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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,108 5,415 6,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.39% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.06% 33.73% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,761 3,256 4,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,416 £52,500
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 £98,543 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,518 16,055 22,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.06% 33.77% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,875 9,402 18,921
10th Percentile £32,838 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -1 1,994 £83,500 -4.57% 1,149
North of England -9 674 £48,445 -25.47% 677
South East -27 457 £60,000 -8.40% 1,292
Midlands -12 374 £55,000 - 433
South West -6 336 £60,000 -7.69% 510
Yorkshire +8 300 £48,445 -25.47% 279
North West -17 284 £55,000 -12.00% 288
West Midlands +4 254 £55,100 -4.17% 160
East of England -14 216 £50,000 -24.54% 560
East Midlands -23 123 £55,000 - 265
North East +1 90 £40,000 -42.29% 114
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
1 163 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 124 (3.02%) Apache
4 42 (1.02%) Confluence
5 35 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.37%) Jupyter
13 14 (0.34%) nginx
14 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.17%) CMS
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.097%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 557 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.097%) Windchill
9 3 (0.073%) CATIA
9 3 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.049%) Stata
10 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,637 (39.85%) Azure
2 1,449 (35.27%) AWS
3 737 (17.94%) Power Platform
4 540 (13.15%) GitHub
5 430 (10.47%) GCP
6 325 (7.91%) Azure AI
7 264 (6.43%) Serverless
8 187 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
10 169 (4.11%) Snowflake
11 162 (3.94%) Amazon S3
12 155 (3.77%) SaaS
13 152 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 136 (3.31%) dbt
16 112 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 97 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
18 84 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 81 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.26%) Internet
2 159 (3.87%) Firewall
3 93 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.02%) VPN
5 73 (1.78%) DNS
6 70 (1.70%) WAN
7 61 (1.48%) LAN
8 53 (1.29%) BGP
9 49 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (1.17%) Wireless
11 45 (1.10%) Broadband
12 43 (1.05%) Network Security
13 41 (1.00%) VLAN
14 39 (0.95%) HTTP
15 37 (0.90%) OSPF
16 33 (0.80%) MPLS
17 31 (0.75%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.73%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.68%) SSL
20 25 (0.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (16.94%) Power BI
2 594 (14.46%) Tableau
3 249 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 222 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
6 177 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 160 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.41%) Data Mining
9 122 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.75%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.65%) Big Data
12 91 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 91 (2.22%) BigQuery
13 85 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (2.04%) MySQL
15 79 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
16 71 (1.73%) Hadoop
17 70 (1.70%) Metadata
18 61 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
18 61 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 576 (14.02%) Git
2 226 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 143 (3.48%) GitLab
4 116 (2.82%) JIRA
5 56 (1.36%) Selenium
6 42 (1.02%) MLflow
7 37 (0.90%) Postman
8 36 (0.88%) JUnit
9 27 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
10 23 (0.56%) JMeter
11 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
13 15 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
14 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
14 14 (0.34%) Mockito
15 13 (0.32%) Maven
15 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,244 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 1,021 (24.85%) Finance
3 647 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.87%) Banking
4 241 (5.87%) Multimedia
5 181 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 175 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 170 (4.14%) Law
8 142 (3.46%) Marketing
9 137 (3.33%) Front Office
10 112 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 106 (2.58%) Retail
12 99 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 88 (2.14%) Financial Institution
14 79 (1.92%) Electronics
15 74 (1.80%) Legal
16 61 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 60 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.36%) Games
19 47 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (18.45%) Developer
2 732 (17.82%) Analyst
3 637 (15.51%) Senior
4 549 (13.36%) Data Analyst
5 409 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.76%) Trainee
7 324 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 305 (7.42%) Lead
9 303 (7.38%) Junior
10 300 (7.30%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.86%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.86%) Junior Data Analyst
12 239 (5.82%) Python Engineer
13 184 (4.48%) Software Developer
14 145 (3.53%) Architect
15 139 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 137 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
17 131 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
18 121 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
19 119 (2.90%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (9.35%) HTML
2 340 (8.28%) CSS
3 336 (8.18%) React
4 177 (4.31%) REST
5 172 (4.19%) Node.js
6 161 (3.92%) Django
7 145 (3.53%) Kafka
8 143 (3.48%) RESTful
9 134 (3.26%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.16%) PySpark
11 121 (2.95%) Pandas
11 121 (2.95%) PyTorch
12 118 (2.87%) .NET
13 106 (2.58%) Flask
14 105 (2.56%) AngularJS
15 99 (2.41%) TensorFlow
16 88 (2.14%) Vue
17 84 (2.04%) JSON
18 83 (2.02%) NumPy
19 79 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 230 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 198 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 153 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 152 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 113 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 109 (2.65%) Equities
7 102 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.87%) Hedge funds
11 74 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 73 (1.78%) Low-Code
13 71 (1.73%) Fixed Income
14 70 (1.70%) Derivative
15 67 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
16 64 (1.56%) Data Centre
17 61 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
18 58 (1.41%) AI Agents
18 58 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 57 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.37%) Linux
2 209 (5.09%) Windows
3 188 (4.58%) Unix
4 71 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.78%) CentOS
8 23 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.51%) Debian
10 17 (0.41%) VMS
11 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.32%) Solaris
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.27%) Android
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.097%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (28.99%) AI
2 957 (23.30%) CI/CD
3 920 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 822 (20.01%) Analytics
5 804 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
6 782 (19.04%) Agile
6 782 (19.04%) DevOps
7 661 (16.09%) Software Engineering
8 658 (16.02%) Mentoring
9 540 (13.15%) Machine Learning
10 481 (11.71%) ETL
11 474 (11.54%) Data Science
12 462 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
13 455 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 454 (11.05%) Data Modelling
15 446 (10.86%) Computer Science
15 446 (10.86%) Data Engineering
16 409 (9.96%) Data Analysis
17 386 (9.40%) Containerisation
18 381 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,639 (39.90%) SQL
2 729 (17.75%) JavaScript
3 581 (14.14%) Java
4 388 (9.44%) Bash
5 345 (8.40%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 274 (6.67%) C#
8 232 (5.65%) R
9 207 (5.04%) C++
10 159 (3.87%) Go
11 118 (2.87%) C
12 78 (1.90%) Scala
13 64 (1.56%) PHP
14 59 (1.44%) VBA
15 52 (1.27%) Bicep
16 47 (1.14%) MATLAB
16 47 (1.14%) Perl
17 45 (1.10%) Rust
18 39 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 801 (19.50%) Degree
2 591 (14.39%) Azure Certification
3 444 (10.81%) Security Cleared
4 364 (8.86%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 256 (6.23%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 212 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 191 (4.65%) Master's Degree
10 161 (3.92%) DV Cleared
11 124 (3.02%) PhD
12 71 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.39%) CCNP
14 49 (1.19%) CISSP
15 48 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.66%) OSCP
18 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.92%) QA
3 104 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.46%) GDPR
5 82 (2.00%) NIST
6 66 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.80%) SLA
8 27 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) GRC
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.097%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 516 (12.56%) Docker
2 80 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.68%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.097%) Postfix
13 4 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.073%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.073%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 542 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 533 (12.97%) Terraform
3 314 (7.64%) Ansible
4 128 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 127 (3.09%) Grafana
6 59 (1.44%) Argo
7 25 (0.61%) Kibana
8 23 (0.56%) Puppet
9 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.37%) Nessus
12 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.32%) Nagios
13 13 (0.32%) Rancher
14 12 (0.29%) Control-M
15 11 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,079 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.18%) Databricks
3 192 (4.67%) Google
4 128 (3.12%) Oracle
5 100 (2.43%) Cisco
5 100 (2.43%) VMware
6 85 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 75 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.68%) SAP
9 60 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.46%) Splunk
10 55 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 45 (1.10%) IBM
11 45 (1.10%) Informatica
12 43 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 43 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 42 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 42 (1.02%) Talend
14 33 (0.80%) Palantir
15 31 (0.75%) Atlassian