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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,012 4,846 6,659
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.00% 11.17% 9.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.12% 40.95% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 2,656 4,318
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -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 16,644 11,834 21,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.62% 27.28% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,175 7,807 13,779
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,555 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 13 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 13 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 -3 2,512 £85,000 -5.56% 4,389
North of England -16 1,151 £67,500 +8.00% 644
South East +13 859 £62,500 +4.17% 818
South West +11 591 £62,500 +13.64% 404
North West -21 568 £67,500 +12.50% 330
Midlands +2 532 £62,000 -4.62% 309
Yorkshire +10 341 £70,000 +7.69% 228
East of England +10 311 £65,000 +18.18% 432
West Midlands -8 285 £65,000 +0.39% 167
East Midlands +20 245 £52,500 -19.23% 141
North East +21 242 £67,153 +24.93% 89
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
1 219 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 177 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (2.71%) Apache
4 71 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.43%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 7 (0.12%) Camunda
13 7 (0.12%) WordPress
14 6 (0.100%) IIS
14 6 (0.100%) JBoss
15 5 (0.083%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 485 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.35%) Simulink
4 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.100%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.083%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Mathematica
10 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.017%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.100%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) 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
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,299 (38.24%) Azure
2 1,859 (30.92%) AWS
3 866 (14.40%) Power Platform
4 722 (12.01%) Azure AI
4 722 (12.01%) GCP
5 362 (6.02%) Serverless
6 348 (5.79%) GitHub
7 244 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
8 236 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 227 (3.78%) Amazon S3
10 217 (3.61%) Snowflake
11 214 (3.56%) SaaS
12 200 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 199 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 174 (2.89%) dbt
15 172 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
16 163 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
17 138 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
19 125 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.48%) Firewall
2 140 (2.33%) DNS
3 126 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 126 (2.10%) VPN
4 101 (1.68%) Broadband
5 100 (1.66%) Network Security
6 96 (1.60%) WAN
7 81 (1.35%) Wireless
8 71 (1.18%) LAN
9 60 (1.00%) BGP
10 58 (0.96%) DHCP
11 48 (0.80%) VLAN
12 47 (0.78%) SD-WAN
13 43 (0.72%) MQTT
13 43 (0.72%) OSPF
14 38 (0.63%) HTTP
15 35 (0.58%) SSL
16 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
16 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 796 (13.24%) Power BI
2 534 (8.88%) Tableau
3 336 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 208 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 126 (2.10%) Big Data
11 120 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 112 (1.86%) MySQL
13 105 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 100 (1.66%) Metadata
15 96 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.50%) DynamoDB
17 87 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.23%) Delta Lake
19 73 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 651 (10.83%) Git
2 301 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 237 (3.94%) GitLab
4 169 (2.81%) JIRA
5 64 (1.06%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.86%) MLflow
7 51 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.83%) Subversion
9 49 (0.82%) Selenium
10 38 (0.63%) JUnit
10 38 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
12 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 21 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,001 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 1,276 (21.22%) Finance
3 796 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 314 (5.22%) Banking
6 243 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.61%) Law
8 187 (3.11%) Marketing
9 156 (2.59%) Retail
10 123 (2.05%) Legal
11 103 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 101 (1.68%) Front Office
12 101 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.60%) Electronics
14 84 (1.40%) Financial Institution
15 80 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 70 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 63 (1.05%) Games
18 43 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
19 42 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,247 (20.74%) Senior
2 838 (13.94%) Software Engineer
3 823 (13.69%) Developer
4 692 (11.51%) Analyst
5 685 (11.39%) Python Engineer
6 610 (10.15%) Data Engineer
7 606 (10.08%) Lead
8 523 (8.70%) Data Analyst
9 519 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 459 (7.63%) Junior
11 383 (6.37%) Junior Analyst
12 379 (6.30%) Junior Data Analyst
13 365 (6.07%) Python Developer
14 319 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
15 251 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 217 (3.61%) Architect
16 217 (3.61%) Data Scientist
17 193 (3.21%) Senior Developer
18 190 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
19 189 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 939 (15.62%) Terraform
2 388 (6.45%) React
3 248 (4.13%) Kafka
4 229 (3.81%) .NET
5 228 (3.79%) REST
6 222 (3.69%) PySpark
7 217 (3.61%) Node.js
8 209 (3.48%) RESTful
9 207 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 185 (3.08%) Django
11 178 (2.96%) LangChain
12 177 (2.94%) PyTorch
13 148 (2.46%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.28%) HTML
15 126 (2.10%) Flask
16 122 (2.03%) CSS
17 115 (1.91%) Spring
17 115 (1.91%) Spring Boot
18 102 (1.70%) Pandas
19 98 (1.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 593 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 312 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 290 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 240 (3.99%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 155 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 84 (1.40%) Robotics
10 81 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 81 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 79 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
12 78 (1.30%) Hedge funds
13 75 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 74 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 74 (1.23%) Low-Code
15 71 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
17 59 (0.98%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 692 (11.51%) Linux
2 313 (5.21%) Windows
3 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 75 (1.25%) Unix
5 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Android
16 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.100%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,544 (42.32%) AI
2 1,648 (27.41%) Software Engineering
3 1,548 (25.75%) CI/CD
4 1,182 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
5 1,076 (17.90%) DevOps
6 1,075 (17.88%) Analytics
7 1,062 (17.66%) Agile
8 1,001 (16.65%) Machine Learning
9 959 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
10 935 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 787 (13.09%) Mentoring
12 727 (12.09%) Data Engineering
13 705 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
14 652 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 647 (10.76%) Data Modelling
16 625 (10.40%) Data Science
17 601 (10.00%) Decision-Making
18 587 (9.76%) Computer Science
19 571 (9.50%) Containerisation
20 568 (9.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,078 (34.56%) SQL
2 802 (13.34%) Java
3 576 (9.58%) JavaScript
4 559 (9.30%) C++
5 503 (8.37%) Bash
6 483 (8.03%) PowerShell
7 474 (7.88%) C#
8 389 (6.47%) TypeScript
9 252 (4.19%) Go
10 194 (3.23%) C
11 133 (2.21%) R
12 112 (1.86%) Scala
13 93 (1.55%) Bicep
14 92 (1.53%) PHP
15 91 (1.51%) Rust
16 89 (1.48%) Perl
17 75 (1.25%) Ruby
18 74 (1.23%) MATLAB
19 67 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 49 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 909 (15.12%) Degree
2 822 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 795 (13.22%) Azure Certification
4 461 (7.67%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 259 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 218 (3.63%) Master's Degree
8 118 (1.96%) PhD
9 107 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.85%) CCNP
14 42 (0.70%) CISSP
14 42 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (0.55%) CCNA
17 31 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.48%) OSCP
19 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 516 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 259 (4.31%) QA
3 134 (2.23%) GDPR
4 106 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 59 (0.98%) NIST
6 52 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.32%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 17 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.27%) PMO
15 14 (0.23%) GRC
16 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) Basel III
18 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 742 (12.34%) Docker
2 110 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.06%) Firmware
5 44 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.067%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) iptables
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 754 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 400 (6.65%) Ansible
3 234 (3.89%) Grafana
4 148 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.03%) Puppet
6 55 (0.91%) Argo
7 40 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.63%) Kibana
9 33 (0.55%) Istio
10 32 (0.53%) Nagios
11 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.37%) Podman
14 21 (0.35%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,093 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 450 (7.49%) Databricks
3 209 (3.48%) Google
4 149 (2.48%) Splunk
5 120 (2.00%) VMware
6 119 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 118 (1.96%) Cisco
8 113 (1.88%) Oracle
9 93 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 51 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 51 (0.85%) Foundry
12 48 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.63%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.63%) SolarWinds
15 33 (0.55%) SAP
16 32 (0.53%) F5
17 30 (0.50%) IBM
17 30 (0.50%) Informatica