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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,085 4,853 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.94% 11.23% 9.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.91% 41.03% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,770 2,676 4,309
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £133,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,944 11,828 21,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.55% 27.37% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,342 7,816 13,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 2,539 £85,000 -5.56% 6,484
North of England -17 1,162 £67,500 +9.76% 984
South East +9 875 £62,500 +4.17% 1,107
South West +11 603 £62,500 +11.61% 577
North West -22 575 £67,500 +12.50% 532
Midlands -1 535 £62,000 -0.80% 454
Yorkshire +9 340 £67,750 +4.23% 324
East of England +9 318 £65,000 +15.56% 651
West Midlands -11 289 £65,000 +7.88% 262
North East +17 248 £67,153 +41.37% 131
East Midlands +14 244 £52,500 -19.23% 192
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
1 221 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 171 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
3 168 (2.76%) Apache
4 73 (1.20%) Confluence
5 40 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.46%) SAS
8 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.16%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) IIS
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 443 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.39%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Mathematica
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.033%) Revit
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,298 (37.76%) Azure
2 1,878 (30.86%) AWS
3 835 (13.72%) Power Platform
4 729 (11.98%) GCP
5 677 (11.13%) Azure AI
6 376 (6.18%) GitHub
7 366 (6.01%) Serverless
8 259 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 238 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 228 (3.75%) Amazon S3
11 227 (3.73%) SaaS
12 221 (3.63%) Snowflake
13 209 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 208 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 182 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
16 181 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
17 174 (2.86%) dbt
18 139 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 131 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 130 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.52%) Firewall
2 148 (2.43%) DNS
3 135 (2.22%) VPN
4 133 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 99 (1.63%) Network Security
6 95 (1.56%) WAN
7 80 (1.31%) Wireless
8 76 (1.25%) Broadband
9 67 (1.10%) LAN
10 62 (1.02%) DHCP
11 59 (0.97%) BGP
12 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.76%) VLAN
14 45 (0.74%) MQTT
15 43 (0.71%) OSPF
16 37 (0.61%) HTTP
17 36 (0.59%) SSL
18 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.39%) 5G
19 24 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 762 (12.52%) Power BI
2 485 (7.97%) Tableau
3 336 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 286 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 183 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.58%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 147 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 130 (2.14%) Big Data
10 121 (1.99%) BigQuery
11 111 (1.82%) MySQL
12 106 (1.74%) Metadata
13 101 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
15 94 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
16 92 (1.51%) DynamoDB
17 82 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
18 77 (1.27%) Delta Lake
19 73 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 678 (11.14%) Git
2 314 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 250 (4.11%) GitLab
4 174 (2.86%) JIRA
5 68 (1.12%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.85%) Subversion
7 51 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.82%) Selenium
9 48 (0.79%) MLflow
10 39 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.62%) JUnit
12 36 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.44%) LabVIEW
17 24 (0.39%) Maven
18 22 (0.36%) TeamCity
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2,007 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 1,296 (21.30%) Finance
3 812 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 349 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 318 (5.23%) Banking
6 259 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 218 (3.58%) Law
8 198 (3.25%) Marketing
9 163 (2.68%) Retail
10 131 (2.15%) Legal
11 112 (1.84%) Aerospace
12 105 (1.73%) Front Office
13 104 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 98 (1.61%) Electronics
15 84 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 59 (0.97%) Games
19 47 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,252 (20.58%) Senior
2 868 (14.26%) Software Engineer
3 843 (13.85%) Developer
4 698 (11.47%) Python Engineer
5 662 (10.88%) Analyst
6 628 (10.32%) Data Engineer
7 608 (9.99%) Lead
8 527 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 483 (7.94%) Data Analyst
10 413 (6.79%) Junior
11 363 (5.97%) Python Developer
12 338 (5.55%) Python Software Engineer
13 335 (5.51%) Junior Analyst
14 331 (5.44%) Junior Data Analyst
15 253 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.62%) Data Scientist
17 218 (3.58%) Architect
18 202 (3.32%) Senior Developer
19 200 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
20 191 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 965 (15.86%) Terraform
2 399 (6.56%) React
3 239 (3.93%) REST
4 238 (3.91%) Kafka
5 236 (3.88%) .NET
6 233 (3.83%) PySpark
7 229 (3.76%) Node.js
8 210 (3.45%) FastAPI
9 209 (3.43%) RESTful
10 182 (2.99%) LangChain
11 180 (2.96%) Django
12 171 (2.81%) PyTorch
13 147 (2.42%) HTML
14 146 (2.40%) TensorFlow
15 131 (2.15%) CSS
16 127 (2.09%) Flask
17 122 (2.00%) Spring
17 122 (2.00%) Spring Boot
18 101 (1.66%) Pandas
19 98 (1.61%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 601 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 312 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 289 (4.75%) Algorithms
4 250 (4.11%) AI Agents
5 217 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 152 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 135 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.50%) Robotics
10 87 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 84 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
12 83 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 83 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 79 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 79 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
14 77 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.27%) Public Cloud
15 72 (1.18%) Low-Code
16 65 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
17 64 (1.05%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 710 (11.67%) Linux
2 326 (5.36%) Windows
3 86 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.33%) Unix
5 53 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.72%) CentOS
7 41 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.41%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.26%) Rocky
13 14 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
15 12 (0.20%) Solaris
16 11 (0.18%) Android
17 10 (0.16%) VMS
17 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,547 (41.86%) AI
2 1,685 (27.69%) Software Engineering
3 1,619 (26.61%) CI/CD
4 1,208 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
5 1,120 (18.41%) DevOps
6 1,108 (18.21%) Analytics
7 1,094 (17.98%) Agile
8 1,013 (16.65%) Machine Learning
9 963 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 926 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
11 803 (13.20%) Mentoring
12 741 (12.18%) Data Engineering
13 732 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
14 671 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 649 (10.67%) Data Modelling
16 627 (10.30%) Data Science
17 617 (10.14%) Decision-Making
18 597 (9.81%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.63%) Containerisation
20 584 (9.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,088 (34.31%) SQL
2 823 (13.53%) Java
3 605 (9.94%) JavaScript
4 576 (9.47%) C++
5 527 (8.66%) Bash
6 498 (8.18%) PowerShell
7 489 (8.04%) C#
8 406 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 252 (4.14%) Go
10 201 (3.30%) C
11 144 (2.37%) R
12 117 (1.92%) Scala
13 96 (1.58%) Bicep
14 95 (1.56%) Rust
15 93 (1.53%) PHP
16 86 (1.41%) Perl
17 82 (1.35%) MATLAB
18 74 (1.22%) Ruby
19 69 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 53 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 931 (15.30%) Degree
2 867 (14.25%) Security Cleared
3 755 (12.41%) Azure Certification
4 494 (8.12%) SC Cleared
5 319 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 275 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 218 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 120 (1.97%) PhD
9 112 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 48 (0.79%) CISSP
14 47 (0.77%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 28 (0.46%) OSCP
20 27 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 256 (4.21%) QA
3 136 (2.24%) GDPR
4 107 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 62 (1.02%) NIST
6 54 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.35%) NCSC
10 19 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.30%) WCAG
12 15 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.21%) GRC
14 13 (0.21%) PMO
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.12%) Basel III
16 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 777 (12.77%) Docker
2 115 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.07%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.28%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 790 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 418 (6.87%) Ansible
3 240 (3.94%) Grafana
4 162 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 65 (1.07%) Puppet
6 60 (0.99%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.64%) Kibana
9 32 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.46%) Istio
11 27 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.44%) Packer
12 25 (0.41%) Rancher
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.36%) Podman
15 20 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
16 18 (0.30%) Proxmox
17 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
18 16 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,070 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 454 (7.46%) Databricks
3 216 (3.55%) Google
4 153 (2.51%) Splunk
5 122 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 120 (1.97%) VMware
7 118 (1.94%) Oracle
8 112 (1.84%) Cisco
9 95 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 50 (0.82%) Foundry
13 46 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.67%) Salesforce
15 39 (0.64%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.61%) SolarWinds
17 36 (0.59%) SAP
18 33 (0.54%) Informatica
19 32 (0.53%) F5
20 30 (0.49%) New Relic