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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,101 5,441 5,822
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.49% 11.37% 10.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.11% 33.70% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 3,280 4,622
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,620
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,163 £52,500
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 £97,743 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,486 16,145 21,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.15% 33.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,863 9,491 18,083
10th Percentile £33,000 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -1 1,988 £83,500 -4.57% 1,123
North of England -10 671 £48,740 -25.02% 679
South East -29 456 £60,000 -7.69% 1,323
Midlands -12 380 £55,200 +0.36% 438
South West -3 338 £60,000 -7.69% 518
Yorkshire +11 300 £48,445 -25.47% 285
North West -16 282 £55,000 -12.00% 284
West Midlands 0 259 £55,200 -4.00% 164
East of England -18 214 £50,000 -24.54% 563
East Midlands -24 124 £55,200 +0.36% 266
North East +1 89 £40,000 -42.29% 114
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
1 166 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.10%) Apache
4 43 (1.05%) Confluence
5 36 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 17 (0.41%) Appian
12 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.37%) nginx
14 14 (0.34%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.098%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 557 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 8 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.098%) Windchill
10 3 (0.073%) CATIA
10 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.049%) Stata
11 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.024%) Endur
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,632 (39.80%) Azure
2 1,441 (35.14%) AWS
3 737 (17.97%) Power Platform
4 533 (13.00%) GitHub
5 421 (10.27%) GCP
6 324 (7.90%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.36%) Serverless
8 185 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 172 (4.19%) Snowflake
10 168 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (3.90%) Amazon S3
12 153 (3.73%) SaaS
13 146 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.41%) dbt
15 138 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 108 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 94 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
20 82 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.27%) Internet
2 157 (3.83%) Firewall
3 90 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 81 (1.98%) VPN
5 71 (1.73%) DNS
6 70 (1.71%) WAN
7 61 (1.49%) LAN
8 52 (1.27%) BGP
9 48 (1.17%) Wireless
10 46 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (1.10%) Broadband
12 42 (1.02%) Network Security
13 39 (0.95%) HTTP
13 39 (0.95%) VLAN
14 37 (0.90%) OSPF
15 33 (0.80%) MPLS
16 29 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.68%) SSL
18 27 (0.66%) SAN
18 27 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (16.97%) Power BI
2 593 (14.46%) Tableau
3 257 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 221 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 175 (4.27%) NoSQL
7 164 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 141 (3.44%) Data Mining
9 126 (3.07%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.73%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.66%) Big Data
12 91 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 87 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 85 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 84 (2.05%) MySQL
16 79 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.73%) Hadoop
18 70 (1.71%) Metadata
19 65 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
20 64 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 576 (14.05%) Git
2 224 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 139 (3.39%) GitLab
4 119 (2.90%) JIRA
5 58 (1.41%) Selenium
6 42 (1.02%) MLflow
7 38 (0.93%) Postman
8 37 (0.90%) JUnit
9 27 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.59%) JMeter
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
16 13 (0.32%) Maven
16 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,244 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 1,019 (24.85%) Finance
3 635 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.88%) Banking
4 241 (5.88%) Multimedia
5 182 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 172 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 165 (4.02%) Law
8 142 (3.46%) Marketing
9 138 (3.37%) Front Office
10 110 (2.68%) Retail
10 110 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 102 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.10%) Financial Institution
13 78 (1.90%) Electronics
14 75 (1.83%) Legal
15 66 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 60 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (1.37%) Games
18 47 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 763 (18.61%) Developer
2 736 (17.95%) Analyst
3 648 (15.80%) Senior
4 549 (13.39%) Data Analyst
5 417 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.78%) Trainee
7 323 (7.88%) Software Engineer
8 305 (7.44%) Lead
9 303 (7.39%) Junior
10 301 (7.34%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.88%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.88%) Junior Data Analyst
12 239 (5.83%) Python Engineer
13 184 (4.49%) Software Developer
14 143 (3.49%) Architect
15 141 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 133 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
18 130 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
19 122 (2.97%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (9.36%) HTML
2 339 (8.27%) CSS
3 337 (8.22%) React
4 176 (4.29%) REST
5 172 (4.19%) Node.js
6 156 (3.80%) Django
7 144 (3.51%) Kafka
8 141 (3.44%) RESTful
9 132 (3.22%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.17%) PySpark
11 124 (3.02%) Pandas
12 121 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 114 (2.78%) .NET
14 105 (2.56%) AngularJS
14 105 (2.56%) Flask
15 100 (2.44%) TensorFlow
16 87 (2.12%) Vue
17 86 (2.10%) NumPy
18 84 (2.05%) JSON
19 76 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 195 (4.75%) Algorithms
3 152 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 114 (2.78%) Equities
6 112 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 100 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 81 (1.98%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.85%) Fixed Income
12 75 (1.83%) Derivative
13 74 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
14 69 (1.68%) Low-Code
15 63 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 59 (1.44%) Data Centre
18 58 (1.41%) AI Agents
19 57 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
20 54 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 512 (12.48%) Linux
2 211 (5.15%) Windows
3 191 (4.66%) Unix
4 74 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.78%) CentOS
8 23 (0.56%) Debian
8 23 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.44%) VMS
10 15 (0.37%) Solaris
10 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.24%) Android
13 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.098%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (28.87%) AI
2 947 (23.09%) CI/CD
3 913 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
4 819 (19.97%) Analytics
5 804 (19.60%) Business Intelligence
6 785 (19.14%) Agile
7 777 (18.95%) DevOps
8 651 (15.87%) Mentoring
9 648 (15.80%) Software Engineering
10 537 (13.09%) Machine Learning
11 480 (11.70%) ETL
12 473 (11.53%) Data Science
13 463 (11.29%) Data Modelling
14 459 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
15 447 (10.90%) Data Engineering
16 445 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 440 (10.73%) Computer Science
18 408 (9.95%) Data Analysis
19 381 (9.29%) Containerisation
20 379 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,647 (40.16%) SQL
2 730 (17.80%) JavaScript
3 581 (14.17%) Java
4 384 (9.36%) Bash
5 348 (8.49%) PowerShell
6 329 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 270 (6.58%) C#
8 232 (5.66%) R
9 207 (5.05%) C++
10 155 (3.78%) Go
11 118 (2.88%) C
12 78 (1.90%) Scala
13 65 (1.58%) PHP
14 58 (1.41%) VBA
15 52 (1.27%) Bicep
16 47 (1.15%) Perl
17 46 (1.12%) MATLAB
18 43 (1.05%) Rust
19 39 (0.95%) T-SQL
20 37 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 794 (19.36%) Degree
2 591 (14.41%) Azure Certification
3 441 (10.75%) Security Cleared
4 364 (8.88%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 254 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 209 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 188 (4.58%) Master's Degree
10 163 (3.97%) DV Cleared
11 123 (3.00%) PhD
12 72 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.41%) CCNP
14 49 (1.19%) CISSP
15 48 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
19 26 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.95%) QA
3 102 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.41%) GDPR
5 83 (2.02%) NIST
6 67 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.83%) SLA
8 25 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
12 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
12 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.12%) GRC
14 5 (0.12%) NCSC
15 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 511 (12.46%) Docker
2 82 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.66%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.37%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
10 7 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.12%) Postfix
11 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.098%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.098%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 537 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 516 (12.58%) Terraform
3 308 (7.51%) Ansible
4 123 (3.00%) Grafana
4 123 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 59 (1.44%) Argo
6 26 (0.63%) Kibana
7 23 (0.56%) Puppet
8 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.41%) Nessus
10 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Rancher
12 12 (0.29%) Control-M
12 12 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.27%) logstash
13 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,080 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.19%) Databricks
3 186 (4.54%) Google
4 129 (3.15%) Oracle
5 101 (2.46%) Cisco
5 101 (2.46%) VMware
6 86 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 68 (1.66%) SAP
9 63 (1.54%) Splunk
10 59 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.34%) ServiceNow
12 45 (1.10%) IBM
12 45 (1.10%) Informatica
13 43 (1.05%) Alteryx
13 43 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 43 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 42 (1.02%) Talend
15 33 (0.80%) Palantir
16 32 (0.78%) Atlassian