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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,736 4,949 6,616
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.43% 12.14% 9.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.58% 34.57% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,994 3,252 5,338
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,500
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 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,125 £120,000 £118,050
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.12%

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 11,672 14,316 25,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.31% 35.13% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,540 9,446 21,736
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 8 March 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 8 March 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 2,116 £82,500 -5.71% 1,205
North of England -6 835 £45,000 -30.77% 492
South East -17 616 £62,500 -7.41% 638
Midlands -9 451 £55,000 - 231
South West +4 409 £58,497 -10.01% 261
Yorkshire +9 359 £40,000 -38.46% 187
North West -9 353 £55,000 -13.73% 230
West Midlands +6 292 £58,750 +6.82% 112
East of England -25 240 £50,000 -24.51% 217
East Midlands -14 161 £55,000 - 119
North East +15 123 £40,000 -38.46% 81
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
1 190 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 139 (2.93%) Apache
4 59 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.72%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 19 (0.40%) Appian
9 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.34%) IIS
10 16 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 9 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.084%) GeoServer
Applications
1 863 (18.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 58 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.084%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.042%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.021%) Actimize
8 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.021%) Primavera
8 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,006 (42.36%) Azure
2 1,624 (34.29%) AWS
3 1,005 (21.22%) Power Platform
4 603 (12.73%) Azure AI
5 543 (11.47%) GitHub
6 516 (10.90%) GCP
7 268 (5.66%) Serverless
8 197 (4.16%) Amazon S3
9 190 (4.01%) SaaS
10 179 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
11 175 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 164 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 161 (3.40%) Snowflake
14 150 (3.17%) dbt
15 141 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 119 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 108 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 94 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 85 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
20 84 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (5.00%) Internet
2 175 (3.70%) Firewall
3 111 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 99 (2.09%) VPN
5 92 (1.94%) Broadband
6 90 (1.90%) DNS
7 69 (1.46%) WAN
8 64 (1.35%) LAN
9 59 (1.25%) Network Security
10 57 (1.20%) BGP
10 57 (1.20%) Wireless
11 54 (1.14%) VLAN
12 51 (1.08%) HTTP
13 49 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
14 40 (0.84%) OSPF
15 34 (0.72%) MPLS
16 33 (0.70%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.68%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
19 28 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 968 (20.44%) Power BI
2 925 (19.53%) Tableau
3 243 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 209 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 203 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 167 (3.53%) Data Mining
7 163 (3.44%) NoSQL
8 145 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 119 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 102 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 98 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 96 (2.03%) Big Data
13 94 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 93 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
15 83 (1.75%) Metadata
16 76 (1.60%) MySQL
17 67 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (1.06%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.91%) Delta Lake
20 42 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 610 (12.88%) Git
2 209 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 168 (3.55%) GitLab
4 98 (2.07%) JIRA
5 50 (1.06%) MLflow
5 50 (1.06%) Selenium
5 50 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
6 38 (0.80%) Postman
7 35 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 28 (0.59%) JUnit
10 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
11 22 (0.46%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.42%) LabVIEW
13 18 (0.38%) CircleCI
13 18 (0.38%) JMeter
14 17 (0.36%) Metasploit
14 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,595 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (23.73%) Finance
3 792 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (5.64%) Banking
5 221 (4.67%) Multimedia
6 206 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 194 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 166 (3.51%) Law
9 162 (3.42%) Retail
10 147 (3.10%) Front Office
11 140 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.62%) Marketing
13 115 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.79%) Legal
15 74 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 72 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 72 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 70 (1.48%) Electronics
18 48 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
19 40 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,068 (22.55%) Analyst
2 877 (18.52%) Data Analyst
3 796 (16.81%) Developer
4 701 (14.80%) Senior
5 595 (12.56%) Junior
6 567 (11.97%) Junior Analyst
6 567 (11.97%) Junior Data Analyst
7 448 (9.46%) Data Engineer
8 413 (8.72%) Trainee
9 400 (8.45%) Software Engineer
10 364 (7.69%) Lead
11 313 (6.61%) Python Developer
12 286 (6.04%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 155 (3.27%) Architect
15 144 (3.04%) Senior Developer
16 142 (3.00%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (3.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 136 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
17 136 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (7.75%) React
2 363 (7.66%) HTML
3 311 (6.57%) CSS
4 206 (4.35%) Kafka
5 200 (4.22%) Node.js
6 181 (3.82%) Django
6 181 (3.82%) REST
7 161 (3.40%) PySpark
8 148 (3.13%) RESTful
9 137 (2.89%) .NET
9 137 (2.89%) Pandas
10 132 (2.79%) FastAPI
11 130 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 118 (2.49%) TensorFlow
13 111 (2.34%) Flask
14 102 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 98 (2.07%) JSON
16 88 (1.86%) AngularJS
16 88 (1.86%) NumPy
17 84 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 243 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 234 (4.94%) Algorithms
3 183 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 107 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.94%) Equities
8 91 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 82 (1.73%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 75 (1.58%) Data Centre
13 74 (1.56%) Hedge funds
14 73 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 69 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
16 68 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
17 63 (1.33%) Derivative
18 62 (1.31%) AI Agents
18 62 (1.31%) Security Posture
19 61 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 506 (10.68%) Linux
2 210 (4.43%) Windows
3 186 (3.93%) Unix
4 63 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 41 (0.87%) CentOS
6 29 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 23 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.23%) Debian
11 10 (0.21%) Android
12 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.084%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.084%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,621 (34.23%) AI
2 1,071 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
3 1,049 (22.15%) CI/CD
4 941 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
5 905 (19.11%) Analytics
6 844 (17.82%) Agile
7 797 (16.83%) DevOps
8 795 (16.79%) Software Engineering
9 683 (14.42%) Mentoring
10 617 (13.03%) Machine Learning
11 527 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 516 (10.90%) Data Science
13 513 (10.83%) ETL
14 512 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
15 510 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 472 (9.97%) Data Engineering
17 468 (9.88%) Computer Science
18 449 (9.48%) Containerisation
19 443 (9.35%) Data Analysis
20 442 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,981 (41.83%) SQL
2 760 (16.05%) JavaScript
3 604 (12.75%) Java
4 396 (8.36%) Bash
5 376 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 329 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 266 (5.62%) C#
8 242 (5.11%) C++
9 230 (4.86%) Go
10 228 (4.81%) R
11 123 (2.60%) C
12 90 (1.90%) Scala
13 72 (1.52%) VBA
14 68 (1.44%) Rust
15 59 (1.25%) PHP
16 43 (0.91%) Bicep
17 38 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
18 37 (0.78%) T-SQL
19 32 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 855 (18.05%) Azure Certification
2 778 (16.43%) Degree
3 463 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 374 (7.90%) AWS Certification
5 272 (5.74%) SC Cleared
6 269 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 233 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 168 (3.55%) DV Cleared
10 139 (2.93%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.90%) PhD
12 64 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.18%) CCNP
14 52 (1.10%) CISSP
15 46 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 40 (0.84%) OSCP
17 36 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.61%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.57%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 177 (3.74%) QA
3 116 (2.45%) GDPR
4 111 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.24%) NIST
6 64 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.51%) SLA
10 22 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.38%) PMO
13 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.25%) GRC
15 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 554 (11.70%) Docker
2 94 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.63%) Firmware
5 25 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.36%) KVM
8 14 (0.30%) vSphere
9 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.11%) iptables
14 4 (0.084%) HDFS
14 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 589 (12.44%) Terraform
2 574 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 317 (6.69%) Ansible
4 153 (3.23%) Grafana
5 143 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.33%) Argo
7 25 (0.53%) Puppet
8 23 (0.49%) Nagios
9 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.42%) Kibana
10 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 13 (0.27%) Control-M
12 12 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.25%) Nessus
12 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.23%) logstash
13 11 (0.23%) Rancher
14 10 (0.21%) Istio
14 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,451 (30.64%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.38%) Databricks
3 207 (4.37%) Google
4 144 (3.04%) Oracle
5 111 (2.34%) VMware
6 106 (2.24%) Cisco
7 96 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.52%) SAP
9 68 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 66 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.35%) Splunk
12 50 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.03%) Informatica
14 43 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.89%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 38 (0.80%) Talend
18 36 (0.76%) Foundry
18 36 (0.76%) IBM
19 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft