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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,966 5,477 5,268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.59% 11.34% 10.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.97% 33.52% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 3,301 4,149
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,176 16,338 18,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.47% 33.84% 38.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,682 9,608 15,921
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 January 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 11 January 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 1,961 £85,000 - 988
North of England -8 643 £52,000 -16.80% 728
South East -33 430 £60,000 -7.69% 1,334
Midlands -11 370 £60,000 +9.09% 453
South West -5 312 £60,000 -7.69% 535
Yorkshire +11 298 £49,500 -23.85% 312
North West -14 266 £55,000 -8.33% 291
West Midlands +2 258 £60,000 +4.35% 152
East of England -14 203 £50,000 -28.57% 627
East Midlands -27 115 £62,500 +13.64% 294
North East +1 81 £40,000 -42.29% 126
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
1 172 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 124 (3.13%) Apache
4 43 (1.08%) Confluence
5 35 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
6 26 (0.66%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.45%) Appian
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.18%) CMS
13 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.10%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 505 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.18%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) CATIA
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.076%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,546 (38.98%) Azure
2 1,375 (34.67%) AWS
3 688 (17.35%) Power Platform
4 513 (12.93%) GitHub
5 423 (10.67%) GCP
6 278 (7.01%) Azure AI
7 253 (6.38%) Serverless
8 181 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
9 176 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 161 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (3.91%) SaaS
12 154 (3.88%) Amazon S3
13 146 (3.68%) dbt
14 136 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 135 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 96 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 87 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 80 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
20 73 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 253 (6.38%) Internet
2 142 (3.58%) Firewall
3 87 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 69 (1.74%) VPN
5 68 (1.71%) WAN
6 64 (1.61%) DNS
7 56 (1.41%) LAN
8 49 (1.24%) BGP
9 44 (1.11%) Wireless
10 38 (0.96%) Network Security
11 37 (0.93%) Broadband
11 37 (0.93%) HTTP
12 36 (0.91%) OSPF
13 35 (0.88%) VLAN
14 33 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (0.78%) SSL
16 30 (0.76%) MPLS
17 28 (0.71%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.66%) SAN
19 20 (0.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 647 (16.31%) Power BI
2 549 (13.84%) Tableau
3 266 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 217 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 162 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 162 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 137 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 128 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 111 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 103 (2.60%) BigQuery
11 102 (2.57%) Big Data
12 87 (2.19%) MySQL
13 84 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 82 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
16 75 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
17 74 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
18 68 (1.71%) Hadoop
19 64 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 550 (13.87%) Git
2 217 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 133 (3.35%) GitLab
4 121 (3.05%) JIRA
5 58 (1.46%) Selenium
6 42 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.96%) JUnit
8 32 (0.81%) Postman
9 24 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.61%) JMeter
10 23 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.43%) Jaeger
13 16 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.38%) Mockito
15 13 (0.33%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.30%) Burp Suite
16 12 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
17 11 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 1,153 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 1,005 (25.34%) Finance
3 603 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (6.20%) Banking
5 236 (5.95%) Multimedia
6 176 (4.44%) Law
7 166 (4.19%) Marketing
8 164 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 154 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 149 (3.76%) Front Office
11 119 (3.00%) Retail
12 110 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 105 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 87 (2.19%) Financial Institution
15 79 (1.99%) Electronics
16 72 (1.82%) Investment Banking
16 72 (1.82%) Legal
17 59 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.41%) Games
19 50 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 756 (19.06%) Developer
2 680 (17.15%) Analyst
3 655 (16.52%) Senior
4 498 (12.56%) Data Analyst
5 411 (10.36%) Data Engineer
6 352 (8.88%) Trainee
7 314 (7.92%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.74%) Python Developer
9 291 (7.34%) Lead
10 263 (6.63%) Junior
11 243 (6.13%) Python Engineer
12 236 (5.95%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.93%) Junior Data Analyst
14 188 (4.74%) Software Developer
15 151 (3.81%) Architect
16 142 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
16 142 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
16 142 (3.58%) Senior Developer
17 133 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 131 (3.30%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (9.35%) HTML
2 326 (8.22%) CSS
3 322 (8.12%) React
4 172 (4.34%) Node.js
5 164 (4.14%) REST
6 155 (3.91%) Django
7 142 (3.58%) RESTful
8 140 (3.53%) Kafka
9 139 (3.50%) Pandas
10 132 (3.33%) FastAPI
11 120 (3.03%) PySpark
12 114 (2.87%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.80%) .NET
14 106 (2.67%) Flask
15 105 (2.65%) AngularJS
16 98 (2.47%) NumPy
16 98 (2.47%) TensorFlow
17 90 (2.27%) Vue
18 83 (2.09%) JSON
19 77 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 224 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 199 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 148 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 138 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 127 (3.20%) Equities
6 109 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 108 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 90 (2.27%) Fixed Income
9 89 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
10 86 (2.17%) Hedge funds
11 79 (1.99%) Derivative
12 78 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 74 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
14 71 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 66 (1.66%) Low-Code
16 61 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
17 53 (1.34%) AI Agents
17 53 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
18 50 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
19 49 (1.24%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 484 (12.20%) Linux
2 206 (5.19%) Windows
3 185 (4.66%) Unix
4 71 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.61%) CentOS
8 21 (0.53%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.43%) Solaris
10 17 (0.43%) VMS
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (0.18%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) zOS
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.076%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (27.81%) AI
2 907 (22.87%) CI/CD
3 860 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
4 820 (20.68%) Analytics
5 781 (19.69%) Agile
6 755 (19.04%) Business Intelligence
7 745 (18.78%) DevOps
8 635 (16.01%) Mentoring
9 628 (15.83%) Software Engineering
10 528 (13.31%) Machine Learning
11 486 (12.25%) Data Science
12 464 (11.70%) ETL
13 455 (11.47%) Data Modelling
14 441 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
15 431 (10.87%) Data Engineering
16 423 (10.67%) Computer Science
17 404 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 403 (10.16%) Data Analysis
19 361 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
20 358 (9.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,610 (40.60%) SQL
2 702 (17.70%) JavaScript
3 576 (14.52%) Java
4 356 (8.98%) Bash
5 326 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 323 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 267 (6.73%) C#
8 245 (6.18%) R
9 197 (4.97%) C++
10 150 (3.78%) Go
11 106 (2.67%) C
12 79 (1.99%) Scala
13 59 (1.49%) PHP
14 51 (1.29%) VBA
15 50 (1.26%) Perl
16 49 (1.24%) Bicep
17 43 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 40 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 40 (1.01%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 771 (19.44%) Degree
2 534 (13.46%) Azure Certification
3 393 (9.91%) Security Cleared
4 348 (8.77%) AWS Certification
5 285 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 240 (6.05%) SC Cleared
7 234 (5.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 200 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 188 (4.74%) Master's Degree
10 153 (3.86%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.92%) PhD
12 73 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.41%) CCNP
14 51 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.24%) CISSP
16 40 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.63%) OSCP
20 24 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.78%) QA
3 98 (2.47%) GDPR
4 95 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.89%) NIST
6 61 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.88%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.35%) PMO
11 13 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) GRC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 489 (12.33%) Docker
2 77 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.66%) Firmware
5 21 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.43%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
7 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) NFS
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.18%) KVM
9 7 (0.18%) Lustre
10 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.13%) Postfix
11 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.10%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 511 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 470 (11.85%) Terraform
3 289 (7.29%) Ansible
4 113 (2.85%) Grafana
5 111 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.19%) Argo
7 25 (0.63%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 15 (0.38%) Nessus
9 15 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.33%) Nagios
11 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (0.30%) Control-M
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.23%) Rancher
13 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,017 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.58%) Databricks
3 188 (4.74%) Google
4 130 (3.28%) Oracle
5 101 (2.55%) Cisco
5 101 (2.55%) VMware
6 86 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 69 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 68 (1.71%) SAP
9 62 (1.56%) Splunk
10 55 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 44 (1.11%) Alteryx
12 44 (1.11%) Fortinet
12 44 (1.11%) IBM
13 41 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 41 (1.03%) Informatica
14 40 (1.01%) Talend
15 29 (0.73%) Palantir
16 28 (0.71%) Atlassian