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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,711 4,914 6,444
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 11.99% 9.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.52% 34.65% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 3,154 5,188
10th Percentile £33,250 £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 £90,000 £98,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,750 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.49% -3.62%

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 11,626 14,182 24,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.47% 34.62% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,526 9,075 21,038
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 £84,844 £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 4 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 4 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 2,108 £82,750 -5.43% 1,282
North of England -7 836 £45,000 -30.77% 676
South East -19 607 £60,250 -13.93% 1,050
Midlands -8 449 £55,000 - 399
South West +4 402 £58,497 -10.01% 462
Yorkshire +9 363 £40,000 -38.46% 275
North West -11 351 £55,000 -15.38% 291
West Midlands +7 289 £55,200 +0.36% 160
East of England -26 238 £50,000 -24.52% 471
East Midlands -18 162 £55,000 - 232
North East +12 122 £40,000 -38.46% 116
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
1 184 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 138 (2.93%) Apache
4 59 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.72%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.40%) Appian
10 17 (0.36%) IIS
10 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 16 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 12 (0.25%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
14 9 (0.19%) nginx
14 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.11%) CMS
16 4 (0.085%) JBoss
Applications
1 864 (18.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 57 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.085%) Windchill
10 3 (0.064%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.085%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.085%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.021%) Actimize
7 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.021%) Primavera
7 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.021%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.021%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,992 (42.28%) Azure
2 1,611 (34.20%) AWS
3 999 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 603 (12.80%) Azure AI
5 543 (11.53%) GitHub
6 516 (10.95%) GCP
7 269 (5.71%) Serverless
8 191 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 182 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 181 (3.84%) SaaS
11 175 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
12 164 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
13 155 (3.29%) Snowflake
14 144 (3.06%) dbt
15 140 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 121 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
18 84 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 79 (1.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 238 (5.05%) Internet
2 171 (3.63%) Firewall
3 108 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 98 (2.08%) VPN
5 91 (1.93%) Broadband
6 86 (1.83%) DNS
7 71 (1.51%) WAN
8 64 (1.36%) LAN
9 59 (1.25%) BGP
10 58 (1.23%) Wireless
11 55 (1.17%) Network Security
11 55 (1.17%) VLAN
12 51 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.02%) HTTP
14 42 (0.89%) OSPF
15 34 (0.72%) MPLS
15 34 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.68%) Wireshark
17 30 (0.64%) DHCP
18 28 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 960 (20.38%) Power BI
2 921 (19.55%) Tableau
3 238 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.61%) Data Mining
7 168 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 149 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 112 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 102 (2.17%) Big Data
12 92 (1.95%) BigQuery
13 88 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (1.78%) Metadata
15 78 (1.66%) MySQL
16 67 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
17 56 (1.19%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.93%) RDBMS
19 43 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 605 (12.84%) Git
2 212 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 168 (3.57%) GitLab
4 102 (2.17%) JIRA
5 53 (1.13%) Selenium
6 50 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 43 (0.91%) MLflow
8 38 (0.81%) Postman
9 34 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.62%) JUnit
12 23 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.49%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.45%) JMeter
14 19 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.36%) Subversion
16 16 (0.34%) Metasploit
16 16 (0.34%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,592 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (24.03%) Finance
3 783 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (5.50%) Banking
5 223 (4.73%) Multimedia
6 202 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 187 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 173 (3.67%) Law
9 159 (3.38%) Retail
10 147 (3.12%) Front Office
11 140 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 123 (2.61%) Marketing
13 111 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.83%) Legal
15 76 (1.61%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.46%) Electronics
18 66 (1.40%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
20 43 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,068 (22.67%) Analyst
2 877 (18.62%) Data Analyst
3 801 (17.00%) Developer
4 689 (14.63%) Senior
5 592 (12.57%) Junior
6 566 (12.01%) Junior Analyst
6 566 (12.01%) Junior Data Analyst
7 450 (9.55%) Data Engineer
8 417 (8.85%) Trainee
9 388 (8.24%) Software Engineer
10 361 (7.66%) Lead
11 310 (6.58%) Python Developer
12 275 (5.84%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.31%) Architect
15 143 (3.04%) Senior Developer
16 142 (3.01%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (3.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 135 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
18 132 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (7.88%) React
2 368 (7.81%) HTML
3 317 (6.73%) CSS
4 202 (4.29%) Kafka
5 199 (4.22%) Node.js
6 183 (3.88%) Django
7 182 (3.86%) REST
8 158 (3.35%) PySpark
9 148 (3.14%) RESTful
10 138 (2.93%) Pandas
11 135 (2.87%) FastAPI
12 132 (2.80%) .NET
13 122 (2.59%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.36%) Flask
15 109 (2.31%) TensorFlow
16 98 (2.08%) JSON
17 94 (2.00%) scikit-learn
18 92 (1.95%) AngularJS
19 89 (1.89%) NumPy
20 84 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 241 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 236 (5.01%) Algorithms
3 186 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.95%) Equities
7 92 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 87 (1.85%) Fixed Income
9 82 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 76 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 73 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.51%) Hedge funds
14 69 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 68 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
16 64 (1.36%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.34%) Derivative
18 62 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
18 62 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 501 (10.63%) Linux
2 206 (4.37%) Windows
3 183 (3.88%) Unix
4 62 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.81%) CentOS
7 29 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.25%) Debian
12 11 (0.23%) Android
13 10 (0.21%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.085%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.064%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.042%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,610 (34.18%) AI
2 1,062 (22.54%) Business Intelligence
3 1,053 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 950 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
5 892 (18.93%) Analytics
6 844 (17.92%) Agile
7 801 (17.00%) DevOps
8 786 (16.68%) Software Engineering
9 682 (14.48%) Mentoring
10 604 (12.82%) Machine Learning
11 521 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 510 (10.83%) ETL
13 508 (10.78%) Data Science
14 506 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
15 499 (10.59%) Data Modelling
16 473 (10.04%) Data Engineering
17 472 (10.02%) Computer Science
18 445 (9.45%) Data Analysis
19 441 (9.36%) Containerisation
20 439 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,985 (42.14%) SQL
2 760 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 609 (12.93%) Java
4 394 (8.36%) Bash
5 368 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 336 (7.13%) TypeScript
7 271 (5.75%) C#
8 238 (5.05%) C++
9 228 (4.84%) R
10 225 (4.78%) Go
11 125 (2.65%) C
12 91 (1.93%) Scala
13 72 (1.53%) VBA
14 67 (1.42%) Rust
15 57 (1.21%) PHP
16 42 (0.89%) Bicep
17 39 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.79%) MATLAB
19 33 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 858 (18.21%) Azure Certification
2 791 (16.79%) Degree
3 463 (9.83%) Security Cleared
4 377 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 273 (5.79%) SC Cleared
6 271 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 269 (5.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 235 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 165 (3.50%) DV Cleared
10 150 (3.18%) Master's Degree
11 93 (1.97%) PhD
12 68 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.25%) CCNP
14 52 (1.10%) CISSP
15 47 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.83%) OSCP
18 35 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.62%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 170 (3.61%) QA
3 110 (2.33%) GDPR
3 110 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.23%) NIST
5 67 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 43 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 24 (0.51%) SLA
9 19 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.34%) PMO
12 15 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.25%) GRC
15 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 560 (11.89%) Docker
2 91 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.59%) Firmware
5 24 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.36%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.21%) 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 (0.085%) iptables
13 4 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.064%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.064%) QEMU
15 2 (0.042%) Ceph
15 2 (0.042%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 581 (12.33%) Terraform
2 576 (12.23%) Kubernetes
3 316 (6.71%) Ansible
4 151 (3.21%) Grafana
5 142 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.36%) Argo
7 24 (0.51%) Puppet
8 21 (0.45%) Kibana
8 21 (0.45%) Nagios
9 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
13 12 (0.25%) Nessus
14 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.23%) logstash
14 11 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.23%) Rancher
15 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,450 (30.78%) Microsoft
2 246 (5.22%) Databricks
3 212 (4.50%) Google
4 150 (3.18%) Oracle
5 108 (2.29%) Cisco
6 107 (2.27%) VMware
7 92 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.46%) SAP
10 66 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 65 (1.38%) Splunk
12 52 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.06%) Informatica
14 44 (0.93%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.89%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.85%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.83%) Talend
18 38 (0.81%) IBM
19 36 (0.76%) Foundry
20 34 (0.72%) Palantir