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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,075 5,062 7,285
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.39% 12.89% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.62% 40.19% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,502 2,940 5,609
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,480
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,400 £125,000 £122,500
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 14,598 12,596 27,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 32.08% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,329 8,774 22,360
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -1 2,394 £85,000 -5.56% 1,378
North of England -9 1,229 £60,000 -7.69% 709
South East +2 900 £62,500 -3.85% 874
Midlands +19 654 £55,000 - 403
North West -28 535 £65,000 - 330
South West +5 515 £57,500 +0.05% 335
Yorkshire +22 511 £51,250 -19.92% 240
West Midlands +8 366 £60,000 +9.09% 205
East of England +7 323 £62,500 -5.61% 342
East Midlands +31 288 £55,000 +10.00% 186
North East +21 183 £52,250 -18.04% 143
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
1 208 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 196 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 139 (2.29%) Apache
4 69 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 43 (0.71%) Confluence
7 36 (0.59%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 12 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,139 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
9 2 (0.033%) Trello
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Blender
10 1 (0.016%) Maya
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,833 (46.63%) Azure
2 1,848 (30.42%) AWS
3 1,387 (22.83%) Power Platform
4 1,269 (20.89%) Azure AI
5 643 (10.58%) GCP
6 475 (7.82%) GitHub
7 318 (5.23%) Serverless
8 227 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 224 (3.69%) SaaS
10 219 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 200 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
14 162 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (2.63%) dbt
16 141 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 138 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
18 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 97 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
20 96 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.60%) Firewall
2 172 (2.83%) Broadband
3 169 (2.78%) Internet
4 123 (2.02%) DNS
5 121 (1.99%) VPN
6 101 (1.66%) Network Security
7 92 (1.51%) TCP/IP
8 91 (1.50%) WAN
9 80 (1.32%) LAN
10 72 (1.19%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 52 (0.86%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 45 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.54%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) Wireshark
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,328 (21.86%) Power BI
2 1,220 (20.08%) Tableau
3 279 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 156 (2.57%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 136 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.02%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.78%) Data Mining
14 103 (1.70%) Big Data
15 87 (1.43%) Metadata
16 81 (1.33%) MySQL
17 70 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.05%) DynamoDB
19 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 653 (10.75%) Git
2 249 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 223 (3.67%) GitLab
4 123 (2.02%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.02%) MLflow
7 46 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 32 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 32 (0.53%) Postman
9 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
11 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 20 (0.33%) JMeter
12 20 (0.33%) LabVIEW
13 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
13 18 (0.30%) JUnit
13 18 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 2,290 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 1,163 (19.14%) Finance
3 800 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 246 (4.05%) Banking
6 208 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 176 (2.90%) Retail
8 164 (2.70%) Law
9 152 (2.50%) Multimedia
10 133 (2.19%) Front Office
11 132 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 100 (1.65%) Legal
13 97 (1.60%) Marketing
14 88 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.23%) Electronics
16 65 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 59 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 53 (0.87%) Games
20 50 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,341 (22.07%) Analyst
2 1,164 (19.16%) Data Analyst
3 985 (16.21%) Junior
4 947 (15.59%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (15.59%) Junior Data Analyst
5 941 (15.49%) Senior
6 917 (15.09%) Developer
7 603 (9.93%) Software Engineer
8 532 (8.76%) Data Engineer
9 491 (8.08%) Python Engineer
10 488 (8.03%) Lead
11 415 (6.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 399 (6.57%) Python Developer
13 291 (4.79%) Trainee
14 221 (3.64%) Python Software Engineer
15 198 (3.26%) Software Developer
16 181 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
17 176 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
18 174 (2.86%) Architect
19 161 (2.65%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (6.06%) React
2 289 (4.76%) HTML
3 260 (4.28%) Kafka
4 258 (4.25%) CSS
5 218 (3.59%) PySpark
6 203 (3.34%) Node.js
7 198 (3.26%) REST
8 192 (3.16%) .NET
9 178 (2.93%) RESTful
10 172 (2.83%) Django
11 160 (2.63%) PyTorch
12 159 (2.62%) Pandas
13 147 (2.42%) FastAPI
14 137 (2.26%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.02%) scikit-learn
16 119 (1.96%) Flask
17 111 (1.83%) LangChain
18 104 (1.71%) NumPy
19 99 (1.63%) JSON
20 81 (1.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 369 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 319 (5.25%) Algorithms
3 264 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 166 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 128 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 116 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 115 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 101 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 93 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 93 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 88 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
11 87 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 86 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 79 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.28%) Equities
16 75 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 65 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 612 (10.07%) Linux
2 256 (4.21%) Windows
3 107 (1.76%) Unix
4 75 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 30 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.20%) Debian
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,539 (41.79%) AI
2 1,424 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
3 1,271 (20.92%) CI/CD
4 1,182 (19.46%) Software Engineering
5 968 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
6 957 (15.75%) Agile
7 954 (15.70%) Analytics
8 930 (15.31%) DevOps
9 777 (12.79%) Machine Learning
10 726 (11.95%) Mentoring
11 704 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 595 (9.79%) Data Modelling
13 567 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
14 566 (9.32%) Data Science
15 565 (9.30%) Data Engineering
16 541 (8.91%) ETL
17 532 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 513 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 486 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
20 485 (7.98%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,432 (40.03%) SQL
2 687 (11.31%) JavaScript
3 655 (10.78%) Java
4 460 (7.57%) PowerShell
5 436 (7.18%) Bash
6 393 (6.47%) C++
7 369 (6.07%) C#
8 364 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.53%) Go
10 210 (3.46%) R
11 163 (2.68%) C
12 125 (2.06%) Scala
13 82 (1.35%) Rust
14 69 (1.14%) PHP
15 62 (1.02%) VBA
16 55 (0.91%) Bicep
17 45 (0.74%) Perl
18 43 (0.71%) MATLAB
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,480 (24.36%) Azure Certification
2 778 (12.81%) Degree
3 548 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 325 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 280 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 209 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 208 (3.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 176 (2.90%) DV Cleared
10 153 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 93 (1.53%) PhD
12 79 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.10%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 49 (0.81%) OSCP
16 38 (0.63%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 30 (0.49%) CCIE
19 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 226 (3.72%) QA
3 125 (2.06%) GDPR
4 91 (1.50%) NIST
5 83 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.40%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.33%) SLA
13 12 (0.20%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 587 (9.66%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.92%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.44%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Squid
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Lustre
15 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 749 (12.33%) Terraform
2 615 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 348 (5.73%) Ansible
4 199 (3.28%) Grafana
5 159 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.00%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.43%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 18 (0.30%) Packer
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
14 16 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Podman
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,824 (30.02%) Microsoft
2 328 (5.40%) Databricks
3 205 (3.37%) Google
4 129 (2.12%) Oracle
5 127 (2.09%) VMware
6 126 (2.07%) Cisco
7 102 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 102 (1.68%) Splunk
8 99 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 57 (0.94%) Foundry
10 53 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 51 (0.84%) SAP
12 51 (0.84%) SolarWinds
13 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
14 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
15 42 (0.69%) F5
16 41 (0.67%) Informatica
17 40 (0.66%) Palantir