Python Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,943 2,927 5,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.91% 9.88% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.45% 35.57% 22.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,064 1,304 3,119
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,450 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 10,255 8,228 22,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.37% 27.77% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,240 5,247 16,776
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,100 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Python job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Python
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

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 7 June 2026. 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 -10 1,233 £61,418 -5.51% 505
South East +2 878 £62,500 - 614
Midlands +23 649 £60,000 +9.09% 198
North West -16 563 £65,000 - 281
South West +5 529 £58,497 +1.83% 253
Yorkshire +13 478 £60,250 -7.31% 140
West Midlands +21 342 £60,000 +9.09% 109
East Midlands +32 307 £55,000 +19.57% 88
East of England -1 300 £70,000 +5.72% 234
Scotland +8 205 £45,000 -25.00% 114
North East +20 192 £55,000 -13.73% 86
Wales +13 120 £60,000 -7.69% 56
Northern Ireland -2 49 £75,000 +66.67% 73
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -19.54% 4
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 97 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (1.78%) Apache
3 69 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 38 (0.96%) WordPress
6 37 (0.94%) Confluence
7 15 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.23%) IIS
10 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.15%) SAS
11 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.10%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.076%) CMS
13 3 (0.076%) nginx
14 2 (0.051%) Apache Qpid
14 2 (0.051%) JBoss
14 2 (0.051%) Luigi
14 2 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1,060 (26.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.37%) Chatbot
3 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.28%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.076%) CANalyzer
8 3 (0.076%) CATIA
9 2 (0.051%) SPSS
9 2 (0.051%) Trello
10 1 (0.025%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (0.10%) Line 50
1 4 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.076%) Magento
2 3 (0.076%) SAP SD
2 3 (0.076%) Shopify
3 2 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.051%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.051%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.025%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,168 (54.98%) Azure
2 1,253 (31.78%) Azure AI
3 1,190 (30.18%) Power Platform
4 1,016 (25.77%) AWS
5 304 (7.71%) GCP
6 278 (7.05%) GitHub
7 195 (4.95%) Serverless
8 151 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (3.55%) Amazon S3
10 111 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (2.82%) SaaS
11 96 (2.43%) dbt
11 96 (2.43%) Snowflake
12 95 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 83 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
15 76 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 65 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
17 63 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 154 (3.91%) Firewall
2 120 (3.04%) Internet
3 83 (2.10%) VPN
4 70 (1.78%) DNS
5 65 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 61 (1.55%) WAN
7 52 (1.32%) LAN
8 43 (1.09%) Broadband
9 41 (1.04%) HTTP
10 38 (0.96%) Wireless
11 37 (0.94%) Network Security
12 35 (0.89%) BGP
13 32 (0.81%) Wireshark
14 30 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (0.76%) VLAN
15 28 (0.71%) OSPF
15 28 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
16 27 (0.68%) MQTT
17 25 (0.63%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,148 (29.11%) Power BI
2 1,074 (27.24%) Tableau
3 163 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
5 122 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 89 (2.26%) Data Mining
7 78 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 74 (1.88%) MongoDB
9 73 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 57 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 56 (1.42%) Big Data
13 55 (1.39%) BigQuery
14 49 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (1.12%) MySQL
16 43 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
17 41 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 37 (0.94%) Metadata
19 32 (0.81%) Spark SQL
20 28 (0.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 394 (9.99%) Git
2 156 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 139 (3.53%) GitLab
4 83 (2.10%) JIRA
5 73 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 31 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 28 (0.71%) SonarQube
8 27 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.68%) Selenium
9 21 (0.53%) LabVIEW
9 21 (0.53%) Subversion
10 20 (0.51%) JMeter
11 18 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.46%) MLflow
12 17 (0.43%) JUnit
13 13 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 10 (0.25%) Postman
14 10 (0.25%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
15 9 (0.23%) Mockito
General
1 1,798 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 507 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 481 (12.20%) Finance
4 136 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 129 (3.27%) Retail
6 116 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 105 (2.66%) Multimedia
8 97 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 78 (1.98%) Law
10 72 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 71 (1.80%) Electronics
12 65 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 54 (1.37%) Marketing
14 52 (1.32%) Banking
15 43 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 39 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (0.94%) Legal
18 30 (0.76%) Automotive
19 29 (0.74%) Games
20 23 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,154 (29.27%) Analyst
2 1,079 (27.36%) Data Analyst
3 948 (24.04%) Junior
4 924 (23.43%) Junior Analyst
4 924 (23.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 517 (13.11%) Senior
6 480 (12.17%) Developer
7 377 (9.56%) Software Engineer
8 369 (9.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 316 (8.01%) Data Engineer
10 262 (6.64%) Lead
11 232 (5.88%) Trainee
12 219 (5.55%) Python Engineer
13 169 (4.29%) Python Developer
14 131 (3.32%) Software Developer
15 123 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 115 (2.92%) Data Scientist
16 115 (2.92%) Python Software Engineer
17 99 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
17 99 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (5.68%) HTML
2 210 (5.33%) CSS
3 189 (4.79%) React
4 121 (3.07%) .NET
4 121 (3.07%) REST
5 119 (3.02%) Node.js
6 111 (2.82%) PySpark
7 96 (2.43%) Pandas
8 83 (2.10%) NumPy
9 78 (1.98%) PyTorch
9 78 (1.98%) scikit-learn
10 75 (1.90%) Hugging Face
10 75 (1.90%) Kafka
11 72 (1.83%) TensorFlow
12 66 (1.67%) Vue
13 62 (1.57%) Flask
14 59 (1.50%) FastAPI
14 59 (1.50%) JSON
15 56 (1.42%) Django
16 52 (1.32%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 202 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 171 (4.34%) Algorithms
3 107 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 62 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 55 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 53 (1.34%) Low-Code
8 47 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
10 43 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 35 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 34 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 33 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 33 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 33 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
15 31 (0.79%) Life Science
16 30 (0.76%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.71%) IoT
17 28 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 352 (8.93%) Linux
2 156 (3.96%) Windows
3 57 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.09%) Unix
5 40 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (0.71%) CentOS
7 27 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.36%) Debian
9 10 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
10 9 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.20%) VMS
11 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
14 4 (0.10%) Android
14 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.10%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.10%) Solaris
15 3 (0.076%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,920 (48.69%) AI
2 1,199 (30.41%) Business Intelligence
3 674 (17.09%) CI/CD
4 620 (15.72%) Software Engineering
5 581 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
6 567 (14.38%) Agile
7 544 (13.80%) DevOps
8 515 (13.06%) Analytics
9 429 (10.88%) Machine Learning
10 416 (10.55%) Mentoring
11 387 (9.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 369 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 313 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 307 (7.79%) Data Modelling
14 307 (7.79%) Test Automation
15 298 (7.56%) Containerisation
16 296 (7.51%) Data Pipeline
17 289 (7.33%) Computer Science
18 280 (7.10%) Data Engineering
18 280 (7.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,793 (45.47%) SQL
2 472 (11.97%) JavaScript
3 392 (9.94%) Java
4 267 (6.77%) C++
5 258 (6.54%) Bash
6 254 (6.44%) C#
7 236 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 189 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 140 (3.55%) R
10 121 (3.07%) C
11 97 (2.46%) Go
12 60 (1.52%) PHP
13 50 (1.27%) Scala
14 48 (1.22%) Rust
15 44 (1.12%) MATLAB
16 37 (0.94%) Perl
17 35 (0.89%) VBA
18 33 (0.84%) Bicep
19 32 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 32 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,390 (35.25%) Azure Certification
2 465 (11.79%) Degree
3 374 (9.49%) Security Cleared
4 227 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 194 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 182 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 159 (4.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 134 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 125 (3.17%) DV Cleared
10 96 (2.43%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.99%) PhD
13 35 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (0.74%) CCNP
15 28 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (0.51%) CREST Certified
18 18 (0.46%) HND
19 14 (0.36%) CISSP
20 13 (0.33%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 147 (3.73%) QA
3 67 (1.70%) GDPR
4 45 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 19 (0.48%) NIST
7 13 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 12 (0.30%) SLA
9 10 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.20%) PMO
12 7 (0.18%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.15%) Def Stans
13 6 (0.15%) DICOM
14 5 (0.13%) IEC 61508
14 5 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.10%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 361 (9.16%) Docker
2 66 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.17%) Firmware
5 34 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.76%) KVM
7 15 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.33%) vSphere
9 9 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
11 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.10%) Squid
13 3 (0.076%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.076%) Lustre
13 3 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (10.50%) Terraform
2 340 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 201 (5.10%) Ansible
4 128 (3.25%) Grafana
5 88 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.84%) Puppet
7 25 (0.63%) Argo
8 21 (0.53%) Nagios
9 19 (0.48%) Kibana
10 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.43%) Proxmox
11 16 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.38%) Podman
13 13 (0.33%) Graylog
14 11 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.25%) logstash
15 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.25%) QRadar
16 9 (0.23%) Packer
16 9 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,491 (37.81%) Microsoft
2 190 (4.82%) Databricks
3 90 (2.28%) Google
4 82 (2.08%) VMware
5 68 (1.72%) Cisco
5 68 (1.72%) Oracle
6 61 (1.55%) Splunk
7 54 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 30 (0.76%) SAP
9 26 (0.66%) Fortinet
10 25 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 23 (0.58%) Salesforce
12 21 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.48%) IBM
13 19 (0.48%) Veeam
14 18 (0.46%) Palo Alto
14 18 (0.46%) SolarWinds
15 17 (0.43%) Meraki
16 16 (0.41%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.41%) Informatica