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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,709 4,825 6,644
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.38% 12.19% 9.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.65% 34.84% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 3,252 5,357
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,875 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.12%

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 11,584 13,850 25,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.17% 34.98% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,475 9,426 21,826
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 9 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 9 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 0 2,098 £82,500 -5.71% 1,298
North of England -7 831 £45,000 -30.77% 582
South East -15 613 £62,500 -7.41% 929
Midlands -6 449 £55,200 +0.36% 315
South West +5 406 £58,497 -10.01% 380
Yorkshire +9 356 £40,000 -38.46% 234
North West -11 352 £55,000 -15.38% 261
West Midlands +4 290 £60,000 +9.09% 144
East of England -23 240 £50,000 -24.51% 395
East Midlands -15 161 £55,000 - 162
North East +16 123 £40,000 -38.46% 94
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
1 188 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.89%) Apache
4 59 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.70%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 19 (0.40%) Appian
9 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.32%) IIS
12 10 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 9 (0.19%) nginx
13 9 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
14 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.085%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.085%) GeoServer
Applications
1 861 (18.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 56 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.085%) Windchill
10 3 (0.064%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.085%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.085%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.042%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.042%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.021%) Actimize
7 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.021%) Primavera
7 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,996 (42.39%) Azure
2 1,616 (34.32%) AWS
3 1,000 (21.24%) Power Platform
4 602 (12.78%) Azure AI
5 542 (11.51%) GitHub
6 510 (10.83%) GCP
7 266 (5.65%) Serverless
8 197 (4.18%) Amazon S3
9 189 (4.01%) SaaS
10 176 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 164 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
12 160 (3.40%) Snowflake
13 149 (3.16%) dbt
14 140 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 118 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 107 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 92 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (5.03%) Internet
2 176 (3.74%) Firewall
3 109 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 101 (2.14%) VPN
5 94 (2.00%) Broadband
6 87 (1.85%) DNS
7 69 (1.47%) WAN
8 64 (1.36%) LAN
9 61 (1.30%) Network Security
10 59 (1.25%) BGP
10 59 (1.25%) Wireless
11 56 (1.19%) VLAN
12 50 (1.06%) HTTP
13 49 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
14 42 (0.89%) OSPF
15 34 (0.72%) MPLS
16 33 (0.70%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 32 (0.68%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 964 (20.47%) Power BI
2 924 (19.62%) Tableau
3 240 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 208 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 167 (3.55%) Data Mining
7 161 (3.42%) NoSQL
8 142 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 118 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 101 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 95 (2.02%) Big Data
12 94 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 94 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 93 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (1.76%) Metadata
15 76 (1.61%) MySQL
16 67 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
17 49 (1.04%) Hadoop
18 43 (0.91%) Delta Lake
19 41 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 606 (12.87%) Git
2 205 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 166 (3.53%) GitLab
4 97 (2.06%) JIRA
5 50 (1.06%) MLflow
5 50 (1.06%) Selenium
5 50 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
6 38 (0.81%) Postman
7 35 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 30 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.57%) JUnit
10 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
11 22 (0.47%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.42%) LabVIEW
13 18 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.36%) JMeter
14 17 (0.36%) Metasploit
14 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,583 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (23.78%) Finance
3 788 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (5.65%) Banking
5 221 (4.69%) Multimedia
6 205 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 193 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 166 (3.53%) Law
9 160 (3.40%) Retail
10 146 (3.10%) Front Office
11 140 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.63%) Marketing
13 110 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.74%) Legal
15 72 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 72 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 72 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.49%) Electronics
17 48 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 39 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,066 (22.64%) Analyst
2 876 (18.60%) Data Analyst
3 792 (16.82%) Developer
4 699 (14.84%) Senior
5 595 (12.64%) Junior
6 567 (12.04%) Junior Analyst
6 567 (12.04%) Junior Data Analyst
7 445 (9.45%) Data Engineer
8 413 (8.77%) Trainee
9 401 (8.52%) Software Engineer
10 363 (7.71%) Lead
11 311 (6.60%) Python Developer
12 285 (6.05%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.16%) Architect
15 143 (3.04%) Senior Developer
16 142 (3.02%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (3.02%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 136 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
18 135 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (7.77%) React
2 361 (7.67%) HTML
3 310 (6.58%) CSS
4 202 (4.29%) Kafka
5 200 (4.25%) Node.js
6 179 (3.80%) Django
7 178 (3.78%) REST
8 159 (3.38%) PySpark
9 147 (3.12%) RESTful
10 136 (2.89%) .NET
11 135 (2.87%) Pandas
12 131 (2.78%) FastAPI
13 130 (2.76%) PyTorch
14 118 (2.51%) TensorFlow
15 110 (2.34%) Flask
16 101 (2.14%) scikit-learn
17 96 (2.04%) JSON
18 88 (1.87%) AngularJS
19 87 (1.85%) NumPy
20 84 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 239 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 233 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 180 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 114 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 108 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.95%) Equities
8 90 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.85%) Fixed Income
10 81 (1.72%) Product Ownership
11 77 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 76 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 74 (1.57%) Hedge funds
14 71 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 68 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
16 63 (1.34%) Derivative
17 61 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.30%) Security Posture
18 60 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 502 (10.66%) Linux
2 207 (4.40%) Windows
3 181 (3.84%) Unix
4 61 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 39 (0.83%) CentOS
6 29 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 23 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.23%) Debian
9 11 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.21%) Android
11 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.13%) VMS
13 5 (0.11%) Solaris
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.085%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.064%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
15 3 (0.064%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,617 (34.34%) AI
2 1,067 (22.66%) Business Intelligence
3 1,042 (22.13%) CI/CD
4 934 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 897 (19.05%) Analytics
6 845 (17.94%) Agile
7 796 (16.90%) Software Engineering
8 790 (16.78%) DevOps
9 680 (14.44%) Mentoring
10 617 (13.10%) Machine Learning
11 523 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 513 (10.89%) Data Science
13 509 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 507 (10.77%) ETL
15 503 (10.68%) Data Modelling
16 468 (9.94%) Data Engineering
17 466 (9.90%) Computer Science
18 447 (9.49%) Containerisation
19 440 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
20 438 (9.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,968 (41.79%) SQL
2 754 (16.01%) JavaScript
3 597 (12.68%) Java
4 388 (8.24%) Bash
5 370 (7.86%) PowerShell
6 326 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 262 (5.56%) C#
8 242 (5.14%) C++
9 229 (4.86%) Go
10 226 (4.80%) R
11 123 (2.61%) C
12 89 (1.89%) Scala
13 72 (1.53%) VBA
14 68 (1.44%) Rust
15 57 (1.21%) PHP
16 43 (0.91%) Bicep
17 38 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.79%) MATLAB
19 36 (0.76%) T-SQL
20 31 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 854 (18.14%) Azure Certification
2 776 (16.48%) Degree
3 457 (9.70%) Security Cleared
4 371 (7.88%) AWS Certification
5 270 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 268 (5.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 268 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 232 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 168 (3.57%) DV Cleared
9 136 (2.89%) Master's Degree
10 88 (1.87%) PhD
11 65 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.21%) CCNP
13 50 (1.06%) CISSP
14 46 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
15 40 (0.85%) OSCP
16 38 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.62%) CREST Certified
19 26 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 176 (3.74%) QA
3 110 (2.34%) GDPR
3 110 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.23%) NIST
5 65 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 42 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 27 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 24 (0.51%) SLA
9 22 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 20 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.42%) PMO
11 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.25%) GRC
14 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.13%) WCAG
16 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 548 (11.64%) Docker
2 91 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.64%) Firmware
5 23 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.34%) KVM
8 14 (0.30%) ProxySG
8 14 (0.30%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Lustre
10 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) iptables
13 4 (0.085%) HDFS
13 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.064%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.042%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 585 (12.42%) Terraform
2 566 (12.02%) Kubernetes
3 312 (6.63%) Ansible
4 154 (3.27%) Grafana
5 143 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.34%) Argo
7 25 (0.53%) Puppet
8 23 (0.49%) Nagios
9 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 19 (0.40%) Kibana
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
13 12 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.25%) Nessus
13 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.23%) logstash
15 10 (0.21%) Istio
15 10 (0.21%) Rancher
15 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,444 (30.66%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.35%) Databricks
3 202 (4.29%) Google
4 141 (2.99%) Oracle
5 110 (2.34%) VMware
6 107 (2.27%) Cisco
7 94 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.51%) SAP
9 68 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 62 (1.32%) Splunk
12 52 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.04%) Informatica
14 43 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.89%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.83%) Alteryx
17 38 (0.81%) Talend
18 36 (0.76%) IBM
19 35 (0.74%) Foundry
19 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft