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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,190 5,358 6,465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.51% 9.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.44% 33.83% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,779 3,217 5,144
10th Percentile £30,132 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%

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 10,625 15,836 24,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.89% 34.01% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,926 9,220 20,620
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,438 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 February 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 February 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 -1 1,989 £80,939 -7.50% 1,328
North of England -13 698 £48,445 -25.47% 429
South East -25 488 £60,000 -11.11% 699
Midlands -13 385 £55,000 - 223
South West -5 347 £60,000 -7.69% 279
Yorkshire +8 312 £46,250 -28.85% 153
North West -17 290 £55,000 -12.00% 224
West Midlands +2 254 £55,000 - 105
East of England -18 220 £51,250 -22.65% 235
East Midlands -20 134 £55,000 - 118
North East +2 96 £40,000 -42.29% 55
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
1 154 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.84%) Apache
4 37 (0.88%) Confluence
5 36 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.74%) SAS
7 27 (0.64%) WordPress
8 22 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.48%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.45%) Appian
12 18 (0.43%) IIS
13 17 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.41%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 11 (0.26%) nginx
16 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.17%) CMS
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 611 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.095%) Windchill
9 3 (0.072%) CATIA
9 3 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.048%) Stata
10 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 4 (0.095%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,693 (40.41%) Azure
2 1,456 (34.75%) AWS
3 772 (18.42%) Power Platform
4 533 (12.72%) GitHub
5 433 (10.33%) GCP
6 373 (8.90%) Azure AI
7 266 (6.35%) Serverless
8 180 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 173 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 156 (3.72%) SaaS
12 153 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 145 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 121 (2.89%) dbt
16 110 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 102 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 75 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.13%) Internet
2 158 (3.77%) Firewall
3 96 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 87 (2.08%) VPN
5 74 (1.77%) DNS
6 70 (1.67%) WAN
7 59 (1.41%) Broadband
7 59 (1.41%) LAN
8 55 (1.31%) BGP
9 52 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.22%) Wireless
11 46 (1.10%) Network Security
12 43 (1.03%) VLAN
13 38 (0.91%) HTTP
13 38 (0.91%) OSPF
14 34 (0.81%) MPLS
15 32 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 30 (0.72%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.62%) VXLAN
18 25 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 732 (17.47%) Power BI
2 636 (15.18%) Tableau
3 237 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 209 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
6 180 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 154 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.51%) Data Mining
9 116 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.65%) Big Data
11 110 (2.63%) MongoDB
12 87 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 86 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 83 (1.98%) MySQL
15 77 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (1.74%) Metadata
17 70 (1.67%) Hadoop
18 52 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 574 (13.70%) Git
2 218 (5.20%) Jenkins
3 143 (3.41%) GitLab
4 110 (2.63%) JIRA
5 58 (1.38%) Selenium
6 44 (1.05%) MLflow
7 39 (0.93%) Postman
8 34 (0.81%) JUnit
9 28 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.55%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.50%) JMeter
13 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.36%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.36%) Subversion
16 14 (0.33%) Burp Suite
16 14 (0.33%) Metasploit
17 13 (0.31%) Maven
17 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,298 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (24.27%) Finance
3 669 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.75%) Multimedia
5 236 (5.63%) Banking
6 180 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 177 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.01%) Law
9 136 (3.25%) Marketing
10 128 (3.05%) Front Office
11 112 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 111 (2.65%) Retail
13 106 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.86%) Electronics
16 73 (1.74%) Legal
17 59 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (1.31%) Games
19 52 (1.24%) Investment Banking
20 48 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 778 (18.57%) Analyst
2 766 (18.28%) Developer
3 640 (15.27%) Senior
4 603 (14.39%) Data Analyst
5 411 (9.81%) Data Engineer
6 374 (8.93%) Trainee
7 349 (8.33%) Junior
8 329 (7.85%) Junior Analyst
8 329 (7.85%) Junior Data Analyst
9 326 (7.78%) Software Engineer
10 309 (7.37%) Lead
11 298 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 233 (5.56%) Python Engineer
13 192 (4.58%) Software Developer
14 146 (3.48%) Architect
15 141 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 133 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 126 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
18 118 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
18 118 (2.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (9.26%) HTML
2 342 (8.16%) CSS
3 331 (7.90%) React
4 180 (4.30%) REST
5 173 (4.13%) Node.js
6 165 (3.94%) Django
7 150 (3.58%) Kafka
8 145 (3.46%) RESTful
9 132 (3.15%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.10%) PySpark
11 128 (3.05%) PyTorch
12 126 (3.01%) .NET
13 110 (2.63%) Pandas
14 108 (2.58%) Flask
15 105 (2.51%) TensorFlow
16 96 (2.29%) AngularJS
17 84 (2.00%) JSON
18 80 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
19 79 (1.89%) Vue
20 76 (1.81%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 205 (4.89%) Algorithms
3 160 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 154 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 99 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 97 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 96 (2.29%) Equities
9 85 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 75 (1.79%) Low-Code
11 74 (1.77%) Hedge funds
12 70 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 70 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
13 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.55%) Derivative
15 63 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
16 60 (1.43%) AI Agents
16 60 (1.43%) Fixed Income
17 58 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
18 51 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 495 (11.81%) Linux
2 202 (4.82%) Windows
3 180 (4.30%) Unix
4 67 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.76%) CentOS
7 30 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.45%) Debian
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.33%) VMS
12 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (0.29%) Solaris
14 11 (0.26%) Android
15 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.095%) zOS
18 3 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (29.98%) AI
2 974 (23.25%) CI/CD
3 927 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 840 (20.05%) Business Intelligence
5 817 (19.50%) Analytics
6 762 (18.19%) Agile
6 762 (18.19%) DevOps
7 681 (16.25%) Software Engineering
8 662 (15.80%) Mentoring
9 555 (13.25%) Machine Learning
10 483 (11.53%) Data Science
11 480 (11.46%) ETL
12 463 (11.05%) Data Modelling
13 462 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
13 462 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 450 (10.74%) Data Engineering
15 448 (10.69%) Computer Science
16 413 (9.86%) Data Analysis
17 395 (9.43%) Containerisation
18 386 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,684 (40.19%) SQL
2 730 (17.42%) JavaScript
3 583 (13.91%) Java
4 393 (9.38%) Bash
5 346 (8.26%) PowerShell
6 315 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 276 (6.59%) C#
8 229 (5.47%) R
9 213 (5.08%) C++
10 171 (4.08%) Go
11 125 (2.98%) C
12 82 (1.96%) Scala
13 63 (1.50%) PHP
14 62 (1.48%) VBA
15 49 (1.17%) Bicep
16 47 (1.12%) MATLAB
16 47 (1.12%) Rust
17 42 (1.00%) Perl
18 40 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 802 (19.14%) Degree
2 635 (15.16%) Azure Certification
3 449 (10.72%) Security Cleared
4 367 (8.76%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 265 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 246 (5.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 211 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 186 (4.44%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.79%) DV Cleared
11 120 (2.86%) PhD
12 73 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.43%) CCNP
14 47 (1.12%) CISSP
14 47 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
15 42 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.62%) HND
18 26 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.87%) QA
3 105 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.43%) GDPR
5 88 (2.10%) NIST
6 65 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.72%) SLA
9 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.14%) GRC
16 6 (0.14%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.12%) NCSC
18 4 (0.095%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 517 (12.34%) Docker
2 84 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.72%) Firmware
5 19 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.29%) vSphere
8 10 (0.24%) HDFS
8 10 (0.24%) KVM
8 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 5 (0.12%) NFS
11 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.072%) iptables
13 3 (0.072%) Postfix
13 3 (0.072%) QEMU
14 2 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 541 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 533 (12.72%) Terraform
3 314 (7.49%) Ansible
4 127 (3.03%) Grafana
5 126 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.43%) Argo
7 23 (0.55%) Kibana
8 22 (0.53%) Puppet
9 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.31%) Nagios
12 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.29%) Nessus
13 12 (0.29%) Rancher
14 11 (0.26%) Control-M
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,143 (27.28%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.99%) Databricks
3 190 (4.53%) Google
4 127 (3.03%) Oracle
5 101 (2.41%) Cisco
6 95 (2.27%) VMware
7 78 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.67%) SAP
10 60 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.38%) Splunk
12 53 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.12%) Informatica
14 43 (1.03%) Bloomberg
14 43 (1.03%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.03%) IBM
15 40 (0.95%) Talend
16 39 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 32 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 32 (0.76%) Palantir