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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,746 4,733 6,696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.55% 10.93% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.89% 41.16% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,694 2,574 4,121
10th Percentile £43,779 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +4.17%

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 16,471 11,499 20,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.56% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,029 7,541 12,470
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 2,540 £85,000 -2.86% 6,387
North of England -22 1,034 £66,805 +11.34% 889
South East +4 784 £62,500 +8.70% 876
South West +2 558 £62,500 +13.64% 440
North West -27 544 £67,500 +12.50% 502
Midlands -5 460 £60,900 +1.50% 403
East of England +6 313 £70,000 +21.74% 575
Yorkshire +1 255 £65,500 +0.77% 261
West Midlands -16 248 £65,000 +8.33% 257
North East +20 238 £67,153 +58.01% 128
East Midlands +16 210 £55,000 -15.38% 146
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
1 209 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 169 (2.94%) Apache
3 163 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.49%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.30%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.16%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
17 5 (0.087%) Headless CMS
17 5 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 266 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.44%) Simulink
4 17 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.070%) Mathematica
10 4 (0.070%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.052%) Blender
11 3 (0.052%) Maya
11 3 (0.052%) Revit
11 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.052%) SPSS
12 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.070%) Shopify
7 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.052%) Line 50
7 3 (0.052%) Summit
8 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.035%) Magento
8 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.017%) Actimize
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (34.06%) Azure
2 1,849 (32.18%) AWS
3 726 (12.63%) GCP
4 653 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 390 (6.79%) GitHub
6 347 (6.04%) Azure AI
7 338 (5.88%) Serverless
8 249 (4.33%) SaaS
9 248 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
10 224 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 221 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.79%) Snowflake
13 206 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 184 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
17 166 (2.89%) dbt
18 131 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
19 127 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 124 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.78%) Firewall
2 155 (2.70%) DNS
3 148 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 146 (2.54%) VPN
5 105 (1.83%) Network Security
6 88 (1.53%) WAN
7 76 (1.32%) Wireless
8 66 (1.15%) Broadband
9 63 (1.10%) BGP
9 63 (1.10%) LAN
10 62 (1.08%) DHCP
11 49 (0.85%) MQTT
12 43 (0.75%) VLAN
13 42 (0.73%) OSPF
13 42 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 40 (0.70%) HTTP
15 32 (0.56%) SSL
16 26 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.42%) 5G
18 23 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 586 (10.20%) Power BI
2 319 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
3 305 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
4 280 (4.87%) Tableau
5 190 (3.31%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.51%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.14%) Big Data
11 117 (2.04%) Metadata
12 115 (2.00%) MySQL
13 112 (1.95%) BigQuery
14 102 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
15 94 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 84 (1.46%) DynamoDB
17 82 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
18 75 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 72 (1.25%) Delta Lake
20 70 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 670 (11.66%) Git
2 312 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 261 (4.54%) GitLab
4 169 (2.94%) JIRA
5 71 (1.24%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.92%) Subversion
7 50 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 32 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 31 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
13 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 28 (0.49%) LabVIEW
15 21 (0.37%) Maven
16 19 (0.33%) Cucumber
17 18 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 17 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 1,719 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 1,352 (23.53%) Finance
3 826 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 370 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 354 (6.16%) Banking
6 257 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.88%) Marketing
8 219 (3.81%) Law
9 169 (2.94%) Retail
10 131 (2.28%) Legal
11 113 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 113 (1.97%) Front Office
12 100 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 92 (1.60%) Electronics
15 84 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 68 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.11%) Games
18 50 (0.87%) Investment Banking
19 49 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,254 (21.82%) Senior
2 884 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 804 (13.99%) Developer
4 694 (12.08%) Python Engineer
5 611 (10.63%) Data Engineer
6 609 (10.60%) Lead
7 496 (8.63%) Analyst
8 396 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 355 (6.18%) Python Developer
10 354 (6.16%) Python Software Engineer
11 300 (5.22%) Data Analyst
12 263 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 225 (3.92%) Junior
14 217 (3.78%) Architect
15 215 (3.74%) Data Scientist
16 207 (3.60%) Senior Developer
17 200 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
18 191 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
19 168 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
20 164 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 939 (16.34%) Terraform
2 390 (6.79%) React
3 244 (4.25%) REST
4 230 (4.00%) .NET
5 228 (3.97%) Node.js
6 219 (3.81%) PySpark
7 216 (3.76%) FastAPI
8 215 (3.74%) Kafka
9 200 (3.48%) RESTful
10 177 (3.08%) LangChain
11 164 (2.85%) Django
12 153 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 134 (2.33%) TensorFlow
14 128 (2.23%) HTML
15 127 (2.21%) CSS
16 126 (2.19%) Spring Boot
17 125 (2.18%) Spring
18 108 (1.88%) Flask
19 103 (1.79%) LangGraph
20 87 (1.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 609 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 294 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 281 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 268 (4.66%) AI Agents
5 233 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 131 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 98 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 92 (1.60%) Hedge funds
10 91 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 91 (1.58%) Robotics
11 87 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 86 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
12 86 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 79 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 76 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
15 67 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
16 65 (1.13%) Equities
17 64 (1.11%) Low-Code
18 63 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 710 (12.36%) Linux
2 327 (5.69%) Windows
3 80 (1.39%) Unix
4 78 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.75%) CentOS
7 39 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.44%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 16 (0.28%) Rocky
13 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.21%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 9 (0.16%) VMS
17 7 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,291 (39.87%) AI
2 1,700 (29.59%) Software Engineering
3 1,616 (28.12%) CI/CD
4 1,213 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1,132 (19.70%) Analytics
6 1,088 (18.93%) DevOps
7 1,067 (18.57%) Agile
8 1,020 (17.75%) Machine Learning
9 950 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 786 (13.68%) Mentoring
11 750 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
12 733 (12.76%) Data Pipeline
13 730 (12.70%) Data Engineering
14 684 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 652 (11.35%) Data Modelling
16 631 (10.98%) Decision-Making
17 614 (10.69%) Data Science
18 591 (10.29%) Containerisation
19 582 (10.13%) Test Automation
20 576 (10.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,891 (32.91%) SQL
2 818 (14.24%) Java
3 593 (10.32%) JavaScript
4 550 (9.57%) C++
5 530 (9.22%) Bash
6 486 (8.46%) PowerShell
7 479 (8.34%) C#
8 407 (7.08%) TypeScript
9 267 (4.65%) Go
10 195 (3.39%) C
11 161 (2.80%) R
12 106 (1.84%) Scala
13 101 (1.76%) Rust
14 96 (1.67%) Bicep
15 90 (1.57%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.46%) PHP
17 82 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 80 (1.39%) Perl
19 74 (1.29%) Ruby
20 54 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 933 (16.24%) Degree
2 883 (15.37%) Security Cleared
3 499 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 421 (7.33%) Azure Certification
5 299 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 284 (4.94%) DV Cleared
7 226 (3.93%) Master's Degree
8 130 (2.26%) PhD
9 114 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 60 (1.04%) CISSP
14 44 (0.77%) CCNP
15 40 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (0.59%) CCNA
17 33 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 33 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
18 32 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 28 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 566 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 243 (4.23%) QA
3 126 (2.19%) GDPR
4 103 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.32%) NIST
6 63 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.50%) SLA
9 25 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 19 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.30%) WCAG
13 16 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.16%) GRC
16 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.14%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 796 (13.85%) Docker
2 116 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.10%) Firmware
5 36 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.50%) vSphere
8 22 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 18 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.12%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.052%) NFS
15 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 821 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 412 (7.17%) Ansible
3 244 (4.25%) Grafana
4 161 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 79 (1.37%) Puppet
6 62 (1.08%) Argo
7 46 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.64%) Kibana
9 31 (0.54%) Nagios
10 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
11 26 (0.45%) Rancher
11 26 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.37%) Podman
14 20 (0.35%) Packer
15 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.30%) Proxmox
17 16 (0.28%) vCenter Server
18 15 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 880 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 436 (7.59%) Databricks
3 237 (4.12%) Google
4 146 (2.54%) Splunk
5 122 (2.12%) Oracle
6 121 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 121 (2.11%) VMware
7 104 (1.81%) Cisco
8 88 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 67 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 54 (0.94%) Foundry
11 53 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 42 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 38 (0.66%) Fortinet
14 37 (0.64%) SAP
14 37 (0.64%) SolarWinds
15 35 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 33 (0.57%) F5
16 33 (0.57%) Informatica
17 31 (0.54%) New Relic