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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,636 5,094 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 11.96% 9.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.62% 34.46% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 3,177 5,094
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,049 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.91% -2.31%

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 11,414 14,782 24,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.55% 34.69% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,396 9,178 20,608
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
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 27 February 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 27 February 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 0 2,081 £82,500 -5.71% 967
North of England -9 831 £45,000 -30.77% 412
South East -18 589 £60,250 -13.93% 589
Midlands -11 436 £55,000 - 212
South West +4 394 £57,500 -11.54% 240
Yorkshire +5 359 £40,000 -38.46% 145
North West -12 347 £52,500 -16.00% 198
West Midlands +8 281 £55,000 - 107
East of England -26 234 £50,000 -24.52% 189
East Midlands -18 157 £55,000 - 104
North East +9 125 £40,000 -38.46% 70
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
1 181 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 137 (2.96%) Apache
4 57 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.69%) SAS
7 28 (0.60%) Confluence
7 28 (0.60%) WordPress
8 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.41%) Appian
10 17 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
13 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) nginx
15 6 (0.13%) CMS
16 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.086%) JBoss
Applications
1 821 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 55 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.086%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.086%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.086%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (42.21%) Azure
2 1,604 (34.60%) AWS
3 949 (20.47%) Power Platform
4 558 (12.04%) GitHub
5 555 (11.97%) Azure AI
6 508 (10.96%) GCP
7 267 (5.76%) Serverless
8 185 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 183 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
10 172 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (3.69%) SaaS
12 162 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
13 153 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 138 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 136 (2.93%) dbt
16 118 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 108 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 77 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.50%) Internet
2 173 (3.73%) Firewall
3 107 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 97 (2.09%) VPN
5 91 (1.96%) Broadband
6 83 (1.79%) DNS
7 73 (1.57%) WAN
8 66 (1.42%) LAN
9 59 (1.27%) BGP
10 58 (1.25%) Wireless
11 56 (1.21%) Network Security
12 55 (1.19%) VLAN
13 51 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
14 48 (1.04%) HTTP
15 42 (0.91%) OSPF
16 34 (0.73%) MPLS
16 34 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.69%) Wireshark
18 28 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
18 28 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 911 (19.65%) Power BI
2 882 (19.03%) Tableau
3 239 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 209 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 178 (3.84%) Data Mining
7 169 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 112 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 107 (2.31%) MongoDB
11 105 (2.26%) Big Data
12 93 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 90 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
15 82 (1.77%) Metadata
16 77 (1.66%) MySQL
17 67 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (1.25%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.93%) RDBMS
20 42 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 613 (13.22%) Git
2 209 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 165 (3.56%) GitLab
4 104 (2.24%) JIRA
5 53 (1.14%) Selenium
6 48 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 43 (0.93%) MLflow
8 38 (0.82%) Postman
9 32 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 29 (0.63%) JUnit
11 28 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
14 20 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.41%) JMeter
16 18 (0.39%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.37%) Subversion
18 16 (0.35%) TeamCity
19 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
19 15 (0.32%) Metasploit
General
1 1,541 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 1,137 (24.53%) Finance
3 779 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (5.61%) Banking
5 239 (5.16%) Multimedia
6 196 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 185 (3.99%) Public Sector
8 173 (3.73%) Law
9 152 (3.28%) Retail
10 141 (3.04%) Front Office
11 137 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 120 (2.59%) Marketing
13 115 (2.48%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.83%) Legal
15 79 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.51%) Electronics
16 70 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 65 (1.40%) Investment Banking
18 51 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,023 (22.07%) Analyst
2 836 (18.03%) Data Analyst
3 797 (17.19%) Developer
4 687 (14.82%) Senior
5 544 (11.73%) Junior
6 519 (11.19%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.19%) Junior Data Analyst
7 445 (9.60%) Data Engineer
8 439 (9.47%) Trainee
9 372 (8.02%) Software Engineer
10 349 (7.53%) Lead
11 306 (6.60%) Python Developer
12 267 (5.76%) Python Engineer
13 204 (4.40%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.36%) Architect
15 150 (3.24%) Trainee Analyst
15 150 (3.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 143 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
18 129 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (8.20%) HTML
2 358 (7.72%) React
3 331 (7.14%) CSS
4 194 (4.18%) Kafka
5 188 (4.06%) Node.js
6 181 (3.90%) Django
6 181 (3.90%) REST
7 154 (3.32%) PySpark
8 148 (3.19%) RESTful
9 137 (2.96%) Pandas
10 133 (2.87%) .NET
11 130 (2.80%) FastAPI
12 123 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 112 (2.42%) Flask
14 109 (2.35%) TensorFlow
15 98 (2.11%) JSON
16 93 (2.01%) scikit-learn
17 89 (1.92%) AngularJS
17 89 (1.92%) NumPy
18 83 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 238 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 235 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 188 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 94 (2.03%) Equities
9 81 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 80 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 76 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 74 (1.60%) Hedge funds
13 73 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 73 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
15 68 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 65 (1.40%) Derivative
17 61 (1.32%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
18 60 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 502 (10.83%) Linux
2 202 (4.36%) Windows
3 183 (3.95%) Unix
4 63 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.80%) CentOS
7 28 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Debian
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.24%) Android
12 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.086%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
17 2 (0.043%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,541 (33.24%) AI
2 1,051 (22.67%) CI/CD
3 1,013 (21.85%) Business Intelligence
4 948 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 886 (19.11%) Analytics
6 831 (17.92%) Agile
7 801 (17.28%) DevOps
8 765 (16.50%) Software Engineering
9 694 (14.97%) Mentoring
10 593 (12.79%) Machine Learning
11 519 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 508 (10.96%) Data Science
13 504 (10.87%) ETL
14 502 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
15 500 (10.79%) Data Modelling
16 476 (10.27%) Computer Science
17 475 (10.25%) Data Engineering
18 454 (9.79%) Data Analysis
19 439 (9.47%) Containerisation
20 430 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,931 (41.65%) SQL
2 760 (16.39%) JavaScript
3 599 (12.92%) Java
4 393 (8.48%) Bash
5 369 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 326 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 277 (5.97%) C#
8 243 (5.24%) C++
9 234 (5.05%) R
10 221 (4.77%) Go
11 127 (2.74%) C
12 92 (1.98%) Scala
13 68 (1.47%) VBA
14 65 (1.40%) Rust
15 56 (1.21%) PHP
16 42 (0.91%) Bicep
17 39 (0.84%) MATLAB
17 39 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 828 (17.86%) Azure Certification
2 798 (17.21%) Degree
3 462 (9.97%) Security Cleared
4 395 (8.52%) AWS Certification
5 287 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 283 (6.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 273 (5.89%) SC Cleared
8 237 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 162 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 154 (3.32%) Master's Degree
11 94 (2.03%) PhD
12 70 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.32%) CCNP
14 52 (1.12%) CISSP
15 46 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.82%) OSCP
18 36 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 28 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.60%) QA
3 113 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (2.37%) GDPR
5 107 (2.31%) NIST
6 66 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.52%) SLA
10 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.35%) PMO
12 15 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.26%) GRC
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
17 5 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 549 (11.84%) Docker
2 90 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.60%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.37%) KVM
8 14 (0.30%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) HDFS
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.086%) iptables
12 4 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.065%) NFS
13 3 (0.065%) QEMU
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 579 (12.49%) Terraform
2 573 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 319 (6.88%) Ansible
4 149 (3.21%) Grafana
5 141 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.38%) Argo
7 22 (0.47%) Puppet
8 21 (0.45%) Kibana
9 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 19 (0.41%) Nagios
11 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.28%) Control-M
14 12 (0.26%) Nessus
14 12 (0.26%) Rancher
15 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.24%) logstash
16 10 (0.22%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,420 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.37%) Databricks
3 212 (4.57%) Google
4 144 (3.11%) Oracle
5 111 (2.39%) Cisco
6 110 (2.37%) VMware
7 94 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 68 (1.47%) SAP
10 64 (1.38%) Splunk
11 55 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.06%) Informatica
13 45 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.91%) Bloomberg
15 39 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 39 (0.84%) IBM
16 38 (0.82%) Talend
17 35 (0.75%) Foundry
18 34 (0.73%) Palantir