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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,306 5,026 6,562
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.63% 11.49% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.70% 40.26% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,843 2,811 4,646
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
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 16,727 12,484 21,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.58% 28.55% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,340 15,648
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -3 2,642 £85,000 -2.86% 3,037
North of England -12 1,232 £66,735 +4.15% 593
South East +8 897 £60,000 - 743
South West +12 613 £60,000 +9.09% 324
North West -19 592 £66,750 +11.25% 321
Midlands +6 552 £62,000 -4.62% 262
Yorkshire +13 390 £67,153 +3.31% 162
East of England +10 316 £65,000 +18.18% 362
West Midlands -1 296 £63,750 -1.92% 153
East Midlands +18 255 £52,500 -12.50% 107
North East +28 250 £65,500 +0.77% 115
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
1 245 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 229 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 187 (2.97%) Apache
4 67 (1.06%) Confluence
5 47 (0.75%) WordPress
6 40 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 23 (0.36%) SAS
9 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.21%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.095%) Camunda
13 6 (0.095%) JBoss
13 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 648 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.079%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,504 (39.71%) Azure
2 2,026 (32.13%) AWS
3 998 (15.83%) Power Platform
4 858 (13.61%) Azure AI
5 768 (12.18%) GCP
6 398 (6.31%) GitHub
7 374 (5.93%) Serverless
8 261 (4.14%) Amazon S3
9 241 (3.82%) SaaS
10 239 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 235 (3.73%) Snowflake
12 234 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
13 210 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 199 (3.16%) dbt
15 182 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 165 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
18 141 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
20 121 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.55%) Firewall
2 137 (2.17%) DNS
3 126 (2.00%) Broadband
4 125 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 124 (1.97%) VPN
6 108 (1.71%) Network Security
7 94 (1.49%) WAN
8 77 (1.22%) Wireless
9 73 (1.16%) LAN
10 71 (1.13%) Internet
11 54 (0.86%) BGP
12 47 (0.75%) DHCP
13 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.73%) VLAN
14 41 (0.65%) HTTP
14 41 (0.65%) MQTT
15 38 (0.60%) OSPF
16 35 (0.56%) SSL
17 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 927 (14.70%) Power BI
2 722 (11.45%) Tableau
3 338 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 290 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 208 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 145 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 132 (2.09%) BigQuery
10 122 (1.93%) Big Data
11 114 (1.81%) MySQL
12 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 94 (1.49%) Metadata
15 87 (1.38%) DynamoDB
16 83 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.14%) Looker
18 71 (1.13%) Delta Lake
19 61 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 711 (11.27%) Git
2 293 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.82%) GitLab
4 170 (2.70%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 60 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 60 (0.95%) MLflow
7 49 (0.78%) Selenium
8 46 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 43 (0.68%) Subversion
10 38 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.59%) JUnit
12 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,140 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 1,323 (20.98%) Finance
3 844 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (5.28%) Banking
5 331 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 221 (3.50%) Law
8 190 (3.01%) Marketing
9 155 (2.46%) Retail
10 137 (2.17%) Legal
11 117 (1.86%) Front Office
12 108 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 91 (1.44%) Electronics
15 83 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 82 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 70 (1.11%) Investment Banking
19 66 (1.05%) Games
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,247 (19.77%) Senior
2 868 (13.76%) Developer
3 865 (13.72%) Analyst
4 834 (13.23%) Software Engineer
5 675 (10.70%) Data Analyst
6 661 (10.48%) Python Engineer
7 628 (9.96%) Data Engineer
8 623 (9.88%) Lead
9 610 (9.67%) Junior
10 527 (8.36%) Junior Analyst
11 523 (8.29%) Junior Data Analyst
12 490 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 369 (5.85%) Python Developer
14 297 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 242 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 223 (3.54%) Architect
17 214 (3.39%) Data Scientist
18 200 (3.17%) Senior Developer
19 189 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
20 186 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 945 (14.99%) Terraform
2 414 (6.57%) React
3 273 (4.33%) Kafka
4 243 (3.85%) Node.js
5 237 (3.76%) PySpark
6 235 (3.73%) .NET
7 227 (3.60%) REST
8 212 (3.36%) RESTful
9 209 (3.31%) FastAPI
10 192 (3.04%) HTML
11 189 (3.00%) Django
12 183 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 177 (2.81%) LangChain
14 175 (2.78%) CSS
15 155 (2.46%) TensorFlow
16 131 (2.08%) Flask
17 122 (1.93%) Pandas
18 117 (1.86%) Spring
18 117 (1.86%) Spring Boot
19 108 (1.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 597 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 339 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 300 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 227 (3.60%) AI Agents
5 203 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 144 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 94 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 93 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 83 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 79 (1.25%) Low-Code
12 78 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 77 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
14 76 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.19%) Hedge funds
15 75 (1.19%) Robotics
16 74 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
16 74 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
17 70 (1.11%) Equities
18 64 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 718 (11.39%) Linux
2 331 (5.25%) Windows
3 94 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.25%) Unix
5 54 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.73%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,673 (42.39%) AI
2 1,635 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,585 (25.13%) CI/CD
4 1,194 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
5 1,124 (17.82%) Agile
6 1,123 (17.81%) Analytics
7 1,093 (17.33%) DevOps
8 1,084 (17.19%) Business Intelligence
9 1,017 (16.13%) Machine Learning
10 941 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 819 (12.99%) Mentoring
12 745 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
13 734 (11.64%) Data Engineering
14 666 (10.56%) Data Modelling
15 664 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 643 (10.20%) Data Science
17 609 (9.66%) Containerisation
18 588 (9.32%) Computer Science
18 588 (9.32%) Decision-Making
19 580 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,262 (35.87%) SQL
2 818 (12.97%) Java
3 669 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 546 (8.66%) C++
5 504 (7.99%) PowerShell
6 494 (7.83%) Bash
7 471 (7.47%) C#
8 407 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.33%) Go
10 188 (2.98%) C
11 173 (2.74%) R
12 125 (1.98%) Scala
13 102 (1.62%) PHP
14 95 (1.51%) Rust
15 91 (1.44%) Bicep
16 84 (1.33%) Perl
17 74 (1.17%) Ruby
18 63 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 983 (15.59%) Azure Certification
2 899 (14.26%) Degree
3 797 (12.64%) Security Cleared
4 443 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 321 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.28%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.63%) AWS Certification
9 120 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 106 (1.68%) PhD
11 79 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 57 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.79%) CCNP
15 44 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (0.63%) CISSP
18 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 34 (0.54%) OSCP
20 28 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 272 (4.31%) QA
3 149 (2.36%) GDPR
4 109 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 69 (1.09%) NIST
6 59 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 30 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.43%) SLA
10 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.25%) GRC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.24%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 776 (12.31%) Docker
2 118 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.01%) Firmware
5 46 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.43%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 762 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 408 (6.47%) Ansible
3 238 (3.77%) Grafana
4 145 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 59 (0.94%) Puppet
6 51 (0.81%) Argo
7 41 (0.65%) Nagios
8 40 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.49%) Istio
12 29 (0.46%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
17 16 (0.25%) logstash
18 15 (0.24%) Graylog
19 14 (0.22%) Proxmox
19 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,282 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 457 (7.25%) Databricks
3 202 (3.20%) Google
4 153 (2.43%) Splunk
5 142 (2.25%) Oracle
6 134 (2.12%) VMware
7 122 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 118 (1.87%) Cisco
8 118 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 69 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.94%) Foundry
11 53 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 44 (0.70%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.57%) F5
16 36 (0.57%) SAP
17 33 (0.52%) Palantir
18 32 (0.51%) IBM