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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,993 4,787 7,192
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 12.67% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.84% 38.36% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,420 3,135 5,588
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,939 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,988 12,478 27,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.46% 33.01% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,808 9,198 22,500
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,526 £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 £87,500 £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 2 May 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 2 May 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 0 2,347 £85,000 -5.56% 1,235
North of England -16 1,184 £55,000 -15.38% 461
South East -3 885 £60,000 -7.69% 579
Midlands +11 666 £55,000 - 221
Yorkshire +14 531 £50,000 -23.08% 134
South West +6 522 £57,500 - 201
North West -21 490 £60,326 -7.19% 248
West Midlands +29 383 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England -16 324 £60,000 -9.39% 194
East Midlands +8 283 £55,000 - 107
North East +17 163 £45,750 -29.62% 81
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
1 211 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.17%) Apache
4 65 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
8 27 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.27%) Appian
11 13 (0.22%) IIS
12 9 (0.15%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.10%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.083%) CMS
15 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,222 (20.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.067%) CATIA
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.033%) Windchill
11 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.017%) Houdini
11 1 (0.017%) Notion
11 1 (0.017%) NUKE
11 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
3 4 (0.067%) Shopify
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,862 (47.76%) Azure
2 1,800 (30.04%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.03%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.94%) Azure AI
5 622 (10.38%) GCP
6 534 (8.91%) GitHub
7 290 (4.84%) Serverless
8 228 (3.80%) SaaS
9 208 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 205 (3.42%) Amazon S3
11 183 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (2.85%) Snowflake
14 161 (2.69%) dbt
15 158 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 131 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 128 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 122 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 94 (1.57%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 210 (3.50%) Internet
2 204 (3.40%) Firewall
3 150 (2.50%) Broadband
4 122 (2.04%) DNS
5 114 (1.90%) VPN
6 92 (1.54%) Network Security
7 91 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 80 (1.33%) WAN
9 72 (1.20%) LAN
10 66 (1.10%) BGP
11 65 (1.08%) Wireless
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 47 (0.78%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
16 36 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 31 (0.52%) MPLS
19 29 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,393 (23.24%) Power BI
2 1,306 (21.79%) Tableau
3 268 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.39%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 123 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 117 (1.95%) MongoDB
12 110 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 106 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.54%) Big Data
15 91 (1.52%) Metadata
16 78 (1.30%) MySQL
17 63 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.92%) DynamoDB
19 54 (0.90%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 659 (11.00%) Git
2 241 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 213 (3.55%) GitLab
4 110 (1.84%) JIRA
5 78 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.05%) MLflow
7 53 (0.88%) Selenium
8 44 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.62%) Postman
11 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.40%) Claude Code
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
17 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 2,333 (38.93%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (19.36%) Finance
3 799 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (4.20%) Banking
5 247 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 195 (3.25%) Multimedia
8 177 (2.95%) Retail
9 158 (2.64%) Law
10 147 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.20%) Front Office
12 100 (1.67%) Marketing
13 96 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.47%) Legal
15 75 (1.25%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 55 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
20 43 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,428 (23.83%) Analyst
2 1,243 (20.74%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.25%) Junior
4 994 (16.59%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.59%) Junior Data Analyst
5 904 (15.08%) Developer
6 860 (14.35%) Senior
7 554 (9.24%) Software Engineer
8 515 (8.59%) Data Engineer
9 478 (7.98%) Lead
10 440 (7.34%) Python Engineer
11 394 (6.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.37%) Python Developer
13 358 (5.97%) Trainee
14 209 (3.49%) Software Developer
15 196 (3.27%) Python Software Engineer
16 173 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
17 171 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
18 158 (2.64%) Senior Developer
19 154 (2.57%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.41%) React
2 332 (5.54%) HTML
3 293 (4.89%) CSS
4 242 (4.04%) Kafka
5 210 (3.50%) Node.js
6 203 (3.39%) PySpark
6 203 (3.39%) REST
7 187 (3.12%) Django
8 171 (2.85%) RESTful
9 166 (2.77%) Pandas
10 165 (2.75%) PyTorch
11 164 (2.74%) .NET
12 145 (2.42%) FastAPI
13 141 (2.35%) TensorFlow
14 129 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 122 (2.04%) Flask
16 104 (1.74%) NumPy
17 100 (1.67%) JSON
17 100 (1.67%) LangChain
18 89 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 335 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 292 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 237 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 101 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 90 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 86 (1.44%) Low-Code
11 85 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 84 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 81 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 78 (1.30%) Equities
14 78 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 78 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 77 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
15 77 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
16 74 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 570 (9.51%) Linux
2 239 (3.99%) Windows
3 126 (2.10%) Unix
4 70 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.15%) Android
12 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.15%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.10%) Solaris
16 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,496 (41.65%) AI
2 1,490 (24.86%) Business Intelligence
3 1,203 (20.07%) CI/CD
4 1,077 (17.97%) Software Engineering
5 961 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 938 (15.65%) Analytics
7 920 (15.35%) Agile
8 894 (14.92%) DevOps
9 723 (12.06%) Machine Learning
10 717 (11.96%) Mentoring
11 656 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 576 (9.61%) Data Modelling
13 563 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
14 559 (9.33%) Data Engineering
15 555 (9.26%) Data Science
16 544 (9.08%) ETL
17 528 (8.81%) Computer Science
18 518 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 491 (8.19%) Containerisation
20 451 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,470 (41.21%) SQL
2 726 (12.11%) JavaScript
3 649 (10.83%) Java
4 440 (7.34%) PowerShell
5 430 (7.18%) Bash
6 361 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 336 (5.61%) C#
7 336 (5.61%) C++
8 280 (4.67%) Go
9 222 (3.70%) R
10 148 (2.47%) C
11 117 (1.95%) Scala
12 77 (1.28%) Rust
13 67 (1.12%) PHP
14 66 (1.10%) VBA
15 54 (0.90%) Bicep
16 42 (0.70%) Perl
17 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
19 32 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,558 (26.00%) Azure Certification
2 778 (12.98%) Degree
3 509 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 339 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 298 (4.97%) SC Cleared
6 278 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 251 (4.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 247 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 170 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.47%) PhD
12 77 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 47 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.84%) QA
3 124 (2.07%) GDPR
4 105 (1.75%) NIST
5 96 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 577 (9.63%) Docker
2 108 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 81 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 705 (11.76%) Terraform
2 610 (10.18%) Kubernetes
3 338 (5.64%) Ansible
4 195 (3.25%) Grafana
5 152 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (0.48%) Nagios
8 29 (0.48%) Puppet
9 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 22 (0.37%) Istio
11 20 (0.33%) Kibana
12 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
15 14 (0.23%) Packer
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
16 13 (0.22%) Proxmox
16 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,898 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 316 (5.27%) Databricks
3 204 (3.40%) Google
4 133 (2.22%) Oracle
5 123 (2.05%) Cisco
6 119 (1.99%) VMware
7 104 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 93 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 59 (0.98%) SAP
11 57 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.83%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 48 (0.80%) Fortinet
14 48 (0.80%) Informatica
15 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
16 41 (0.68%) SolarWinds
17 40 (0.67%) Palantir
17 40 (0.67%) Talend