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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,063 4,891 7,201
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 12.51% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.72% 38.51% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,465 3,122 5,594
10th Percentile £34,850 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £122,500
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 14,193 12,699 27,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.44% 32.47% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,957 9,174 22,537
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 2,380 £85,000 -5.56% 1,355
North of England -14 1,207 £55,000 -15.38% 534
South East -1 884 £60,000 -7.69% 660
Midlands +17 668 £55,000 - 238
Yorkshire +17 533 £50,000 -23.08% 149
South West +6 530 £57,500 -4.17% 221
North West -23 503 £61,418 -5.51% 283
West Midlands +25 380 £57,500 +4.55% 117
East of England -3 326 £60,050 -9.31% 214
East Midlands +21 288 £55,000 - 121
North East +19 171 £47,500 -26.92% 103
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
1 214 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.21%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 59 (0.97%) WordPress
6 39 (0.64%) Confluence
7 32 (0.53%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.082%) CMS
15 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.082%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,221 (20.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.016%) Notion
10 1 (0.016%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.016%) Trello
10 1 (0.016%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.016%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
6 1 (0.016%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,878 (47.47%) Azure
2 1,835 (30.27%) AWS
3 1,441 (23.77%) Power Platform
4 1,314 (21.67%) Azure AI
5 634 (10.46%) GCP
6 524 (8.64%) GitHub
7 299 (4.93%) Serverless
8 230 (3.79%) SaaS
9 211 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 209 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 189 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 177 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 161 (2.66%) dbt
15 134 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 91 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
19 88 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.45%) Firewall
2 204 (3.36%) Internet
3 156 (2.57%) Broadband
4 125 (2.06%) DNS
5 115 (1.90%) VPN
6 96 (1.58%) Network Security
7 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 83 (1.37%) WAN
9 76 (1.25%) LAN
10 67 (1.11%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 56 (0.92%) HTTP
13 50 (0.82%) VLAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
15 43 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 34 (0.56%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 28 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,393 (22.98%) Power BI
2 1,303 (21.49%) Tableau
3 268 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 148 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.19%) Data Mining
10 126 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.03%) MongoDB
12 114 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 109 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 99 (1.63%) Big Data
15 89 (1.47%) Metadata
16 74 (1.22%) MySQL
17 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (0.96%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 661 (10.90%) Git
2 241 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 216 (3.56%) GitLab
4 115 (1.90%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 50 (0.82%) Selenium
8 45 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 38 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.61%) Postman
11 28 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.45%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.31%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
17 17 (0.28%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 2,336 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (19.25%) Finance
3 800 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (4.19%) Banking
5 248 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 189 (3.12%) Multimedia
8 174 (2.87%) Retail
9 160 (2.64%) Law
10 141 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.19%) Front Office
12 100 (1.65%) Marketing
13 94 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 91 (1.50%) Legal
15 75 (1.24%) Electronics
16 66 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
18 54 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 48 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,419 (23.40%) Analyst
2 1,245 (20.53%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.05%) Junior
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 915 (15.09%) Developer
6 879 (14.50%) Senior
7 568 (9.37%) Software Engineer
8 531 (8.76%) Data Engineer
9 482 (7.95%) Lead
10 457 (7.54%) Python Engineer
11 401 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 391 (6.45%) Python Developer
13 352 (5.81%) Trainee
14 205 (3.38%) Software Developer
15 199 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
16 175 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
17 174 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
18 157 (2.59%) Architect
18 157 (2.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.33%) React
2 330 (5.44%) HTML
3 291 (4.80%) CSS
4 248 (4.09%) Kafka
5 212 (3.50%) PySpark
6 208 (3.43%) Node.js
7 207 (3.41%) REST
8 183 (3.02%) Django
9 181 (2.99%) RESTful
10 170 (2.80%) .NET
11 165 (2.72%) Pandas
12 164 (2.70%) PyTorch
13 146 (2.41%) FastAPI
14 140 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.09%) scikit-learn
16 121 (2.00%) Flask
17 105 (1.73%) NumPy
18 103 (1.70%) JSON
18 103 (1.70%) LangChain
19 84 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 345 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 299 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 252 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 125 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 104 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 95 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.50%) Low-Code
10 89 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.37%) Hedge funds
14 82 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
15 80 (1.32%) Equities
16 79 (1.30%) Security Posture
17 78 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
18 76 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
19 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 588 (9.70%) Linux
2 249 (4.11%) Windows
3 123 (2.03%) Unix
4 69 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 4 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.066%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,527 (41.68%) AI
2 1,489 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1,230 (20.29%) CI/CD
4 1,111 (18.32%) Software Engineering
5 954 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 950 (15.67%) Analytics
7 934 (15.40%) Agile
8 910 (15.01%) DevOps
9 737 (12.16%) Machine Learning
10 719 (11.86%) Mentoring
11 681 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 590 (9.73%) Data Modelling
13 571 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
14 566 (9.34%) Data Engineering
15 554 (9.14%) ETL
16 553 (9.12%) Data Science
17 533 (8.79%) Computer Science
18 520 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 490 (8.08%) Containerisation
20 468 (7.72%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,486 (41.00%) SQL
2 729 (12.02%) JavaScript
3 659 (10.87%) Java
4 444 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 438 (7.22%) Bash
6 370 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 355 (5.86%) C++
8 338 (5.57%) C#
9 287 (4.73%) Go
10 219 (3.61%) R
11 155 (2.56%) C
12 120 (1.98%) Scala
13 78 (1.29%) Rust
14 67 (1.11%) PHP
14 67 (1.11%) VBA
15 55 (0.91%) Bicep
16 42 (0.69%) Perl
17 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,553 (25.61%) Azure Certification
2 777 (12.82%) Degree
3 533 (8.79%) Security Cleared
4 333 (5.49%) AWS Certification
5 311 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 281 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 245 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 243 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 181 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.49%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.47%) PhD
12 76 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.82%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) CISSP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 27 (0.45%) GIAC
19 26 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.79%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 106 (1.75%) NIST
5 96 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.099%) Basel III
System Software
1 574 (9.47%) Docker
2 107 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.87%) Firmware
5 32 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.36%) KVM
8 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.082%) iptables
13 5 (0.082%) Lustre
13 5 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.066%) Squid
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 723 (11.92%) Terraform
2 612 (10.09%) Kubernetes
3 345 (5.69%) Ansible
4 193 (3.18%) Grafana
5 155 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 33 (0.54%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
12 20 (0.33%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
15 15 (0.25%) Packer
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.21%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,898 (31.30%) Microsoft
2 324 (5.34%) Databricks
3 207 (3.41%) Google
4 128 (2.11%) Oracle
5 124 (2.05%) Cisco
6 123 (2.03%) VMware
7 105 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 87 (1.43%) Splunk
10 56 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 55 (0.91%) SAP
12 53 (0.87%) ServiceNow
13 52 (0.86%) Foundry
14 51 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 48 (0.79%) Fortinet
16 47 (0.78%) Informatica
17 45 (0.74%) SolarWinds
17 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
18 41 (0.68%) F5
19 40 (0.66%) Palantir