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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,446 5,258 6,436
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.52% 11.76% 9.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.97% 34.15% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,925 3,229 5,143
10th Percentile £32,000 £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 £90,000 £98,750 £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% -3.91%

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 11,123 15,395 24,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.81% 34.42% 36.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,273 9,222 20,736
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £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 14 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 14 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 0 2,043 £83,500 -4.57% 782
North of England -11 782 £47,500 -26.92% 412
South East -23 542 £60,000 -14.29% 600
Midlands -9 414 £55,000 - 212
South West -2 369 £60,000 -7.69% 213
Yorkshire +4 340 £42,250 -35.00% 148
North West -17 329 £55,000 -12.00% 214
West Midlands +6 267 £55,000 - 108
East of England -23 227 £51,250 -22.63% 174
East Midlands -15 150 £55,000 - 105
North East +9 113 £40,000 -38.46% 51
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
1 162 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.70%) Apache
4 41 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 37 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.72%) SAS
7 31 (0.70%) Confluence
8 27 (0.61%) WordPress
9 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.43%) Appian
11 18 (0.40%) IIS
11 18 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.20%) nginx
17 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 713 (16.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.22%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.090%) Windchill
10 3 (0.067%) CATIA
10 3 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.045%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.045%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.045%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.045%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,839 (41.36%) Azure
2 1,538 (34.59%) AWS
3 862 (19.39%) Power Platform
4 555 (12.48%) GitHub
5 483 (10.86%) GCP
6 464 (10.44%) Azure AI
7 261 (5.87%) Serverless
8 188 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (3.82%) SaaS
10 166 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 162 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 156 (3.51%) Snowflake
13 155 (3.49%) Amazon S3
14 142 (3.19%) dbt
15 136 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 118 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
19 79 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 72 (1.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.78%) Internet
2 165 (3.71%) Firewall
3 102 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 91 (2.05%) VPN
5 76 (1.71%) DNS
6 70 (1.57%) WAN
7 68 (1.53%) Broadband
8 60 (1.35%) LAN
9 57 (1.28%) BGP
10 55 (1.24%) Network Security
10 55 (1.24%) Wireless
11 50 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (1.08%) VLAN
13 42 (0.94%) HTTP
14 40 (0.90%) OSPF
15 34 (0.76%) MPLS
15 34 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.70%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.58%) DHCP
17 26 (0.58%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 822 (18.49%) Power BI
2 754 (16.96%) Tableau
3 242 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 214 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
6 173 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 165 (3.71%) Data Mining
8 149 (3.35%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.72%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.50%) MongoDB
11 110 (2.47%) Big Data
12 88 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 88 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
13 87 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 85 (1.91%) MySQL
15 72 (1.62%) Metadata
16 69 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (1.48%) Hadoop
18 50 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
19 49 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 581 (13.07%) Git
2 216 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 158 (3.55%) GitLab
4 107 (2.41%) JIRA
5 57 (1.28%) Selenium
6 45 (1.01%) MLflow
7 40 (0.90%) Postman
8 32 (0.72%) JUnit
9 31 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 30 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 28 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.52%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.45%) JMeter
14 19 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.40%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.38%) Subversion
17 16 (0.36%) Metasploit
18 15 (0.34%) Burp Suite
19 14 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,423 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (24.58%) Finance
3 725 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (5.49%) Banking
5 241 (5.42%) Multimedia
6 186 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 182 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 171 (3.85%) Law
9 146 (3.28%) Front Office
10 131 (2.95%) Retail
11 125 (2.81%) Marketing
12 121 (2.72%) Manufacturing
13 113 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 74 (1.66%) Electronics
16 73 (1.64%) Legal
17 62 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 51 (1.15%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
20 48 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 887 (19.95%) Analyst
2 809 (18.20%) Developer
3 726 (16.33%) Data Analyst
4 674 (15.16%) Senior
5 446 (10.03%) Junior
6 433 (9.74%) Data Engineer
7 424 (9.54%) Junior Analyst
7 424 (9.54%) Junior Data Analyst
8 410 (9.22%) Trainee
9 367 (8.25%) Software Engineer
10 343 (7.71%) Lead
11 316 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 261 (5.87%) Python Engineer
13 201 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.35%) Architect
15 145 (3.26%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.04%) Trainee Analyst
16 135 (3.04%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 133 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
18 131 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (8.75%) HTML
2 361 (8.12%) React
3 341 (7.67%) CSS
4 191 (4.30%) Node.js
5 182 (4.09%) REST
6 174 (3.91%) Django
7 171 (3.85%) Kafka
8 146 (3.28%) RESTful
9 136 (3.06%) .NET
10 132 (2.97%) FastAPI
10 132 (2.97%) PySpark
11 124 (2.79%) Pandas
12 118 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 113 (2.54%) Flask
14 103 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 99 (2.23%) AngularJS
16 95 (2.14%) JSON
17 87 (1.96%) NumPy
18 82 (1.84%) Vue
19 81 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 236 (5.31%) Cloud Native
2 219 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 178 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 149 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.34%) Equities
7 103 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 102 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 83 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 82 (1.84%) Fixed Income
11 78 (1.75%) Hedge funds
12 76 (1.71%) Low-Code
13 72 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 71 (1.60%) Derivative
15 70 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
16 68 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
17 64 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
18 63 (1.42%) AI Agents
19 60 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
20 57 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 503 (11.31%) Linux
2 199 (4.48%) Windows
3 181 (4.07%) Unix
4 63 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 58 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.74%) CentOS
7 29 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.36%) Debian
10 15 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.25%) Android
13 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 9 (0.20%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.090%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.067%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.067%) zOS
17 2 (0.045%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (31.40%) AI
2 1,008 (22.67%) CI/CD
3 935 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
4 926 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
5 841 (18.92%) Analytics
6 812 (18.26%) Agile
7 782 (17.59%) DevOps
8 752 (16.91%) Software Engineering
9 681 (15.32%) Mentoring
10 577 (12.98%) Machine Learning
11 495 (11.13%) Data Science
12 492 (11.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 483 (10.86%) Data Modelling
14 481 (10.82%) ETL
15 473 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
16 470 (10.57%) Computer Science
17 463 (10.41%) Data Engineering
18 432 (9.72%) Data Analysis
19 423 (9.51%) Containerisation
20 399 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,802 (40.53%) SQL
2 771 (17.34%) JavaScript
3 610 (13.72%) Java
4 399 (8.97%) Bash
5 356 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 333 (7.49%) TypeScript
7 283 (6.37%) C#
8 240 (5.40%) R
9 227 (5.11%) C++
10 206 (4.63%) Go
11 131 (2.95%) C
12 86 (1.93%) Scala
13 65 (1.46%) VBA
14 64 (1.44%) PHP
15 56 (1.26%) Rust
16 47 (1.06%) Bicep
17 44 (0.99%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.88%) Perl
18 39 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 796 (17.90%) Degree
2 735 (16.53%) Azure Certification
3 456 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 385 (8.66%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 270 (6.07%) SC Cleared
7 265 (5.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 228 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 172 (3.87%) Master's Degree
10 158 (3.55%) DV Cleared
11 104 (2.34%) PhD
12 72 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.35%) CCNP
14 52 (1.17%) CISSP
15 48 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
18 32 (0.72%) OSCP
19 28 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 170 (3.82%) QA
3 117 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.29%) GDPR
5 98 (2.20%) NIST
6 66 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 41 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.58%) SLA
8 26 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.31%) PMO
12 13 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.27%) GRC
14 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.11%) DICOM
16 5 (0.11%) NCSC
17 4 (0.090%) WCAG
System Software
1 536 (12.06%) Docker
2 85 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.67%) Firmware
5 21 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.31%) KVM
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 10 (0.22%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.20%) HDFS
11 8 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
13 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.090%) iptables
14 4 (0.090%) NFS
14 4 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.067%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.067%) QEMU
15 3 (0.067%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 570 (12.82%) Terraform
2 566 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 322 (7.24%) Ansible
4 140 (3.15%) Grafana
5 135 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.44%) Argo
7 22 (0.49%) Kibana
7 22 (0.49%) Puppet
8 20 (0.45%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.36%) Nagios
11 14 (0.31%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.29%) Rancher
13 12 (0.27%) Nessus
14 11 (0.25%) Control-M
14 11 (0.25%) logstash
14 11 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,294 (29.10%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.62%) Databricks
3 207 (4.66%) Google
4 126 (2.83%) Oracle
5 103 (2.32%) Cisco
6 102 (2.29%) VMware
7 75 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.55%) SAP
10 63 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 61 (1.37%) Splunk
12 52 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.10%) Informatica
14 44 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.94%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.90%) IBM
16 40 (0.90%) Talend
17 39 (0.88%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.72%) Palantir
19 31 (0.70%) Atlassian