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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,751 4,956 6,471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 12.03% 9.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.47% 34.68% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,009 3,182 5,213
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.00% -2.19%

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 11,741 14,292 24,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 34.69% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,607 9,160 21,091
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 6 March 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 6 March 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 0 2,131 £82,500 -5.71% 1,375
North of England -7 840 £45,000 -30.77% 515
South East -18 610 £61,500 -12.14% 783
Midlands -9 454 £55,000 - 275
South West +5 407 £58,497 -10.01% 317
Yorkshire +7 363 £42,000 -35.38% 200
North West -12 355 £55,000 -15.38% 232
West Midlands +4 293 £57,500 +4.55% 128
East of England -26 238 £50,000 -24.51% 323
East Midlands -15 163 £55,000 - 143
North East +14 122 £40,000 -38.46% 89
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
1 190 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 181 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 139 (2.93%) Apache
4 59 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.72%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 19 (0.40%) Appian
9 17 (0.36%) IIS
9 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.21%) nginx
13 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
14 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.11%) CMS
15 4 (0.084%) GeoServer
Applications
1 863 (18.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 57 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.084%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.021%) Actimize
7 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.021%) Primavera
7 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.021%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,016 (42.43%) Azure
2 1,634 (34.39%) AWS
3 1,008 (21.22%) Power Platform
4 604 (12.71%) Azure AI
5 542 (11.41%) GitHub
6 523 (11.01%) GCP
7 272 (5.73%) Serverless
8 193 (4.06%) Amazon S3
9 190 (4.00%) SaaS
10 178 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 176 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 164 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 163 (3.43%) Snowflake
14 149 (3.14%) dbt
15 140 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 119 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 110 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
18 94 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 84 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
20 83 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (4.99%) Internet
2 178 (3.75%) Firewall
3 109 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 102 (2.15%) VPN
5 92 (1.94%) Broadband
6 89 (1.87%) DNS
7 72 (1.52%) WAN
8 66 (1.39%) LAN
9 59 (1.24%) BGP
10 58 (1.22%) Network Security
10 58 (1.22%) Wireless
11 57 (1.20%) VLAN
12 51 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 50 (1.05%) HTTP
14 42 (0.88%) OSPF
15 34 (0.72%) MPLS
15 34 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.67%) Wireshark
17 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 969 (20.40%) Power BI
2 924 (19.45%) Tableau
3 246 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 208 (4.38%) SQL Server
6 168 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 167 (3.52%) Data Mining
8 148 (3.12%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.53%) Data Lake
10 107 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 101 (2.13%) Big Data
12 100 (2.10%) BigQuery
13 97 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
15 84 (1.77%) Metadata
16 78 (1.64%) MySQL
17 67 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (1.16%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.91%) Delta Lake
19 43 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 609 (12.82%) Git
2 213 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 169 (3.56%) GitLab
4 101 (2.13%) JIRA
5 53 (1.12%) Selenium
6 51 (1.07%) MLflow
7 50 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
8 38 (0.80%) Postman
9 35 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.59%) JUnit
12 23 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.48%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.42%) JMeter
14 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.36%) Subversion
16 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
17 16 (0.34%) Metasploit
18 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,601 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 1,133 (23.85%) Finance
3 791 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (5.60%) Banking
5 222 (4.67%) Multimedia
6 203 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 193 (4.06%) Public Sector
8 169 (3.56%) Law
9 161 (3.39%) Retail
10 147 (3.09%) Front Office
11 140 (2.95%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.61%) Marketing
13 114 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.81%) Legal
15 75 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.45%) Electronics
17 69 (1.45%) Investment Banking
18 48 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
19 41 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,071 (22.54%) Analyst
2 879 (18.50%) Data Analyst
3 803 (16.90%) Developer
4 703 (14.80%) Senior
5 593 (12.48%) Junior
6 566 (11.91%) Junior Analyst
6 566 (11.91%) Junior Data Analyst
7 452 (9.51%) Data Engineer
8 414 (8.71%) Trainee
9 395 (8.31%) Software Engineer
10 364 (7.66%) Lead
11 315 (6.63%) Python Developer
12 281 (5.91%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 159 (3.35%) Architect
15 146 (3.07%) Senior Developer
16 142 (2.99%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (2.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 138 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
18 135 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (7.77%) React
2 366 (7.70%) HTML
3 313 (6.59%) CSS
4 213 (4.48%) Kafka
5 202 (4.25%) Node.js
6 183 (3.85%) Django
6 183 (3.85%) REST
7 158 (3.33%) PySpark
8 149 (3.14%) RESTful
9 140 (2.95%) .NET
10 136 (2.86%) FastAPI
10 136 (2.86%) Pandas
11 130 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 117 (2.46%) TensorFlow
13 112 (2.36%) Flask
14 102 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 100 (2.10%) JSON
16 90 (1.89%) AngularJS
17 87 (1.83%) NumPy
18 83 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 251 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 234 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 185 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 106 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 92 (1.94%) Equities
9 88 (1.85%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 77 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 75 (1.58%) Data Centre
13 74 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 74 (1.56%) Hedge funds
14 71 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.35%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.33%) Derivative
17 63 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 507 (10.67%) Linux
2 210 (4.42%) Windows
3 185 (3.89%) Unix
4 64 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 63 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.84%) CentOS
7 28 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.23%) Android
11 11 (0.23%) Debian
12 10 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.084%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.063%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,621 (34.12%) AI
2 1,072 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1,058 (22.27%) CI/CD
4 947 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
5 897 (18.88%) Analytics
6 844 (17.76%) Agile
7 807 (16.99%) DevOps
8 793 (16.69%) Software Engineering
9 686 (14.44%) Mentoring
10 616 (12.97%) Machine Learning
11 529 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 517 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
13 516 (10.86%) ETL
14 515 (10.84%) Data Science
15 510 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 479 (10.08%) Data Engineering
17 469 (9.87%) Computer Science
18 447 (9.41%) Containerisation
19 444 (9.35%) Data Analysis
20 441 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,990 (41.89%) SQL
2 765 (16.10%) JavaScript
3 613 (12.90%) Java
4 396 (8.34%) Bash
5 377 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 335 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 276 (5.81%) C#
8 241 (5.07%) C++
9 230 (4.84%) Go
9 230 (4.84%) R
10 122 (2.57%) C
11 89 (1.87%) Scala
12 71 (1.49%) VBA
13 68 (1.43%) Rust
14 60 (1.26%) PHP
15 44 (0.93%) Bicep
16 37 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
16 37 (0.78%) T-SQL
17 32 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 858 (18.06%) Azure Certification
2 784 (16.50%) Degree
3 465 (9.79%) Security Cleared
4 375 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 277 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 271 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 269 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 236 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 166 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 143 (3.01%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.89%) PhD
12 68 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.24%) CCNP
14 52 (1.09%) CISSP
15 47 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 40 (0.84%) OSCP
17 35 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.61%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 176 (3.70%) QA
3 118 (2.48%) GDPR
4 112 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.25%) NIST
6 66 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.48%) SLA
10 21 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.36%) PMO
14 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
15 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.25%) GRC
17 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.13%) WCAG
19 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 563 (11.85%) Docker
2 95 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.63%) Firmware
5 24 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.36%) KVM
8 14 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) HDFS
13 4 (0.084%) iptables
13 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.063%) QEMU
14 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 591 (12.44%) Terraform
2 581 (12.23%) Kubernetes
3 320 (6.74%) Ansible
4 152 (3.20%) Grafana
5 142 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.35%) Argo
7 24 (0.51%) Puppet
8 23 (0.48%) Nagios
9 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.42%) Kibana
10 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.27%) Control-M
13 12 (0.25%) Nessus
14 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.23%) logstash
14 11 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.23%) Rancher
15 10 (0.21%) Istio
15 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,456 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.35%) Databricks
3 212 (4.46%) Google
4 149 (3.14%) Oracle
5 113 (2.38%) VMware
6 111 (2.34%) Cisco
7 95 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.47%) SAP
9 69 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.35%) Splunk
12 51 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.05%) Informatica
14 45 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.82%) Talend
18 37 (0.78%) IBM
19 36 (0.76%) Foundry
20 35 (0.74%) MuleSoft