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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,229 4,964 6,695
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.44% 11.32% 9.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.19% 40.14% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,839 2,771 4,669
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £133,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 16,748 12,366 21,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 28.20% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,262 8,253 15,490
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 27 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 27 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 -2 2,591 £85,000 -5.56% 5,053
North of England -13 1,221 £66,750 +2.69% 789
South East +9 886 £60,000 +2.13% 955
South West +12 608 £60,000 +9.09% 510
North West -19 590 £66,750 +11.25% 437
Midlands +4 555 £62,000 -4.62% 361
Yorkshire +10 381 £67,500 +3.85% 222
East of England +8 315 £65,000 +18.18% 487
West Midlands -5 296 £65,000 - 207
East Midlands +19 257 £52,500 -19.23% 153
North East +28 250 £66,000 +1.54% 136
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
1 223 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 203 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.65%) Apache
4 69 (1.11%) Confluence
5 47 (0.75%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 38 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.35%) SAS
10 13 (0.21%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.13%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.096%) JBoss
15 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 597 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 25 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.080%) Shopify
7 4 (0.064%) Line 50
7 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Endur
10 1 (0.016%) Findur
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,452 (39.36%) Azure
2 1,968 (31.59%) AWS
3 960 (15.41%) Power Platform
4 814 (13.07%) Azure AI
5 745 (11.96%) GCP
6 400 (6.42%) GitHub
7 366 (5.88%) Serverless
8 238 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 237 (3.80%) SaaS
10 236 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 232 (3.72%) Snowflake
12 207 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 196 (3.15%) dbt
14 188 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
17 144 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 131 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
19 119 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 222 (3.56%) Firewall
2 137 (2.20%) DNS
3 126 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 126 (2.02%) VPN
4 114 (1.83%) Broadband
5 107 (1.72%) Network Security
6 93 (1.49%) WAN
7 78 (1.25%) Wireless
8 71 (1.14%) Internet
9 70 (1.12%) LAN
10 56 (0.90%) BGP
11 50 (0.80%) DHCP
12 47 (0.75%) VLAN
13 45 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.66%) MQTT
15 40 (0.64%) HTTP
15 40 (0.64%) OSPF
16 35 (0.56%) SSL
17 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 888 (14.26%) Power BI
2 650 (10.44%) Tableau
3 345 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
5 209 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 174 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 130 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 122 (1.96%) Big Data
12 115 (1.85%) MySQL
13 107 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 106 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
15 98 (1.57%) Metadata
16 90 (1.44%) DynamoDB
17 84 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.16%) Delta Lake
18 72 (1.16%) Looker
19 65 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 693 (11.13%) Git
2 296 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.87%) GitLab
4 171 (2.75%) JIRA
5 63 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 58 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.82%) Selenium
9 44 (0.71%) Subversion
9 44 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
10 38 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.59%) JUnit
12 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.35%) JMeter
15 22 (0.35%) Maven
16 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2,089 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 1,297 (20.82%) Finance
3 826 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (4.99%) Banking
6 240 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.45%) Law
8 189 (3.03%) Marketing
9 153 (2.46%) Retail
10 127 (2.04%) Legal
11 105 (1.69%) Front Office
11 105 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 93 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 93 (1.49%) Electronics
13 82 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 81 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 67 (1.08%) Games
17 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
18 50 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,250 (20.07%) Senior
2 854 (13.71%) Developer
3 836 (13.42%) Software Engineer
4 796 (12.78%) Analyst
5 674 (10.82%) Python Engineer
6 627 (10.07%) Data Analyst
7 623 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 618 (9.92%) Lead
9 560 (8.99%) Junior
10 498 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.63%) Junior Data Analyst
13 369 (5.92%) Python Developer
14 303 (4.86%) Python Software Engineer
15 243 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.53%) Architect
17 212 (3.40%) Data Scientist
18 199 (3.19%) Senior Developer
19 187 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
20 183 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 942 (15.12%) Terraform
2 402 (6.45%) React
3 263 (4.22%) Kafka
4 235 (3.77%) .NET
5 231 (3.71%) Node.js
6 227 (3.64%) REST
7 219 (3.52%) PySpark
8 211 (3.39%) RESTful
9 208 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.10%) HTML
11 186 (2.99%) Django
12 183 (2.94%) PyTorch
13 178 (2.86%) LangChain
14 176 (2.83%) CSS
15 156 (2.50%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.09%) Flask
17 116 (1.86%) Spring
17 116 (1.86%) Spring Boot
18 109 (1.75%) Pandas
19 107 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 599 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 297 (4.77%) Algorithms
4 228 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 149 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 146 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 92 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 85 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 83 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 79 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 79 (1.27%) Robotics
13 76 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
13 76 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 72 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 68 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
17 63 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
18 62 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 713 (11.45%) Linux
2 326 (5.23%) Windows
3 91 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.25%) Unix
5 52 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.72%) CentOS
7 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,612 (41.93%) AI
2 1,638 (26.30%) Software Engineering
3 1,548 (24.85%) CI/CD
4 1,179 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
5 1,102 (17.69%) Analytics
6 1,085 (17.42%) Agile
6 1,085 (17.42%) DevOps
7 1,048 (16.82%) Business Intelligence
8 1,009 (16.20%) Machine Learning
9 933 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 812 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 725 (11.64%) Data Engineering
12 716 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
13 663 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 655 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 634 (10.18%) Data Science
16 599 (9.62%) Containerisation
17 591 (9.49%) Computer Science
18 589 (9.46%) Decision-Making
19 570 (9.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,202 (35.35%) SQL
2 820 (13.16%) Java
3 658 (10.56%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.80%) C++
5 499 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 497 (7.98%) Bash
7 470 (7.55%) C#
8 395 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 260 (4.17%) Go
10 190 (3.05%) C
11 171 (2.75%) R
12 118 (1.89%) Scala
13 101 (1.62%) PHP
14 93 (1.49%) Bicep
15 92 (1.48%) Rust
16 87 (1.40%) Perl
17 76 (1.22%) Ruby
18 63 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 44 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (15.07%) Azure Certification
2 904 (14.51%) Degree
3 795 (12.76%) Security Cleared
4 435 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 323 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.27%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.39%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 124 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 110 (1.77%) PhD
11 79 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 75 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.80%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.66%) CISSP
16 41 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.51%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.32%) QA
3 140 (2.25%) GDPR
4 108 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 63 (1.01%) NIST
6 57 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 29 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.45%) SLA
10 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.34%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 16 (0.26%) GRC
13 16 (0.26%) NCSC
14 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 761 (12.22%) Docker
2 117 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (1.08%) Firmware
5 45 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 21 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.096%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 757 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 406 (6.52%) Ansible
3 235 (3.77%) Grafana
4 140 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.96%) Puppet
6 50 (0.80%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.61%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.50%) Istio
12 29 (0.47%) Packer
13 24 (0.39%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
16 16 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
17 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,242 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 456 (7.32%) Databricks
3 199 (3.19%) Google
4 150 (2.41%) Splunk
5 128 (2.05%) VMware
6 122 (1.96%) OpenAI
7 120 (1.93%) Oracle
8 118 (1.89%) Cisco
9 99 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.96%) Foundry
12 52 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 45 (0.72%) Dynatrace
14 40 (0.64%) Salesforce
14 40 (0.64%) SolarWinds
15 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.58%) SAP
17 35 (0.56%) F5
17 35 (0.56%) Palantir
18 31 (0.50%) IBM