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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,154 5,459 6,142
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.46% 11.56% 10.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.22% 34.00% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 3,300 4,872
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -0.36%

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 10,592 16,058 22,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.03% 33.99% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,920 9,408 19,224
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £46,250
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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 2,022 £82,500 -5.71% 1,170
North of England -9 673 £48,445 -25.47% 544
South East -28 466 £60,000 -11.11% 1,054
Midlands -12 377 £55,000 - 326
South West -4 339 £60,000 -7.69% 368
Yorkshire +10 300 £47,972 -26.20% 211
North West -16 281 £55,000 -12.00% 255
West Midlands +5 253 £55,000 - 129
East of England -22 215 £50,000 -24.52% 392
East Midlands -24 127 £55,000 - 192
North East 0 92 £40,000 -42.29% 82
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
1 161 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 122 (2.94%) Apache
4 41 (0.99%) Confluence
5 35 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.75%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.48%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.43%) Appian
11 18 (0.43%) IIS
12 17 (0.41%) Jupyter
13 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (0.29%) nginx
15 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.096%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 564 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.22%) Simulink
6 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.096%) Windchill
8 3 (0.072%) CATIA
8 3 (0.072%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.048%) Stata
9 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,643 (39.55%) Azure
2 1,459 (35.12%) AWS
3 732 (17.62%) Power Platform
4 535 (12.88%) GitHub
5 435 (10.47%) GCP
6 325 (7.82%) Azure AI
7 264 (6.36%) Serverless
8 182 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 162 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 155 (3.73%) SaaS
13 147 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
14 139 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 128 (3.08%) dbt
16 109 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 101 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 80 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.19%) Internet
2 157 (3.78%) Firewall
3 95 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 84 (2.02%) VPN
5 74 (1.78%) DNS
6 71 (1.71%) WAN
7 60 (1.44%) LAN
8 59 (1.42%) Broadband
9 55 (1.32%) BGP
10 51 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.23%) Wireless
11 45 (1.08%) Network Security
12 43 (1.04%) VLAN
13 39 (0.94%) HTTP
14 38 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.82%) MPLS
16 32 (0.77%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.70%) Wireshark
18 28 (0.67%) SSL
19 25 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 692 (16.66%) Power BI
2 591 (14.23%) Tableau
3 245 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 218 (5.25%) SQL Server
5 178 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 158 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 148 (3.56%) Data Mining
8 122 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 112 (2.70%) Big Data
9 112 (2.70%) MongoDB
10 87 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (2.05%) BigQuery
12 84 (2.02%) MySQL
13 80 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
14 74 (1.78%) Metadata
15 71 (1.71%) Hadoop
16 58 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (13.94%) Git
2 221 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 143 (3.44%) GitLab
4 115 (2.77%) JIRA
5 58 (1.40%) Selenium
6 43 (1.04%) MLflow
7 38 (0.91%) Postman
8 36 (0.87%) JUnit
9 27 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.55%) Jaeger
11 23 (0.55%) JMeter
12 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
14 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
14 14 (0.34%) Mockito
14 14 (0.34%) Subversion
15 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,250 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 1,031 (24.82%) Finance
3 666 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (5.92%) Banking
5 241 (5.80%) Multimedia
6 180 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 177 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (4.07%) Law
9 137 (3.30%) Front Office
10 135 (3.25%) Marketing
11 110 (2.65%) Telecoms
12 103 (2.48%) Retail
13 102 (2.46%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 77 (1.85%) Electronics
16 75 (1.81%) Legal
17 60 (1.44%) Investment Banking
17 60 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.35%) Games
19 47 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 770 (18.54%) Developer
2 735 (17.69%) Analyst
3 649 (15.62%) Senior
4 557 (13.41%) Data Analyst
5 415 (9.99%) Data Engineer
6 370 (8.91%) Trainee
7 332 (7.99%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.39%) Lead
9 306 (7.37%) Python Developer
10 304 (7.32%) Junior
11 282 (6.79%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.79%) Junior Data Analyst
12 241 (5.80%) Python Engineer
13 189 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 143 (3.44%) Architect
14 143 (3.44%) Senior Developer
15 134 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
16 132 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
17 121 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
18 119 (2.86%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (9.34%) HTML
2 339 (8.16%) CSS
3 335 (8.06%) React
4 178 (4.29%) REST
5 174 (4.19%) Node.js
6 164 (3.95%) Django
7 147 (3.54%) RESTful
8 146 (3.51%) Kafka
9 134 (3.23%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.13%) PySpark
11 128 (3.08%) PyTorch
12 119 (2.86%) .NET
13 114 (2.74%) Pandas
14 108 (2.60%) Flask
15 104 (2.50%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.38%) AngularJS
17 85 (2.05%) JSON
18 83 (2.00%) Vue
19 78 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
20 77 (1.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 204 (4.91%) Algorithms
3 163 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 155 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 106 (2.55%) Equities
7 104 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 98 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 80 (1.93%) Hedge funds
11 74 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 73 (1.76%) Low-Code
13 70 (1.69%) Derivative
13 70 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.66%) Fixed Income
15 68 (1.64%) Data Centre
16 62 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
17 59 (1.42%) AI Agents
18 57 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 56 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.23%) Linux
2 208 (5.01%) Windows
3 185 (4.45%) Unix
4 70 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.77%) CentOS
6 32 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.46%) Debian
9 16 (0.39%) VMS
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.29%) Solaris
13 11 (0.26%) Android
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.096%) zOS
17 3 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (28.96%) AI
2 971 (23.38%) CI/CD
3 928 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
4 824 (19.84%) Analytics
5 802 (19.31%) Business Intelligence
6 775 (18.66%) Agile
7 770 (18.54%) DevOps
8 684 (16.47%) Software Engineering
9 659 (15.86%) Mentoring
10 555 (13.36%) Machine Learning
11 491 (11.82%) Data Science
12 481 (11.58%) ETL
13 463 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
14 462 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 459 (11.05%) Data Modelling
16 452 (10.88%) Computer Science
17 448 (10.78%) Data Engineering
18 414 (9.97%) Data Analysis
19 392 (9.44%) Containerisation
20 384 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,644 (39.58%) SQL
2 731 (17.60%) JavaScript
3 585 (14.08%) Java
4 387 (9.32%) Bash
5 350 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 320 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 272 (6.55%) C#
8 230 (5.54%) R
9 216 (5.20%) C++
10 169 (4.07%) Go
11 123 (2.96%) C
12 87 (2.09%) Scala
13 63 (1.52%) PHP
14 60 (1.44%) VBA
15 51 (1.23%) Bicep
16 46 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 46 (1.11%) Rust
17 45 (1.08%) Perl
18 40 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 35 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 803 (19.33%) Degree
2 589 (14.18%) Azure Certification
3 446 (10.74%) Security Cleared
4 364 (8.76%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 260 (6.26%) SC Cleared
7 242 (5.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 215 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.55%) Master's Degree
10 160 (3.85%) DV Cleared
11 123 (2.96%) PhD
12 74 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.44%) CCNP
14 50 (1.20%) CISSP
15 47 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.65%) OSCP
18 27 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.90%) QA
3 106 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (2.41%) GDPR
5 87 (2.09%) NIST
6 65 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 32 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 32 (0.77%) SLA
8 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
12 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.14%) GRC
17 5 (0.12%) NCSC
18 4 (0.096%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 518 (12.47%) Docker
2 83 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.70%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.14%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.096%) Postfix
13 4 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.072%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.072%) Squid
Systems Management
1 543 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 533 (12.83%) Terraform
3 313 (7.53%) Ansible
4 125 (3.01%) Grafana
4 125 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 60 (1.44%) Argo
6 25 (0.60%) Kibana
7 21 (0.51%) Puppet
8 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.31%) Nessus
11 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.31%) Rancher
12 12 (0.29%) Control-M
12 12 (0.29%) Nagios
13 11 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.26%) logstash
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,096 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 256 (6.16%) Databricks
3 192 (4.62%) Google
4 129 (3.11%) Oracle
5 101 (2.43%) Cisco
6 99 (2.38%) VMware
7 83 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.66%) SAP
10 60 (1.44%) Splunk
11 57 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.13%) Informatica
14 45 (1.08%) IBM
15 44 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.04%) Bloomberg
17 40 (0.96%) Talend
18 39 (0.94%) Alteryx
19 33 (0.79%) Palantir
20 31 (0.75%) Atlassian