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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,393 5,054 6,545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.77% 11.56% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.17% 40.25% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 2,821 4,669
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,150 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,857
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 16,747 12,558 21,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.73% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,162 8,379 15,828
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -3 2,654 £85,000 -2.86% 5,092
North of England -11 1,257 £65,500 +0.77% 736
South East +8 921 £60,000 - 826
South West +12 620 £60,000 +9.09% 394
North West -17 599 £66,125 +10.21% 414
Midlands +6 567 £62,250 -4.23% 300
Yorkshire +15 407 £65,500 +0.77% 196
East of England +11 316 £65,000 +18.18% 431
West Midlands -3 305 £62,500 -3.85% 177
East Midlands +20 261 £53,750 -6.52% 122
North East +27 251 £65,000 - 132
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
1 253 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 241 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 191 (2.99%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 54 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.34%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
14 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 705 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.078%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.047%) Magento
8 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.047%) Summit
9 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Endur
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,556 (39.98%) Azure
2 2,053 (32.11%) AWS
3 1,040 (16.27%) Power Platform
4 905 (14.16%) Azure AI
5 773 (12.09%) GCP
6 400 (6.26%) GitHub
7 379 (5.93%) Serverless
8 265 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 246 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 240 (3.75%) Snowflake
11 237 (3.71%) SaaS
12 230 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
13 209 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.22%) dbt
15 183 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 161 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 141 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 131 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
20 121 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (3.57%) Firewall
2 139 (2.17%) Broadband
3 135 (2.11%) DNS
4 128 (2.00%) VPN
5 122 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 109 (1.70%) Network Security
7 97 (1.52%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 57 (0.89%) BGP
12 52 (0.81%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) DHCP
15 42 (0.66%) HTTP
16 41 (0.64%) MQTT
16 41 (0.64%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
19 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 970 (15.17%) Power BI
2 783 (12.25%) Tableau
3 341 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 293 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 139 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.92%) Big Data
12 112 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 112 (1.75%) MySQL
13 110 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
14 105 (1.64%) Metadata
15 89 (1.39%) DynamoDB
16 79 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.11%) Delta Lake
18 70 (1.09%) Looker
19 60 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 711 (11.12%) Git
2 290 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.82%) GitLab
4 169 (2.64%) JIRA
5 62 (0.97%) MLflow
6 61 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 59 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 40 (0.63%) Subversion
10 36 (0.56%) JUnit
11 35 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 34 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,185 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 1,346 (21.05%) Finance
3 866 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (5.21%) Banking
5 331 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 227 (3.55%) Law
8 189 (2.96%) Marketing
9 171 (2.67%) Retail
10 137 (2.14%) Legal
11 122 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 117 (1.83%) Front Office
13 90 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 90 (1.41%) Electronics
14 86 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.25%) Financial Institution
16 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 72 (1.13%) Investment Banking
18 66 (1.03%) Games
19 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,264 (19.77%) Senior
2 923 (14.44%) Analyst
3 865 (13.53%) Developer
4 835 (13.06%) Software Engineer
5 738 (11.54%) Data Analyst
6 665 (10.40%) Python Engineer
7 655 (10.25%) Junior
8 637 (9.96%) Data Engineer
9 616 (9.64%) Lead
10 573 (8.96%) Junior Analyst
11 570 (8.92%) Junior Data Analyst
12 486 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 363 (5.68%) Python Developer
14 301 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 224 (3.50%) Architect
17 214 (3.35%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.14%) Senior Developer
19 188 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
20 183 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.46%) React
2 283 (4.43%) Kafka
3 239 (3.74%) Node.js
4 238 (3.72%) PySpark
5 232 (3.63%) .NET
6 229 (3.58%) REST
7 211 (3.30%) FastAPI
8 209 (3.27%) RESTful
9 194 (3.03%) HTML
10 192 (3.00%) Django
11 186 (2.91%) PyTorch
12 178 (2.78%) CSS
13 177 (2.77%) LangChain
14 158 (2.47%) TensorFlow
15 138 (2.16%) Pandas
16 134 (2.10%) Flask
17 124 (1.94%) scikit-learn
18 114 (1.78%) Spring
18 114 (1.78%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 594 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 338 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 319 (4.99%) Algorithms
4 219 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 156 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 147 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 97 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 81 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 81 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 81 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
11 79 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 77 (1.20%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.19%) Robotics
14 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
14 74 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
15 71 (1.11%) Equities
16 64 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 728 (11.39%) Linux
2 330 (5.16%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.30%) Unix
5 56 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (0.75%) CentOS
7 39 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (0.36%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,732 (42.73%) AI
2 1,632 (25.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,587 (24.82%) CI/CD
4 1,188 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 1,144 (17.89%) Analytics
6 1,127 (17.63%) Agile
7 1,125 (17.60%) Business Intelligence
8 1,092 (17.08%) DevOps
9 1,029 (16.10%) Machine Learning
10 939 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 820 (12.83%) Mentoring
12 750 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
13 741 (11.59%) Data Engineering
14 679 (10.62%) Data Modelling
15 658 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 650 (10.17%) Data Science
17 606 (9.48%) Containerisation
18 591 (9.24%) Computer Science
19 587 (9.18%) Decision-Making
20 576 (9.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,332 (36.48%) SQL
2 813 (12.72%) Java
3 671 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.60%) C++
5 506 (7.91%) PowerShell
6 490 (7.66%) Bash
7 469 (7.34%) C#
8 404 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 270 (4.22%) Go
10 187 (2.93%) C
11 170 (2.66%) R
12 129 (2.02%) Scala
13 102 (1.60%) PHP
14 98 (1.53%) Rust
15 91 (1.42%) Bicep
16 80 (1.25%) Perl
17 74 (1.16%) Ruby
18 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,030 (16.11%) Azure Certification
2 896 (14.02%) Degree
3 794 (12.42%) Security Cleared
4 445 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 323 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 206 (3.22%) Master's Degree
8 180 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 107 (1.67%) PhD
11 94 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 80 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.83%) CCNP
14 52 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 43 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 40 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 38 (0.59%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 27 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (8.10%) Data Quality
2 270 (4.22%) QA
3 152 (2.38%) GDPR
4 109 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 71 (1.11%) NIST
6 57 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 32 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.39%) SLA
10 24 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.25%) GRC
14 14 (0.22%) NCSC
15 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 767 (12.00%) Docker
2 115 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.00%) Firmware
5 45 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 25 (0.39%) KVM
9 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
16 2 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 940 (14.70%) Terraform
2 756 (11.83%) Kubernetes
3 403 (6.30%) Ansible
4 239 (3.74%) Grafana
5 148 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 55 (0.86%) Puppet
7 51 (0.80%) Argo
8 42 (0.66%) Nagios
9 37 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.56%) Kibana
11 31 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 30 (0.47%) Istio
13 29 (0.45%) Packer
14 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.30%) Podman
16 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
17 16 (0.25%) logstash
17 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
19 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,356 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 458 (7.16%) Databricks
3 204 (3.19%) Google
4 152 (2.38%) Splunk
5 146 (2.28%) Oracle
6 137 (2.14%) VMware
7 125 (1.96%) Cisco
8 121 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 121 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.00%) Foundry
11 55 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 45 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 43 (0.67%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
16 39 (0.61%) F5
17 38 (0.59%) SAP
18 35 (0.55%) Palantir
19 33 (0.52%) IBM