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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,637 5,082 6,347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 11.95% 9.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.49% 34.49% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,969 3,180 5,112
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £92,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £69,750
% change year-on-year -11.04% +7.53% -1.76%

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 11,452 14,735 24,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.53% 34.66% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,426 9,180 20,698
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,275 £102,500
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 28 February 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 28 February 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 2,079 £82,500 -5.71% 972
North of England -10 828 £45,000 -30.77% 414
South East -20 589 £60,000 -14.29% 590
Midlands -9 439 £55,000 - 217
South West +3 395 £58,497 -10.01% 240
Yorkshire +8 360 £40,000 -38.46% 148
North West -11 345 £50,000 -20.00% 198
West Midlands +6 284 £55,000 - 111
East of England -25 236 £50,000 -24.52% 189
East Midlands -18 157 £55,000 - 105
North East +13 123 £40,000 -38.46% 69
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
1 183 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 139 (3.00%) Apache
4 58 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.71%) SAS
7 28 (0.60%) Confluence
7 28 (0.60%) WordPress
8 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.41%) Appian
10 17 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 16 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 12 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
14 9 (0.19%) nginx
14 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.11%) CMS
16 4 (0.086%) JBoss
Applications
1 824 (17.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 55 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.086%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.086%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.086%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,951 (42.07%) Azure
2 1,608 (34.68%) AWS
3 946 (20.40%) Power Platform
4 555 (11.97%) GitHub
5 554 (11.95%) Azure AI
6 505 (10.89%) GCP
7 266 (5.74%) Serverless
8 189 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 182 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
10 175 (3.77%) SaaS
11 173 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
12 161 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
13 153 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 139 (3.00%) dbt
15 138 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 118 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 254 (5.48%) Internet
2 172 (3.71%) Firewall
3 108 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 97 (2.09%) VPN
5 91 (1.96%) Broadband
6 85 (1.83%) DNS
7 71 (1.53%) WAN
8 64 (1.38%) LAN
9 59 (1.27%) BGP
10 58 (1.25%) Wireless
11 55 (1.19%) Network Security
11 55 (1.19%) VLAN
12 50 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.04%) HTTP
14 42 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.73%) MPLS
15 34 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.69%) Wireshark
17 29 (0.63%) DHCP
18 28 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 909 (19.60%) Power BI
2 882 (19.02%) Tableau
3 239 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
4 210 (4.53%) SQL Server
5 179 (3.86%) Data Mining
6 169 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 148 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 112 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 108 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 105 (2.26%) Big Data
11 91 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 89 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 84 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (1.79%) Metadata
15 77 (1.66%) MySQL
16 68 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
17 58 (1.25%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.95%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 616 (13.28%) Git
2 209 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 165 (3.56%) GitLab
4 104 (2.24%) JIRA
5 53 (1.14%) Selenium
6 49 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 43 (0.93%) MLflow
8 38 (0.82%) Postman
9 34 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.63%) JUnit
12 23 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.45%) JMeter
14 20 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.37%) Subversion
17 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
17 16 (0.35%) TeamCity
18 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,539 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 1,133 (24.43%) Finance
3 786 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (5.61%) Banking
5 239 (5.15%) Multimedia
6 200 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 186 (4.01%) Public Sector
8 174 (3.75%) Law
9 157 (3.39%) Retail
10 140 (3.02%) Front Office
11 138 (2.98%) Manufacturing
12 121 (2.61%) Marketing
13 112 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 83 (1.79%) Legal
15 80 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.49%) Electronics
18 66 (1.42%) Investment Banking
19 51 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
20 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,028 (22.17%) Analyst
2 838 (18.07%) Data Analyst
3 794 (17.12%) Developer
4 677 (14.60%) Senior
5 544 (11.73%) Junior
6 519 (11.19%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.19%) Junior Data Analyst
7 446 (9.62%) Data Engineer
8 441 (9.51%) Trainee
9 373 (8.04%) Software Engineer
10 346 (7.46%) Lead
11 304 (6.56%) Python Developer
12 268 (5.78%) Python Engineer
13 204 (4.40%) Software Developer
14 155 (3.34%) Architect
15 151 (3.26%) Trainee Analyst
15 151 (3.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 140 (3.02%) Senior Developer
17 131 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 130 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (8.19%) HTML
2 358 (7.72%) React
3 331 (7.14%) CSS
4 195 (4.21%) Kafka
5 187 (4.03%) Node.js
6 181 (3.90%) REST
7 180 (3.88%) Django
8 156 (3.36%) PySpark
9 148 (3.19%) RESTful
10 139 (3.00%) Pandas
11 132 (2.85%) .NET
12 131 (2.83%) FastAPI
13 123 (2.65%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.39%) Flask
15 110 (2.37%) TensorFlow
16 98 (2.11%) JSON
17 94 (2.03%) scikit-learn
18 90 (1.94%) NumPy
19 89 (1.92%) AngularJS
20 83 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 237 (5.11%) Cloud Native
2 234 (5.05%) Algorithms
3 187 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 91 (1.96%) Equities
9 82 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 80 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 75 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 73 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 73 (1.57%) Hedge funds
13 68 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 68 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
14 64 (1.38%) Derivative
15 61 (1.32%) AI Agents
15 61 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 61 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 501 (10.80%) Linux
2 203 (4.38%) Windows
3 183 (3.95%) Unix
4 62 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.82%) CentOS
7 28 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.26%) Debian
12 11 (0.24%) Android
13 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.086%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,543 (33.28%) AI
2 1,052 (22.69%) CI/CD
3 1,011 (21.80%) Business Intelligence
4 946 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
5 890 (19.19%) Analytics
6 834 (17.99%) Agile
7 795 (17.14%) DevOps
8 767 (16.54%) Software Engineering
9 691 (14.90%) Mentoring
10 593 (12.79%) Machine Learning
11 517 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 507 (10.93%) Data Science
13 506 (10.91%) ETL
14 505 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
15 500 (10.78%) Data Modelling
16 476 (10.27%) Data Engineering
17 472 (10.18%) Computer Science
18 453 (9.77%) Data Analysis
19 440 (9.49%) Containerisation
20 434 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,937 (41.77%) SQL
2 759 (16.37%) JavaScript
3 601 (12.96%) Java
4 393 (8.48%) Bash
5 368 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 324 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 272 (5.87%) C#
8 240 (5.18%) C++
9 235 (5.07%) R
10 220 (4.74%) Go
11 126 (2.72%) C
12 92 (1.98%) Scala
13 71 (1.53%) VBA
14 65 (1.40%) Rust
15 57 (1.23%) PHP
16 41 (0.88%) Bicep
17 39 (0.84%) MATLAB
17 39 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 34 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 826 (17.81%) Azure Certification
2 791 (17.06%) Degree
3 466 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 393 (8.48%) AWS Certification
5 286 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 284 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 274 (5.91%) SC Cleared
8 234 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 165 (3.56%) DV Cleared
10 152 (3.28%) Master's Degree
11 92 (1.98%) PhD
12 69 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.29%) CCNP
14 52 (1.12%) CISSP
15 47 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.82%) OSCP
18 36 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 168 (3.62%) QA
3 112 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (2.37%) GDPR
5 106 (2.29%) NIST
6 68 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.52%) SLA
10 19 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.35%) PMO
13 15 (0.32%) ISO 22301
14 13 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.26%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.13%) WCAG
18 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 554 (11.95%) Docker
2 90 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.60%) Firmware
5 25 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.39%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) HDFS
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.086%) iptables
12 4 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.065%) QEMU
14 2 (0.043%) Ceph
14 2 (0.043%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 576 (12.42%) Terraform
2 574 (12.38%) Kubernetes
3 317 (6.84%) Ansible
4 150 (3.23%) Grafana
5 141 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.38%) Argo
7 24 (0.52%) Puppet
8 21 (0.45%) Kibana
9 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 20 (0.43%) Nagios
10 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
13 12 (0.26%) Nessus
13 12 (0.26%) Rancher
14 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.24%) logstash
14 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,420 (30.62%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.35%) Databricks
3 210 (4.53%) Google
4 147 (3.17%) Oracle
5 109 (2.35%) Cisco
5 109 (2.35%) VMware
6 92 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 69 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 68 (1.47%) SAP
9 66 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 64 (1.38%) Splunk
11 53 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.06%) Informatica
13 44 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.91%) Bloomberg
15 39 (0.84%) Alteryx
16 38 (0.82%) IBM
16 38 (0.82%) Talend
17 35 (0.75%) Foundry
18 34 (0.73%) Palantir