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

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,555 8,185 17,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 10.00% 15.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.92% 27.54% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,484 5,650 8,467
10th Percentile £43,575 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,172 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,447 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -2.19% +1.43%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,262 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%

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 17,402 29,717 49,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.81% 36.32% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 23,322 31,294
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,500
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% +4.76%

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 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Top 18 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 March 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 +2 5,164 £75,000 +7.14% 4,061
UK excluding London 0 2,863 £65,000 +13.04% 2,170
London +4 2,551 £87,500 +6.06% 2,093
Work from Home +2 2,336 £72,500 +3.57% 3,066
South East +13 843 £68,750 +14.58% 515
North of England -1 644 £61,622 +12.04% 602
East of England +11 390 £66,230 +5.97% 281
North West -14 374 £60,000 +9.09% 341
Midlands -1 372 £55,000 - 313
South West -6 346 £60,000 +0.80% 286
Yorkshire +6 213 £65,000 +15.04% 196
West Midlands -9 209 £55,000 - 188
Scotland -38 201 £60,000 +9.09% 143
East Midlands +7 163 £55,000 +10.00% 114
North East +22 61 £65,000 +13.04% 69
Wales +9 59 £65,000 +26.15% 46
Northern Ireland +9 40 £90,000 +19.36% 30
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 353 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 324 (5.83%) Apache
3 252 (4.54%) Apache Spark
4 118 (2.12%) SAS
5 94 (1.69%) Confluence
6 54 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 46 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 42 (0.76%) CMS
10 39 (0.70%) WordPress
11 29 (0.52%) nginx
12 10 (0.18%) Drupal
13 9 (0.16%) Mule
14 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.13%) Luigi
16 5 (0.090%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.090%) CICS
16 5 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
16 5 (0.090%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 192 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (2.57%) Chatbot
3 64 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.59%) Simulink
5 20 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.18%) Weka
8 6 (0.11%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) Stata
9 5 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.090%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.072%) InDesign
10 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.072%) Trello
11 3 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.054%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.054%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 3 (0.054%) Sketch
12 2 (0.036%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 25 (0.45%) Shopify
2 24 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.090%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.090%) Odoo
6 4 (0.072%) GoldMine
6 4 (0.072%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.054%) Magento
7 3 (0.054%) Maximo
8 2 (0.036%) Endur
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.036%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.036%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.036%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.036%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.018%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.018%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,932 (34.78%) AWS
2 1,405 (25.29%) Azure
3 735 (13.23%) GCP
4 432 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 426 (7.67%) GitHub
5 426 (7.67%) Serverless
6 354 (6.37%) dbt
7 300 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
8 260 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 242 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
10 237 (4.27%) Snowflake
11 202 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 200 (3.60%) SaaS
13 192 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 181 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
15 179 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 150 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 125 (2.25%) OpenShift
18 112 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
18 112 (2.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.76%) Firewall
2 141 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 128 (2.30%) DNS
4 94 (1.69%) Network Security
5 85 (1.53%) Broadband
6 83 (1.49%) HTTP
7 70 (1.26%) WAN
8 68 (1.22%) VPN
9 66 (1.19%) DHCP
10 62 (1.12%) Internet
11 58 (1.04%) LAN
12 47 (0.85%) Ethernet
13 44 (0.79%) BGP
14 43 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 37 (0.67%) SAN
16 36 (0.65%) 5G
16 36 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
17 35 (0.63%) SMTP
18 33 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
18 33 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
1 399 (7.18%) Power BI
2 300 (5.40%) Tableau
3 296 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
5 246 (4.43%) NoSQL
6 243 (4.37%) Dremio
7 242 (4.36%) Apache Iceberg
8 239 (4.30%) Data Lake
9 229 (4.12%) SQL Server
10 204 (3.67%) Relational Database
11 195 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
12 180 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
13 174 (3.13%) Big Data
14 166 (2.99%) MySQL
15 163 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
16 162 (2.92%) MongoDB
17 153 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
18 81 (1.46%) DynamoDB
19 71 (1.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 558 (10.05%) Git
2 294 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 198 (3.56%) JIRA
4 176 (3.17%) GitLab
5 125 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 79 (1.42%) Selenium
7 44 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 42 (0.76%) JUnit
9 40 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 39 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 38 (0.68%) Eclipse
12 37 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.65%) SonarQube
14 35 (0.63%) Eclipse RCP
15 31 (0.56%) LabVIEW
15 31 (0.56%) Visual Studio
16 29 (0.52%) JMeter
16 29 (0.52%) Postman
17 28 (0.50%) CircleCI
18 26 (0.47%) Cucumber
General
1 1,514 (27.25%) Finance
2 1,308 (23.55%) Social Skills
3 809 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 517 (9.31%) Front Office
5 509 (9.16%) Banking
6 227 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 190 (3.42%) Law
8 182 (3.28%) Marketing
9 175 (3.15%) Electronics
10 163 (2.93%) Public Sector
11 154 (2.77%) Retail
12 147 (2.65%) Legal
13 137 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 134 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 124 (2.23%) Games
15 124 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (2.11%) Multimedia
17 114 (2.05%) Investment Banking
18 107 (1.93%) Advertising
19 78 (1.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,235 (22.23%) Senior
2 998 (17.97%) Software Engineer
3 949 (17.08%) Developer
4 564 (10.15%) Lead
5 520 (9.36%) Data Engineer
6 492 (8.86%) Analyst
7 467 (8.41%) Python Engineer
8 358 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
9 338 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 328 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 287 (5.17%) Python Developer
12 215 (3.87%) Data Scientist
13 181 (3.26%) Architect
14 173 (3.11%) Junior
15 169 (3.04%) Python Software Engineer
16 159 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
17 156 (2.81%) Senior Developer
18 154 (2.77%) AWS Software Engineer
19 151 (2.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 151 (2.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 597 (10.75%) React
2 455 (8.19%) HTML
3 321 (5.78%) Node.js
4 307 (5.53%) CSS
5 290 (5.22%) Pandas
6 283 (5.09%) PySpark
7 263 (4.73%) Kafka
8 254 (4.57%) NumPy
9 249 (4.48%) Django
10 233 (4.19%) .NET
11 232 (4.18%) REST
12 197 (3.55%) AngularJS
13 169 (3.04%) SciPy
14 149 (2.68%) HTML5
15 138 (2.48%) Flask
16 137 (2.47%) RESTful
17 129 (2.32%) CSS3
18 123 (2.21%) Redux
19 112 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
19 112 (2.02%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 340 (6.12%) Algorithms
2 271 (4.88%) Fixed Income
3 207 (3.73%) Hedge funds
4 176 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.99%) Derivative
6 160 (2.88%) Equities
7 149 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 146 (2.63%) Cloud Native
9 145 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
10 124 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
11 119 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 111 (2.00%) Private Cloud
13 102 (1.84%) Robotics
14 100 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 100 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 87 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
16 84 (1.51%) Data Structures
17 77 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.35%) Credit Risk
19 69 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 939 (16.90%) Linux
2 394 (7.09%) Windows
3 223 (4.01%) Unix
4 96 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.83%) Android
7 36 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 34 (0.61%) CentOS
9 26 (0.47%) Rocky
10 25 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 24 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
12 19 (0.34%) VMS
13 18 (0.32%) Mac OS
14 16 (0.29%) Debian
14 16 (0.29%) VxWorks
15 15 (0.27%) Apple iOS
16 11 (0.20%) Solaris
17 9 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.11%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,616 (29.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,502 (27.04%) Agile
3 1,311 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 1,189 (21.40%) DevOps
5 1,063 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1,029 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 987 (17.77%) Analytics
8 896 (16.13%) Machine Learning
9 883 (15.90%) Computer Science
10 680 (12.24%) Data Science
11 661 (11.90%) Mentoring
12 539 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
13 532 (9.58%) Containerisation
13 532 (9.58%) Visualisation
14 525 (9.45%) Data Engineering
15 505 (9.09%) Mathematics
16 489 (8.80%) Decision-Making
17 485 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
18 483 (8.69%) ETL
19 480 (8.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (31.86%) SQL
2 1,115 (20.07%) Java
3 1,064 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 684 (12.31%) C#
5 654 (11.77%) C++
6 565 (10.17%) PowerShell
7 533 (9.59%) Bash
8 512 (9.22%) TypeScript
9 302 (5.44%) C
10 284 (5.11%) R
11 281 (5.06%) Go
12 190 (3.42%) Rust
13 158 (2.84%) MATLAB
14 152 (2.74%) Shell Script
15 146 (2.63%) Scala
16 119 (2.14%) Ruby
17 106 (1.91%) PHP
18 100 (1.80%) Perl
19 75 (1.35%) Bicep
20 72 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,644 (29.59%) Degree
2 520 (9.36%) Security Cleared
3 431 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 415 (7.47%) Master's Degree
5 250 (4.50%) SC Cleared
6 248 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 185 (3.33%) PhD
8 95 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 89 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 74 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 71 (1.28%) RHCSA
13 69 (1.24%) LPIC
14 64 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 50 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 45 (0.81%) CISSP
17 42 (0.76%) CCNP
18 35 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
19 33 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
20 32 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 189 (3.40%) QA
3 160 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 116 (2.09%) NIST
5 87 (1.57%) GDPR
6 73 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 57 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 44 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.56%) SLA
10 22 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 18 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.29%) IFRS
12 16 (0.29%) IFRS 9
13 13 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 12 (0.22%) COBIT
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.20%) CDISC
16 9 (0.16%) Basel III
System Software
1 924 (16.63%) Docker
2 165 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 91 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 82 (1.48%) vSphere
6 61 (1.10%) Firmware
7 44 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (0.77%) Hyper-V
9 25 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
11 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 15 (0.27%) HDFS
13 10 (0.18%) VMware Server
14 7 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 6 (0.11%) Apache Flume
15 6 (0.11%) NFS
16 3 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 2 (0.036%) KVM
17 2 (0.036%) Postfix
17 2 (0.036%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 907 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 822 (14.80%) Terraform
3 523 (9.41%) Ansible
4 183 (3.29%) Grafana
5 177 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 106 (1.91%) Puppet
7 76 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.54%) Nagios
8 30 (0.54%) vRealize
9 29 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 27 (0.49%) Kibana
10 27 (0.49%) SCCM
11 26 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 25 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
13 24 (0.43%) Argo
14 23 (0.41%) Istio
15 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
16 21 (0.38%) Podman
17 20 (0.36%) ZABBIX
18 18 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 581 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 385 (6.93%) Databricks
3 305 (5.49%) Google
4 245 (4.41%) VMware
5 146 (2.63%) Oracle
6 122 (2.20%) PayPal
7 109 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 105 (1.89%) Cisco
9 82 (1.48%) SAP
10 62 (1.12%) IBM
11 61 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 58 (1.04%) Splunk
13 46 (0.83%) Apple
13 46 (0.83%) Citrix
13 46 (0.83%) F5
14 35 (0.63%) SolarWinds
14 35 (0.63%) Xilinx
15 32 (0.58%) Salesforce
16 30 (0.54%) CheckPoint
17 29 (0.52%) Informatica