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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,027 5,139 7,230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 13.23% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.14% 40.13% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,435 3,055 5,599
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £126,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 14,304 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.86% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,075 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
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 £87,500 £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 13 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 13 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 2,355 £85,000 -5.56% 1,192
North of England -9 1,207 £59,500 -8.46% 502
South East 0 888 £60,000 -7.69% 575
Midlands +8 661 £55,000 - 232
Yorkshire +14 521 £51,250 -21.15% 142
South West +8 518 £57,500 - 225
North West -29 511 £62,500 -7.41% 271
West Midlands +19 371 £60,000 +9.09% 110
East of England +2 330 £62,500 -5.61% 197
East Midlands +20 290 £55,000 - 122
North East +23 175 £49,222 -24.27% 93
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
1 210 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 189 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 135 (2.24%) Apache
4 67 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.95%) WordPress
6 41 (0.68%) Confluence
7 34 (0.56%) 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 (0.22%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.083%) CMS
13 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,198 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 46 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.17%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) 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 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,863 (47.50%) Azure
2 1,813 (30.08%) AWS
3 1,435 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.84%) Azure AI
5 635 (10.54%) GCP
6 482 (8.00%) GitHub
7 305 (5.06%) Serverless
8 227 (3.77%) SaaS
9 217 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 215 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 193 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
12 175 (2.90%) Snowflake
13 172 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
14 160 (2.65%) dbt
15 158 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 136 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
17 131 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 90 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
20 87 (1.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.57%) Firewall
2 174 (2.89%) Internet
3 162 (2.69%) Broadband
4 127 (2.11%) DNS
5 119 (1.97%) VPN
6 100 (1.66%) Network Security
7 89 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 88 (1.46%) WAN
9 78 (1.29%) LAN
10 71 (1.18%) Wireless
11 62 (1.03%) BGP
12 56 (0.93%) HTTP
13 48 (0.80%) VLAN
14 45 (0.75%) SD-WAN
15 44 (0.73%) OSPF
16 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.55%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,382 (22.93%) Power BI
2 1,275 (21.15%) Tableau
3 272 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.29%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 129 (2.14%) BigQuery
9 127 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 125 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.89%) Data Mining
13 108 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (1.63%) Big Data
15 86 (1.43%) Metadata
16 74 (1.23%) MySQL
17 65 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
18 61 (1.01%) DynamoDB
19 57 (0.95%) Spark SQL
20 51 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 642 (10.65%) Git
2 240 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 218 (3.62%) GitLab
4 118 (1.96%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.05%) MLflow
7 47 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.70%) Selenium
9 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.55%) Postman
10 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.46%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
15 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.28%) JMeter
16 17 (0.28%) Subversion
17 16 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 2,318 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1,147 (19.03%) Finance
3 798 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 244 (4.05%) Banking
6 209 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 174 (2.89%) Retail
8 163 (2.70%) Law
9 158 (2.62%) Multimedia
10 139 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 129 (2.14%) Front Office
12 100 (1.66%) Marketing
13 96 (1.59%) Legal
14 93 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 77 (1.28%) Electronics
16 64 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (1.00%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.90%) Financial Institution
19 53 (0.88%) Games
20 51 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,402 (23.26%) Analyst
2 1,223 (20.29%) Data Analyst
3 1,031 (17.11%) Junior
4 994 (16.49%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.49%) Junior Data Analyst
5 900 (14.93%) Senior
6 898 (14.90%) Developer
7 580 (9.62%) Software Engineer
8 523 (8.68%) Data Engineer
9 483 (8.01%) Lead
10 463 (7.68%) Python Engineer
11 404 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 389 (6.45%) Python Developer
13 303 (5.03%) Trainee
14 203 (3.37%) Python Software Engineer
15 194 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 176 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 171 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 165 (2.74%) Architect
19 157 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (6.26%) React
2 294 (4.88%) HTML
3 260 (4.31%) CSS
4 248 (4.11%) Kafka
5 213 (3.53%) PySpark
6 205 (3.40%) Node.js
7 202 (3.35%) REST
8 187 (3.10%) .NET
9 178 (2.95%) RESTful
10 171 (2.84%) Django
11 161 (2.67%) Pandas
12 160 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 141 (2.34%) FastAPI
14 135 (2.24%) TensorFlow
15 124 (2.06%) scikit-learn
16 114 (1.89%) Flask
17 104 (1.73%) LangChain
17 104 (1.73%) NumPy
18 100 (1.66%) JSON
19 82 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 347 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 303 (5.03%) Algorithms
3 258 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 126 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 109 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 87 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
13 82 (1.36%) Fixed Income
14 80 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 79 (1.31%) Hedge funds
16 76 (1.26%) Equities
16 76 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 68 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 66 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 595 (9.87%) Linux
2 254 (4.21%) Windows
3 113 (1.87%) Unix
4 70 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.61%) CentOS
7 28 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) VMS
12 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.100%) Solaris
15 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,548 (42.28%) AI
2 1,480 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1,238 (20.54%) CI/CD
4 1,136 (18.85%) Software Engineering
5 951 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
6 935 (15.51%) Agile
6 935 (15.51%) Analytics
7 918 (15.23%) DevOps
8 744 (12.34%) Machine Learning
9 709 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 690 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 585 (9.71%) Data Modelling
12 563 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
13 553 (9.18%) Data Engineering
14 541 (8.98%) Data Science
15 538 (8.93%) ETL
16 529 (8.78%) Computer Science
17 518 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 481 (7.98%) Containerisation
19 479 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,460 (40.82%) SQL
2 691 (11.47%) JavaScript
3 653 (10.83%) Java
4 449 (7.45%) PowerShell
5 429 (7.12%) Bash
6 369 (6.12%) C++
7 367 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 351 (5.82%) C#
9 283 (4.70%) Go
10 210 (3.48%) R
11 161 (2.67%) C
12 120 (1.99%) Scala
13 82 (1.36%) Rust
14 64 (1.06%) PHP
15 63 (1.05%) VBA
16 55 (0.91%) Bicep
17 43 (0.71%) Perl
18 42 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 37 (0.61%) MATLAB
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,524 (25.29%) Azure Certification
2 768 (12.74%) Degree
3 540 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 318 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 277 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 214 (3.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 212 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 179 (2.97%) DV Cleared
10 146 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.44%) PhD
12 79 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.13%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.71%) CISSP
17 33 (0.55%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) CCIE
20 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.80%) QA
3 128 (2.12%) GDPR
4 100 (1.66%) NIST
5 86 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.37%) GRC
10 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.27%) SLA
13 13 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 572 (9.49%) Docker
2 108 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.40%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Squid
14 3 (0.050%) IAG
14 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 731 (12.13%) Terraform
2 602 (9.99%) Kubernetes
3 346 (5.74%) Ansible
4 196 (3.25%) Grafana
5 156 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.98%) Argo
7 33 (0.55%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 22 (0.37%) Istio
9 22 (0.37%) Kibana
9 22 (0.37%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.27%) Packer
10 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.25%) logstash
11 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
12 14 (0.23%) Rancher
13 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,870 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 321 (5.33%) Databricks
3 207 (3.43%) Google
4 127 (2.11%) Cisco
5 124 (2.06%) Oracle
5 124 (2.06%) VMware
6 104 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 98 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 92 (1.53%) Splunk
9 55 (0.91%) Foundry
10 54 (0.90%) SAP
11 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.81%) ServiceNow
14 48 (0.80%) SolarWinds
15 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
17 43 (0.71%) Informatica
18 42 (0.70%) F5
19 41 (0.68%) Palantir