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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,007 5,635 5,123
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.69% 11.42% 11.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 33.60% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 3,424 4,017
10th Percentile £30,116 £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 £96,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £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 10,268 16,771 17,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.70% 33.99% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,742 9,916 15,027
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,685 £39,380
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £61,900 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.77% +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 2 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 2 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 1,999 £85,000 - 1,223
North of England -10 640 £52,250 -16.40% 366
South East -37 433 £60,000 -7.69% 637
Midlands -12 372 £60,000 +9.09% 186
South West -5 306 £57,500 -11.54% 249
Yorkshire +11 300 £52,000 -20.00% 139
North West -13 263 £55,000 -8.33% 172
West Midlands -1 261 £60,000 -0.83% 109
East of England -17 209 £50,000 -28.57% 264
East Midlands -30 114 £62,500 +13.64% 76
North East -3 79 £40,000 -38.46% 60
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
1 180 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.19%) Apache
4 45 (1.12%) Confluence
5 35 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
6 26 (0.65%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.47%) nginx
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
11 17 (0.42%) Appian
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 10 (0.25%) CMS
13 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 503 (12.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.100%) MadCap Flare
9 4 (0.100%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.100%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) CATIA
10 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.100%) 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 1,579 (39.41%) Azure
2 1,402 (34.99%) AWS
3 693 (17.29%) Power Platform
4 508 (12.68%) GitHub
5 447 (11.16%) GCP
6 278 (6.94%) Azure AI
7 256 (6.39%) Serverless
8 187 (4.67%) Snowflake
9 182 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 160 (3.99%) dbt
11 157 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
12 156 (3.89%) Amazon S3
13 151 (3.77%) SaaS
14 134 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 134 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 99 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 89 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
17 87 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 85 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 246 (6.14%) Internet
2 151 (3.77%) Firewall
3 88 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 70 (1.75%) WAN
5 69 (1.72%) VPN
6 68 (1.70%) DNS
7 58 (1.45%) LAN
8 43 (1.07%) Wireless
9 42 (1.05%) BGP
10 39 (0.97%) HTTP
10 39 (0.97%) Network Security
11 38 (0.95%) OSPF
12 34 (0.85%) VLAN
13 31 (0.77%) SAN
13 31 (0.77%) SSL
14 30 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
15 28 (0.70%) SD-WAN
16 24 (0.60%) Broadband
17 22 (0.55%) DHCP
18 20 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 653 (16.30%) Power BI
2 555 (13.85%) Tableau
3 277 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
4 238 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 170 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 164 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 138 (3.44%) Data Mining
9 133 (3.32%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.72%) BigQuery
12 104 (2.60%) Big Data
13 93 (2.32%) MySQL
14 83 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 81 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
15 81 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 81 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
16 80 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
17 69 (1.72%) Hadoop
18 64 (1.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 547 (13.65%) Git
2 223 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.44%) GitLab
4 129 (3.22%) JIRA
5 59 (1.47%) Selenium
6 43 (1.07%) MLflow
7 39 (0.97%) JUnit
8 32 (0.80%) Postman
9 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.62%) JMeter
10 24 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 16 (0.40%) Mockito
14 15 (0.37%) LabVIEW
15 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 11 (0.27%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 1,157 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 1,044 (26.05%) Finance
3 610 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (6.24%) Banking
5 231 (5.76%) Multimedia
6 195 (4.87%) Law
7 184 (4.59%) Marketing
8 167 (4.17%) Front Office
9 166 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 134 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 129 (3.22%) Retail
12 111 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 103 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 90 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 82 (2.05%) Electronics
16 76 (1.90%) Investment Banking
17 73 (1.82%) Legal
18 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
19 58 (1.45%) Games
20 53 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 754 (18.82%) Developer
2 687 (17.14%) Analyst
3 659 (16.45%) Senior
4 504 (12.58%) Data Analyst
5 420 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 345 (8.61%) Trainee
7 318 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 301 (7.51%) Python Developer
9 285 (7.11%) Lead
10 263 (6.56%) Junior
11 240 (5.99%) Python Engineer
12 236 (5.89%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.86%) Junior Data Analyst
14 183 (4.57%) Software Developer
15 167 (4.17%) Architect
16 151 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
17 146 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
18 138 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
19 137 (3.42%) Senior Developer
20 134 (3.34%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (9.13%) HTML
2 322 (8.04%) React
3 318 (7.94%) CSS
4 179 (4.47%) Node.js
5 165 (4.12%) REST
6 152 (3.79%) Django
7 151 (3.77%) Kafka
8 147 (3.67%) Pandas
9 140 (3.49%) RESTful
10 135 (3.37%) FastAPI
11 119 (2.97%) PySpark
12 114 (2.85%) .NET
13 111 (2.77%) PyTorch
14 109 (2.72%) AngularJS
15 104 (2.60%) Flask
16 103 (2.57%) NumPy
17 98 (2.45%) TensorFlow
18 93 (2.32%) Vue
19 88 (2.20%) JSON
20 81 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 235 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 207 (5.17%) Algorithms
3 155 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 140 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 140 (3.49%) Equities
5 117 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 112 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 103 (2.57%) Fixed Income
8 95 (2.37%) Hedge funds
9 89 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 84 (2.10%) Derivative
11 79 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 78 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 77 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
14 60 (1.50%) Low-Code
15 58 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 55 (1.37%) AI Agents
17 54 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
18 52 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
19 49 (1.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 496 (12.38%) Linux
2 210 (5.24%) Windows
3 184 (4.59%) Unix
4 71 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.60%) CentOS
8 22 (0.55%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.47%) VMS
11 18 (0.45%) Solaris
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
14 9 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
15 7 (0.17%) zOS
16 6 (0.15%) Android
17 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.100%) Apple iOS
19 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
19 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,105 (27.58%) AI
2 941 (23.48%) CI/CD
3 867 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
4 834 (20.81%) Analytics
5 792 (19.77%) Agile
6 769 (19.19%) DevOps
7 768 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
8 638 (15.92%) Software Engineering
9 635 (15.85%) Mentoring
10 537 (13.40%) Machine Learning
11 496 (12.38%) Data Science
12 468 (11.68%) Data Modelling
13 467 (11.65%) ETL
14 450 (11.23%) Data Pipeline
15 437 (10.91%) Data Engineering
16 420 (10.48%) Computer Science
17 408 (10.18%) Data Analysis
18 405 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 375 (9.36%) Containerisation
20 358 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,647 (41.10%) SQL
2 702 (17.52%) JavaScript
3 601 (15.00%) Java
4 365 (9.11%) Bash
5 330 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 330 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 273 (6.81%) C#
7 246 (6.14%) R
8 198 (4.94%) C++
9 160 (3.99%) Go
10 105 (2.62%) C
11 81 (2.02%) Scala
12 58 (1.45%) PHP
13 52 (1.30%) Perl
14 50 (1.25%) Bicep
15 47 (1.17%) VBA
16 43 (1.07%) MATLAB
17 40 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 40 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 39 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 781 (19.49%) Degree
2 534 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 391 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 339 (8.46%) AWS Certification
5 285 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 238 (5.94%) SC Cleared
7 228 (5.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 200 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 199 (4.97%) Master's Degree
10 149 (3.72%) DV Cleared
11 120 (2.99%) PhD
12 75 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.35%) CCNP
14 53 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
15 50 (1.25%) CISSP
16 42 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.62%) CCNA
20 23 (0.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.77%) QA
3 107 (2.67%) GDPR
4 97 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (1.95%) NIST
6 62 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.90%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) PMO
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.100%) GRC
16 4 (0.100%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 508 (12.68%) Docker
2 80 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 22 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.45%) vSphere
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 8 (0.20%) NFS
9 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
10 7 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.15%) KVM
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 4 (0.100%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.100%) Squid
Systems Management
1 529 (13.20%) Kubernetes
2 477 (11.90%) Terraform
3 299 (7.46%) Ansible
4 123 (3.07%) Grafana
5 113 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.02%) Argo
7 27 (0.67%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (0.32%) Control-M
11 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.22%) Rancher
14 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,021 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.76%) Databricks
3 195 (4.87%) Google
4 132 (3.29%) Oracle
5 109 (2.72%) VMware
6 99 (2.47%) Cisco
7 90 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.85%) Splunk
9 68 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.70%) SAP
10 58 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 51 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 46 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 45 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 45 (1.12%) IBM
14 42 (1.05%) Bloomberg
15 41 (1.02%) Informatica
15 41 (1.02%) Talend
16 32 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 29 (0.72%) Atlassian