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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,038 4,853 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.94% 11.23% 9.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.86% 41.03% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 2,676 4,309
10th Percentile £43,799 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £133,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 16,837 11,828 21,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.56% 27.37% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,285 7,816 13,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 18 September 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 18 September 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 2,514 £85,000 -5.56% 6,269
North of England -17 1,159 £67,500 +9.76% 964
South East +10 868 £62,500 +4.17% 1,147
South West +11 599 £62,500 +11.61% 546
North West -21 574 £67,500 +12.50% 519
Midlands -1 531 £61,450 -1.68% 461
Yorkshire +9 339 £68,000 +4.62% 315
East of England +8 315 £65,000 +15.56% 623
West Midlands -13 287 £65,000 +7.88% 256
North East +17 247 £66,805 +40.64% 133
East Midlands +15 242 £52,500 -19.23% 205
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
1 216 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 170 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.73%) Apache
4 73 (1.21%) Confluence
5 39 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 27 (0.45%) SAS
8 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) IIS
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 443 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.38%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.033%) Revit
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,279 (37.74%) Azure
2 1,865 (30.89%) AWS
3 831 (13.76%) Power Platform
4 720 (11.92%) GCP
5 676 (11.20%) Azure AI
6 369 (6.11%) GitHub
7 361 (5.98%) Serverless
8 255 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 235 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 228 (3.78%) Amazon S3
11 222 (3.68%) SaaS
12 217 (3.59%) Snowflake
13 209 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 181 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
16 176 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
17 173 (2.87%) dbt
18 135 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 211 (3.49%) Firewall
2 147 (2.43%) DNS
3 133 (2.20%) VPN
4 131 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 98 (1.62%) Network Security
6 94 (1.56%) WAN
7 80 (1.32%) Wireless
8 76 (1.26%) Broadband
9 67 (1.11%) LAN
10 62 (1.03%) DHCP
11 59 (0.98%) BGP
12 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.76%) VLAN
14 45 (0.75%) MQTT
15 43 (0.71%) OSPF
16 37 (0.61%) HTTP
17 36 (0.60%) SSL
18 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.40%) 5G
19 24 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (12.55%) Power BI
2 481 (7.97%) Tableau
3 334 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 278 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 206 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 181 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 146 (2.42%) Relational Database
10 126 (2.09%) Big Data
11 120 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 110 (1.82%) MySQL
13 105 (1.74%) Metadata
14 101 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
15 92 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
17 78 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
18 75 (1.24%) Delta Lake
19 73 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 669 (11.08%) Git
2 310 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 249 (4.12%) GitLab
4 174 (2.88%) JIRA
5 68 (1.13%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.86%) Subversion
7 51 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 49 (0.81%) Selenium
9 48 (0.79%) MLflow
10 39 (0.65%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.63%) JUnit
12 36 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 24 (0.40%) Maven
18 22 (0.36%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 1,993 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 1,279 (21.18%) Finance
3 804 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 346 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (5.17%) Banking
6 258 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 218 (3.61%) Law
8 194 (3.21%) Marketing
9 162 (2.68%) Retail
10 130 (2.15%) Legal
11 110 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 102 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 101 (1.67%) Front Office
14 98 (1.62%) Electronics
15 84 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 59 (0.98%) Games
19 47 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,245 (20.62%) Senior
2 860 (14.24%) Software Engineer
3 834 (13.81%) Developer
4 693 (11.48%) Python Engineer
5 659 (10.91%) Analyst
6 623 (10.32%) Data Engineer
7 598 (9.90%) Lead
8 523 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 481 (7.97%) Data Analyst
10 413 (6.84%) Junior
11 357 (5.91%) Python Developer
12 335 (5.55%) Junior Analyst
13 334 (5.53%) Python Software Engineer
14 331 (5.48%) Junior Data Analyst
15 252 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 219 (3.63%) Data Scientist
17 216 (3.58%) Architect
18 200 (3.31%) Senior Developer
19 195 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
20 188 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 956 (15.83%) Terraform
2 398 (6.59%) React
3 234 (3.88%) .NET
3 234 (3.88%) Kafka
3 234 (3.88%) REST
4 229 (3.79%) PySpark
5 228 (3.78%) Node.js
6 209 (3.46%) FastAPI
7 208 (3.44%) RESTful
8 178 (2.95%) Django
8 178 (2.95%) LangChain
9 169 (2.80%) PyTorch
10 145 (2.40%) HTML
10 145 (2.40%) TensorFlow
11 129 (2.14%) CSS
12 126 (2.09%) Flask
13 120 (1.99%) Spring
13 120 (1.99%) Spring Boot
14 101 (1.67%) Pandas
15 97 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 597 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 310 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 287 (4.75%) Algorithms
4 246 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 215 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 152 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 92 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 87 (1.44%) Robotics
10 86 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 84 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
12 83 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 79 (1.31%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 77 (1.28%) Public Cloud
15 76 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 71 (1.18%) Low-Code
17 65 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
18 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 707 (11.71%) Linux
2 325 (5.38%) Windows
3 86 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.34%) Unix
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.73%) CentOS
7 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.41%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.26%) Rocky
13 14 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 12 (0.20%) Solaris
16 11 (0.18%) Android
17 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,527 (41.85%) AI
2 1,674 (27.72%) Software Engineering
3 1,602 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 1,198 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
5 1,107 (18.33%) DevOps
6 1,098 (18.18%) Analytics
7 1,082 (17.92%) Agile
8 1,004 (16.63%) Machine Learning
9 955 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 921 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
11 800 (13.25%) Mentoring
12 734 (12.16%) Data Engineering
13 723 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
14 666 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 644 (10.67%) Data Modelling
16 622 (10.30%) Data Science
17 613 (10.15%) Decision-Making
18 593 (9.82%) Computer Science
19 580 (9.61%) Containerisation
20 574 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,068 (34.25%) SQL
2 818 (13.55%) Java
3 599 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 572 (9.47%) C++
5 520 (8.61%) Bash
6 495 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 485 (8.03%) C#
8 402 (6.66%) TypeScript
9 250 (4.14%) Go
10 200 (3.31%) C
11 136 (2.25%) R
12 115 (1.90%) Scala
13 96 (1.59%) Bicep
14 95 (1.57%) Rust
15 93 (1.54%) PHP
16 86 (1.42%) Perl
17 81 (1.34%) MATLAB
18 74 (1.23%) Ruby
19 69 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 53 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 923 (15.29%) Degree
2 858 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 751 (12.44%) Azure Certification
4 489 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 317 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 273 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.97%) PhD
9 112 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 79 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 47 (0.78%) CCNP
13 47 (0.78%) CISSP
14 43 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 37 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (0.55%) CCNA
17 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 28 (0.46%) OSCP
19 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 256 (4.24%) QA
3 136 (2.25%) GDPR
4 106 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 61 (1.01%) NIST
6 53 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 25 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.35%) NCSC
11 19 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 15 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.22%) GRC
15 13 (0.22%) PMO
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 764 (12.65%) Docker
2 115 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.08%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.28%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 778 (12.89%) Kubernetes
2 411 (6.81%) Ansible
3 233 (3.86%) Grafana
4 155 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 65 (1.08%) Puppet
6 59 (0.98%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.65%) Kibana
9 32 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.46%) Istio
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.36%) Podman
13 22 (0.36%) Rancher
14 19 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.30%) logstash
15 18 (0.30%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,065 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 445 (7.37%) Databricks
3 213 (3.53%) Google
4 153 (2.53%) Splunk
5 121 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 120 (1.99%) VMware
7 118 (1.95%) Oracle
8 111 (1.84%) Cisco
9 95 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 50 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 50 (0.83%) Foundry
12 45 (0.75%) Palo Alto
13 40 (0.66%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.65%) Fortinet
15 37 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 35 (0.58%) SAP
17 31 (0.51%) F5
17 31 (0.51%) Informatica
18 30 (0.50%) New Relic