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

6 months to
6 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,911 8,832 16,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 9.45% 15.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.92% 27.18% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,538 5,900 8,188
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,799 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £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 £98,750 £90,000 £93,875
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +15.04% -7.65% +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 15,384 32,492 47,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 34.78% 43.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,576 24,759 30,225
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,529 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,715 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.55%

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 6 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 6 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 +3 4,565 £75,000 +7.14% 7,779
London +5 2,434 £90,000 +5.88% 5,125
UK excluding London -1 2,335 £65,000 +15.04% 3,319
Work from Home +3 2,077 £74,870 +6.96% 3,996
South East +14 758 £65,000 +13.04% 1,015
North of England -9 516 £62,500 +10.62% 733
East of England +9 307 £66,219 +5.95% 474
North West -23 295 £60,000 +4.35% 460
Midlands -8 276 £55,000 - 401
South West -12 256 £60,000 +4.35% 362
Yorkshire +8 181 £62,500 +13.64% 186
Scotland -30 166 £58,000 +10.48% 270
West Midlands -32 150 £55,000 - 224
East Midlands +11 126 £55,000 +10.00% 167
Wales +11 55 £65,000 +26.15% 59
North East +15 44 £65,000 +13.04% 90
Northern Ireland +8 27 £85,000 +13.03% 57
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -42.50%
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 5

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
1 366 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 329 (6.70%) Apache
3 263 (5.36%) Apache Spark
4 80 (1.63%) Confluence
5 70 (1.43%) SAS
6 48 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 46 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 41 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 37 (0.75%) CMS
10 31 (0.63%) WordPress
11 29 (0.59%) nginx
12 10 (0.20%) Drupal
13 8 (0.16%) Luigi
14 7 (0.14%) IIS
15 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.081%) Kinematics
16 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
17 3 (0.061%) Apache Solr
17 3 (0.061%) CICS
Applications
1 172 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (2.95%) Chatbot
3 81 (1.65%) Simulink
4 68 (1.38%) Mathcad
5 53 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.20%) SPSS
8 7 (0.14%) InDesign
9 6 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 6 (0.12%) Stata
10 5 (0.10%) Weka
11 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.061%) Trello
13 2 (0.041%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.041%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.041%) Zemax
14 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 39 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.35%) Shopify
4 16 (0.33%) thinkFolio
5 12 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.081%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.061%) Odoo
8 3 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.041%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.041%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.041%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.041%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.041%) Sprinklr
10 1 (0.020%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1,768 (36.00%) AWS
2 1,345 (27.39%) Azure
3 729 (14.84%) GCP
4 410 (8.35%) Serverless
5 379 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 361 (7.35%) dbt
7 297 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
8 292 (5.95%) GitHub
9 275 (5.60%) Snowflake
10 241 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
11 234 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 212 (4.32%) SaaS
13 178 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
14 167 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 163 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 157 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
17 125 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 117 (2.38%) OpenShift
19 103 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
19 103 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 205 (4.17%) Firewall
2 120 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 106 (2.16%) DNS
4 78 (1.59%) HTTP
5 74 (1.51%) Network Security
6 72 (1.47%) WAN
7 70 (1.43%) VPN
8 56 (1.14%) LAN
9 55 (1.12%) Internet
10 50 (1.02%) DHCP
11 46 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 44 (0.90%) Ethernet
13 43 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
14 37 (0.75%) SAN
14 37 (0.75%) VLAN
15 36 (0.73%) 5G
16 35 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
17 34 (0.69%) BGP
18 32 (0.65%) SMTP
19 31 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 339 (6.90%) Power BI
3 281 (5.72%) Amazon Athena
4 279 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 276 (5.62%) Tableau
6 263 (5.36%) Apache Iceberg
6 263 (5.36%) Dremio
7 251 (5.11%) Data Lake
8 217 (4.42%) Apache Arrow
9 213 (4.34%) NoSQL
10 195 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 179 (3.64%) SQL Server
12 177 (3.60%) Apache Ignite
13 170 (3.46%) Big Data
14 162 (3.30%) MySQL
15 140 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 130 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
17 121 (2.46%) MongoDB
18 74 (1.51%) DynamoDB
19 73 (1.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 505 (10.28%) Git
2 279 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 167 (3.40%) JIRA
4 161 (3.28%) GitLab
5 118 (2.40%) Artifactory
6 76 (1.55%) Selenium
7 53 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 52 (1.06%) JUnit
9 45 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 38 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 38 (0.77%) JMeter
11 34 (0.69%) Postman
12 31 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 30 (0.61%) CircleCI
14 29 (0.59%) Eclipse RCP
15 26 (0.53%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.51%) Cucumber
17 22 (0.45%) Subversion
18 21 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 1,509 (30.73%) Finance
2 1,096 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 648 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 547 (11.14%) Banking
5 541 (11.02%) Front Office
6 234 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 218 (4.44%) Law
8 159 (3.24%) Retail
9 154 (3.14%) Marketing
10 141 (2.87%) Investment Banking
11 131 (2.67%) Public Sector
12 118 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 117 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 113 (2.30%) Electronics
15 110 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 109 (2.22%) Games
17 107 (2.18%) Legal
18 94 (1.91%) Advertising
19 58 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
20 57 (1.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,222 (24.88%) Senior
2 813 (16.55%) Software Engineer
3 789 (16.07%) Developer
4 506 (10.30%) Data Engineer
5 480 (9.77%) Analyst
6 458 (9.33%) Lead
7 434 (8.84%) Python Engineer
8 362 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
9 313 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 303 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 263 (5.36%) Python Developer
12 174 (3.54%) Data Scientist
13 166 (3.38%) AWS Software Engineer
13 166 (3.38%) Senior Developer
14 161 (3.28%) Architect
15 158 (3.22%) Python Software Engineer
16 157 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
17 148 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 142 (2.89%) Data Analyst
19 141 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (10.04%) React
2 310 (6.31%) PySpark
3 307 (6.25%) HTML
4 288 (5.86%) Pandas
5 287 (5.84%) Node.js
6 261 (5.31%) Kafka
7 253 (5.15%) NumPy
8 222 (4.52%) Django
9 214 (4.36%) REST
10 212 (4.32%) .NET
11 178 (3.62%) SciPy
12 168 (3.42%) CSS
13 164 (3.34%) AngularJS
14 159 (3.24%) RESTful
15 115 (2.34%) gRPC
15 115 (2.34%) PyTorch
15 115 (2.34%) TensorFlow
16 111 (2.26%) Flask
17 107 (2.18%) Protocol Buffers
18 100 (2.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 326 (6.64%) Algorithms
2 296 (6.03%) Fixed Income
3 254 (5.17%) Hedge funds
4 202 (4.11%) Derivative
5 201 (4.09%) Equities
6 161 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 153 (3.12%) Cloud Native
8 148 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
9 137 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 126 (2.57%) Product Ownership
11 117 (2.38%) Public Cloud
12 102 (2.08%) Robotics
13 96 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
14 83 (1.69%) Data Structures
15 77 (1.57%) Data Centre
16 74 (1.51%) Onboarding
17 73 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
18 68 (1.38%) Mobile App
19 67 (1.36%) Credit Risk
20 51 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 750 (15.27%) Linux
2 355 (7.23%) Windows
3 180 (3.67%) Unix
4 98 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 46 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.81%) Android
7 34 (0.69%) CentOS
8 31 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 27 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 25 (0.51%) Rocky
11 21 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 21 (0.43%) VMS
12 19 (0.39%) Mac OS X
13 14 (0.29%) Mac OS
14 12 (0.24%) Debian
15 10 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
16 8 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
17 7 (0.14%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) SUSE
18 6 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,374 (27.98%) Agile
2 1,361 (27.71%) Software Engineering
3 1,135 (23.11%) CI/CD
4 1,014 (20.65%) DevOps
5 1,003 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 985 (20.06%) Analytics
7 921 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 789 (16.07%) Machine Learning
9 732 (14.91%) Computer Science
10 607 (12.36%) Data Science
11 517 (10.53%) Data Engineering
12 512 (10.43%) Mathematics
13 510 (10.38%) Mentoring
14 493 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
15 483 (9.84%) Visualisation
16 462 (9.41%) Asset Management
17 457 (9.31%) ETL
18 431 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
19 428 (8.72%) Containerisation
20 426 (8.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,638 (33.35%) SQL
2 1,053 (21.44%) Java
3 866 (17.63%) JavaScript
4 580 (11.81%) C#
5 542 (11.04%) C++
6 515 (10.49%) PowerShell
7 490 (9.98%) TypeScript
8 433 (8.82%) Bash
9 265 (5.40%) Go
10 220 (4.48%) R
11 198 (4.03%) MATLAB
12 192 (3.91%) C
13 163 (3.32%) Rust
14 141 (2.87%) Scala
15 94 (1.91%) Ruby
16 86 (1.75%) Perl
17 83 (1.69%) PHP
18 74 (1.51%) Bicep
19 66 (1.34%) Shell Script
20 55 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,436 (29.24%) Degree
2 391 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 336 (6.84%) Master's Degree
4 329 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 217 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 195 (3.97%) PhD
7 179 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 125 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 113 (2.30%) DBS Check
10 84 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.65%) AWS Certification
12 67 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 46 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
15 42 (0.86%) CISSP
16 39 (0.79%) CCNP
17 32 (0.65%) OSCP
18 31 (0.63%) CEH
19 29 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
20 27 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (4.11%) QA
2 198 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 129 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 106 (2.16%) GDPR
5 68 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 59 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (1.04%) NIST
8 39 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.57%) SLA
10 21 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.37%) IFRS
11 18 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 17 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.24%) COBIT
15 11 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.18%) Basel III
17 7 (0.14%) Basel II
17 7 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 770 (15.68%) Docker
2 137 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 74 (1.51%) VMware NSX
5 65 (1.32%) vSphere
6 52 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 31 (0.63%) Firmware
9 27 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
10 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.35%) HDFS
12 8 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 7 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.12%) Apache Flume
14 6 (0.12%) NFS
15 2 (0.041%) KVM
15 2 (0.041%) Postfix
15 2 (0.041%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.041%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.020%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 843 (17.17%) Kubernetes
2 760 (15.48%) Terraform
3 392 (7.98%) Ansible
4 125 (2.55%) Grafana
5 117 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.67%) Puppet
7 68 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 36 (0.73%) Istio
9 31 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.57%) Kibana
11 27 (0.55%) Nagios
11 27 (0.55%) SCCM
12 25 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
13 22 (0.45%) Argo
14 20 (0.41%) Podman
15 16 (0.33%) CASB
15 16 (0.33%) vRealize
16 14 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
17 13 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 557 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 369 (7.51%) Databricks
3 305 (6.21%) Google
4 204 (4.15%) VMware
5 127 (2.59%) Oracle
6 122 (2.48%) PayPal
7 105 (2.14%) Cisco
8 93 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 74 (1.51%) SAP
10 68 (1.38%) MathWorks
10 68 (1.38%) Splunk
11 50 (1.02%) IBM
12 47 (0.96%) F5
13 46 (0.94%) Atlassian
14 42 (0.86%) Apple
15 40 (0.81%) Citrix
16 37 (0.75%) BISAM
16 37 (0.75%) SolarWinds
17 34 (0.69%) Salesforce
18 33 (0.67%) Dynatrace