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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,171 5,180 7,854
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.19% 12.40% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.14% 40.15% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,681 2,930 5,929
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £128,875 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,767 12,901 28,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 30.88% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 8,728 22,681
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 2,464 £85,000 -5.56% 1,708
North of England -12 1,250 £65,000 - 448
South East +3 922 £60,000 -2.04% 641
Midlands +21 617 £60,000 +9.09% 208
North West -14 586 £65,000 - 241
South West +8 554 £60,000 +4.35% 274
Yorkshire +15 453 £65,000 - 133
West Midlands +13 317 £62,250 +4.40% 104
East Midlands +29 300 £55,000 - 104
East of England -8 291 £70,000 +5.73% 220
North East +23 211 £59,000 -1.67% 78
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
1 223 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 212 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 161 (2.61%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
11 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) Appian
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Camunda
17 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 918 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Simulink
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.049%) Blender
8 3 (0.049%) Maya
8 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.032%) CATIA
9 2 (0.032%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,662 (43.14%) Azure
2 1,958 (31.73%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.33%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.57%) Azure AI
5 723 (11.72%) GCP
6 398 (6.45%) GitHub
7 356 (5.77%) Serverless
8 242 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.89%) SaaS
10 226 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 188 (3.05%) Snowflake
13 180 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.85%) dbt
15 171 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 158 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 151 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 116 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
20 114 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 244 (3.95%) Firewall
2 187 (3.03%) Broadband
3 147 (2.38%) VPN
4 133 (2.16%) DNS
5 117 (1.90%) Network Security
6 102 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 102 (1.65%) WAN
7 85 (1.38%) LAN
8 83 (1.35%) Wireless
9 76 (1.23%) Internet
10 67 (1.09%) BGP
11 58 (0.94%) VLAN
12 53 (0.86%) HTTP
12 53 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 47 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
14 44 (0.71%) OSPF
15 40 (0.65%) DHCP
16 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.55%) MQTT
17 33 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,131 (18.33%) Power BI
2 984 (15.95%) Tableau
3 293 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 185 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 166 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.22%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 102 (1.65%) Big Data
14 98 (1.59%) MySQL
15 92 (1.49%) Metadata
16 74 (1.20%) DynamoDB
17 70 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.04%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 622 (10.08%) Git
2 277 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 248 (4.02%) GitLab
4 155 (2.51%) JIRA
5 81 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.92%) MLflow
7 55 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.83%) Claude Code
9 39 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 39 (0.63%) Selenium
10 33 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.52%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 26 (0.42%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 20 (0.32%) Eclipse
14 20 (0.32%) JMeter
14 20 (0.32%) JUnit
14 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,176 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 1,213 (19.66%) Finance
3 808 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (4.41%) Banking
5 270 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 193 (3.13%) Retail
8 154 (2.50%) Law
9 133 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.07%) Front Office
11 101 (1.64%) Legal
12 90 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 89 (1.44%) Marketing
14 76 (1.23%) Electronics
15 72 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 67 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 64 (1.04%) Multimedia
17 64 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.02%) Games
19 59 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,134 (18.38%) Analyst
2 1,103 (17.87%) Senior
3 961 (15.57%) Data Analyst
4 899 (14.57%) Developer
5 812 (13.16%) Junior
6 760 (12.32%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.30%) Junior Data Analyst
8 719 (11.65%) Software Engineer
9 584 (9.46%) Data Engineer
10 558 (9.04%) Python Engineer
11 529 (8.57%) Lead
12 458 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 375 (6.08%) Python Developer
14 261 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
15 203 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
16 198 (3.21%) Architect
17 196 (3.18%) Data Scientist
18 183 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
19 175 (2.84%) Senior Developer
20 171 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (6.38%) React
2 266 (4.31%) Kafka
3 239 (3.87%) Node.js
4 220 (3.57%) PySpark
5 217 (3.52%) REST
6 209 (3.39%) .NET
7 197 (3.19%) RESTful
8 190 (3.08%) HTML
9 184 (2.98%) FastAPI
10 181 (2.93%) Django
11 176 (2.85%) CSS
12 171 (2.77%) PyTorch
13 155 (2.51%) Pandas
14 145 (2.35%) TensorFlow
15 144 (2.33%) LangChain
16 129 (2.09%) Flask
17 123 (1.99%) scikit-learn
18 106 (1.72%) NumPy
18 106 (1.72%) Vue
19 101 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 502 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.25%) Algorithms
3 303 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 182 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 164 (2.66%) AI Agents
6 145 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 107 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 101 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 92 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 87 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.35%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.28%) Equities
15 78 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 76 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
17 72 (1.17%) Hedge funds
18 70 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
19 68 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
20 64 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 673 (10.91%) Linux
2 283 (4.59%) Windows
3 89 (1.44%) Unix
4 85 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.70%) CentOS
7 40 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.097%) Rocky
17 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,601 (42.15%) AI
2 1,426 (23.11%) CI/CD
3 1,404 (22.75%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.03%) Business Intelligence
5 1,078 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
6 1,052 (17.05%) Agile
7 995 (16.12%) DevOps
8 993 (16.09%) Analytics
9 870 (14.10%) Machine Learning
10 842 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 737 (11.94%) Mentoring
12 637 (10.32%) Data Pipeline
13 626 (10.14%) Data Engineering
14 619 (10.03%) Data Modelling
15 597 (9.67%) Data Science
16 565 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 555 (8.99%) Containerisation
18 552 (8.95%) Computer Science
19 551 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
20 533 (8.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,337 (37.87%) SQL
2 724 (11.73%) Java
3 649 (10.52%) JavaScript
4 508 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 488 (7.91%) C++
6 483 (7.83%) Bash
7 413 (6.69%) C#
8 384 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 283 (4.59%) Go
10 174 (2.82%) C
11 166 (2.69%) R
12 119 (1.93%) Scala
13 96 (1.56%) Rust
14 95 (1.54%) PHP
15 84 (1.36%) Bicep
16 64 (1.04%) MATLAB
17 58 (0.94%) Perl
18 57 (0.92%) VBA
19 51 (0.83%) Ruby
20 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,210 (19.61%) Azure Certification
2 792 (12.83%) Degree
3 692 (11.21%) Security Cleared
4 399 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 218 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 213 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 126 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 125 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (1.39%) PhD
12 79 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (0.94%) CCNP
14 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 45 (0.73%) OSCP
16 36 (0.58%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 32 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 30 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 249 (4.04%) QA
3 134 (2.17%) GDPR
4 85 (1.38%) NIST
5 75 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 71 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.19%) WCAG
14 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 681 (11.04%) Docker
2 108 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.50%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 876 (14.20%) Terraform
2 686 (11.12%) Kubernetes
3 377 (6.11%) Ansible
4 229 (3.71%) Grafana
5 171 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.05%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
7 40 (0.65%) Puppet
8 34 (0.55%) Kibana
9 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.44%) Istio
10 27 (0.44%) Packer
11 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.28%) Podman
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Graylog
17 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,544 (25.02%) Microsoft
2 370 (6.00%) Databricks
3 200 (3.24%) Google
4 142 (2.30%) VMware
5 131 (2.12%) Oracle
5 131 (2.12%) Splunk
6 121 (1.96%) Cisco
7 102 (1.65%) OpenAI
8 101 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 64 (1.04%) Foundry
10 61 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 59 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.84%) Salesforce
13 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
15 42 (0.68%) F5
15 42 (0.68%) SAP
16 37 (0.60%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.60%) Palantir
17 32 (0.52%) Arista