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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,072 5,409 5,564
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.57% 11.36% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.22% 33.65% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 3,246 4,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,230 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,382 16,074 20,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.29% 33.76% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,790 9,419 17,098
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%

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 January 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 January 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 1,974 £82,750 -2.65% 1,098
North of England -7 669 £50,000 -23.08% 584
South East -34 448 £60,000 -7.69% 1,175
Midlands -12 382 £57,500 +4.55% 329
South West -2 337 £60,000 -7.69% 407
Yorkshire +13 305 £49,000 -24.62% 228
North West -14 277 £55,000 -10.54% 258
West Midlands +2 262 £55,200 -4.00% 136
East of England -10 210 £50,000 -28.57% 458
East Midlands -26 123 £60,000 +9.09% 186
North East 0 89 £40,000 -42.29% 103
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
1 166 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.14%) Apache
4 43 (1.06%) Confluence
5 35 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.69%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
10 18 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Appian
12 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.37%) nginx
14 14 (0.34%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.098%) JBoss
Applications
1 556 (13.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.098%) Windchill
10 3 (0.074%) CATIA
10 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.049%) Stata
11 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,617 (39.71%) Azure
2 1,424 (34.97%) AWS
3 733 (18.00%) Power Platform
4 528 (12.97%) GitHub
5 430 (10.56%) GCP
6 324 (7.96%) Azure AI
7 260 (6.39%) Serverless
8 183 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.30%) Snowflake
10 168 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (3.95%) Amazon S3
12 152 (3.73%) SaaS
13 143 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.44%) dbt
15 137 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
16 104 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 91 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
18 84 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 81 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.31%) Internet
2 153 (3.76%) Firewall
3 89 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.92%) VPN
5 70 (1.72%) DNS
6 69 (1.69%) WAN
7 61 (1.50%) LAN
8 50 (1.23%) BGP
9 48 (1.18%) Wireless
10 42 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (0.98%) Broadband
11 40 (0.98%) Network Security
12 38 (0.93%) HTTP
13 36 (0.88%) OSPF
13 36 (0.88%) VLAN
14 32 (0.79%) MPLS
15 29 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.69%) SSL
17 27 (0.66%) SAN
18 24 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 693 (17.02%) Power BI
2 590 (14.49%) Tableau
3 259 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.35%) SQL Server
6 173 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 161 (3.95%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.49%) Data Mining
9 126 (3.09%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.85%) MongoDB
11 108 (2.65%) Big Data
12 91 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 90 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (2.06%) MySQL
15 80 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
16 70 (1.72%) Hadoop
17 67 (1.65%) Metadata
18 64 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
18 64 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (14.22%) Git
2 225 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.39%) GitLab
4 119 (2.92%) JIRA
5 58 (1.42%) Selenium
6 43 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.93%) JUnit
8 37 (0.91%) Postman
9 28 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 26 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.59%) JMeter
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) Jaeger
14 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.37%) Burp Suite
15 15 (0.37%) Metasploit
15 15 (0.37%) Mockito
16 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
17 12 (0.29%) Maven
17 12 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1,224 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 1,010 (24.80%) Finance
3 624 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.92%) Banking
4 241 (5.92%) Multimedia
5 176 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 169 (4.15%) Law
7 162 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 145 (3.56%) Marketing
9 139 (3.41%) Front Office
10 111 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 105 (2.58%) Retail
12 101 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 86 (2.11%) Financial Institution
14 76 (1.87%) Electronics
15 73 (1.79%) Legal
16 68 (1.67%) Investment Banking
17 61 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
18 57 (1.40%) Games
19 47 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 754 (18.52%) Developer
2 730 (17.93%) Analyst
3 648 (15.91%) Senior
4 544 (13.36%) Data Analyst
5 416 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.84%) Trainee
7 323 (7.93%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.54%) Junior
9 301 (7.39%) Lead
10 296 (7.27%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.93%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.93%) Junior Data Analyst
12 238 (5.84%) Python Engineer
13 185 (4.54%) Software Developer
14 144 (3.54%) Architect
14 144 (3.54%) Senior Developer
15 138 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
16 134 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
17 131 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
18 122 (3.00%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (9.33%) HTML
2 335 (8.23%) CSS
3 325 (7.98%) React
4 173 (4.25%) REST
5 169 (4.15%) Node.js
6 159 (3.90%) Django
7 144 (3.54%) Kafka
8 140 (3.44%) RESTful
9 135 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 128 (3.14%) Pandas
10 128 (3.14%) PySpark
11 119 (2.92%) PyTorch
12 112 (2.75%) .NET
13 108 (2.65%) Flask
14 101 (2.48%) AngularJS
15 99 (2.43%) TensorFlow
16 87 (2.14%) NumPy
17 86 (2.11%) Vue
18 81 (1.99%) JSON
19 75 (1.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 222 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 198 (4.86%) Algorithms
3 152 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.85%) Equities
6 112 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 103 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 96 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 82 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.87%) Fixed Income
12 75 (1.84%) Derivative
13 74 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
14 69 (1.69%) Low-Code
15 63 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 61 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
17 58 (1.42%) AI Agents
18 56 (1.38%) Data Centre
18 56 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
19 54 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 509 (12.50%) Linux
2 211 (5.18%) Windows
3 185 (4.54%) Unix
4 75 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.76%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.42%) VMS
10 16 (0.39%) Solaris
11 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.22%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.12%) zOS
16 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (28.78%) AI
2 949 (23.31%) CI/CD
3 901 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
4 822 (20.19%) Analytics
5 800 (19.65%) Business Intelligence
6 781 (19.18%) Agile
7 768 (18.86%) DevOps
8 649 (15.94%) Mentoring
9 643 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 530 (13.02%) Machine Learning
11 484 (11.89%) ETL
12 480 (11.79%) Data Science
13 459 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
14 457 (11.22%) Data Modelling
15 446 (10.95%) Data Engineering
16 440 (10.81%) Computer Science
17 436 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 407 (10.00%) Data Analysis
19 376 (9.23%) Containerisation
20 370 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,647 (40.45%) SQL
2 713 (17.51%) JavaScript
3 577 (14.17%) Java
4 382 (9.38%) Bash
5 338 (8.30%) PowerShell
6 327 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 271 (6.66%) C#
8 237 (5.82%) R
9 205 (5.03%) C++
10 152 (3.73%) Go
11 111 (2.73%) C
12 80 (1.96%) Scala
13 62 (1.52%) PHP
14 55 (1.35%) VBA
15 50 (1.23%) Bicep
16 47 (1.15%) Perl
17 44 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 42 (1.03%) Rust
19 39 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 786 (19.30%) Degree
2 589 (14.46%) Azure Certification
3 431 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 359 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 255 (6.26%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 206 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.67%) Master's Degree
10 160 (3.93%) DV Cleared
11 121 (2.97%) PhD
12 73 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.42%) CCNP
14 48 (1.18%) CISSP
14 48 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
15 41 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (0.61%) HND
18 25 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.95%) QA
3 99 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (2.41%) GDPR
5 78 (1.92%) NIST
6 63 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.83%) SLA
8 23 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
11 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.098%) GRC
17 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 505 (12.40%) Docker
2 79 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.61%) Firmware
5 20 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.39%) vSphere
8 11 (0.27%) KVM
9 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 7 (0.17%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
12 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.098%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 535 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 504 (12.38%) Terraform
3 307 (7.54%) Ansible
4 124 (3.05%) Grafana
5 117 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 53 (1.30%) Argo
7 28 (0.69%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 18 (0.44%) Nessus
10 16 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.34%) Nagios
13 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.32%) Rancher
14 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 12 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
16 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,076 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.39%) Databricks
3 188 (4.62%) Google
4 132 (3.24%) Oracle
5 101 (2.48%) Cisco
5 101 (2.48%) VMware
6 87 (2.14%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 66 (1.62%) SAP
9 63 (1.55%) Splunk
10 58 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 45 (1.11%) Informatica
13 44 (1.08%) Alteryx
13 44 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.06%) IBM
15 42 (1.03%) Talend
16 41 (1.01%) Bloomberg
17 31 (0.76%) Palantir
18 27 (0.66%) Dell