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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,305 5,261 6,432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.43% 11.68% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.68% 34.02% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 3,202 5,142
10th Percentile £31,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £90,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.91%

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 10,849 15,463 24,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.74% 34.32% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,099 9,135 20,703
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,563
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 £103,750 £111,250 £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 10 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 10 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 -1 2,020 £82,500 -5.71% 1,109
North of England -12 734 £47,500 -26.92% 410
South East -20 518 £60,000 -11.11% 651
Midlands -13 393 £55,000 - 218
South West -2 351 £60,000 -7.69% 245
Yorkshire +5 323 £43,750 -32.69% 143
North West -18 308 £55,000 -12.00% 219
West Midlands +3 257 £55,000 - 107
East of England -23 222 £51,250 -22.63% 197
East Midlands -24 139 £55,000 - 112
North East +6 103 £40,000 -42.29% 49
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
1 155 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.74%) Apache
4 38 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 32 (0.74%) Confluence
5 32 (0.74%) SAS
6 30 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 27 (0.63%) WordPress
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.42%) IIS
10 18 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.33%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.21%) nginx
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 652 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.23%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.093%) Windchill
10 3 (0.070%) CATIA
10 3 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.046%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.046%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.046%) Stata
11 2 (0.046%) Weka
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.12%) Shopify
5 4 (0.093%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,774 (41.21%) Azure
2 1,488 (34.56%) AWS
3 814 (18.91%) Power Platform
4 544 (12.64%) GitHub
5 448 (10.41%) GCP
6 421 (9.78%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.06%) Serverless
8 187 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 167 (3.88%) SaaS
11 155 (3.60%) Amazon S3
12 154 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
13 153 (3.55%) Snowflake
14 140 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 128 (2.97%) dbt
16 112 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 80 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
19 79 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 74 (1.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.97%) Internet
2 160 (3.72%) Firewall
3 97 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.04%) VPN
5 73 (1.70%) DNS
6 70 (1.63%) WAN
7 60 (1.39%) Broadband
7 60 (1.39%) LAN
8 57 (1.32%) BGP
9 55 (1.28%) Wireless
10 50 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (1.14%) Network Security
12 48 (1.11%) VLAN
13 40 (0.93%) HTTP
13 40 (0.93%) OSPF
14 34 (0.79%) MPLS
14 34 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 32 (0.74%) Wireshark
16 26 (0.60%) DHCP
16 26 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 772 (17.93%) Power BI
2 694 (16.12%) Tableau
3 243 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.09%) SQL Server
5 210 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 176 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.62%) Data Mining
8 154 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 117 (2.72%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.62%) Big Data
11 110 (2.56%) MongoDB
12 87 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 86 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
13 86 (2.00%) MySQL
14 84 (1.95%) BigQuery
15 73 (1.70%) Metadata
16 70 (1.63%) Hadoop
17 67 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 569 (13.22%) Git
2 215 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 152 (3.53%) GitLab
4 109 (2.53%) JIRA
5 60 (1.39%) Selenium
6 44 (1.02%) MLflow
7 40 (0.93%) Postman
8 33 (0.77%) JUnit
9 28 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.53%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.46%) JMeter
13 19 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
14 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 16 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.37%) Subversion
16 15 (0.35%) Burp Suite
16 15 (0.35%) Metasploit
17 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1,360 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (24.51%) Finance
3 699 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.60%) Multimedia
5 237 (5.51%) Banking
6 179 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (3.93%) Law
9 136 (3.16%) Front Office
10 130 (3.02%) Marketing
11 113 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 113 (2.62%) Retail
12 111 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 86 (2.00%) Financial Institution
14 76 (1.77%) Electronics
15 75 (1.74%) Legal
16 60 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 51 (1.18%) Games
17 51 (1.18%) Investment Banking
18 49 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 824 (19.14%) Analyst
2 794 (18.44%) Developer
3 665 (15.45%) Data Analyst
4 657 (15.26%) Senior
5 421 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 398 (9.25%) Junior
7 390 (9.06%) Trainee
8 377 (8.76%) Junior Analyst
8 377 (8.76%) Junior Data Analyst
9 347 (8.06%) Software Engineer
10 330 (7.67%) Lead
11 316 (7.34%) Python Developer
12 245 (5.69%) Python Engineer
13 200 (4.65%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.48%) Architect
15 144 (3.34%) Senior Developer
16 131 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
17 126 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
17 126 (2.93%) Trainee Analyst
17 126 (2.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (9.01%) HTML
2 351 (8.15%) React
3 342 (7.94%) CSS
4 186 (4.32%) Node.js
4 186 (4.32%) REST
5 169 (3.93%) Django
6 164 (3.81%) Kafka
7 148 (3.44%) RESTful
8 134 (3.11%) FastAPI
9 133 (3.09%) .NET
10 132 (3.07%) PySpark
11 124 (2.88%) PyTorch
12 113 (2.62%) Pandas
13 112 (2.60%) Flask
14 103 (2.39%) TensorFlow
15 99 (2.30%) AngularJS
16 90 (2.09%) JSON
17 81 (1.88%) Vue
18 79 (1.84%) NumPy
19 78 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 230 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 209 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 166 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 100 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 100 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 99 (2.30%) Equities
8 85 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 79 (1.84%) Low-Code
10 74 (1.72%) Hedge funds
11 72 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 72 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 71 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 69 (1.60%) Derivative
14 65 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 65 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 64 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
16 60 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
17 56 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 492 (11.43%) Linux
2 196 (4.55%) Windows
3 177 (4.11%) Unix
4 64 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.72%) CentOS
7 29 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.44%) Debian
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.26%) Android
12 11 (0.26%) Solaris
13 10 (0.23%) VMS
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.093%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.070%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.070%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,338 (31.08%) AI
2 990 (23.00%) CI/CD
3 926 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
4 878 (20.39%) Business Intelligence
5 831 (19.30%) Analytics
6 790 (18.35%) Agile
7 771 (17.91%) DevOps
8 714 (16.59%) Software Engineering
9 671 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 566 (13.15%) Machine Learning
11 485 (11.27%) Data Science
12 479 (11.13%) Data Modelling
12 479 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 477 (11.08%) ETL
14 463 (10.75%) Computer Science
15 462 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
16 458 (10.64%) Data Engineering
17 419 (9.73%) Data Analysis
18 400 (9.29%) Containerisation
19 395 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,732 (40.23%) SQL
2 754 (17.51%) JavaScript
3 599 (13.91%) Java
4 390 (9.06%) Bash
5 352 (8.18%) PowerShell
6 326 (7.57%) TypeScript
7 279 (6.48%) C#
8 236 (5.48%) R
9 222 (5.16%) C++
10 186 (4.32%) Go
11 130 (3.02%) C
12 81 (1.88%) Scala
13 63 (1.46%) PHP
13 63 (1.46%) VBA
14 52 (1.21%) Rust
15 48 (1.11%) Bicep
16 44 (1.02%) MATLAB
17 41 (0.95%) Perl
17 41 (0.95%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 785 (18.23%) Degree
2 687 (15.96%) Azure Certification
3 444 (10.31%) Security Cleared
4 368 (8.55%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 265 (6.16%) SC Cleared
7 254 (5.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 220 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 176 (4.09%) Master's Degree
10 151 (3.51%) DV Cleared
11 109 (2.53%) PhD
12 73 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.42%) CCNP
14 49 (1.14%) CISSP
15 48 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.72%) OSCP
19 27 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 168 (3.90%) QA
3 112 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.39%) GDPR
5 96 (2.23%) NIST
6 65 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.65%) SLA
9 20 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.30%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.19%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.093%) DICOM
19 4 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 511 (11.87%) Docker
2 86 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.70%) Firmware
5 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.30%) vSphere
7 11 (0.26%) KVM
8 10 (0.23%) HDFS
8 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.16%) Lustre
11 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.093%) NFS
12 4 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.070%) iptables
13 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.070%) QEMU
13 3 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 548 (12.73%) Kubernetes
1 548 (12.73%) Terraform
2 316 (7.34%) Ansible
3 131 (3.04%) Grafana
4 129 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 61 (1.42%) Argo
6 23 (0.53%) Puppet
7 22 (0.51%) Kibana
8 20 (0.46%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.35%) Nagios
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.28%) Nessus
12 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.28%) Rancher
13 11 (0.26%) Control-M
13 11 (0.26%) logstash
13 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,224 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.78%) Databricks
3 197 (4.58%) Google
4 127 (2.95%) Oracle
5 102 (2.37%) Cisco
6 99 (2.30%) VMware
7 76 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 74 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.63%) SAP
10 63 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 59 (1.37%) Splunk
12 52 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 51 (1.18%) Informatica
14 44 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.98%) Bloomberg
15 42 (0.98%) Talend
16 40 (0.93%) IBM
17 39 (0.91%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.74%) Palantir
19 31 (0.72%) Atlassian