51 (1.63%) Middleware
14 48 (1.54%) RESTful
15 44 (1.41%) Spring Boot
16 43 (1.38%) Spring
16 43 (1.38%) TensorFlow
17 41 (1.31%) PyTorch
18 39 (1.25%) AngularJS
19 35 (1.12%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 883 (28.25%) Cyberattack
2 269 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
3 257 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
4 181 (5.79%) Algorithms
5 70 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 53 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 46 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 37 (1.18%) Credit Risk
10 34 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 31 (0.99%) Robotics
14 30 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 29 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.90%) IoT
17 27 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
18 26 (0.83%) Data Centre
19 25 (0.80%) Onboarding
20 23 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,369 (43.79%) Linux
2 694 (22.20%) Android
3 522 (16.70%) Windows
4 126 (4.03%) Unix
5 50 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (0.61%) Mac OS X
8 16 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.38%) VMS
10 11 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.32%) Debian
12 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.26%) CentOS
14 6 (0.19%) Rocky
15 5 (0.16%) SUSE
15 5 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 4 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,167 (37.33%) Agile
2 1,017 (32.53%) Mathematics
3 896 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
4 781 (24.98%) DevOps
5 756 (24.18%) Software Engineering
6 708 (22.65%) Line Management
7 610 (19.51%) Mentoring
8 528 (16.89%) CI/CD
9 522 (16.70%) OO
10 517 (16.54%) Machine Learning
11 466 (14.91%) OOP
12 444 (14.20%) Design Patterns
13 429 (13.72%) Android Development
14 397 (12.70%) Analytics
15 395 (12.64%) Data Engineering
16 387 (12.38%) Artificial Intelligence
17 369 (11.80%) Task Automation
18 335 (10.72%) Platform Engineering
19 326 (10.43%) Computer Science
20 325 (10.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (36.85%) Java
2 917 (29.33%) C++
3 812 (25.98%) SQL
4 743 (23.77%) Go
5 725 (23.19%) JavaScript
6 596 (19.07%) Bash
7 567 (18.14%) PowerShell
8 360 (11.52%) C#
9 295 (9.44%) Rust
10 195 (6.24%) TypeScript
11 131 (4.19%) MATLAB
12 123 (3.93%) C
13 111 (3.55%) R
14 64 (2.05%) PHP
15 42 (1.34%) Perl
16 38 (1.22%) Shell Script
17 37 (1.18%) Ruby
18 36 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 33 (1.06%) Scala
20 31 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 869 (27.80%) Degree
2 839 (26.84%) Security Cleared
3 726 (23.22%) DV Cleared
4 270 (8.64%) AWS Certification
5 186 (5.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 172 (5.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 152 (4.86%) PhD
8 139 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 125 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 122 (3.90%) Master's Degree
11 110 (3.52%) SC Cleared
12 58 (1.86%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.28%) DBS Check
14 31 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (0.64%) CCNP
18 18 (0.58%) ISTQB
19 11 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
20 10 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (4.83%) QA
2 112 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 83 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 74 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 57 (1.82%) GDPR
6 41 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 22 (0.70%) NIST
9 14 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.32%) COBIT
11 10 (0.32%) IFRS
11 10 (0.32%) IFRS 9
12 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.26%) Basel III
14 7 (0.22%) Basel II
14 7 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
15 5 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,045 (33.43%) Docker
2 309 (9.88%) vSphere
3 298 (9.53%) VMware NSX
4 269 (8.61%) Hyper-V
5 76 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 67 (2.14%) Active Directory
7 32 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.54%) Firmware
9 16 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.32%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.19%) NFS
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.13%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.064%) KVM
15 2 (0.064%) Postfix
15 2 (0.064%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.064%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.032%) RACF
16 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 920 (29.43%) Ansible
2 608 (19.45%) Terraform
3 401 (12.83%) Kubernetes
4 114 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 74 (2.37%) Argo
6 71 (2.27%) Kustomize
7 56 (1.79%) Grafana
8 35 (1.12%) Puppet
9 21 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.64%) Kibana
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.38%) SCCM
13 11 (0.35%) Nessus
13 11 (0.35%) QRadar
14 9 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
15 8 (0.26%) SCOM
16 6 (0.19%) Nagios
17 5 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 314 (10.04%) Cisco
2 298 (9.53%) Splunk
3 271 (8.67%) Juniper
4 265 (8.48%) Microsoft
5 260 (8.32%) 3PAR
6 173 (5.53%) Databricks
7 147 (4.70%) Google
8 122 (3.90%) PayPal
9 92 (2.94%) VMware
10 83 (2.66%) MathWorks
11 74 (2.37%) Oracle
12 42 (1.34%) IBM
13 38 (1.22%) SAP
14 35 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.83%) Atlassian
16 22 (0.70%) Dynatrace
17 16 (0.51%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.51%) ServiceNow
18 13 (0.42%) Fortinet
19 12 (0.38%) WooCommerce