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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,370 5,106 6,538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.78% 11.69% 8.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.17% 40.21% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,827 4,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,137
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.21% +2.26%

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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -3 2,650 £85,000 -5.56% 5,264
North of England -11 1,254 £65,000 - 785
South East +4 918 £60,000 - 866
South West +11 612 £60,000 +9.09% 442
North West -16 601 £65,500 +9.17% 438
Midlands +10 567 £62,000 -4.62% 304
Yorkshire +12 405 £65,000 - 210
East of England +9 312 £65,000 +18.18% 462
West Midlands -2 304 £62,500 -3.85% 180
East Midlands +19 262 £55,000 -4.35% 124
North East +27 248 £62,500 -3.85% 143
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
1 250 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 241 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.92%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 62 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.36%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
16 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 715 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.25%) Simulink
6 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.047%) Blender
9 3 (0.047%) Maya
9 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.047%) Trello
10 2 (0.031%) CATIA
10 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.031%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.016%) Revit
11 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
5 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,544 (39.94%) Azure
2 2,054 (32.24%) AWS
3 1,036 (16.26%) Power Platform
4 902 (14.16%) Azure AI
5 775 (12.17%) GCP
6 396 (6.22%) GitHub
7 372 (5.84%) Serverless
8 260 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 240 (3.77%) Snowflake
10 235 (3.69%) SaaS
11 228 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
12 209 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 207 (3.25%) dbt
14 173 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
17 136 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 128 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
19 120 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.64%) Firewall
2 139 (2.18%) Broadband
3 136 (2.14%) DNS
4 128 (2.01%) VPN
5 125 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 109 (1.71%) Network Security
7 95 (1.49%) WAN
8 79 (1.24%) Wireless
9 74 (1.16%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 50 (0.78%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) HTTP
15 43 (0.68%) DHCP
16 40 (0.63%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 967 (15.18%) Power BI
2 791 (12.42%) Tableau
3 336 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 297 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.12%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 165 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.26%) MongoDB
10 139 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 121 (1.90%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 110 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.73%) MySQL
14 103 (1.62%) Metadata
15 85 (1.33%) DynamoDB
16 79 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.13%) Looker
18 70 (1.10%) Delta Lake
19 59 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 700 (10.99%) Git
2 287 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.78%) GitLab
4 167 (2.62%) JIRA
5 70 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 38 (0.60%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 35 (0.55%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.38%) TeamCity
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,161 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 1,359 (21.33%) Finance
3 867 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (5.12%) Banking
6 239 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 226 (3.55%) Law
8 183 (2.87%) Marketing
9 180 (2.83%) Retail
10 134 (2.10%) Legal
11 129 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 127 (1.99%) Front Office
13 89 (1.40%) Electronics
14 88 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 87 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 82 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 71 (1.11%) Investment Banking
19 66 (1.04%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,257 (19.73%) Senior
2 927 (14.55%) Analyst
3 876 (13.75%) Developer
4 835 (13.11%) Software Engineer
5 745 (11.70%) Data Analyst
6 664 (10.42%) Python Engineer
7 653 (10.25%) Junior
8 631 (9.91%) Data Engineer
9 615 (9.65%) Lead
10 573 (9.00%) Junior Analyst
11 570 (8.95%) Junior Data Analyst
12 479 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 363 (5.70%) Python Developer
14 302 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 243 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.45%) Architect
17 215 (3.38%) Data Scientist
18 198 (3.11%) Senior Developer
19 183 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (6.45%) React
2 289 (4.54%) Kafka
3 246 (3.86%) Node.js
4 233 (3.66%) PySpark
5 229 (3.59%) .NET
6 225 (3.53%) REST
7 206 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 206 (3.23%) RESTful
8 195 (3.06%) Django
9 193 (3.03%) HTML
10 184 (2.89%) PyTorch
11 176 (2.76%) CSS
12 174 (2.73%) LangChain
13 155 (2.43%) TensorFlow
14 146 (2.29%) Pandas
15 134 (2.10%) Flask
16 131 (2.06%) scikit-learn
17 112 (1.76%) Spring
17 112 (1.76%) Spring Boot
18 103 (1.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 583 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 336 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 325 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 213 (3.34%) AI Agents
5 200 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 158 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 140 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 81 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 81 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
12 78 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 76 (1.19%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.18%) Equities
14 75 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 75 (1.18%) Robotics
15 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
16 70 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 726 (11.40%) Linux
2 329 (5.16%) Windows
3 96 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.40%) Unix
5 54 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.71%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.17%) Android
13 11 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.17%) Rocky
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,717 (42.65%) AI
2 1,620 (25.43%) Software Engineering
3 1,566 (24.58%) CI/CD
4 1,174 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
5 1,137 (17.85%) Agile
6 1,136 (17.83%) Analytics
7 1,118 (17.55%) Business Intelligence
8 1,079 (16.94%) DevOps
9 1,019 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 920 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 816 (12.81%) Mentoring
12 745 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
13 736 (11.55%) Data Engineering
14 673 (10.57%) Data Modelling
15 650 (10.20%) Data Science
16 642 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 603 (9.47%) Containerisation
18 583 (9.15%) Computer Science
19 579 (9.09%) Decision-Making
20 575 (9.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,325 (36.50%) SQL
2 816 (12.81%) Java
3 673 (10.57%) JavaScript
4 551 (8.65%) C++
5 503 (7.90%) PowerShell
6 481 (7.55%) Bash
7 466 (7.32%) C#
8 407 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.32%) Go
10 186 (2.92%) C
11 175 (2.75%) R
12 127 (1.99%) Scala
13 101 (1.59%) PHP
14 99 (1.55%) Rust
15 88 (1.38%) Bicep
16 77 (1.21%) Perl
17 73 (1.15%) Ruby
18 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 59 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 49 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,027 (16.12%) Azure Certification
2 889 (13.96%) Degree
3 786 (12.34%) Security Cleared
4 443 (6.95%) SC Cleared
5 318 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 262 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 202 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 190 (2.98%) AWS Certification
9 116 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 102 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 100 (1.57%) PhD
12 79 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.82%) CCNP
14 51 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 43 (0.68%) DBS Check
16 39 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
17 36 (0.57%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 32 (0.50%) OSCP
20 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 261 (4.10%) QA
3 151 (2.37%) GDPR
4 107 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.10%) NIST
6 59 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.38%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.27%) GRC
15 14 (0.22%) NCSC
16 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 757 (11.88%) Docker
2 112 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 111 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.00%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.41%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
11 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.047%) IAG
14 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 2 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 921 (14.46%) Terraform
2 745 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 392 (6.15%) Ansible
4 236 (3.70%) Grafana
5 148 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.82%) Puppet
7 49 (0.77%) Argo
8 41 (0.64%) Nagios
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 36 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,357 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 449 (7.05%) Databricks
3 203 (3.19%) Google
4 150 (2.35%) Splunk
5 144 (2.26%) Oracle
6 137 (2.15%) VMware
7 122 (1.92%) Cisco
8 119 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 118 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 73 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 62 (0.97%) Foundry
12 56 (0.88%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 42 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 40 (0.63%) F5
16 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
17 38 (0.60%) SAP
18 34 (0.53%) Palantir
19 33 (0.52%) IBM