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 8 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,224 4,433 8,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.25% 8.54% 14.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.56% 23.96% 33.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 2,709 3,270
10th Percentile £35,802 £35,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,313 £44,263 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,900
% change year-on-year +7.41% -4.80% +1.29%

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 12,140 18,500 26,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.30% 35.63% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,735 14,121 15,264
10th Percentile £35,802 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,200 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,248
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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
South East +7 924 £67,500 +12.50% 332
North of England -1 750 £60,000 +9.09% 344
North West -9 440 £58,000 +5.45% 215
Midlands 0 432 £55,000 +2.80% 133
East of England +8 400 £66,235 +5.98% 145
South West -6 395 £60,000 +3.45% 187
West Midlands -12 243 £55,000 - 82
Scotland -36 234 £60,000 +9.09% 69
Yorkshire +5 229 £65,000 +18.18% 78
East Midlands +6 189 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North East +22 85 £69,308 +20.53% 53
Wales +11 76 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Northern Ireland +14 52 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Channel Islands - 1 - -
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
1 101 (3.13%) Apache
2 83 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 79 (2.45%) SAS
4 62 (1.92%) Confluence
5 44 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (1.21%) CMS
6 39 (1.21%) WordPress
7 35 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.50%) nginx
10 15 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.25%) Mule
12 6 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.16%) Smallworld
13 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.12%) CICS
15 2 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.062%) Luigi
16 1 (0.031%) CloudStack
Applications
1 87 (2.70%) Chatbot
2 86 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (1.46%) Simulink
5 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.093%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.062%) Trello
10 2 (0.062%) Zemax
11 1 (0.031%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.031%) Weka
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (0.87%) Shopify
2 9 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.19%) GoldMine
4 5 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.12%) Magento
6 2 (0.062%) Maximo
6 2 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.062%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.062%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.031%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.031%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 822 (25.50%) AWS
2 794 (24.63%) Azure
3 385 (11.94%) GitHub
4 236 (7.32%) GCP
5 201 (6.23%) Power Platform
6 134 (4.16%) Serverless
7 131 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 105 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 96 (2.98%) SaaS
11 78 (2.42%) Amazon S3
12 75 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 74 (2.30%) PaaS
14 70 (2.17%) IaaS
15 69 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
16 63 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
17 62 (1.92%) Snowflake
18 60 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
19 59 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
20 54 (1.67%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 123 (3.82%) Firewall
2 96 (2.98%) TCP/IP
3 82 (2.54%) DNS
4 60 (1.86%) Network Security
5 56 (1.74%) Internet
6 44 (1.36%) VPN
7 42 (1.30%) DHCP
8 33 (1.02%) WAN
9 31 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (0.93%) MPLS
11 28 (0.87%) BGP
12 26 (0.81%) VSAN
13 25 (0.78%) Ethernet
13 25 (0.78%) SSL
14 24 (0.74%) 5G
14 24 (0.74%) Wireshark
15 23 (0.71%) HTTP
15 23 (0.71%) LAN
16 22 (0.68%) Wireless
17 20 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (6.11%) Power BI
2 171 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 151 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 136 (4.22%) SQL Server
5 113 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 110 (3.41%) MySQL
7 105 (3.26%) Tableau
8 95 (2.95%) NoSQL
9 76 (2.36%) Big Data
10 70 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 65 (2.02%) Data Lake
12 60 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (1.43%) Hadoop
14 40 (1.24%) Redis
15 38 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 37 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
18 33 (1.02%) Data Mining
19 27 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
20 25 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 319 (9.89%) Git
2 199 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 138 (4.28%) JIRA
4 129 (4.00%) GitLab
5 38 (1.18%) Selenium
6 35 (1.09%) Eclipse
6 35 (1.09%) LabVIEW
7 34 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 34 (1.05%) Eclipse RCP
8 33 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 30 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 27 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 26 (0.81%) JUnit
12 22 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.65%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.65%) Subversion
14 19 (0.59%) JMeter
14 19 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.50%) Robot Framework
16 13 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 650 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 423 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
3 410 (12.72%) Finance
4 192 (5.96%) Multimedia
5 176 (5.46%) Electronics
6 159 (4.93%) Banking
7 127 (3.94%) Public Sector
8 108 (3.35%) Marketing
9 102 (3.16%) Legal
10 101 (3.13%) Law
11 93 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 92 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 88 (2.73%) Telecoms
14 75 (2.33%) Retail
15 63 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
16 56 (1.74%) Automotive
17 51 (1.58%) Aerospace
18 44 (1.36%) Tech for Good
19 37 (1.15%) Military
20 34 (1.05%) Games
Job Titles
1 668 (20.72%) Senior
2 633 (19.63%) Software Engineer
3 589 (18.27%) Developer
4 360 (11.17%) Lead
5 226 (7.01%) Data Engineer
5 226 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 216 (6.70%) Analyst
7 205 (6.36%) Web Developer
8 191 (5.92%) Trainee Developer
8 191 (5.92%) Trainee Web Developer
9 165 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
10 141 (4.37%) Data Scientist
11 115 (3.57%) Junior
12 107 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
13 101 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
14 99 (3.07%) Architect
15 93 (2.88%) Python Engineer
16 88 (2.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 86 (2.67%) Python Developer
18 82 (2.54%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (13.52%) HTML
2 324 (10.05%) CSS
3 290 (9.00%) React
4 213 (6.61%) HTML5
5 197 (6.11%) CSS3
6 193 (5.99%) .NET
7 165 (5.12%) Django
8 148 (4.59%) Node.js
9 97 (3.01%) REST
10 85 (2.64%) Kafka
11 71 (2.20%) AngularJS
12 68 (2.11%) Middleware
13 61 (1.89%) Flask
14 60 (1.86%) RESTful
15 57 (1.77%) PySpark
16 54 (1.67%) Pandas
16 54 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
16 54 (1.67%) XML
17 47 (1.46%) NumPy
18 43 (1.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 185 (5.74%) Algorithms
2 92 (2.85%) Management Information System
3 91 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
4 75 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 65 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 62 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 58 (1.80%) Credit Risk
9 58 (1.80%) FPGA
10 50 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
11 47 (1.46%) IoT
11 47 (1.46%) Robotics
12 44 (1.36%) VHDL
13 43 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 43 (1.33%) Life Science
14 39 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 39 (1.21%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
16 34 (1.05%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 593 (18.39%) Linux
2 269 (8.34%) Windows
3 156 (4.84%) Unix
4 63 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (0.96%) Android
7 28 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
8 26 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.53%) VxWorks
10 16 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.50%) VMS
11 13 (0.40%) CentOS
11 13 (0.40%) Debian
11 13 (0.40%) Rocky
12 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
12 8 (0.25%) SUSE
13 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.19%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.16%) AIX
16 4 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (28.88%) Software Engineering
2 700 (21.71%) Agile
3 612 (18.98%) Artificial Intelligence
4 607 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
5 593 (18.39%) CI/CD
6 539 (16.72%) DevOps
7 508 (15.76%) Machine Learning
8 495 (15.35%) Computer Science
9 462 (14.33%) Data Science
10 430 (13.34%) Analytics
11 421 (13.06%) Mathematics
12 374 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
13 360 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 308 (9.55%) Data Analysis
15 296 (9.18%) Task Automation
16 292 (9.06%) Decision-Making
17 285 (8.84%) Web Development
18 284 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
19 267 (8.28%) Containerisation
20 245 (7.60%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 954 (29.59%) SQL
2 679 (21.06%) JavaScript
3 664 (20.60%) Java
4 544 (16.87%) C++
5 518 (16.07%) C#
6 311 (9.65%) PowerShell
7 292 (9.06%) C
8 274 (8.50%) Bash
9 165 (5.12%) R
9 165 (5.12%) Rust
10 164 (5.09%) TypeScript
11 133 (4.13%) VBA
12 127 (3.94%) Go
13 122 (3.78%) MATLAB
14 104 (3.23%) PHP
15 80 (2.48%) Ruby
15 80 (2.48%) Shell Script
16 74 (2.30%) Perl
17 44 (1.36%) Scala
18 34 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,101 (34.15%) Degree
2 431 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 208 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 193 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 184 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 181 (5.61%) Master's Degree
7 103 (3.19%) Chartered Engineer
8 97 (3.01%) PhD
9 65 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 61 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.05%) AWS Certification
12 33 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 32 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
15 26 (0.81%) CCNP
16 20 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
17 19 (0.59%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.53%) PMI Certification
19 15 (0.47%) JNCIS
20 13 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 119 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 86 (2.67%) QA
4 58 (1.80%) GDPR
5 38 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.87%) NIST
7 26 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.62%) SLA
9 18 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.47%) HL7
11 13 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.40%) IFRS
11 13 (0.40%) IFRS 9
12 11 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.31%) CDISC
14 9 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.25%) Basel III
15 8 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.25%) MISRA
System Software
1 439 (13.62%) Docker
2 117 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (2.48%) Firmware
4 74 (2.30%) vSphere
5 58 (1.80%) Active Directory
5 58 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 32 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
8 28 (0.87%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.40%) HDFS
10 10 (0.31%) VMware Server
11 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.12%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.093%) KVM
13 3 (0.093%) NFS
13 3 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.062%) Postfix
14 2 (0.062%) Sendmail
15 1 (0.031%) RACF
Systems Management
1 431 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 345 (10.70%) Terraform
3 230 (7.13%) Ansible
4 69 (2.14%) Puppet
5 68 (2.11%) Grafana
6 64 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 33 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.90%) vRealize
8 29 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 18 (0.56%) Kibana
10 17 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
11 15 (0.47%) Argo
12 14 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.34%) Graylog
13 11 (0.34%) Nagios
13 11 (0.34%) Packer
14 8 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.22%) WSUS
16 6 (0.19%) HAProxy
16 6 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 336 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.05%) Databricks
3 150 (4.65%) VMware
4 130 (4.03%) Google
5 84 (2.61%) PayPal
6 72 (2.23%) Oracle
7 54 (1.67%) IBM
8 52 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 45 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 45 (1.40%) SAP
10 44 (1.36%) Xilinx
11 31 (0.96%) Cisco
12 28 (0.87%) WooCommerce
13 26 (0.81%) EMC
13 26 (0.81%) Splunk
14 24 (0.74%) Arista
15 21 (0.65%) Salesforce
16 18 (0.56%) Aruba
16 18 (0.56%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.53%) Veeam