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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,131 4,863 6,640
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.15% 11.18% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.43% 40.92% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,812 2,680 4,320
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,830 11,883 20,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.87% 27.32% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,340 7,856 13,800
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 2,555 £85,000 -5.56% 4,948
North of England -16 1,184 £66,805 +6.89% 693
South East +13 872 £60,000 - 843
South West +11 598 £60,500 +10.00% 473
North West -21 584 £66,805 +11.34% 384
Midlands +4 544 £60,000 -7.69% 325
Yorkshire +11 354 £68,000 +4.62% 214
East of England +12 326 £65,000 +18.18% 493
West Midlands -5 293 £62,500 -1.57% 172
East Midlands +19 249 £52,500 -19.23% 152
North East +22 246 £66,000 +10.00% 100
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
1 218 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 186 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.69%) Apache
4 72 (1.17%) Confluence
5 47 (0.77%) WordPress
6 39 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 26 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 26 (0.42%) SAS
9 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.098%) JBoss
15 5 (0.082%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 499 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.33%) Simulink
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.098%) LaTeX
10 5 (0.082%) Lightworks
11 3 (0.049%) Blender
11 3 (0.049%) Maya
11 3 (0.049%) Trello
12 2 (0.033%) CATIA
12 2 (0.033%) Mathematica
12 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.033%) SPSS
13 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Shopify
6 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,364 (38.56%) Azure
2 1,933 (31.53%) AWS
3 868 (14.16%) Power Platform
4 733 (11.96%) GCP
5 722 (11.78%) Azure AI
6 408 (6.65%) GitHub
7 366 (5.97%) Serverless
8 248 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
9 238 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (3.83%) Amazon S3
11 219 (3.57%) Snowflake
12 218 (3.56%) SaaS
13 207 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 178 (2.90%) dbt
16 172 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
17 166 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
18 140 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
20 125 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.56%) Firewall
2 144 (2.35%) DNS
3 129 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 129 (2.10%) VPN
4 110 (1.79%) Broadband
5 102 (1.66%) Network Security
6 96 (1.57%) WAN
7 81 (1.32%) Wireless
8 71 (1.16%) LAN
9 70 (1.14%) Internet
10 60 (0.98%) BGP
11 59 (0.96%) DHCP
12 48 (0.78%) VLAN
13 47 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.70%) MQTT
14 43 (0.70%) OSPF
15 38 (0.62%) HTTP
16 35 (0.57%) SSL
17 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (13.02%) Power BI
2 546 (8.91%) Tableau
3 341 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 280 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 159 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 143 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 126 (2.06%) Big Data
11 119 (1.94%) BigQuery
12 115 (1.88%) MySQL
13 103 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.65%) Metadata
15 97 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
16 91 (1.48%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.21%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 709 (11.56%) Git
2 302 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 246 (4.01%) GitLab
4 172 (2.81%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 54 (0.88%) Selenium
7 53 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 53 (0.86%) MLflow
8 50 (0.82%) Subversion
9 42 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 39 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.60%) JUnit
12 36 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 34 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
16 23 (0.38%) Maven
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2,018 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 1,298 (21.17%) Finance
3 811 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (5.09%) Banking
6 242 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.51%) Law
8 187 (3.05%) Marketing
9 156 (2.54%) Retail
10 127 (2.07%) Legal
11 107 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 103 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 99 (1.61%) Electronics
14 98 (1.60%) Front Office
15 84 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 84 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
17 65 (1.06%) Games
18 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
19 44 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,257 (20.50%) Senior
2 842 (13.73%) Software Engineer
3 839 (13.68%) Developer
4 705 (11.50%) Analyst
5 679 (11.07%) Python Engineer
6 619 (10.10%) Data Engineer
7 615 (10.03%) Lead
8 537 (8.76%) Data Analyst
9 510 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 464 (7.57%) Junior
11 384 (6.26%) Junior Analyst
12 380 (6.20%) Junior Data Analyst
13 367 (5.99%) Python Developer
14 311 (5.07%) Python Software Engineer
15 253 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 219 (3.57%) Architect
17 218 (3.56%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.21%) Senior Developer
19 192 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
20 185 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (15.56%) Terraform
2 393 (6.41%) React
3 248 (4.05%) Kafka
4 231 (3.77%) .NET
5 229 (3.74%) REST
6 221 (3.60%) Node.js
7 220 (3.59%) PySpark
8 211 (3.44%) RESTful
9 206 (3.36%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.15%) HTML
11 187 (3.05%) Django
12 181 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 177 (2.89%) CSS
14 176 (2.87%) LangChain
15 153 (2.50%) TensorFlow
16 129 (2.10%) Flask
17 116 (1.89%) Spring
17 116 (1.89%) Spring Boot
18 109 (1.78%) Pandas
19 102 (1.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 595 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 299 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 234 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 207 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 163 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 140 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.37%) Public Cloud
9 84 (1.37%) Robotics
10 83 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 82 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 80 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
13 77 (1.26%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 75 (1.22%) Low-Code
15 70 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 66 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
17 65 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 714 (11.65%) Linux
2 319 (5.20%) Windows
3 84 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.29%) Unix
5 52 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.75%) CentOS
7 39 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.39%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 15 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.24%) Rocky
12 12 (0.20%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.20%) Solaris
13 11 (0.18%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,546 (41.53%) AI
2 1,662 (27.11%) Software Engineering
3 1,577 (25.72%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 1,098 (17.91%) Analytics
6 1,097 (17.89%) DevOps
7 1,074 (17.52%) Agile
8 1,014 (16.54%) Machine Learning
9 958 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
10 949 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 813 (13.26%) Mentoring
12 730 (11.91%) Data Engineering
13 715 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
14 663 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 657 (10.72%) Data Modelling
16 632 (10.31%) Data Science
17 600 (9.79%) Decision-Making
18 595 (9.70%) Containerisation
19 591 (9.64%) Computer Science
20 575 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,104 (34.32%) SQL
2 810 (13.21%) Java
3 638 (10.41%) JavaScript
4 562 (9.17%) C++
5 506 (8.25%) Bash
6 494 (8.06%) PowerShell
7 478 (7.80%) C#
8 391 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 261 (4.26%) Go
10 197 (3.21%) C
11 173 (2.82%) R
12 120 (1.96%) Scala
13 95 (1.55%) PHP
14 94 (1.53%) Bicep
15 93 (1.52%) Rust
16 89 (1.45%) Perl
17 76 (1.24%) Ruby
18 73 (1.19%) MATLAB
19 69 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 919 (14.99%) Degree
2 848 (13.83%) Azure Certification
3 819 (13.36%) Security Cleared
4 452 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 317 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.69%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 116 (1.89%) PhD
11 84 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 63 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.83%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.70%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 32 (0.52%) CCNA
20 30 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 270 (4.40%) QA
3 133 (2.17%) GDPR
4 108 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.98%) NIST
6 56 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 27 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.31%) WCAG
13 18 (0.29%) NCSC
14 17 (0.28%) GRC
15 16 (0.26%) PMO
16 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 761 (12.41%) Docker
2 112 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.13%) Firmware
5 44 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.44%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 20 (0.33%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) iptables
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 761 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 410 (6.69%) Ansible
3 238 (3.88%) Grafana
4 144 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.01%) Puppet
6 54 (0.88%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.62%) Kibana
9 33 (0.54%) Istio
9 33 (0.54%) Nagios
10 29 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.47%) Packer
11 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
12 22 (0.36%) Podman
13 18 (0.29%) logstash
13 18 (0.29%) Rancher
14 17 (0.28%) Kubeflow
14 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,172 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 452 (7.37%) Databricks
3 205 (3.34%) Google
4 148 (2.41%) Splunk
5 126 (2.06%) VMware
6 123 (2.01%) Cisco
7 121 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 113 (1.84%) Oracle
9 99 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 58 (0.95%) Foundry
12 51 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.67%) Fortinet
15 38 (0.62%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 35 (0.57%) F5
17 34 (0.55%) Palantir
18 32 (0.52%) SAP
19 31 (0.51%) IBM