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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,270 5,274 7,680
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.16% 12.15% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 40.09% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,765 2,998 5,743
10th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 16,069 13,155 27,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 30.31% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,703 8,902 21,411
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 July 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 12 July 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 2,491 £85,000 -5.56% 1,547
North of England -12 1,269 £65,000 - 447
South East +1 944 £60,000 - 555
Midlands +20 617 £60,000 +1.69% 210
North West -16 592 £65,000 - 242
South West +10 577 £60,000 +4.40% 432
Yorkshire +14 456 £65,000 - 123
West Midlands +9 317 £62,500 +4.82% 113
East Midlands +28 300 £54,500 -0.91% 97
East of England -8 298 £70,000 +5.73% 173
North East +24 221 £59,000 -5.60% 85
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
1 224 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 223 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 169 (2.70%) Apache
4 73 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.88%) Confluence
6 47 (0.75%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.48%) SAS
9 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
11 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.096%) Camunda
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
13 5 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 920 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.27%) Simulink
7 12 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.048%) Blender
9 3 (0.048%) Maya
9 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.048%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.032%) Summit
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,701 (43.08%) Azure
2 2,003 (31.95%) AWS
3 1,198 (19.11%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.29%) Azure AI
5 748 (11.93%) GCP
6 399 (6.36%) GitHub
7 366 (5.84%) Serverless
8 245 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 235 (3.75%) SaaS
10 231 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
11 221 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 199 (3.17%) Snowflake
13 191 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 179 (2.85%) dbt
15 173 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 164 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 156 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 130 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
20 118 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 245 (3.91%) Firewall
2 172 (2.74%) Broadband
3 145 (2.31%) VPN
4 137 (2.19%) DNS
5 117 (1.87%) Network Security
6 108 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 97 (1.55%) WAN
8 81 (1.29%) Wireless
9 78 (1.24%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) Internet
11 59 (0.94%) BGP
12 54 (0.86%) VLAN
13 53 (0.85%) HTTP
14 52 (0.83%) SD-WAN
15 49 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 41 (0.65%) DHCP
17 40 (0.64%) OSPF
18 37 (0.59%) MQTT
19 34 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 30 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,137 (18.13%) Power BI
2 986 (15.73%) Tableau
3 301 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 268 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 180 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 179 (2.85%) Data Lake
7 169 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 140 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 118 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.77%) Big Data
13 110 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.67%) MySQL
15 94 (1.50%) Metadata
16 78 (1.24%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (0.99%) Data Mining
18 62 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 56 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 634 (10.11%) Git
2 291 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 258 (4.11%) GitLab
4 159 (2.54%) JIRA
5 81 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.91%) Claude Code
7 56 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 56 (0.89%) MLflow
8 43 (0.69%) Selenium
9 40 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 34 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 34 (0.54%) Subversion
11 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.43%) Postman
12 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 24 (0.38%) JUnit
14 22 (0.35%) JMeter
14 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.33%) Eclipse
General
1 2,196 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 1,247 (19.89%) Finance
3 817 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (4.40%) Banking
5 253 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 195 (3.11%) Retail
8 164 (2.62%) Law
9 132 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.04%) Front Office
11 106 (1.69%) Legal
12 94 (1.50%) Marketing
13 84 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.28%) Electronics
15 75 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 72 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (0.99%) Games
19 61 (0.97%) Investment Banking
20 58 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,129 (18.01%) Analyst
1 1,129 (18.01%) Senior
2 958 (15.28%) Data Analyst
3 896 (14.29%) Developer
4 816 (13.01%) Junior
5 761 (12.14%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.11%) Junior Data Analyst
7 747 (11.91%) Software Engineer
8 608 (9.70%) Data Engineer
9 575 (9.17%) Python Engineer
10 544 (8.68%) Lead
11 460 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 372 (5.93%) Python Developer
13 273 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
14 216 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
15 205 (3.27%) Architect
16 196 (3.13%) Data Scientist
17 184 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
18 182 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
19 178 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (6.32%) React
2 282 (4.50%) Kafka
3 245 (3.91%) Node.js
4 228 (3.64%) PySpark
5 224 (3.57%) REST
6 213 (3.40%) .NET
7 202 (3.22%) RESTful
8 194 (3.09%) FastAPI
9 188 (3.00%) HTML
10 183 (2.92%) Django
11 173 (2.76%) CSS
12 169 (2.70%) PyTorch
13 155 (2.47%) Pandas
14 149 (2.38%) LangChain
15 143 (2.28%) TensorFlow
16 135 (2.15%) Flask
17 125 (1.99%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.71%) Vue
19 106 (1.69%) NumPy
20 105 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 512 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 314 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 172 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 163 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 138 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 103 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 84 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.26%) Equities
15 75 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 71 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 71 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 68 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 700 (11.16%) Linux
2 302 (4.82%) Windows
3 88 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.34%) Unix
5 50 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 42 (0.67%) CentOS
8 25 (0.40%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.19%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.16%) Android
13 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.13%) Rocky
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,656 (42.36%) AI
2 1,497 (23.88%) CI/CD
3 1,452 (23.16%) Software Engineering
4 1,251 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
5 1,101 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1,067 (17.02%) Agile
7 1,041 (16.60%) DevOps
8 1,019 (16.25%) Analytics
9 890 (14.19%) Machine Learning
10 882 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 751 (11.98%) Mentoring
12 664 (10.59%) Data Pipeline
13 653 (10.41%) Data Engineering
14 639 (10.19%) Data Modelling
15 598 (9.54%) Data Science
16 586 (9.35%) Containerisation
17 582 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 560 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
19 555 (8.85%) Computer Science
20 553 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,375 (37.88%) SQL
2 762 (12.15%) Java
3 654 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 518 (8.26%) PowerShell
5 505 (8.05%) C++
6 498 (7.94%) Bash
7 428 (6.83%) C#
8 389 (6.20%) TypeScript
9 286 (4.56%) Go
10 183 (2.92%) C
11 160 (2.55%) R
12 121 (1.93%) Scala
13 102 (1.63%) Rust
14 98 (1.56%) PHP
15 89 (1.42%) Bicep
16 64 (1.02%) MATLAB
17 60 (0.96%) Perl
17 60 (0.96%) Ruby
18 54 (0.86%) VBA
19 53 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,208 (19.27%) Azure Certification
2 806 (12.85%) Degree
3 734 (11.71%) Security Cleared
4 413 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 237 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.37%) AWS Certification
8 178 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 122 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 119 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 87 (1.39%) PhD
12 75 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.85%) CCNP
14 51 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.67%) OSCP
16 38 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 31 (0.49%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 254 (4.05%) QA
3 141 (2.25%) GDPR
4 87 (1.39%) NIST
5 78 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 22 (0.35%) GRC
11 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.32%) SLA
13 19 (0.30%) PMO
14 14 (0.22%) WCAG
15 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) Basel III
18 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 710 (11.32%) Docker
2 112 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 39 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.49%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.064%) iptables
15 4 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.048%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
16 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 919 (14.66%) Terraform
2 714 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 400 (6.38%) Ansible
4 245 (3.91%) Grafana
5 173 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.99%) Argo
7 43 (0.69%) Puppet
8 40 (0.64%) Nagios
9 37 (0.59%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.45%) Istio
11 28 (0.45%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) logstash
16 17 (0.27%) Podman
16 17 (0.27%) Rancher
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,557 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 379 (6.04%) Databricks
3 201 (3.21%) Google
4 146 (2.33%) VMware
5 137 (2.19%) Splunk
6 134 (2.14%) Oracle
7 116 (1.85%) Cisco
8 105 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 103 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 64 (1.02%) Foundry
11 61 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 51 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 47 (0.75%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.70%) SAP
17 42 (0.67%) F5
18 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
19 36 (0.57%) Palantir
20 35 (0.56%) Arista