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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,271 4,470 6,780
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.61% 12.24% 8.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.06% 35.62% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,217 3,225 5,386
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £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% -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 12,531 12,548 26,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.10% 34.37% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,035 9,321 22,109
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,276 £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 £85,000 £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 28 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 28 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 2,254 £83,250 -7.50% 1,152
North of England -3 971 £47,500 -26.92% 475
South East -11 722 £60,000 -8.40% 576
Midlands +5 522 £55,000 - 255
South West +3 450 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +9 426 £45,000 -29.69% 164
North West -8 403 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +22 324 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -19 284 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -7 199 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 142 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 204 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 131 (2.49%) Apache
4 68 (1.29%) WordPress
5 62 (1.18%) Jupyter
6 35 (0.66%) Confluence
7 33 (0.63%) SAS
8 32 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.32%) Appian
12 14 (0.27%) IIS
12 14 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.095%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.076%) Apache Solr
18 4 (0.076%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,040 (19.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.076%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.076%) CATIA
8 4 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.076%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.076%) Windchill
9 2 (0.038%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.038%) Weka
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Houdini
10 1 (0.019%) Notion
10 1 (0.019%) NUKE
10 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.095%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.095%) Shopify
3 5 (0.095%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.057%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.038%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.038%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.019%) Actimize
6 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Findur
6 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.019%) Primavera
6 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,390 (45.34%) Azure
2 1,775 (33.67%) AWS
3 1,203 (22.82%) Power Platform
4 841 (15.96%) Azure AI
5 602 (11.42%) GitHub
6 590 (11.19%) GCP
7 281 (5.33%) Serverless
8 203 (3.85%) SaaS
9 202 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 187 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
11 179 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
12 172 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (3.17%) dbt
14 163 (3.09%) Snowflake
15 160 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 122 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 120 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 105 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
19 92 (1.75%) OpenShift
20 90 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.16%) Internet
2 185 (3.51%) Firewall
3 140 (2.66%) Broadband
4 110 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.94%) VPN
6 97 (1.84%) DNS
7 74 (1.40%) Network Security
8 71 (1.35%) WAN
9 68 (1.29%) LAN
10 63 (1.20%) BGP
11 62 (1.18%) Wireless
12 57 (1.08%) VLAN
13 50 (0.95%) HTTP
14 44 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.82%) OSPF
16 38 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (0.63%) MPLS
17 33 (0.63%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.59%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,165 (22.10%) Power BI
2 1,132 (21.48%) Tableau
3 268 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 202 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.23%) Data Mining
7 167 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 105 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 93 (1.76%) Big Data
15 86 (1.63%) Metadata
16 80 (1.52%) MySQL
17 73 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (0.97%) Looker
19 48 (0.91%) Delta Lake
20 46 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 672 (12.75%) Git
2 214 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.38%) GitLab
4 106 (2.01%) JIRA
5 64 (1.21%) MLflow
6 59 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 56 (1.06%) Selenium
8 37 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.70%) Postman
9 34 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.47%) JUnit
11 22 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 21 (0.40%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.40%) JMeter
13 20 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.32%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 1,855 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 1,176 (22.31%) Finance
3 842 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (5.16%) Banking
5 260 (4.93%) Multimedia
6 214 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 204 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 170 (3.23%) Retail
9 167 (3.17%) Law
10 150 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.58%) Front Office
12 121 (2.30%) Marketing
13 107 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.67%) Legal
15 74 (1.40%) Electronics
16 73 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 71 (1.35%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.18%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.83%) Games
19 44 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,245 (23.62%) Analyst
2 1,060 (20.11%) Data Analyst
3 863 (16.37%) Developer
4 792 (15.03%) Junior
5 759 (14.40%) Senior
6 757 (14.36%) Junior Analyst
6 757 (14.36%) Junior Data Analyst
7 485 (9.20%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.63%) Trainee
9 444 (8.42%) Software Engineer
10 410 (7.78%) Lead
11 346 (6.56%) Python Developer
12 333 (6.32%) Python Engineer
13 220 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 159 (3.02%) Architect
15 151 (2.86%) Senior Developer
16 147 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
17 145 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
18 144 (2.73%) Trainee Analyst
18 144 (2.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (7.74%) HTML
2 376 (7.13%) React
3 361 (6.85%) CSS
4 234 (4.44%) Kafka
5 210 (3.98%) Node.js
6 200 (3.79%) Django
7 191 (3.62%) REST
8 177 (3.36%) PySpark
9 162 (3.07%) RESTful
10 156 (2.96%) PyTorch
11 146 (2.77%) .NET
12 143 (2.71%) Pandas
13 137 (2.60%) FastAPI
14 135 (2.56%) TensorFlow
15 126 (2.39%) scikit-learn
16 125 (2.37%) Flask
17 99 (1.88%) JSON
18 93 (1.76%) NumPy
19 84 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
20 81 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 282 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 251 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 211 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 118 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 106 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 103 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 89 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 86 (1.63%) Equities
10 85 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 85 (1.61%) Fixed Income
11 82 (1.56%) Low-Code
12 79 (1.50%) Hedge funds
13 78 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 72 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
16 71 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
17 69 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
18 68 (1.29%) AI Agents
19 66 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 551 (10.45%) Linux
2 220 (4.17%) Windows
3 180 (3.41%) Unix
4 68 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.76%) CentOS
7 29 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.23%) Debian
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Android
11 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Solaris
12 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.076%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.057%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.057%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,936 (36.73%) AI
2 1,276 (24.21%) Business Intelligence
3 1,122 (21.29%) CI/CD
4 995 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 956 (18.14%) Analytics
6 892 (16.92%) Agile
7 889 (16.87%) Software Engineering
8 839 (15.92%) DevOps
9 736 (13.96%) Mentoring
10 696 (13.20%) Machine Learning
11 570 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 563 (10.68%) Data Modelling
13 553 (10.49%) Data Science
14 539 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
15 536 (10.17%) ETL
16 504 (9.56%) Data Engineering
17 492 (9.33%) Computer Science
18 487 (9.24%) Containerisation
18 487 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 432 (8.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,243 (42.55%) SQL
2 802 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 604 (11.46%) Java
4 402 (7.63%) Bash
5 392 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 328 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 290 (5.50%) C#
8 269 (5.10%) C++
8 269 (5.10%) Go
9 264 (5.01%) R
10 133 (2.52%) C
11 110 (2.09%) Scala
12 72 (1.37%) Rust
13 70 (1.33%) VBA
14 67 (1.27%) PHP
15 44 (0.83%) Bicep
16 42 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 38 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.70%) Perl
19 30 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,137 (21.57%) Azure Certification
2 783 (14.85%) Degree
3 442 (8.39%) Security Cleared
4 412 (7.82%) AWS Certification
5 313 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 305 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 264 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 250 (4.74%) SC Cleared
9 170 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 132 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.69%) PhD
12 67 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.06%) CCNP
14 51 (0.97%) CISSP
15 44 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
15 44 (0.83%) OSCP
16 37 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 30 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.55%) DBS Check
19 27 (0.51%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 206 (3.91%) QA
3 125 (2.37%) GDPR
4 113 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.05%) NIST
6 61 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.47%) PMO
11 22 (0.42%) SLA
12 21 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.34%) GRC
14 17 (0.32%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.15%) WCAG
17 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 582 (11.04%) Docker
2 95 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.65%) Firmware
5 33 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.38%) KVM
8 16 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.095%) iptables
12 5 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.057%) HDFS
14 3 (0.057%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 642 (12.18%) Terraform
2 592 (11.23%) Kubernetes
3 328 (6.22%) Ansible
4 176 (3.34%) Grafana
5 147 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.14%) Argo
7 28 (0.53%) Nagios
8 23 (0.44%) Puppet
9 20 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.34%) Kibana
12 17 (0.32%) Istio
13 12 (0.23%) Nessus
13 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.21%) Control-M
14 11 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.21%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,708 (32.40%) Microsoft
2 301 (5.71%) Databricks
3 204 (3.87%) Google
4 143 (2.71%) Oracle
5 118 (2.24%) Cisco
5 118 (2.24%) VMware
6 100 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.40%) SAP
8 69 (1.31%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.31%) Splunk
9 63 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 57 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 49 (0.93%) Informatica
12 48 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 45 (0.85%) Typelevel
14 44 (0.83%) Dell
14 44 (0.83%) Foundry
15 41 (0.78%) Bloomberg
15 41 (0.78%) Palo Alto
15 41 (0.78%) Talend