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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,981 4,847 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.94% 11.23% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.82% 41.06% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 2,662 4,285
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £135,000
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 16,697 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,214 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £39,818 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16 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 16 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 -2 2,496 £85,000 -5.56% 7,595
North of England -16 1,147 £67,500 +8.00% 1,068
South East +8 858 £62,500 +4.17% 1,154
South West +10 593 £62,500 +13.64% 636
North West -22 568 £67,500 +12.50% 596
Midlands +2 523 £62,000 -4.25% 511
Yorkshire +10 336 £68,000 +4.62% 339
East of England +9 313 £65,000 +18.18% 731
West Midlands -10 282 £65,000 +4.00% 301
North East +19 243 £67,500 +42.11% 137
East Midlands +17 239 £52,500 -19.23% 209
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
1 218 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 173 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (2.73%) Apache
4 74 (1.24%) Confluence
5 38 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.43%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) Camunda
14 7 (0.12%) IIS
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
16 5 (0.084%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 440 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.35%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.084%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) 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 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,263 (37.84%) Azure
2 1,852 (30.96%) AWS
3 827 (13.83%) Power Platform
4 722 (12.07%) GCP
5 676 (11.30%) Azure AI
6 362 (6.05%) Serverless
7 360 (6.02%) GitHub
8 253 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 236 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
10 227 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 220 (3.68%) SaaS
12 219 (3.66%) Snowflake
13 207 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 174 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
16 173 (2.89%) dbt
16 173 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
17 137 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
19 125 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 210 (3.51%) Firewall
2 144 (2.41%) DNS
3 131 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 131 (2.19%) VPN
4 99 (1.66%) Network Security
5 94 (1.57%) WAN
6 79 (1.32%) Wireless
7 77 (1.29%) Broadband
8 69 (1.15%) LAN
9 61 (1.02%) DHCP
10 59 (0.99%) BGP
11 48 (0.80%) SD-WAN
12 46 (0.77%) VLAN
13 44 (0.74%) MQTT
14 43 (0.72%) OSPF
15 37 (0.62%) HTTP
16 35 (0.59%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 757 (12.66%) Power BI
2 485 (8.11%) Tableau
3 336 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
4 277 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 145 (2.42%) Relational Database
10 124 (2.07%) Big Data
11 123 (2.06%) BigQuery
12 111 (1.86%) MySQL
13 105 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 104 (1.74%) Metadata
15 98 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
16 92 (1.54%) DynamoDB
17 88 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
18 77 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
19 74 (1.24%) Delta Lake
20 72 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 659 (11.02%) Git
2 305 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 246 (4.11%) GitLab
4 173 (2.89%) JIRA
5 64 (1.07%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.87%) MLflow
6 52 (0.87%) Subversion
7 51 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.84%) Selenium
9 38 (0.64%) JUnit
9 38 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 36 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 32 (0.54%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 22 (0.37%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 1,975 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 1,277 (21.35%) Finance
3 793 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 314 (5.25%) Banking
6 252 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.59%) Law
8 189 (3.16%) Marketing
9 160 (2.68%) Retail
10 128 (2.14%) Legal
11 108 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 101 (1.69%) Front Office
12 101 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 98 (1.64%) Electronics
14 85 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 81 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 70 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
17 58 (0.97%) Games
18 45 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
19 44 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,241 (20.75%) Senior
2 847 (14.16%) Software Engineer
3 821 (13.73%) Developer
4 688 (11.50%) Python Engineer
5 654 (10.93%) Analyst
6 615 (10.28%) Data Engineer
7 601 (10.05%) Lead
8 517 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 478 (7.99%) Data Analyst
10 411 (6.87%) Junior
11 358 (5.99%) Python Developer
12 335 (5.60%) Junior Analyst
13 331 (5.53%) Junior Data Analyst
14 328 (5.48%) Python Software Engineer
15 250 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
16 216 (3.61%) Architect
17 215 (3.59%) Data Scientist
18 195 (3.26%) Senior Developer
19 188 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
20 187 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (15.82%) Terraform
2 391 (6.54%) React
3 241 (4.03%) Kafka
4 232 (3.88%) .NET
5 228 (3.81%) REST
6 226 (3.78%) PySpark
7 221 (3.70%) Node.js
8 209 (3.49%) RESTful
9 207 (3.46%) FastAPI
10 180 (3.01%) Django
11 179 (2.99%) LangChain
12 172 (2.88%) PyTorch
13 148 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 142 (2.37%) HTML
15 126 (2.11%) CSS
15 126 (2.11%) Flask
16 117 (1.96%) Spring
16 117 (1.96%) Spring Boot
17 102 (1.71%) Pandas
18 96 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 599 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 307 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 287 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 242 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 209 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 152 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 135 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 91 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 86 (1.44%) Robotics
10 82 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 81 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
12 79 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 78 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
16 73 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (1.15%) Low-Code
18 66 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
19 62 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 701 (11.72%) Linux
2 322 (5.38%) Windows
3 84 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.35%) Unix
5 53 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.74%) CentOS
7 41 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.27%) Rocky
13 14 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Android
16 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,504 (41.87%) AI
2 1,653 (27.64%) Software Engineering
3 1,574 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 1,179 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
5 1,095 (18.31%) DevOps
6 1,085 (18.14%) Analytics
7 1,073 (17.94%) Agile
8 993 (16.60%) Machine Learning
9 944 (15.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 922 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
11 798 (13.34%) Mentoring
12 732 (12.24%) Data Engineering
13 719 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
14 652 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 642 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.38%) Data Science
17 607 (10.15%) Decision-Making
18 592 (9.90%) Computer Science
19 572 (9.56%) Containerisation
20 569 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,051 (34.29%) SQL
2 805 (13.46%) Java
3 586 (9.80%) JavaScript
4 567 (9.48%) C++
5 516 (8.63%) Bash
6 491 (8.21%) PowerShell
7 481 (8.04%) C#
8 392 (6.55%) TypeScript
9 248 (4.15%) Go
10 196 (3.28%) C
11 134 (2.24%) R
12 112 (1.87%) Scala
13 93 (1.55%) Bicep
13 93 (1.55%) Rust
14 91 (1.52%) PHP
15 86 (1.44%) Perl
16 78 (1.30%) MATLAB
17 75 (1.25%) Ruby
18 67 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 52 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 917 (15.33%) Degree
2 842 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 750 (12.54%) Azure Certification
4 481 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 319 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.45%) DV Cleared
7 214 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 118 (1.97%) PhD
9 108 (1.81%) AWS Certification
10 82 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 74 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 49 (0.82%) CCNP
14 45 (0.75%) CISSP
15 43 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.55%) CCNA
18 31 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 527 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 253 (4.23%) QA
3 138 (2.31%) GDPR
4 105 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 61 (1.02%) NIST
6 53 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.47%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 16 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.23%) PMO
15 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.22%) GRC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 751 (12.56%) Docker
2 112 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.07%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.45%) vSphere
7 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 17 (0.28%) KVM
9 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.050%) IAG
14 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 766 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 407 (6.80%) Ansible
3 232 (3.88%) Grafana
4 154 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.05%) Puppet
6 58 (0.97%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.64%) Kibana
9 32 (0.54%) Nagios
10 28 (0.47%) Istio
11 27 (0.45%) Packer
12 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.37%) Podman
14 22 (0.37%) Rancher
15 18 (0.30%) logstash
15 18 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,053 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 443 (7.41%) Databricks
3 210 (3.51%) Google
4 149 (2.49%) Splunk
5 120 (2.01%) OpenAI
6 119 (1.99%) Oracle
6 119 (1.99%) VMware
7 114 (1.91%) Cisco
8 95 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 51 (0.85%) Foundry
11 50 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 47 (0.79%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 36 (0.60%) SolarWinds
16 34 (0.57%) SAP
17 31 (0.52%) Informatica
18 30 (0.50%) IBM
19 29 (0.48%) F5