Python
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,366 9,040 16,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 9.31% 15.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.95% 27.40% 34.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 5,987 7,980
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £49,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,150 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.10% +6.40%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,804 32,987 46,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.98% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,666 24,970 29,413
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.80%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python.

Salary trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England +5 5,025 £75,000 +7.14% 7,747
UK excluding London +4 2,741 £65,000 +18.18% 3,390
London +5 2,462 £90,000 +5.88% 5,200
Work from Home +4 2,114 £72,500 +3.57% 3,749
North of England +15 900 £64,000 +13.27% 687
South East +13 788 £65,000 +18.18% 1,052
North West +7 678 £60,000 +5.26% 419
East of England +12 315 £66,215 +10.36% 509
Midlands -12 273 £55,000 - 347
South West -10 260 £58,000 +2.20% 389
Yorkshire +8 184 £64,000 +16.36% 179
Scotland -33 159 £58,000 +12.56% 297
West Midlands -29 142 £55,000 - 191
East Midlands +10 131 £55,000 +10.00% 147
Wales +7 49 £65,000 +23.81% 65
North East +17 42 £65,000 +13.04% 91
Northern Ireland +1 25 £95,000 +26.67% 99
Isle of Man +15 2 £34,500 -42.50%
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 2

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 354 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 325 (6.06%) Apache
3 262 (4.88%) Apache Spark
4 72 (1.34%) Confluence
5 65 (1.21%) SAS
6 46 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 41 (0.76%) Jupyter
9 40 (0.75%) CMS
10 29 (0.54%) WordPress
11 25 (0.47%) nginx
12 10 (0.19%) Drupal
13 8 (0.15%) IIS
14 6 (0.11%) Luigi
15 5 (0.093%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.075%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.075%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.075%) Kinematics
16 4 (0.075%) Tomcat
17 3 (0.056%) CICS
Applications
1 167 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (2.76%) Chatbot
3 86 (1.60%) Simulink
4 75 (1.40%) Mathcad
5 50 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.22%) SPSS
8 11 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 10 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.13%) InDesign
10 7 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 6 (0.11%) Stata
12 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.056%) Trello
14 2 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.037%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.037%) Zemax
15 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 47 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 24 (0.45%) thinkFolio
3 22 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.37%) Shopify
5 11 (0.20%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.093%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.093%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.075%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.056%) Odoo
8 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.037%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.037%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.037%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.037%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.037%) Sprinklr
10 1 (0.019%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1,789 (33.34%) AWS
2 1,409 (26.26%) Azure
3 712 (13.27%) GCP
4 402 (7.49%) Serverless
5 387 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 344 (6.41%) dbt
7 294 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 288 (5.37%) Snowflake
9 280 (5.22%) GitHub
10 220 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
11 216 (4.03%) Amazon S3
12 215 (4.01%) SaaS
13 196 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 171 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
15 167 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 161 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
17 153 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
18 121 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 115 (2.14%) OpenShift
20 94 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 531 (9.90%) VPN
2 497 (9.26%) DNS
3 201 (3.75%) Firewall
4 167 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 79 (1.47%) WAN
6 73 (1.36%) Network Security
7 72 (1.34%) HTTP
8 62 (1.16%) LAN
9 49 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 44 (0.82%) DHCP
11 42 (0.78%) Ethernet
12 39 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
12 39 (0.73%) Internet
13 36 (0.67%) 5G
13 36 (0.67%) VLAN
14 34 (0.63%) BGP
14 34 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
15 31 (0.58%) SAN
15 31 (0.58%) Wireless
16 30 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (6.47%) Power BI
2 326 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 288 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
4 284 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
5 271 (5.05%) Tableau
6 262 (4.88%) Dremio
7 261 (4.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 252 (4.70%) Data Lake
9 221 (4.12%) Apache Arrow
10 206 (3.84%) NoSQL
11 200 (3.73%) Relational Database
12 184 (3.43%) SQL Server
13 173 (3.22%) Apache Ignite
13 173 (3.22%) Big Data
14 158 (2.94%) MySQL
15 125 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 122 (2.27%) MongoDB
17 109 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
18 107 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
19 71 (1.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 488 (9.09%) Git
2 277 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 160 (2.98%) JIRA
4 159 (2.96%) GitLab
5 110 (2.05%) Artifactory
6 91 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 80 (1.49%) Robot Framework
7 80 (1.49%) Selenium
8 54 (1.01%) JUnit
9 53 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 46 (0.86%) JMeter
11 43 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 37 (0.69%) Postman
13 31 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.54%) Eclipse
15 28 (0.52%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
17 24 (0.45%) Appium
17 24 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 1,883 (35.09%) Finance
2 1,141 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 1,086 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 736 (13.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 550 (10.25%) Banking
6 542 (10.10%) Front Office
7 229 (4.27%) Law
8 176 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 166 (3.09%) Marketing
9 166 (3.09%) Retail
10 147 (2.74%) Investment Banking
11 126 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 119 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 110 (2.05%) Legal
14 106 (1.98%) Games
15 102 (1.90%) Electronics
16 100 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
17 91 (1.70%) Advertising
18 54 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
19 50 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,223 (22.79%) Developer
2 1,194 (22.25%) Senior
3 772 (14.39%) Software Engineer
4 549 (10.23%) Software Developer
5 508 (9.47%) Data Engineer
6 487 (9.08%) Analyst
7 472 (8.80%) Lead
8 409 (7.62%) Python Engineer
9 358 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 294 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 289 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 245 (4.57%) Python Developer
13 172 (3.21%) Data Scientist
13 172 (3.21%) Senior Developer
14 168 (3.13%) AWS Software Engineer
15 167 (3.11%) Architect
16 151 (2.81%) Python Software Engineer
17 149 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
18 146 (2.72%) Data Analyst
19 139 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (9.08%) React
2 331 (6.17%) Node.js
3 321 (5.98%) Pandas
4 309 (5.76%) PySpark
5 307 (5.72%) HTML
6 262 (4.88%) Kafka
7 248 (4.62%) .NET
8 236 (4.40%) NumPy
9 219 (4.08%) REST
10 198 (3.69%) Django
11 172 (3.21%) SciPy
12 164 (3.06%) CSS
13 157 (2.93%) AngularJS
14 155 (2.89%) RESTful
15 111 (2.07%) gRPC
16 106 (1.98%) PyTorch
17 105 (1.96%) Flask
18 104 (1.94%) TensorFlow
19 102 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
20 92 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 473 (8.81%) Cyberattack
2 342 (6.37%) Algorithms
3 302 (5.63%) Fixed Income
4 266 (4.96%) Hedge funds
5 218 (4.06%) Equities
6 208 (3.88%) Derivative
7 161 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 156 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 150 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 134 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 121 (2.25%) Product Ownership
12 112 (2.09%) Public Cloud
13 107 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
14 100 (1.86%) Robotics
15 93 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
16 87 (1.62%) Data Structures
17 79 (1.47%) Onboarding
18 76 (1.42%) Data Centre
19 73 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
20 65 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,239 (23.09%) Linux
2 479 (8.93%) Android
3 402 (7.49%) Windows
4 151 (2.81%) Unix
5 95 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 45 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (0.65%) CentOS
8 32 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 25 (0.47%) Rocky
9 25 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.35%) Mac OS X
11 17 (0.32%) VMS
12 13 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.20%) Debian
14 10 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
15 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
16 7 (0.13%) Solaris
16 7 (0.13%) SUSE
17 5 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,795 (33.45%) Agile
2 1,343 (25.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,149 (21.41%) CI/CD
4 1,069 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
5 1,050 (19.57%) DevOps
6 991 (18.47%) Analytics
7 933 (17.39%) Mathematics
8 920 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 778 (14.50%) Machine Learning
10 694 (12.93%) Computer Science
11 610 (11.37%) OO
12 609 (11.35%) Data Science
13 589 (10.98%) Mentoring
14 561 (10.45%) OOP
15 522 (9.73%) Data Engineering
16 502 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
17 498 (9.28%) Design Patterns
18 490 (9.13%) Line Management
19 475 (8.85%) Containerisation
20 469 (8.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,659 (30.92%) SQL
2 1,481 (27.60%) Java
3 990 (18.45%) JavaScript
4 963 (17.95%) C++
5 712 (13.27%) Go
6 567 (10.57%) PowerShell
7 555 (10.34%) C#
8 498 (9.28%) Bash
9 492 (9.17%) TypeScript
10 213 (3.97%) R
11 199 (3.71%) MATLAB
12 192 (3.58%) C
13 188 (3.50%) Rust
14 137 (2.55%) Scala
15 85 (1.58%) Ruby
16 84 (1.57%) Perl
16 84 (1.57%) PHP
17 74 (1.38%) Bicep
18 72 (1.34%) Shell Script
19 58 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,459 (27.19%) Degree
2 819 (15.26%) Security Cleared
3 614 (11.44%) DV Cleared
4 332 (6.19%) Master's Degree
5 322 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 204 (3.80%) SC Cleared
7 195 (3.63%) PhD
8 131 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 114 (2.12%) DBS Check
10 88 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 83 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 70 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 47 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (0.86%) CISSP
16 42 (0.78%) CCNP
17 33 (0.61%) CEH
17 33 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 33 (0.61%) OSCP
18 30 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (5.11%) QA
2 204 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 127 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 119 (2.22%) GDPR
5 75 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 64 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.14%) NIST
8 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.45%) SLA
10 22 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 19 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 19 (0.35%) IFRS
12 19 (0.35%) IFRS 9
13 12 (0.22%) COBIT
14 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.17%) Basel III
16 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,215 (22.64%) Docker
2 129 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 73 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 58 (1.08%) vSphere
6 49 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 26 (0.48%) Firmware
8 26 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (0.30%) HDFS
11 8 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.11%) Apache Flume
13 6 (0.11%) NFS
14 2 (0.037%) KVM
14 2 (0.037%) Postfix
14 2 (0.037%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.037%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 886 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 832 (15.51%) Ansible
3 792 (14.76%) Terraform
4 128 (2.39%) Grafana
5 116 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.53%) Puppet
7 71 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 32 (0.60%) Kibana
10 29 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.54%) Nagios
11 25 (0.47%) SCCM
12 21 (0.39%) Argo
13 20 (0.37%) Podman
14 16 (0.30%) CASB
15 13 (0.24%) Nessus
15 13 (0.24%) Packer
15 13 (0.24%) vRealize
16 11 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 553 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 374 (6.97%) Databricks
3 294 (5.48%) Google
4 196 (3.65%) VMware
5 128 (2.39%) Oracle
6 122 (2.27%) PayPal
7 108 (2.01%) Cisco
8 86 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 75 (1.40%) MathWorks
10 73 (1.36%) SAP
11 72 (1.34%) Splunk
12 52 (0.97%) IBM
13 48 (0.89%) F5
14 45 (0.84%) BISAM
15 43 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 39 (0.73%) Apple
17 37 (0.69%) Citrix
18 35 (0.65%) Dynatrace
19 34 (0.63%) Adobe
19 34 (0.63%) SolarWinds