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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,738 4,939 6,428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.47% 12.02% 9.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.52% 34.67% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 3,173 5,175
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.49% -3.52%

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 11,693 14,245 24,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 34.66% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 9,126 20,959
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 £84,563 £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 5 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 5 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 2,120 £82,750 -5.43% 1,392
North of England -8 843 £45,000 -30.77% 551
South East -18 606 £60,500 -13.57% 736
Midlands -8 453 £55,000 - 296
South West +4 405 £58,497 -10.01% 324
Yorkshire +7 365 £41,000 -36.92% 210
North West -11 356 £55,000 -13.73% 254
West Midlands +4 290 £55,200 +0.36% 140
East of England -26 239 £50,000 -24.52% 297
East Midlands -14 165 £55,000 - 150
North East +11 122 £40,000 -38.46% 93
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
1 188 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 139 (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 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 864 (18.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 57 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.63%) 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 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) 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 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.084%) 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 2,004 (42.30%) Azure
2 1,625 (34.30%) AWS
3 1,005 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 603 (12.73%) Azure AI
5 541 (11.42%) GitHub
6 518 (10.93%) GCP
7 273 (5.76%) Serverless
8 194 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 187 (3.95%) SaaS
10 180 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 178 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 164 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 160 (3.38%) Snowflake
14 146 (3.08%) dbt
15 140 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 121 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 108 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 89 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
20 79 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (5.00%) Internet
2 171 (3.61%) Firewall
3 108 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 98 (2.07%) VPN
5 91 (1.92%) Broadband
6 86 (1.82%) DNS
7 71 (1.50%) WAN
8 64 (1.35%) LAN
9 59 (1.25%) BGP
10 58 (1.22%) Wireless
11 56 (1.18%) Network Security
12 55 (1.16%) VLAN
13 51 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
14 48 (1.01%) HTTP
15 42 (0.89%) OSPF
16 34 (0.72%) MPLS
16 34 (0.72%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.68%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.63%) DHCP
19 28 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 966 (20.39%) Power BI
2 925 (19.52%) Tableau
3 242 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 209 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.57%) Data Mining
7 167 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 147 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 117 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 105 (2.22%) MongoDB
11 101 (2.13%) Big Data
12 96 (2.03%) BigQuery
13 93 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 88 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
15 85 (1.79%) Metadata
16 77 (1.63%) MySQL
17 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (1.16%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.91%) Delta Lake
20 42 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 605 (12.77%) Git
2 213 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 168 (3.55%) GitLab
4 102 (2.15%) JIRA
5 53 (1.12%) Selenium
6 50 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 46 (0.97%) MLflow
8 38 (0.80%) Postman
9 34 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.59%) JUnit
12 23 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.49%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.42%) 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 1,598 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 1,130 (23.85%) Finance
3 788 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (5.47%) Banking
5 222 (4.69%) Multimedia
6 203 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 192 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 171 (3.61%) Law
9 159 (3.36%) Retail
10 147 (3.10%) Front Office
11 140 (2.95%) Manufacturing
12 123 (2.60%) Marketing
13 111 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.82%) Legal
15 75 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.46%) Electronics
18 67 (1.41%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
20 43 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,071 (22.60%) Analyst
2 879 (18.55%) Data Analyst
3 803 (16.95%) Developer
4 700 (14.77%) Senior
5 592 (12.49%) Junior
6 566 (11.95%) Junior Analyst
6 566 (11.95%) Junior Data Analyst
7 456 (9.62%) Data Engineer
8 416 (8.78%) Trainee
9 395 (8.34%) Software Engineer
10 362 (7.64%) Lead
11 313 (6.61%) Python Developer
12 282 (5.95%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.29%) Architect
15 144 (3.04%) Senior Developer
16 142 (3.00%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (3.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 138 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
18 133 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (7.85%) React
2 366 (7.72%) HTML
3 316 (6.67%) CSS
4 206 (4.35%) Kafka
5 204 (4.31%) Node.js
6 183 (3.86%) Django
6 183 (3.86%) REST
7 158 (3.33%) PySpark
8 150 (3.17%) RESTful
9 138 (2.91%) .NET
9 138 (2.91%) Pandas
10 136 (2.87%) FastAPI
11 126 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 113 (2.38%) TensorFlow
13 112 (2.36%) Flask
14 99 (2.09%) JSON
15 98 (2.07%) scikit-learn
16 93 (1.96%) AngularJS
17 89 (1.88%) NumPy
18 84 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 249 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 233 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 185 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 162 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 93 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 92 (1.94%) Equities
9 88 (1.86%) Fixed Income
10 81 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 74 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 73 (1.54%) Data Centre
14 72 (1.52%) Hedge funds
15 69 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
16 68 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
17 64 (1.35%) AI Agents
18 63 (1.33%) Derivative
19 62 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
19 62 (1.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 502 (10.60%) Linux
2 207 (4.37%) Windows
3 183 (3.86%) Unix
4 62 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.80%) CentOS
7 29 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.27%) 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 (0.084%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.063%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.042%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,614 (34.07%) AI
2 1,067 (22.52%) Business Intelligence
3 1,055 (22.27%) CI/CD
4 950 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
5 896 (18.91%) Analytics
6 848 (17.90%) Agile
7 803 (16.95%) DevOps
8 792 (16.72%) Software Engineering
9 686 (14.48%) Mentoring
10 611 (12.90%) Machine Learning
11 522 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 514 (10.85%) Data Science
12 514 (10.85%) ETL
13 513 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
14 505 (10.66%) Data Modelling
15 477 (10.07%) Data Engineering
16 473 (9.98%) Computer Science
17 446 (9.41%) Data Analysis
18 444 (9.37%) Containerisation
19 439 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,993 (42.06%) SQL
2 763 (16.10%) JavaScript
3 613 (12.94%) Java
4 395 (8.34%) Bash
5 371 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 337 (7.11%) TypeScript
7 273 (5.76%) C#
8 239 (5.04%) C++
9 230 (4.85%) R
10 226 (4.77%) Go
11 125 (2.64%) C
12 91 (1.92%) Scala
13 72 (1.52%) VBA
14 67 (1.41%) Rust
15 59 (1.25%) PHP
16 42 (0.89%) Bicep
17 39 (0.82%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
19 33 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 856 (18.07%) Azure Certification
2 791 (16.69%) Degree
3 464 (9.79%) Security Cleared
4 376 (7.94%) AWS Certification
5 275 (5.80%) SC Cleared
6 270 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 236 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 165 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 147 (3.10%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.90%) PhD
12 68 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.25%) CCNP
14 52 (1.10%) CISSP
15 47 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.82%) OSCP
18 35 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.61%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 173 (3.65%) QA
3 114 (2.41%) GDPR
4 113 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.26%) NIST
6 67 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.51%) SLA
10 19 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
13 16 (0.34%) PMO
14 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.25%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.13%) WCAG
18 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 562 (11.86%) Docker
2 92 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.63%) Firmware
5 24 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.36%) KVM
8 13 (0.27%) 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 (0.084%) iptables
13 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.063%) QEMU
15 2 (0.042%) Ceph
15 2 (0.042%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 584 (12.33%) Terraform
2 578 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 316 (6.67%) Ansible
4 151 (3.19%) Grafana
5 142 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.35%) Argo
7 24 (0.51%) Puppet
8 21 (0.44%) Nagios
9 20 (0.42%) Kibana
9 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.27%) 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 1,453 (30.67%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.32%) Databricks
3 212 (4.47%) Google
4 149 (3.14%) Oracle
5 108 (2.28%) Cisco
5 108 (2.28%) VMware
6 92 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 70 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.46%) SAP
9 67 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 64 (1.35%) Splunk
11 52 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.03%) Informatica
13 44 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.89%) Bloomberg
15 40 (0.84%) Alteryx
16 38 (0.80%) IBM
16 38 (0.80%) Talend
17 36 (0.76%) Foundry
18 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft