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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,357 5,188 6,611
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.96% 11.93% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.62% 40.06% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,916 4,840
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,459 12,949 22,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.03% 29.76% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 8,704 17,120
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 31 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 31 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 2,589 £85,000 -5.56% 1,821
North of England -11 1,279 £65,000 - 426
South East +4 933 £60,000 - 499
North West -16 608 £65,000 +8.33% 226
South West +12 597 £60,000 +9.09% 237
Midlands +11 590 £62,000 -2.36% 192
Yorkshire +14 431 £65,000 - 121
West Midlands +4 313 £62,500 -3.85% 113
East of England +9 308 £65,000 - 178
East Midlands +19 276 £55,000 - 79
North East +29 240 £60,000 -7.69% 85
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
1 244 (3.84%) Apache Spark
2 235 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 182 (2.86%) Apache
4 72 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 61 (0.96%) Confluence
6 46 (0.72%) WordPress
7 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 819 (12.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 4 (0.063%) Shopify
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,621 (41.23%) Azure
2 2,031 (31.95%) AWS
3 1,129 (17.76%) Power Platform
4 990 (15.57%) Azure AI
5 768 (12.08%) GCP
6 384 (6.04%) GitHub
7 368 (5.79%) Serverless
8 248 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.68%) SaaS
10 233 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (3.56%) Snowflake
12 223 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 198 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 196 (3.08%) dbt
15 166 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 161 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
17 158 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 131 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 123 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
20 116 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (3.59%) Firewall
2 149 (2.34%) Broadband
3 133 (2.09%) DNS
4 128 (2.01%) VPN
5 117 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 114 (1.79%) Network Security
7 94 (1.48%) WAN
8 80 (1.26%) Wireless
9 75 (1.18%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.87%) BGP
12 52 (0.82%) VLAN
13 47 (0.74%) HTTP
14 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.66%) DHCP
16 39 (0.61%) MQTT
16 39 (0.61%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 30 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
19 26 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,060 (16.67%) Power BI
2 891 (14.02%) Tableau
3 329 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 162 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 141 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 119 (1.87%) Big Data
11 113 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 109 (1.71%) MySQL
14 97 (1.53%) Metadata
15 81 (1.27%) DynamoDB
16 74 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
17 65 (1.02%) Delta Lake
17 65 (1.02%) Looker
18 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 672 (10.57%) Git
2 282 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 252 (3.96%) GitLab
4 163 (2.56%) JIRA
5 79 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 60 (0.94%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.94%) MLflow
8 47 (0.74%) Selenium
9 39 (0.61%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.49%) JUnit
13 28 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 20 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 2,197 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 1,313 (20.65%) Finance
3 847 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (4.78%) Banking
5 288 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 198 (3.11%) Law
8 185 (2.91%) Retail
9 142 (2.23%) Marketing
10 135 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.04%) Front Office
12 125 (1.97%) Legal
13 87 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 83 (1.31%) Electronics
15 80 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 77 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 76 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 67 (1.05%) Investment Banking
19 65 (1.02%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,217 (19.14%) Senior
2 1,022 (16.08%) Analyst
3 897 (14.11%) Developer
4 852 (13.40%) Data Analyst
5 814 (12.80%) Software Engineer
6 743 (11.69%) Junior
7 668 (10.51%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.46%) Junior Data Analyst
9 648 (10.19%) Python Engineer
10 629 (9.89%) Data Engineer
11 590 (9.28%) Lead
12 464 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 376 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 303 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 234 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 214 (3.37%) Architect
17 210 (3.30%) Data Scientist
18 195 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 190 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (6.53%) React
2 295 (4.64%) Kafka
3 251 (3.95%) Node.js
4 233 (3.67%) PySpark
5 228 (3.59%) REST
6 221 (3.48%) .NET
7 204 (3.21%) RESTful
8 202 (3.18%) FastAPI
9 197 (3.10%) Django
10 189 (2.97%) HTML
11 172 (2.71%) CSS
12 167 (2.63%) PyTorch
13 162 (2.55%) LangChain
14 156 (2.45%) Pandas
15 142 (2.23%) TensorFlow
16 136 (2.14%) Flask
17 131 (2.06%) scikit-learn
18 112 (1.76%) Spring
19 110 (1.73%) Spring Boot
20 107 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 547 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 341 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 328 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 197 (3.10%) AI Agents
5 185 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 170 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 134 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 98 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
11 85 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.32%) Low-Code
13 78 (1.23%) Equities
13 78 (1.23%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
15 72 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
16 71 (1.12%) Robotics
17 69 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
18 67 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 713 (11.22%) Linux
2 321 (5.05%) Windows
3 96 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.35%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.71%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,733 (42.99%) AI
2 1,571 (24.71%) Software Engineering
3 1,536 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 1,194 (18.78%) Business Intelligence
5 1,146 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 1,124 (17.68%) Agile
7 1,074 (16.89%) Analytics
8 1,065 (16.75%) DevOps
9 965 (15.18%) Machine Learning
10 893 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 776 (12.21%) Mentoring
12 704 (11.07%) Data Engineering
13 703 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
14 667 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 621 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 620 (9.75%) Data Science
17 589 (9.27%) Containerisation
18 577 (9.08%) Full-Stack Development
19 572 (9.00%) Computer Science
20 558 (8.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,368 (37.25%) SQL
2 788 (12.40%) Java
3 662 (10.41%) JavaScript
4 533 (8.38%) C++
5 503 (7.91%) PowerShell
6 481 (7.57%) Bash
7 451 (7.09%) C#
8 406 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.29%) Go
10 180 (2.83%) C
11 170 (2.67%) R
12 125 (1.97%) Scala
13 99 (1.56%) PHP
14 97 (1.53%) Rust
15 88 (1.38%) Bicep
16 72 (1.13%) Perl
17 68 (1.07%) Ruby
18 61 (0.96%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,118 (17.59%) Azure Certification
2 853 (13.42%) Degree
3 730 (11.48%) Security Cleared
4 416 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 316 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 247 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 197 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 189 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 95 (1.49%) PhD
12 80 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.85%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 39 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.55%) CISSP
17 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 33 (0.52%) OSCP
19 24 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 263 (4.14%) QA
3 150 (2.36%) GDPR
4 93 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.20%) NIST
6 63 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
10 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 20 (0.31%) GRC
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 17 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 739 (11.62%) Docker
2 112 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 57 (0.90%) Firmware
5 45 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.46%) KVM
8 28 (0.44%) vSphere
9 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 6 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
16 5 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
17 3 (0.047%) IAG
17 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.047%) Xen
Systems Management
1 907 (14.27%) Terraform
2 718 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 387 (6.09%) Ansible
4 241 (3.79%) Grafana
5 157 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Argo
7 47 (0.74%) Nagios
8 43 (0.68%) Puppet
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,466 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 423 (6.65%) Databricks
3 189 (2.97%) Google
4 151 (2.38%) Splunk
5 141 (2.22%) Oracle
6 140 (2.20%) VMware
7 121 (1.90%) Cisco
8 115 (1.81%) Red Hat
9 112 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 71 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.74%) SolarWinds
14 41 (0.64%) F5
15 40 (0.63%) SAP
16 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.57%) Dynatrace
17 36 (0.57%) Typelevel
18 34 (0.53%) Palantir