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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,077 5,115 7,897
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.26% 12.85% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.59% 40.37% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,608 2,861 5,943
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,290 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £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 15,351 12,669 29,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.33% 31.84% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,084 8,509 23,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 20 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 20 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 2,438 £85,000 -5.56% 852
North of England -13 1,234 £62,500 -3.85% 372
South East +2 895 £60,000 -4.00% 562
Midlands +22 625 £60,000 +9.09% 159
North West -15 575 £65,000 - 200
South West +5 527 £58,497 +1.83% 168
Yorkshire +15 455 £62,500 -3.85% 117
West Midlands +13 320 £60,000 +6.67% 82
East Midlands +28 305 £55,000 +4.76% 77
East of England -5 291 £70,000 +5.73% 172
North East +26 204 £59,000 -1.67% 58
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 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 204 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 157 (2.58%) Apache
4 76 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.77%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
7 31 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.15%) IIS
11 7 (0.12%) CMS
11 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.099%) Appian
12 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
15 2 (0.033%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 922 (15.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.21%) Simulink
8 5 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) 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 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
7 1 (0.016%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,629 (43.26%) Azure
2 1,920 (31.59%) AWS
3 1,191 (19.60%) Power Platform
4 1,081 (17.79%) Azure AI
5 700 (11.52%) GCP
6 411 (6.76%) GitHub
7 342 (5.63%) Serverless
8 241 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 239 (3.93%) SaaS
10 219 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 210 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 180 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.76%) dbt
14 163 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 162 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 153 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
17 149 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
18 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 111 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
20 105 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 226 (3.72%) Firewall
2 193 (3.18%) Broadband
3 131 (2.16%) VPN
4 122 (2.01%) DNS
5 109 (1.79%) Network Security
6 98 (1.61%) WAN
7 94 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 93 (1.53%) Internet
9 82 (1.35%) LAN
10 74 (1.22%) Wireless
11 60 (0.99%) BGP
12 52 (0.86%) HTTP
12 52 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 52 (0.86%) VLAN
13 42 (0.69%) OSPF
14 39 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
15 34 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.49%) DHCP
16 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
17 29 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (18.63%) Power BI
2 996 (16.39%) Tableau
3 288 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 184 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 171 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 164 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 149 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 139 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 114 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 103 (1.69%) Big Data
14 88 (1.45%) Metadata
15 86 (1.42%) MySQL
16 72 (1.18%) Data Mining
17 70 (1.15%) DynamoDB
18 69 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
19 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 621 (10.22%) Git
2 269 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.95%) GitLab
4 150 (2.47%) JIRA
5 81 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.94%) MLflow
7 52 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 43 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.67%) Selenium
10 35 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Postman
13 27 (0.44%) Subversion
14 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 21 (0.35%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
16 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 2,134 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,193 (19.63%) Finance
3 815 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (4.41%) Banking
6 217 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 187 (3.08%) Retail
8 153 (2.52%) Law
9 132 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.11%) Front Office
11 106 (1.74%) Legal
12 96 (1.58%) Marketing
13 88 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.30%) Multimedia
15 73 (1.20%) Electronics
16 70 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.04%) Games
19 56 (0.92%) Investment Banking
19 56 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,143 (18.81%) Analyst
2 1,036 (17.05%) Senior
3 969 (15.95%) Data Analyst
4 920 (15.14%) Developer
5 809 (13.31%) Junior
6 759 (12.49%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.49%) Junior Data Analyst
7 680 (11.19%) Software Engineer
8 567 (9.33%) Data Engineer
9 546 (8.98%) Python Engineer
10 519 (8.54%) Lead
11 453 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 385 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 247 (4.06%) Python Software Engineer
14 194 (3.19%) Architect
15 191 (3.14%) Data Scientist
16 188 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
16 188 (3.09%) Trainee
17 187 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
18 176 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (6.45%) React
2 262 (4.31%) Kafka
3 234 (3.85%) Node.js
4 218 (3.59%) PySpark
5 210 (3.46%) HTML
5 210 (3.46%) REST
6 200 (3.29%) .NET
7 196 (3.23%) RESTful
8 194 (3.19%) CSS
9 180 (2.96%) PyTorch
10 176 (2.90%) FastAPI
11 174 (2.86%) Django
12 155 (2.55%) Pandas
13 150 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 141 (2.32%) LangChain
15 128 (2.11%) Flask
16 124 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.76%) NumPy
18 100 (1.65%) Vue
19 95 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 473 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.33%) Algorithms
3 287 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 151 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 134 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 127 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
9 102 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 96 (1.58%) Public Cloud
11 95 (1.56%) Low-Code
12 85 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 81 (1.33%) Equities
15 80 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 76 (1.25%) Hedge funds
17 68 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
18 67 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
19 62 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 646 (10.63%) Linux
2 275 (4.53%) Windows
3 93 (1.53%) Unix
4 84 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 38 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.35%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,550 (41.96%) AI
2 1,368 (22.51%) CI/CD
3 1,338 (22.02%) Software Engineering
4 1,235 (20.32%) Business Intelligence
5 1,050 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
6 1,021 (16.80%) Agile
7 981 (16.14%) Analytics
8 970 (15.96%) DevOps
9 861 (14.17%) Machine Learning
10 797 (13.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 734 (12.08%) Mentoring
12 614 (10.10%) Data Modelling
13 612 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
14 610 (10.04%) Data Engineering
15 598 (9.84%) Data Science
16 549 (9.03%) Computer Science
17 542 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
18 535 (8.80%) Containerisation
19 530 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
20 514 (8.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,336 (38.44%) SQL
2 688 (11.32%) Java
3 654 (10.76%) JavaScript
4 491 (8.08%) PowerShell
5 469 (7.72%) Bash
6 459 (7.55%) C++
7 399 (6.57%) C#
8 383 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 283 (4.66%) Go
10 177 (2.91%) R
11 164 (2.70%) C
12 119 (1.96%) Scala
13 89 (1.46%) Rust
14 85 (1.40%) PHP
15 72 (1.18%) Bicep
16 57 (0.94%) MATLAB
17 54 (0.89%) VBA
18 50 (0.82%) Perl
19 45 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 42 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,223 (20.13%) Azure Certification
2 786 (12.93%) Degree
3 645 (10.61%) Security Cleared
4 386 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 293 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 231 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 201 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.57%) Master's Degree
9 140 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 139 (2.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 85 (1.40%) PhD
12 73 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.91%) CCNP
14 49 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 47 (0.77%) OSCP
16 39 (0.64%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 234 (3.85%) QA
3 128 (2.11%) GDPR
4 89 (1.46%) NIST
5 74 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 21 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.33%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.16%) WCAG
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 647 (10.65%) Docker
2 103 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 98 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 37 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 36 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 22 (0.36%) vSphere
9 18 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 838 (13.79%) Terraform
2 658 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 360 (5.92%) Ansible
4 221 (3.64%) Grafana
5 176 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 67 (1.10%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (0.54%) Puppet
10 31 (0.51%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 22 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) Podman
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
18 14 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,566 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 355 (5.84%) Databricks
3 208 (3.42%) Google
4 132 (2.17%) VMware
5 128 (2.11%) Oracle
6 127 (2.09%) Splunk
7 115 (1.89%) Cisco
8 100 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 94 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 60 (0.99%) Foundry
11 57 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 56 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
14 50 (0.82%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.71%) SAP
17 39 (0.64%) F5
18 38 (0.63%) Fortinet
19 37 (0.61%) Palantir
20 31 (0.51%) Arista