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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,602 5,024 6,461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.44% 11.96% 9.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.38% 34.53% 26.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,933 3,180 5,197
10th Percentile £32,838 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 11,397 14,550 24,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.42% 34.63% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,167 21,104
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 1 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 1 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 2,067 £82,500 -5.71% 1,318
North of England -8 812 £45,000 -30.77% 672
South East -20 590 £60,250 -13.93% 1,093
Midlands -10 437 £55,000 - 405
South West +3 392 £58,497 -10.01% 448
Yorkshire +7 353 £40,000 -38.46% 263
North West -15 340 £55,000 -12.00% 296
West Midlands +9 282 £55,200 +0.36% 165
East of England -24 233 £50,000 -24.52% 456
East Midlands -16 157 £55,000 - 226
North East +12 119 £40,000 -38.46% 119
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
1 182 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 138 (3.00%) Apache
4 58 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.72%) SAS
7 28 (0.61%) Confluence
7 28 (0.61%) WordPress
8 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.41%) Appian
10 17 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 16 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 12 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
14 9 (0.20%) nginx
14 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.11%) CMS
16 4 (0.087%) JBoss
Applications
1 815 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 55 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.087%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.087%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,928 (41.89%) Azure
2 1,585 (34.44%) AWS
3 945 (20.53%) Power Platform
4 554 (12.04%) Azure AI
5 539 (11.71%) GitHub
6 503 (10.93%) GCP
7 265 (5.76%) Serverless
8 189 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 182 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
10 177 (3.85%) SaaS
11 172 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
12 161 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 152 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 139 (3.02%) dbt
15 138 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 118 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
19 82 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 238 (5.17%) Internet
2 171 (3.72%) Firewall
3 108 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 97 (2.11%) VPN
5 91 (1.98%) Broadband
6 85 (1.85%) DNS
7 71 (1.54%) WAN
8 64 (1.39%) LAN
9 59 (1.28%) BGP
10 58 (1.26%) Wireless
11 55 (1.20%) Network Security
11 55 (1.20%) VLAN
12 50 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.04%) HTTP
14 42 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.74%) MPLS
15 34 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.70%) Wireshark
17 29 (0.63%) DHCP
18 28 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 908 (19.73%) Power BI
2 873 (18.97%) Tableau
3 238 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
4 210 (4.56%) SQL Server
5 170 (3.69%) Data Mining
6 169 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 148 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 111 (2.41%) Data Lake
9 108 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 104 (2.26%) Big Data
11 91 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 87 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 84 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (1.80%) Metadata
15 77 (1.67%) MySQL
16 67 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
17 57 (1.24%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.96%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 600 (13.04%) Git
2 209 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 165 (3.59%) GitLab
4 102 (2.22%) JIRA
5 53 (1.15%) Selenium
6 49 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 43 (0.93%) MLflow
8 38 (0.83%) Postman
9 34 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.63%) JUnit
12 23 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.46%) JMeter
14 19 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.37%) Subversion
17 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
17 16 (0.35%) TeamCity
18 15 (0.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,534 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1,118 (24.29%) Finance
3 776 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (5.58%) Banking
5 223 (4.85%) Multimedia
6 201 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 186 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 174 (3.78%) Law
9 157 (3.41%) Retail
10 138 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 137 (2.98%) Front Office
12 121 (2.63%) Marketing
13 111 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 83 (1.80%) Legal
15 77 (1.67%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.50%) Electronics
18 65 (1.41%) Investment Banking
19 49 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,019 (22.14%) Analyst
2 829 (18.01%) Data Analyst
3 782 (16.99%) Developer
4 673 (14.62%) Senior
5 544 (11.82%) Junior
6 519 (11.28%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.28%) Junior Data Analyst
7 444 (9.65%) Data Engineer
8 416 (9.04%) Trainee
9 374 (8.13%) Software Engineer
10 348 (7.56%) Lead
11 304 (6.61%) Python Developer
12 269 (5.85%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.26%) Software Developer
14 155 (3.37%) Architect
15 142 (3.09%) Trainee Analyst
15 142 (3.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 139 (3.02%) Senior Developer
17 131 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (7.91%) HTML
2 359 (7.80%) React
3 315 (6.84%) CSS
4 194 (4.22%) Kafka
5 188 (4.09%) Node.js
6 181 (3.93%) REST
7 180 (3.91%) Django
8 156 (3.39%) PySpark
9 148 (3.22%) RESTful
10 138 (3.00%) Pandas
11 132 (2.87%) .NET
11 132 (2.87%) FastAPI
12 123 (2.67%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.41%) Flask
14 110 (2.39%) TensorFlow
15 98 (2.13%) JSON
16 94 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 89 (1.93%) AngularJS
17 89 (1.93%) NumPy
18 83 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 237 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 232 (5.04%) Algorithms
3 185 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 89 (1.93%) Equities
9 82 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 78 (1.69%) Fixed Income
11 75 (1.63%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.59%) Data Centre
13 72 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 71 (1.54%) Hedge funds
15 68 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
16 62 (1.35%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 61 (1.33%) Security Posture
18 60 (1.30%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 501 (10.89%) Linux
2 203 (4.41%) Windows
3 183 (3.98%) Unix
4 62 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.83%) CentOS
7 28 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.26%) Debian
12 11 (0.24%) Android
13 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.087%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,541 (33.49%) AI
2 1,044 (22.69%) CI/CD
3 1,010 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
4 943 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
5 878 (19.08%) Analytics
6 830 (18.04%) Agile
7 790 (17.17%) DevOps
8 768 (16.69%) Software Engineering
9 671 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 592 (12.86%) Machine Learning
11 516 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 506 (11.00%) ETL
13 503 (10.93%) Data Science
14 502 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
15 498 (10.82%) Data Modelling
16 472 (10.26%) Data Engineering
17 470 (10.21%) Computer Science
18 443 (9.63%) Data Analysis
19 438 (9.52%) Containerisation
20 434 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,926 (41.85%) SQL
2 741 (16.10%) JavaScript
3 598 (12.99%) Java
4 390 (8.47%) Bash
5 365 (7.93%) PowerShell
6 324 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 270 (5.87%) C#
8 236 (5.13%) C++
9 226 (4.91%) R
10 218 (4.74%) Go
11 125 (2.72%) C
12 90 (1.96%) Scala
13 71 (1.54%) VBA
14 65 (1.41%) Rust
15 57 (1.24%) PHP
16 41 (0.89%) Bicep
17 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.80%) MATLAB
19 34 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 809 (17.58%) Azure Certification
2 784 (17.04%) Degree
3 463 (10.06%) Security Cleared
4 376 (8.17%) AWS Certification
5 272 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 270 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (5.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 234 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 163 (3.54%) DV Cleared
10 149 (3.24%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.98%) PhD
12 68 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.28%) CCNP
14 52 (1.13%) CISSP
15 47 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.83%) OSCP
18 36 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 168 (3.65%) QA
3 110 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (2.37%) GDPR
5 104 (2.26%) NIST
6 66 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.52%) SLA
10 19 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.35%) PMO
13 15 (0.33%) ISO 22301
14 13 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.26%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.13%) WCAG
18 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 554 (12.04%) Docker
2 89 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.61%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.37%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.13%) HDFS
13 4 (0.087%) iptables
13 4 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.065%) QEMU
15 2 (0.043%) Ceph
15 2 (0.043%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 575 (12.49%) Terraform
2 572 (12.43%) Kubernetes
3 316 (6.87%) Ansible
4 150 (3.26%) Grafana
5 141 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.39%) Argo
7 24 (0.52%) Puppet
8 21 (0.46%) Kibana
9 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 20 (0.43%) Nagios
10 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
13 12 (0.26%) Nessus
13 12 (0.26%) Rancher
14 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.24%) logstash
14 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,395 (30.31%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.32%) Databricks
3 209 (4.54%) Google
4 147 (3.19%) Oracle
5 108 (2.35%) Cisco
5 108 (2.35%) VMware
6 92 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 69 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 68 (1.48%) SAP
9 66 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 64 (1.39%) Splunk
11 51 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.06%) Informatica
13 44 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.91%) Bloomberg
15 39 (0.85%) Alteryx
16 38 (0.83%) IBM
16 38 (0.83%) Talend
17 35 (0.76%) Foundry
18 34 (0.74%) Palantir