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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,053 4,888 7,157
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 12.57% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.84% 38.52% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,468 3,120 5,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 14,130 12,688 27,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.39% 32.62% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 9,165 22,439
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 2,371 £85,000 -5.56% 1,287
North of England -14 1,207 £55,000 -15.38% 484
South East 0 883 £60,000 -7.69% 627
Midlands +16 671 £55,000 - 234
Yorkshire +18 535 £50,000 -23.08% 139
South West +8 529 £57,500 - 218
North West -25 502 £61,418 -5.51% 248
West Midlands +24 385 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England -1 324 £60,000 -9.39% 208
East Midlands +18 286 £55,000 - 120
North East +19 170 £47,500 -26.92% 98
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
1 214 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.20%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 59 (0.97%) WordPress
6 38 (0.63%) Confluence
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.083%) CMS
15 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.083%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,222 (20.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.050%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.017%) Notion
10 1 (0.017%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.017%) Trello
10 1 (0.017%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,877 (47.53%) Azure
2 1,829 (30.22%) AWS
3 1,442 (23.82%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.74%) Azure AI
5 633 (10.46%) GCP
6 532 (8.79%) GitHub
7 298 (4.92%) Serverless
8 228 (3.77%) SaaS
9 211 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 210 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 188 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 177 (2.92%) Snowflake
14 162 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.66%) dbt
16 132 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 93 (1.54%) OpenShift
19 92 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (3.44%) Firewall
2 204 (3.37%) Internet
3 150 (2.48%) Broadband
4 124 (2.05%) DNS
5 116 (1.92%) VPN
6 96 (1.59%) Network Security
7 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 83 (1.37%) WAN
9 76 (1.26%) LAN
10 66 (1.09%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 56 (0.93%) HTTP
13 51 (0.84%) VLAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
15 43 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 35 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.55%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) MPLS
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,395 (23.05%) Power BI
2 1,303 (21.53%) Tableau
3 268 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 145 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.20%) Data Mining
10 127 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 118 (1.95%) MongoDB
12 113 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
13 108 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (1.62%) Big Data
15 89 (1.47%) Metadata
16 75 (1.24%) MySQL
17 65 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (0.93%) DynamoDB
18 56 (0.93%) Spark SQL
19 49 (0.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 665 (10.99%) Git
2 245 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 220 (3.63%) GitLab
4 114 (1.88%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 54 (0.89%) Selenium
8 44 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.61%) Postman
11 28 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.45%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) JUnit
16 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
17 19 (0.31%) Jaeger
18 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
18 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
18 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,340 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (19.28%) Finance
3 799 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (4.21%) Banking
5 247 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 189 (3.12%) Multimedia
8 175 (2.89%) Retail
9 159 (2.63%) Law
10 142 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.20%) Front Office
12 100 (1.65%) Marketing
13 96 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.52%) Legal
15 74 (1.22%) Electronics
16 67 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
18 54 (0.89%) Aerospace
19 52 (0.86%) Financial Institution
20 47 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,420 (23.46%) Analyst
2 1,243 (20.54%) Data Analyst
3 1,033 (17.07%) Junior
4 994 (16.42%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.42%) Junior Data Analyst
5 917 (15.15%) Developer
6 875 (14.46%) Senior
7 566 (9.35%) Software Engineer
8 528 (8.72%) Data Engineer
9 485 (8.01%) Lead
10 453 (7.48%) Python Engineer
11 399 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 389 (6.43%) Python Developer
13 352 (5.82%) Trainee
14 209 (3.45%) Software Developer
15 198 (3.27%) Python Software Engineer
16 177 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
17 175 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
18 160 (2.64%) Senior Developer
19 155 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.33%) React
2 329 (5.44%) HTML
3 290 (4.79%) CSS
4 245 (4.05%) Kafka
5 211 (3.49%) Node.js
6 210 (3.47%) PySpark
7 206 (3.40%) REST
8 189 (3.12%) Django
9 177 (2.92%) RESTful
10 168 (2.78%) .NET
11 165 (2.73%) Pandas
12 164 (2.71%) PyTorch
13 146 (2.41%) FastAPI
14 140 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.10%) scikit-learn
16 124 (2.05%) Flask
17 105 (1.73%) NumPy
18 102 (1.69%) JSON
18 102 (1.69%) LangChain
19 89 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 338 (5.58%) Cloud Native
2 295 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 246 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 125 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 103 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 95 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 88 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 86 (1.42%) Low-Code
11 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
11 84 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 80 (1.32%) Hedge funds
13 79 (1.31%) Equities
13 79 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 77 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 77 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
15 76 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 75 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 583 (9.63%) Linux
2 245 (4.05%) Windows
3 124 (2.05%) Unix
4 69 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 4 (0.066%) Rocky
16 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,515 (41.55%) AI
2 1,492 (24.65%) Business Intelligence
3 1,224 (20.22%) CI/CD
4 1,106 (18.27%) Software Engineering
5 958 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 951 (15.71%) Analytics
7 932 (15.40%) Agile
8 914 (15.10%) DevOps
9 728 (12.03%) Machine Learning
10 720 (11.89%) Mentoring
11 673 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 589 (9.73%) Data Modelling
13 572 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
14 561 (9.27%) Data Engineering
15 554 (9.15%) Data Science
15 554 (9.15%) ETL
16 530 (8.76%) Computer Science
17 516 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 495 (8.18%) Containerisation
19 459 (7.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,481 (40.99%) SQL
2 729 (12.04%) JavaScript
3 662 (10.94%) Java
4 442 (7.30%) PowerShell
5 435 (7.19%) Bash
6 368 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 349 (5.77%) C++
8 334 (5.52%) C#
9 283 (4.68%) Go
10 218 (3.60%) R
11 153 (2.53%) C
12 121 (2.00%) Scala
13 79 (1.31%) Rust
14 67 (1.11%) PHP
14 67 (1.11%) VBA
15 55 (0.91%) Bicep
16 42 (0.69%) Perl
17 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 33 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,554 (25.67%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.77%) Degree
3 527 (8.71%) Security Cleared
4 334 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 306 (5.06%) SC Cleared
6 280 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 245 (4.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 243 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 178 (2.94%) DV Cleared
10 148 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.45%) PhD
12 77 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) CISSP
16 47 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.78%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 106 (1.75%) NIST
5 97 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.099%) Basel III
System Software
1 579 (9.57%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.36%) KVM
8 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.066%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 720 (11.89%) Terraform
2 617 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 346 (5.72%) Ansible
4 196 (3.24%) Grafana
5 154 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.02%) Argo
7 33 (0.55%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.50%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
12 20 (0.33%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
15 15 (0.25%) Packer
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.21%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,898 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 323 (5.34%) Databricks
3 208 (3.44%) Google
4 132 (2.18%) Oracle
5 125 (2.07%) Cisco
6 122 (2.02%) VMware
7 105 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 86 (1.42%) Splunk
10 57 (0.94%) SAP
11 56 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 53 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
14 51 (0.84%) Foundry
15 49 (0.81%) Fortinet
16 47 (0.78%) Informatica
17 45 (0.74%) SolarWinds
17 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
18 41 (0.68%) F5
19 40 (0.66%) Palantir