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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,259 5,247 7,777
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.20% 12.14% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 40.09% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 2,980 5,835
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,647
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,999 13,089 27,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 30.29% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,622 8,861 21,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £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 10 July 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 July 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 2,494 £85,000 -5.56% 1,292
North of England -11 1,264 £65,000 - 393
South East +3 943 £60,000 - 550
Midlands +20 616 £60,000 +1.69% 197
North West -16 589 £65,000 - 212
South West +8 574 £60,000 +4.35% 242
Yorkshire +14 455 £65,000 - 108
West Midlands +11 315 £62,500 +4.17% 101
East Midlands +28 301 £54,500 -0.91% 96
East of England -7 294 £70,000 +5.73% 183
North East +23 220 £59,000 -5.60% 76
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
1 222 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 218 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 167 (2.67%) Apache
4 72 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.75%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.48%) SAS
9 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
11 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
13 5 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.080%) Camunda
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 922 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.27%) Simulink
7 12 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.048%) Blender
9 3 (0.048%) Maya
9 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.048%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.032%) Summit
8 1 (0.016%) Endur
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,689 (42.96%) Azure
2 1,996 (31.89%) AWS
3 1,197 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.32%) Azure AI
5 742 (11.85%) GCP
6 398 (6.36%) GitHub
7 365 (5.83%) Serverless
8 242 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.72%) SaaS
10 230 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 196 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 191 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 179 (2.86%) dbt
15 173 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 163 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 155 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
18 129 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 120 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
20 116 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 245 (3.91%) Firewall
2 185 (2.96%) Broadband
3 147 (2.35%) VPN
4 138 (2.20%) DNS
5 119 (1.90%) Network Security
6 107 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 99 (1.58%) WAN
8 84 (1.34%) Wireless
9 80 (1.28%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) Internet
11 69 (1.10%) BGP
12 56 (0.89%) VLAN
13 54 (0.86%) HTTP
14 52 (0.83%) SD-WAN
15 50 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
16 42 (0.67%) OSPF
17 41 (0.66%) DHCP
18 37 (0.59%) MQTT
19 34 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 32 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,136 (18.15%) Power BI
2 987 (15.77%) Tableau
3 299 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 180 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 175 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 174 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 150 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.24%) BigQuery
9 140 (2.24%) MongoDB
10 118 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 107 (1.71%) Big Data
13 103 (1.65%) MySQL
14 93 (1.49%) Metadata
15 76 (1.21%) DynamoDB
16 69 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (1.02%) Data Mining
18 62 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 56 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 636 (10.16%) Git
2 290 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 256 (4.09%) GitLab
4 157 (2.51%) JIRA
5 81 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.91%) Claude Code
7 56 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 56 (0.89%) MLflow
8 43 (0.69%) Selenium
9 40 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 34 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 34 (0.54%) Subversion
11 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.43%) Postman
12 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 23 (0.37%) JUnit
14 22 (0.35%) JMeter
14 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 2,202 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 1,246 (19.91%) Finance
3 820 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (4.41%) Banking
5 263 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 196 (3.13%) Retail
8 163 (2.60%) Law
9 132 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.05%) Front Office
11 105 (1.68%) Legal
12 94 (1.50%) Marketing
13 92 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.28%) Electronics
15 75 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 72 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (0.99%) Games
19 61 (0.97%) Investment Banking
20 58 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,130 (18.05%) Analyst
2 1,122 (17.93%) Senior
3 959 (15.32%) Data Analyst
4 891 (14.24%) Developer
5 817 (13.05%) Junior
6 761 (12.16%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.13%) Junior Data Analyst
8 745 (11.90%) Software Engineer
9 603 (9.63%) Data Engineer
10 569 (9.09%) Python Engineer
11 547 (8.74%) Lead
12 460 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 368 (5.88%) Python Developer
14 271 (4.33%) Python Software Engineer
15 213 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 205 (3.28%) Architect
17 197 (3.15%) Data Scientist
18 182 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
19 181 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
20 176 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (6.29%) React
2 277 (4.43%) Kafka
3 244 (3.90%) Node.js
4 222 (3.55%) PySpark
4 222 (3.55%) REST
5 212 (3.39%) .NET
6 199 (3.18%) RESTful
7 191 (3.05%) FastAPI
8 186 (2.97%) HTML
9 181 (2.89%) Django
10 171 (2.73%) CSS
11 167 (2.67%) PyTorch
12 154 (2.46%) Pandas
13 148 (2.36%) LangChain
14 142 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 133 (2.12%) Flask
16 123 (1.97%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.71%) Vue
18 106 (1.69%) JSON
18 106 (1.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 509 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 323 (5.16%) Algorithms
3 312 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 185 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 172 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 159 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 107 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 103 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.41%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 84 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.26%) Equities
15 75 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 75 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
17 71 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 71 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 67 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 700 (11.18%) Linux
2 298 (4.76%) Windows
3 89 (1.42%) Unix
4 87 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.69%) CentOS
7 42 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.38%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.19%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.16%) Android
13 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Rocky
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,647 (42.29%) AI
2 1,482 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 1,445 (23.09%) Software Engineering
4 1,248 (19.94%) Business Intelligence
5 1,101 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
6 1,072 (17.13%) Agile
7 1,038 (16.58%) DevOps
8 1,015 (16.22%) Analytics
9 886 (14.16%) Machine Learning
10 878 (14.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 749 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 653 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
13 642 (10.26%) Data Engineering
14 634 (10.13%) Data Modelling
15 606 (9.68%) Data Science
16 585 (9.35%) Containerisation
17 576 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
18 557 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
19 556 (8.88%) Computer Science
20 548 (8.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,365 (37.79%) SQL
2 769 (12.29%) Java
3 655 (10.46%) JavaScript
4 517 (8.26%) PowerShell
5 505 (8.07%) C++
6 500 (7.99%) Bash
7 426 (6.81%) C#
8 387 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 290 (4.63%) Go
10 183 (2.92%) C
11 160 (2.56%) R
12 121 (1.93%) Scala
13 101 (1.61%) Rust
14 99 (1.58%) PHP
15 87 (1.39%) Bicep
16 64 (1.02%) MATLAB
17 61 (0.97%) Perl
18 60 (0.96%) Ruby
19 54 (0.86%) VBA
20 53 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,208 (19.30%) Azure Certification
2 806 (12.88%) Degree
3 727 (11.62%) Security Cleared
4 406 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 238 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 177 (2.83%) Master's Degree
9 122 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 119 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 85 (1.36%) PhD
12 77 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.88%) CCNP
14 51 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.67%) OSCP
16 38 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 31 (0.50%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 253 (4.04%) QA
3 141 (2.25%) GDPR
4 87 (1.39%) NIST
5 77 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 22 (0.35%) GRC
11 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.34%) PMO
12 20 (0.32%) SLA
13 13 (0.21%) WCAG
14 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 708 (11.31%) Docker
2 110 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 39 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.50%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.064%) iptables
17 3 (0.048%) IAG
17 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 913 (14.59%) Terraform
2 713 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 401 (6.41%) Ansible
4 242 (3.87%) Grafana
5 176 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 67 (1.07%) Argo
7 43 (0.69%) Puppet
8 40 (0.64%) Nagios
9 37 (0.59%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.45%) Istio
11 28 (0.45%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 22 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) logstash
16 17 (0.27%) Kustomize
16 17 (0.27%) Podman
17 16 (0.26%) Rancher
18 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,555 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 377 (6.02%) Databricks
3 203 (3.24%) Google
4 146 (2.33%) VMware
5 137 (2.19%) Splunk
6 134 (2.14%) Oracle
7 126 (2.01%) Cisco
8 104 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 102 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 64 (1.02%) Foundry
11 63 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 49 (0.78%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.70%) F5
16 44 (0.70%) SAP
17 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
18 36 (0.58%) Palantir
19 35 (0.56%) Arista