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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,038 5,441 5,514
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 11.38% 10.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 33.69% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,722 3,269 4,361
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £45,250 £55,000 £52,500
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 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,322 16,151 19,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.24% 33.79% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,739 9,481 16,845
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 19 January 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 19 January 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 1,959 £83,500 -1.76% 1,118
North of England -7 666 £49,000 -24.62% 701
South East -33 441 £60,000 -7.69% 1,364
Midlands -12 379 £56,350 +2.45% 449
South West -4 334 £60,000 -7.69% 524
Yorkshire +12 306 £48,750 -25.00% 286
North West -15 273 £55,000 -12.00% 296
West Midlands +2 260 £55,200 -4.00% 166
East of England -15 207 £50,000 -28.57% 616
East Midlands -25 122 £61,250 +11.36% 273
North East +2 89 £40,000 -42.29% 123
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
1 165 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 142 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.15%) Apache
4 43 (1.06%) Confluence
5 35 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.69%) SAS
7 27 (0.67%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Appian
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.37%) nginx
14 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 557 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.099%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.099%) Windchill
10 3 (0.074%) CATIA
10 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,603 (39.70%) Azure
2 1,407 (34.84%) AWS
3 729 (18.05%) Power Platform
4 526 (13.03%) GitHub
5 425 (10.53%) GCP
6 324 (8.02%) Azure AI
7 257 (6.36%) Serverless
8 181 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
9 173 (4.28%) Snowflake
10 166 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (3.91%) Amazon S3
12 150 (3.71%) SaaS
13 142 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.47%) dbt
15 137 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 103 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 90 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 82 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
20 80 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.36%) Internet
2 153 (3.79%) Firewall
3 86 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.93%) VPN
5 67 (1.66%) DNS
6 66 (1.63%) WAN
7 58 (1.44%) LAN
8 49 (1.21%) BGP
9 47 (1.16%) Wireless
10 42 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (0.99%) Network Security
12 38 (0.94%) HTTP
13 37 (0.92%) Broadband
14 36 (0.89%) OSPF
14 36 (0.89%) VLAN
15 31 (0.77%) MPLS
16 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.69%) SSL
18 27 (0.67%) SAN
19 23 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (17.06%) Power BI
2 592 (14.66%) Tableau
3 256 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.37%) SQL Server
6 169 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 160 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.52%) Data Mining
9 126 (3.12%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 107 (2.65%) Big Data
12 91 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 89 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (2.08%) MySQL
15 80 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
16 70 (1.73%) Hadoop
17 66 (1.63%) Metadata
18 64 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
18 64 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 571 (14.14%) Git
2 224 (5.55%) Jenkins
3 137 (3.39%) GitLab
4 119 (2.95%) JIRA
5 58 (1.44%) Selenium
6 43 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.94%) JUnit
8 35 (0.87%) Postman
9 28 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 26 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.59%) JMeter
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.35%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.35%) Metasploit
16 12 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 1,216 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 1,005 (24.89%) Finance
3 623 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.97%) Banking
4 241 (5.97%) Multimedia
5 175 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 168 (4.16%) Law
7 157 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 145 (3.59%) Marketing
9 138 (3.42%) Front Office
10 108 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 104 (2.58%) Retail
12 100 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 85 (2.11%) Financial Institution
14 76 (1.88%) Electronics
15 73 (1.81%) Legal
16 68 (1.68%) Investment Banking
17 57 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.39%) Games
19 47 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 750 (18.57%) Developer
2 729 (18.05%) Analyst
3 641 (15.87%) Senior
4 544 (13.47%) Data Analyst
5 412 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.92%) Trainee
7 319 (7.90%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.60%) Junior
9 293 (7.26%) Lead
9 293 (7.26%) Python Developer
10 282 (6.98%) Junior Analyst
10 282 (6.98%) Junior Data Analyst
11 235 (5.82%) Python Engineer
12 184 (4.56%) Software Developer
13 142 (3.52%) Senior Developer
14 141 (3.49%) Architect
15 137 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
16 133 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
17 130 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
18 121 (3.00%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (9.39%) HTML
2 334 (8.27%) CSS
3 321 (7.95%) React
4 173 (4.28%) REST
5 167 (4.14%) Node.js
6 157 (3.89%) Django
7 142 (3.52%) Kafka
8 138 (3.42%) RESTful
9 134 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 128 (3.17%) Pandas
11 126 (3.12%) PySpark
12 118 (2.92%) PyTorch
13 110 (2.72%) .NET
14 106 (2.63%) Flask
15 100 (2.48%) AngularJS
16 99 (2.45%) TensorFlow
17 87 (2.15%) NumPy
18 84 (2.08%) Vue
19 81 (2.01%) JSON
20 75 (1.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 220 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 197 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 151 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.87%) Equities
6 111 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 103 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 95 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 82 (2.03%) Hedge funds
9 82 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 76 (1.88%) Fixed Income
11 75 (1.86%) Derivative
12 74 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.71%) Low-Code
14 62 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 61 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 57 (1.41%) AI Agents
17 55 (1.36%) Data Centre
17 55 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
18 54 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 500 (12.38%) Linux
2 209 (5.18%) Windows
3 185 (4.58%) Unix
4 72 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.69%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.42%) VMS
10 16 (0.40%) Solaris
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.20%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.12%) zOS
16 3 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
16 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,160 (28.73%) AI
2 937 (23.20%) CI/CD
3 889 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 815 (20.18%) Analytics
5 796 (19.71%) Business Intelligence
6 772 (19.12%) Agile
7 761 (18.85%) DevOps
8 638 (15.80%) Mentoring
9 635 (15.73%) Software Engineering
10 525 (13.00%) Machine Learning
11 479 (11.86%) ETL
12 474 (11.74%) Data Science
13 457 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
14 455 (11.27%) Data Modelling
15 442 (10.95%) Data Engineering
16 432 (10.70%) Computer Science
17 431 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 406 (10.05%) Data Analysis
19 372 (9.21%) Containerisation
20 369 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,638 (40.56%) SQL
2 708 (17.53%) JavaScript
3 571 (14.14%) Java
4 376 (9.31%) Bash
5 333 (8.25%) PowerShell
6 325 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 267 (6.61%) C#
8 237 (5.87%) R
9 200 (4.95%) C++
10 151 (3.74%) Go
11 108 (2.67%) C
12 79 (1.96%) Scala
13 61 (1.51%) PHP
14 55 (1.36%) VBA
15 50 (1.24%) Bicep
16 47 (1.16%) Perl
17 44 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 39 (0.97%) Rust
19 38 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 778 (19.27%) Degree
2 589 (14.59%) Azure Certification
3 427 (10.57%) Security Cleared
4 358 (8.87%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 253 (6.27%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 203 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.71%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.94%) DV Cleared
11 119 (2.95%) PhD
12 73 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.44%) CCNP
14 49 (1.21%) CISSP
15 48 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.62%) HND
20 24 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 157 (3.89%) QA
3 99 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (2.40%) GDPR
5 77 (1.91%) NIST
6 62 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.84%) SLA
8 23 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.35%) PMO
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 6 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.099%) GRC
16 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 500 (12.38%) Docker
2 75 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.62%) Firmware
5 18 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.40%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
7 10 (0.25%) KVM
7 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.17%) Lustre
9 7 (0.17%) NFS
10 5 (0.12%) Postfix
10 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
10 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.099%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.099%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.099%) Squid
Systems Management
1 530 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 498 (12.33%) Terraform
3 306 (7.58%) Ansible
4 124 (3.07%) Grafana
5 116 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 52 (1.29%) Argo
7 28 (0.69%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 17 (0.42%) Nessus
10 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.35%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.32%) Rancher
13 12 (0.30%) Control-M
13 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.27%) logstash
14 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,073 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 259 (6.41%) Databricks
3 186 (4.61%) Google
4 131 (3.24%) Oracle
5 100 (2.48%) Cisco
5 100 (2.48%) VMware
6 84 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 66 (1.63%) SAP
9 63 (1.56%) Splunk
10 58 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 44 (1.09%) Alteryx
12 44 (1.09%) Fortinet
13 43 (1.06%) IBM
13 43 (1.06%) Informatica
14 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
14 41 (1.02%) Talend
15 30 (0.74%) Palantir
16 27 (0.67%) Dell