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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,130 4,954 6,647
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.30% 11.37% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.82% 40.54% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,799 2,767 4,503
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £132,500 £134,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,649 12,221 21,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.11% 28.04% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,206 8,152 14,743
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 3 September 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 3 September 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 2,540 £85,000 -5.56% 5,298
North of England -15 1,196 £66,805 +6.89% 729
South East +10 880 £60,000 +4.35% 906
South West +11 603 £60,000 +9.09% 534
North West -19 582 £67,500 +12.50% 417
Midlands +3 540 £60,900 -6.31% 347
Yorkshire +8 364 £67,750 +4.23% 210
East of England +9 314 £65,000 +18.18% 518
West Midlands -5 287 £62,500 -3.85% 200
East Midlands +16 251 £52,500 -19.23% 145
North East +23 250 £66,000 +10.00% 108
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
1 217 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 189 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.69%) Apache
4 70 (1.14%) Confluence
5 47 (0.77%) WordPress
6 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.36%) SAS
10 21 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.20%) nginx
12 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) Camunda
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.098%) JBoss
16 5 (0.082%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 545 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Simulink
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.098%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.082%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
4 6 (0.098%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Shopify
6 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.033%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,397 (39.10%) Azure
2 1,936 (31.58%) AWS
3 908 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 767 (12.51%) Azure AI
5 731 (11.92%) GCP
6 405 (6.61%) GitHub
7 365 (5.95%) Serverless
8 244 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 220 (3.59%) SaaS
12 219 (3.57%) Snowflake
13 208 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 192 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
15 179 (2.92%) dbt
16 167 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
17 163 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
18 137 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
20 123 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.54%) Firewall
2 139 (2.27%) DNS
3 128 (2.09%) VPN
4 125 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 113 (1.84%) Broadband
6 104 (1.70%) Network Security
7 95 (1.55%) WAN
8 80 (1.31%) Wireless
9 71 (1.16%) Internet
9 71 (1.16%) LAN
10 60 (0.98%) BGP
11 53 (0.86%) DHCP
12 47 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 47 (0.77%) VLAN
13 43 (0.70%) OSPF
14 42 (0.69%) MQTT
15 38 (0.62%) HTTP
16 35 (0.57%) SSL
17 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 838 (13.67%) Power BI
2 593 (9.67%) Tableau
3 340 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
4 278 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.34%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.85%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 124 (2.02%) Big Data
11 121 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 113 (1.84%) MySQL
13 100 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 99 (1.62%) Metadata
15 98 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.47%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.17%) Delta Lake
19 70 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 699 (11.40%) Git
2 302 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.98%) GitLab
4 172 (2.81%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 55 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 52 (0.85%) MLflow
7 52 (0.85%) Selenium
8 47 (0.77%) Subversion
9 42 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.60%) JUnit
12 36 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.42%) LabVIEW
16 23 (0.38%) Maven
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2,047 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 1,281 (20.90%) Finance
3 809 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 305 (4.98%) Banking
6 237 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 214 (3.49%) Law
8 186 (3.03%) Marketing
9 148 (2.41%) Retail
10 126 (2.06%) Legal
11 103 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 98 (1.60%) Front Office
13 96 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 94 (1.53%) Electronics
15 83 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 65 (1.06%) Games
19 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
20 44 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,244 (20.29%) Senior
2 830 (13.54%) Software Engineer
3 829 (13.52%) Developer
4 747 (12.19%) Analyst
5 673 (10.98%) Python Engineer
6 612 (9.98%) Data Engineer
7 605 (9.87%) Lead
8 581 (9.48%) Data Analyst
9 512 (8.35%) Junior
10 505 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 432 (7.05%) Junior Analyst
12 428 (6.98%) Junior Data Analyst
13 357 (5.82%) Python Developer
14 306 (4.99%) Python Software Engineer
15 249 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.61%) Architect
17 217 (3.54%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.15%) Senior Developer
19 191 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
20 183 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 949 (15.48%) Terraform
2 391 (6.38%) React
3 247 (4.03%) Kafka
4 230 (3.75%) .NET
5 224 (3.65%) REST
6 220 (3.59%) PySpark
7 217 (3.54%) Node.js
8 209 (3.41%) RESTful
9 204 (3.33%) FastAPI
10 191 (3.12%) HTML
11 187 (3.05%) Django
12 177 (2.89%) PyTorch
13 175 (2.85%) CSS
14 173 (2.82%) LangChain
15 149 (2.43%) TensorFlow
16 129 (2.10%) Flask
17 115 (1.88%) Spring
17 115 (1.88%) Spring Boot
18 106 (1.73%) Pandas
19 98 (1.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 591 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 295 (4.81%) Algorithms
4 229 (3.74%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 154 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 83 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 81 (1.32%) Robotics
12 79 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 78 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
14 77 (1.26%) Low-Code
15 75 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 73 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 69 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
18 67 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
19 64 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 708 (11.55%) Linux
2 321 (5.24%) Windows
3 86 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.26%) Unix
5 50 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.72%) CentOS
7 37 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.36%) Debian
10 16 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.098%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,558 (41.73%) AI
2 1,633 (26.64%) Software Engineering
3 1,559 (25.43%) CI/CD
4 1,186 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1,093 (17.83%) Analytics
6 1,083 (17.67%) DevOps
7 1,073 (17.50%) Agile
8 1,000 (16.31%) Machine Learning
9 998 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
10 943 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 811 (13.23%) Mentoring
12 721 (11.76%) Data Engineering
13 706 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
14 658 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 655 (10.69%) Data Modelling
16 629 (10.26%) Data Science
17 596 (9.72%) Containerisation
18 591 (9.64%) Computer Science
19 590 (9.62%) Decision-Making
20 570 (9.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,133 (34.80%) SQL
2 801 (13.07%) Java
3 634 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 549 (8.96%) C++
5 502 (8.19%) Bash
6 491 (8.01%) PowerShell
7 474 (7.73%) C#
8 386 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 256 (4.18%) Go
10 193 (3.15%) C
11 169 (2.76%) R
12 120 (1.96%) Scala
13 97 (1.58%) PHP
14 94 (1.53%) Rust
15 93 (1.52%) Bicep
16 88 (1.44%) Perl
17 77 (1.26%) Ruby
18 66 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 65 (1.06%) MATLAB
20 44 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 910 (14.85%) Degree
2 893 (14.57%) Azure Certification
3 801 (13.07%) Security Cleared
4 438 (7.15%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 212 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (1.81%) PhD
11 82 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 64 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 52 (0.85%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.69%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 35 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 31 (0.51%) OSCP
20 29 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 264 (4.31%) QA
3 131 (2.14%) GDPR
4 107 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 59 (0.96%) NIST
6 55 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 23 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.31%) PMO
11 19 (0.31%) WCAG
12 17 (0.28%) NCSC
13 16 (0.26%) GRC
14 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 763 (12.45%) Docker
2 112 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.13%) Firmware
5 45 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.34%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.098%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
16 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.049%) IAG
17 3 (0.049%) iptables
18 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 763 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 408 (6.66%) Ansible
3 238 (3.88%) Grafana
4 144 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.01%) Puppet
6 52 (0.85%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 34 (0.55%) Nagios
10 32 (0.52%) Istio
11 29 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
16 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,203 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 449 (7.32%) Databricks
3 202 (3.30%) Google
4 149 (2.43%) Splunk
5 125 (2.04%) VMware
6 121 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 120 (1.96%) Cisco
8 115 (1.88%) Oracle
9 96 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 59 (0.96%) Foundry
12 50 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.67%) Fortinet
15 40 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.65%) SolarWinds
16 36 (0.59%) F5
17 35 (0.57%) Palantir
18 34 (0.55%) SAP
19 31 (0.51%) IBM