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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,376 5,176 6,498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.94% 11.88% 8.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.53% 40.16% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,848 2,891 4,682
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -0.17% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,825 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,548 12,889 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.01% 29.57% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,028 8,626 16,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 4 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 4 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 2,591 £85,000 -5.56% 3,123
North of England -12 1,275 £65,000 - 604
South East +2 939 £60,000 - 657
South West +11 611 £60,000 +9.09% 335
North West -17 604 £65,250 +8.75% 333
Midlands +9 589 £62,250 -0.40% 274
Yorkshire +13 423 £65,860 +1.32% 172
West Midlands -3 312 £62,500 -3.85% 161
East of England +10 311 £65,000 +4.00% 284
East Midlands +23 276 £53,750 -2.27% 112
North East +26 248 £60,000 -7.69% 103
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
1 246 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 237 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 183 (2.87%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 63 (0.99%) Confluence
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) SAS
9 24 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) 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
1 812 (12.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.078%) Shopify
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) FastStats
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,628 (41.22%) Azure
2 2,045 (32.07%) AWS
3 1,128 (17.69%) Power Platform
4 992 (15.56%) Azure AI
5 780 (12.23%) GCP
6 392 (6.15%) GitHub
7 366 (5.74%) Serverless
8 251 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 232 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 229 (3.59%) SaaS
10 229 (3.59%) Snowflake
11 224 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
12 201 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 201 (3.15%) dbt
13 165 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
14 163 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 156 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
16 131 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 127 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
18 117 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.64%) Firewall
2 149 (2.34%) Broadband
3 136 (2.13%) DNS
4 130 (2.04%) VPN
5 122 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.77%) Network Security
7 96 (1.51%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 53 (0.83%) VLAN
13 47 (0.74%) HTTP
13 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 42 (0.66%) DHCP
15 40 (0.63%) MQTT
16 39 (0.61%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
19 26 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,061 (16.64%) Power BI
2 885 (13.88%) Tableau
3 330 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 140 (2.20%) BigQuery
11 118 (1.85%) Big Data
12 112 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 111 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.73%) MySQL
15 99 (1.55%) Metadata
16 83 (1.30%) DynamoDB
17 76 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.04%) Delta Lake
18 66 (1.04%) Looker
19 60 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 687 (10.77%) Git
2 286 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 248 (3.89%) GitLab
4 165 (2.59%) JIRA
5 72 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.96%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.94%) MLflow
8 49 (0.77%) Selenium
9 38 (0.60%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 33 (0.52%) JUnit
13 31 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,217 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 1,309 (20.53%) Finance
3 853 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (4.88%) Banking
5 309 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 208 (3.26%) Law
8 180 (2.82%) Retail
9 157 (2.46%) Marketing
10 128 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 127 (1.99%) Front Office
11 127 (1.99%) Legal
12 88 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 85 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 85 (1.33%) Electronics
14 80 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 76 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 69 (1.08%) Investment Banking
17 65 (1.02%) Games
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,227 (19.24%) Senior
2 1,011 (15.86%) Analyst
3 891 (13.97%) Developer
4 842 (13.21%) Data Analyst
5 828 (12.99%) Software Engineer
6 746 (11.70%) Junior
7 668 (10.48%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.43%) Junior Data Analyst
9 651 (10.21%) Python Engineer
10 633 (9.93%) Data Engineer
11 594 (9.32%) Lead
12 469 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 368 (5.77%) Python Developer
14 301 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 237 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 213 (3.34%) Architect
17 211 (3.31%) Data Scientist
18 194 (3.04%) Senior Developer
19 188 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (6.41%) React
2 295 (4.63%) Kafka
3 249 (3.91%) Node.js
4 231 (3.62%) PySpark
4 231 (3.62%) REST
5 227 (3.56%) .NET
6 204 (3.20%) RESTful
7 201 (3.15%) FastAPI
8 196 (3.07%) Django
9 189 (2.96%) HTML
10 173 (2.71%) PyTorch
11 172 (2.70%) CSS
12 166 (2.60%) LangChain
13 147 (2.31%) TensorFlow
14 146 (2.29%) Pandas
15 135 (2.12%) Flask
16 128 (2.01%) scikit-learn
17 114 (1.79%) Spring
18 112 (1.76%) Spring Boot
19 106 (1.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 565 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 345 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 326 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 203 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 192 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 165 (2.59%) Data Structures
7 135 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 91 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
11 83 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 82 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 81 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 76 (1.19%) Hedge funds
15 75 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 74 (1.16%) Equities
16 74 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
17 73 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
18 72 (1.13%) Robotics
19 67 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 716 (11.23%) Linux
2 323 (5.07%) Windows
3 96 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.36%) Unix
5 54 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.71%) CentOS
7 36 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 15 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,750 (43.13%) AI
2 1,592 (24.97%) Software Engineering
3 1,559 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (18.76%) Business Intelligence
5 1,161 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
6 1,136 (17.82%) Agile
7 1,088 (17.06%) Analytics
8 1,076 (16.88%) DevOps
9 978 (15.34%) Machine Learning
10 902 (14.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 785 (12.31%) Mentoring
12 719 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 712 (11.17%) Data Engineering
14 670 (10.51%) Data Modelling
15 633 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 631 (9.90%) Data Science
17 599 (9.39%) Containerisation
18 578 (9.07%) Full-Stack Development
19 574 (9.00%) Computer Science
20 568 (8.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,380 (37.33%) SQL
2 795 (12.47%) Java
3 666 (10.45%) JavaScript
4 539 (8.45%) C++
5 497 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 479 (7.51%) Bash
7 455 (7.14%) C#
8 406 (6.37%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.41%) Go
10 180 (2.82%) C
11 171 (2.68%) R
12 128 (2.01%) Scala
13 100 (1.57%) Rust
14 99 (1.55%) PHP
15 88 (1.38%) Bicep
16 73 (1.14%) Perl
17 69 (1.08%) Ruby
18 63 (0.99%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 50 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,119 (17.55%) Azure Certification
2 871 (13.66%) Degree
3 755 (11.84%) Security Cleared
4 431 (6.76%) SC Cleared
5 316 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 250 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 193 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 192 (3.01%) AWS Certification
9 117 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 98 (1.54%) PhD
12 82 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 45 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 37 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 32 (0.50%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 25 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 491 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 266 (4.17%) QA
3 151 (2.37%) GDPR
4 99 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.14%) NIST
6 63 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 31 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 22 (0.35%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.30%) GRC
14 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.19%) NCSC
16 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 751 (11.78%) Docker
2 112 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 112 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.96%) Firmware
4 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.44%) KVM
6 27 (0.42%) vSphere
7 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) Xen
Systems Management
1 912 (14.30%) Terraform
2 727 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 390 (6.12%) Ansible
4 244 (3.83%) Grafana
5 157 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.82%) Argo
7 45 (0.71%) Nagios
8 44 (0.69%) Puppet
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 32 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,448 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 428 (6.71%) Databricks
3 193 (3.03%) Google
4 154 (2.42%) Splunk
5 143 (2.24%) Oracle
6 139 (2.18%) VMware
7 122 (1.91%) Cisco
8 116 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 113 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 74 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 57 (0.89%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 48 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 42 (0.66%) F5
15 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
16 39 (0.61%) SAP
17 37 (0.58%) Dynatrace
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 33 (0.52%) Palantir