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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,418 5,119 6,534
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.82% 11.72% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.30% 40.25% 30.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 2,840 4,662
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,137
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.21% +2.26%

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 16,755 12,719 21,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 29.13% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,169 8,481 15,921
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
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 11 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 11 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 2,648 £85,000 -5.56% 3,042
North of England -12 1,269 £65,000 - 565
South East +4 928 £60,000 - 655
South West +11 619 £60,000 +9.09% 309
North West -16 607 £65,500 +9.17% 303
Midlands +8 581 £62,000 -2.36% 236
Yorkshire +12 414 £65,860 +1.32% 165
East of England +7 315 £65,000 +15.56% 297
West Midlands 0 309 £62,500 -3.85% 134
East Midlands +22 271 £52,500 -6.67% 102
North East +26 248 £62,500 -3.85% 102
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
1 250 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 240 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.90%) Apache
4 65 (1.01%) Confluence
5 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.37%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.093%) Camunda
15 6 (0.093%) JBoss
16 4 (0.062%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.062%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 764 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.093%) 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 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.093%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.093%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.062%) Line 50
5 4 (0.062%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,587 (40.31%) Azure
2 2,062 (32.13%) AWS
3 1,084 (16.89%) Power Platform
4 947 (14.76%) Azure AI
5 781 (12.17%) GCP
6 395 (6.15%) GitHub
7 373 (5.81%) Serverless
8 260 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 238 (3.71%) Snowflake
11 234 (3.65%) SaaS
12 226 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
13 205 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 203 (3.16%) dbt
15 172 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 161 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
17 155 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
18 135 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 128 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
20 119 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.58%) Firewall
2 147 (2.29%) Broadband
3 136 (2.12%) DNS
4 127 (1.98%) VPN
5 125 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 110 (1.71%) Network Security
7 94 (1.46%) WAN
8 78 (1.22%) Wireless
9 73 (1.14%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 54 (0.84%) BGP
12 49 (0.76%) VLAN
13 45 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) HTTP
15 43 (0.67%) DHCP
16 40 (0.62%) MQTT
17 38 (0.59%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
20 25 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,015 (15.81%) Power BI
2 840 (13.09%) Tableau
3 335 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 294 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 165 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.23%) MongoDB
10 140 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 121 (1.89%) Big Data
12 113 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 111 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.71%) MySQL
15 103 (1.60%) Metadata
16 85 (1.32%) DynamoDB
17 80 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.12%) Looker
19 70 (1.09%) Delta Lake
20 59 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 696 (10.84%) Git
2 285 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.76%) GitLab
4 168 (2.62%) JIRA
5 72 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 59 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 38 (0.59%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 35 (0.55%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
15 24 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,200 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 1,355 (21.11%) Finance
3 862 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 330 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (5.06%) Banking
6 238 (3.71%) Public Sector
7 225 (3.51%) Law
8 183 (2.85%) Retail
9 178 (2.77%) Marketing
10 134 (2.09%) Legal
11 131 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 127 (1.98%) Front Office
13 90 (1.40%) Electronics
14 88 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 87 (1.36%) Aerospace
16 81 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 79 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 70 (1.09%) Investment Banking
19 66 (1.03%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,258 (19.60%) Senior
2 973 (15.16%) Analyst
3 881 (13.73%) Developer
4 840 (13.09%) Software Engineer
5 793 (12.36%) Data Analyst
6 700 (10.91%) Junior
7 668 (10.41%) Python Engineer
8 632 (9.85%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.66%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.61%) Junior Data Analyst
11 615 (9.58%) Lead
12 478 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 367 (5.72%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 245 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 219 (3.41%) Architect
17 213 (3.32%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.13%) Senior Developer
19 183 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (6.42%) React
2 287 (4.47%) Kafka
3 244 (3.80%) Node.js
4 233 (3.63%) PySpark
5 228 (3.55%) .NET
6 225 (3.51%) REST
7 205 (3.19%) FastAPI
7 205 (3.19%) RESTful
8 194 (3.02%) Django
9 193 (3.01%) HTML
10 182 (2.84%) PyTorch
11 176 (2.74%) CSS
12 172 (2.68%) LangChain
13 154 (2.40%) TensorFlow
14 151 (2.35%) Pandas
15 134 (2.09%) Flask
16 132 (2.06%) scikit-learn
17 113 (1.76%) Spring
18 112 (1.75%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 580 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 350 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 328 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 212 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 158 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 138 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 89 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
10 85 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 81 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 78 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 78 (1.22%) Hedge funds
12 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 77 (1.20%) Equities
14 76 (1.18%) Fixed Income
15 74 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
15 74 (1.15%) Robotics
16 69 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 728 (11.34%) Linux
2 331 (5.16%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.39%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.72%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.17%) Rocky
14 10 (0.16%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,755 (42.93%) AI
2 1,630 (25.40%) Software Engineering
3 1,566 (24.40%) CI/CD
4 1,174 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1,166 (18.17%) Business Intelligence
6 1,134 (17.67%) Agile
7 1,129 (17.59%) Analytics
8 1,077 (16.78%) DevOps
9 1,019 (15.88%) Machine Learning
10 915 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 812 (12.65%) Mentoring
12 742 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
13 732 (11.41%) Data Engineering
14 671 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 652 (10.16%) Data Science
16 640 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 610 (9.50%) Containerisation
18 582 (9.07%) Computer Science
19 576 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
20 575 (8.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,367 (36.88%) SQL
2 813 (12.67%) Java
3 674 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 551 (8.59%) C++
5 505 (7.87%) PowerShell
6 480 (7.48%) Bash
7 462 (7.20%) C#
8 408 (6.36%) TypeScript
9 280 (4.36%) Go
10 187 (2.91%) C
11 172 (2.68%) R
12 134 (2.09%) Scala
13 101 (1.57%) PHP
14 100 (1.56%) Rust
15 88 (1.37%) Bicep
16 77 (1.20%) Perl
17 73 (1.14%) Ruby
18 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 49 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,074 (16.73%) Azure Certification
2 886 (13.80%) Degree
3 777 (12.11%) Security Cleared
4 438 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 319 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 260 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 201 (3.13%) Master's Degree
8 192 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 116 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 103 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 100 (1.56%) PhD
12 79 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 52 (0.81%) CCNP
14 43 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 39 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 38 (0.59%) CISSP
17 36 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.48%) OSCP
19 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 263 (4.10%) QA
3 150 (2.34%) GDPR
4 106 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.12%) NIST
6 62 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.37%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.28%) GRC
14 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.20%) NCSC
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.12%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 760 (11.84%) Docker
2 112 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 112 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (1.00%) Firmware
4 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.42%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.12%) Squid
11 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.062%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 2 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 915 (14.26%) Terraform
2 742 (11.56%) Kubernetes
3 389 (6.06%) Ansible
4 238 (3.71%) Grafana
5 148 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 51 (0.79%) Puppet
7 49 (0.76%) Argo
8 42 (0.65%) Nagios
9 36 (0.56%) Kibana
10 35 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 28 (0.44%) Istio
14 24 (0.37%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 18 (0.28%) Podman
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,406 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 446 (6.95%) Databricks
3 202 (3.15%) Google
4 152 (2.37%) Splunk
5 144 (2.24%) Oracle
6 138 (2.15%) VMware
7 121 (1.89%) Cisco
8 119 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 117 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 73 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.95%) Foundry
12 55 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 42 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 40 (0.62%) F5
16 40 (0.62%) Fortinet
17 38 (0.59%) SAP
18 35 (0.55%) Typelevel
19 34 (0.53%) Palantir