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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,413 5,165 6,459
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.87% 11.85% 8.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.32% 40.36% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 2,886 4,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,950
% change year-on-year -3.45% -0.62% +0.62%

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 16,734 12,798 21,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 29.37% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12,165 8,542 15,977
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +4.56% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 8 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 8 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 -3 2,630 £85,000 -5.56% 2,997
North of England -13 1,270 £65,000 - 575
South East +3 934 £60,000 - 649
South West +11 618 £60,000 +9.09% 309
North West -17 608 £65,500 +9.17% 308
Midlands +11 584 £62,000 -4.25% 258
Yorkshire +12 413 £65,000 - 172
East of England +6 315 £65,000 +4.00% 296
West Midlands -2 310 £62,500 -3.85% 145
East Midlands +22 273 £53,750 -4.44% 113
North East +26 249 £62,500 -3.85% 100
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
1 247 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 243 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.90%) Apache
4 65 (1.01%) Confluence
5 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) SAS
9 24 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
16 4 (0.062%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.062%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 765 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.27%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.12%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.062%) Line 50
5 4 (0.062%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,597 (40.50%) Azure
2 2,073 (32.32%) AWS
3 1,083 (16.89%) Power Platform
4 945 (14.74%) Azure AI
5 790 (12.32%) GCP
6 396 (6.17%) GitHub
7 375 (5.85%) Serverless
8 261 (4.07%) Amazon S3
9 241 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
10 237 (3.70%) Snowflake
11 233 (3.63%) SaaS
12 227 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
13 208 (3.24%) dbt
14 207 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 172 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 159 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
17 158 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 135 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
20 120 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.63%) Firewall
2 148 (2.31%) Broadband
3 136 (2.12%) DNS
4 131 (2.04%) VPN
5 122 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.76%) Network Security
7 96 (1.50%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 75 (1.17%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 54 (0.84%) BGP
12 52 (0.81%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) HTTP
15 43 (0.67%) DHCP
16 41 (0.64%) MQTT
17 38 (0.59%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
20 27 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,017 (15.86%) Power BI
2 840 (13.10%) Tableau
3 342 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 295 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 201 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 167 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 143 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 120 (1.87%) Big Data
12 114 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 112 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.72%) MySQL
15 103 (1.61%) Metadata
16 85 (1.33%) DynamoDB
17 80 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 70 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 70 (1.09%) Looker
19 59 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 701 (10.93%) Git
2 287 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 245 (3.82%) GitLab
4 168 (2.62%) JIRA
5 72 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 60 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 49 (0.76%) Selenium
9 37 (0.58%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.53%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,199 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 1,342 (20.93%) Finance
3 861 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 323 (5.04%) Banking
6 238 (3.71%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.48%) Law
8 182 (2.84%) Retail
9 169 (2.64%) Marketing
10 134 (2.09%) Legal
11 130 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 125 (1.95%) Front Office
13 88 (1.37%) Electronics
14 87 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 87 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 79 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.09%) Investment Banking
17 66 (1.03%) Games
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,251 (19.51%) Senior
2 971 (15.14%) Analyst
3 884 (13.78%) Developer
4 838 (13.07%) Software Engineer
5 795 (12.40%) Data Analyst
6 700 (10.92%) Junior
7 665 (10.37%) Python Engineer
8 639 (9.96%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.67%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.62%) Junior Data Analyst
11 606 (9.45%) Lead
12 473 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 367 (5.72%) Python Developer
14 306 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 216 (3.37%) Architect
17 214 (3.34%) Data Scientist
18 199 (3.10%) Senior Developer
19 188 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
20 187 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (6.41%) React
2 290 (4.52%) Kafka
3 241 (3.76%) Node.js
4 235 (3.66%) PySpark
5 229 (3.57%) .NET
5 229 (3.57%) REST
6 208 (3.24%) RESTful
7 205 (3.20%) FastAPI
8 196 (3.06%) Django
9 193 (3.01%) HTML
10 178 (2.78%) PyTorch
11 176 (2.74%) CSS
12 170 (2.65%) LangChain
13 150 (2.34%) Pandas
13 150 (2.34%) TensorFlow
14 136 (2.12%) Flask
15 130 (2.03%) scikit-learn
16 113 (1.76%) Spring
17 111 (1.73%) Spring Boot
18 102 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 578 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 349 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 206 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 198 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 161 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 138 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 89 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 77 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 75 (1.17%) Equities
16 75 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 74 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
17 74 (1.15%) Robotics
18 69 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 728 (11.35%) Linux
2 333 (5.19%) Windows
3 97 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.37%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.72%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
13 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.16%) Rocky
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Solaris
15 8 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,745 (42.80%) AI
2 1,619 (25.25%) Software Engineering
3 1,571 (24.50%) CI/CD
4 1,176 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
5 1,163 (18.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1,147 (17.89%) Agile
7 1,115 (17.39%) Analytics
8 1,087 (16.95%) DevOps
9 1,010 (15.75%) Machine Learning
10 920 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 801 (12.49%) Mentoring
12 739 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
13 729 (11.37%) Data Engineering
14 676 (10.54%) Data Modelling
15 651 (10.15%) Data Science
16 643 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 608 (9.48%) Containerisation
18 586 (9.14%) Computer Science
19 574 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
20 572 (8.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,367 (36.91%) SQL
2 814 (12.69%) Java
3 672 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.58%) C++
5 510 (7.95%) PowerShell
6 486 (7.58%) Bash
7 461 (7.19%) C#
8 407 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.35%) Go
10 188 (2.93%) C
11 173 (2.70%) R
12 135 (2.11%) Scala
13 101 (1.57%) PHP
13 101 (1.57%) Rust
14 90 (1.40%) Bicep
15 75 (1.17%) Perl
16 73 (1.14%) Ruby
17 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
18 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 50 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,077 (16.79%) Azure Certification
2 887 (13.83%) Degree
3 777 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 437 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 322 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.10%) Master's Degree
8 196 (3.06%) AWS Certification
9 119 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 100 (1.56%) PhD
12 81 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.84%) CCNP
14 51 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
17 37 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 270 (4.21%) QA
3 153 (2.39%) GDPR
4 102 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.14%) NIST
6 64 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 30 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.36%) SLA
11 22 (0.34%) PMO
12 21 (0.33%) WCAG
13 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 19 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.30%) GRC
15 13 (0.20%) NCSC
16 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.12%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 768 (11.98%) Docker
2 114 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 63 (0.98%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 27 (0.42%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 9 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 8 (0.12%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
16 4 (0.062%) iptables
16 4 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.047%) IAG
Systems Management
1 932 (14.53%) Terraform
2 747 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 397 (6.19%) Ansible
4 242 (3.77%) Grafana
5 152 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.81%) Argo
7 51 (0.80%) Puppet
8 43 (0.67%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 34 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,413 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 445 (6.94%) Databricks
3 206 (3.21%) Google
4 153 (2.39%) Splunk
5 147 (2.29%) Oracle
6 140 (2.18%) VMware
7 122 (1.90%) Cisco
8 117 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 116 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 76 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.95%) Foundry
12 56 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.70%) SolarWinds
15 42 (0.65%) F5
16 41 (0.64%) Dynatrace
17 40 (0.62%) Fortinet
17 40 (0.62%) SAP
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 33 (0.51%) Palantir