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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,989 4,616 6,664
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 12.18% 8.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.43% 35.33% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 3,218 5,335
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -5.12%

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 12,043 13,066 25,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 34.47% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,746 9,288 21,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 2,189 £82,500 -8.33% 1,214
North of England -4 895 £45,000 -30.77% 501
South East -14 660 £60,250 -10.74% 636
Midlands +2 483 £55,000 - 241
South West +2 424 £57,500 -11.54% 269
Yorkshire +11 383 £40,000 -38.46% 182
North West -7 379 £50,000 -23.08% 235
West Midlands +17 306 £60,000 +9.09% 112
East of England -20 261 £50,000 -24.50% 236
East Midlands -13 178 £55,000 - 129
North East +18 133 £40,000 -38.46% 87
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
1 195 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.65%) Apache
4 68 (1.36%) WordPress
5 62 (1.24%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.66%) SAS
7 32 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.62%) Confluence
9 26 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 18 (0.36%) Appian
12 15 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 14 (0.28%) IIS
14 9 (0.18%) nginx
15 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.080%) Apache Solr
18 4 (0.080%) GeoServer
Applications
1 946 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.10%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.080%) Windchill
10 3 (0.060%) CATIA
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.040%) Weka
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Houdini
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) NUKE
12 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.080%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.060%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.020%) Actimize
8 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.020%) Endur
8 1 (0.020%) Findur
8 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.020%) Primavera
8 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,196 (44.02%) Azure
2 1,722 (34.52%) AWS
3 1,089 (21.83%) Power Platform
4 699 (14.01%) Azure AI
5 599 (12.01%) GitHub
6 556 (11.14%) GCP
7 276 (5.53%) Serverless
8 200 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 198 (3.97%) SaaS
10 179 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 176 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
12 169 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
13 154 (3.09%) Snowflake
14 153 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 153 (3.07%) dbt
15 123 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 106 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
17 105 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 92 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
18 92 (1.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.45%) Internet
2 185 (3.71%) Firewall
3 130 (2.61%) Broadband
4 109 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 104 (2.08%) VPN
6 94 (1.88%) DNS
7 71 (1.42%) Network Security
7 71 (1.42%) WAN
8 68 (1.36%) LAN
9 61 (1.22%) BGP
10 60 (1.20%) Wireless
11 58 (1.16%) VLAN
12 50 (1.00%) HTTP
13 47 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
14 43 (0.86%) OSPF
15 37 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.68%) MPLS
16 34 (0.68%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.64%) Wireshark
18 28 (0.56%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,053 (21.11%) Power BI
2 1,020 (20.44%) Tableau
3 252 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (4.01%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.39%) Data Mining
7 166 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 143 (2.87%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 105 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
12 101 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 91 (1.82%) Big Data
14 89 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 85 (1.70%) Metadata
16 82 (1.64%) MySQL
17 69 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
18 45 (0.90%) Hadoop
19 44 (0.88%) Delta Lake
19 44 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 663 (13.29%) Git
2 216 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 180 (3.61%) GitLab
4 99 (1.98%) JIRA
5 56 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 54 (1.08%) MLflow
7 53 (1.06%) Selenium
8 38 (0.76%) Postman
9 37 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.52%) JUnit
12 25 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 21 (0.42%) Jaeger
15 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.40%) JMeter
15 20 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.34%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.34%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,695 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 1,152 (23.09%) Finance
3 818 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (5.55%) Banking
5 260 (5.21%) Multimedia
6 211 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 168 (3.37%) Law
9 165 (3.31%) Retail
10 147 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 137 (2.75%) Front Office
12 120 (2.41%) Marketing
13 109 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.72%) Legal
15 72 (1.44%) Electronics
15 72 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.42%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.34%) Investment Banking
18 46 (0.92%) Games
19 45 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,149 (23.03%) Analyst
2 968 (19.40%) Data Analyst
3 831 (16.66%) Developer
4 730 (14.63%) Senior
5 696 (13.95%) Junior
6 663 (13.29%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (13.29%) Junior Data Analyst
7 460 (9.22%) Data Engineer
8 455 (9.12%) Trainee
9 422 (8.46%) Software Engineer
10 397 (7.96%) Lead
11 329 (6.59%) Python Developer
12 302 (6.05%) Python Engineer
13 208 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 153 (3.07%) Architect
15 150 (3.01%) Senior Developer
16 145 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (2.89%) Trainee Analyst
17 144 (2.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
18 138 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (8.08%) HTML
2 371 (7.44%) React
3 353 (7.08%) CSS
4 219 (4.39%) Kafka
5 208 (4.17%) Node.js
6 194 (3.89%) Django
7 190 (3.81%) REST
8 165 (3.31%) PySpark
9 155 (3.11%) RESTful
10 142 (2.85%) .NET
11 139 (2.79%) PyTorch
12 137 (2.75%) Pandas
13 133 (2.67%) FastAPI
14 122 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 119 (2.39%) Flask
16 112 (2.24%) scikit-learn
17 100 (2.00%) JSON
18 90 (1.80%) NumPy
19 86 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
20 81 (1.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (5.25%) Cloud Native
2 242 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 201 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 91 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 84 (1.68%) Equities
9 84 (1.68%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 82 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 77 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 75 (1.50%) Hedge funds
14 72 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.28%) Security Posture
17 63 (1.26%) AI Agents
18 62 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
18 62 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 535 (10.72%) Linux
2 214 (4.29%) Windows
3 182 (3.65%) Unix
4 63 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.82%) CentOS
7 28 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.16%) Android
11 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.10%) Solaris
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.080%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.060%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.060%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,749 (35.06%) AI
2 1,165 (23.35%) Business Intelligence
3 1,095 (21.95%) CI/CD
4 966 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
5 922 (18.48%) Analytics
6 874 (17.52%) Agile
7 854 (17.12%) Software Engineering
8 822 (16.48%) DevOps
9 716 (14.35%) Mentoring
10 649 (13.01%) Machine Learning
11 555 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 536 (10.74%) Data Modelling
13 525 (10.52%) Data Science
14 518 (10.38%) ETL
15 517 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
16 480 (9.62%) Containerisation
16 480 (9.62%) Data Engineering
17 479 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 471 (9.44%) Computer Science
19 426 (8.54%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,096 (42.01%) SQL
2 797 (15.98%) JavaScript
3 603 (12.09%) Java
4 398 (7.98%) Bash
5 382 (7.66%) PowerShell
6 322 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 278 (5.57%) C#
8 264 (5.29%) R
9 258 (5.17%) Go
10 253 (5.07%) C++
11 128 (2.57%) C
12 97 (1.94%) Scala
13 73 (1.46%) Rust
14 69 (1.38%) VBA
15 63 (1.26%) PHP
16 45 (0.90%) Bicep
17 40 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.68%) Perl
20 30 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 992 (19.88%) Azure Certification
2 767 (15.37%) Degree
3 444 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 413 (8.28%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 306 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 246 (4.93%) SC Cleared
8 244 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 175 (3.51%) DV Cleared
10 128 (2.57%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.76%) PhD
12 69 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.18%) CCNP
14 50 (1.00%) CISSP
15 45 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.86%) OSCP
17 39 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.54%) ACCA
19 27 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 200 (4.01%) QA
3 115 (2.31%) GDPR
4 114 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.16%) NIST
6 65 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 34 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 27 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.46%) PMO
10 23 (0.46%) SLA
11 21 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 16 (0.32%) GRC
15 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 576 (11.55%) Docker
2 90 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Firmware
4 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.40%) KVM
7 16 (0.32%) ProxySG
8 14 (0.28%) vSphere
9 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.14%) Lustre
10 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.10%) iptables
13 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.060%) HDFS
14 3 (0.060%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.040%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 626 (12.55%) Terraform
2 588 (11.79%) Kubernetes
3 323 (6.47%) Ansible
4 169 (3.39%) Grafana
5 144 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.20%) Argo
7 27 (0.54%) Nagios
8 23 (0.46%) Puppet
9 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.38%) Kibana
10 19 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.32%) Istio
12 12 (0.24%) Control-M
12 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.24%) Nessus
13 11 (0.22%) logstash
13 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.20%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,596 (31.99%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.39%) Databricks
3 202 (4.05%) Google
4 143 (2.87%) Oracle
5 116 (2.33%) Cisco
5 116 (2.33%) VMware
6 97 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 73 (1.46%) SAP
8 68 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 68 (1.36%) Splunk
9 64 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 50 (1.00%) Informatica
12 45 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 44 (0.88%) Foundry
14 42 (0.84%) Palantir
15 41 (0.82%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.80%) Talend
17 39 (0.78%) Alteryx
18 37 (0.74%) MuleSoft