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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,032 5,126 7,813
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.27% 12.96% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.86% 40.48% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 2,858 5,868
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £50,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £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 15,134 12,664 28,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 32.03% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,905 8,484 23,118
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 £111,250 £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 15 June 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 15 June 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 2,413 £85,000 -5.56% 898
North of England -11 1,238 £61,418 -5.51% 381
South East +2 875 £60,000 -4.00% 531
Midlands +22 630 £60,000 +9.09% 167
North West -15 577 £65,000 - 207
South West +5 523 £58,497 +1.78% 165
Yorkshire +10 461 £62,500 -3.85% 116
West Midlands +19 331 £60,000 +6.67% 86
East Midlands +30 299 £55,000 +10.00% 80
East of England -2 291 £70,000 +5.73% 150
North East +25 200 £55,000 -12.00% 59
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
1 221 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 155 (2.57%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 51 (0.85%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.20%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 926 (15.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,635 (43.68%) Azure
2 1,901 (31.52%) AWS
3 1,192 (19.76%) Power Platform
4 1,078 (17.87%) Azure AI
5 680 (11.27%) GCP
6 426 (7.06%) GitHub
7 328 (5.44%) Serverless
8 240 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 232 (3.85%) SaaS
10 216 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
11 209 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.75%) dbt
14 161 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 153 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
17 145 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 119 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 109 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.80%) Firewall
2 192 (3.18%) Broadband
3 129 (2.14%) VPN
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
5 110 (1.82%) Internet
6 105 (1.74%) Network Security
7 100 (1.66%) WAN
8 95 (1.57%) TCP/IP
9 84 (1.39%) LAN
10 77 (1.28%) Wireless
11 64 (1.06%) BGP
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
12 54 (0.90%) SD-WAN
13 51 (0.85%) VLAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 37 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.50%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,134 (18.80%) Power BI
2 1,005 (16.66%) Tableau
3 284 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 239 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 171 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 138 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 115 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 112 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 105 (1.74%) Big Data
13 90 (1.49%) Metadata
14 81 (1.34%) Data Mining
15 79 (1.31%) MySQL
16 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
19 55 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 636 (10.54%) Git
2 262 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 236 (3.91%) GitLab
4 145 (2.40%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.94%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.31%) JMeter
15 19 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,120 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (19.60%) Finance
3 820 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.36%) Banking
6 212 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.05%) Retail
8 158 (2.62%) Law
9 129 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.07%) Front Office
11 104 (1.72%) Legal
12 97 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 93 (1.54%) Marketing
14 87 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.21%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 64 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.03%) Games
19 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
20 54 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,149 (19.05%) Analyst
2 1,021 (16.93%) Senior
3 974 (16.15%) Data Analyst
4 918 (15.22%) Developer
5 807 (13.38%) Junior
6 759 (12.58%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.58%) Junior Data Analyst
7 666 (11.04%) Software Engineer
8 567 (9.40%) Data Engineer
9 527 (8.74%) Python Engineer
10 515 (8.54%) Lead
11 450 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 381 (6.32%) Python Developer
13 239 (3.96%) Python Software Engineer
14 213 (3.53%) Trainee
15 187 (3.10%) Architect
15 187 (3.10%) Data Scientist
16 184 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
17 182 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
18 181 (3.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.35%) React
2 260 (4.31%) Kafka
3 228 (3.78%) HTML
4 227 (3.76%) Node.js
5 222 (3.68%) PySpark
6 212 (3.51%) REST
7 211 (3.50%) CSS
8 195 (3.23%) .NET
9 185 (3.07%) RESTful
10 172 (2.85%) PyTorch
11 170 (2.82%) Django
11 170 (2.82%) FastAPI
12 154 (2.55%) Pandas
13 145 (2.40%) TensorFlow
14 138 (2.29%) LangChain
15 125 (2.07%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.76%) NumPy
18 98 (1.62%) JSON
19 97 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 453 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 319 (5.29%) Algorithms
3 292 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 146 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 128 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 104 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 97 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 81 (1.34%) Equities
16 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 75 (1.24%) Hedge funds
18 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
19 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 630 (10.44%) Linux
2 268 (4.44%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 37 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.30%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,514 (41.68%) AI
2 1,346 (22.31%) CI/CD
3 1,299 (21.54%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.49%) Business Intelligence
5 1,031 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1,011 (16.76%) Agile
7 980 (16.25%) Analytics
8 957 (15.87%) DevOps
9 849 (14.07%) Machine Learning
10 776 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (12.28%) Mentoring
12 610 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 606 (10.05%) Data Engineering
14 604 (10.01%) Data Pipeline
15 593 (9.83%) Data Science
16 534 (8.85%) Computer Science
17 525 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 523 (8.67%) Full-Stack Development
19 522 (8.65%) Containerisation
20 508 (8.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,322 (38.49%) SQL
2 672 (11.14%) Java
3 670 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 483 (8.01%) PowerShell
5 463 (7.68%) Bash
6 440 (7.29%) C++
7 392 (6.50%) C#
8 381 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 286 (4.74%) Go
10 187 (3.10%) R
11 160 (2.65%) C
12 125 (2.07%) Scala
13 87 (1.44%) Rust
14 79 (1.31%) PHP
15 65 (1.08%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 52 (0.86%) VBA
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,240 (20.56%) Azure Certification
2 772 (12.80%) Degree
3 619 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 372 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 282 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 242 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 198 (3.28%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 156 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 152 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 85 (1.41%) PhD
11 80 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 63 (1.04%) CCNP
13 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 49 (0.81%) OSCP
15 38 (0.63%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 33 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 25 (0.41%) GIAC
19 24 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.83%) QA
3 125 (2.07%) GDPR
4 89 (1.48%) NIST
5 74 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 16 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 631 (10.46%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 816 (13.53%) Terraform
2 646 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 356 (5.90%) Ansible
4 216 (3.58%) Grafana
5 175 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.53%) Puppet
10 29 (0.48%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 21 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
16 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,584 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 348 (5.77%) Databricks
3 204 (3.38%) Google
4 132 (2.19%) VMware
5 125 (2.07%) Oracle
5 125 (2.07%) Splunk
6 122 (2.02%) Cisco
7 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 99 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 58 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 57 (0.94%) Foundry
10 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
14 44 (0.73%) Fortinet
15 41 (0.68%) SAP
16 39 (0.65%) F5
17 36 (0.60%) Palantir
18 31 (0.51%) Arista