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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,771 4,736 6,673
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.55% 10.94% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.77% 41.20% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,707 2,572 4,104
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -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 16,597 11,495 20,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.96% 26.54% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,116 7,536 12,420
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 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £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 7 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 7 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 2,557 £85,000 -2.86% 6,872
North of England -22 1,037 £66,805 +11.34% 1,028
South East +6 786 £62,500 +8.70% 1,209
South West +1 561 £62,500 +13.64% 521
North West -27 546 £67,500 +12.50% 571
Midlands -4 463 £60,450 +0.75% 491
East of England +7 308 £70,000 +21.74% 666
Yorkshire +1 257 £66,805 +0.84% 308
West Midlands -14 252 £65,000 +8.33% 300
North East +19 237 £67,153 +58.01% 153
East Midlands +16 209 £55,000 -15.38% 191
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
1 214 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 171 (2.96%) Apache
3 164 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.20%) Confluence
5 40 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.49%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) 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
1 265 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.43%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.069%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.052%) Blender
10 3 (0.052%) Maya
10 3 (0.052%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.052%) Revit
10 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.052%) SPSS
10 3 (0.052%) Trello
11 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.069%) 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%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
9 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 1,971 (34.15%) Azure
2 1,860 (32.23%) AWS
3 730 (12.65%) GCP
4 652 (11.30%) Power Platform
5 392 (6.79%) GitHub
6 348 (6.03%) Azure AI
7 344 (5.96%) Serverless
8 250 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 244 (4.23%) SaaS
10 226 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 222 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.78%) Snowflake
13 208 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 203 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 185 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
16 184 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
17 166 (2.88%) dbt
18 130 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
19 128 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 125 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.78%) Firewall
2 157 (2.72%) DNS
3 146 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 146 (2.53%) VPN
4 104 (1.80%) Network Security
5 89 (1.54%) WAN
6 77 (1.33%) Wireless
7 66 (1.14%) Broadband
8 63 (1.09%) DHCP
8 63 (1.09%) LAN
9 62 (1.07%) BGP
10 50 (0.87%) MQTT
11 43 (0.75%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.75%) VLAN
12 42 (0.73%) OSPF
13 40 (0.69%) HTTP
14 33 (0.57%) SSL
15 26 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
16 24 (0.42%) 5G
17 23 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 583 (10.10%) Power BI
2 322 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
3 304 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 280 (4.85%) Tableau
5 192 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 181 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 146 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 126 (2.18%) Big Data
11 116 (2.01%) Metadata
11 116 (2.01%) MySQL
12 112 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 100 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
14 94 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
15 85 (1.47%) DynamoDB
16 83 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 75 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
18 73 (1.26%) Delta Lake
19 70 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 676 (11.71%) Git
2 315 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 260 (4.51%) GitLab
4 173 (3.00%) JIRA
5 69 (1.20%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.92%) Subversion
7 51 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.76%) Selenium
9 42 (0.73%) MLflow
10 38 (0.66%) JUnit
11 32 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
13 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.50%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.49%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.38%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.33%) Cucumber
18 18 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 1,716 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 1,351 (23.41%) Finance
3 827 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 366 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 352 (6.10%) Banking
6 262 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.86%) Marketing
8 220 (3.81%) Law
9 166 (2.88%) Retail
10 133 (2.30%) Legal
11 113 (1.96%) Aerospace
12 112 (1.94%) Front Office
13 100 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 94 (1.63%) Electronics
14 94 (1.63%) Financial Institution
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 1,263 (21.89%) Senior
2 887 (15.37%) Software Engineer
3 809 (14.02%) Developer
4 700 (12.13%) Python Engineer
5 617 (10.69%) Data Engineer
6 612 (10.60%) Lead
7 492 (8.53%) Analyst
8 397 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 356 (6.17%) Python Developer
10 355 (6.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 300 (5.20%) Data Analyst
12 263 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 225 (3.90%) Junior
14 219 (3.79%) Architect
15 215 (3.73%) Data Scientist
16 206 (3.57%) Senior Developer
17 201 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
18 194 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
19 168 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
20 167 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 951 (16.48%) Terraform
2 391 (6.78%) React
3 247 (4.28%) REST
4 232 (4.02%) .NET
5 229 (3.97%) Node.js
6 222 (3.85%) PySpark
7 220 (3.81%) Kafka
8 216 (3.74%) FastAPI
9 201 (3.48%) RESTful
10 179 (3.10%) LangChain
11 165 (2.86%) Django
12 154 (2.67%) PyTorch
13 136 (2.36%) TensorFlow
14 130 (2.25%) HTML
15 128 (2.22%) CSS
16 127 (2.20%) Spring Boot
17 126 (2.18%) Spring
18 108 (1.87%) Flask
19 105 (1.82%) LangGraph
20 89 (1.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 612 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 297 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 280 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 271 (4.70%) AI Agents
5 234 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 142 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 132 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.58%) Hedge funds
9 91 (1.58%) Robotics
10 87 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 86 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 84 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
13 81 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
14 76 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
15 67 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
16 65 (1.13%) Equities
16 65 (1.13%) Low-Code
16 65 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 714 (12.37%) Linux
2 330 (5.72%) Windows
3 80 (1.39%) Unix
3 80 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 49 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (0.75%) CentOS
6 39 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 25 (0.43%) Debian
9 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.28%) Rocky
12 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.21%) Android
14 11 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 9 (0.16%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,298 (39.82%) AI
2 1,711 (29.65%) Software Engineering
3 1,629 (28.23%) CI/CD
4 1,216 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
5 1,131 (19.60%) Analytics
6 1,102 (19.10%) DevOps
7 1,077 (18.66%) Agile
8 1,020 (17.67%) Machine Learning
9 960 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 789 (13.67%) Mentoring
11 747 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
12 736 (12.75%) Data Engineering
13 735 (12.74%) Data Pipeline
14 689 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 650 (11.26%) Data Modelling
16 627 (10.86%) Decision-Making
17 614 (10.64%) Data Science
18 593 (10.28%) Containerisation
19 586 (10.15%) Test Automation
20 579 (10.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,890 (32.75%) SQL
2 825 (14.30%) Java
3 595 (10.31%) JavaScript
4 552 (9.57%) C++
5 533 (9.24%) Bash
6 493 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 481 (8.33%) C#
8 408 (7.07%) TypeScript
9 267 (4.63%) Go
10 196 (3.40%) C
11 161 (2.79%) R
12 107 (1.85%) Scala
13 102 (1.77%) Rust
14 100 (1.73%) Bicep
15 88 (1.52%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.46%) PHP
17 82 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 80 (1.39%) Perl
19 75 (1.30%) Ruby
20 55 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 929 (16.10%) Degree
2 887 (15.37%) Security Cleared
3 503 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 424 (7.35%) Azure Certification
5 302 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 286 (4.96%) DV Cleared
7 225 (3.90%) Master's Degree
8 126 (2.18%) PhD
9 114 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 82 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 56 (0.97%) CISSP
14 45 (0.78%) CCNP
15 40 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (0.59%) CCNA
17 33 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
20 28 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 567 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 245 (4.25%) QA
3 128 (2.22%) GDPR
4 103 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 74 (1.28%) NIST
6 62 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.49%) SLA
9 25 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.29%) WCAG
13 15 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 801 (13.88%) Docker
2 118 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.09%) Firmware
5 38 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.50%) vSphere
8 21 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 21 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 18 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.28%) KVM
11 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.12%) Squid
12 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.052%) NFS
14 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 827 (14.33%) Kubernetes
2 419 (7.26%) Ansible
3 242 (4.19%) Grafana
4 162 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 79 (1.37%) Puppet
6 63 (1.09%) Argo
7 46 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.66%) Kibana
9 31 (0.54%) Nagios
10 27 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
11 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.45%) Rancher
12 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.36%) Packer
13 21 (0.36%) Podman
14 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.28%) vCenter Server
17 15 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 885 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 439 (7.61%) Databricks
3 237 (4.11%) Google
4 149 (2.58%) Splunk
5 123 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 122 (2.11%) Oracle
6 122 (2.11%) VMware
7 106 (1.84%) Cisco
8 89 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 57 (0.99%) Foundry
11 55 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 42 (0.73%) Salesforce
13 38 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 38 (0.66%) SolarWinds
14 37 (0.64%) Palo Alto
15 36 (0.62%) SAP
16 34 (0.59%) F5
17 33 (0.57%) Informatica
18 31 (0.54%) Palantir