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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,085 5,410 6,122
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.41% 11.41% 10.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.00% 33.84% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 3,259 4,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,750
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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
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 10,474 15,989 22,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.99% 33.73% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,834 9,346 19,120
10th Percentile £32,887 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 26 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 26 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 1,979 £82,500 -5.71% 1,187
North of England -8 670 £48,445 -25.47% 628
South East -28 457 £60,000 -8.40% 1,268
Midlands -11 373 £55,000 - 378
South West -5 335 £60,000 -7.69% 457
Yorkshire +10 298 £47,500 -26.92% 255
North West -17 282 £55,000 -12.00% 272
West Midlands +2 252 £55,000 -4.35% 144
East of England -19 215 £50,000 -24.53% 499
East Midlands -24 124 £55,000 - 227
North East -1 90 £40,000 -42.29% 105
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
1 158 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 142 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 121 (2.96%) Apache
4 41 (1.00%) Confluence
5 35 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.37%) Jupyter
13 13 (0.32%) nginx
14 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.17%) CMS
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.098%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 555 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.098%) Windchill
9 3 (0.073%) CATIA
9 3 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.049%) Stata
10 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,630 (39.90%) Azure
2 1,436 (35.15%) AWS
3 731 (17.89%) Power Platform
4 538 (13.17%) GitHub
5 422 (10.33%) GCP
6 325 (7.96%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.39%) Serverless
8 185 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
9 169 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
10 168 (4.11%) Snowflake
11 160 (3.92%) Amazon S3
12 155 (3.79%) SaaS
13 151 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 137 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 132 (3.23%) dbt
16 109 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 97 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.29%) Internet
2 157 (3.84%) Firewall
3 93 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.03%) VPN
5 72 (1.76%) DNS
6 70 (1.71%) WAN
7 61 (1.49%) LAN
8 53 (1.30%) BGP
9 49 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (1.18%) Wireless
11 45 (1.10%) Broadband
12 42 (1.03%) Network Security
13 40 (0.98%) VLAN
14 37 (0.91%) HTTP
14 37 (0.91%) OSPF
15 33 (0.81%) MPLS
16 31 (0.76%) SD-WAN
17 30 (0.73%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.64%) SSL
19 24 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (16.92%) Power BI
2 590 (14.44%) Tableau
3 246 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 216 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
6 176 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 158 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.43%) Data Mining
9 121 (2.96%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.72%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.67%) Big Data
12 91 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 90 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 86 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
15 82 (2.01%) MySQL
16 78 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.74%) Hadoop
18 70 (1.71%) Metadata
19 58 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
20 57 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 575 (14.08%) Git
2 222 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 142 (3.48%) GitLab
4 115 (2.82%) JIRA
5 56 (1.37%) Selenium
6 42 (1.03%) MLflow
7 37 (0.91%) Postman
8 36 (0.88%) JUnit
9 27 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
11 23 (0.56%) JMeter
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
14 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
14 14 (0.34%) Mockito
15 13 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,238 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 1,012 (24.77%) Finance
3 643 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.90%) Banking
4 241 (5.90%) Multimedia
5 179 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 175 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 168 (4.11%) Law
8 139 (3.40%) Marketing
9 134 (3.28%) Front Office
10 111 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 102 (2.50%) Retail
12 98 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 88 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 77 (1.88%) Electronics
15 73 (1.79%) Legal
16 61 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 60 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.37%) Games
19 46 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 755 (18.48%) Developer
2 729 (17.85%) Analyst
3 633 (15.50%) Senior
4 548 (13.41%) Data Analyst
5 406 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.81%) Trainee
7 320 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 303 (7.42%) Junior
9 302 (7.39%) Lead
10 296 (7.25%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.90%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.90%) Junior Data Analyst
12 235 (5.75%) Python Engineer
13 182 (4.46%) Software Developer
14 144 (3.53%) Architect
15 139 (3.40%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
17 127 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
18 120 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
19 116 (2.84%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (9.40%) HTML
2 340 (8.32%) CSS
3 332 (8.13%) React
4 175 (4.28%) REST
5 171 (4.19%) Node.js
6 162 (3.97%) Django
7 144 (3.53%) Kafka
8 140 (3.43%) RESTful
9 133 (3.26%) FastAPI
10 129 (3.16%) PySpark
11 121 (2.96%) PyTorch
12 116 (2.84%) .NET
13 115 (2.82%) Pandas
14 105 (2.57%) Flask
15 100 (2.45%) AngularJS
16 99 (2.42%) TensorFlow
17 84 (2.06%) JSON
18 83 (2.03%) Vue
19 80 (1.96%) NumPy
20 78 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 226 (5.53%) Cloud Native
2 198 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 153 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 151 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 113 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 106 (2.59%) Equities
7 101 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.88%) Hedge funds
11 74 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 73 (1.79%) Low-Code
13 70 (1.71%) Derivative
14 68 (1.66%) Fixed Income
14 68 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 64 (1.57%) Data Centre
16 60 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
17 58 (1.42%) AI Agents
18 56 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
19 55 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 501 (12.26%) Linux
2 206 (5.04%) Windows
3 186 (4.55%) Unix
4 71 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.78%) CentOS
7 31 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.49%) Debian
10 17 (0.42%) VMS
11 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.32%) Solaris
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.27%) Android
14 8 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.098%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (29.08%) AI
2 949 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 913 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
4 813 (19.90%) Analytics
5 799 (19.56%) Business Intelligence
6 773 (18.92%) Agile
7 770 (18.85%) DevOps
8 660 (16.16%) Software Engineering
9 651 (15.94%) Mentoring
10 538 (13.17%) Machine Learning
11 478 (11.70%) ETL
12 470 (11.51%) Data Science
13 458 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
14 452 (11.06%) Data Modelling
15 450 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 447 (10.94%) Computer Science
17 442 (10.82%) Data Engineering
18 407 (9.96%) Data Analysis
19 379 (9.28%) Containerisation
20 377 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,629 (39.88%) SQL
2 726 (17.77%) JavaScript
3 580 (14.20%) Java
4 383 (9.38%) Bash
5 342 (8.37%) PowerShell
6 320 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 270 (6.61%) C#
8 230 (5.63%) R
9 207 (5.07%) C++
10 159 (3.89%) Go
11 117 (2.86%) C
12 77 (1.88%) Scala
13 63 (1.54%) PHP
14 59 (1.44%) VBA
15 51 (1.25%) Bicep
16 47 (1.15%) MATLAB
17 46 (1.13%) Perl
18 45 (1.10%) Rust
19 39 (0.95%) T-SQL
20 38 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 800 (19.58%) Degree
2 590 (14.44%) Azure Certification
3 445 (10.89%) Security Cleared
4 362 (8.86%) AWS Certification
5 288 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 257 (6.29%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 212 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 192 (4.70%) Master's Degree
10 161 (3.94%) DV Cleared
11 125 (3.06%) PhD
12 71 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.40%) CCNP
14 48 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
15 47 (1.15%) CISSP
16 39 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.64%) HND
19 26 (0.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.94%) QA
3 102 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.42%) GDPR
5 81 (1.98%) NIST
6 65 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.81%) SLA
8 27 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
12 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 11 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) GRC
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.098%) ECSS
16 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 505 (12.36%) Docker
2 80 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.66%) Firmware
5 19 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.098%) Postfix
13 4 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.073%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.073%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 537 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 528 (12.93%) Terraform
3 310 (7.59%) Ansible
4 125 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 124 (3.04%) Grafana
6 59 (1.44%) Argo
7 25 (0.61%) Kibana
8 21 (0.51%) Puppet
9 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Nessus
11 13 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.32%) Rancher
12 12 (0.29%) Control-M
13 11 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.27%) logstash
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,073 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 253 (6.19%) Databricks
3 191 (4.68%) Google
4 128 (3.13%) Oracle
5 100 (2.45%) Cisco
6 99 (2.42%) VMware
7 83 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.66%) SAP
10 60 (1.47%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.42%) Splunk
12 55 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.10%) IBM
13 45 (1.10%) Informatica
14 43 (1.05%) Bloomberg
15 42 (1.03%) Alteryx
15 42 (1.03%) Fortinet
15 42 (1.03%) Talend
16 33 (0.81%) Palantir
17 31 (0.76%) Atlassian