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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,163 5,151 7,838
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.18% 12.50% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.13% 40.20% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 2,901 5,909
10th Percentile £38,720 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,250 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,751 12,813 28,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 31.10% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,437 8,655 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 July 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 1 July 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 2,466 £85,000 -5.56% 1,727
North of England -12 1,249 £65,000 - 459
South East +2 921 £60,000 -4.00% 625
Midlands +23 619 £60,000 +9.09% 232
North West -15 584 £65,000 - 248
South West +5 547 £60,000 +4.35% 274
Yorkshire +12 454 £65,000 - 131
West Midlands +10 319 £62,250 +5.29% 116
East Midlands +27 300 £55,000 - 116
East of England -6 291 £70,000 +5.73% 236
North East +22 211 £59,000 -1.67% 83
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
1 225 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 210 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 160 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.88%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) Appian
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Camunda
17 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 920 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.26%) Simulink
7 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,656 (43.10%) Azure
2 1,952 (31.67%) AWS
3 1,194 (19.37%) Power Platform
4 1,085 (17.61%) Azure AI
5 721 (11.70%) GCP
6 399 (6.47%) GitHub
7 347 (5.63%) Serverless
8 241 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.89%) SaaS
10 222 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 187 (3.03%) Snowflake
13 177 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 175 (2.84%) dbt
15 170 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 158 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 150 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
18 124 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 114 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
20 113 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 241 (3.91%) Firewall
2 187 (3.03%) Broadband
3 143 (2.32%) VPN
4 130 (2.11%) DNS
5 115 (1.87%) Network Security
6 100 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 99 (1.61%) WAN
8 84 (1.36%) LAN
9 83 (1.35%) Wireless
10 78 (1.27%) Internet
11 63 (1.02%) BGP
12 58 (0.94%) VLAN
13 53 (0.86%) HTTP
14 51 (0.83%) SD-WAN
15 47 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.70%) OSPF
17 39 (0.63%) DHCP
18 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 34 (0.55%) MQTT
19 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,134 (18.40%) Power BI
2 988 (16.03%) Tableau
3 291 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 166 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 100 (1.62%) Big Data
14 97 (1.57%) MySQL
15 91 (1.48%) Metadata
16 74 (1.20%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.07%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 57 (0.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 623 (10.11%) Git
2 278 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 247 (4.01%) GitLab
4 156 (2.53%) JIRA
5 81 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.92%) MLflow
7 54 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.83%) Claude Code
9 39 (0.63%) Selenium
10 38 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.50%) Subversion
13 27 (0.44%) Postman
14 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.32%) JMeter
16 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 19 (0.31%) Eclipse
17 19 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 2,168 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 1,213 (19.68%) Finance
3 810 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (4.38%) Banking
4 270 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 223 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 193 (3.13%) Retail
7 155 (2.52%) Law
8 134 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 129 (2.09%) Front Office
10 105 (1.70%) Legal
11 90 (1.46%) Marketing
11 90 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 77 (1.25%) Electronics
13 72 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 67 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 65 (1.05%) Multimedia
16 63 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
17 62 (1.01%) Games
18 58 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,140 (18.50%) Analyst
2 1,092 (17.72%) Senior
3 966 (15.67%) Data Analyst
4 903 (14.65%) Developer
5 811 (13.16%) Junior
6 760 (12.33%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.32%) Junior Data Analyst
8 707 (11.47%) Software Engineer
9 586 (9.51%) Data Engineer
10 563 (9.14%) Python Engineer
11 525 (8.52%) Lead
12 457 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 377 (6.12%) Python Developer
14 262 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
15 198 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 195 (3.16%) Data Scientist
17 194 (3.15%) Architect
18 185 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
19 175 (2.84%) Senior Developer
20 173 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (6.31%) React
2 265 (4.30%) Kafka
3 235 (3.81%) Node.js
4 221 (3.59%) PySpark
5 216 (3.50%) REST
6 204 (3.31%) .NET
7 198 (3.21%) RESTful
8 193 (3.13%) HTML
9 182 (2.95%) FastAPI
10 179 (2.90%) Django
11 178 (2.89%) CSS
12 172 (2.79%) PyTorch
13 153 (2.48%) Pandas
14 146 (2.37%) TensorFlow
15 144 (2.34%) LangChain
16 130 (2.11%) Flask
17 121 (1.96%) scikit-learn
18 105 (1.70%) Vue
19 104 (1.69%) NumPy
20 101 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 493 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 298 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 185 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 165 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 140 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 134 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 93 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 88 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.33%) Equities
14 79 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 77 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.20%) Hedge funds
17 69 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 67 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
19 64 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 669 (10.86%) Linux
2 281 (4.56%) Windows
3 89 (1.44%) Unix
4 85 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.68%) CentOS
7 39 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.097%) Rocky
17 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,590 (42.02%) AI
2 1,414 (22.94%) CI/CD
3 1,389 (22.54%) Software Engineering
4 1,241 (20.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1,073 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 1,044 (16.94%) Agile
7 993 (16.11%) Analytics
8 991 (16.08%) DevOps
9 865 (14.04%) Machine Learning
10 836 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 730 (11.84%) Mentoring
12 633 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
13 626 (10.16%) Data Engineering
14 620 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 595 (9.65%) Data Science
16 555 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 552 (8.96%) Containerisation
18 551 (8.94%) Computer Science
19 546 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
20 525 (8.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,343 (38.02%) SQL
2 711 (11.54%) Java
3 640 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 507 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 481 (7.80%) Bash
5 481 (7.80%) C++
6 406 (6.59%) C#
7 382 (6.20%) TypeScript
8 284 (4.61%) Go
9 170 (2.76%) C
10 167 (2.71%) R
11 118 (1.91%) Scala
12 95 (1.54%) Rust
13 92 (1.49%) PHP
14 83 (1.35%) Bicep
15 63 (1.02%) MATLAB
16 57 (0.92%) VBA
17 55 (0.89%) Perl
18 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 48 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,210 (19.63%) Azure Certification
2 788 (12.79%) Degree
3 685 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 397 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 295 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 215 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.42%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 127 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 124 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 85 (1.38%) PhD
12 77 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.92%) CCNP
14 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 45 (0.73%) OSCP
16 38 (0.62%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 32 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 27 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 244 (3.96%) QA
3 132 (2.14%) GDPR
4 87 (1.41%) NIST
5 75 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.19%) WCAG
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 675 (10.95%) Docker
2 108 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 105 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.96%) Firmware
5 42 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.065%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 873 (14.17%) Terraform
2 680 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 373 (6.05%) Ansible
4 228 (3.70%) Grafana
5 171 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.05%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 34 (0.55%) Kibana
10 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.44%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
13 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
17 17 (0.28%) Podman
18 16 (0.26%) logstash
19 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
19 14 (0.23%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,547 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 370 (6.00%) Databricks
3 202 (3.28%) Google
4 139 (2.26%) VMware
5 130 (2.11%) Oracle
6 129 (2.09%) Splunk
7 118 (1.91%) Cisco
8 103 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.04%) Foundry
11 60 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 58 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.68%) SAP
17 40 (0.65%) F5
18 37 (0.60%) Palantir
19 36 (0.58%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.52%) Arista