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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,397 5,276 6,363
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 11.75% 9.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.88% 34.19% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,882 3,264 5,082
10th Percentile £31,775 £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 £91,250
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% -4.80%

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 11,026 15,431 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.80% 34.36% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,188 9,277 20,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,007
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 £102,500 £112,500 £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 12 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 12 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 2,033 £82,500 -5.71% 1,025
North of England -12 760 £47,500 -26.92% 413
South East -23 533 £60,000 -11.11% 601
Midlands -14 410 £55,000 - 214
South West 0 366 £60,000 -7.69% 234
Yorkshire +5 334 £45,000 -30.77% 141
North West -17 318 £55,000 -12.00% 226
West Midlands +5 264 £55,100 +0.18% 111
East of England -27 227 £50,000 -24.51% 182
East Midlands -16 149 £55,000 - 104
North East +8 108 £40,000 -42.29% 47
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
1 160 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.71%) Apache
4 38 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 33 (0.75%) Confluence
6 32 (0.73%) Jupyter
6 32 (0.73%) SAS
7 27 (0.61%) WordPress
8 25 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.43%) Appian
10 18 (0.41%) IIS
10 18 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.32%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.20%) nginx
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 702 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.23%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.091%) Windchill
10 3 (0.068%) CATIA
10 3 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.045%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.045%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.045%) Weka
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.091%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.045%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.045%) 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 1,832 (41.66%) Azure
2 1,513 (34.41%) AWS
3 862 (19.60%) Power Platform
4 548 (12.46%) GitHub
5 470 (10.69%) GCP
6 468 (10.64%) Azure AI
7 264 (6.00%) Serverless
8 185 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 169 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
10 167 (3.80%) SaaS
11 156 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 156 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (3.50%) Snowflake
13 139 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 136 (3.09%) dbt
15 115 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 108 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 82 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
18 78 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 73 (1.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.84%) Internet
2 160 (3.64%) Firewall
3 97 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 89 (2.02%) VPN
5 74 (1.68%) DNS
6 70 (1.59%) WAN
7 68 (1.55%) Broadband
8 60 (1.36%) LAN
9 57 (1.30%) BGP
10 55 (1.25%) Wireless
11 53 (1.21%) Network Security
12 50 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.09%) VLAN
14 40 (0.91%) HTTP
14 40 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.77%) MPLS
15 34 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.73%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.59%) DHCP
17 26 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 820 (18.65%) Power BI
2 745 (16.94%) Tableau
3 245 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 209 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
6 176 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 157 (3.57%) Data Mining
8 150 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.52%) Big Data
11 110 (2.50%) MongoDB
12 88 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 86 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 86 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
14 85 (1.93%) MySQL
15 72 (1.64%) Metadata
16 69 (1.57%) Hadoop
17 67 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
19 49 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 578 (13.15%) Git
2 216 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 154 (3.50%) GitLab
4 109 (2.48%) JIRA
5 58 (1.32%) Selenium
6 44 (1.00%) MLflow
7 40 (0.91%) Postman
8 32 (0.73%) JUnit
9 28 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 22 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 20 (0.45%) JMeter
14 19 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.41%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.39%) Subversion
17 15 (0.34%) Burp Suite
17 15 (0.34%) Metasploit
18 14 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 1,413 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 1,065 (24.22%) Finance
3 705 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.48%) Banking
4 241 (5.48%) Multimedia
5 180 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 178 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 168 (3.82%) Law
8 136 (3.09%) Front Office
9 128 (2.91%) Marketing
10 119 (2.71%) Retail
11 114 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 111 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 84 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 76 (1.73%) Legal
15 75 (1.71%) Electronics
16 61 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 51 (1.16%) Games
18 50 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
18 50 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 878 (19.97%) Analyst
2 799 (18.17%) Developer
3 717 (16.31%) Data Analyst
4 663 (15.08%) Senior
5 445 (10.12%) Junior
6 431 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 424 (9.64%) Junior Analyst
7 424 (9.64%) Junior Data Analyst
8 395 (8.98%) Trainee
9 357 (8.12%) Software Engineer
10 333 (7.57%) Lead
11 319 (7.25%) Python Developer
12 252 (5.73%) Python Engineer
13 200 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.41%) Architect
15 145 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 132 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
17 130 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.91%) Trainee Analyst
18 128 (2.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (8.85%) HTML
2 353 (8.03%) React
3 341 (7.76%) CSS
4 186 (4.23%) Node.js
5 183 (4.16%) REST
6 171 (3.89%) Django
7 166 (3.78%) Kafka
8 150 (3.41%) RESTful
9 135 (3.07%) .NET
10 133 (3.02%) FastAPI
10 133 (3.02%) PySpark
11 123 (2.80%) PyTorch
12 117 (2.66%) Pandas
13 112 (2.55%) Flask
14 103 (2.34%) TensorFlow
15 98 (2.23%) AngularJS
16 90 (2.05%) JSON
17 81 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
17 81 (1.84%) Vue
18 80 (1.82%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 233 (5.30%) Cloud Native
2 214 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 180 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 149 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 101 (2.30%) Equities
7 101 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 83 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 78 (1.77%) Low-Code
10 77 (1.75%) Hedge funds
11 72 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 72 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 71 (1.61%) Fixed Income
13 67 (1.52%) Derivative
14 65 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 65 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
15 63 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
16 60 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
17 56 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 497 (11.30%) Linux
2 199 (4.53%) Windows
3 175 (3.98%) Unix
4 64 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.75%) CentOS
7 29 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.39%) Debian
10 16 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.23%) Android
12 10 (0.23%) Solaris
13 9 (0.20%) VMS
14 8 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.068%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.068%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (31.61%) AI
2 1,003 (22.81%) CI/CD
3 938 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 926 (21.06%) Business Intelligence
5 833 (18.94%) Analytics
6 797 (18.13%) Agile
7 775 (17.63%) DevOps
8 737 (16.76%) Software Engineering
9 672 (15.28%) Mentoring
10 574 (13.05%) Machine Learning
11 492 (11.19%) Data Science
12 486 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 482 (10.96%) Data Modelling
14 481 (10.94%) ETL
15 467 (10.62%) Computer Science
16 466 (10.60%) Data Pipeline
17 459 (10.44%) Data Engineering
18 424 (9.64%) Data Analysis
19 413 (9.39%) Containerisation
20 397 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,791 (40.73%) SQL
2 757 (17.22%) JavaScript
3 598 (13.60%) Java
4 396 (9.01%) Bash
5 354 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 328 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 279 (6.35%) C#
8 234 (5.32%) R
9 225 (5.12%) C++
10 197 (4.48%) Go
11 132 (3.00%) C
12 89 (2.02%) Scala
13 64 (1.46%) PHP
14 62 (1.41%) VBA
15 54 (1.23%) Rust
16 48 (1.09%) Bicep
17 43 (0.98%) MATLAB
18 42 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 40 (0.91%) Perl
20 38 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 790 (17.97%) Degree
2 734 (16.69%) Azure Certification
3 450 (10.23%) Security Cleared
4 373 (8.48%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.05%) SC Cleared
7 257 (5.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 227 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 174 (3.96%) Master's Degree
10 156 (3.55%) DV Cleared
11 109 (2.48%) PhD
12 73 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.39%) CCNP
14 51 (1.16%) CISSP
15 48 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.71%) OSCP
19 27 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.59%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 170 (3.87%) QA
3 116 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.39%) GDPR
5 99 (2.25%) NIST
6 65 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.61%) SLA
9 24 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.32%) PMO
13 13 (0.30%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.23%) GRC
16 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.11%) NCSC
18 4 (0.091%) ECSS
18 4 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 533 (12.12%) Docker
2 85 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.68%) Firmware
5 20 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.30%) KVM
7 13 (0.30%) vSphere
8 10 (0.23%) HDFS
8 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.16%) Lustre
11 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.091%) iptables
12 4 (0.091%) NFS
12 4 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.068%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.068%) QEMU
13 3 (0.068%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 561 (12.76%) Terraform
2 559 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 321 (7.30%) Ansible
4 136 (3.09%) Grafana
5 132 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.46%) Argo
7 24 (0.55%) Puppet
8 22 (0.50%) Kibana
9 20 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.39%) Nagios
11 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.30%) Rancher
13 12 (0.27%) Nessus
14 11 (0.25%) Control-M
14 11 (0.25%) logstash
14 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,280 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.69%) Databricks
3 201 (4.57%) Google
4 125 (2.84%) Oracle
5 102 (2.32%) Cisco
6 100 (2.27%) VMware
7 76 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 74 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 69 (1.57%) SAP
10 63 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 61 (1.39%) Splunk
12 51 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.14%) Informatica
14 44 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.96%) Bloomberg
16 41 (0.93%) Talend
17 40 (0.91%) IBM
18 39 (0.89%) Alteryx
19 32 (0.73%) Palantir
20 31 (0.71%) Atlassian