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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,082 5,108 7,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 13.04% 8.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.95% 39.94% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,476 2,970 5,594
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,430
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,125 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +4.32% -4.14%

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 14,498 12,788 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.83% 32.65% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,226 8,896 22,384
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
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 £86,250 £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 16 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 16 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 2,383 £85,000 -5.56% 1,301
North of England -10 1,221 £60,000 -7.69% 512
South East +2 901 £62,000 -4.62% 619
Midlands +17 657 £55,000 - 238
South West +8 524 £57,500 - 258
Yorkshire +17 522 £50,000 -20.00% 142
North West -28 522 £62,823 -3.35% 280
West Midlands +15 367 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England +7 330 £62,500 -5.60% 216
East Midlands +31 290 £55,000 +10.00% 124
North East +21 177 £52,000 -18.43% 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
1 208 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 191 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.24%) Apache
4 68 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 43 (0.71%) Confluence
7 35 (0.58%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,198 (19.70%) 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 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
8 2 (0.033%) Trello
9 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.016%) SPSS
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 2,868 (47.16%) Azure
2 1,827 (30.04%) AWS
3 1,437 (23.63%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.64%) Azure AI
5 635 (10.44%) GCP
6 480 (7.89%) GitHub
7 310 (5.10%) Serverless
8 229 (3.77%) SaaS
9 220 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 212 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
11 195 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.93%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 161 (2.65%) dbt
15 138 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
17 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 95 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
19 88 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.52%) Firewall
2 172 (2.83%) Internet
3 162 (2.66%) Broadband
4 124 (2.04%) DNS
5 118 (1.94%) VPN
6 101 (1.66%) Network Security
7 91 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.46%) WAN
9 79 (1.30%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 67 (1.10%) BGP
12 53 (0.87%) HTTP
12 53 (0.87%) VLAN
13 49 (0.81%) OSPF
14 45 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.54%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,382 (22.72%) Power BI
2 1,274 (20.95%) Tableau
3 273 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 162 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 153 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 130 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 124 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.87%) Data Mining
13 110 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.66%) Big Data
15 84 (1.38%) Metadata
16 74 (1.22%) MySQL
17 65 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (1.02%) DynamoDB
19 59 (0.97%) Spark SQL
20 51 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 647 (10.64%) Git
2 243 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 222 (3.65%) GitLab
4 119 (1.96%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 47 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.69%) Selenium
9 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.53%) Postman
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
18 17 (0.28%) JUnit
18 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,328 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 1,162 (19.11%) Finance
3 804 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 247 (4.06%) Banking
6 214 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 175 (2.88%) Retail
8 166 (2.73%) Law
9 156 (2.56%) Multimedia
10 139 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.15%) Front Office
12 104 (1.71%) Marketing
13 96 (1.58%) Legal
14 94 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 76 (1.25%) Electronics
16 63 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 62 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 56 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 52 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,400 (23.02%) Analyst
2 1,221 (20.08%) Data Analyst
3 1,030 (16.94%) Junior
4 994 (16.34%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 912 (15.00%) Senior
6 905 (14.88%) Developer
7 592 (9.73%) Software Engineer
8 526 (8.65%) Data Engineer
9 484 (7.96%) Lead
10 474 (7.79%) Python Engineer
11 408 (6.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 301 (4.95%) Trainee
14 211 (3.47%) Python Software Engineer
15 195 (3.21%) Software Developer
16 177 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
17 173 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 166 (2.73%) Architect
19 156 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (6.15%) React
2 297 (4.88%) HTML
3 260 (4.27%) CSS
4 252 (4.14%) Kafka
5 216 (3.55%) PySpark
6 206 (3.39%) Node.js
7 202 (3.32%) REST
8 189 (3.11%) .NET
9 178 (2.93%) RESTful
10 170 (2.80%) Django
11 163 (2.68%) Pandas
12 159 (2.61%) PyTorch
13 141 (2.32%) FastAPI
14 134 (2.20%) TensorFlow
15 124 (2.04%) scikit-learn
16 114 (1.87%) Flask
17 106 (1.74%) LangChain
18 105 (1.73%) NumPy
19 103 (1.69%) JSON
20 81 (1.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 356 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 306 (5.03%) Algorithms
3 263 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 126 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 124 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 111 (1.83%) 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 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 84 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
13 82 (1.35%) Management Information System
14 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
16 77 (1.27%) Equities
17 76 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
19 69 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 607 (9.98%) Linux
2 256 (4.21%) Windows
3 113 (1.86%) Unix
4 73 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) 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
11 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
16 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,571 (42.27%) AI
2 1,479 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
3 1,250 (20.55%) CI/CD
4 1,157 (19.02%) Software Engineering
5 962 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 956 (15.72%) Analytics
7 948 (15.59%) Agile
8 923 (15.18%) DevOps
9 766 (12.59%) Machine Learning
10 711 (11.69%) Mentoring
11 696 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 587 (9.65%) Data Modelling
13 570 (9.37%) Data Pipeline
14 561 (9.22%) Data Engineering
15 547 (8.99%) Data Science
16 540 (8.88%) ETL
17 530 (8.71%) Computer Science
18 514 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 482 (7.93%) Containerisation
20 481 (7.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,475 (40.69%) SQL
2 693 (11.39%) JavaScript
3 663 (10.90%) Java
4 450 (7.40%) PowerShell
5 439 (7.22%) Bash
6 380 (6.25%) C++
7 370 (6.08%) TypeScript
8 358 (5.89%) C#
9 281 (4.62%) Go
10 212 (3.49%) R
11 164 (2.70%) C
12 120 (1.97%) Scala
13 81 (1.33%) Rust
14 65 (1.07%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 54 (0.89%) Bicep
17 43 (0.71%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.64%) MATLAB
20 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,522 (25.02%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.71%) Degree
3 548 (9.01%) Security Cleared
4 318 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 277 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 212 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 210 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 183 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 149 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.50%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) OSCP
15 49 (0.81%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.69%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.48%) CCIE
19 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 227 (3.73%) QA
3 128 (2.10%) GDPR
4 99 (1.63%) NIST
5 84 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) SLA
13 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 580 (9.54%) Docker
2 109 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 89 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.92%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.39%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Squid
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
14 5 (0.082%) Lustre
14 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 739 (12.15%) Terraform
2 610 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.74%) Ansible
4 199 (3.27%) Grafana
5 160 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.97%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 32 (0.53%) Puppet
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (0.41%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 17 (0.28%) Packer
13 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
14 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 14 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,871 (30.76%) Microsoft
2 324 (5.33%) Databricks
3 206 (3.39%) Google
4 127 (2.09%) Cisco
4 127 (2.09%) Oracle
5 124 (2.04%) VMware
6 105 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 99 (1.63%) Splunk
8 98 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 55 (0.90%) Foundry
10 54 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 54 (0.89%) SAP
11 52 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.82%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.71%) Informatica
17 42 (0.69%) F5
18 41 (0.67%) Palantir