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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,261 3,104 2,919
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.41% 8.46% 9.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.40% 27.47% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 1,566 1,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,713 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £65,000 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +9.33% -0.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 6,573 11,301 11,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.72% 30.79% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 6,128 9,172
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,646 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.00% -3.85%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -9 636 £52,500 -16.00% 873
South East -31 433 £60,000 -7.69% 1,626
Midlands -11 370 £60,000 +9.09% 695
South West -3 305 £58,750 -9.62% 530
Yorkshire +11 300 £53,500 -17.69% 394
North West -15 260 £55,000 -8.33% 379
West Midlands 0 259 £60,000 - 360
Scotland -3 242 £40,000 -33.33% 208
East of England -13 212 £50,000 -28.57% 705
East Midlands -27 114 £62,500 +13.64% 300
North East -2 78 £40,000 -38.46% 105
Wales -7 50 £67,500 +3.85% 111
Northern Ireland -23 26 £74,830 -6.46% 58
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 40 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 36 (1.59%) Apache
2 36 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (1.55%) Confluence
4 25 (1.11%) WordPress
5 24 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.49%) IIS
8 9 (0.40%) SAS
9 8 (0.35%) CMS
10 6 (0.27%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.27%) Appian
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.13%) JBoss
13 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.088%) Mendix
13 2 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 476 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.40%) Simulink
3 9 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.18%) Windchill
6 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.13%) CATIA
6 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.13%) MadCap Flare
6 3 (0.13%) Mathcad
6 3 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.088%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.088%) Weka
8 1 (0.044%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.044%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.35%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.31%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.044%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.044%) Odoo
6 1 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,168 (51.66%) Azure
2 764 (33.79%) AWS
3 504 (22.29%) Power Platform
4 402 (17.78%) GitHub
5 282 (12.47%) Azure AI
6 166 (7.34%) GCP
7 164 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (5.66%) Serverless
9 100 (4.42%) Snowflake
10 79 (3.49%) SaaS
11 75 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 72 (3.18%) Amazon S3
13 69 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
15 62 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
16 61 (2.70%) dbt
17 58 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 51 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
18 51 (2.26%) Entra ID
19 44 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 250 (11.06%) Internet
2 72 (3.18%) Firewall
3 57 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 44 (1.95%) DNS
5 31 (1.37%) WAN
6 28 (1.24%) HTTP
6 28 (1.24%) VPN
7 26 (1.15%) Wireless
8 25 (1.11%) LAN
9 18 (0.80%) BGP
9 18 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.71%) SAN
11 15 (0.66%) MPLS
12 14 (0.62%) Network Security
12 14 (0.62%) OSPF
12 14 (0.62%) VLAN
12 14 (0.62%) Wireshark
13 13 (0.57%) SMTP
14 11 (0.49%) DHCP
15 10 (0.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (21.49%) Tableau
2 482 (21.32%) Power BI
3 134 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (5.48%) Data Mining
5 91 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 71 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.48%) MongoDB
9 53 (2.34%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 50 (2.21%) MySQL
12 47 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
13 46 (2.03%) Metadata
14 37 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.59%) Data Lake
16 33 (1.46%) Big Data
17 25 (1.11%) Hadoop
18 22 (0.97%) Redis
19 19 (0.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 384 (16.98%) Git
2 156 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.02%) JIRA
4 72 (3.18%) GitLab
5 38 (1.68%) Selenium
6 37 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
7 33 (1.46%) JUnit
8 25 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.97%) JMeter
10 15 (0.66%) Postman
11 14 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.62%) Mockito
12 13 (0.57%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.53%) ERwin
14 11 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.49%) LabVIEW
15 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.40%) MLflow
16 9 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 707 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 435 (19.24%) Finance
3 356 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (10.39%) Multimedia
5 107 (4.73%) Public Sector
6 98 (4.33%) Marketing
7 83 (3.67%) Law
8 76 (3.36%) Retail
9 69 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 42 (1.86%) Electronics
10 42 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 33 (1.46%) Aerospace
12 26 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (0.97%) Legal
15 18 (0.80%) Banking
16 17 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 521 (23.04%) Analyst
2 424 (18.75%) Data Analyst
3 346 (15.30%) Trainee
4 327 (14.46%) Developer
5 325 (14.37%) Senior
6 277 (12.25%) Junior
7 271 (11.99%) Junior Analyst
8 270 (11.94%) Junior Data Analyst
9 185 (8.18%) Data Engineer
10 144 (6.37%) Software Developer
11 129 (5.71%) Software Engineer
12 124 (5.48%) Architect
13 119 (5.26%) Lead
14 111 (4.91%) Trainee Developer
15 104 (4.60%) Trainee Software Developer
16 100 (4.42%) Trainee Analyst
16 100 (4.42%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 84 (3.72%) Python Developer
18 72 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
19 68 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (14.55%) HTML
2 295 (13.05%) CSS
3 162 (7.16%) React
4 87 (3.85%) Django
5 76 (3.36%) REST
6 72 (3.18%) Node.js
7 71 (3.14%) JSON
8 68 (3.01%) .NET
8 68 (3.01%) XML
9 65 (2.87%) RESTful
10 57 (2.52%) PySpark
11 51 (2.26%) SOAP
12 42 (1.86%) Spring
13 41 (1.81%) Flask
14 40 (1.77%) AngularJS
14 40 (1.77%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.59%) Kafka
15 36 (1.59%) Vue
16 35 (1.55%) FastAPI
16 35 (1.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 91 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 68 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 51 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 50 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 50 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 46 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 34 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.06%) IoT
12 20 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (0.84%) Life Science
14 17 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
15 16 (0.71%) Management Information System
16 14 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
17 13 (0.57%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 232 (10.26%) Linux
2 103 (4.56%) Windows
3 81 (3.58%) Unix
4 36 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.88%) Debian
8 15 (0.66%) CentOS
8 15 (0.66%) VMS
9 11 (0.49%) Solaris
10 10 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.31%) Android
12 6 (0.27%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.088%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.044%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (28.93%) AI
2 509 (22.51%) Business Intelligence
3 474 (20.96%) Mentoring
4 472 (20.88%) CI/CD
5 459 (20.30%) Agile
6 433 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
7 424 (18.75%) DevOps
8 408 (18.05%) Analytics
9 292 (12.91%) Cybersecurity
10 263 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 260 (11.50%) Software Engineering
12 249 (11.01%) Machine Learning
13 247 (10.92%) Data Analysis
14 227 (10.04%) Data Modelling
15 221 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 209 (9.24%) Data Science
17 186 (8.23%) Computer Science
18 183 (8.09%) Coaching
19 178 (7.87%) ETL
20 175 (7.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (46.13%) SQL
2 517 (22.87%) JavaScript
3 333 (14.73%) Java
4 195 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 191 (8.45%) R
6 188 (8.31%) Bash
7 120 (5.31%) C#
8 114 (5.04%) TypeScript
9 90 (3.98%) C++
10 81 (3.58%) C
11 65 (2.87%) Go
12 62 (2.74%) Shell Script
13 41 (1.81%) PHP
13 41 (1.81%) PL/SQL
14 35 (1.55%) Bicep
14 35 (1.55%) MATLAB
15 31 (1.37%) Perl
15 31 (1.37%) VBA
16 26 (1.15%) Scala
17 24 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 549 (24.28%) Azure Certification
2 349 (15.44%) Degree
3 287 (12.69%) AWS Certification
4 277 (12.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 265 (11.72%) Security Cleared
6 235 (10.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 174 (7.70%) SC Cleared
8 97 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 84 (3.72%) Master's Degree
10 83 (3.67%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
14 25 (1.11%) CCNP
15 22 (0.97%) PhD
16 21 (0.93%) HND
17 18 (0.80%) CREST Certified
17 18 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
18 16 (0.71%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (4.87%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.45%) QA
3 44 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.90%) GDPR
5 19 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.66%) NIST
7 10 (0.44%) SLA
8 7 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.27%) WCAG
10 3 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.13%) ECSS
10 3 (0.13%) GxP
10 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.088%) NCSC
11 2 (0.088%) PMO
11 2 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 255 (11.28%) Docker
2 53 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.71%) Firmware
4 16 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.31%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) KVM
8 6 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.22%) Lustre
10 4 (0.18%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.18%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.18%) Postfix
10 4 (0.18%) Squid
10 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.13%) QEMU
12 2 (0.088%) Ceph
12 2 (0.088%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.088%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 297 (13.14%) Terraform
2 256 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 132 (5.84%) Ansible
4 79 (3.49%) Grafana
5 59 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.93%) Kibana
8 12 (0.53%) Argo
8 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.53%) Nessus
8 12 (0.53%) Puppet
9 10 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.40%) Control-M
11 8 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.35%) Nmap
12 6 (0.27%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.22%) Rancher
13 5 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 867 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.88%) Databricks
3 110 (4.87%) Oracle
4 90 (3.98%) Google
5 48 (2.12%) VMware
6 45 (1.99%) Splunk
7 34 (1.50%) Cisco
8 33 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.28%) SAP
11 20 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.88%) Okta
12 18 (0.80%) Fortinet
13 17 (0.75%) Talend
14 15 (0.66%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.62%) Siemens
16 13 (0.57%) HubSpot
16 13 (0.57%) Informatica
16 13 (0.57%) NetApp