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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,155 4,826 6,553
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.24% 11.21% 9.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.66% 41.03% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,814 2,650 4,344
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,875 £132,500 £136,250
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 16,791 11,761 20,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.01% 27.33% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,302 7,749 13,918
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 8 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 8 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 2,554 £85,000 -5.56% 5,506
North of England -15 1,193 £66,805 +5.79% 741
South East +11 879 £60,000 - 888
South West +10 603 £60,500 +10.00% 507
North West -21 581 £67,153 +11.92% 420
Midlands +8 550 £60,000 -7.69% 335
Yorkshire +9 363 £68,000 +4.62% 218
East of England +10 319 £65,000 +18.18% 540
West Midlands -3 294 £62,500 -3.47% 182
East Midlands +17 254 £52,500 -19.23% 151
North East +20 249 £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 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 187 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.66%) Apache
4 71 (1.15%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.39%) SAS
10 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 11 (0.18%) 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 (0.097%) JBoss
16 5 (0.081%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 545 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 23 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.097%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.081%) 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 (0.032%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Endur
9 1 (0.016%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,404 (39.06%) Azure
2 1,936 (31.45%) AWS
3 911 (14.80%) Power Platform
4 768 (12.48%) Azure AI
5 733 (11.91%) GCP
6 408 (6.63%) GitHub
7 365 (5.93%) Serverless
8 246 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 233 (3.79%) Amazon S3
11 219 (3.56%) SaaS
11 219 (3.56%) Snowflake
12 208 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 195 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 179 (2.91%) dbt
15 168 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
16 166 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
17 139 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 129 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
19 123 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 216 (3.51%) Firewall
2 140 (2.27%) DNS
3 130 (2.11%) VPN
4 126 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 113 (1.84%) Broadband
6 103 (1.67%) Network Security
7 95 (1.54%) WAN
8 80 (1.30%) Wireless
9 71 (1.15%) LAN
10 70 (1.14%) Internet
11 60 (0.97%) BGP
12 55 (0.89%) DHCP
13 48 (0.78%) VLAN
14 47 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 42 (0.68%) MQTT
17 38 (0.62%) HTTP
18 35 (0.57%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 841 (13.66%) Power BI
2 591 (9.60%) Tableau
3 344 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 208 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 160 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 143 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 125 (2.03%) Big Data
11 122 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 115 (1.87%) MySQL
13 101 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 101 (1.64%) Metadata
14 97 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
15 91 (1.48%) DynamoDB
16 86 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
17 75 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 71 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
19 69 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 703 (11.42%) Git
2 303 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 246 (4.00%) GitLab
4 171 (2.78%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 54 (0.88%) Selenium
7 53 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 52 (0.84%) MLflow
9 49 (0.80%) Subversion
10 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.60%) JUnit
13 36 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
17 23 (0.37%) Maven
18 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 20 (0.32%) JMeter
18 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,060 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (20.89%) Finance
3 810 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 325 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 306 (4.97%) Banking
6 240 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 211 (3.43%) Law
8 184 (2.99%) Marketing
9 148 (2.40%) Retail
10 124 (2.01%) Legal
11 106 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 98 (1.59%) Front Office
13 96 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 95 (1.54%) Electronics
15 85 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 82 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.07%) Games
19 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
20 44 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,252 (20.34%) Senior
2 838 (13.61%) Developer
3 837 (13.60%) Software Engineer
4 749 (12.17%) Analyst
5 679 (11.03%) Python Engineer
6 618 (10.04%) Data Engineer
7 616 (10.01%) Lead
8 583 (9.47%) Data Analyst
9 511 (8.30%) Junior
10 508 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 431 (7.00%) Junior Analyst
12 427 (6.94%) Junior Data Analyst
13 365 (5.93%) Python Developer
14 311 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
15 250 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.59%) Architect
17 217 (3.53%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.20%) Senior Developer
19 188 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
20 185 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 950 (15.43%) Terraform
2 391 (6.35%) React
3 250 (4.06%) Kafka
4 231 (3.75%) .NET
5 229 (3.72%) REST
6 219 (3.56%) Node.js
6 219 (3.56%) PySpark
7 213 (3.46%) RESTful
8 207 (3.36%) FastAPI
9 193 (3.14%) HTML
10 189 (3.07%) Django
11 178 (2.89%) PyTorch
12 177 (2.88%) CSS
13 175 (2.84%) LangChain
14 150 (2.44%) TensorFlow
15 130 (2.11%) Flask
16 115 (1.87%) Spring
16 115 (1.87%) Spring Boot
17 106 (1.72%) Pandas
18 99 (1.61%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 595 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 294 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 232 (3.77%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 157 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 92 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.36%) Robotics
10 83 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 83 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 79 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 78 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
13 76 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.23%) Low-Code
14 75 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 74 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
16 70 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 67 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
18 64 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.55%) Linux
2 319 (5.18%) Windows
3 86 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.27%) Unix
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.71%) CentOS
7 38 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (0.37%) Debian
10 17 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.23%) Rocky
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Solaris
13 11 (0.18%) Android
13 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.097%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,574 (41.82%) AI
2 1,652 (26.84%) Software Engineering
3 1,565 (25.43%) CI/CD
4 1,191 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1,092 (17.74%) Analytics
6 1,090 (17.71%) DevOps
7 1,074 (17.45%) Agile
8 1,002 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
8 1,002 (16.28%) Machine Learning
9 945 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 810 (13.16%) Mentoring
11 728 (11.83%) Data Engineering
12 711 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
13 665 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 658 (10.69%) Data Modelling
15 631 (10.25%) Data Science
16 597 (9.70%) Decision-Making
17 593 (9.63%) Containerisation
18 592 (9.62%) Computer Science
19 570 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,149 (34.91%) SQL
2 803 (13.05%) Java
3 637 (10.35%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.94%) C++
5 502 (8.16%) Bash
6 489 (7.94%) PowerShell
7 476 (7.73%) C#
8 388 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 257 (4.18%) Go
10 193 (3.14%) C
11 172 (2.79%) R
12 120 (1.95%) Scala
13 96 (1.56%) PHP
14 93 (1.51%) Bicep
14 93 (1.51%) Rust
15 90 (1.46%) Perl
16 77 (1.25%) Ruby
17 68 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 65 (1.06%) MATLAB
19 46 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 914 (14.85%) Degree
2 894 (14.52%) Azure Certification
3 805 (13.08%) Security Cleared
4 443 (7.20%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 213 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.82%) PhD
11 84 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 63 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 53 (0.86%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.70%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 31 (0.50%) OSCP
20 30 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 514 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.37%) QA
3 132 (2.14%) GDPR
4 106 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.97%) NIST
6 56 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.44%) SLA
9 23 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.31%) WCAG
13 18 (0.29%) PMO
14 17 (0.28%) NCSC
15 16 (0.26%) GRC
16 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
18 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 763 (12.40%) Docker
2 113 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.12%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 20 (0.32%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.097%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
16 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.049%) IAG
18 2 (0.032%) iptables
18 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 763 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.58%) Ansible
3 239 (3.88%) Grafana
4 145 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.97%) Puppet
6 53 (0.86%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 34 (0.55%) Nagios
10 33 (0.54%) Istio
11 29 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.32%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.26%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,210 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 452 (7.34%) Databricks
3 205 (3.33%) Google
4 149 (2.42%) Splunk
5 125 (2.03%) VMware
6 121 (1.97%) Cisco
6 121 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 114 (1.85%) Oracle
8 95 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 72 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.96%) Foundry
11 50 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 47 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.63%) Salesforce
16 36 (0.58%) F5
17 35 (0.57%) Palantir
18 32 (0.52%) SAP
19 31 (0.50%) IBM