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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,064 5,139 7,230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.51% 13.23% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 40.13% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,457 3,055 5,599
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £126,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -6.90%

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 14,401 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,144 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 2,375 £85,000 -5.56% 1,275
North of England -9 1,212 £60,000 -7.69% 506
South East 0 897 £60,000 -7.69% 598
Midlands +9 662 £55,000 - 233
Yorkshire +14 523 £51,250 -21.15% 140
South West +8 520 £57,500 - 236
North West -29 514 £62,500 -7.41% 276
West Midlands +20 372 £60,000 +9.09% 109
East of England +2 331 £62,500 -5.61% 204
East Midlands +20 290 £55,000 - 124
North East +23 175 £49,222 -24.27% 94
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
1 210 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 192 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.24%) Apache
4 68 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 42 (0.69%) Confluence
7 34 (0.56%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 14 (0.23%) Appian
11 13 (0.21%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.082%) CMS
13 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,199 (19.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 46 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
3 4 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,874 (47.39%) Azure
2 1,826 (30.11%) AWS
3 1,437 (23.70%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.70%) Azure AI
5 640 (10.55%) GCP
6 482 (7.95%) GitHub
7 309 (5.10%) Serverless
8 230 (3.79%) SaaS
9 218 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 216 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
11 193 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
12 176 (2.90%) Snowflake
13 172 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) dbt
15 160 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 136 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 132 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 121 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 94 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
20 87 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.55%) Firewall
2 174 (2.87%) Internet
3 162 (2.67%) Broadband
4 127 (2.09%) DNS
5 119 (1.96%) VPN
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 94 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 88 (1.45%) WAN
9 78 (1.29%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 67 (1.10%) BGP
12 56 (0.92%) HTTP
13 53 (0.87%) VLAN
14 49 (0.81%) OSPF
15 45 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.54%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,383 (22.81%) Power BI
2 1,276 (21.04%) Tableau
3 274 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 131 (2.16%) BigQuery
8 131 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 125 (2.06%) MongoDB
10 116 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 114 (1.88%) Data Mining
12 110 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 98 (1.62%) Big Data
14 86 (1.42%) Metadata
15 74 (1.22%) MySQL
16 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
17 61 (1.01%) DynamoDB
18 58 (0.96%) Spark SQL
19 51 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 647 (10.67%) Git
2 243 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 220 (3.63%) GitLab
4 119 (1.96%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 47 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.69%) Selenium
9 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.54%) Postman
10 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.46%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JMeter
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) JUnit
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,328 (38.39%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (19.06%) Finance
3 803 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 246 (4.06%) Banking
6 212 (3.50%) Public Sector
7 175 (2.89%) Retail
8 170 (2.80%) Law
9 158 (2.61%) Multimedia
10 139 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.16%) Front Office
12 103 (1.70%) Marketing
13 98 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 96 (1.58%) Legal
15 77 (1.27%) Electronics
16 64 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (0.99%) Aerospace
18 56 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 51 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,402 (23.12%) Analyst
2 1,223 (20.17%) Data Analyst
3 1,031 (17.00%) Junior
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 905 (14.92%) Developer
5 905 (14.92%) Senior
6 584 (9.63%) Software Engineer
7 526 (8.67%) Data Engineer
8 486 (8.01%) Lead
9 464 (7.65%) Python Engineer
10 405 (6.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 393 (6.48%) Python Developer
12 303 (5.00%) Trainee
13 203 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
14 194 (3.20%) Software Developer
15 178 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
16 171 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
17 166 (2.74%) Architect
18 158 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (6.23%) React
2 298 (4.91%) HTML
3 261 (4.30%) CSS
4 250 (4.12%) Kafka
5 214 (3.53%) PySpark
6 205 (3.38%) Node.js
6 205 (3.38%) REST
7 188 (3.10%) .NET
8 181 (2.98%) RESTful
9 171 (2.82%) Django
10 165 (2.72%) Pandas
11 160 (2.64%) PyTorch
12 141 (2.33%) FastAPI
13 135 (2.23%) TensorFlow
14 125 (2.06%) scikit-learn
15 114 (1.88%) Flask
16 105 (1.73%) LangChain
16 105 (1.73%) NumPy
17 103 (1.70%) JSON
18 82 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 354 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 303 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 260 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 127 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 110 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 87 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
13 82 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
16 77 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 76 (1.25%) Equities
18 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
19 68 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 605 (9.98%) Linux
2 257 (4.24%) Windows
3 113 (1.86%) Unix
4 71 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
16 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,560 (42.22%) AI
2 1,481 (24.42%) Business Intelligence
3 1,250 (20.61%) CI/CD
4 1,143 (18.85%) Software Engineering
5 963 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 949 (15.65%) Analytics
7 946 (15.60%) Agile
8 927 (15.29%) DevOps
9 758 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 715 (11.79%) Mentoring
11 694 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 587 (9.68%) Data Modelling
13 565 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
14 558 (9.20%) Data Engineering
15 546 (9.00%) Data Science
16 540 (8.91%) ETL
17 532 (8.77%) Computer Science
18 518 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 488 (8.05%) Containerisation
20 482 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,470 (40.73%) SQL
2 699 (11.53%) JavaScript
3 663 (10.93%) Java
4 453 (7.47%) PowerShell
5 437 (7.21%) Bash
6 372 (6.13%) C++
7 368 (6.07%) TypeScript
8 354 (5.84%) C#
9 284 (4.68%) Go
10 210 (3.46%) R
11 162 (2.67%) C
12 121 (2.00%) Scala
13 83 (1.37%) Rust
14 65 (1.07%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 55 (0.91%) Bicep
17 43 (0.71%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 37 (0.61%) MATLAB
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,524 (25.13%) Azure Certification
2 775 (12.78%) Degree
3 547 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 322 (5.31%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 279 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 214 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 212 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 179 (2.95%) DV Cleared
10 147 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.47%) PhD
12 79 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 50 (0.82%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.71%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) CCIE
20 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.78%) QA
3 128 (2.11%) GDPR
4 100 (1.65%) NIST
5 86 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.40%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.35%) SLA
12 13 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 583 (9.61%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.40%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.082%) iptables
13 5 (0.082%) Lustre
13 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.082%) Squid
14 3 (0.049%) IAG
14 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 737 (12.15%) Terraform
2 612 (10.09%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.76%) Ansible
4 201 (3.31%) Grafana
5 161 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.97%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 32 (0.53%) Puppet
9 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (0.41%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.26%) Packer
12 16 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.23%) Podman
14 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,874 (30.90%) Microsoft
2 323 (5.33%) Databricks
3 207 (3.41%) Google
4 127 (2.09%) Cisco
5 125 (2.06%) Oracle
6 124 (2.04%) VMware
7 104 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 97 (1.60%) Splunk
10 55 (0.91%) Foundry
10 55 (0.91%) SAP
11 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 50 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.82%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.71%) Informatica
17 42 (0.69%) F5
18 41 (0.68%) Palantir