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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,150 4,517 6,741
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.56% 12.27% 8.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.94% 35.72% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,163 3,216 5,369
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
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 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 12,279 12,644 25,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.02% 34.35% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,857 9,284 22,045
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 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 25 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 -1 2,224 £84,250 -6.39% 1,152
North of England -2 940 £46,500 -28.46% 475
South East -11 693 £60,250 -8.02% 576
Midlands +3 507 £55,100 +0.18% 255
South West +5 440 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +10 410 £40,000 -38.46% 164
North West -8 392 £53,750 -17.31% 230
West Midlands +23 317 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -21 273 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -10 191 £55,000 - 125
North East +19 138 £40,000 -38.46% 83
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
1 201 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.52%) Apache
4 68 (1.32%) WordPress
5 62 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.64%) SAS
7 32 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.60%) Confluence
9 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.33%) Appian
12 14 (0.27%) IIS
12 14 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.097%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.078%) Apache Solr
18 4 (0.078%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,037 (20.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.097%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.078%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.078%) Windchill
10 3 (0.058%) CATIA
11 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.039%) Weka
12 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.019%) Houdini
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) NUKE
12 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.097%) Shopify
5 3 (0.058%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.058%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.058%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.039%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.019%) Actimize
7 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.019%) Endur
7 1 (0.019%) Findur
7 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.019%) Primavera
7 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,328 (45.20%) Azure
2 1,749 (33.96%) AWS
3 1,193 (23.17%) Power Platform
4 794 (15.42%) Azure AI
5 599 (11.63%) GitHub
6 578 (11.22%) GCP
7 280 (5.44%) Serverless
8 200 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 200 (3.88%) SaaS
9 180 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 177 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
11 170 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 162 (3.15%) dbt
13 159 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 159 (3.09%) Snowflake
14 121 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 120 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 103 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
17 92 (1.79%) OpenShift
18 91 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.28%) Internet
2 188 (3.65%) Firewall
3 131 (2.54%) Broadband
4 110 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 104 (2.02%) VPN
6 97 (1.88%) DNS
7 72 (1.40%) Network Security
8 71 (1.38%) WAN
9 68 (1.32%) LAN
10 63 (1.22%) BGP
11 61 (1.18%) Wireless
12 57 (1.11%) VLAN
13 50 (0.97%) HTTP
14 46 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.83%) OSPF
16 37 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 33 (0.64%) MPLS
19 32 (0.62%) Wireshark
20 28 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,156 (22.45%) Power BI
2 1,124 (21.83%) Tableau
3 262 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.84%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.28%) Data Mining
7 167 (3.24%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (2.12%) BigQuery
12 107 (2.08%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.79%) Big Data
15 84 (1.63%) Metadata
16 81 (1.57%) MySQL
17 70 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
18 47 (0.91%) Looker
19 46 (0.89%) Delta Lake
19 46 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 666 (12.93%) Git
2 214 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 179 (3.48%) GitLab
4 102 (1.98%) JIRA
5 65 (1.26%) MLflow
6 58 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 53 (1.03%) Selenium
8 37 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.72%) Postman
9 32 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.49%) JUnit
11 22 (0.43%) CircleCI
12 21 (0.41%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 19 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.37%) JMeter
15 17 (0.33%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 1,798 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (22.52%) Finance
3 831 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (5.28%) Banking
5 260 (5.05%) Multimedia
6 213 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 206 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 168 (3.26%) Law
9 166 (3.22%) Retail
10 148 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.64%) Front Office
12 119 (2.31%) Marketing
13 108 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.69%) Legal
15 72 (1.40%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.38%) Electronics
16 71 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 63 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 46 (0.89%) Games
19 45 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,240 (24.08%) Analyst
2 1,060 (20.58%) Data Analyst
3 848 (16.47%) Developer
4 790 (15.34%) Junior
5 757 (14.70%) Junior Analyst
5 757 (14.70%) Junior Data Analyst
6 750 (14.56%) Senior
7 471 (9.15%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.83%) Trainee
9 430 (8.35%) Software Engineer
10 402 (7.81%) Lead
11 340 (6.60%) Python Developer
12 319 (6.19%) Python Engineer
13 215 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 160 (3.11%) Architect
15 152 (2.95%) Senior Developer
16 144 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
16 144 (2.80%) Trainee Analyst
16 144 (2.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 143 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (7.84%) HTML
2 373 (7.24%) React
3 355 (6.89%) CSS
4 230 (4.47%) Kafka
5 211 (4.10%) Node.js
6 198 (3.84%) Django
7 191 (3.71%) REST
8 169 (3.28%) PySpark
9 159 (3.09%) RESTful
10 155 (3.01%) PyTorch
11 148 (2.87%) .NET
12 140 (2.72%) Pandas
13 135 (2.62%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.58%) FastAPI
15 124 (2.41%) scikit-learn
16 122 (2.37%) Flask
17 100 (1.94%) JSON
18 92 (1.79%) NumPy
19 84 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
20 82 (1.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 278 (5.40%) Cloud Native
2 250 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 200 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 101 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 91 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 85 (1.65%) Equities
10 85 (1.65%) Fixed Income
11 81 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 77 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.50%) Hedge funds
13 72 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
14 71 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 69 (1.34%) AI Agents
16 68 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 64 (1.24%) Security Posture
18 63 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 539 (10.47%) Linux
2 218 (4.23%) Windows
3 180 (3.50%) Unix
4 66 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.80%) CentOS
7 28 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.21%) Debian
10 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.16%) Android
11 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.097%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.097%) Solaris
13 5 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.078%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.058%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.058%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,873 (36.37%) AI
2 1,265 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1,104 (21.44%) CI/CD
4 980 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 939 (18.23%) Analytics
6 883 (17.15%) Agile
7 868 (16.85%) Software Engineering
8 832 (16.16%) DevOps
9 723 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 674 (13.09%) Machine Learning
11 561 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 552 (10.72%) Data Modelling
13 537 (10.43%) Data Science
14 530 (10.29%) ETL
15 525 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
16 495 (9.61%) Data Engineering
17 482 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 479 (9.30%) Computer Science
18 479 (9.30%) Containerisation
19 429 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,213 (42.97%) SQL
2 798 (15.50%) JavaScript
3 603 (11.71%) Java
4 400 (7.77%) Bash
5 390 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 327 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 284 (5.51%) C#
8 265 (5.15%) R
9 259 (5.03%) C++
9 259 (5.03%) Go
10 129 (2.50%) C
11 100 (1.94%) Scala
12 72 (1.40%) Rust
13 69 (1.34%) VBA
14 63 (1.22%) PHP
15 45 (0.87%) Bicep
16 41 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 37 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 36 (0.70%) Perl
19 30 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,090 (21.17%) Azure Certification
2 771 (14.97%) Degree
3 439 (8.52%) Security Cleared
4 413 (8.02%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 307 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 252 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 245 (4.76%) SC Cleared
9 173 (3.36%) DV Cleared
10 130 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.77%) PhD
12 68 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.13%) CCNP
14 50 (0.97%) CISSP
15 44 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.83%) OSCP
17 38 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.56%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.52%) ACCA
19 27 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 201 (3.90%) QA
3 124 (2.41%) GDPR
4 114 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.10%) NIST
6 63 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.45%) PMO
11 22 (0.43%) SLA
12 21 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 20 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.35%) GRC
15 17 (0.33%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.14%) WCAG
18 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 5 (0.097%) IFRS
System Software
1 574 (11.15%) Docker
2 93 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.62%) Firmware
6 27 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.39%) KVM
8 16 (0.31%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Lustre
11 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.097%) iptables
14 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.058%) HDFS
15 3 (0.058%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 633 (12.29%) Terraform
2 590 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 326 (6.33%) Ansible
4 173 (3.36%) Grafana
5 146 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.17%) Argo
7 27 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.45%) Puppet
9 21 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.33%) Istio
11 17 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.23%) Nessus
13 11 (0.21%) Control-M
13 11 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 11 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,699 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 289 (5.61%) Databricks
3 202 (3.92%) Google
4 144 (2.80%) Oracle
5 117 (2.27%) Cisco
6 116 (2.25%) VMware
7 97 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.38%) SAP
9 68 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.30%) Splunk
11 63 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.09%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.97%) Informatica
14 46 (0.89%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.87%) Foundry
16 44 (0.85%) Dell
17 42 (0.82%) Talend
18 41 (0.80%) Bloomberg
18 41 (0.80%) Palantir
19 39 (0.76%) Alteryx