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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,215 5,248 7,119
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.01% 12.11% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.66% 40.21% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,776 2,972 5,254
10th Percentile £39,401 £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 £129,250
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 16,076 13,053 24,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.13% 30.12% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,781 8,803 19,184
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £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 21 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 21 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 2,494 £85,000 -5.56% 1,614
North of England -12 1,261 £65,000 - 413
South East +3 929 £60,000 -4.00% 498
Midlands +19 600 £60,000 - 197
North West -16 587 £65,000 +4.00% 219
South West +10 565 £60,000 +4.45% 208
Yorkshire +15 447 £65,000 - 124
West Midlands +5 312 £62,500 - 102
East of England -7 298 £65,000 -1.82% 173
East Midlands +28 288 £55,000 - 94
North East +29 227 £60,000 -7.69% 74
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
1 226 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 219 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 161 (2.59%) Apache
4 76 (1.22%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 46 (0.74%) WordPress
7 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.097%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.097%) Camunda
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
13 6 (0.097%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 869 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 39 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.26%) Simulink
6 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.097%) 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 (0.097%) 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%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 2,623 (42.20%) Azure
2 1,965 (31.62%) AWS
3 1,142 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 1,037 (16.69%) Azure AI
5 738 (11.87%) GCP
6 377 (6.07%) GitHub
7 364 (5.86%) Serverless
8 239 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.72%) SaaS
10 227 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
12 197 (3.17%) Snowflake
13 190 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 174 (2.80%) dbt
15 166 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 161 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 158 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
18 128 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 118 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
20 116 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 237 (3.81%) Firewall
2 163 (2.62%) Broadband
3 139 (2.24%) VPN
4 131 (2.11%) DNS
5 116 (1.87%) Network Security
6 107 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 90 (1.45%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 70 (1.13%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 56 (0.90%) BGP
11 56 (0.90%) VLAN
12 51 (0.82%) HTTP
13 49 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 38 (0.61%) MQTT
15 37 (0.60%) OSPF
16 36 (0.58%) DHCP
16 36 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (0.50%) SSL
18 29 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,081 (17.39%) Power BI
2 936 (15.06%) Tableau
3 300 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
4 275 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 179 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 140 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 118 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.79%) Big Data
13 107 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 106 (1.71%) MySQL
15 92 (1.48%) Metadata
16 78 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 71 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
18 61 (0.98%) Spark SQL
19 59 (0.95%) Looker
20 58 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 622 (10.01%) Git
2 279 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 257 (4.14%) GitLab
4 155 (2.49%) JIRA
5 83 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 56 (0.90%) MLflow
8 52 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.69%) Selenium
10 37 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 31 (0.50%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) JUnit
14 24 (0.39%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 21 (0.34%) Eclipse
16 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 2,156 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 1,254 (20.18%) Finance
3 806 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (4.57%) Banking
5 242 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 223 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 187 (3.01%) Retail
8 163 (2.62%) Law
9 134 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 131 (2.11%) Front Office
11 111 (1.79%) Legal
12 100 (1.61%) Marketing
13 83 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.29%) Electronics
15 76 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 73 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (1.00%) Games
18 62 (1.00%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,159 (18.65%) Senior
2 1,061 (17.07%) Analyst
3 903 (14.53%) Developer
4 898 (14.45%) Data Analyst
5 777 (12.50%) Junior
6 767 (12.34%) Software Engineer
7 714 (11.49%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.46%) Junior Data Analyst
9 606 (9.75%) Python Engineer
10 595 (9.57%) Data Engineer
11 541 (8.70%) Lead
12 460 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 386 (6.21%) Python Developer
14 289 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
15 223 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
16 210 (3.38%) Architect
17 196 (3.15%) Data Scientist
18 190 (3.06%) Senior Developer
19 181 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
20 180 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (6.32%) React
2 283 (4.55%) Kafka
3 250 (4.02%) Node.js
4 219 (3.52%) PySpark
4 219 (3.52%) REST
5 217 (3.49%) .NET
6 201 (3.23%) RESTful
7 197 (3.17%) FastAPI
8 191 (3.07%) Django
9 187 (3.01%) HTML
10 168 (2.70%) CSS
11 164 (2.64%) PyTorch
12 156 (2.51%) Pandas
13 152 (2.45%) LangChain
14 141 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 135 (2.17%) Flask
16 127 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 108 (1.74%) NumPy
18 107 (1.72%) JSON
19 102 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 512 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.25%) Algorithms
2 326 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 180 (2.90%) AI Agents
4 179 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 174 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 131 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 104 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
8 100 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 96 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.38%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 83 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 78 (1.26%) Equities
14 77 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.24%) Hedge funds
15 71 (1.14%) Robotics
15 71 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 70 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 67 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 684 (11.01%) Linux
2 306 (4.92%) Windows
3 87 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.24%) Unix
5 45 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.60%) CentOS
8 24 (0.39%) 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 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.14%) Android
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Rocky
18 6 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
19 4 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
19 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,652 (42.67%) AI
2 1,492 (24.01%) Software Engineering
3 1,474 (23.72%) CI/CD
4 1,197 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
5 1,091 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1,046 (16.83%) Agile
7 1,025 (16.49%) DevOps
8 1,003 (16.14%) Analytics
9 896 (14.42%) Machine Learning
10 857 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 736 (11.84%) Mentoring
12 656 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
13 652 (10.49%) Data Engineering
14 634 (10.20%) Data Modelling
15 594 (9.56%) Data Science
16 572 (9.20%) Containerisation
17 569 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 563 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
19 550 (8.85%) Computer Science
20 533 (8.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,328 (37.46%) SQL
2 753 (12.12%) Java
3 637 (10.25%) JavaScript
4 509 (8.19%) C++
5 505 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 479 (7.71%) Bash
7 431 (6.93%) C#
8 388 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.39%) Go
10 179 (2.88%) C
11 159 (2.56%) R
12 124 (2.00%) Scala
13 100 (1.61%) PHP
14 97 (1.56%) Rust
15 86 (1.38%) Bicep
16 64 (1.03%) Ruby
17 63 (1.01%) Perl
18 62 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 54 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,158 (18.63%) Azure Certification
2 804 (12.94%) Degree
3 706 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 404 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 295 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 235 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.20%) AWS Certification
8 179 (2.88%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 114 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 91 (1.46%) PhD
12 77 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.84%) CCNP
14 48 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
16 38 (0.61%) OSCP
17 35 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.43%) GIAC
19 26 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 245 (3.94%) QA
3 146 (2.35%) GDPR
4 82 (1.32%) NIST
5 80 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 69 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (0.77%) 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 (0.31%) 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%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 704 (11.33%) Docker
2 112 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.93%) Firmware
5 39 (0.63%) 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 (0.23%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.14%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
17 3 (0.048%) IAG
17 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 886 (14.26%) Terraform
2 691 (11.12%) Kubernetes
3 381 (6.13%) Ansible
4 241 (3.88%) Grafana
5 164 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 54 (0.87%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Nagios
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 35 (0.56%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
12 26 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.29%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.23%) Graylog
17 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,503 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 389 (6.26%) Databricks
3 182 (2.93%) Google
4 144 (2.32%) Splunk
5 142 (2.28%) VMware
6 135 (2.17%) Oracle
7 119 (1.91%) Cisco
8 103 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.97%) Foundry
12 59 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.76%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.76%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
15 43 (0.69%) SAP
16 42 (0.68%) F5
17 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
18 33 (0.53%) IBM
19 32 (0.51%) Palantir