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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,156 5,343 8,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.11% 7.45% 13.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.85% 23.73% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 3,054 2,854
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £37,614
25th Percentile £47,231 £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 £73,886 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +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 10,229 22,513 23,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.28% 31.38% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,649 16,333 13,277
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,350 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 22 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 22 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 1,269 £65,000 +17.12% 1,104
North West +14 1,052 £65,000 +14.04% 655
South East +8 775 £62,500 +13.64% 1,891
East of England +10 373 £66,206 +10.34% 556
Midlands -17 271 £55,000 +1.38% 454
South West -9 257 £57,471 -0.05% 495
Yorkshire +6 180 £63,250 +15.00% 330
Scotland -28 174 £58,000 +16.00% 297
West Midlands -16 148 £55,000 - 276
East Midlands -16 123 £46,000 -3.16% 151
Wales +3 45 £60,000 +16.44% 83
North East +15 41 £65,000 +8.08% 125
Northern Ireland -11 9 £50,000 -33.33% 117
Channel Islands +1 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 79 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 74 (2.34%) Apache
3 48 (1.52%) Confluence
4 36 (1.14%) SAS
5 33 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 27 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.67%) CMS
9 16 (0.51%) IBM Domino
10 14 (0.44%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) IIS
11 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.22%) nginx
13 5 (0.16%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.063%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.063%) CICS
16 1 (0.032%) OpenEdge
16 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
Applications
1 127 (4.02%) Chatbot
2 94 (2.98%) Simulink
3 84 (2.66%) Mathcad
4 59 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 20 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.095%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.063%) EngageOne
10 2 (0.063%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.063%) SPSS
10 2 (0.063%) Zemax
11 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Pipeline Pilot
11 1 (0.032%) Trello
11 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.32%) Shopify
2 7 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.095%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.063%) Odoo
5 2 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.063%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 933 (29.56%) AWS
2 850 (26.93%) Azure
3 451 (14.29%) GCP
4 225 (7.13%) Serverless
5 185 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
6 183 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 122 (3.87%) GitHub
8 101 (3.20%) Amazon S3
9 96 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 76 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 74 (2.34%) Pulumi
12 73 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (2.28%) SaaS
14 71 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
15 62 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 60 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
18 48 (1.52%) IaaS
19 36 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 761 (24.11%) VPN
2 445 (14.10%) DNS
3 280 (8.87%) Cisco IOS
4 179 (5.67%) Broadband
5 120 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 95 (3.01%) Firewall
7 42 (1.33%) WAN
8 37 (1.17%) SSL
9 32 (1.01%) SSH
10 28 (0.89%) VSAN
11 27 (0.86%) Network Security
12 26 (0.82%) 5G
12 26 (0.82%) LAN
13 24 (0.76%) Wireless
14 20 (0.63%) HTTP
15 17 (0.54%) DHCP
16 16 (0.51%) Internet
16 16 (0.51%) OSPF
16 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.23%) Power BI
2 158 (5.01%) Relational Database
3 139 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 103 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (2.95%) Big Data
6 92 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 90 (2.85%) Tableau
8 87 (2.76%) MySQL
9 84 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
9 84 (2.66%) RDBMS
10 78 (2.47%) Data Lake
11 50 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 43 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 40 (1.27%) Metadata
14 35 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (0.95%) Redis
17 29 (0.92%) DynamoDB
18 25 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 227 (7.19%) Git
2 133 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 80 (2.53%) JIRA
4 74 (2.34%) Cucumber
5 70 (2.22%) Robot Framework
6 66 (2.09%) Jaeger
7 58 (1.84%) GitLab
8 37 (1.17%) Selenium
9 30 (0.95%) JUnit
10 27 (0.86%) Eclipse
10 27 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (0.79%) Eclipse RCP
12 21 (0.67%) JMeter
13 18 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.44%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.41%) Appium
15 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.41%) Subversion
15 13 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 1,105 (35.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,004 (31.81%) Analytical Skills
3 766 (24.27%) Finance
4 539 (17.08%) Social Skills
5 143 (4.53%) Banking
6 134 (4.25%) Law
7 118 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 100 (3.17%) Retail
9 72 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 69 (2.19%) Electronics
10 69 (2.19%) Public Sector
11 60 (1.90%) Marketing
12 43 (1.36%) Legal
12 43 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.14%) Aerospace
14 29 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (0.63%) Tech for Good
16 18 (0.57%) Games
16 18 (0.57%) Military
16 18 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 787 (24.94%) Senior
2 693 (21.96%) Developer
3 516 (16.35%) Software Engineer
4 472 (14.96%) Software Developer
5 306 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 298 (9.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 289 (9.16%) Lead
8 191 (6.05%) Analyst
9 171 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 113 (3.58%) Trainer
11 102 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 101 (3.20%) Test Engineer
13 100 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 87 (2.76%) Data Scientist
15 78 (2.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 78 (2.47%) Team Leader
16 77 (2.44%) Mathematical Modeller
16 77 (2.44%) Test Automation Engineer
17 69 (2.19%) Senior Data Engineer
18 63 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (10.84%) Elastic Stack
2 323 (10.23%) .NET
3 290 (9.19%) Node.js
4 250 (7.92%) HTML
5 152 (4.82%) React
6 86 (2.72%) Kafka
7 73 (2.31%) CSS
8 72 (2.28%) Pandas
8 72 (2.28%) REST
9 68 (2.15%) RESTful
10 66 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 64 (2.03%) PySpark
12 58 (1.84%) Web Services
13 56 (1.77%) Django
14 50 (1.58%) Middleware
15 42 (1.33%) Spring Boot
16 41 (1.30%) Spring
17 40 (1.27%) GraphQL
18 39 (1.24%) TensorFlow
19 38 (1.20%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 908 (28.77%) Cyberattack
2 265 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
3 252 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
4 174 (5.51%) Algorithms
5 86 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 59 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 52 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 49 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 39 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 34 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
10 34 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 31 (0.98%) Data Structures
13 30 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (0.95%) IoT
14 29 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 28 (0.89%) Credit Risk
15 28 (0.89%) PKI
15 28 (0.89%) Robotics
16 27 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,354 (42.90%) Linux
2 693 (21.96%) Android
3 510 (16.16%) Windows
4 121 (3.83%) Unix
5 48 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (0.60%) Mac OS X
8 18 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.54%) VMS
10 12 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.32%) Debian
11 10 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.22%) CentOS
12 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.16%) SUSE
14 5 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.095%) Rocky
16 2 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,185 (37.55%) Agile
2 1,018 (32.26%) Mathematics
3 891 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
4 796 (25.22%) DevOps
5 744 (23.57%) Software Engineering
6 705 (22.34%) Line Management
7 630 (19.96%) Mentoring
8 552 (17.49%) Machine Learning
9 540 (17.11%) CI/CD
10 526 (16.67%) OO
11 461 (14.61%) OOP
12 441 (13.97%) Design Patterns
13 435 (13.78%) Artificial Intelligence
14 428 (13.56%) Android Development
15 397 (12.58%) Data Engineering
16 383 (12.14%) Analytics
17 370 (11.72%) Task Automation
18 358 (11.34%) Computer Science
19 335 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
20 322 (10.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,200 (38.02%) Java
2 941 (29.82%) C++
3 848 (26.87%) SQL
4 769 (24.37%) JavaScript
5 734 (23.26%) Go
6 593 (18.79%) Bash
7 562 (17.81%) PowerShell
8 386 (12.23%) C#
9 333 (10.55%) Rust
10 253 (8.02%) TypeScript
11 181 (5.74%) MATLAB
12 157 (4.97%) C
13 152 (4.82%) R
14 103 (3.26%) PHP
15 80 (2.53%) Ruby
16 48 (1.52%) Dart
17 38 (1.20%) Perl
18 37 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (1.17%) Shell Script
19 31 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 875 (27.72%) Degree
2 833 (26.39%) Security Cleared
3 718 (22.75%) DV Cleared
4 291 (9.22%) AWS Certification
5 187 (5.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 181 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 172 (5.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 138 (4.37%) PhD
9 125 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 112 (3.55%) SC Cleared
11 105 (3.33%) Master's Degree
12 61 (1.93%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (0.63%) CCNP
16 20 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
19 10 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (4.72%) QA
2 114 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 68 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 67 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.77%) GDPR
7 51 (1.62%) NIST
8 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.32%) COBIT
12 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.16%) Basel II
13 5 (0.16%) Basel III
13 5 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
13 5 (0.16%) IFRS
13 5 (0.16%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,032 (32.70%) Docker
2 304 (9.63%) vSphere
3 294 (9.32%) VMware NSX
4 267 (8.46%) Hyper-V
5 93 (2.95%) Active Directory
6 75 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 30 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.44%) Firmware
10 10 (0.32%) HDFS
11 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.22%) DFS Replication
12 7 (0.22%) NFS
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.063%) Postfix
14 2 (0.063%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.032%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
15 1 (0.032%) Sendmail
15 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 928 (29.40%) Ansible
2 637 (20.18%) Terraform
3 385 (12.20%) Kubernetes
4 119 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 72 (2.28%) Argo
6 70 (2.22%) Kustomize
7 63 (2.00%) Grafana
8 34 (1.08%) Puppet
9 21 (0.67%) Kibana
10 20 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.41%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.38%) QRadar
12 12 (0.38%) SCCM
13 11 (0.35%) Nessus
14 10 (0.32%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
15 8 (0.25%) SCOM
16 5 (0.16%) Nagios
17 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 315 (9.98%) Cisco
2 302 (9.57%) Splunk
3 273 (8.65%) Juniper
4 260 (8.24%) 3PAR
5 245 (7.76%) Microsoft
6 175 (5.54%) Databricks
7 139 (4.40%) Google
8 122 (3.87%) PayPal
9 89 (2.82%) VMware
10 84 (2.66%) MathWorks
11 76 (2.41%) Oracle
12 43 (1.36%) SAP
13 36 (1.14%) IBM
14 30 (0.95%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.82%) Thales
16 24 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 22 (0.70%) ServiceNow
18 20 (0.63%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
20 12 (0.38%) Fortinet