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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,815 4,606 6,617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.59% 10.70% 10.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.09% 40.76% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 2,559 4,087
10th Percentile £43,859 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 16,570 11,301 20,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.94% 26.26% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 7,475 12,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,987 £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 £84,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 11 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 11 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 -3 2,573 £85,000 -1.16% 5,722
North of England -20 1,048 £66,805 +11.34% 893
South East +14 781 £62,500 +8.70% 857
South West +4 567 £62,500 +13.64% 423
North West -24 550 £67,500 +12.50% 503
Midlands -3 464 £62,500 +4.17% 410
East of England +11 324 £70,000 +21.74% 535
Yorkshire +1 261 £65,000 - 256
West Midlands -16 248 £65,000 +8.33% 255
North East +16 240 £67,500 +50.00% 136
East Midlands +19 214 £55,000 -15.38% 155
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 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 172 (2.96%) Apache
3 165 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.17%) Confluence
5 40 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.50%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
17 5 (0.086%) Headless CMS
18 4 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 271 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.46%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
10 5 (0.086%) Mathematica
11 4 (0.069%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.069%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
13 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.069%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Line 50
7 2 (0.034%) Odoo
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) FastStats
8 1 (0.017%) Magento
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,982 (34.08%) Azure
2 1,876 (32.26%) AWS
3 744 (12.79%) GCP
4 668 (11.49%) Power Platform
5 401 (6.90%) GitHub
6 348 (5.98%) Azure AI
7 337 (5.80%) Serverless
8 258 (4.44%) SaaS
9 250 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
10 225 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 225 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 225 (3.87%) Snowflake
11 205 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 204 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 187 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
14 186 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
15 171 (2.94%) dbt
16 132 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
17 130 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 125 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.77%) Firewall
2 152 (2.61%) DNS
2 152 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 147 (2.53%) VPN
4 107 (1.84%) Network Security
5 88 (1.51%) WAN
6 76 (1.31%) Wireless
7 66 (1.13%) BGP
7 66 (1.13%) Broadband
8 63 (1.08%) LAN
9 59 (1.01%) DHCP
10 50 (0.86%) MQTT
11 46 (0.79%) VLAN
12 42 (0.72%) HTTP
12 42 (0.72%) OSPF
12 42 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 32 (0.55%) SSL
14 27 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
15 25 (0.43%) 5G
16 24 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 601 (10.34%) Power BI
2 328 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 307 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 285 (4.90%) Tableau
5 191 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 124 (2.13%) Big Data
11 119 (2.05%) Metadata
12 116 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 114 (1.96%) MySQL
14 107 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 84 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 80 (1.38%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.26%) Delta Lake
20 71 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 674 (11.59%) Git
2 317 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 268 (4.61%) GitLab
4 170 (2.92%) JIRA
5 73 (1.26%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.91%) Subversion
7 49 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 34 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 34 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.50%) LabVIEW
15 28 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.36%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 17 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,743 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 1,383 (23.78%) Finance
3 845 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 369 (6.35%) Banking
6 261 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 238 (4.09%) Marketing
8 219 (3.77%) Law
9 174 (2.99%) Retail
10 135 (2.32%) Legal
11 115 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 113 (1.94%) Front Office
13 100 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 95 (1.63%) Electronics
14 95 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 87 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 70 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.10%) Games
18 51 (0.88%) Investment Banking
19 50 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,264 (21.74%) Senior
2 884 (15.20%) Software Engineer
3 811 (13.95%) Developer
4 695 (11.95%) Python Engineer
5 624 (10.73%) Data Engineer
6 618 (10.63%) Lead
7 498 (8.56%) Analyst
8 403 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 361 (6.21%) Python Developer
10 352 (6.05%) Python Software Engineer
11 298 (5.12%) Data Analyst
12 263 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 225 (3.87%) Junior
14 223 (3.83%) Data Scientist
15 221 (3.80%) Architect
16 212 (3.65%) Senior Developer
17 205 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
18 194 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
19 177 (3.04%) Consultant
20 169 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 957 (16.46%) Terraform
2 391 (6.72%) React
3 259 (4.45%) REST
4 231 (3.97%) Node.js
5 229 (3.94%) .NET
6 226 (3.89%) PySpark
7 218 (3.75%) FastAPI
8 212 (3.65%) Kafka
9 198 (3.40%) RESTful
10 184 (3.16%) LangChain
11 165 (2.84%) Django
12 152 (2.61%) PyTorch
13 134 (2.30%) TensorFlow
14 131 (2.25%) CSS
15 129 (2.22%) Spring Boot
16 128 (2.20%) Spring
17 126 (2.17%) HTML
18 108 (1.86%) LangGraph
19 107 (1.84%) Flask
20 89 (1.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 615 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 295 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 281 (4.83%) Algorithms
4 278 (4.78%) AI Agents
5 243 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 102 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.65%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.62%) Robotics
11 92 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 88 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
13 87 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
14 86 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 80 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
16 79 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
17 67 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (1.10%) Equities
19 63 (1.08%) Low-Code
20 62 (1.07%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 722 (12.42%) Linux
2 328 (5.64%) Windows
3 80 (1.38%) Unix
4 77 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.77%) CentOS
7 39 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 33 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.33%) macOS
11 17 (0.29%) Rocky
12 16 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 16 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.17%) Solaris
14 10 (0.17%) VMS
15 9 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
16 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,350 (40.41%) AI
2 1,708 (29.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,641 (28.22%) CI/CD
4 1,233 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
5 1,154 (19.85%) Analytics
6 1,099 (18.90%) DevOps
7 1,076 (18.50%) Agile
8 1,035 (17.80%) Machine Learning
9 966 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 788 (13.55%) Mentoring
11 770 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
12 750 (12.90%) Data Engineering
13 746 (12.83%) Data Pipeline
14 694 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 661 (11.37%) Data Modelling
16 640 (11.01%) Decision-Making
17 626 (10.77%) Data Science
18 604 (10.39%) Containerisation
19 599 (10.30%) Test Automation
20 580 (9.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,926 (33.12%) SQL
2 826 (14.20%) Java
3 601 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 550 (9.46%) C++
5 544 (9.36%) Bash
6 485 (8.34%) PowerShell
7 478 (8.22%) C#
8 416 (7.15%) TypeScript
9 274 (4.71%) Go
10 199 (3.42%) C
11 170 (2.92%) R
12 106 (1.82%) Rust
12 106 (1.82%) Scala
13 95 (1.63%) Bicep
14 93 (1.60%) MATLAB
15 85 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 82 (1.41%) Perl
16 82 (1.41%) PHP
17 75 (1.29%) Ruby
18 56 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 945 (16.25%) Degree
2 894 (15.37%) Security Cleared
3 498 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 425 (7.31%) Azure Certification
5 297 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 292 (5.02%) DV Cleared
7 229 (3.94%) Master's Degree
8 134 (2.30%) PhD
9 115 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 64 (1.10%) CISSP
14 43 (0.74%) CCNP
15 40 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
17 33 (0.57%) CCNA
18 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.50%) CEH
19 29 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 241 (4.14%) QA
3 123 (2.12%) GDPR
4 108 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 79 (1.36%) NIST
6 65 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.45%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 19 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.29%) WCAG
14 13 (0.22%) EU AI Act
15 12 (0.21%) PMO
16 10 (0.17%) GRC
17 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.14%) JTAG
19 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 806 (13.86%) Docker
2 113 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.07%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.52%) vSphere
8 24 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.28%) KVM
11 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.12%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.052%) NFS
15 2 (0.034%) iptables
15 2 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 845 (14.53%) Kubernetes
2 427 (7.34%) Ansible
3 253 (4.35%) Grafana
4 163 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.41%) Puppet
6 61 (1.05%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.71%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.45%) Istio
13 24 (0.41%) Rancher
14 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.36%) Podman
16 20 (0.34%) Packer
16 20 (0.34%) vCenter Server
17 19 (0.33%) logstash
18 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
19 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 896 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 442 (7.60%) Databricks
3 256 (4.40%) Google
4 151 (2.60%) Splunk
5 126 (2.17%) VMware
6 123 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.10%) Oracle
8 105 (1.81%) Cisco
9 91 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 57 (0.98%) Foundry
12 53 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 39 (0.67%) Fortinet
13 39 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.65%) SAP
15 37 (0.64%) SolarWinds
16 36 (0.62%) Palo Alto
17 33 (0.57%) F5
17 33 (0.57%) Informatica
18 32 (0.55%) New Relic