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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,743 4,561 6,605
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.53% 10.64% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.78% 40.67% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 2,547 4,082
10th Percentile £43,906 £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 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £127,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,275 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.07% -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 16,511 11,215 20,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.17% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,026 7,435 12,257
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%

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 12 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 12 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 -2 2,587 £85,000 - 5,559
North of England -20 1,022 £66,805 +11.34% 855
South East +12 762 £62,500 +8.70% 829
South West +2 553 £63,500 +15.45% 400
North West -25 542 £67,500 +12.50% 470
Midlands -7 443 £62,500 +4.17% 396
East of England +12 316 £70,000 +21.74% 510
Yorkshire -3 245 £65,000 - 250
West Midlands -18 239 £65,000 +8.33% 243
North East +15 238 £67,500 +50.00% 137
East Midlands +16 202 £55,000 -15.38% 153
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
1 210 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 173 (3.01%) Apache
3 166 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.49%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.16%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
17 5 (0.087%) Headless CMS
18 4 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 226 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.30%) 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 (0.087%) Mathematica
11 4 (0.070%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.070%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
13 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.070%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.035%) Line 50
7 2 (0.035%) Odoo
7 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.035%) 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 1,892 (32.94%) Azure
2 1,882 (32.77%) AWS
3 747 (13.01%) GCP
4 627 (10.92%) Power Platform
5 400 (6.97%) GitHub
6 338 (5.89%) Serverless
7 262 (4.56%) SaaS
8 256 (4.46%) Azure AI
9 250 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 227 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 227 (3.95%) Snowflake
11 226 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 205 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 204 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 187 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
15 186 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 171 (2.98%) dbt
17 134 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
18 130 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 126 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.81%) Firewall
2 153 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 151 (2.63%) DNS
4 148 (2.58%) VPN
5 108 (1.88%) Network Security
6 88 (1.53%) WAN
7 76 (1.32%) Wireless
8 67 (1.17%) BGP
9 66 (1.15%) Broadband
10 63 (1.10%) LAN
11 59 (1.03%) DHCP
12 50 (0.87%) MQTT
13 45 (0.78%) VLAN
14 42 (0.73%) HTTP
14 42 (0.73%) OSPF
14 42 (0.73%) SD-WAN
15 32 (0.56%) SSL
16 27 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
17 25 (0.44%) 5G
18 24 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 560 (9.75%) Power BI
2 331 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
3 308 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 239 (4.16%) Tableau
5 192 (3.34%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.66%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 127 (2.21%) Big Data
11 119 (2.07%) Metadata
12 116 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 114 (1.99%) MySQL
14 109 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
15 97 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 85 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
17 80 (1.39%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.27%) Delta Lake
20 71 (1.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 673 (11.72%) Git
2 318 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 268 (4.67%) GitLab
4 170 (2.96%) JIRA
5 73 (1.27%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.92%) Subversion
7 49 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.78%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 35 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
15 29 (0.50%) LabVIEW
16 28 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.37%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.37%) Maven
18 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 17 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 1,659 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 1,388 (24.17%) Finance
3 852 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 379 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 370 (6.44%) Banking
6 263 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 238 (4.14%) Marketing
8 220 (3.83%) Law
9 173 (3.01%) Retail
10 137 (2.39%) Legal
11 115 (2.00%) Aerospace
12 114 (1.99%) Front Office
13 99 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 97 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 94 (1.64%) Electronics
16 87 (1.51%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.11%) Games
19 51 (0.89%) Investment Banking
20 50 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,269 (22.10%) Senior
2 888 (15.46%) Software Engineer
3 812 (14.14%) Developer
4 698 (12.15%) Python Engineer
5 626 (10.90%) Data Engineer
6 620 (10.80%) Lead
7 451 (7.85%) Analyst
8 362 (6.30%) Python Developer
9 357 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 355 (6.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 265 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 253 (4.41%) Data Analyst
13 224 (3.90%) Data Scientist
14 223 (3.88%) Architect
15 214 (3.73%) Senior Developer
16 209 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
17 194 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
18 178 (3.10%) Consultant
18 178 (3.10%) Junior
19 169 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 962 (16.75%) Terraform
2 391 (6.81%) React
3 259 (4.51%) REST
4 231 (4.02%) .NET
4 231 (4.02%) Node.js
5 228 (3.97%) PySpark
6 218 (3.80%) FastAPI
7 213 (3.71%) Kafka
8 198 (3.45%) RESTful
9 184 (3.20%) LangChain
10 165 (2.87%) Django
11 153 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 135 (2.35%) TensorFlow
13 132 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 131 (2.28%) CSS
14 131 (2.28%) Spring
15 126 (2.19%) HTML
16 108 (1.88%) LangGraph
17 107 (1.86%) Flask
18 89 (1.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 616 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 297 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 283 (4.93%) AI Agents
4 281 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 244 (4.25%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 109 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.67%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.64%) Robotics
11 93 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 87 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 86 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
13 86 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 81 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
15 79 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 66 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
17 64 (1.11%) Equities
18 63 (1.10%) Low-Code
19 62 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 724 (12.61%) Linux
2 327 (5.69%) Windows
3 80 (1.39%) Unix
4 76 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.78%) CentOS
7 38 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.44%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) macOS
11 17 (0.30%) Rocky
12 16 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 16 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.17%) Solaris
14 10 (0.17%) VMS
15 9 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
16 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,272 (39.56%) AI
2 1,711 (29.79%) Software Engineering
3 1,646 (28.66%) CI/CD
4 1,237 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
5 1,167 (20.32%) Analytics
6 1,100 (19.15%) DevOps
7 1,076 (18.74%) Agile
8 1,040 (18.11%) Machine Learning
9 971 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 788 (13.72%) Mentoring
11 753 (13.11%) Data Engineering
12 749 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
13 728 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
14 698 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 666 (11.60%) Data Modelling
16 646 (11.25%) Decision-Making
17 628 (10.94%) Data Science
18 610 (10.62%) Containerisation
19 601 (10.46%) Test Automation
20 580 (10.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,888 (32.87%) SQL
2 831 (14.47%) Java
3 602 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 548 (9.54%) C++
5 543 (9.45%) Bash
6 485 (8.45%) PowerShell
7 479 (8.34%) C#
8 418 (7.28%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.79%) Go
10 198 (3.45%) C
11 173 (3.01%) R
12 108 (1.88%) Rust
13 106 (1.85%) Scala
14 95 (1.65%) Bicep
15 92 (1.60%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 82 (1.43%) Perl
17 82 (1.43%) PHP
18 75 (1.31%) Ruby
19 56 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 946 (16.47%) Degree
2 899 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 498 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 332 (5.78%) Azure Certification
5 295 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 294 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 231 (4.02%) Master's Degree
8 137 (2.39%) PhD
9 115 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 85 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.13%) CISSP
14 43 (0.75%) CCNP
15 40 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
17 33 (0.57%) CCNA
18 32 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.52%) CISM
20 29 (0.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (10.24%) Data Quality
2 243 (4.23%) QA
3 123 (2.14%) GDPR
4 111 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.39%) NIST
6 66 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.45%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 20 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.30%) WCAG
14 13 (0.23%) EU AI Act
15 12 (0.21%) PMO
16 11 (0.19%) GRC
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.14%) JTAG
19 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 811 (14.12%) Docker
2 112 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 102 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.08%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.52%) vSphere
8 25 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.052%) NFS
16 2 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 849 (14.78%) Kubernetes
2 430 (7.49%) Ansible
3 255 (4.44%) Grafana
4 164 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.45%) Puppet
6 61 (1.06%) Argo
7 46 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 42 (0.73%) Kibana
9 32 (0.56%) Nagios
10 28 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.45%) Istio
13 24 (0.42%) Rancher
14 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.37%) vCenter Server
16 20 (0.35%) Packer
16 20 (0.35%) Podman
17 19 (0.33%) logstash
18 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
19 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 855 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 446 (7.77%) Databricks
3 257 (4.48%) Google
4 151 (2.63%) Splunk
5 127 (2.21%) VMware
6 124 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.12%) Oracle
8 105 (1.83%) Cisco
9 91 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 59 (1.03%) Foundry
12 53 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 39 (0.68%) Fortinet
13 39 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 39 (0.68%) SAP
14 36 (0.63%) Palo Alto
14 36 (0.63%) SolarWinds
15 33 (0.57%) F5
16 32 (0.56%) Informatica
16 32 (0.56%) New Relic