Python Job Trends in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 230 405 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.83% 12.27% 7.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.75% 34.79% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 122 240 266
10th Percentile £29,750 £51,250 £41,125
25th Percentile £37,500 £66,100 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £66,240 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +5.98% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,875 £80,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 538 1,164 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 35.27% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 396 594 1,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,550 £32,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +20.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Python job vacancy trend in the East of England

Python
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +1 94 £52,500 -25.00% 71
Hertfordshire -12 59 £60,000 -7.69% 33
Essex -3 29 £42,500 -51.98% 44
Suffolk -28 18 £40,000 -39.60% 14
Bedfordshire +30 17 £34,500 -40.52% 28
Norfolk -8 13 £45,000 -41.56% 12
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.61%) WordPress
2 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.30%) Confluence
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.87%) Mendix
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (23.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.04%) Simulink
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (32.61%) Azure
2 57 (24.78%) AWS
3 44 (19.13%) Power Platform
4 40 (17.39%) Azure AI
5 16 (6.96%) GitHub
6 10 (4.35%) GCP
7 8 (3.48%) Serverless
8 7 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.61%) Boomi
9 6 (2.61%) Matillion
9 6 (2.61%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.17%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.52%) Internet
2 7 (3.04%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.30%) Broadband
3 3 (1.30%) InfiniBand
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) Network Security
4 2 (0.87%) SAN
4 2 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.43%) AMQP
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.43%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) VLAN
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (23.48%) Tableau
2 44 (19.13%) Power BI
3 11 (4.78%) Data Mining
4 10 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.04%) MySQL
6 6 (2.61%) Pentaho
6 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.17%) Big Data
7 5 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.17%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.17%) Metadata
7 5 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.17%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.96%) Git
2 8 (3.48%) JIRA
3 5 (2.17%) GitLab
3 5 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.43%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 84 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.43%) Finance
4 18 (7.83%) Law
5 11 (4.78%) Multimedia
5 11 (4.78%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.35%) Electronics
7 8 (3.48%) German Language
7 8 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.04%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.74%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Games
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Billing
11 2 (0.87%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (23.48%) Analyst
2 49 (21.30%) Data Analyst
3 41 (17.83%) Junior
4 40 (17.39%) Junior Analyst
4 40 (17.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 28 (12.17%) Senior
6 22 (9.57%) Trainee
7 20 (8.70%) Developer
8 18 (7.83%) Data Engineer
9 17 (7.39%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Lead
12 10 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (3.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 8 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
15 7 (3.04%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.39%) HTML
2 28 (12.17%) JSON
3 25 (10.87%) XML
4 22 (9.57%) Regular Expression
5 18 (7.83%) CSS
6 16 (6.96%) React
7 13 (5.65%) TensorFlow
8 12 (5.22%) PyTorch
9 11 (4.78%) REST
10 10 (4.35%) Web Services
11 9 (3.91%) Node.js
11 9 (3.91%) PySpark
11 9 (3.91%) Vue
12 8 (3.48%) SOAP
13 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.61%) Pandas
15 5 (2.17%) Kafka
15 5 (2.17%) Loki
16 4 (1.74%) NumPy
16 4 (1.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 23 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.57%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.35%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.48%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.04%) CUDA
7 7 (3.04%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.04%) FPGA
7 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.61%) IoT
9 5 (2.17%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.74%) PCIe
10 4 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.74%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.30%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.74%) Linux
2 24 (10.43%) Unix
3 13 (5.65%) Windows
4 4 (1.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.87%) Debian
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Solaris
5 2 (0.87%) VMS
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (43.91%) AI
2 48 (20.87%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 42 (18.26%) Software Engineering
5 40 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (13.04%) LLM
7 28 (12.17%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.17%) Computer Science
8 25 (10.87%) Agile
8 25 (10.87%) ETL
8 25 (10.87%) Machine Learning
9 24 (10.43%) Analytics
10 21 (9.13%) Validation
11 20 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (8.70%) DevOps
12 19 (8.26%) Physics
13 17 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (7.39%) Data Modelling
13 17 (7.39%) Mathematics
14 16 (6.96%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.26%) SQL
2 42 (18.26%) JavaScript
3 27 (11.74%) Java
4 20 (8.70%) C++
5 18 (7.83%) Bash
6 17 (7.39%) C
7 11 (4.78%) R
8 10 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.91%) MATLAB
9 9 (3.91%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.04%) C#
11 6 (2.61%) PHP
12 3 (1.30%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.30%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.30%) GLSL
12 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.30%) Swift
13 2 (0.87%) Korn
14 1 (0.43%) Scala
14 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 66 (28.70%) Degree
2 51 (22.17%) Azure Certification
3 38 (16.52%) Security Cleared
4 24 (10.43%) SC Cleared
5 14 (6.09%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.48%) DBS Check
8 8 (3.48%) PhD
9 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.74%) RHCE
12 2 (0.87%) CEH
12 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.87%) GIAC
12 2 (0.87%) GREM
12 2 (0.87%) GSEC
12 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.70%) QA
2 15 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.48%) GDPR
4 7 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.61%) NIST
6 5 (2.17%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.74%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 15 (6.52%) Docker
2 11 (4.78%) Firmware
3 5 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.30%) Lustre
4 3 (1.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (5.22%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.22%) Terraform
2 9 (3.91%) Ansible
3 6 (2.61%) Grafana
4 5 (2.17%) FTK
4 5 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.87%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (0.87%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.87%) QRadar
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 82 (35.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.78%) MuleSoft
2 11 (4.78%) SAP
3 9 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.61%) IBM
5 6 (2.61%) Informatica
5 6 (2.61%) Talend
6 5 (2.17%) Cellebrite
6 5 (2.17%) NetApp
6 5 (2.17%) Pega
7 4 (1.74%) Altera
7 4 (1.74%) Databricks
7 4 (1.74%) Oracle
7 4 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.30%) EMC
8 3 (1.30%) Mellanox
8 3 (1.30%) VMware
9 2 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI