Python Job Trends in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,259 5,234 7,805
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.22% 12.15% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 39.94% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 2,977 5,859
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £123,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,001 13,106 27,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.45% 30.43% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,620 8,884 21,924
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,738 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Python job vacancy trend in England

Python
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in England

Python
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
London -2 2,502 £85,000 -5.56% 1,378
North of England -12 1,263 £65,000 - 407
South East +3 943 £60,000 - 562
Midlands +18 613 £60,000 +1.69% 193
North West -16 591 £65,000 - 219
South West +8 572 £60,000 +4.35% 266
Yorkshire +13 454 £65,000 - 121
West Midlands +11 314 £62,500 +4.17% 100
East Midlands +30 299 £55,000 - 92
East of England -5 292 £70,000 +5.73% 185
North East +25 218 £59,000 -5.60% 70
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 224 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 215 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 166 (2.65%) Apache
4 74 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.75%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.48%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
11 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
13 5 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.080%) Camunda
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) Appian
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 922 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.27%) Simulink
7 12 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.032%) Summit
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,687 (42.93%) Azure
2 1,994 (31.86%) AWS
3 1,199 (19.16%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.32%) Azure AI
5 738 (11.79%) GCP
6 398 (6.36%) GitHub
7 365 (5.83%) Serverless
8 240 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.74%) SaaS
10 230 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 217 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 194 (3.10%) Snowflake
13 192 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 177 (2.83%) dbt
15 175 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
16 161 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 155 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
18 126 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 120 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
20 116 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 245 (3.91%) Firewall
2 187 (2.99%) Broadband
3 147 (2.35%) VPN
4 138 (2.20%) DNS
5 119 (1.90%) Network Security
6 108 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 99 (1.58%) WAN
8 84 (1.34%) Wireless
9 80 (1.28%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) BGP
10 70 (1.12%) Internet
11 56 (0.89%) VLAN
12 54 (0.86%) HTTP
13 52 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 49 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.67%) OSPF
16 41 (0.66%) DHCP
17 36 (0.58%) MQTT
18 34 (0.54%) Wireshark
19 32 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,136 (18.15%) Power BI
2 986 (15.75%) Tableau
3 294 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 181 (2.89%) SQL Server
6 176 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 174 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 151 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.24%) MongoDB
10 139 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 119 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 108 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 106 (1.69%) Big Data
14 103 (1.65%) MySQL
15 91 (1.45%) Metadata
16 75 (1.20%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.02%) Data Mining
19 62 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 630 (10.07%) Git
2 289 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 256 (4.09%) GitLab
4 157 (2.51%) JIRA
5 81 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 56 (0.89%) Claude Code
6 56 (0.89%) MLflow
7 55 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 43 (0.69%) Selenium
9 40 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 34 (0.54%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.53%) Subversion
12 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.43%) Postman
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 23 (0.37%) JUnit
15 22 (0.35%) JMeter
15 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 21 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 2,198 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,246 (19.91%) Finance
3 818 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (4.44%) Banking
5 274 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (3.71%) Public Sector
7 195 (3.12%) Retail
8 161 (2.57%) Law
9 132 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.06%) Front Office
11 105 (1.68%) Legal
12 94 (1.50%) Marketing
13 93 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.26%) Electronics
15 74 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 71 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.01%) Games
19 61 (0.97%) Investment Banking
20 58 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,132 (18.09%) Analyst
2 1,125 (17.97%) Senior
3 959 (15.32%) Data Analyst
4 899 (14.36%) Developer
5 817 (13.05%) Junior
6 761 (12.16%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.13%) Junior Data Analyst
8 741 (11.84%) Software Engineer
9 602 (9.62%) Data Engineer
10 567 (9.06%) Python Engineer
11 545 (8.71%) Lead
12 459 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 372 (5.94%) Python Developer
14 269 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
15 211 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 204 (3.26%) Architect
17 200 (3.20%) Data Scientist
18 181 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
19 180 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
20 178 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (6.34%) React
2 276 (4.41%) Kafka
3 243 (3.88%) Node.js
4 222 (3.55%) REST
5 221 (3.53%) PySpark
6 211 (3.37%) .NET
7 200 (3.20%) RESTful
8 192 (3.07%) FastAPI
9 185 (2.96%) HTML
10 184 (2.94%) Django
11 170 (2.72%) CSS
12 169 (2.70%) PyTorch
13 155 (2.48%) Pandas
14 147 (2.35%) LangChain
15 142 (2.27%) TensorFlow
16 135 (2.16%) Flask
17 122 (1.95%) scikit-learn
18 108 (1.73%) Vue
19 107 (1.71%) NumPy
20 105 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 510 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 312 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 182 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 171 (2.73%) AI Agents
6 159 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 107 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 103 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.41%) Fixed Income
11 88 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 84 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 79 (1.26%) Equities
14 77 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 75 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 71 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 70 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
19 68 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 698 (11.15%) Linux
2 297 (4.75%) Windows
3 90 (1.44%) Unix
4 87 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.69%) CentOS
7 42 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.38%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.19%) VMS
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,645 (42.26%) AI
2 1,478 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 1,438 (22.97%) Software Engineering
4 1,245 (19.89%) Business Intelligence
5 1,103 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
6 1,072 (17.13%) Agile
7 1,039 (16.60%) DevOps
8 1,015 (16.22%) Analytics
9 889 (14.20%) Machine Learning
10 876 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 746 (11.92%) Mentoring
12 655 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
13 640 (10.23%) Data Engineering
14 629 (10.05%) Data Modelling
15 612 (9.78%) Data Science
16 582 (9.30%) Containerisation
17 574 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 558 (8.92%) Computer Science
18 558 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
19 547 (8.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,364 (37.77%) SQL
2 764 (12.21%) Java
3 660 (10.54%) JavaScript
4 515 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 502 (8.02%) C++
6 499 (7.97%) Bash
7 427 (6.82%) C#
8 387 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 290 (4.63%) Go
10 184 (2.94%) C
11 160 (2.56%) R
12 119 (1.90%) Scala
13 100 (1.60%) PHP
13 100 (1.60%) Rust
14 86 (1.37%) Bicep
15 64 (1.02%) MATLAB
16 61 (0.97%) Perl
17 59 (0.94%) Ruby
18 54 (0.86%) VBA
19 52 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,207 (19.28%) Azure Certification
2 809 (12.93%) Degree
3 725 (11.58%) Security Cleared
4 406 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 300 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 237 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 175 (2.80%) Master's Degree
9 121 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 118 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 89 (1.42%) PhD
12 77 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.88%) CCNP
14 52 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 44 (0.70%) OSCP
16 38 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 32 (0.51%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 255 (4.07%) QA
3 141 (2.25%) GDPR
4 86 (1.37%) NIST
5 77 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 72 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.35%) GRC
10 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.34%) PMO
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 13 (0.21%) WCAG
13 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 708 (11.31%) Docker
2 110 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 110 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.96%) Firmware
4 44 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 39 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (0.51%) KVM
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.064%) iptables
16 3 (0.048%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 913 (14.59%) Terraform
2 712 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 401 (6.41%) Ansible
4 242 (3.87%) Grafana
5 177 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 67 (1.07%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Puppet
8 40 (0.64%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.45%) Istio
11 28 (0.45%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.29%) logstash
16 17 (0.27%) Podman
17 15 (0.24%) Rancher
18 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,552 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 375 (5.99%) Databricks
3 203 (3.24%) Google
4 147 (2.35%) VMware
5 136 (2.17%) Splunk
6 135 (2.16%) Oracle
7 127 (2.03%) Cisco
8 103 (1.65%) OpenAI
8 103 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 64 (1.02%) Foundry
10 63 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 49 (0.78%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
15 44 (0.70%) F5
15 44 (0.70%) SAP
16 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.59%) Palantir
17 35 (0.56%) Arista