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

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,940 8,773 16,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 9.50% 15.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.11% 27.20% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,519 5,883 8,261
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,833 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,474 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,500 £117,447 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.01% +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 15,385 32,248 48,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.47% 34.93% 43.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,503 24,662 30,613
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 £78,750 £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% +3.14%

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 1 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 1 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 4,593 £75,000 +7.14% 7,659
London +5 2,407 £90,000 +5.88% 5,159
UK excluding London 0 2,389 £65,000 +13.04% 3,157
Work from Home +3 2,078 £72,500 +3.57% 3,398
South East +13 753 £65,000 +13.04% 963
North of England -4 540 £62,500 +10.62% 683
East of England +13 323 £66,219 +5.95% 450
North West -23 312 £60,000 +4.35% 435
Midlands -4 288 £55,000 - 362
South West -9 263 £60,000 +4.35% 367
Yorkshire +10 189 £63,250 +15.00% 165
Scotland -30 166 £58,000 +10.48% 261
West Midlands -25 156 £55,000 - 202
East Midlands +9 132 £55,000 +10.00% 148
Wales +13 54 £65,000 +26.15% 63
North East +14 43 £65,000 +15.56% 85
Northern Ireland +5 28 £85,000 +13.03% 51
Isle of Man +10 2 £34,500 -42.50%
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 4

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
1 362 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
2 327 (6.62%) Apache
3 257 (5.20%) Apache Spark
4 82 (1.66%) Confluence
5 71 (1.44%) SAS
6 48 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 43 (0.87%) Jupyter
9 37 (0.75%) CMS
10 31 (0.63%) WordPress
11 30 (0.61%) nginx
12 10 (0.20%) Drupal
13 8 (0.16%) Luigi
14 7 (0.14%) IIS
15 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
17 4 (0.081%) Kinematics
17 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
18 3 (0.061%) Apache Solr
18 3 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 174 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (2.96%) Chatbot
3 57 (1.15%) Simulink
4 54 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (0.89%) Mathcad
6 20 (0.40%) 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%) Stata
10 5 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
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 (0.040%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.040%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.040%) Zemax
14 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 35 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.34%) Shopify
4 12 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 12 (0.24%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.10%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.081%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.061%) Odoo
7 3 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.040%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.040%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.040%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.040%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.040%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.040%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.040%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.020%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1,804 (36.52%) AWS
2 1,331 (26.94%) Azure
3 729 (14.76%) GCP
4 405 (8.20%) Serverless
5 393 (7.96%) Power Platform
6 361 (7.31%) dbt
7 292 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 290 (5.87%) GitHub
9 265 (5.36%) Snowflake
10 238 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
11 235 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 211 (4.27%) SaaS
13 176 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
14 167 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 159 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 156 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
17 127 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 116 (2.35%) OpenShift
19 101 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
20 98 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 204 (4.13%) Firewall
2 125 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 106 (2.15%) DNS
4 78 (1.58%) HTTP
4 78 (1.58%) Network Security
5 75 (1.52%) VPN
6 73 (1.48%) WAN
7 57 (1.15%) LAN
8 54 (1.09%) Internet
9 50 (1.01%) DHCP
10 47 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 46 (0.93%) Ethernet
12 44 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
13 39 (0.79%) VLAN
14 37 (0.75%) SAN
15 36 (0.73%) 5G
15 36 (0.73%) BGP
15 36 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
16 32 (0.65%) SMTP
16 32 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (7.15%) Power BI
2 345 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 284 (5.75%) Tableau
4 279 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 276 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
6 260 (5.26%) Dremio
7 258 (5.22%) Apache Iceberg
8 248 (5.02%) Data Lake
9 212 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
10 211 (4.27%) NoSQL
11 190 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 179 (3.62%) SQL Server
13 176 (3.56%) Apache Ignite
14 170 (3.44%) Big Data
15 160 (3.24%) MySQL
16 145 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 130 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
18 124 (2.51%) MongoDB
19 73 (1.48%) Hadoop
20 71 (1.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 504 (10.20%) Git
2 273 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 169 (3.42%) JIRA
4 161 (3.26%) GitLab
5 117 (2.37%) Artifactory
6 73 (1.48%) Selenium
7 52 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 50 (1.01%) JUnit
9 44 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 38 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 35 (0.71%) JMeter
12 33 (0.67%) Postman
13 32 (0.65%) Cypress.io
14 31 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 30 (0.61%) CircleCI
16 29 (0.59%) Eclipse RCP
17 27 (0.55%) TeamCity
18 25 (0.51%) Cucumber
19 22 (0.45%) Subversion
20 21 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,491 (30.18%) Finance
2 1,105 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 652 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 531 (10.75%) Banking
5 524 (10.61%) Front Office
6 231 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 217 (4.39%) Law
8 160 (3.24%) Retail
9 156 (3.16%) Marketing
10 133 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 130 (2.63%) Public Sector
12 120 (2.43%) Legal
13 119 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 118 (2.39%) Electronics
14 118 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 110 (2.23%) Games
15 110 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 96 (1.94%) Advertising
17 60 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 57 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,182 (23.93%) Senior
2 866 (17.53%) Software Engineer
3 775 (15.69%) Developer
4 504 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 479 (9.70%) Analyst
6 465 (9.41%) Lead
7 431 (8.72%) Python Engineer
8 361 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
9 310 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 299 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 259 (5.24%) Python Developer
12 180 (3.64%) Data Scientist
13 168 (3.40%) Junior
14 164 (3.32%) AWS Software Engineer
15 163 (3.30%) Architect
16 156 (3.16%) Senior Developer
17 155 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
17 155 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
18 147 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 142 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (10.12%) React
2 308 (6.23%) HTML
3 303 (6.13%) PySpark
4 289 (5.85%) Node.js
5 284 (5.75%) Pandas
6 256 (5.18%) Kafka
7 250 (5.06%) NumPy
8 227 (4.60%) Django
9 216 (4.37%) REST
10 213 (4.31%) .NET
11 175 (3.54%) SciPy
12 171 (3.46%) CSS
13 169 (3.42%) AngularJS
14 159 (3.22%) RESTful
15 116 (2.35%) TensorFlow
16 115 (2.33%) PyTorch
17 114 (2.31%) gRPC
18 111 (2.25%) Flask
19 106 (2.15%) Protocol Buffers
20 102 (2.06%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 322 (6.52%) Algorithms
2 285 (5.77%) Fixed Income
3 244 (4.94%) Hedge funds
4 193 (3.91%) Derivative
5 189 (3.83%) Equities
6 157 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 149 (3.02%) Cloud Native
8 144 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 128 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 126 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 121 (2.45%) Public Cloud
12 103 (2.09%) Robotics
13 97 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
14 80 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 76 (1.54%) Data Structures
16 72 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
17 69 (1.40%) Onboarding
18 68 (1.38%) Mobile App
19 67 (1.36%) Credit Risk
20 54 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 762 (15.43%) Linux
2 359 (7.27%) Windows
3 196 (3.97%) Unix
4 101 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 46 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.81%) Android
7 34 (0.69%) CentOS
8 30 (0.61%) 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 (0.38%) Mac OS X
13 13 (0.26%) Debian
13 13 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
15 8 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
15 8 (0.16%) VxWorks
16 7 (0.14%) Solaris
17 6 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,427 (28.89%) Software Engineering
2 1,367 (27.67%) Agile
3 1,131 (22.89%) CI/CD
4 1,015 (20.55%) DevOps
5 982 (19.88%) Analytics
5 982 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 976 (19.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 793 (16.05%) Machine Learning
8 741 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 614 (12.43%) Data Science
10 519 (10.51%) Data Engineering
11 518 (10.49%) Mentoring
12 495 (10.02%) Mathematics
13 492 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
13 492 (9.96%) Visualisation
14 480 (9.72%) Decision-Making
15 458 (9.27%) Asset Management
16 454 (9.19%) ETL
17 439 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 430 (8.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,632 (33.04%) SQL
2 1,042 (21.09%) Java
3 863 (17.47%) JavaScript
4 579 (11.72%) C#
5 549 (11.11%) C++
6 520 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 486 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 428 (8.66%) Bash
9 262 (5.30%) Go
10 228 (4.62%) R
11 210 (4.25%) C
12 177 (3.58%) MATLAB
13 169 (3.42%) Rust
14 140 (2.83%) Scala
15 95 (1.92%) Ruby
16 90 (1.82%) Perl
17 82 (1.66%) PHP
18 75 (1.52%) Bicep
19 71 (1.44%) Shell Script
20 56 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,445 (29.25%) Degree
2 400 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 337 (6.82%) Master's Degree
4 331 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 217 (4.39%) SC Cleared
6 195 (3.95%) PhD
7 188 (3.81%) DV Cleared
8 113 (2.29%) DBS Check
9 101 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 83 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 70 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 42 (0.85%) CISSP
15 40 (0.81%) CCNP
16 33 (0.67%) OSCP
17 31 (0.63%) CEH
18 30 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
19 29 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (4.03%) QA
2 196 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 146 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 103 (2.09%) GDPR
5 56 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.01%) NIST
7 44 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 40 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.57%) SLA
10 22 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.36%) IFRS
11 18 (0.36%) IFRS 9
12 17 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.32%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 765 (15.49%) Docker
2 141 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 75 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 67 (1.36%) vSphere
6 49 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 32 (0.65%) Firmware
9 28 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 23 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.34%) 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 (0.040%) KVM
15 2 (0.040%) Postfix
15 2 (0.040%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.040%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 835 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 758 (15.34%) Terraform
3 395 (8.00%) Ansible
4 122 (2.47%) Grafana
5 116 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 86 (1.74%) Puppet
7 68 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 36 (0.73%) Istio
9 30 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 27 (0.55%) Kibana
11 27 (0.55%) SCCM
12 26 (0.53%) Nagios
13 25 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
14 21 (0.43%) Argo
15 20 (0.40%) Podman
16 17 (0.34%) CASB
16 17 (0.34%) vRealize
17 15 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
18 14 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 557 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 363 (7.35%) Databricks
3 314 (6.36%) Google
4 207 (4.19%) VMware
5 124 (2.51%) Oracle
6 122 (2.47%) PayPal
7 111 (2.25%) Cisco
8 96 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 75 (1.52%) SAP
10 65 (1.32%) Splunk
11 50 (1.01%) IBM
12 49 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 47 (0.95%) F5
14 44 (0.89%) MathWorks
15 42 (0.85%) Apple
16 40 (0.81%) Citrix
17 37 (0.75%) SolarWinds
18 35 (0.71%) Salesforce
19 33 (0.67%) BISAM
20 32 (0.65%) CheckPoint