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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,313 4,987 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.61% 11.42% 9.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.72% 40.25% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,846 2,775 4,639
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £135,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,738 12,390 21,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.52% 28.38% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,205 8,259 15,573
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -3 2,647 £85,000 -2.86% 3,002
North of England -12 1,230 £66,750 +6.80% 606
South East +8 896 £60,000 - 763
South West +13 615 £60,000 +9.09% 363
North West -19 593 £66,750 +11.25% 325
Midlands +5 554 £62,000 -4.62% 264
Yorkshire +15 389 £67,500 +3.85% 171
East of England +8 318 £65,000 +18.18% 360
West Midlands -1 297 £65,000 - 153
East Midlands +18 255 £52,500 -19.23% 110
North East +29 248 £66,000 +1.54% 115
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
1 245 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 228 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 188 (2.98%) Apache
4 70 (1.11%) Confluence
5 47 (0.74%) WordPress
6 39 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.35%) SAS
9 13 (0.21%) nginx
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 6 (0.095%) JBoss
13 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 646 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 11 (0.17%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.079%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) FastStats
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,509 (39.74%) Azure
2 2,022 (32.03%) AWS
3 1,001 (15.86%) Power Platform
4 860 (13.62%) Azure AI
5 766 (12.13%) GCP
6 397 (6.29%) GitHub
7 373 (5.91%) Serverless
8 261 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.80%) SaaS
10 238 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 234 (3.71%) Snowflake
12 209 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 197 (3.12%) dbt
14 186 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 166 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
17 145 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 131 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
19 120 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.55%) Firewall
2 139 (2.20%) DNS
3 126 (2.00%) Broadband
3 126 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 125 (1.98%) VPN
5 108 (1.71%) Network Security
6 95 (1.50%) WAN
7 77 (1.22%) Wireless
8 74 (1.17%) LAN
9 71 (1.12%) Internet
10 55 (0.87%) BGP
11 50 (0.79%) DHCP
12 47 (0.74%) VLAN
13 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.65%) MQTT
15 39 (0.62%) HTTP
15 39 (0.62%) OSPF
16 35 (0.55%) SSL
17 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 929 (14.72%) Power BI
2 721 (11.42%) Tableau
3 342 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 289 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 132 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 122 (1.93%) Big Data
12 115 (1.82%) MySQL
13 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 108 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 97 (1.54%) Metadata
16 88 (1.39%) DynamoDB
17 83 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.14%) Delta Lake
18 72 (1.14%) Looker
19 62 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 714 (11.31%) Git
2 291 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.80%) GitLab
4 173 (2.74%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 60 (0.95%) MLflow
7 59 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 49 (0.78%) Selenium
9 45 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
10 43 (0.68%) Subversion
11 38 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.59%) JUnit
13 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
18 21 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,141 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 1,327 (21.02%) Finance
3 845 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (5.32%) Banking
5 329 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.44%) Law
8 189 (2.99%) Marketing
9 155 (2.46%) Retail
10 137 (2.17%) Legal
11 117 (1.85%) Front Office
12 106 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 91 (1.44%) Electronics
15 82 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 74 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 71 (1.12%) Investment Banking
19 66 (1.05%) Games
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,250 (19.80%) Senior
2 870 (13.78%) Analyst
3 869 (13.77%) Developer
4 837 (13.26%) Software Engineer
5 675 (10.69%) Data Analyst
6 666 (10.55%) Python Engineer
7 628 (9.95%) Data Engineer
8 625 (9.90%) Lead
9 610 (9.66%) Junior
10 527 (8.35%) Junior Analyst
11 523 (8.28%) Junior Data Analyst
12 494 (7.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 368 (5.83%) Python Developer
14 296 (4.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 242 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.50%) Architect
17 211 (3.34%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 188 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
20 186 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 947 (15.00%) Terraform
2 412 (6.53%) React
3 273 (4.32%) Kafka
4 242 (3.83%) Node.js
5 240 (3.80%) PySpark
6 235 (3.72%) .NET
7 227 (3.60%) REST
8 212 (3.36%) RESTful
9 209 (3.31%) FastAPI
10 192 (3.04%) HTML
11 188 (2.98%) Django
12 184 (2.91%) PyTorch
13 178 (2.82%) LangChain
14 175 (2.77%) CSS
15 156 (2.47%) TensorFlow
16 131 (2.08%) Flask
17 121 (1.92%) Pandas
18 119 (1.88%) Spring
18 119 (1.88%) Spring Boot
19 108 (1.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 598 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 340 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 302 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 227 (3.60%) AI Agents
5 204 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 148 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 147 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 95 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 84 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 79 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 78 (1.24%) Low-Code
13 77 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 77 (1.22%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.22%) Robotics
13 77 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
14 75 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
14 75 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
15 70 (1.11%) Equities
16 64 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 716 (11.34%) Linux
2 330 (5.23%) Windows
3 94 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.25%) Unix
5 54 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.17%) Android
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,674 (42.36%) AI
2 1,641 (25.99%) Software Engineering
3 1,586 (25.12%) CI/CD
4 1,199 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
5 1,123 (17.79%) Agile
6 1,122 (17.77%) Analytics
7 1,093 (17.31%) DevOps
8 1,089 (17.25%) Business Intelligence
9 1,018 (16.13%) Machine Learning
10 944 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 818 (12.96%) Mentoring
12 743 (11.77%) Data Pipeline
13 733 (11.61%) Data Engineering
14 668 (10.58%) Data Modelling
15 665 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 643 (10.19%) Data Science
17 608 (9.63%) Containerisation
18 590 (9.35%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.28%) Decision-Making
20 578 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,270 (35.96%) SQL
2 823 (13.04%) Java
3 673 (10.66%) JavaScript
4 549 (8.70%) C++
5 506 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 493 (7.81%) Bash
7 472 (7.48%) C#
8 404 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.32%) Go
10 189 (2.99%) C
11 172 (2.72%) R
12 126 (2.00%) Scala
13 102 (1.62%) PHP
14 96 (1.52%) Rust
15 92 (1.46%) Bicep
16 85 (1.35%) Perl
17 75 (1.19%) Ruby
18 63 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 63 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 44 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 985 (15.60%) Azure Certification
2 898 (14.22%) Degree
3 796 (12.61%) Security Cleared
4 443 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 322 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.18%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.28%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.61%) AWS Certification
9 124 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.66%) PhD
11 79 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 57 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.79%) CCNP
15 44 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 41 (0.65%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 29 (0.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 271 (4.29%) QA
3 150 (2.38%) GDPR
4 108 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 68 (1.08%) NIST
6 59 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 30 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.44%) SLA
10 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.25%) GRC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.24%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 776 (12.29%) Docker
2 119 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.03%) Firmware
5 45 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.43%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 762 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 409 (6.48%) Ansible
3 238 (3.77%) Grafana
4 143 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 59 (0.93%) Puppet
6 51 (0.81%) Argo
7 41 (0.65%) Nagios
7 41 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.49%) Istio
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.30%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
18 14 (0.22%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,292 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 456 (7.22%) Databricks
3 203 (3.22%) Google
4 153 (2.42%) Splunk
5 141 (2.23%) Oracle
6 133 (2.11%) VMware
7 122 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 120 (1.90%) Cisco
9 119 (1.88%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 59 (0.93%) Foundry
12 53 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.73%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.67%) Salesforce
15 41 (0.65%) SolarWinds
16 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.57%) F5
17 36 (0.57%) SAP
18 33 (0.52%) Palantir
19 31 (0.49%) IBM