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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,244 5,258 7,119
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.03% 12.14% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.74% 40.26% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,800 2,978 5,252
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £129,750
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 16,117 13,060 24,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,817 8,814 19,154
10th Percentile £37,650 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,700 £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 £111,250 £101,250
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 22 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 22 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 2,507 £85,000 -5.56% 1,678
North of England -12 1,264 £65,000 - 426
South East +3 935 £60,000 - 536
Midlands +16 601 £60,000 - 196
North West -16 587 £65,000 +8.33% 226
South West +6 569 £60,000 +5.26% 214
Yorkshire +14 447 £65,000 - 128
West Midlands +8 314 £62,500 - 109
East of England -7 301 £65,000 -1.82% 169
East Midlands +25 287 £55,000 - 86
North East +27 230 £59,000 -9.23% 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
1 228 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 223 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (2.61%) Apache
4 76 (1.22%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.86%) Confluence
6 46 (0.74%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.45%) SAS
9 23 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.11%) Camunda
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
12 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.032%) Appian
Applications
1 869 (13.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
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 11 (0.18%) 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
6 3 (0.048%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,625 (42.04%) Azure
2 1,967 (31.50%) AWS
3 1,151 (18.43%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.62%) Azure AI
5 743 (11.90%) GCP
6 376 (6.02%) GitHub
7 364 (5.83%) Serverless
8 239 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 235 (3.76%) SaaS
10 226 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 215 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
12 204 (3.27%) Snowflake
13 188 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.82%) dbt
15 164 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
16 162 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 157 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
18 128 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 119 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
20 115 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 239 (3.83%) Firewall
2 163 (2.61%) Broadband
3 139 (2.23%) VPN
4 131 (2.10%) DNS
5 117 (1.87%) Network Security
6 107 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 92 (1.47%) WAN
8 81 (1.30%) Wireless
9 71 (1.14%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 59 (0.94%) BGP
12 57 (0.91%) VLAN
13 51 (0.82%) HTTP
14 50 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 40 (0.64%) OSPF
16 39 (0.62%) MQTT
17 36 (0.58%) DHCP
17 36 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
18 31 (0.50%) SSL
19 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,089 (17.44%) Power BI
2 938 (15.02%) Tableau
3 306 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 180 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 159 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 140 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.21%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
12 113 (1.81%) Big Data
13 107 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 106 (1.70%) MySQL
15 94 (1.51%) Metadata
16 78 (1.25%) DynamoDB
17 72 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
18 61 (0.98%) Spark SQL
19 59 (0.94%) Looker
20 58 (0.93%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 631 (10.11%) Git
2 281 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 256 (4.10%) GitLab
4 156 (2.50%) JIRA
5 83 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 57 (0.91%) MLflow
8 52 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.69%) Selenium
10 36 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.53%) Subversion
12 31 (0.50%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.43%) JUnit
14 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 2,169 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 1,264 (20.24%) Finance
3 813 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (4.60%) Banking
5 246 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 224 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 187 (2.99%) Retail
8 167 (2.67%) Law
9 134 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 131 (2.10%) Front Office
11 115 (1.84%) Legal
12 103 (1.65%) Marketing
13 84 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.27%) Electronics
15 76 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 75 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.01%) Games
19 62 (0.99%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,171 (18.75%) Senior
2 1,061 (16.99%) Analyst
3 902 (14.45%) Developer
4 899 (14.40%) Data Analyst
5 779 (12.48%) Junior
6 776 (12.43%) Software Engineer
7 714 (11.43%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.40%) Junior Data Analyst
9 617 (9.88%) Python Engineer
10 601 (9.63%) Data Engineer
11 551 (8.82%) Lead
12 461 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 386 (6.18%) Python Developer
14 294 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 226 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 209 (3.35%) Architect
17 196 (3.14%) Data Scientist
18 192 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 182 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
20 180 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.25%) React
2 288 (4.61%) Kafka
3 249 (3.99%) Node.js
4 224 (3.59%) REST
5 219 (3.51%) PySpark
6 215 (3.44%) .NET
7 204 (3.27%) RESTful
8 200 (3.20%) FastAPI
9 195 (3.12%) Django
10 184 (2.95%) HTML
11 165 (2.64%) CSS
11 165 (2.64%) PyTorch
12 158 (2.53%) Pandas
13 152 (2.43%) LangChain
14 141 (2.26%) TensorFlow
15 136 (2.18%) Flask
16 127 (2.03%) scikit-learn
17 108 (1.73%) JSON
17 108 (1.73%) NumPy
18 103 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 519 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 329 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 328 (5.25%) Algorithms
4 183 (2.93%) AI Agents
5 180 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 174 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 130 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
9 100 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 97 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 86 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 85 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 78 (1.25%) Equities
14 77 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.23%) Hedge funds
15 73 (1.17%) Robotics
16 71 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.12%) Security Posture
18 68 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 692 (11.08%) Linux
2 309 (4.95%) Windows
3 87 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.25%) Unix
5 45 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.59%) CentOS
8 24 (0.38%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.18%) VMS
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
17 6 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
18 4 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
18 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,672 (42.79%) AI
2 1,505 (24.10%) Software Engineering
3 1,489 (23.85%) CI/CD
4 1,208 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
5 1,099 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 1,054 (16.88%) Agile
7 1,030 (16.50%) DevOps
8 1,013 (16.22%) Analytics
9 907 (14.53%) Machine Learning
10 859 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 740 (11.85%) Mentoring
12 668 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
13 662 (10.60%) Data Engineering
14 640 (10.25%) Data Modelling
15 599 (9.59%) Data Science
16 578 (9.26%) Containerisation
16 578 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 564 (9.03%) Full-Stack Development
18 551 (8.82%) Computer Science
19 534 (8.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,341 (37.49%) SQL
2 756 (12.11%) Java
3 635 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 515 (8.25%) C++
5 499 (7.99%) PowerShell
6 479 (7.67%) Bash
7 433 (6.93%) C#
8 389 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.37%) Go
10 176 (2.82%) C
11 160 (2.56%) R
12 125 (2.00%) Scala
13 99 (1.59%) PHP
14 97 (1.55%) Rust
15 87 (1.39%) Bicep
16 64 (1.02%) Perl
17 63 (1.01%) Ruby
18 61 (0.98%) MATLAB
19 55 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,161 (18.59%) Azure Certification
2 807 (12.92%) Degree
3 702 (11.24%) Security Cleared
4 407 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 234 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 179 (2.87%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 116 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 89 (1.43%) PhD
11 81 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (0.90%) CCNP
13 47 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.61%) CISSP
16 37 (0.59%) OSCP
17 35 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 249 (3.99%) QA
3 148 (2.37%) GDPR
4 81 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.28%) NIST
6 68 (1.09%) 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
12 20 (0.32%) SLA
13 19 (0.30%) PMO
14 17 (0.27%) WCAG
15 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 709 (11.35%) Docker
2 111 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.93%) Firmware
5 39 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.45%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.14%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.048%) IAG
15 3 (0.048%) iptables
15 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 887 (14.21%) Terraform
2 693 (11.10%) Kubernetes
3 383 (6.13%) Ansible
4 243 (3.89%) Grafana
5 167 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 54 (0.86%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Nagios
8 40 (0.64%) Puppet
9 35 (0.56%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 27 (0.43%) Istio
12 27 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.29%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
17 14 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,504 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 397 (6.36%) Databricks
3 184 (2.95%) Google
4 144 (2.31%) Splunk
5 141 (2.26%) VMware
6 135 (2.16%) Oracle
7 123 (1.97%) Cisco
8 107 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.96%) Foundry
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
15 43 (0.69%) F5
15 43 (0.69%) SAP
16 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 33 (0.53%) IBM
18 32 (0.51%) Palantir