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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,417 5,176 6,498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.94% 11.88% 8.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.55% 40.16% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,877 2,891 4,682
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -0.17% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £130,000 £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 16,646 12,889 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 29.57% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,103 8,626 16,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 5 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 5 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 2,612 £85,000 -5.56% 3,150
North of England -12 1,279 £65,000 - 616
South East +2 944 £60,000 - 692
South West +11 615 £60,000 +9.09% 360
North West -17 608 £65,500 +9.17% 333
Midlands +9 592 £62,000 -0.80% 276
Yorkshire +14 423 £65,860 +1.32% 178
West Midlands -3 314 £62,500 -3.85% 160
East of England +11 313 £65,000 +4.00% 319
East Midlands +21 277 £53,750 -2.27% 116
North East +26 248 £60,000 -7.69% 109
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 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 240 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 183 (2.85%) Apache
4 65 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 63 (0.98%) Confluence
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 40 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) SAS
9 24 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) 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
1 814 (12.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) 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%) 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 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
4 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.078%) Shopify
6 4 (0.062%) Line 50
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%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) FastStats
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 2,636 (41.08%) Azure
2 2,057 (32.06%) AWS
3 1,132 (17.64%) Power Platform
4 993 (15.47%) Azure AI
5 784 (12.22%) GCP
6 395 (6.16%) GitHub
7 368 (5.73%) Serverless
8 253 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 232 (3.62%) SaaS
11 231 (3.60%) Snowflake
12 225 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 206 (3.21%) dbt
14 203 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 165 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
16 162 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
17 132 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
19 119 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.62%) Firewall
2 149 (2.32%) Broadband
3 138 (2.15%) DNS
4 130 (2.03%) VPN
5 124 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.76%) Network Security
7 96 (1.50%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 76 (1.18%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 53 (0.83%) VLAN
13 47 (0.73%) HTTP
13 47 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 42 (0.65%) DHCP
15 40 (0.62%) MQTT
16 39 (0.61%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
19 26 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,065 (16.60%) Power BI
2 887 (13.82%) Tableau
3 333 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 164 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.21%) BigQuery
9 142 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 119 (1.85%) Big Data
11 112 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 111 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.73%) MySQL
13 102 (1.59%) Metadata
14 83 (1.29%) DynamoDB
15 76 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 68 (1.06%) Looker
17 67 (1.04%) Delta Lake
18 60 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 691 (10.77%) Git
2 287 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 249 (3.88%) GitLab
4 166 (2.59%) JIRA
5 72 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.95%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.95%) MLflow
7 49 (0.76%) Selenium
8 38 (0.59%) Subversion
9 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.51%) JUnit
12 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,229 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 1,320 (20.57%) Finance
3 860 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (4.88%) Banking
5 312 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 209 (3.26%) Law
8 181 (2.82%) Retail
9 160 (2.49%) Marketing
10 129 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 128 (1.99%) Front Office
12 127 (1.98%) Legal
13 89 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 85 (1.32%) Electronics
16 80 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 69 (1.08%) Investment Banking
19 65 (1.01%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,236 (19.26%) Senior
2 1,015 (15.82%) Analyst
3 896 (13.96%) Developer
4 842 (13.12%) Data Analyst
5 835 (13.01%) Software Engineer
6 747 (11.64%) Junior
7 668 (10.41%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.36%) Junior Data Analyst
9 658 (10.25%) Python Engineer
10 636 (9.91%) Data Engineer
11 598 (9.32%) Lead
12 469 (7.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 370 (5.77%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 240 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
16 214 (3.33%) Architect
17 213 (3.32%) Data Scientist
18 196 (3.05%) Senior Developer
19 188 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (6.42%) React
2 296 (4.61%) Kafka
3 250 (3.90%) Node.js
4 233 (3.63%) PySpark
5 231 (3.60%) REST
6 227 (3.54%) .NET
7 205 (3.19%) RESTful
8 204 (3.18%) FastAPI
9 196 (3.05%) Django
10 189 (2.95%) HTML
11 175 (2.73%) PyTorch
12 172 (2.68%) CSS
13 167 (2.60%) LangChain
14 148 (2.31%) Pandas
14 148 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 136 (2.12%) Flask
16 130 (2.03%) scikit-learn
17 115 (1.79%) Spring
18 113 (1.76%) Spring Boot
19 106 (1.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 568 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 349 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 203 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 193 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 165 (2.57%) Data Structures
7 135 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 91 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
11 84 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 82 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 81 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 77 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 74 (1.15%) Equities
17 73 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
18 72 (1.12%) Robotics
19 67 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 725 (11.30%) Linux
2 332 (5.17%) Windows
3 98 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.37%) Unix
5 54 (0.84%) 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 17 (0.26%) 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 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Solaris
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,768 (43.14%) AI
2 1,606 (25.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,569 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 1,202 (18.73%) Business Intelligence
5 1,168 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
6 1,143 (17.81%) Agile
7 1,098 (17.11%) Analytics
8 1,080 (16.83%) DevOps
9 986 (15.37%) Machine Learning
10 913 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 790 (12.31%) Mentoring
12 724 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 717 (11.17%) Data Engineering
14 676 (10.53%) Data Modelling
15 638 (9.94%) Data Science
16 636 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 600 (9.35%) Containerisation
18 580 (9.04%) Full-Stack Development
19 578 (9.01%) Computer Science
20 571 (8.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,392 (37.28%) SQL
2 806 (12.56%) Java
3 669 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 540 (8.42%) C++
5 506 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 484 (7.54%) Bash
7 455 (7.09%) C#
8 410 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 283 (4.41%) Go
10 180 (2.81%) C
11 171 (2.66%) R
12 131 (2.04%) Scala
13 100 (1.56%) Rust
14 99 (1.54%) PHP
15 89 (1.39%) Bicep
16 73 (1.14%) Perl
17 69 (1.08%) Ruby
18 63 (0.98%) MATLAB
19 62 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,121 (17.47%) Azure Certification
2 878 (13.68%) Degree
3 768 (11.97%) Security Cleared
4 435 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 318 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 256 (3.99%) DV Cleared
7 196 (3.05%) Master's Degree
8 193 (3.01%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 98 (1.53%) PhD
12 82 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 47 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 39 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
17 37 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 36 (0.56%) CISSP
19 32 (0.50%) OSCP
20 25 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.16%) QA
3 151 (2.35%) GDPR
4 99 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 74 (1.15%) NIST
6 65 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 31 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 22 (0.34%) PMO
10 22 (0.34%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.30%) GRC
14 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.19%) NCSC
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.12%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 753 (11.73%) Docker
2 116 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 61 (0.95%) 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 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.12%) Squid
12 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 922 (14.37%) Terraform
2 736 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 395 (6.16%) Ansible
4 244 (3.80%) Grafana
5 157 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.81%) Argo
7 49 (0.76%) Puppet
8 45 (0.70%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 33 (0.51%) 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 17 (0.26%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
18 14 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,460 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 430 (6.70%) Databricks
3 197 (3.07%) Google
4 155 (2.42%) Splunk
5 143 (2.23%) Oracle
5 143 (2.23%) VMware
6 122 (1.90%) Cisco
7 116 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 114 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 75 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 61 (0.95%) Foundry
11 57 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
12 48 (0.75%) SolarWinds
13 42 (0.65%) F5
14 40 (0.62%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.62%) SAP
15 37 (0.58%) Dynatrace
16 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
17 33 (0.51%) Palantir