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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,595 4,381 6,965
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.56% 11.99% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.14% 35.78% 26.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 3,220 5,472
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £103,750 £122,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,277 12,245 26,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 33.51% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 9,354 22,468
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,532
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 10 April 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 10 April 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 0 2,281 £85,000 -5.56% 1,152
North of England -1 1,078 £50,000 -23.08% 475
South East -4 790 £60,000 -7.69% 576
Midlands +7 586 £55,100 +0.18% 255
South West +4 489 £57,500 -4.17% 280
Yorkshire +15 482 £48,445 -24.31% 164
North West -7 447 £56,500 -13.08% 230
West Midlands +27 358 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -19 308 £55,000 -16.94% 219
East Midlands -2 229 £55,000 - 125
North East +17 149 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 211 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 138 (2.47%) Apache
4 69 (1.23%) WordPress
5 62 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 37 (0.66%) Confluence
7 31 (0.55%) SAS
8 30 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 25 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.30%) Appian
12 14 (0.25%) IIS
13 11 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.16%) nginx
15 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.089%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.089%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.071%) CMS
17 4 (0.071%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.071%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1,113 (19.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 51 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 5 (0.089%) CATIA
9 4 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.071%) Windchill
10 3 (0.054%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.036%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.036%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.036%) Weka
12 1 (0.018%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.018%) Houdini
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) NUKE
12 1 (0.018%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Shopify
3 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.089%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.071%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.054%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.054%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.036%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.036%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.036%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.018%) Actimize
7 1 (0.018%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.018%) Endur
7 1 (0.018%) Findur
7 1 (0.018%) Line 50
7 1 (0.018%) Magento
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.018%) Primavera
7 1 (0.018%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,592 (46.33%) Azure
2 1,813 (32.40%) AWS
3 1,300 (23.24%) Power Platform
4 1,032 (18.45%) Azure AI
5 615 (10.99%) GCP
6 588 (10.51%) GitHub
7 303 (5.42%) Serverless
8 215 (3.84%) SaaS
9 209 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 190 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
12 176 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
13 168 (3.00%) dbt
14 163 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 163 (2.91%) Snowflake
15 129 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 123 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 114 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
18 98 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
19 93 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 256 (4.58%) Internet
2 190 (3.40%) Firewall
3 138 (2.47%) Broadband
4 107 (1.91%) VPN
5 104 (1.86%) DNS
6 102 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 79 (1.41%) Network Security
8 77 (1.38%) WAN
9 71 (1.27%) LAN
10 69 (1.23%) Wireless
11 67 (1.20%) BGP
12 58 (1.04%) VLAN
13 49 (0.88%) HTTP
14 46 (0.82%) OSPF
15 42 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.61%) DHCP
19 32 (0.57%) MPLS
20 30 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,257 (22.47%) Power BI
2 1,210 (21.63%) Tableau
3 272 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 193 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.04%) NoSQL
7 156 (2.79%) Data Mining
8 148 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.06%) BigQuery
11 112 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
12 107 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 100 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 97 (1.73%) Big Data
15 85 (1.52%) Metadata
16 76 (1.36%) MySQL
17 70 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (0.91%) Delta Lake
19 49 (0.88%) Looker
20 48 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 682 (12.19%) Git
2 221 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 186 (3.32%) GitLab
4 109 (1.95%) JIRA
5 65 (1.16%) MLflow
6 64 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 53 (0.95%) Selenium
8 44 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 39 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 36 (0.64%) Postman
11 25 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.41%) JUnit
13 21 (0.38%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.38%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.36%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 19 (0.34%) JMeter
16 18 (0.32%) Claude Code
16 18 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 17 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 2,052 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (21.13%) Finance
3 832 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (4.70%) Banking
5 242 (4.33%) Multimedia
6 229 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 214 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 177 (3.16%) Retail
9 168 (3.00%) Law
10 152 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.43%) Front Office
12 111 (1.98%) Marketing
13 105 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.59%) Legal
15 78 (1.39%) Electronics
16 74 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.05%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 43 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,310 (23.41%) Analyst
2 1,134 (20.27%) Data Analyst
3 895 (16.00%) Developer
4 888 (15.87%) Junior
5 853 (15.25%) Junior Analyst
5 853 (15.25%) Junior Data Analyst
6 809 (14.46%) Senior
7 504 (9.01%) Data Engineer
8 491 (8.78%) Software Engineer
9 436 (7.79%) Lead
10 426 (7.61%) Trainee
11 378 (6.76%) Python Engineer
12 372 (6.65%) Python Developer
13 240 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 219 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 166 (2.97%) Python Software Engineer
16 159 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
16 159 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
17 158 (2.82%) Senior Developer
18 157 (2.81%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (7.08%) HTML
2 386 (6.90%) React
3 348 (6.22%) CSS
4 242 (4.33%) Kafka
5 206 (3.68%) REST
6 205 (3.66%) Django
7 198 (3.54%) Node.js
8 195 (3.49%) PySpark
9 177 (3.16%) RESTful
10 163 (2.91%) PyTorch
11 157 (2.81%) Pandas
12 146 (2.61%) .NET
13 141 (2.52%) FastAPI
14 135 (2.41%) Flask
14 135 (2.41%) TensorFlow
15 130 (2.32%) scikit-learn
16 108 (1.93%) JSON
17 102 (1.82%) NumPy
18 91 (1.63%) LangChain
19 90 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 260 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 224 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 172 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 97 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 93 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 90 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 89 (1.59%) Fixed Income
11 88 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 85 (1.52%) Equities
13 84 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 82 (1.47%) Hedge funds
15 81 (1.45%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.41%) AI Agents
17 76 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
18 73 (1.30%) Security Posture
19 72 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
20 61 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 552 (9.87%) Linux
2 223 (3.99%) Windows
3 161 (2.88%) Unix
4 66 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.73%) CentOS
7 29 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.23%) Debian
10 12 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.16%) Android
12 9 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.13%) Solaris
13 7 (0.13%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.11%) VMS
15 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,155 (38.52%) AI
2 1,363 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
3 1,159 (20.71%) CI/CD
4 1,006 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
5 959 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 952 (17.02%) Analytics
7 924 (16.51%) Agile
8 874 (15.62%) DevOps
9 737 (13.17%) Mentoring
10 691 (12.35%) Machine Learning
11 617 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 578 (10.33%) Data Modelling
13 553 (9.88%) Data Science
14 542 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
15 541 (9.67%) ETL
16 532 (9.51%) Data Engineering
17 513 (9.17%) Computer Science
18 507 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 493 (8.81%) Containerisation
20 419 (7.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,338 (41.79%) SQL
2 797 (14.24%) JavaScript
3 637 (11.39%) Java
4 415 (7.42%) PowerShell
5 406 (7.26%) Bash
6 342 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 301 (5.38%) C#
8 292 (5.22%) C++
9 279 (4.99%) Go
10 254 (4.54%) R
11 144 (2.57%) C
12 112 (2.00%) Scala
13 71 (1.27%) Rust
14 70 (1.25%) VBA
15 61 (1.09%) PHP
16 49 (0.88%) Bicep
17 41 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 41 (0.73%) Perl
18 36 (0.64%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,313 (23.47%) Azure Certification
2 792 (14.16%) Degree
3 463 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 394 (7.04%) AWS Certification
5 297 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 290 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 279 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 263 (4.70%) SC Cleared
9 170 (3.04%) DV Cleared
10 137 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.54%) PhD
12 71 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.09%) CCNP
14 48 (0.86%) CISSP
15 47 (0.84%) OSCP
16 40 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 37 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 34 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
19 32 (0.57%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.48%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 221 (3.95%) QA
3 130 (2.32%) GDPR
4 110 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (1.95%) NIST
6 65 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 49 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 37 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 25 (0.45%) PMO
11 22 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.39%) GRC
11 22 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.38%) SLA
13 15 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 8 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.14%) WCAG
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 591 (10.56%) Docker
2 100 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.73%) Firmware
5 34 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.38%) KVM
8 16 (0.29%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.089%) iptables
13 5 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.054%) HDFS
15 3 (0.054%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 686 (12.26%) Terraform
2 613 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 339 (6.06%) Ansible
4 185 (3.31%) Grafana
5 148 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.11%) Argo
7 28 (0.50%) Nagios
8 26 (0.46%) Puppet
9 25 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.34%) Istio
10 19 (0.34%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.32%) Kibana
12 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.23%) Rancher
13 12 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.21%) logstash
13 12 (0.21%) Nessus
14 11 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 11 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,788 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 313 (5.59%) Databricks
3 207 (3.70%) Google
4 132 (2.36%) Oracle
5 124 (2.22%) Cisco
6 119 (2.13%) VMware
7 102 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 75 (1.34%) Splunk
9 72 (1.29%) SAP
10 64 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 54 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 49 (0.88%) Foundry
12 49 (0.88%) Informatica
13 48 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 46 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 45 (0.80%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.75%) Talend
17 41 (0.73%) Palantir
18 39 (0.70%) Dell