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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,225 5,203 7,780
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.19% 12.23% 8.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.04% 39.96% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,722 2,947 5,848
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £125,000
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 15,945 13,022 27,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 30.62% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,583 8,821 22,048
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £112,500 £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 8 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 8 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 2,477 £85,000 -5.56% 1,274
North of England -12 1,260 £65,000 - 418
South East +4 943 £60,000 - 590
Midlands +18 614 £60,000 +3.00% 221
North West -16 589 £65,000 - 230
South West +9 565 £60,000 +4.35% 243
Yorkshire +14 453 £65,000 - 119
West Midlands +13 315 £62,500 +4.82% 109
East Midlands +26 299 £55,000 - 111
East of England -5 292 £70,000 +5.73% 205
North East +28 218 £59,000 -5.60% 73
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 Airflow
2 213 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 162 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.19%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.096%) nginx
14 5 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.080%) Camunda
14 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Appian
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.048%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 921 (14.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.048%) Blender
8 3 (0.048%) Maya
8 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.048%) Trello
9 2 (0.032%) CATIA
9 2 (0.032%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.064%) Line 50
5 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.048%) Magento
5 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.048%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,683 (43.10%) Azure
2 1,975 (31.73%) AWS
3 1,199 (19.26%) Power Platform
4 1,083 (17.40%) Azure AI
5 734 (11.79%) GCP
6 395 (6.35%) GitHub
7 360 (5.78%) Serverless
8 240 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.76%) SaaS
10 226 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 217 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 192 (3.08%) Snowflake
13 186 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.83%) dbt
15 173 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
16 159 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 154 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 126 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 118 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
20 115 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 245 (3.94%) Firewall
2 187 (3.00%) Broadband
3 146 (2.35%) VPN
4 137 (2.20%) DNS
5 118 (1.90%) Network Security
6 107 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 101 (1.62%) WAN
8 85 (1.37%) Wireless
9 82 (1.32%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) BGP
11 69 (1.11%) Internet
12 58 (0.93%) VLAN
13 55 (0.88%) HTTP
14 52 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 49 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.69%) OSPF
17 40 (0.64%) DHCP
18 36 (0.58%) MQTT
19 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
20 33 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,136 (18.25%) Power BI
2 987 (15.86%) Tableau
3 295 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 256 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 182 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 173 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 173 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 149 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 139 (2.23%) BigQuery
8 139 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 117 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 109 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 104 (1.67%) Big Data
12 100 (1.61%) MySQL
13 93 (1.49%) Metadata
14 75 (1.20%) DynamoDB
15 68 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
16 64 (1.03%) Data Mining
17 61 (0.98%) Spark SQL
18 56 (0.90%) Looker
Development Applications
1 624 (10.02%) Git
2 282 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 252 (4.05%) GitLab
4 157 (2.52%) JIRA
5 81 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 55 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 55 (0.88%) MLflow
7 52 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 41 (0.66%) Selenium
9 39 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 33 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.51%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 26 (0.42%) Postman
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.39%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.35%) JUnit
16 20 (0.32%) Eclipse
16 20 (0.32%) JMeter
16 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,193 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 1,232 (19.79%) Finance
3 812 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (4.39%) Banking
5 271 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 229 (3.68%) Public Sector
7 195 (3.13%) Retail
8 160 (2.57%) Law
9 133 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.07%) Front Office
11 104 (1.67%) Legal
12 91 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 90 (1.45%) Marketing
14 78 (1.25%) Electronics
15 73 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 71 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 64 (1.03%) Games
17 64 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
18 60 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 58 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,133 (18.20%) Analyst
2 1,117 (17.94%) Senior
3 961 (15.44%) Data Analyst
4 902 (14.49%) Developer
5 816 (13.11%) Junior
6 761 (12.22%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.19%) Junior Data Analyst
8 735 (11.81%) Software Engineer
9 595 (9.56%) Data Engineer
10 564 (9.06%) Python Engineer
11 539 (8.66%) Lead
12 458 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 373 (5.99%) Python Developer
14 270 (4.34%) Python Software Engineer
15 208 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 200 (3.21%) Architect
17 198 (3.18%) Data Scientist
18 181 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
19 179 (2.88%) Senior Developer
20 177 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (6.33%) React
2 273 (4.39%) Kafka
3 240 (3.86%) Node.js
4 222 (3.57%) REST
5 220 (3.53%) PySpark
6 208 (3.34%) .NET
7 200 (3.21%) RESTful
8 190 (3.05%) FastAPI
9 184 (2.96%) HTML
10 183 (2.94%) Django
11 170 (2.73%) CSS
12 169 (2.71%) PyTorch
13 154 (2.47%) Pandas
14 146 (2.35%) LangChain
15 142 (2.28%) TensorFlow
16 134 (2.15%) Flask
17 121 (1.94%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.72%) Vue
19 106 (1.70%) NumPy
20 103 (1.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 508 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 323 (5.19%) Algorithms
3 311 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 182 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 167 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 152 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 135 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 106 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
10 103 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 90 (1.45%) Low-Code
12 87 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 85 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.27%) Equities
15 77 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 75 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 73 (1.17%) Hedge funds
18 70 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
18 70 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
19 67 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 689 (11.07%) Linux
2 288 (4.63%) Windows
3 90 (1.45%) Unix
4 87 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.69%) CentOS
7 41 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.39%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,625 (42.17%) AI
2 1,460 (23.45%) CI/CD
3 1,429 (22.96%) Software Engineering
4 1,244 (19.98%) Business Intelligence
5 1,094 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1,067 (17.14%) Agile
7 1,029 (16.53%) DevOps
8 1,010 (16.22%) Analytics
9 881 (14.15%) Machine Learning
10 858 (13.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (11.90%) Mentoring
12 650 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
13 636 (10.22%) Data Engineering
14 624 (10.02%) Data Modelling
15 605 (9.72%) Data Science
16 572 (9.19%) Containerisation
16 572 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 556 (8.93%) Computer Science
18 555 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
19 538 (8.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,357 (37.86%) SQL
2 749 (12.03%) Java
3 653 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 509 (8.18%) PowerShell
5 497 (7.98%) C++
6 490 (7.87%) Bash
7 422 (6.78%) C#
8 385 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.58%) Go
10 183 (2.94%) C
11 160 (2.57%) R
12 119 (1.91%) Scala
13 99 (1.59%) Rust
14 97 (1.56%) PHP
15 86 (1.38%) Bicep
16 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
17 59 (0.95%) Perl
18 56 (0.90%) Ruby
19 55 (0.88%) VBA
20 52 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,205 (19.36%) Azure Certification
2 803 (12.90%) Degree
3 709 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 406 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 229 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 210 (3.37%) AWS Certification
8 175 (2.81%) Master's Degree
9 120 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 118 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 88 (1.41%) PhD
12 79 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.92%) CCNP
14 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 44 (0.71%) OSCP
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 32 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.51%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 253 (4.06%) QA
3 139 (2.23%) GDPR
4 86 (1.38%) NIST
5 76 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 72 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.35%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 13 (0.21%) WCAG
13 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 696 (11.18%) Docker
2 108 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.96%) Firmware
5 43 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.50%) KVM
8 25 (0.40%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.064%) iptables
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 895 (14.38%) Terraform
2 701 (11.26%) Kubernetes
3 389 (6.25%) Ansible
4 235 (3.78%) Grafana
5 175 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.06%) Argo
7 40 (0.64%) Nagios
7 40 (0.64%) Puppet
8 34 (0.55%) Kibana
9 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.45%) Packer
11 27 (0.43%) Istio
12 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
16 17 (0.27%) Podman
17 16 (0.26%) logstash
18 15 (0.24%) Rancher
19 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,546 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 372 (5.98%) Databricks
3 202 (3.24%) Google
4 142 (2.28%) VMware
5 135 (2.17%) Splunk
6 132 (2.12%) Oracle
7 125 (2.01%) Cisco
8 103 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 102 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 63 (1.01%) Foundry
12 58 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 51 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.72%) F5
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.69%) SAP
17 37 (0.59%) Palantir
18 36 (0.58%) Fortinet
19 34 (0.55%) Arista