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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,030 5,127 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.29% 12.98% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.92% 40.48% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 2,858 5,866
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,104 12,667 28,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 32.08% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,873 8,486 23,073
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 June 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 14 June 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 2,412 £85,000 -5.56% 890
North of England -11 1,235 £61,418 -5.51% 378
South East +2 875 £60,000 -4.00% 528
Midlands +26 630 £60,000 +9.09% 155
North West -15 576 £65,000 - 209
South West +5 523 £58,497 +1.78% 160
Yorkshire +8 461 £62,500 -3.85% 113
West Midlands +18 331 £60,000 +6.67% 87
East Midlands +29 299 £55,000 +14.58% 67
East of England -1 291 £70,000 +5.73% 141
North East +25 198 £55,000 -12.00% 57
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
1 221 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 154 (2.55%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 51 (0.85%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.22%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.100%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 927 (15.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,634 (43.68%) Azure
2 1,901 (31.53%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.78%) Power Platform
4 1,078 (17.88%) Azure AI
5 677 (11.23%) GCP
6 426 (7.06%) GitHub
7 328 (5.44%) Serverless
8 240 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.86%) SaaS
10 216 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
11 209 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.75%) dbt
14 161 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 154 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 145 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
17 119 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 109 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
19 99 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (3.83%) Firewall
2 192 (3.18%) Broadband
3 131 (2.17%) VPN
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
5 111 (1.84%) Internet
6 107 (1.77%) Network Security
7 102 (1.69%) WAN
8 95 (1.58%) TCP/IP
9 86 (1.43%) LAN
10 79 (1.31%) Wireless
11 66 (1.09%) BGP
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
12 54 (0.90%) SD-WAN
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 48 (0.80%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.50%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,135 (18.82%) Power BI
2 1,006 (16.68%) Tableau
3 284 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 173 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 138 (2.29%) BigQuery
11 115 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 106 (1.76%) Big Data
14 90 (1.49%) Metadata
15 82 (1.36%) Data Mining
16 79 (1.31%) MySQL
17 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
20 55 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 637 (10.56%) Git
2 261 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 235 (3.90%) GitLab
4 145 (2.40%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.95%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.32%) JMeter
15 19 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,119 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (19.60%) Finance
3 823 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.36%) Banking
6 212 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.05%) Retail
8 157 (2.60%) Law
9 129 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.07%) Front Office
11 104 (1.72%) Legal
12 97 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 94 (1.56%) Marketing
14 87 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.21%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.03%) Games
19 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
20 54 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,149 (19.05%) Analyst
2 1,022 (16.95%) Senior
3 974 (16.15%) Data Analyst
4 917 (15.21%) Developer
5 807 (13.38%) Junior
6 759 (12.59%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.59%) Junior Data Analyst
7 666 (11.04%) Software Engineer
8 563 (9.34%) Data Engineer
9 524 (8.69%) Python Engineer
10 514 (8.52%) Lead
11 450 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 380 (6.30%) Python Developer
13 238 (3.95%) Python Software Engineer
14 213 (3.53%) Trainee
15 187 (3.10%) Architect
16 186 (3.08%) Data Scientist
17 184 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
18 182 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
19 181 (3.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.35%) React
2 260 (4.31%) Kafka
3 228 (3.78%) HTML
4 227 (3.76%) Node.js
5 222 (3.68%) PySpark
6 212 (3.52%) REST
7 211 (3.50%) CSS
8 196 (3.25%) .NET
9 185 (3.07%) RESTful
10 173 (2.87%) PyTorch
11 170 (2.82%) Django
11 170 (2.82%) FastAPI
12 154 (2.55%) Pandas
13 146 (2.42%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.27%) LangChain
15 125 (2.07%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.76%) NumPy
18 98 (1.63%) JSON
19 97 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 452 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 322 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 294 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 185 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 146 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 129 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
10 97 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 80 (1.33%) Equities
16 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 73 (1.21%) Hedge funds
18 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
19 66 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 631 (10.46%) Linux
2 268 (4.44%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 37 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.30%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,514 (41.69%) AI
2 1,347 (22.34%) CI/CD
3 1,300 (21.56%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1,032 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1,011 (16.77%) Agile
7 982 (16.29%) Analytics
8 958 (15.89%) DevOps
9 851 (14.11%) Machine Learning
10 776 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (12.29%) Mentoring
12 611 (10.13%) Data Modelling
13 604 (10.02%) Data Engineering
14 603 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
15 594 (9.85%) Data Science
16 538 (8.92%) Computer Science
17 526 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 523 (8.67%) Full-Stack Development
19 522 (8.66%) Containerisation
20 509 (8.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,322 (38.51%) SQL
2 674 (11.18%) Java
3 670 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 483 (8.01%) PowerShell
5 462 (7.66%) Bash
6 439 (7.28%) C++
7 392 (6.50%) C#
8 382 (6.33%) TypeScript
9 287 (4.76%) Go
10 188 (3.12%) R
11 161 (2.67%) C
12 125 (2.07%) Scala
13 87 (1.44%) Rust
14 79 (1.31%) PHP
15 65 (1.08%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 53 (0.88%) VBA
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,240 (20.56%) Azure Certification
2 777 (12.89%) Degree
3 618 (10.25%) Security Cleared
4 371 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 284 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 242 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 198 (3.28%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 156 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 153 (2.54%) Master's Degree
10 86 (1.43%) PhD
11 82 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 65 (1.08%) CCNP
13 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 49 (0.81%) OSCP
15 38 (0.63%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 33 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 26 (0.43%) CCIE
19 25 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.83%) QA
3 125 (2.07%) GDPR
4 89 (1.48%) NIST
5 74 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 17 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 630 (10.45%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
16 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 816 (13.53%) Terraform
2 647 (10.73%) Kubernetes
3 357 (5.92%) Ansible
4 215 (3.57%) Grafana
5 174 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 29 (0.48%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 25 (0.41%) Istio
13 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
16 19 (0.32%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.25%) Podman
18 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,585 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 347 (5.75%) Databricks
3 203 (3.37%) Google
4 132 (2.19%) VMware
5 125 (2.07%) Oracle
5 125 (2.07%) Splunk
6 124 (2.06%) Cisco
7 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 99 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 60 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 57 (0.95%) Foundry
10 57 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
14 44 (0.73%) Fortinet
15 41 (0.68%) F5
15 41 (0.68%) SAP
16 36 (0.60%) Palantir
17 31 (0.51%) Arista