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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,890 4,733 6,728
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.67% 10.95% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.13% 40.96% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 2,574 4,181
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £131,750 £130,000
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 16,765 11,555 20,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.13% 26.72% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 7,598 12,802
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2,550 £85,000 -2.86% 6,774
North of England -18 1,084 £66,805 +9.97% 1,040
South East +4 813 £62,500 +8.70% 1,187
South West +7 579 £62,500 +13.64% 655
North West -24 564 £67,500 +12.50% 572
Midlands -6 493 £60,900 -2.56% 506
East of England +7 312 £67,500 +17.39% 688
Yorkshire +6 283 £66,805 -1.03% 318
West Midlands -11 270 £65,000 +8.33% 303
North East +19 240 £67,153 +41.37% 157
East Midlands +15 221 £55,000 -15.38% 203
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
1 213 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 174 (2.95%) Apache
3 168 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.21%) Confluence
5 41 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 37 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.48%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) nginx
11 12 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 310 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.44%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
11 3 (0.051%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.051%) Revit
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) SPSS
11 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.085%) Shopify
5 4 (0.068%) Line 50
5 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.051%) Magento
6 3 (0.051%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Actimize
8 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.017%) FastStats
8 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,073 (35.20%) Azure
2 1,870 (31.75%) AWS
3 731 (12.41%) GCP
4 697 (11.83%) Power Platform
5 442 (7.50%) Azure AI
6 393 (6.67%) GitHub
7 351 (5.96%) Serverless
8 253 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 247 (4.19%) SaaS
10 230 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (3.80%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 212 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 203 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 187 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
16 185 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
17 165 (2.80%) dbt
18 134 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
19 127 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
19 127 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.70%) Firewall
2 152 (2.58%) DNS
3 148 (2.51%) VPN
4 141 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 104 (1.77%) Network Security
6 92 (1.56%) WAN
7 80 (1.36%) Wireless
8 66 (1.12%) Broadband
9 64 (1.09%) LAN
10 63 (1.07%) BGP
11 62 (1.05%) DHCP
12 48 (0.81%) MQTT
13 46 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 45 (0.76%) VLAN
15 43 (0.73%) OSPF
16 39 (0.66%) HTTP
17 35 (0.59%) SSL
18 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.41%) 5G
20 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 626 (10.63%) Power BI
2 329 (5.59%) Tableau
3 327 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
4 309 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
5 193 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 150 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 148 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.17%) Big Data
11 115 (1.95%) MySQL
12 112 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 111 (1.88%) Metadata
14 100 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 89 (1.51%) DynamoDB
17 84 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
18 77 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 72 (1.22%) Delta Lake
20 69 (1.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 687 (11.66%) Git
2 318 (5.40%) Jenkins
3 263 (4.47%) GitLab
4 172 (2.92%) JIRA
5 70 (1.19%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.90%) Subversion
7 52 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.76%) Selenium
9 42 (0.71%) MLflow
10 38 (0.65%) JUnit
11 33 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 33 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
13 29 (0.49%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.48%) LabVIEW
15 24 (0.41%) Cucumber
16 23 (0.39%) Maven
17 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,801 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 1,338 (22.72%) Finance
3 824 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 343 (5.82%) Banking
6 268 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.79%) Law
8 213 (3.62%) Marketing
9 170 (2.89%) Retail
10 133 (2.26%) Legal
11 114 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.85%) Front Office
13 102 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 98 (1.66%) Electronics
15 93 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 82 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.09%) Games
19 48 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 47 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,266 (21.49%) Senior
2 893 (15.16%) Software Engineer
3 816 (13.85%) Developer
4 709 (12.04%) Python Engineer
5 622 (10.56%) Lead
6 621 (10.54%) Data Engineer
7 535 (9.08%) Analyst
8 441 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 355 (6.03%) Python Developer
9 355 (6.03%) Python Software Engineer
10 346 (5.87%) Data Analyst
11 272 (4.62%) Junior
12 262 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 219 (3.72%) Data Scientist
14 217 (3.68%) Architect
15 202 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 199 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
17 193 (3.28%) Junior Analyst
18 191 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
19 189 (3.21%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 966 (16.40%) Terraform
2 402 (6.83%) React
3 246 (4.18%) REST
4 233 (3.96%) .NET
5 230 (3.90%) Node.js
5 230 (3.90%) PySpark
6 224 (3.80%) Kafka
7 222 (3.77%) FastAPI
8 204 (3.46%) RESTful
9 177 (3.01%) LangChain
10 170 (2.89%) Django
11 155 (2.63%) PyTorch
12 135 (2.29%) HTML
12 135 (2.29%) TensorFlow
13 127 (2.16%) Spring
13 127 (2.16%) Spring Boot
14 124 (2.11%) CSS
15 116 (1.97%) Flask
16 103 (1.75%) LangGraph
17 97 (1.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 607 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 302 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 284 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 265 (4.50%) AI Agents
5 228 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.54%) Robotics
10 88 (1.49%) Hedge funds
11 86 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 84 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 83 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
14 82 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
15 75 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
16 71 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
17 69 (1.17%) Low-Code
18 65 (1.10%) Equities
19 63 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 709 (12.04%) Linux
2 327 (5.55%) Windows
3 82 (1.39%) Unix
4 81 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) Android
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
15 11 (0.19%) Solaris
15 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,367 (40.19%) AI
2 1,722 (29.24%) Software Engineering
3 1,642 (27.88%) CI/CD
4 1,226 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
5 1,131 (19.20%) Analytics
6 1,113 (18.90%) DevOps
7 1,090 (18.51%) Agile
8 1,010 (17.15%) Machine Learning
9 969 (16.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 798 (13.55%) Mentoring
11 793 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
12 739 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
13 733 (12.44%) Data Engineering
14 691 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 645 (10.95%) Data Modelling
16 631 (10.71%) Decision-Making
17 621 (10.54%) Data Science
18 596 (10.12%) Containerisation
19 590 (10.02%) Test Automation
20 587 (9.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,946 (33.04%) SQL
2 838 (14.23%) Java
3 606 (10.29%) JavaScript
4 560 (9.51%) C++
5 535 (9.08%) Bash
6 497 (8.44%) PowerShell
7 483 (8.20%) C#
8 417 (7.08%) TypeScript
9 264 (4.48%) Go
10 196 (3.33%) C
11 157 (2.67%) R
12 108 (1.83%) Scala
13 100 (1.70%) Bicep
13 100 (1.70%) Rust
14 89 (1.51%) MATLAB
15 85 (1.44%) PHP
16 80 (1.36%) Perl
17 78 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 73 (1.24%) Ruby
19 56 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 941 (15.98%) Degree
2 892 (15.14%) Security Cleared
3 521 (8.85%) Azure Certification
4 507 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 308 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 285 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 224 (3.80%) Master's Degree
8 123 (2.09%) PhD
9 114 (1.94%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 55 (0.93%) CISSP
14 46 (0.78%) CCNP
15 40 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
16 37 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.59%) CCNA
18 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
20 29 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 564 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 249 (4.23%) QA
3 128 (2.17%) GDPR
4 105 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 75 (1.27%) NIST
6 61 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.48%) SLA
9 26 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) NCSC
11 17 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.29%) WCAG
12 15 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.19%) GRC
14 11 (0.19%) PMO
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.14%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 803 (13.63%) Docker
2 119 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.09%) Firmware
5 37 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.48%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.14%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.051%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 827 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 418 (7.10%) Ansible
3 250 (4.24%) Grafana
4 166 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.24%) Puppet
6 61 (1.04%) Argo
7 44 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.70%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 29 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.44%) Istio
11 26 (0.44%) Rancher
11 26 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.37%) Podman
14 21 (0.36%) Packer
15 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.31%) logstash
15 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 936 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 444 (7.54%) Databricks
3 236 (4.01%) Google
4 153 (2.60%) Splunk
5 124 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 121 (2.05%) Oracle
7 120 (2.04%) VMware
8 108 (1.83%) Cisco
9 91 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 55 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 54 (0.92%) Foundry
13 42 (0.71%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.66%) Palo Alto
15 37 (0.63%) SolarWinds
16 36 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 35 (0.59%) SAP
18 34 (0.58%) F5
19 33 (0.56%) Informatica
20 32 (0.54%) New Relic