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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,938 4,766 6,749
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.74% 11.00% 9.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.27% 40.88% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,732 2,611 4,195
10th Percentile £43,965 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,446
UK median annual salary £70,075 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -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 16,836 11,659 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 26.90% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,263 7,695 12,971
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,175 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,556
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 27 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 27 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 2,539 £85,000 -2.86% 5,616
North of England -18 1,104 £67,500 +8.00% 963
South East +7 837 £62,500 +4.17% 1,092
South West +8 585 £62,500 +13.64% 583
North West -23 562 £67,500 +12.50% 514
Midlands -2 506 £60,900 +0.66% 482
East of England +8 311 £65,000 +13.04% 574
Yorkshire +8 303 £66,805 -1.03% 321
West Midlands -11 277 £65,000 +8.33% 291
North East +20 241 £66,805 +40.64% 134
East Midlands +13 227 £55,000 -15.38% 191
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
1 209 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 170 (2.86%) Apache
3 163 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 8 (0.13%) Camunda
13 8 (0.13%) IIS
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 353 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.067%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
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
12 2 (0.034%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.051%) Magento
7 3 (0.051%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.051%) Summit
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,142 (36.07%) Azure
2 1,863 (31.37%) AWS
3 734 (12.36%) Power Platform
4 730 (12.29%) GCP
5 535 (9.01%) Azure AI
6 377 (6.35%) GitHub
7 357 (6.01%) Serverless
8 252 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 241 (4.06%) SaaS
10 235 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 215 (3.62%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 181 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
17 164 (2.76%) dbt
18 135 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
19 129 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 213 (3.59%) Firewall
2 149 (2.51%) DNS
3 139 (2.34%) VPN
4 137 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.72%) Network Security
6 92 (1.55%) WAN
7 82 (1.38%) Wireless
8 74 (1.25%) Broadband
9 65 (1.09%) LAN
10 63 (1.06%) DHCP
11 61 (1.03%) BGP
12 47 (0.79%) MQTT
13 46 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.77%) VLAN
14 43 (0.72%) OSPF
15 38 (0.64%) HTTP
16 35 (0.59%) SSL
17 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
19 23 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 663 (11.17%) Power BI
2 376 (6.33%) Tableau
3 324 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
4 295 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 152 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.43%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.16%) Big Data
11 114 (1.92%) BigQuery
12 112 (1.89%) MySQL
13 106 (1.79%) Metadata
14 95 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
15 93 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 90 (1.52%) DynamoDB
17 84 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 78 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.23%) Delta Lake
20 72 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 679 (11.43%) Git
2 317 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 257 (4.33%) GitLab
4 173 (2.91%) JIRA
5 68 (1.15%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.89%) Subversion
7 52 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 46 (0.77%) Selenium
9 40 (0.67%) MLflow
10 39 (0.66%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.64%) JUnit
12 33 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 33 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 31 (0.52%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
15 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
16 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
17 23 (0.39%) Maven
18 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 20 (0.34%) JMeter
General
1 1,873 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 1,306 (21.99%) Finance
3 797 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 356 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 332 (5.59%) Banking
6 263 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 222 (3.74%) Law
8 204 (3.44%) Marketing
9 167 (2.81%) Retail
10 131 (2.21%) Legal
11 110 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.84%) Front Office
13 101 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 100 (1.68%) Electronics
15 88 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 70 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 61 (1.03%) Games
19 48 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 46 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,260 (21.22%) Senior
2 875 (14.74%) Software Engineer
3 832 (14.01%) Developer
4 698 (11.75%) Python Engineer
5 623 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 617 (10.39%) Lead
7 571 (9.62%) Analyst
8 486 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 389 (6.55%) Data Analyst
10 358 (6.03%) Python Developer
11 345 (5.81%) Python Software Engineer
12 320 (5.39%) Junior
13 259 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 241 (4.06%) Junior Analyst
15 237 (3.99%) Junior Data Analyst
16 215 (3.62%) Architect
17 214 (3.60%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.38%) Senior Developer
19 200 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
20 191 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (16.07%) Terraform
2 398 (6.70%) React
3 241 (4.06%) REST
4 230 (3.87%) PySpark
5 229 (3.86%) .NET
6 226 (3.81%) Node.js
7 224 (3.77%) Kafka
8 214 (3.60%) FastAPI
9 209 (3.52%) RESTful
10 174 (2.93%) LangChain
11 173 (2.91%) Django
12 157 (2.64%) PyTorch
13 142 (2.39%) HTML
14 135 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.07%) CSS
15 123 (2.07%) Spring
15 123 (2.07%) Spring Boot
16 119 (2.00%) Flask
17 100 (1.68%) LangGraph
18 98 (1.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 597 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 313 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 257 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 221 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 91 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.52%) Robotics
10 88 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 85 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
11 85 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 84 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 82 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 80 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
15 74 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 71 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
17 69 (1.16%) Low-Code
18 65 (1.09%) Equities
19 63 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 707 (11.91%) Linux
2 325 (5.47%) Windows
3 81 (1.36%) Unix
4 80 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.72%) CentOS
7 41 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.44%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
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 2,416 (40.69%) AI
2 1,696 (28.56%) Software Engineering
3 1,623 (27.33%) CI/CD
4 1,212 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 1,109 (18.68%) DevOps
6 1,107 (18.64%) Analytics
7 1,086 (18.29%) Agile
8 998 (16.81%) Machine Learning
9 958 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 829 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
11 795 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 727 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
13 724 (12.19%) Data Engineering
14 681 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 637 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.46%) Decision-Making
17 616 (10.37%) Data Science
18 594 (10.00%) Containerisation
19 590 (9.94%) Computer Science
20 583 (9.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,973 (33.23%) SQL
2 835 (14.06%) Java
3 592 (9.97%) JavaScript
4 571 (9.62%) C++
5 529 (8.91%) Bash
6 496 (8.35%) PowerShell
7 485 (8.17%) C#
8 404 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 263 (4.43%) Go
10 200 (3.37%) C
11 150 (2.53%) R
12 117 (1.97%) Scala
13 99 (1.67%) Rust
14 98 (1.65%) Bicep
15 88 (1.48%) PHP
16 87 (1.47%) MATLAB
17 84 (1.41%) Perl
18 75 (1.26%) Ruby
19 74 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 57 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 930 (15.66%) Degree
2 878 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 611 (10.29%) Azure Certification
4 496 (8.35%) SC Cleared
5 305 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 281 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 218 (3.67%) Master's Degree
8 120 (2.02%) PhD
9 113 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 80 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.86%) CISSP
14 46 (0.77%) CCNP
15 39 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.57%) CCNA
18 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.51%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 250 (4.21%) QA
3 126 (2.12%) GDPR
4 106 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 66 (1.11%) NIST
6 58 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 25 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) NCSC
11 17 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.29%) WCAG
12 14 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.20%) PMO
14 11 (0.19%) GRC
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 788 (13.27%) Docker
2 116 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.08%) Firmware
5 35 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) 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 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.034%) IAG
15 2 (0.034%) iptables
15 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 808 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 415 (6.99%) Ansible
3 243 (4.09%) Grafana
4 163 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.21%) Puppet
6 63 (1.06%) Argo
7 43 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.51%) Nagios
10 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Istio
12 26 (0.44%) Rancher
13 25 (0.42%) Packer
13 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.35%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.29%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
18 15 (0.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 974 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 440 (7.41%) Databricks
3 229 (3.86%) Google
4 153 (2.58%) Splunk
5 120 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 118 (1.99%) Oracle
7 117 (1.97%) VMware
8 108 (1.82%) Cisco
9 90 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 54 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.81%) Foundry
13 42 (0.71%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 37 (0.62%) SAP
15 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 36 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 32 (0.54%) F5
17 32 (0.54%) Informatica
17 32 (0.54%) New Relic