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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,331 9,146 15,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 9.32% 15.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.77% 27.55% 34.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,478 6,048 7,924
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £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 15,788 33,192 45,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.59% 33.81% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,630 25,038 29,105
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 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +1.85%

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 26 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 26 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 4,982 £75,000 +7.14% 8,022
UK excluding London +5 2,726 £65,000 +18.18% 3,106
London +5 2,437 £90,000 +5.88% 5,592
Work from Home +4 2,089 £72,500 +3.57% 3,801
North of England +14 899 £63,250 +12.44% 734
South East +12 776 £65,000 +18.18% 874
North West +7 678 £60,000 +6.19% 434
East of England +12 310 £66,215 +10.36% 465
Midlands -13 271 £55,000 - 292
South West -10 259 £58,000 +2.65% 388
Yorkshire +5 183 £64,000 +16.36% 212
Scotland -29 163 £58,000 +12.56% 305
West Midlands -23 140 £55,000 - 167
East Midlands +6 131 £55,000 +10.01% 112
Wales +1 49 £65,000 +24.97% 59
North East +19 42 £65,000 +3.53% 91
Northern Ireland +1 24 £90,000 +20.00% 67
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -

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
1 344 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 318 (5.97%) Apache
3 257 (4.82%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.31%) Confluence
5 63 (1.18%) SAS
6 46 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 45 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 41 (0.77%) Jupyter
9 39 (0.73%) CMS
10 28 (0.53%) WordPress
11 23 (0.43%) nginx
12 10 (0.19%) Drupal
13 8 (0.15%) IIS
14 6 (0.11%) Luigi
15 5 (0.094%) 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
1 164 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (2.78%) Chatbot
3 93 (1.74%) Simulink
4 82 (1.54%) Mathcad
5 46 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.23%) SPSS
8 10 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 6 (0.11%) InDesign
10 6 (0.11%) Stata
11 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.056%) Trello
13 2 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.038%) Zemax
14 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
14 1 (0.019%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 51 (0.96%) Aladdin
2 28 (0.53%) thinkFolio
3 22 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.36%) Shopify
5 11 (0.21%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.094%) Markit EDM
6 5 (0.094%) 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 (0.038%) 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 1,768 (33.16%) AWS
2 1,400 (26.26%) Azure
3 707 (13.26%) GCP
4 390 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 387 (7.26%) Serverless
6 340 (6.38%) dbt
7 290 (5.44%) Snowflake
8 283 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 275 (5.16%) GitHub
10 214 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
10 214 (4.01%) SaaS
11 207 (3.88%) Amazon S3
12 190 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 168 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
14 164 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
16 152 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
17 120 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 110 (2.06%) OpenShift
19 93 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 532 (9.98%) VPN
2 502 (9.42%) DNS
3 202 (3.79%) Firewall
4 170 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 82 (1.54%) WAN
6 73 (1.37%) HTTP
7 72 (1.35%) Network Security
8 64 (1.20%) LAN
9 52 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 46 (0.86%) DHCP
11 42 (0.79%) Ethernet
12 40 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
13 36 (0.68%) 5G
13 36 (0.68%) Internet
13 36 (0.68%) VLAN
14 35 (0.66%) BGP
15 34 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
15 34 (0.64%) Wireless
16 30 (0.56%) OSPF
16 30 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (6.55%) Power BI
2 320 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 284 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
4 283 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
5 273 (5.12%) Tableau
6 262 (4.91%) Dremio
7 259 (4.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 251 (4.71%) Data Lake
9 223 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
10 198 (3.71%) NoSQL
11 196 (3.68%) Relational Database
12 181 (3.40%) SQL Server
13 171 (3.21%) Apache Ignite
14 167 (3.13%) Big Data
15 150 (2.81%) MySQL
16 118 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 114 (2.14%) MongoDB
18 105 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
19 104 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
20 68 (1.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 481 (9.02%) Git
2 270 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 158 (2.96%) GitLab
4 157 (2.95%) JIRA
5 107 (2.01%) Artifactory
6 91 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 80 (1.50%) Robot Framework
8 77 (1.44%) Selenium
9 55 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 52 (0.98%) JUnit
11 45 (0.84%) JMeter
12 43 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 38 (0.71%) Postman
14 35 (0.66%) Bitbucket
15 31 (0.58%) Cypress.io
15 31 (0.58%) Eclipse
16 26 (0.49%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.49%) Eclipse RCP
17 24 (0.45%) Maven
18 23 (0.43%) Appium
General
1 1,875 (35.17%) Finance
2 1,123 (21.07%) Social Skills
3 1,098 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 737 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 554 (10.39%) Banking
6 541 (10.15%) Front Office
7 230 (4.31%) Law
8 173 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 169 (3.17%) Retail
10 168 (3.15%) Marketing
11 149 (2.79%) Investment Banking
12 122 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 118 (2.21%) Manufacturing
14 110 (2.06%) Legal
15 103 (1.93%) Games
16 100 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
17 98 (1.84%) Electronics
18 87 (1.63%) Advertising
19 53 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
20 46 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,214 (22.77%) Developer
2 1,178 (22.10%) Senior
3 759 (14.24%) Software Engineer
4 547 (10.26%) Software Developer
5 497 (9.32%) Data Engineer
6 494 (9.27%) Analyst
7 472 (8.85%) Lead
8 401 (7.52%) Python Engineer
9 355 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
10 289 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 286 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 240 (4.50%) Python Developer
13 178 (3.34%) Data Scientist
14 170 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
15 169 (3.17%) Senior Developer
16 166 (3.11%) Architect
17 153 (2.87%) Data Analyst
18 152 (2.85%) Python Software Engineer
19 147 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
20 139 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (9.15%) React
2 328 (6.15%) Node.js
3 317 (5.95%) Pandas
4 305 (5.72%) PySpark
5 301 (5.65%) HTML
6 257 (4.82%) Kafka
7 242 (4.54%) .NET
8 232 (4.35%) NumPy
9 219 (4.11%) REST
10 194 (3.64%) Django
11 172 (3.23%) SciPy
12 155 (2.91%) CSS
13 154 (2.89%) AngularJS
14 145 (2.72%) RESTful
15 109 (2.04%) gRPC
16 108 (2.03%) PyTorch
17 107 (2.01%) TensorFlow
18 102 (1.91%) Flask
19 100 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
20 94 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 471 (8.84%) Cyberattack
2 351 (6.58%) Algorithms
3 305 (5.72%) Fixed Income
4 272 (5.10%) Hedge funds
5 224 (4.20%) Equities
6 215 (4.03%) Derivative
7 166 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 156 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 152 (2.85%) Cloud Native
10 127 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
11 123 (2.31%) Product Ownership
12 112 (2.10%) Public Cloud
13 104 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
14 98 (1.84%) Robotics
15 91 (1.71%) Data Structures
16 90 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
17 82 (1.54%) Onboarding
18 79 (1.48%) Data Centre
19 73 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
20 67 (1.26%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,232 (23.11%) Linux
2 476 (8.93%) Android
3 399 (7.48%) Windows
4 143 (2.68%) Unix
5 93 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 47 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (0.64%) CentOS
8 31 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 25 (0.47%) Rocky
9 25 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 19 (0.36%) Mac OS X
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.32%) VMS
12 12 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.21%) 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 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,776 (33.31%) Agile
2 1,316 (24.69%) Software Engineering
3 1,131 (21.22%) CI/CD
4 1,068 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
5 1,042 (19.55%) DevOps
6 987 (18.51%) Analytics
7 947 (17.76%) Mathematics
8 909 (17.05%) Artificial Intelligence
9 774 (14.52%) Machine Learning
10 691 (12.96%) Computer Science
11 609 (11.42%) OO
12 607 (11.39%) Data Science
13 586 (10.99%) Mentoring
14 558 (10.47%) OOP
15 514 (9.64%) Data Engineering
16 501 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
17 497 (9.32%) Design Patterns
18 489 (9.17%) Line Management
19 471 (8.84%) Containerisation
20 461 (8.65%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,665 (31.23%) SQL
2 1,468 (27.54%) Java
3 977 (18.33%) JavaScript
4 963 (18.06%) C++
5 705 (13.22%) Go
6 563 (10.56%) PowerShell
7 546 (10.24%) C#
8 493 (9.25%) Bash
9 492 (9.23%) TypeScript
10 220 (4.13%) R
11 206 (3.86%) MATLAB
12 192 (3.60%) C
13 184 (3.45%) Rust
14 134 (2.51%) Scala
15 83 (1.56%) Perl
16 82 (1.54%) PHP
16 82 (1.54%) Ruby
17 73 (1.37%) Bicep
18 71 (1.33%) Shell Script
19 58 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,456 (27.31%) Degree
2 814 (15.27%) Security Cleared
3 608 (11.40%) DV Cleared
4 335 (6.28%) Master's Degree
5 314 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 204 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 196 (3.68%) PhD
8 138 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 115 (2.16%) DBS Check
10 89 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 72 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 47 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (0.86%) CISSP
16 43 (0.81%) CCNP
17 34 (0.64%) CEH
17 34 (0.64%) ISTQB
18 33 (0.62%) OSCP
19 30 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (5.14%) QA
2 200 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 121 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 121 (2.27%) GDPR
4 82 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 66 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (1.18%) NIST
7 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.45%) SLA
9 23 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 19 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.36%) IFRS
11 19 (0.36%) IFRS 9
12 12 (0.23%) COBIT
13 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.17%) Basel III
15 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,202 (22.55%) Docker
2 128 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 123 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.33%) VMware NSX
5 56 (1.05%) vSphere
6 48 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 26 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.47%) Firmware
9 25 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.11%) NFS
14 5 (0.094%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.038%) KVM
15 2 (0.038%) Postfix
15 2 (0.038%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.038%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.019%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 874 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 834 (15.64%) Ansible
3 784 (14.71%) Terraform
4 127 (2.38%) Grafana
5 114 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 81 (1.52%) Puppet
7 71 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 33 (0.62%) Istio
9 32 (0.60%) Nagios
10 30 (0.56%) FortiGate
10 30 (0.56%) Kibana
10 30 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) SCCM
12 21 (0.39%) Argo
13 20 (0.38%) Podman
14 16 (0.30%) CASB
15 13 (0.24%) Nessus
15 13 (0.24%) Packer
16 11 (0.21%) vRealize
16 11 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 550 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 370 (6.94%) Databricks
3 297 (5.57%) Google
4 190 (3.56%) VMware
5 130 (2.44%) Oracle
6 122 (2.29%) PayPal
7 109 (2.04%) Cisco
8 85 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 82 (1.54%) MathWorks
10 74 (1.39%) Splunk
11 72 (1.35%) SAP
12 52 (0.98%) IBM
13 49 (0.92%) BISAM
13 49 (0.92%) F5
14 43 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 41 (0.77%) Adobe
16 37 (0.69%) Apple
16 37 (0.69%) Citrix
17 36 (0.68%) Charles River
17 36 (0.68%) SolarWinds