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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,147 5,348 7,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.09% 7.26% 13.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.83% 23.54% 34.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 3,054 2,826
10th Percentile £37,100 £36,250 £37,879
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 £73,750 £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 10,207 22,714 23,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.25% 30.84% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 16,483 13,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,296 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,963
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 28 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 28 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 1,277 £65,000 +15.04% 988
North West +14 1,058 £65,000 +15.04% 564
South East +8 759 £62,500 +13.64% 1,737
East of England +10 373 £66,206 +10.34% 547
Midlands -14 272 £55,000 - 420
South West -9 258 £57,443 +1.67% 464
Yorkshire +11 181 £64,000 +16.36% 302
Scotland -31 172 £57,500 +15.00% 297
West Midlands -16 150 £55,000 - 240
East Midlands -4 122 £45,000 -5.26% 152
Wales +2 44 £61,625 +17.38% 80
North East +16 42 £65,000 +8.08% 128
Northern Ireland -9 9 £50,000 -33.33% 96
Isle of Man - 3 £43,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 2 £78,750 +16.67% 60
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 80 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 74 (2.35%) Apache
3 47 (1.49%) Confluence
4 37 (1.18%) SAS
5 33 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 27 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.70%) IBM Domino
7 22 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.67%) CMS
9 14 (0.44%) WordPress
10 8 (0.25%) IIS
10 8 (0.25%) nginx
11 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.064%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.064%) CICS
15 1 (0.032%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 127 (4.04%) Chatbot
2 98 (3.11%) Simulink
3 87 (2.76%) Mathcad
4 57 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
5 17 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.095%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.064%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.064%) LaTeX
11 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.064%) SPSS
12 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.032%) Pipeline Pilot
12 1 (0.032%) Trello
12 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
4 3 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.064%) Odoo
5 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.064%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 941 (29.90%) AWS
2 849 (26.98%) Azure
3 451 (14.33%) GCP
4 235 (7.47%) Serverless
5 194 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
6 180 (5.72%) Power Platform
7 122 (3.88%) GitHub
8 104 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 95 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 74 (2.35%) Pulumi
11 73 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 72 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (2.22%) SaaS
14 65 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
15 59 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
16 58 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
18 43 (1.37%) IaaS
19 37 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 764 (24.28%) VPN
2 447 (14.20%) DNS
3 280 (8.90%) Cisco IOS
4 179 (5.69%) Broadband
5 122 (3.88%) TCP/IP
6 101 (3.21%) Firewall
7 42 (1.33%) WAN
8 37 (1.18%) SSL
9 34 (1.08%) SSH
10 30 (0.95%) Network Security
11 26 (0.83%) 5G
11 26 (0.83%) LAN
12 25 (0.79%) VSAN
13 24 (0.76%) Wireless
14 22 (0.70%) HTTP
15 18 (0.57%) OSPF
16 17 (0.54%) SMTP
16 17 (0.54%) VLAN
17 16 (0.51%) BGP
17 16 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (5.12%) Power BI
2 153 (4.86%) Relational Database
3 147 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.42%) NoSQL
5 105 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 93 (2.96%) Big Data
7 91 (2.89%) Tableau
8 88 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 85 (2.70%) RDBMS
10 84 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
10 84 (2.67%) MySQL
11 79 (2.51%) Data Lake
12 49 (1.56%) MongoDB
13 48 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (1.24%) Metadata
16 35 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (0.99%) DynamoDB
18 30 (0.95%) Redis
19 26 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 223 (7.09%) Git
2 139 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 77 (2.45%) JIRA
4 74 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 69 (2.19%) Robot Framework
6 66 (2.10%) Jaeger
7 54 (1.72%) GitLab
8 38 (1.21%) Selenium
9 31 (0.99%) JUnit
10 27 (0.86%) Eclipse
10 27 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (0.79%) Eclipse RCP
12 23 (0.73%) JMeter
13 18 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.51%) Vagrant
15 14 (0.44%) Appium
15 14 (0.44%) LabVIEW
16 13 (0.41%) Maven
16 13 (0.41%) Subversion
16 13 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 1,107 (35.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 994 (31.59%) Analytical Skills
3 765 (24.31%) Finance
4 538 (17.10%) Social Skills
5 136 (4.32%) Banking
6 135 (4.29%) Law
7 119 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 105 (3.34%) Retail
9 75 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 67 (2.13%) Marketing
12 66 (2.10%) Electronics
13 43 (1.37%) Legal
14 38 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 30 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.64%) Tech for Good
18 18 (0.57%) Advertising
18 18 (0.57%) Automotive
18 18 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 784 (24.91%) Senior
2 698 (22.18%) Developer
3 514 (16.33%) Software Engineer
4 471 (14.97%) Software Developer
5 308 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 298 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 290 (9.22%) Lead
8 193 (6.13%) Analyst
9 168 (5.34%) Data Engineer
10 113 (3.59%) Trainer
11 102 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 100 (3.18%) Test Engineer
13 99 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 84 (2.67%) Data Scientist
15 79 (2.51%) Mathematical Modeller
16 77 (2.45%) Team Leader
17 76 (2.41%) Test Automation Engineer
18 75 (2.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
19 69 (2.19%) Senior Data Engineer
20 64 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (10.87%) Elastic Stack
2 323 (10.26%) .NET
3 293 (9.31%) Node.js
4 250 (7.94%) HTML
5 145 (4.61%) React
6 86 (2.73%) Kafka
7 72 (2.29%) CSS
7 72 (2.29%) REST
8 70 (2.22%) Pandas
9 69 (2.19%) RESTful
10 66 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
11 61 (1.94%) PySpark
12 59 (1.87%) Web Services
13 51 (1.62%) Django
14 50 (1.59%) Middleware
15 44 (1.40%) Spring
16 43 (1.37%) Spring Boot
17 40 (1.27%) GraphQL
17 40 (1.27%) TensorFlow
18 39 (1.24%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 908 (28.85%) Cyberattack
2 266 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
3 251 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
4 169 (5.37%) Algorithms
5 81 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 63 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 53 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 47 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (1.21%) Product Ownership
10 34 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 31 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 31 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (0.95%) IoT
15 29 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 28 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
16 28 (0.89%) PKI
17 26 (0.83%) Robotics
18 24 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1,355 (43.06%) Linux
2 694 (22.05%) Android
3 511 (16.24%) Windows
4 119 (3.78%) Unix
5 47 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (0.60%) Mac OS X
7 19 (0.60%) VMS
8 18 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.32%) Debian
10 10 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.22%) CentOS
13 6 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.16%) SUSE
14 5 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.064%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,180 (37.50%) Agile
2 1,019 (32.38%) Mathematics
3 899 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 796 (25.29%) DevOps
5 739 (23.48%) Software Engineering
6 705 (22.40%) Line Management
7 626 (19.89%) Mentoring
8 539 (17.13%) Machine Learning
9 538 (17.10%) CI/CD
10 525 (16.68%) OO
11 460 (14.62%) OOP
12 439 (13.95%) Design Patterns
13 428 (13.60%) Android Development
14 427 (13.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 399 (12.68%) Data Engineering
16 377 (11.98%) Analytics
17 373 (11.85%) Task Automation
18 352 (11.19%) Computer Science
19 336 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
20 323 (10.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,204 (38.26%) Java
2 934 (29.68%) C++
3 845 (26.85%) SQL
4 762 (24.21%) JavaScript
5 732 (23.26%) Go
6 592 (18.81%) Bash
7 558 (17.73%) PowerShell
8 381 (12.11%) C#
9 332 (10.55%) Rust
10 251 (7.98%) TypeScript
11 183 (5.82%) MATLAB
12 153 (4.86%) C
13 146 (4.64%) R
14 103 (3.27%) PHP
15 80 (2.54%) Ruby
16 48 (1.53%) Dart
17 40 (1.27%) Perl
18 38 (1.21%) Shell Script
19 36 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 33 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 865 (27.49%) Degree
2 831 (26.41%) Security Cleared
3 714 (22.69%) DV Cleared
4 292 (9.28%) AWS Certification
5 188 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 172 (5.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 137 (4.35%) PhD
9 128 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 112 (3.56%) SC Cleared
11 103 (3.27%) Master's Degree
12 62 (1.97%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (0.64%) CCNP
16 20 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
19 10 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (4.67%) QA
2 115 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 65 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 65 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.81%) GDPR
6 50 (1.59%) NIST
7 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.32%) COBIT
12 6 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.16%) NCSC
14 4 (0.13%) Basel II
14 4 (0.13%) Basel III
14 4 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.13%) IFRS
14 4 (0.13%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,033 (32.82%) Docker
2 300 (9.53%) vSphere
3 291 (9.25%) VMware NSX
4 266 (8.45%) Hyper-V
5 94 (2.99%) Active Directory
6 72 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 30 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.35%) Firmware
10 10 (0.32%) HDFS
11 9 (0.29%) DFS Replication
12 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.22%) NFS
14 3 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.095%) Postfix
15 2 (0.064%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.064%) Squid
15 2 (0.064%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.032%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.032%) KVM
Systems Management
1 931 (29.58%) Ansible
2 639 (20.31%) Terraform
3 378 (12.01%) Kubernetes
4 121 (3.84%) Prometheus
5 72 (2.29%) Argo
6 67 (2.13%) Kustomize
7 65 (2.07%) Grafana
8 34 (1.08%) Puppet
9 22 (0.70%) Kibana
10 20 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.41%) Istio
13 12 (0.38%) Nessus
13 12 (0.38%) QRadar
13 12 (0.38%) SCCM
14 11 (0.35%) 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 (10.01%) Cisco
2 302 (9.60%) Splunk
3 274 (8.71%) Juniper
4 260 (8.26%) 3PAR
5 242 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 173 (5.50%) Databricks
7 137 (4.35%) Google
8 122 (3.88%) PayPal
9 87 (2.76%) MathWorks
10 86 (2.73%) VMware
11 78 (2.48%) Oracle
12 47 (1.49%) SAP
13 35 (1.11%) IBM
14 27 (0.86%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.83%) Thales
16 25 (0.79%) ServiceNow
17 23 (0.73%) Atlassian
18 21 (0.67%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
20 12 (0.38%) Fortinet