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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,049 4,794 6,721
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.87% 11.13% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 40.83% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,762 2,635 4,226
10th Percentile £43,965 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £132,500
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 16,939 11,742 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.44% 27.27% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,314 7,772 13,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 2,547 £85,000 -2.86% 6,333
North of England -17 1,142 £67,500 +8.00% 1,004
South East +4 863 £62,500 +4.17% 1,074
South West +9 600 £62,500 +13.64% 606
North West -22 571 £67,500 +12.50% 545
Midlands -1 526 £60,900 -5.58% 481
Yorkshire +9 328 £67,500 +1.89% 332
East of England +7 316 £65,000 +13.04% 601
West Midlands -13 286 £65,000 +7.44% 298
North East +16 244 £67,500 +42.11% 132
East Midlands +15 238 £52,500 -20.75% 183
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
1 208 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 168 (2.78%) Apache
3 163 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.21%) Confluence
5 40 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.46%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.23%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 400 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.066%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Revit
10 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 2,239 (37.01%) Azure
2 1,863 (30.80%) AWS
3 780 (12.89%) Power Platform
4 725 (11.99%) GCP
5 630 (10.41%) Azure AI
6 375 (6.20%) GitHub
7 363 (6.00%) Serverless
8 257 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
9 241 (3.98%) SaaS
10 237 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 225 (3.72%) Amazon S3
12 213 (3.52%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 183 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 181 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
17 163 (2.69%) dbt
18 132 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
19 130 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 128 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.54%) Firewall
2 147 (2.43%) DNS
3 138 (2.28%) VPN
4 136 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 100 (1.65%) Network Security
6 94 (1.55%) WAN
7 81 (1.34%) Wireless
8 74 (1.22%) Broadband
9 66 (1.09%) LAN
10 63 (1.04%) DHCP
11 60 (0.99%) BGP
12 47 (0.78%) MQTT
12 47 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 47 (0.78%) VLAN
13 43 (0.71%) OSPF
14 38 (0.63%) HTTP
15 35 (0.58%) SSL
16 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 23 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 709 (11.72%) Power BI
2 427 (7.06%) Tableau
3 327 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 295 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 181 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.40%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.12%) Big Data
11 112 (1.85%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.85%) MySQL
12 106 (1.75%) Metadata
13 95 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
14 93 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
16 84 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
17 79 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
18 75 (1.24%) Delta Lake
19 74 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 681 (11.26%) Git
2 319 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 252 (4.17%) GitLab
4 175 (2.89%) JIRA
5 67 (1.11%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.88%) Subversion
7 52 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.79%) Selenium
9 40 (0.66%) MLflow
10 39 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.63%) JUnit
12 34 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 26 (0.43%) TeamCity
18 24 (0.40%) Maven
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,964 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 1,302 (21.52%) Finance
3 802 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 354 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 329 (5.44%) Banking
6 257 (4.25%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.69%) Law
8 199 (3.29%) Marketing
9 169 (2.79%) Retail
10 130 (2.15%) Legal
11 114 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 106 (1.75%) Front Office
13 103 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 100 (1.65%) Electronics
15 88 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 60 (0.99%) Games
19 48 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,264 (20.90%) Senior
2 877 (14.50%) Software Engineer
3 831 (13.74%) Developer
4 706 (11.67%) Python Engineer
5 630 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 622 (10.28%) Analyst
7 618 (10.22%) Lead
8 527 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 439 (7.26%) Data Analyst
10 369 (6.10%) Junior
11 357 (5.90%) Python Developer
12 347 (5.74%) Python Software Engineer
13 288 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
14 284 (4.69%) Junior Data Analyst
15 260 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.64%) Data Scientist
17 212 (3.50%) Architect
18 202 (3.34%) Senior Developer
19 201 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
20 192 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 965 (15.95%) Terraform
2 400 (6.61%) React
3 240 (3.97%) REST
4 237 (3.92%) PySpark
5 231 (3.82%) .NET
6 227 (3.75%) Node.js
7 226 (3.74%) Kafka
8 214 (3.54%) FastAPI
9 209 (3.46%) RESTful
10 176 (2.91%) Django
11 168 (2.78%) LangChain
12 157 (2.60%) PyTorch
13 143 (2.36%) HTML
14 134 (2.22%) TensorFlow
15 125 (2.07%) CSS
16 123 (2.03%) Spring
16 123 (2.03%) Spring Boot
17 120 (1.98%) Flask
18 100 (1.65%) Pandas
19 95 (1.57%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 602 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 316 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 285 (4.71%) Algorithms
4 253 (4.18%) AI Agents
5 218 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 90 (1.49%) Robotics
9 89 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
10 86 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 85 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 80 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 80 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 76 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 71 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (1.16%) Low-Code
17 66 (1.09%) Equities
17 66 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.75%) Linux
2 327 (5.41%) Windows
3 83 (1.37%) Unix
3 83 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (0.71%) CentOS
6 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 26 (0.43%) Debian
9 19 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 17 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.25%) Rocky
12 13 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
13 12 (0.20%) Android
13 12 (0.20%) Solaris
14 10 (0.17%) VMS
14 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,508 (41.46%) AI
2 1,702 (28.14%) Software Engineering
3 1,632 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 1,213 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
5 1,119 (18.50%) DevOps
6 1,114 (18.42%) Analytics
7 1,087 (17.97%) Agile
8 1,000 (16.53%) Machine Learning
9 964 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 878 (14.51%) Business Intelligence
11 805 (13.31%) Mentoring
12 731 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
13 727 (12.02%) Data Engineering
14 680 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 637 (10.53%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.27%) Data Science
17 620 (10.25%) Decision-Making
18 598 (9.89%) Computer Science
19 595 (9.84%) Containerisation
20 582 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,031 (33.58%) SQL
2 833 (13.77%) Java
3 598 (9.89%) JavaScript
4 572 (9.46%) C++
5 531 (8.78%) Bash
6 501 (8.28%) PowerShell
7 487 (8.05%) C#
8 407 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 260 (4.30%) Go
10 198 (3.27%) C
11 146 (2.41%) R
12 117 (1.93%) Scala
13 98 (1.62%) Bicep
13 98 (1.62%) Rust
14 89 (1.47%) PHP
15 85 (1.41%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.39%) Perl
17 75 (1.24%) Ruby
18 71 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 57 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 940 (15.54%) Degree
2 876 (14.48%) Security Cleared
3 707 (11.69%) Azure Certification
4 496 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 315 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 280 (4.63%) DV Cleared
7 220 (3.64%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.97%) PhD
9 109 (1.80%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.84%) CISSP
14 46 (0.76%) CCNP
15 40 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.50%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 257 (4.25%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 107 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.07%) NIST
6 57 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.46%) SLA
9 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) NCSC
11 18 (0.30%) WCAG
12 16 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.21%) PMO
14 11 (0.18%) GRC
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.13%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 788 (13.03%) Docker
2 118 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.07%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.26%) KVM
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) IAG
16 2 (0.033%) iptables
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 809 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 416 (6.88%) Ansible
3 244 (4.03%) Grafana
4 164 (2.71%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.17%) Puppet
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 40 (0.66%) Kibana
9 31 (0.51%) Nagios
10 27 (0.45%) Istio
10 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
11 26 (0.43%) Rancher
12 24 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.36%) Podman
15 18 (0.30%) logstash
16 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,023 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 447 (7.39%) Databricks
3 226 (3.74%) Google
4 156 (2.58%) Splunk
5 122 (2.02%) VMware
6 121 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 118 (1.95%) Oracle
8 110 (1.82%) Cisco
9 93 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 49 (0.81%) Foundry
13 44 (0.73%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.63%) Fortinet
15 38 (0.63%) SAP
16 36 (0.60%) SolarWinds
17 33 (0.55%) Informatica
18 32 (0.53%) F5
18 32 (0.53%) New Relic