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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,394 5,215 6,419
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.95% 11.93% 8.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.60% 40.15% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,880 2,937 4,679
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,100 £131,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,565 12,988 21,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.02% 29.70% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,070 8,734 16,155
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 3 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 3 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 2,603 £85,000 -5.56% 2,211
North of England -12 1,285 £65,000 - 505
South East +3 936 £60,000 - 589
South West +7 609 £60,000 +9.09% 287
North West -17 609 £65,000 +8.33% 262
Midlands +9 591 £62,000 -0.80% 229
Yorkshire +13 426 £65,000 - 153
West Midlands -2 315 £62,500 -3.85% 135
East of England +7 309 £65,000 - 219
East Midlands +23 275 £53,750 -2.27% 93
North East +29 250 £60,000 -7.69% 97
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
1 246 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 238 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 183 (2.86%) Apache
4 72 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 62 (0.97%) Confluence
6 47 (0.74%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 24 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
16 5 (0.078%) GeoServer
16 5 (0.078%) OpenStack
17 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 818 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.23%) Simulink
7 9 (0.14%) 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%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 4 (0.063%) Shopify
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,636 (41.23%) Azure
2 2,053 (32.11%) AWS
3 1,126 (17.61%) Power Platform
4 991 (15.50%) Azure AI
5 783 (12.25%) GCP
6 386 (6.04%) GitHub
7 368 (5.76%) Serverless
8 250 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 230 (3.60%) SaaS
11 226 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 226 (3.53%) Snowflake
12 203 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 200 (3.13%) dbt
14 165 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 156 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
17 131 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 126 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
19 117 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.64%) Firewall
2 149 (2.33%) Broadband
3 135 (2.11%) DNS
4 131 (2.05%) VPN
5 121 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 114 (1.78%) Network Security
7 96 (1.50%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 53 (0.83%) VLAN
13 48 (0.75%) HTTP
14 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.66%) DHCP
16 40 (0.63%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 30 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
20 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,059 (16.56%) Power BI
2 891 (13.93%) Tableau
3 333 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 193 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 164 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 141 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.88%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 111 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 110 (1.72%) MySQL
15 99 (1.55%) Metadata
16 82 (1.28%) DynamoDB
17 76 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.03%) Delta Lake
18 66 (1.03%) Looker
19 61 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 682 (10.67%) Git
2 284 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 253 (3.96%) GitLab
4 165 (2.58%) JIRA
5 79 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.92%) MLflow
9 50 (0.78%) Selenium
10 38 (0.59%) Subversion
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 33 (0.52%) JUnit
14 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
17 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
18 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 22 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 2,218 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 1,325 (20.72%) Finance
3 856 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (4.82%) Banking
5 304 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 208 (3.25%) Law
8 184 (2.88%) Retail
9 149 (2.33%) Marketing
10 134 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.05%) Front Office
12 127 (1.99%) Legal
13 88 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.35%) Electronics
15 84 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 78 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 77 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 68 (1.06%) Investment Banking
19 65 (1.02%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,227 (19.19%) Senior
2 1,020 (15.95%) Analyst
3 901 (14.09%) Developer
4 849 (13.28%) Data Analyst
5 827 (12.93%) Software Engineer
6 745 (11.65%) Junior
7 668 (10.45%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.40%) Junior Data Analyst
9 650 (10.17%) Python Engineer
10 634 (9.92%) Data Engineer
11 599 (9.37%) Lead
12 469 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 374 (5.85%) Python Developer
14 302 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 237 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 213 (3.33%) Architect
17 208 (3.25%) Data Scientist
18 196 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 190 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (6.47%) React
2 299 (4.68%) Kafka
3 253 (3.96%) Node.js
4 235 (3.68%) PySpark
5 233 (3.64%) REST
6 226 (3.53%) .NET
7 208 (3.25%) RESTful
8 203 (3.17%) FastAPI
9 196 (3.07%) Django
10 189 (2.96%) HTML
11 172 (2.69%) CSS
12 170 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 166 (2.60%) LangChain
14 155 (2.42%) Pandas
15 144 (2.25%) TensorFlow
16 136 (2.13%) Flask
17 133 (2.08%) scikit-learn
18 113 (1.77%) Spring
19 111 (1.74%) Spring Boot
20 108 (1.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 556 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 342 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 332 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 201 (3.14%) AI Agents
5 190 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 170 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 134 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 92 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
11 85 (1.33%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.30%) Low-Code
13 82 (1.28%) Management Information System
14 78 (1.22%) Equities
14 78 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.19%) Hedge funds
16 74 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
17 72 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 72 (1.13%) Robotics
18 66 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 719 (11.24%) Linux
2 324 (5.07%) Windows
3 97 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.36%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.70%) CentOS
7 36 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 15 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,749 (42.99%) AI
2 1,594 (24.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,558 (24.37%) CI/CD
4 1,193 (18.66%) Business Intelligence
5 1,160 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1,138 (17.80%) Agile
7 1,092 (17.08%) Analytics
8 1,075 (16.81%) DevOps
9 975 (15.25%) Machine Learning
10 902 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 786 (12.29%) Mentoring
12 715 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
13 711 (11.12%) Data Engineering
14 674 (10.54%) Data Modelling
15 633 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 627 (9.81%) Data Science
17 600 (9.38%) Containerisation
18 579 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
19 578 (9.04%) Computer Science
20 563 (8.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,384 (37.28%) SQL
2 795 (12.43%) Java
3 672 (10.51%) JavaScript
4 539 (8.43%) C++
5 500 (7.82%) PowerShell
6 482 (7.54%) Bash
7 454 (7.10%) C#
8 412 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.39%) Go
10 179 (2.80%) C
11 169 (2.64%) R
12 128 (2.00%) Scala
13 100 (1.56%) PHP
13 100 (1.56%) Rust
14 89 (1.39%) Bicep
15 74 (1.16%) Perl
16 68 (1.06%) Ruby
17 62 (0.97%) MATLAB
18 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 50 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,118 (17.49%) Azure Certification
2 870 (13.61%) Degree
3 751 (11.75%) Security Cleared
4 431 (6.74%) SC Cleared
5 321 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 250 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 200 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 191 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 97 (1.52%) PhD
12 82 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 44 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 33 (0.52%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 25 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 264 (4.13%) QA
3 153 (2.39%) GDPR
4 96 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.19%) NIST
6 62 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
10 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 20 (0.31%) GRC
11 20 (0.31%) WCAG
12 17 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.19%) NCSC
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 752 (11.76%) Docker
2 112 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 112 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (0.92%) Firmware
4 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.44%) KVM
6 27 (0.42%) vSphere
7 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 911 (14.25%) Terraform
2 728 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 389 (6.08%) Ansible
4 245 (3.83%) Grafana
5 159 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.81%) Argo
7 46 (0.72%) Nagios
8 45 (0.70%) Puppet
9 36 (0.56%) Kibana
10 31 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,465 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 426 (6.66%) Databricks
3 194 (3.03%) Google
4 154 (2.41%) Splunk
5 142 (2.22%) Oracle
6 140 (2.19%) VMware
7 123 (1.92%) Cisco
8 116 (1.81%) Red Hat
9 114 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 73 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.94%) Foundry
12 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.74%) SolarWinds
14 42 (0.66%) F5
15 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
15 39 (0.61%) SAP
16 37 (0.58%) Dynatrace
17 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
18 33 (0.52%) Palantir