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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,417 5,259 6,398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.51% 11.72% 9.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.88% 34.12% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,901 3,242 5,107
10th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.57%

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 11,075 15,414 24,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.84% 34.36% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,227 9,255 20,610
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £102,500 £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 13 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 13 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 -1 2,027 £82,500 -5.71% 976
North of England -11 775 £47,250 -27.31% 397
South East -23 536 £60,000 -11.11% 633
Midlands -10 413 £55,000 - 221
South West -1 370 £60,000 -7.69% 240
Yorkshire +6 340 £43,750 -32.69% 144
North West -17 325 £55,000 -12.00% 206
West Midlands +5 267 £55,000 - 110
East of England -25 228 £50,000 -24.51% 183
East Midlands -18 149 £55,000 - 112
North East +8 110 £40,000 -38.46% 48
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
1 161 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.72%) Apache
4 40 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 37 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.75%) Confluence
7 31 (0.70%) SAS
8 27 (0.61%) WordPress
9 26 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.43%) Appian
11 18 (0.41%) IIS
11 18 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.32%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.20%) nginx
17 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 710 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.23%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.091%) Windchill
10 3 (0.068%) CATIA
10 3 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.045%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.045%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.045%) Weka
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.091%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.045%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,827 (41.36%) Azure
2 1,517 (34.34%) AWS
3 859 (19.45%) Power Platform
4 550 (12.45%) GitHub
5 468 (10.60%) GCP
6 465 (10.53%) Azure AI
7 262 (5.93%) Serverless
8 184 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (3.80%) SaaS
10 167 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
12 155 (3.51%) Amazon S3
12 155 (3.51%) Snowflake
13 138 (3.12%) dbt
14 137 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 115 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 107 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
17 82 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
18 79 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 72 (1.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.82%) Internet
2 161 (3.65%) Firewall
3 96 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 90 (2.04%) VPN
5 73 (1.65%) DNS
6 70 (1.58%) WAN
7 68 (1.54%) Broadband
8 60 (1.36%) LAN
9 57 (1.29%) BGP
10 55 (1.25%) Wireless
11 53 (1.20%) Network Security
12 50 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.09%) VLAN
14 40 (0.91%) HTTP
14 40 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.77%) MPLS
15 34 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.70%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.59%) DHCP
17 26 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 820 (18.56%) Power BI
2 753 (17.05%) Tableau
3 243 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (4.87%) SQL Server
5 206 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
6 173 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 165 (3.74%) Data Mining
8 150 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.51%) Big Data
11 110 (2.49%) MongoDB
12 89 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 87 (1.97%) BigQuery
14 85 (1.92%) MySQL
15 84 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
16 71 (1.61%) Metadata
17 67 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
17 67 (1.52%) Hadoop
18 50 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
19 49 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 580 (13.13%) Git
2 215 (4.87%) Jenkins
3 157 (3.55%) GitLab
4 109 (2.47%) JIRA
5 58 (1.31%) Selenium
6 44 (1.00%) MLflow
7 40 (0.91%) Postman
8 32 (0.72%) JUnit
9 31 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 29 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 27 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.52%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.45%) JMeter
14 19 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.41%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.38%) Subversion
17 15 (0.34%) Burp Suite
17 15 (0.34%) Metasploit
18 14 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 1,415 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 1,082 (24.50%) Finance
3 715 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.46%) Banking
4 241 (5.46%) Multimedia
5 181 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 179 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 167 (3.78%) Law
8 136 (3.08%) Front Office
9 127 (2.88%) Marketing
10 126 (2.85%) Retail
11 122 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 112 (2.54%) Telecoms
13 83 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 75 (1.70%) Electronics
15 73 (1.65%) Legal
16 62 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
17 51 (1.15%) Investment Banking
18 50 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
19 49 (1.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 887 (20.08%) Analyst
2 795 (18.00%) Developer
3 726 (16.44%) Data Analyst
4 665 (15.06%) Senior
5 445 (10.07%) Junior
6 432 (9.78%) Data Engineer
7 424 (9.60%) Junior Analyst
7 424 (9.60%) Junior Data Analyst
8 410 (9.28%) Trainee
9 362 (8.20%) Software Engineer
10 334 (7.56%) Lead
11 314 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 258 (5.84%) Python Engineer
13 199 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.37%) Architect
15 144 (3.26%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.06%) Trainee Analyst
16 135 (3.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 132 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
18 130 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (8.81%) HTML
2 351 (7.95%) React
3 341 (7.72%) CSS
4 183 (4.14%) REST
5 182 (4.12%) Node.js
6 171 (3.87%) Django
7 166 (3.76%) Kafka
8 146 (3.31%) RESTful
9 135 (3.06%) .NET
10 132 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 132 (2.99%) PySpark
11 124 (2.81%) Pandas
12 120 (2.72%) PyTorch
13 112 (2.54%) Flask
14 103 (2.33%) TensorFlow
15 98 (2.22%) AngularJS
16 93 (2.11%) JSON
17 87 (1.97%) NumPy
18 81 (1.83%) Vue
19 79 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 233 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 220 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 179 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 102 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 101 (2.29%) Equities
9 83 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 78 (1.77%) Hedge funds
11 75 (1.70%) Low-Code
12 72 (1.63%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.61%) Fixed Income
14 70 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
15 67 (1.52%) Derivative
16 65 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
17 63 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
18 60 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
19 56 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 498 (11.27%) Linux
2 198 (4.48%) Windows
3 177 (4.01%) Unix
4 64 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 58 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.75%) CentOS
7 29 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.38%) Debian
10 15 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.23%) Android
12 10 (0.23%) Solaris
13 9 (0.20%) VMS
14 8 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.091%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.068%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.068%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (31.54%) AI
2 1,000 (22.64%) CI/CD
3 934 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
4 927 (20.99%) Business Intelligence
5 839 (18.99%) Analytics
6 795 (18.00%) Agile
7 775 (17.55%) DevOps
8 740 (16.75%) Software Engineering
9 675 (15.28%) Mentoring
10 574 (13.00%) Machine Learning
11 490 (11.09%) Data Science
12 486 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 482 (10.91%) Data Modelling
14 480 (10.87%) ETL
15 471 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
16 470 (10.64%) Computer Science
17 462 (10.46%) Data Engineering
18 431 (9.76%) Data Analysis
19 415 (9.40%) Containerisation
20 396 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,798 (40.71%) SQL
2 758 (17.16%) JavaScript
3 600 (13.58%) Java
4 396 (8.97%) Bash
5 355 (8.04%) PowerShell
6 322 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 280 (6.34%) C#
8 235 (5.32%) R
9 228 (5.16%) C++
10 195 (4.41%) Go
11 132 (2.99%) C
12 87 (1.97%) Scala
13 64 (1.45%) PHP
14 63 (1.43%) VBA
15 55 (1.25%) Rust
16 48 (1.09%) Bicep
17 43 (0.97%) MATLAB
18 40 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 39 (0.88%) Perl
20 37 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 790 (17.89%) Degree
2 735 (16.64%) Azure Certification
3 450 (10.19%) Security Cleared
4 382 (8.65%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 265 (6.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 227 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 172 (3.89%) Master's Degree
10 156 (3.53%) DV Cleared
11 106 (2.40%) PhD
12 72 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.36%) CCNP
14 52 (1.18%) CISSP
15 48 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.70%) OSCP
19 27 (0.61%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 168 (3.80%) QA
3 115 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.33%) GDPR
5 98 (2.22%) NIST
6 66 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 39 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.61%) SLA
9 24 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.32%) PMO
13 13 (0.29%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.23%) GRC
14 10 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.11%) DICOM
16 5 (0.11%) NCSC
17 4 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 531 (12.02%) Docker
2 85 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.68%) Firmware
5 20 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.29%) KVM
7 13 (0.29%) vSphere
8 10 (0.23%) HDFS
8 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.16%) Lustre
11 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.091%) iptables
12 4 (0.091%) NFS
12 4 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.068%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.068%) QEMU
13 3 (0.068%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 561 (12.70%) Terraform
2 558 (12.63%) Kubernetes
3 319 (7.22%) Ansible
4 137 (3.10%) Grafana
5 132 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.45%) Argo
7 22 (0.50%) Kibana
7 22 (0.50%) Puppet
8 20 (0.45%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.36%) Nagios
11 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.29%) Rancher
13 12 (0.27%) Nessus
14 11 (0.25%) Control-M
14 11 (0.25%) logstash
14 11 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,289 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.68%) Databricks
3 202 (4.57%) Google
4 125 (2.83%) Oracle
5 103 (2.33%) Cisco
6 100 (2.26%) VMware
7 75 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.58%) SAP
10 63 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 61 (1.38%) Splunk
12 52 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.11%) Informatica
14 44 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.95%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.91%) Talend
17 39 (0.88%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.88%) IBM
18 32 (0.72%) Palantir
19 31 (0.70%) Atlassian