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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,250 5,318 6,424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.47% 11.56% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.52% 34.02% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 3,246 5,117
10th Percentile £30,956 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.93%

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 10,753 15,630 24,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.90% 33.98% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,033 9,242 20,579
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
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 4 February 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 4 February 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 2,021 £80,939 -7.50% 1,061
North of England -12 712 £48,445 -25.47% 428
South East -23 496 £60,000 -11.11% 649
Midlands -13 389 £55,000 - 207
South West -3 349 £60,000 -7.69% 262
Yorkshire +11 318 £47,500 -26.92% 152
North West -18 296 £55,000 -12.00% 226
West Midlands 0 255 £55,000 - 104
East of England -19 220 £52,500 -20.74% 200
East Midlands -16 137 £55,000 - 103
North East 0 98 £40,000 -42.29% 53
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
1 155 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.82%) Apache
4 37 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 36 (0.85%) Confluence
6 31 (0.73%) SAS
7 27 (0.64%) WordPress
8 24 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.45%) Appian
12 18 (0.42%) IIS
12 18 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.24%) nginx
16 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 616 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.094%) Windchill
9 3 (0.071%) CATIA
9 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.047%) Stata
10 2 (0.047%) Weka
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 4 (0.094%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.047%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,708 (40.19%) Azure
2 1,474 (34.68%) AWS
3 779 (18.33%) Power Platform
4 538 (12.66%) GitHub
5 440 (10.35%) GCP
6 373 (8.78%) Azure AI
7 271 (6.38%) Serverless
8 183 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (3.86%) Amazon S3
11 161 (3.79%) SaaS
12 156 (3.67%) Snowflake
13 149 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 121 (2.85%) dbt
16 113 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 105 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 74 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.05%) Internet
2 157 (3.69%) Firewall
3 96 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 87 (2.05%) VPN
5 73 (1.72%) DNS
6 70 (1.65%) WAN
7 59 (1.39%) Broadband
7 59 (1.39%) LAN
8 55 (1.29%) BGP
9 53 (1.25%) Wireless
10 52 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (1.08%) Network Security
12 43 (1.01%) VLAN
13 39 (0.92%) HTTP
14 38 (0.89%) OSPF
15 34 (0.80%) MPLS
16 32 (0.75%) SD-WAN
17 31 (0.73%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.61%) VXLAN
19 25 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 736 (17.32%) Power BI
2 641 (15.08%) Tableau
3 241 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 210 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
6 182 (4.28%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 152 (3.58%) Data Mining
9 117 (2.75%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.68%) Big Data
11 112 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 88 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 88 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
13 86 (2.02%) MySQL
14 85 (2.00%) BigQuery
15 76 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (1.72%) Metadata
17 71 (1.67%) Hadoop
18 52 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 575 (13.53%) Git
2 222 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 149 (3.51%) GitLab
4 110 (2.59%) JIRA
5 59 (1.39%) Selenium
6 45 (1.06%) MLflow
7 40 (0.94%) Postman
8 34 (0.80%) JUnit
9 28 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.54%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.49%) JMeter
13 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 16 (0.38%) Burp Suite
15 16 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.38%) Metasploit
16 15 (0.35%) Subversion
17 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
17 14 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,310 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (24.45%) Finance
3 681 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.67%) Multimedia
5 237 (5.58%) Banking
6 181 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 177 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (3.98%) Law
9 135 (3.18%) Marketing
10 130 (3.06%) Front Office
11 113 (2.66%) Retail
12 112 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 110 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.07%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.84%) Electronics
16 74 (1.74%) Legal
17 60 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (1.29%) Games
19 52 (1.22%) Investment Banking
20 48 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 787 (18.52%) Analyst
2 778 (18.31%) Developer
3 653 (15.36%) Senior
4 610 (14.35%) Data Analyst
5 419 (9.86%) Data Engineer
6 381 (8.96%) Trainee
7 349 (8.21%) Junior
8 331 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 329 (7.74%) Junior Analyst
9 329 (7.74%) Junior Data Analyst
10 317 (7.46%) Lead
11 308 (7.25%) Python Developer
12 239 (5.62%) Python Engineer
13 194 (4.56%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.51%) Architect
15 144 (3.39%) Senior Developer
16 134 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
17 128 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
18 122 (2.87%) Trainee Analyst
18 122 (2.87%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (9.18%) HTML
2 343 (8.07%) CSS
3 339 (7.98%) React
4 183 (4.31%) REST
5 176 (4.14%) Node.js
6 169 (3.98%) Django
7 154 (3.62%) Kafka
8 150 (3.53%) RESTful
9 133 (3.13%) FastAPI
9 133 (3.13%) PySpark
10 130 (3.06%) PyTorch
11 129 (3.04%) .NET
12 113 (2.66%) Pandas
13 110 (2.59%) Flask
14 107 (2.52%) TensorFlow
15 97 (2.28%) AngularJS
16 86 (2.02%) JSON
17 81 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
17 81 (1.91%) Vue
18 78 (1.84%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 213 (5.01%) Algorithms
3 165 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 99 (2.33%) Equities
8 98 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.00%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.81%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.79%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 70 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
14 69 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 66 (1.55%) Derivative
16 63 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
17 61 (1.44%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.44%) Fixed Income
18 58 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
19 55 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 500 (11.76%) Linux
2 202 (4.75%) Windows
3 180 (4.24%) Unix
4 66 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.75%) CentOS
7 30 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.42%) Debian
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) VMS
11 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.26%) Android
12 11 (0.26%) Solaris
13 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.094%) zOS
16 3 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,276 (30.02%) AI
2 988 (23.25%) CI/CD
3 940 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 846 (19.91%) Business Intelligence
5 824 (19.39%) Analytics
6 775 (18.24%) Agile
7 773 (18.19%) DevOps
8 697 (16.40%) Software Engineering
9 669 (15.74%) Mentoring
10 565 (13.29%) Machine Learning
11 490 (11.53%) Data Science
12 484 (11.39%) ETL
13 471 (11.08%) Data Modelling
13 471 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 464 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
15 457 (10.75%) Data Engineering
16 456 (10.73%) Computer Science
17 418 (9.84%) Data Analysis
18 401 (9.44%) Containerisation
19 389 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,705 (40.12%) SQL
2 737 (17.34%) JavaScript
3 590 (13.88%) Java
4 398 (9.36%) Bash
5 352 (8.28%) PowerShell
6 317 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 279 (6.56%) C#
8 233 (5.48%) R
9 219 (5.15%) C++
10 176 (4.14%) Go
11 128 (3.01%) C
12 82 (1.93%) Scala
13 63 (1.48%) PHP
14 62 (1.46%) VBA
15 49 (1.15%) Bicep
15 49 (1.15%) Rust
16 46 (1.08%) MATLAB
17 42 (0.99%) Perl
18 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 806 (18.96%) Degree
2 634 (14.92%) Azure Certification
3 448 (10.54%) Security Cleared
4 369 (8.68%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.26%) SC Cleared
7 249 (5.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 216 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 185 (4.35%) Master's Degree
10 160 (3.76%) DV Cleared
11 118 (2.78%) PhD
12 73 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.41%) CCNP
14 50 (1.18%) CISSP
15 48 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.68%) OSCP
19 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 164 (3.86%) QA
3 108 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.42%) GDPR
5 90 (2.12%) NIST
6 66 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.68%) SLA
9 19 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.33%) PMO
12 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.16%) GRC
16 6 (0.14%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.12%) NCSC
18 4 (0.094%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 523 (12.31%) Docker
2 85 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.71%) Firmware
5 20 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) vSphere
8 11 (0.26%) KVM
9 10 (0.24%) HDFS
9 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.071%) iptables
14 3 (0.071%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.071%) QEMU
14 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 549 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 542 (12.75%) Terraform
3 317 (7.46%) Ansible
4 128 (3.01%) Grafana
5 127 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.44%) Argo
7 23 (0.54%) Kibana
7 23 (0.54%) Puppet
8 20 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.31%) Nagios
11 13 (0.31%) Nessus
11 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.28%) Rancher
13 11 (0.26%) Control-M
13 11 (0.26%) logstash
13 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,159 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.00%) Databricks
3 196 (4.61%) Google
4 128 (3.01%) Oracle
5 101 (2.38%) Cisco
6 95 (2.24%) VMware
7 78 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.65%) SAP
10 60 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.36%) Splunk
12 52 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 48 (1.13%) Informatica
14 44 (1.04%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.01%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.01%) IBM
16 40 (0.94%) Talend
17 39 (0.92%) Alteryx
18 33 (0.78%) Palantir
19 32 (0.75%) Atlassian