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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,284 9,204 15,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 9.36% 15.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.73% 27.71% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,443 6,069 7,842
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,700
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.86% +7.30%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
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 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 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 30 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 +4 4,937 £75,000 +7.14% 4,892
UK excluding London +2 2,689 £65,000 +18.18% 2,172
London +5 2,425 £90,000 +5.88% 2,947
Work from Home +4 2,083 £72,500 +3.57% 2,862
North of England +11 881 £65,000 +18.18% 634
South East +11 771 £65,000 +18.18% 456
North West +4 657 £65,000 +15.04% 390
East of England +12 308 £66,215 +10.36% 286
Midlands -19 267 £55,000 - 258
South West -11 255 £58,000 +3.11% 293
Yorkshire +10 186 £64,500 +17.27% 175
Scotland -29 160 £58,000 +14.25% 179
West Midlands -26 139 £55,000 - 154
East Midlands +4 128 £55,000 +10.02% 100
Wales +1 49 £65,000 +26.15% 52
North East +16 42 £65,000 +3.53% 72
Northern Ireland +1 23 £85,000 +13.33% 48
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

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
1 341 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 315 (5.96%) Apache
3 254 (4.81%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.32%) Confluence
5 63 (1.19%) SAS
6 44 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 43 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 41 (0.78%) Jupyter
9 40 (0.76%) CMS
10 28 (0.53%) WordPress
11 21 (0.40%) nginx
12 10 (0.19%) Drupal
13 8 (0.15%) IIS
14 6 (0.11%) Luigi
15 5 (0.095%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.076%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.076%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.076%) Kinematics
16 4 (0.076%) Tomcat
17 3 (0.057%) CICS
Applications
1 158 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (2.80%) Chatbot
3 93 (1.76%) Simulink
4 82 (1.55%) Mathcad
5 46 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.23%) SPSS
8 11 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 11 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 6 (0.11%) Stata
11 5 (0.095%) InDesign
12 4 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.057%) Trello
14 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.038%) Zemax
15 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
15 1 (0.019%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 1 (0.019%) Weka
Business Applications
1 51 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 28 (0.53%) thinkFolio
3 22 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.36%) Shopify
5 11 (0.21%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.095%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.095%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.076%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.057%) Odoo
8 3 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.038%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.038%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.038%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.038%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.038%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.038%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,756 (33.23%) AWS
2 1,393 (26.36%) Azure
3 699 (13.23%) GCP
4 387 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 386 (7.31%) Serverless
6 338 (6.40%) dbt
7 291 (5.51%) Snowflake
8 284 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
9 273 (5.17%) GitHub
10 214 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
11 212 (4.01%) SaaS
12 206 (3.90%) Amazon S3
13 189 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 168 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
15 165 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
17 152 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
18 121 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 108 (2.04%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 532 (10.07%) VPN
2 504 (9.54%) DNS
3 201 (3.80%) Firewall
4 170 (3.22%) TCP/IP
5 85 (1.61%) WAN
6 73 (1.38%) HTTP
7 71 (1.34%) Network Security
8 66 (1.25%) LAN
9 53 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 48 (0.91%) DHCP
11 42 (0.79%) Ethernet
12 40 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
13 36 (0.68%) Internet
13 36 (0.68%) VLAN
14 35 (0.66%) 5G
14 35 (0.66%) BGP
15 34 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
15 34 (0.64%) Wireless
16 30 (0.57%) OSPF
16 30 (0.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (6.57%) Power BI
2 311 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
3 282 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
4 281 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
5 274 (5.19%) Tableau
6 260 (4.92%) Dremio
7 256 (4.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 249 (4.71%) Data Lake
9 223 (4.22%) Apache Arrow
10 197 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 196 (3.71%) NoSQL
12 180 (3.41%) SQL Server
13 171 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
14 165 (3.12%) Big Data
15 150 (2.84%) MySQL
16 119 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 110 (2.08%) MongoDB
18 106 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
19 105 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
20 68 (1.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 481 (9.10%) Git
2 264 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 157 (2.97%) GitLab
4 155 (2.93%) JIRA
5 107 (2.02%) Artifactory
6 91 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 79 (1.50%) Robot Framework
8 75 (1.42%) Selenium
9 55 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 52 (0.98%) JUnit
11 45 (0.85%) JMeter
12 44 (0.83%) SonarQube
13 37 (0.70%) Postman
14 33 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 31 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 30 (0.57%) Cypress.io
17 26 (0.49%) Eclipse RCP
18 25 (0.47%) CircleCI
19 24 (0.45%) Maven
20 23 (0.44%) Appium
General
1 1,858 (35.16%) Finance
2 1,117 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 1,097 (20.76%) Analytical Skills
4 739 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 547 (10.35%) Banking
6 535 (10.12%) Front Office
7 225 (4.26%) Law
8 172 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 170 (3.22%) Marketing
9 170 (3.22%) Retail
10 146 (2.76%) Investment Banking
11 122 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 121 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 109 (2.06%) Legal
14 102 (1.93%) Games
15 101 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 99 (1.87%) Electronics
17 87 (1.65%) Advertising
18 53 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
19 47 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,211 (22.92%) Developer
2 1,168 (22.10%) Senior
3 752 (14.23%) Software Engineer
4 548 (10.37%) Software Developer
5 494 (9.35%) Data Engineer
6 491 (9.29%) Analyst
7 469 (8.88%) Lead
8 396 (7.49%) Python Engineer
9 354 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
10 286 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 285 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 241 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 179 (3.39%) Data Scientist
14 170 (3.22%) AWS Software Engineer
14 170 (3.22%) Senior Developer
15 166 (3.14%) Architect
16 157 (2.97%) Data Analyst
17 153 (2.90%) Python Software Engineer
18 147 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
19 138 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (9.14%) React
2 322 (6.09%) Node.js
3 314 (5.94%) Pandas
4 302 (5.72%) PySpark
5 299 (5.66%) HTML
6 253 (4.79%) Kafka
7 240 (4.54%) .NET
8 230 (4.35%) NumPy
9 215 (4.07%) REST
10 192 (3.63%) Django
11 170 (3.22%) SciPy
12 154 (2.91%) AngularJS
12 154 (2.91%) CSS
13 145 (2.74%) RESTful
14 109 (2.06%) gRPC
15 108 (2.04%) PyTorch
16 107 (2.02%) TensorFlow
17 102 (1.93%) Flask
18 100 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
19 94 (1.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 470 (8.89%) Cyberattack
2 348 (6.59%) Algorithms
3 302 (5.72%) Fixed Income
4 272 (5.15%) Hedge funds
5 224 (4.24%) Equities
6 214 (4.05%) Derivative
7 167 (3.16%) Management Information System
8 155 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 152 (2.88%) Cloud Native
10 124 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
11 123 (2.33%) Product Ownership
12 110 (2.08%) Public Cloud
13 103 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
14 98 (1.85%) Robotics
15 91 (1.72%) Data Structures
16 88 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
17 81 (1.53%) Onboarding
18 79 (1.50%) Data Centre
19 74 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
20 66 (1.25%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,225 (23.18%) Linux
2 476 (9.01%) Android
3 399 (7.55%) Windows
4 137 (2.59%) Unix
5 93 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (0.62%) CentOS
8 31 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 25 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 24 (0.45%) Rocky
11 19 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.32%) VMS
13 11 (0.21%) Debian
13 11 (0.21%) Mac OS
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 (0.095%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,769 (33.48%) Agile
2 1,304 (24.68%) Software Engineering
3 1,122 (21.23%) CI/CD
4 1,060 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
5 1,037 (19.63%) DevOps
6 987 (18.68%) Analytics
7 950 (17.98%) Mathematics
8 902 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 766 (14.50%) Machine Learning
10 695 (13.15%) Computer Science
11 608 (11.51%) OO
12 603 (11.41%) Data Science
13 589 (11.15%) Mentoring
14 557 (10.54%) OOP
15 511 (9.67%) Data Engineering
16 500 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
17 496 (9.39%) Design Patterns
18 488 (9.24%) Line Management
19 474 (8.97%) Containerisation
20 461 (8.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,660 (31.42%) SQL
2 1,461 (27.65%) Java
3 970 (18.36%) JavaScript
4 961 (18.19%) C++
5 705 (13.34%) Go
6 557 (10.54%) PowerShell
7 548 (10.37%) C#
8 489 (9.25%) TypeScript
9 487 (9.22%) Bash
10 214 (4.05%) R
11 193 (3.65%) C
12 185 (3.50%) MATLAB
13 181 (3.43%) Rust
14 130 (2.46%) Scala
15 82 (1.55%) PHP
16 81 (1.53%) Perl
16 81 (1.53%) Ruby
17 72 (1.36%) Bicep
18 70 (1.32%) Shell Script
19 56 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,434 (27.14%) Degree
2 809 (15.31%) Security Cleared
3 602 (11.39%) DV Cleared
4 337 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 310 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 204 (3.86%) SC Cleared
7 197 (3.73%) PhD
8 138 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 112 (2.12%) DBS Check
10 89 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 82 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 72 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 47 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (0.87%) CISSP
16 43 (0.81%) CCNP
17 34 (0.64%) CEH
18 33 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 33 (0.62%) OSCP
19 30 (0.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (5.20%) QA
2 201 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 120 (2.27%) GDPR
4 114 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 82 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 66 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.17%) NIST
8 36 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.45%) SLA
10 22 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (0.36%) IFRS
13 19 (0.36%) IFRS 9
14 12 (0.23%) COBIT
15 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.17%) Basel III
17 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 1,194 (22.60%) Docker
2 131 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 120 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 55 (1.04%) vSphere
6 50 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 26 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.25%) HDFS
11 8 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 6 (0.11%) NFS
13 5 (0.095%) Apache Flume
14 2 (0.038%) KVM
14 2 (0.038%) Postfix
14 2 (0.038%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.038%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.019%) Xen
Systems Management
1 866 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 830 (15.71%) Ansible
3 782 (14.80%) Terraform
4 126 (2.38%) Grafana
5 113 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.50%) Puppet
7 69 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 33 (0.62%) Istio
9 32 (0.61%) Nagios
10 30 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 30 (0.57%) Kibana
10 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.51%) SCCM
12 20 (0.38%) Argo
12 20 (0.38%) Podman
13 15 (0.28%) CASB
14 13 (0.25%) Nessus
14 13 (0.25%) Packer
14 13 (0.25%) WSUS
15 11 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 549 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 368 (6.96%) Databricks
3 297 (5.62%) Google
4 186 (3.52%) VMware
5 130 (2.46%) Oracle
6 122 (2.31%) PayPal
7 111 (2.10%) Cisco
8 82 (1.55%) MathWorks
8 82 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 74 (1.40%) SAP
9 74 (1.40%) Splunk
10 52 (0.98%) IBM
11 49 (0.93%) BISAM
11 49 (0.93%) F5
12 44 (0.83%) Adobe
13 43 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 37 (0.70%) Apple
15 36 (0.68%) Charles River
15 36 (0.68%) Citrix
15 36 (0.68%) SolarWinds