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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,924 4,735 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.73% 11.00% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.31% 40.92% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,725 2,585 4,204
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -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 16,777 11,571 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.22% 26.88% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,207 7,618 12,955
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £110,000
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 28 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 28 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 -2 2,533 £85,000 -2.86% 5,276
North of England -18 1,104 £67,500 +8.00% 822
South East +9 832 £62,500 +4.17% 793
South West +8 585 £62,500 +13.64% 507
North West -24 563 £67,500 +12.50% 461
Midlands -3 504 £62,000 +2.48% 394
East of England +9 310 £65,000 +13.04% 500
Yorkshire +8 302 £66,805 -1.03% 253
West Midlands -12 275 £65,000 +8.33% 253
North East +21 241 £66,805 +40.64% 111
East Midlands +13 227 £55,000 -15.38% 141
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
1 208 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 170 (2.87%) Apache
3 164 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.16%) Confluence
5 39 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 35 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 8 (0.14%) Camunda
13 8 (0.14%) IIS
13 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 351 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.41%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
11 3 (0.051%) Revit
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) SPSS
11 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.034%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.068%) Line 50
6 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.051%) Magento
7 3 (0.051%) Summit
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,135 (36.04%) Azure
2 1,851 (31.25%) AWS
3 731 (12.34%) Power Platform
4 721 (12.17%) GCP
5 535 (9.03%) Azure AI
6 377 (6.36%) GitHub
7 356 (6.01%) Serverless
8 248 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
9 243 (4.10%) SaaS
10 234 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 216 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 184 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 181 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
17 164 (2.77%) dbt
18 135 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
19 129 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.61%) Firewall
2 149 (2.52%) DNS
3 139 (2.35%) VPN
4 137 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 101 (1.70%) Network Security
6 93 (1.57%) WAN
7 81 (1.37%) Wireless
8 65 (1.10%) Broadband
8 65 (1.10%) LAN
9 63 (1.06%) DHCP
10 61 (1.03%) BGP
11 47 (0.79%) MQTT
12 46 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 46 (0.78%) VLAN
13 43 (0.73%) OSPF
14 38 (0.64%) HTTP
15 35 (0.59%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.41%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (11.16%) Power BI
2 377 (6.36%) Tableau
3 325 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 293 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.31%) Data Lake
6 178 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 152 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.43%) MongoDB
8 144 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 128 (2.16%) Big Data
10 114 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.89%) MySQL
12 106 (1.79%) Metadata
13 95 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
14 93 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 89 (1.50%) DynamoDB
16 84 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
17 78 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
18 73 (1.23%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 679 (11.46%) Git
2 316 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 257 (4.34%) GitLab
4 171 (2.89%) JIRA
5 68 (1.15%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.89%) Subversion
7 52 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.76%) Selenium
9 41 (0.69%) MLflow
10 38 (0.64%) JUnit
10 38 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 32 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.51%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
14 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
15 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.39%) Maven
17 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,869 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 1,305 (22.03%) Finance
3 798 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 358 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 333 (5.62%) Banking
6 262 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 221 (3.73%) Law
8 204 (3.44%) Marketing
9 167 (2.82%) Retail
10 132 (2.23%) Legal
11 109 (1.84%) Aerospace
11 109 (1.84%) Front Office
12 103 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 98 (1.65%) Electronics
14 88 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 82 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 61 (1.03%) Games
18 48 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 46 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,264 (21.34%) Senior
2 875 (14.77%) Software Engineer
3 820 (13.84%) Developer
4 703 (11.87%) Python Engineer
5 622 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 619 (10.45%) Lead
7 569 (9.60%) Analyst
8 487 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 389 (6.57%) Data Analyst
10 357 (6.03%) Python Developer
11 349 (5.89%) Python Software Engineer
12 320 (5.40%) Junior
13 261 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 241 (4.07%) Junior Analyst
15 237 (4.00%) Junior Data Analyst
16 215 (3.63%) Architect
17 213 (3.60%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.39%) Senior Developer
19 200 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
20 192 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (16.10%) Terraform
2 396 (6.68%) React
3 239 (4.03%) REST
4 230 (3.88%) PySpark
5 227 (3.83%) .NET
6 226 (3.81%) Node.js
7 223 (3.76%) Kafka
8 212 (3.58%) FastAPI
9 206 (3.48%) RESTful
10 174 (2.94%) LangChain
11 172 (2.90%) Django
12 158 (2.67%) PyTorch
13 138 (2.33%) HTML
14 136 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.08%) Spring
15 123 (2.08%) Spring Boot
16 118 (1.99%) CSS
16 118 (1.99%) Flask
17 100 (1.69%) LangGraph
18 98 (1.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 596 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 304 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 285 (4.81%) Algorithms
4 256 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 220 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 92 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 90 (1.52%) Robotics
11 85 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 84 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
12 84 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 81 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 80 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
15 74 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 71 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
17 69 (1.16%) Low-Code
18 64 (1.08%) Equities
19 62 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 704 (11.88%) Linux
2 323 (5.45%) Windows
3 81 (1.37%) Unix
4 80 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
15 11 (0.19%) Solaris
15 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,423 (40.90%) AI
2 1,691 (28.54%) Software Engineering
3 1,612 (27.21%) CI/CD
4 1,199 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 1,111 (18.75%) Analytics
6 1,105 (18.65%) DevOps
7 1,078 (18.20%) Agile
8 987 (16.66%) Machine Learning
9 958 (16.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 828 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
11 788 (13.30%) Mentoring
12 725 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
13 724 (12.22%) Data Engineering
14 680 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 635 (10.72%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.48%) Decision-Making
17 605 (10.21%) Data Science
18 587 (9.91%) Containerisation
19 585 (9.88%) Computer Science
20 580 (9.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,967 (33.20%) SQL
2 832 (14.04%) Java
3 590 (9.96%) JavaScript
4 564 (9.52%) C++
5 527 (8.90%) Bash
6 493 (8.32%) PowerShell
7 477 (8.05%) C#
8 403 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 254 (4.29%) Go
10 197 (3.33%) C
11 150 (2.53%) R
12 108 (1.82%) Scala
13 98 (1.65%) Bicep
14 97 (1.64%) Rust
15 87 (1.47%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.43%) PHP
17 83 (1.40%) Perl
18 74 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 74 (1.25%) Ruby
19 57 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 927 (15.65%) Degree
2 877 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 611 (10.31%) Azure Certification
4 494 (8.34%) SC Cleared
5 303 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 281 (4.74%) DV Cleared
7 219 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 123 (2.08%) PhD
9 112 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.86%) CISSP
14 46 (0.78%) CCNP
15 39 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.59%) CCNA
18 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.49%) OSCP
20 27 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 248 (4.19%) QA
3 127 (2.14%) GDPR
4 106 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.10%) NIST
6 58 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 25 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) NCSC
11 17 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.29%) WCAG
12 14 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.19%) GRC
13 11 (0.19%) PMO
14 10 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.14%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 780 (13.17%) Docker
2 116 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.08%) Firmware
5 35 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.14%) Squid
14 6 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.034%) IAG
15 2 (0.034%) iptables
15 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 810 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 416 (7.02%) Ansible
3 243 (4.10%) Grafana
4 163 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.22%) Puppet
6 63 (1.06%) Argo
7 43 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.51%) Nagios
10 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.46%) Istio
12 26 (0.44%) Rancher
13 25 (0.42%) Packer
13 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.35%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
18 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 970 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 440 (7.43%) Databricks
3 229 (3.87%) Google
4 153 (2.58%) Splunk
5 120 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 119 (2.01%) Oracle
7 117 (1.98%) VMware
8 109 (1.84%) Cisco
9 90 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 54 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.81%) Foundry
13 42 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 36 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.61%) SAP
17 33 (0.56%) F5
17 33 (0.56%) Informatica
18 32 (0.54%) New Relic