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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,727 4,541 6,589
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.48% 10.60% 10.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.48% 40.53% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 2,577 4,074
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £56,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% +4.17%

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 16,609 11,203 20,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.89% 26.14% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,144 7,468 12,170
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,918 £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 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 15 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 15 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 2,619 £85,000 - 552
North of England -23 1,012 £66,805 +11.34% 247
South East +9 744 £62,500 +8.70% 251
North West -24 549 £67,500 +12.50% 116
South West +1 542 £64,250 +16.82% 177
Midlands -10 432 £62,500 +4.17% 116
East of England +10 317 £70,000 +21.74% 118
North East +19 236 £67,500 +50.00% 47
West Midlands -17 235 £65,000 +8.33% 76
Yorkshire -7 230 £65,000 - 86
East Midlands +14 195 £55,000 -15.38% 40
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
1 210 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 174 (3.04%) Apache
3 168 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.15%) Confluence
5 45 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.51%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.16%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.10%) CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
16 4 (0.070%) Ethereum
16 4 (0.070%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 181 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
10 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
11 5 (0.087%) Mathematica
12 4 (0.070%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.070%) Revit
13 3 (0.052%) Blender
13 3 (0.052%) Maya
13 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.052%) SPSS
14 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
14 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.070%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.035%) Line 50
7 2 (0.035%) Odoo
7 2 (0.035%) Quorum
7 2 (0.035%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,902 (33.21%) AWS
2 1,823 (31.83%) Azure
3 759 (13.25%) GCP
4 594 (10.37%) Power Platform
5 402 (7.02%) GitHub
6 341 (5.95%) Serverless
7 270 (4.71%) SaaS
8 254 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 231 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 231 (4.03%) Snowflake
10 228 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 207 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 206 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 188 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
14 185 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 175 (3.06%) dbt
16 165 (2.88%) Azure AI
17 136 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
18 133 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 126 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 220 (3.84%) Firewall
2 156 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 152 (2.65%) DNS
4 151 (2.64%) VPN
5 107 (1.87%) Network Security
6 87 (1.52%) WAN
7 75 (1.31%) Wireless
8 68 (1.19%) BGP
9 67 (1.17%) Broadband
10 63 (1.10%) LAN
11 59 (1.03%) DHCP
12 51 (0.89%) MQTT
13 45 (0.79%) VLAN
14 43 (0.75%) HTTP
15 42 (0.73%) OSPF
16 41 (0.72%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.56%) SSL
18 27 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
19 25 (0.44%) 5G
20 24 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 525 (9.17%) Power BI
2 335 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
3 309 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
4 198 (3.46%) Tableau
5 195 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 181 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 151 (2.64%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 126 (2.20%) Big Data
11 120 (2.10%) Metadata
12 119 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 115 (2.01%) MySQL
14 111 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
15 98 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 86 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (1.41%) DynamoDB
18 76 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
19 74 (1.29%) Delta Lake
20 71 (1.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 680 (11.87%) Git
2 318 (5.55%) Jenkins
3 265 (4.63%) GitLab
4 171 (2.99%) JIRA
5 78 (1.36%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.93%) Subversion
7 47 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.72%) MLflow
10 36 (0.63%) JUnit
10 36 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 33 (0.58%) Cypress.io
12 32 (0.56%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.51%) Eclipse
13 29 (0.51%) LabVIEW
14 24 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 21 (0.37%) Maven
16 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,579 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 1,420 (24.79%) Finance
3 864 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 381 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 378 (6.60%) Banking
6 269 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 240 (4.19%) Marketing
8 224 (3.91%) Law
9 174 (3.04%) Retail
10 139 (2.43%) Legal
11 116 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 114 (1.99%) Front Office
13 99 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 97 (1.69%) Manufacturing
15 95 (1.66%) Electronics
16 87 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.12%) Games
19 52 (0.91%) Investment Banking
20 51 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,283 (22.40%) Senior
2 895 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 822 (14.35%) Developer
4 706 (12.33%) Python Engineer
5 639 (11.16%) Data Engineer
6 624 (10.90%) Lead
7 406 (7.09%) Analyst
8 363 (6.34%) Python Developer
9 357 (6.23%) Python Software Engineer
10 319 (5.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 263 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 226 (3.95%) Architect
12 226 (3.95%) Data Scientist
13 217 (3.79%) Senior Developer
14 214 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
15 208 (3.63%) Data Analyst
16 199 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
17 179 (3.13%) Consultant
18 170 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
19 166 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (16.90%) Terraform
2 394 (6.88%) React
3 262 (4.57%) REST
4 237 (4.14%) .NET
4 237 (4.14%) PySpark
5 234 (4.09%) Node.js
6 219 (3.82%) FastAPI
7 213 (3.72%) Kafka
8 196 (3.42%) RESTful
9 188 (3.28%) LangChain
10 167 (2.92%) Django
11 155 (2.71%) PyTorch
12 136 (2.37%) TensorFlow
13 133 (2.32%) Spring Boot
14 132 (2.30%) CSS
14 132 (2.30%) Spring
15 126 (2.20%) HTML
16 109 (1.90%) LangGraph
17 107 (1.87%) Flask
18 88 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 626 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 298 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 292 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 280 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 251 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 111 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.64%) Robotics
11 92 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 90 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 86 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 84 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
15 82 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
16 77 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
17 67 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
18 66 (1.15%) Equities
19 64 (1.12%) FPGA
20 63 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 728 (12.71%) Linux
2 326 (5.69%) Windows
3 83 (1.45%) Unix
4 76 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.79%) CentOS
7 38 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 31 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.44%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) macOS
11 17 (0.30%) Rocky
12 16 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 15 (0.26%) Windows 10
14 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.17%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) VMS
16 8 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
16 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,231 (38.96%) AI
2 1,729 (30.19%) Software Engineering
3 1,663 (29.04%) CI/CD
4 1,253 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1,186 (20.71%) Analytics
6 1,110 (19.38%) DevOps
7 1,083 (18.91%) Agile
8 1,061 (18.53%) Machine Learning
9 975 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 802 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 773 (13.50%) Data Engineering
12 767 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
13 704 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 692 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
15 684 (11.94%) Data Modelling
16 654 (11.42%) Decision-Making
17 639 (11.16%) Data Science
18 616 (10.76%) Containerisation
19 606 (10.58%) Test Automation
20 586 (10.23%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 1,875 (32.74%) SQL
2 843 (14.72%) Java
3 607 (10.60%) JavaScript
4 549 (9.59%) C++
5 546 (9.53%) Bash
6 483 (8.43%) C#
7 482 (8.42%) PowerShell
8 429 (7.49%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.92%) Go
10 200 (3.49%) C
11 177 (3.09%) R
12 115 (2.01%) Rust
13 108 (1.89%) Scala
14 97 (1.69%) Bicep
15 94 (1.64%) MATLAB
16 87 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 83 (1.45%) Perl
18 81 (1.41%) PHP
19 76 (1.33%) Ruby
20 58 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 953 (16.64%) Degree
2 904 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 502 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 297 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 294 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 240 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 233 (4.07%) Master's Degree
8 139 (2.43%) PhD
9 117 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 72 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 69 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.13%) CISSP
14 42 (0.73%) CCNP
15 39 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
16 37 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
17 32 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.56%) CCNA
18 30 (0.52%) CISM
19 29 (0.51%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 249 (4.35%) QA
3 122 (2.13%) GDPR
4 111 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.41%) NIST
6 68 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (0.42%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 20 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.30%) WCAG
13 13 (0.23%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 825 (14.41%) Docker
2 110 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.07%) Firmware
5 36 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.51%) vSphere
8 24 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.10%) Squid
16 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.052%) NFS
17 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
17 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 860 (15.02%) Kubernetes
2 434 (7.58%) Ansible
3 258 (4.50%) Grafana
4 166 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.45%) Puppet
6 62 (1.08%) Argo
7 46 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 42 (0.73%) Kibana
9 32 (0.56%) Nagios
10 29 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
11 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.42%) Rancher
13 21 (0.37%) Podman
13 21 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.33%) logstash
14 19 (0.33%) Packer
15 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 818 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 459 (8.01%) Databricks
3 265 (4.63%) Google
4 149 (2.60%) Splunk
5 129 (2.25%) OpenAI
6 126 (2.20%) VMware
7 120 (2.10%) Oracle
8 104 (1.82%) Cisco
9 92 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 66 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 63 (1.10%) Foundry
12 53 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 39 (0.68%) SAP
15 35 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 34 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 33 (0.58%) F5
18 32 (0.56%) Informatica
18 32 (0.56%) New Relic