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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,158 5,144 7,837
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.20% 12.52% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 40.32% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 2,895 5,908
10th Percentile £38,590 £42,539 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,188 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,741 12,759 28,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.40% 31.05% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,425 8,606 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -2 2,462 £85,000 -5.56% 1,010
North of England -12 1,249 £65,000 - 333
South East 0 918 £60,000 -4.00% 557
Midlands +19 622 £60,000 +9.09% 172
North West -15 583 £65,000 - 176
South West +6 545 £58,497 +1.73% 182
Yorkshire +15 455 £65,000 - 97
West Midlands +14 321 £62,000 +4.86% 91
East Midlands +30 301 £55,000 - 81
East of England -5 292 £70,000 +5.73% 164
North East +25 211 £59,000 -1.67% 63
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
1 225 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 211 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 160 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 37 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) Appian
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Camunda
17 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 919 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Simulink
7 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.065%) Lightworks
8 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
4 4 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,658 (43.16%) Azure
2 1,954 (31.73%) AWS
3 1,192 (19.36%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.60%) Azure AI
5 723 (11.74%) GCP
6 401 (6.51%) GitHub
7 349 (5.67%) Serverless
8 241 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.90%) SaaS
10 222 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
12 186 (3.02%) Snowflake
13 174 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 174 (2.83%) dbt
14 170 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 157 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 149 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 114 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
19 113 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 240 (3.90%) Firewall
2 188 (3.05%) Broadband
3 141 (2.29%) VPN
4 130 (2.11%) DNS
5 114 (1.85%) Network Security
6 100 (1.62%) WAN
7 98 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 84 (1.36%) LAN
9 82 (1.33%) Wireless
10 78 (1.27%) Internet
11 63 (1.02%) BGP
12 57 (0.93%) VLAN
13 52 (0.84%) HTTP
13 52 (0.84%) SD-WAN
14 46 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 38 (0.62%) DHCP
17 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 33 (0.54%) MQTT
18 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.40%) Power BI
2 988 (16.04%) Tableau
3 290 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.04%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 166 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 101 (1.64%) Big Data
14 96 (1.56%) MySQL
15 91 (1.48%) Metadata
16 73 (1.19%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.07%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 57 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 621 (10.08%) Git
2 281 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 248 (4.03%) GitLab
4 153 (2.48%) JIRA
5 81 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.93%) MLflow
7 53 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.81%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.67%) Selenium
10 38 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.50%) Subversion
13 27 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.44%) Postman
14 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.32%) JMeter
16 20 (0.32%) JUnit
16 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 19 (0.31%) Eclipse
General
1 2,162 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 1,208 (19.62%) Finance
3 815 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (4.35%) Banking
5 267 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (3.61%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.12%) Retail
8 155 (2.52%) Law
9 134 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.09%) Front Office
11 106 (1.72%) Legal
12 90 (1.46%) Marketing
12 90 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 77 (1.25%) Electronics
14 72 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 67 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 65 (1.06%) Multimedia
17 62 (1.01%) Games
17 62 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,143 (18.56%) Analyst
2 1,082 (17.57%) Senior
3 966 (15.69%) Data Analyst
4 906 (14.71%) Developer
5 811 (13.17%) Junior
6 760 (12.34%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.33%) Junior Data Analyst
8 706 (11.46%) Software Engineer
9 584 (9.48%) Data Engineer
10 559 (9.08%) Python Engineer
11 526 (8.54%) Lead
12 454 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 380 (6.17%) Python Developer
14 260 (4.22%) Python Software Engineer
15 196 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
16 194 (3.15%) Architect
16 194 (3.15%) Data Scientist
17 185 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
18 174 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
19 173 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (6.37%) React
2 262 (4.25%) Kafka
3 235 (3.82%) Node.js
4 221 (3.59%) PySpark
5 215 (3.49%) REST
6 203 (3.30%) .NET
7 197 (3.20%) RESTful
8 193 (3.13%) HTML
9 182 (2.96%) FastAPI
10 180 (2.92%) Django
11 177 (2.87%) CSS
12 173 (2.81%) PyTorch
13 154 (2.50%) Pandas
14 147 (2.39%) TensorFlow
15 144 (2.34%) LangChain
16 129 (2.09%) Flask
17 122 (1.98%) scikit-learn
18 105 (1.71%) NumPy
18 105 (1.71%) Vue
19 100 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 490 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 327 (5.31%) Algorithms
3 296 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 164 (2.66%) AI Agents
6 136 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 134 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 104 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 101 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 93 (1.51%) Low-Code
12 86 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 85 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 81 (1.32%) Equities
15 79 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 79 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 75 (1.22%) Hedge funds
17 68 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
18 66 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
19 64 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 666 (10.82%) Linux
2 282 (4.58%) Windows
3 91 (1.48%) Unix
4 86 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.68%) CentOS
7 39 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.097%) Rocky
17 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,584 (41.96%) AI
2 1,409 (22.88%) CI/CD
3 1,386 (22.51%) Software Engineering
4 1,238 (20.10%) Business Intelligence
5 1,076 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
6 1,042 (16.92%) Agile
7 992 (16.11%) Analytics
8 988 (16.04%) DevOps
9 864 (14.03%) Machine Learning
10 832 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 737 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 631 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
13 627 (10.18%) Data Engineering
14 619 (10.05%) Data Modelling
15 597 (9.69%) Data Science
16 556 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 549 (8.92%) Computer Science
18 548 (8.90%) Containerisation
18 548 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
19 524 (8.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,346 (38.10%) SQL
2 709 (11.51%) Java
3 641 (10.41%) JavaScript
4 506 (8.22%) PowerShell
5 480 (7.79%) Bash
6 479 (7.78%) C++
7 406 (6.59%) C#
8 385 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 283 (4.60%) Go
10 170 (2.76%) C
11 166 (2.70%) R
12 118 (1.92%) Scala
13 94 (1.53%) Rust
14 92 (1.49%) PHP
15 81 (1.32%) Bicep
16 62 (1.01%) MATLAB
17 56 (0.91%) Perl
18 55 (0.89%) VBA
19 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,211 (19.67%) Azure Certification
2 789 (12.81%) Degree
3 681 (11.06%) Security Cleared
4 394 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 296 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 214 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 212 (3.44%) AWS Certification
8 165 (2.68%) Master's Degree
9 126 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 126 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 84 (1.36%) PhD
11 77 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (0.93%) CCNP
13 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 45 (0.73%) OSCP
15 38 (0.62%) CISSP
16 34 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 244 (3.96%) QA
3 131 (2.13%) GDPR
4 87 (1.41%) NIST
5 74 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 12 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.18%) WCAG
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 671 (10.90%) Docker
2 107 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.94%) Firmware
5 41 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 869 (14.11%) Terraform
2 678 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 372 (6.04%) Ansible
4 228 (3.70%) Grafana
5 172 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.06%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 34 (0.55%) Kibana
10 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.44%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
13 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
17 17 (0.28%) Podman
18 16 (0.26%) logstash
19 15 (0.24%) Kubeflow
20 14 (0.23%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,551 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 371 (6.02%) Databricks
3 206 (3.35%) Google
4 138 (2.24%) VMware
5 130 (2.11%) Oracle
6 128 (2.08%) Splunk
7 119 (1.93%) Cisco
8 102 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.04%) Foundry
11 61 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 58 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 51 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
15 42 (0.68%) SAP
16 40 (0.65%) F5
17 37 (0.60%) Palantir
18 36 (0.58%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.52%) Arista