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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,419 5,248 6,413
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.81% 9.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.90% 34.21% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,901 3,193 5,135
10th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,250 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.33% +11.11% -4.93%

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 11,074 15,341 24,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.67% 34.52% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8,230 9,165 20,743
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -2 2,021 £82,500 -5.71% 922
North of England -9 783 £47,500 -26.92% 415
South East -22 542 £60,000 -14.29% 658
Midlands -11 411 £55,000 - 223
South West -4 368 £60,000 -7.69% 234
Yorkshire +6 340 £42,250 -35.00% 147
North West -16 329 £55,000 -12.00% 215
West Midlands +5 266 £55,000 - 108
East of England -25 225 £50,000 -24.52% 211
East Midlands -15 148 £55,000 - 115
North East +12 114 £40,000 -38.46% 54
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
1 158 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.60%) Apache
4 41 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 37 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.72%) SAS
7 29 (0.66%) Confluence
8 27 (0.61%) WordPress
9 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.43%) Appian
11 18 (0.41%) IIS
11 18 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.32%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.20%) nginx
17 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 713 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.23%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.091%) Windchill
10 3 (0.068%) CATIA
10 3 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.045%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.045%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.045%) Weka
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.091%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.045%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,832 (41.46%) Azure
2 1,525 (34.51%) AWS
3 859 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 552 (12.49%) GitHub
5 478 (10.82%) GCP
6 464 (10.50%) Azure AI
7 257 (5.82%) Serverless
8 187 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 167 (3.78%) SaaS
10 165 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 155 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 152 (3.44%) Snowflake
14 138 (3.12%) dbt
15 136 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 118 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
19 79 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 71 (1.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.82%) Internet
2 167 (3.78%) Firewall
3 102 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 94 (2.13%) VPN
5 75 (1.70%) DNS
6 72 (1.63%) WAN
7 68 (1.54%) Broadband
8 62 (1.40%) LAN
9 59 (1.34%) BGP
10 57 (1.29%) Wireless
11 56 (1.27%) Network Security
12 51 (1.15%) VLAN
13 50 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
14 42 (0.95%) HTTP
14 42 (0.95%) OSPF
15 34 (0.77%) MPLS
15 34 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.70%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.59%) DHCP
17 26 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 819 (18.53%) Power BI
2 754 (17.06%) Tableau
3 241 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 213 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 171 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 165 (3.73%) Data Mining
8 149 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 117 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 109 (2.47%) Big Data
10 109 (2.47%) MongoDB
11 87 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 86 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
13 85 (1.92%) MySQL
14 71 (1.61%) Metadata
15 69 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
16 65 (1.47%) Hadoop
17 47 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 46 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (13.10%) Git
2 213 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 155 (3.51%) GitLab
4 105 (2.38%) JIRA
5 57 (1.29%) Selenium
6 45 (1.02%) MLflow
7 40 (0.91%) Postman
8 31 (0.70%) JUnit
8 31 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 29 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 28 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.45%) JMeter
13 19 (0.43%) LabVIEW
14 18 (0.41%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.38%) Subversion
16 15 (0.34%) Metasploit
17 14 (0.32%) Burp Suite
17 14 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 1,421 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 1,084 (24.53%) Finance
3 727 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.45%) Multimedia
5 237 (5.36%) Banking
6 187 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 183 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 171 (3.87%) Law
9 141 (3.19%) Front Office
10 131 (2.96%) Retail
11 124 (2.81%) Marketing
12 121 (2.74%) Manufacturing
13 111 (2.51%) Telecoms
14 81 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 74 (1.67%) Electronics
16 73 (1.65%) Legal
17 62 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 50 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
19 47 (1.06%) Games
19 47 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 885 (20.03%) Analyst
2 803 (18.17%) Developer
3 724 (16.38%) Data Analyst
4 667 (15.09%) Senior
5 446 (10.09%) Junior
6 432 (9.78%) Data Engineer
7 424 (9.59%) Junior Analyst
7 424 (9.59%) Junior Data Analyst
8 410 (9.28%) Trainee
9 363 (8.21%) Software Engineer
10 339 (7.67%) Lead
11 314 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 258 (5.84%) Python Engineer
13 200 (4.53%) Software Developer
14 147 (3.33%) Architect
15 143 (3.24%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.05%) Trainee Analyst
16 135 (3.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 131 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
18 127 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (8.76%) HTML
2 358 (8.10%) React
3 341 (7.72%) CSS
4 191 (4.32%) Node.js
5 182 (4.12%) REST
6 173 (3.91%) Django
7 171 (3.87%) Kafka
8 144 (3.26%) RESTful
9 136 (3.08%) .NET
10 132 (2.99%) PySpark
11 131 (2.96%) FastAPI
12 120 (2.72%) Pandas
13 116 (2.63%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.51%) Flask
15 102 (2.31%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.24%) AngularJS
17 95 (2.15%) JSON
18 83 (1.88%) NumPy
19 82 (1.86%) Vue
20 81 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 232 (5.25%) Cloud Native
2 217 (4.91%) Algorithms
3 177 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 101 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 99 (2.24%) Equities
9 83 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 78 (1.77%) Fixed Income
11 76 (1.72%) Low-Code
12 74 (1.67%) Hedge funds
13 72 (1.63%) Data Centre
14 70 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
15 68 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 66 (1.49%) Derivative
17 64 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
18 61 (1.38%) AI Agents
19 60 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
20 56 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 497 (11.25%) Linux
2 199 (4.50%) Windows
3 179 (4.05%) Unix
4 63 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.75%) CentOS
7 29 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.38%) Debian
10 15 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.25%) Android
13 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.20%) Solaris
13 9 (0.20%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.068%) Robot Operating System
17 2 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,386 (31.36%) AI
2 1,001 (22.65%) CI/CD
3 934 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
4 923 (20.89%) Business Intelligence
5 837 (18.94%) Analytics
6 804 (18.19%) Agile
7 779 (17.63%) DevOps
8 741 (16.77%) Software Engineering
9 678 (15.34%) Mentoring
10 573 (12.97%) Machine Learning
11 493 (11.16%) Data Science
12 491 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 483 (10.93%) Data Modelling
14 480 (10.86%) ETL
15 473 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
16 469 (10.61%) Computer Science
17 462 (10.45%) Data Engineering
18 431 (9.75%) Data Analysis
19 420 (9.50%) Containerisation
20 397 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,796 (40.64%) SQL
2 767 (17.36%) JavaScript
3 603 (13.65%) Java
4 393 (8.89%) Bash
5 354 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 324 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 279 (6.31%) C#
8 239 (5.41%) R
9 224 (5.07%) C++
10 206 (4.66%) Go
11 130 (2.94%) C
12 85 (1.92%) Scala
13 65 (1.47%) VBA
14 63 (1.43%) PHP
15 55 (1.24%) Rust
16 46 (1.04%) Bicep
17 43 (0.97%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.88%) Perl
18 39 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 798 (18.06%) Degree
2 736 (16.66%) Azure Certification
3 454 (10.27%) Security Cleared
4 385 (8.71%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 270 (6.11%) SC Cleared
7 265 (6.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 230 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 171 (3.87%) Master's Degree
10 157 (3.55%) DV Cleared
11 103 (2.33%) PhD
12 73 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 62 (1.40%) CCNP
14 51 (1.15%) CISSP
15 47 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
18 32 (0.72%) OSCP
19 28 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.87%) QA
3 115 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.29%) GDPR
5 98 (2.22%) NIST
6 66 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 41 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.59%) SLA
8 26 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.36%) PMO
11 14 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.27%) GRC
14 10 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
17 5 (0.11%) NCSC
18 4 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 531 (12.02%) Docker
2 86 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.68%) Firmware
5 21 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.32%) KVM
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.27%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.20%) HDFS
12 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.091%) iptables
14 4 (0.091%) NFS
14 4 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.068%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.068%) QEMU
16 2 (0.045%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 566 (12.81%) Terraform
2 562 (12.72%) Kubernetes
3 319 (7.22%) Ansible
4 140 (3.17%) Grafana
5 134 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.45%) Argo
7 22 (0.50%) Puppet
8 21 (0.48%) Kibana
9 20 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.36%) Nagios
12 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.29%) Rancher
14 12 (0.27%) Nessus
15 11 (0.25%) Control-M
15 11 (0.25%) logstash
15 11 (0.25%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,294 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.66%) Databricks
3 206 (4.66%) Google
4 125 (2.83%) Oracle
5 106 (2.40%) Cisco
6 102 (2.31%) VMware
7 75 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.56%) SAP
10 65 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 61 (1.38%) Splunk
12 54 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.11%) Informatica
14 44 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.95%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.91%) Talend
17 39 (0.88%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.88%) IBM
18 32 (0.72%) Palantir
19 30 (0.68%) MuleSoft