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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,983 4,718 6,680
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.76% 10.97% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.36% 41.03% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 2,572 4,141
10th Percentile £44,370 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,250 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,625 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% -3.33% +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 16,919 11,499 20,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.29% 26.74% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,290 7,567 12,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 2,556 £85,000 -2.86% 5,472
North of England -17 1,118 £67,500 +8.00% 871
South East +6 837 £62,500 +4.17% 837
South West +6 593 £62,500 +13.64% 539
North West -24 572 £67,500 +12.50% 491
Midlands -1 509 £60,900 +0.66% 397
East of England +9 313 £67,500 +17.39% 529
Yorkshire +8 307 £66,805 -1.03% 265
West Midlands -8 278 £65,000 +8.33% 254
North East +20 241 £66,805 +40.64% 117
East Midlands +13 229 £55,000 -15.38% 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
1 213 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 172 (2.87%) Apache
3 166 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.19%) Confluence
5 41 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 36 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.27%) nginx
11 12 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
12 9 (0.15%) IIS
13 8 (0.13%) Camunda
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 354 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.42%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.067%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.050%) Blender
11 3 (0.050%) Maya
11 3 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.050%) Revit
11 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.050%) SPSS
11 3 (0.050%) Trello
12 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.033%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.017%) Actimize
9 1 (0.017%) Quorum
9 1 (0.017%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,157 (36.05%) Azure
2 1,876 (31.36%) AWS
3 736 (12.30%) Power Platform
4 735 (12.28%) GCP
5 535 (8.94%) Azure AI
6 381 (6.37%) GitHub
7 359 (6.00%) Serverless
8 250 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 246 (4.11%) SaaS
10 235 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 229 (3.83%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.64%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 205 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 185 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 182 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
17 165 (2.76%) dbt
18 138 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
19 132 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
20 128 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.63%) Firewall
2 153 (2.56%) DNS
3 143 (2.39%) VPN
4 140 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 103 (1.72%) Network Security
6 93 (1.55%) WAN
7 81 (1.35%) Wireless
8 66 (1.10%) Broadband
9 65 (1.09%) LAN
10 63 (1.05%) DHCP
11 62 (1.04%) BGP
12 48 (0.80%) MQTT
13 46 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.77%) VLAN
14 43 (0.72%) OSPF
15 39 (0.65%) HTTP
16 35 (0.58%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
19 23 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (11.13%) Power BI
2 377 (6.30%) Tableau
3 328 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 303 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 150 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.44%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.14%) Big Data
11 114 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 113 (1.89%) MySQL
13 111 (1.86%) Metadata
14 99 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 89 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 85 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 79 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.22%) Delta Lake
20 72 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 687 (11.48%) Git
2 320 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 261 (4.36%) GitLab
4 175 (2.92%) JIRA
5 70 (1.17%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.89%) Subversion
7 52 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.75%) Selenium
9 42 (0.70%) MLflow
10 38 (0.64%) JUnit
10 38 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 32 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
14 28 (0.47%) TeamCity
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,889 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 1,325 (22.15%) Finance
3 817 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 338 (5.65%) Banking
6 262 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 224 (3.74%) Law
8 205 (3.43%) Marketing
9 170 (2.84%) Retail
10 134 (2.24%) Legal
11 112 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.82%) Front Office
13 103 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 97 (1.62%) Electronics
15 92 (1.54%) Financial Institution
16 83 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.05%) Games
19 48 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
20 47 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,276 (21.33%) Senior
2 884 (14.78%) Software Engineer
3 825 (13.79%) Developer
4 710 (11.87%) Python Engineer
5 625 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 625 (10.45%) Lead
6 576 (9.63%) Analyst
7 490 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 391 (6.54%) Data Analyst
9 357 (5.97%) Python Developer
10 355 (5.93%) Python Software Engineer
11 320 (5.35%) Junior
12 263 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 241 (4.03%) Junior Analyst
14 237 (3.96%) Junior Data Analyst
15 218 (3.64%) Data Scientist
16 216 (3.61%) Architect
17 204 (3.41%) Senior Developer
18 203 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
19 196 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (16.18%) Terraform
2 400 (6.69%) React
3 244 (4.08%) REST
4 232 (3.88%) PySpark
5 230 (3.84%) .NET
6 228 (3.81%) Node.js
7 227 (3.79%) Kafka
8 219 (3.66%) FastAPI
9 209 (3.49%) RESTful
10 175 (2.92%) Django
10 175 (2.92%) LangChain
11 159 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 138 (2.31%) HTML
12 138 (2.31%) TensorFlow
13 126 (2.11%) Spring
13 126 (2.11%) Spring Boot
14 120 (2.01%) Flask
15 118 (1.97%) CSS
16 100 (1.67%) LangGraph
17 97 (1.62%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 605 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 308 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 260 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 220 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 148 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 135 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 90 (1.50%) Robotics
10 86 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 86 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 84 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
12 83 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 81 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 73 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
14 73 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 70 (1.17%) Low-Code
16 64 (1.07%) Equities
17 63 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 712 (11.90%) Linux
2 328 (5.48%) Windows
3 82 (1.37%) Unix
4 81 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.72%) CentOS
7 39 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
15 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,443 (40.83%) AI
2 1,707 (28.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,636 (27.34%) CI/CD
4 1,218 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
5 1,127 (18.84%) Analytics
6 1,115 (18.64%) DevOps
7 1,090 (18.22%) Agile
8 1,003 (16.76%) Machine Learning
9 970 (16.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 833 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
11 795 (13.29%) Mentoring
12 735 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
13 731 (12.22%) Data Engineering
14 687 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 646 (10.80%) Data Modelling
16 627 (10.48%) Decision-Making
17 618 (10.33%) Data Science
18 594 (9.93%) Containerisation
19 591 (9.88%) Computer Science
20 590 (9.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,988 (33.23%) SQL
2 840 (14.04%) Java
3 596 (9.96%) JavaScript
4 565 (9.44%) C++
5 533 (8.91%) Bash
6 496 (8.29%) PowerShell
7 482 (8.06%) C#
8 407 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 259 (4.33%) Go
10 198 (3.31%) C
11 154 (2.57%) R
12 108 (1.81%) Scala
13 99 (1.65%) Bicep
14 97 (1.62%) Rust
15 89 (1.49%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.42%) PHP
17 84 (1.40%) Perl
18 75 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 74 (1.24%) Ruby
20 57 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 938 (15.68%) Degree
2 888 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 611 (10.21%) Azure Certification
4 503 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 308 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 283 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 221 (3.69%) Master's Degree
8 124 (2.07%) PhD
9 112 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 53 (0.89%) CISSP
14 46 (0.77%) CCNP
15 39 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 39 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 35 (0.58%) CCNA
17 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.48%) OSCP
19 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 560 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 248 (4.15%) QA
3 129 (2.16%) GDPR
4 106 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.17%) NIST
6 60 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 25 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) NCSC
11 17 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.28%) WCAG
12 15 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.20%) EU AI Act
13 12 (0.20%) GRC
14 11 (0.18%) PMO
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 793 (13.25%) Docker
2 118 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.07%) Firmware
5 37 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) NFS
16 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 825 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 421 (7.04%) Ansible
3 246 (4.11%) Grafana
4 163 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.22%) Puppet
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 44 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.69%) Kibana
9 30 (0.50%) Nagios
10 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Istio
12 26 (0.43%) Rancher
12 26 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (0.42%) Packer
14 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.35%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
18 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 973 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 447 (7.47%) Databricks
3 234 (3.91%) Google
4 154 (2.57%) Splunk
5 120 (2.01%) OpenAI
5 120 (2.01%) Oracle
5 120 (2.01%) VMware
6 110 (1.84%) Cisco
7 90 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 68 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 55 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 53 (0.89%) Foundry
11 42 (0.70%) Palo Alto
12 41 (0.69%) Salesforce
13 37 (0.62%) Fortinet
13 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds
14 36 (0.60%) SAP
15 34 (0.57%) F5
16 33 (0.55%) Informatica
17 32 (0.53%) New Relic