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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,033 4,785 6,662
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.89% 11.18% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.75% 41.09% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 2,622 4,236
10th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,250 £131,473
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 16,875 11,646 20,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.48% 27.22% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,292 7,680 13,223
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 22 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 22 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% 5,226
North of England -17 1,142 £67,500 +8.00% 881
South East +6 862 £62,500 +6.38% 992
South West +8 597 £62,500 +13.64% 522
North West -21 567 £67,500 +12.50% 479
Midlands -1 526 £62,000 -3.88% 429
Yorkshire +10 331 £67,750 +4.23% 290
East of England +6 312 £65,000 +13.04% 538
West Midlands -14 286 £65,000 +7.44% 252
North East +20 245 £67,500 +42.11% 116
East Midlands +14 238 £53,750 -18.87% 177
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
1 213 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 168 (2.78%) Apache
3 164 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (1.23%) Confluence
5 41 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.46%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.23%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 399 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.050%) SPSS
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.033%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,242 (37.16%) Azure
2 1,864 (30.90%) AWS
3 785 (13.01%) Power Platform
4 721 (11.95%) GCP
5 630 (10.44%) Azure AI
6 376 (6.23%) GitHub
7 364 (6.03%) Serverless
8 260 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 238 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
10 232 (3.85%) SaaS
11 227 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 216 (3.58%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 183 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 182 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
17 166 (2.75%) dbt
18 133 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 129 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.56%) Firewall
2 147 (2.44%) DNS
3 135 (2.24%) VPN
4 132 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 100 (1.66%) Network Security
6 95 (1.57%) WAN
7 80 (1.33%) Wireless
8 75 (1.24%) Broadband
9 67 (1.11%) LAN
10 63 (1.04%) DHCP
11 57 (0.94%) BGP
12 48 (0.80%) SD-WAN
13 45 (0.75%) MQTT
13 45 (0.75%) VLAN
14 43 (0.71%) OSPF
15 38 (0.63%) HTTP
16 36 (0.60%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 24 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 713 (11.82%) Power BI
2 433 (7.18%) Tableau
3 331 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 287 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 129 (2.14%) Big Data
11 115 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 111 (1.84%) MySQL
13 107 (1.77%) Metadata
14 96 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 93 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
16 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
17 87 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 80 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
19 77 (1.28%) Delta Lake
20 74 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 680 (11.27%) Git
2 319 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 251 (4.16%) GitLab
4 177 (2.93%) JIRA
5 66 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.88%) Subversion
7 52 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 49 (0.81%) Selenium
9 42 (0.70%) MLflow
10 39 (0.65%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.63%) JUnit
12 36 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 24 (0.40%) Maven
18 22 (0.36%) TeamCity
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,959 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 1,291 (21.40%) Finance
3 808 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 322 (5.34%) Banking
6 257 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 219 (3.63%) Law
8 199 (3.30%) Marketing
9 164 (2.72%) Retail
10 129 (2.14%) Legal
11 110 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 103 (1.71%) Front Office
12 103 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.59%) Electronics
14 84 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (0.99%) Games
18 47 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,254 (20.79%) Senior
2 866 (14.35%) Software Engineer
3 834 (13.82%) Developer
4 699 (11.59%) Python Engineer
5 629 (10.43%) Data Engineer
6 619 (10.26%) Analyst
7 611 (10.13%) Lead
8 525 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 439 (7.28%) Data Analyst
10 368 (6.10%) Junior
11 360 (5.97%) Python Developer
12 341 (5.65%) Python Software Engineer
13 288 (4.77%) Junior Analyst
14 284 (4.71%) Junior Data Analyst
15 254 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.66%) Data Scientist
17 218 (3.61%) Architect
18 202 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 202 (3.35%) Senior Developer
19 190 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 961 (15.93%) Terraform
2 398 (6.60%) React
3 239 (3.96%) REST
4 235 (3.90%) PySpark
5 232 (3.85%) .NET
6 229 (3.80%) Kafka
7 225 (3.73%) Node.js
8 210 (3.48%) FastAPI
9 207 (3.43%) RESTful
10 178 (2.95%) Django
11 173 (2.87%) LangChain
12 164 (2.72%) PyTorch
13 146 (2.42%) HTML
14 140 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 128 (2.12%) CSS
16 124 (2.06%) Flask
17 123 (2.04%) Spring
17 123 (2.04%) Spring Boot
18 100 (1.66%) Pandas
19 97 (1.61%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 595 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 310 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 253 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 217 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 149 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 91 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.48%) Robotics
10 87 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 85 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
12 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.36%) Hedge funds
14 80 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 79 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
16 76 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
17 72 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 71 (1.18%) Low-Code
19 70 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
20 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 709 (11.75%) Linux
2 327 (5.42%) Windows
3 86 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.38%) Unix
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.71%) CentOS
7 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.27%) Apple iOS
13 15 (0.25%) Rocky
14 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 12 (0.20%) Android
15 12 (0.20%) Solaris
16 10 (0.17%) VMS
16 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,500 (41.44%) AI
2 1,685 (27.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,622 (26.89%) CI/CD
4 1,214 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
5 1,122 (18.60%) DevOps
6 1,112 (18.43%) Analytics
7 1,090 (18.07%) Agile
8 1,005 (16.66%) Machine Learning
9 961 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 880 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
11 800 (13.26%) Mentoring
12 733 (12.15%) Data Engineering
13 730 (12.10%) Data Pipeline
14 682 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 643 (10.66%) Data Modelling
16 625 (10.36%) Data Science
17 619 (10.26%) Decision-Making
18 595 (9.86%) Computer Science
19 590 (9.78%) Containerisation
20 579 (9.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,033 (33.70%) SQL
2 819 (13.58%) Java
3 599 (9.93%) JavaScript
4 570 (9.45%) C++
5 525 (8.70%) Bash
6 501 (8.30%) PowerShell
7 486 (8.06%) C#
8 410 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 253 (4.19%) Go
10 195 (3.23%) C
11 146 (2.42%) R
12 116 (1.92%) Scala
13 97 (1.61%) Bicep
13 97 (1.61%) Rust
14 90 (1.49%) PHP
15 84 (1.39%) Perl
16 82 (1.36%) MATLAB
17 76 (1.26%) Ruby
18 69 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 56 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 935 (15.50%) Degree
2 870 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 708 (11.74%) Azure Certification
4 492 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 276 (4.57%) DV Cleared
7 219 (3.63%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.97%) PhD
9 111 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 66 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 49 (0.81%) CISSP
14 47 (0.78%) CCNP
15 42 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 255 (4.23%) QA
3 128 (2.12%) GDPR
4 108 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 61 (1.01%) NIST
6 52 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.35%) NCSC
10 18 (0.30%) WCAG
11 15 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 13 (0.22%) PMO
12 13 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.18%) GRC
14 8 (0.13%) JTAG
14 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 778 (12.90%) Docker
2 119 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.08%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 16 (0.27%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 795 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 418 (6.93%) Ansible
3 239 (3.96%) Grafana
4 161 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 68 (1.13%) Puppet
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 40 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.50%) Nagios
10 27 (0.45%) Istio
10 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.45%) Packer
11 26 (0.43%) Rancher
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.36%) Podman
13 22 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (0.30%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,019 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 453 (7.51%) Databricks
3 217 (3.60%) Google
4 154 (2.55%) Splunk
5 122 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 120 (1.99%) VMware
7 117 (1.94%) Oracle
8 112 (1.86%) Cisco
9 94 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.80%) Foundry
13 46 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 39 (0.65%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.61%) SAP
17 36 (0.60%) SolarWinds
18 33 (0.55%) F5
18 33 (0.55%) Informatica
19 30 (0.50%) New Relic