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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,177 4,848 6,624
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.22% 11.17% 9.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.63% 40.92% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,823 2,664 4,308
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,875
90th Percentile £106,000 £132,500 £136,250
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 16,861 11,847 20,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.98% 27.29% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,345 7,815 13,761
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 2,563 £85,000 -5.56% 5,338
North of England -16 1,195 £66,805 +6.89% 744
South East +15 883 £60,000 - 872
South West +11 605 £60,500 +10.00% 498
North West -21 584 £67,153 +11.92% 415
Midlands +7 554 £60,000 -7.69% 344
Yorkshire +10 363 £68,000 +4.62% 222
East of England +11 324 £65,000 +18.18% 531
West Midlands -5 298 £62,500 -1.57% 186
East Midlands +17 254 £52,500 -19.23% 155
North East +20 248 £66,000 +10.00% 112
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
1 218 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 188 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.66%) Apache
4 71 (1.15%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.40%) SAS
10 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) Camunda
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.097%) JBoss
16 5 (0.081%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 546 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.32%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) 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%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.097%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.081%) Shopify
6 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,411 (39.03%) Azure
2 1,937 (31.36%) AWS
3 916 (14.83%) Power Platform
4 769 (12.45%) Azure AI
5 735 (11.90%) GCP
6 408 (6.61%) GitHub
7 367 (5.94%) Serverless
8 247 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 238 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 220 (3.56%) Snowflake
12 218 (3.53%) SaaS
13 208 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 199 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 179 (2.90%) dbt
16 171 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
17 166 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
18 141 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
20 124 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.51%) Firewall
2 142 (2.30%) DNS
3 128 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 128 (2.07%) VPN
4 110 (1.78%) Broadband
5 102 (1.65%) Network Security
6 96 (1.55%) WAN
7 79 (1.28%) Wireless
8 71 (1.15%) LAN
9 70 (1.13%) Internet
10 60 (0.97%) BGP
11 57 (0.92%) DHCP
12 48 (0.78%) VLAN
13 47 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.70%) OSPF
15 42 (0.68%) MQTT
16 38 (0.62%) HTTP
17 35 (0.57%) SSL
18 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
18 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 846 (13.70%) Power BI
2 593 (9.60%) Tableau
3 344 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 160 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 145 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 126 (2.04%) Big Data
11 122 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 115 (1.86%) MySQL
13 103 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 102 (1.65%) Metadata
15 98 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
16 91 (1.47%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 75 (1.21%) Delta Lake
19 71 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 709 (11.48%) Git
2 303 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 247 (4.00%) GitLab
4 171 (2.77%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 54 (0.87%) Selenium
7 53 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 53 (0.86%) MLflow
8 49 (0.79%) Subversion
9 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.60%) JUnit
12 36 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 23 (0.37%) Maven
17 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.32%) JMeter
17 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,067 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 1,296 (20.98%) Finance
3 812 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 325 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 310 (5.02%) Banking
6 243 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 212 (3.43%) Law
8 187 (3.03%) Marketing
9 153 (2.48%) Retail
10 126 (2.04%) Legal
11 106 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 99 (1.60%) Aerospace
13 98 (1.59%) Front Office
14 97 (1.57%) Electronics
15 85 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.07%) Games
19 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
20 44 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,260 (20.40%) Senior
2 841 (13.62%) Developer
2 841 (13.62%) Software Engineer
3 750 (12.14%) Analyst
4 683 (11.06%) Python Engineer
5 622 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 617 (9.99%) Lead
7 584 (9.45%) Data Analyst
8 511 (8.27%) Junior
9 509 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 431 (6.98%) Junior Analyst
11 427 (6.91%) Junior Data Analyst
12 367 (5.94%) Python Developer
13 312 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
14 253 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 222 (3.59%) Architect
16 217 (3.51%) Data Scientist
17 197 (3.19%) Senior Developer
18 190 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
19 186 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (15.44%) Terraform
2 391 (6.33%) React
3 251 (4.06%) Kafka
4 231 (3.74%) REST
5 230 (3.72%) .NET
6 221 (3.58%) PySpark
7 219 (3.55%) Node.js
8 213 (3.45%) RESTful
9 208 (3.37%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.12%) HTML
11 190 (3.08%) Django
12 180 (2.91%) PyTorch
13 177 (2.87%) CSS
14 176 (2.85%) LangChain
15 152 (2.46%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.10%) Flask
17 115 (1.86%) Spring
17 115 (1.86%) Spring Boot
18 109 (1.76%) Pandas
19 101 (1.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 598 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 297 (4.81%) Algorithms
4 233 (3.77%) AI Agents
5 207 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 160 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 143 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 84 (1.36%) Robotics
10 83 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 80 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 79 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
13 76 (1.23%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 75 (1.21%) Low-Code
15 70 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
16 66 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
17 65 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 712 (11.53%) Linux
2 319 (5.16%) Windows
3 86 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.26%) Unix
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.71%) CentOS
7 38 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (0.37%) Debian
10 17 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.23%) Rocky
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Solaris
13 11 (0.18%) Android
13 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.097%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,587 (41.88%) AI
2 1,662 (26.91%) Software Engineering
3 1,575 (25.50%) CI/CD
4 1,197 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1,100 (17.81%) Analytics
6 1,095 (17.73%) DevOps
7 1,074 (17.39%) Agile
8 1,008 (16.32%) Business Intelligence
9 1,007 (16.30%) Machine Learning
10 948 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 815 (13.19%) Mentoring
12 733 (11.87%) Data Engineering
13 716 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
14 665 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 661 (10.70%) Data Modelling
16 632 (10.23%) Data Science
17 600 (9.71%) Decision-Making
18 594 (9.62%) Computer Science
18 594 (9.62%) Containerisation
19 572 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,158 (34.94%) SQL
2 806 (13.05%) Java
3 637 (10.31%) JavaScript
4 558 (9.03%) C++
5 504 (8.16%) Bash
6 492 (7.97%) PowerShell
7 477 (7.72%) C#
8 390 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 259 (4.19%) Go
10 196 (3.17%) C
11 173 (2.80%) R
12 120 (1.94%) Scala
13 96 (1.55%) PHP
14 93 (1.51%) Bicep
14 93 (1.51%) Rust
15 89 (1.44%) Perl
16 76 (1.23%) Ruby
17 69 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 69 (1.12%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 917 (14.85%) Degree
2 895 (14.49%) Azure Certification
3 813 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 449 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 319 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 214 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 113 (1.83%) PhD
11 83 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 63 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.83%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.70%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 31 (0.50%) CCNA
19 31 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 522 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 268 (4.34%) QA
3 132 (2.14%) GDPR
4 107 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.97%) NIST
6 56 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.44%) SLA
9 23 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.31%) WCAG
13 18 (0.29%) NCSC
14 16 (0.26%) GRC
14 16 (0.26%) PMO
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 765 (12.38%) Docker
2 113 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.12%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 20 (0.32%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
17 2 (0.032%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 765 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 410 (6.64%) Ansible
3 238 (3.85%) Grafana
4 145 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.97%) Puppet
6 53 (0.86%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 34 (0.55%) Nagios
10 33 (0.53%) Istio
11 29 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.34%) Podman
14 17 (0.28%) Kubeflow
14 17 (0.28%) logstash
14 17 (0.28%) Rancher
14 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,215 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 453 (7.33%) Databricks
3 206 (3.33%) Google
4 149 (2.41%) Splunk
5 125 (2.02%) VMware
6 122 (1.98%) Cisco
6 122 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 115 (1.86%) Oracle
8 96 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.96%) Foundry
11 51 (0.83%) Palo Alto
12 47 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.66%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.62%) SolarWinds
15 35 (0.57%) F5
15 35 (0.57%) Palantir
16 32 (0.52%) SAP
17 31 (0.50%) IBM