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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,215 4,512 6,748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.61% 12.32% 8.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.16% 35.78% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 3,225 5,369
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
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 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 12,371 12,609 26,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 34.42% 33.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,903 9,299 22,054
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 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 26 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 -1 2,230 £84,250 -6.39% 1,152
North of England -3 961 £47,250 -27.31% 475
South East -11 711 £60,000 -9.77% 576
Midlands +4 519 £55,100 +0.18% 255
South West +6 446 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +10 422 £42,500 -34.62% 164
North West -8 398 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +22 322 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -20 278 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -7 198 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 141 £40,000 -38.46% 83
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
1 202 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.49%) Apache
4 68 (1.30%) WordPress
5 62 (1.19%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.63%) Confluence
6 33 (0.63%) SAS
7 32 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.33%) Appian
11 14 (0.27%) IIS
11 14 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.17%) nginx
13 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
16 5 (0.096%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.077%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.077%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,037 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 4 (0.077%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.077%) CATIA
8 4 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.077%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.077%) Windchill
9 2 (0.038%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.038%) Weka
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Houdini
10 1 (0.019%) Notion
10 1 (0.019%) NUKE
10 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.096%) Shopify
3 5 (0.096%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.077%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.058%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.058%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.038%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.019%) Actimize
7 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.019%) Endur
7 1 (0.019%) Findur
7 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.019%) Primavera
7 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,381 (45.66%) Azure
2 1,758 (33.71%) AWS
3 1,197 (22.95%) Power Platform
4 841 (16.13%) Azure AI
5 601 (11.52%) GitHub
6 577 (11.06%) GCP
7 283 (5.43%) Serverless
8 201 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 200 (3.84%) SaaS
10 184 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 179 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
12 172 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 164 (3.14%) dbt
14 161 (3.09%) Snowflake
15 160 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 123 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 120 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 102 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
19 92 (1.76%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.22%) Internet
2 185 (3.55%) Firewall
3 131 (2.51%) Broadband
4 110 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 103 (1.98%) VPN
6 97 (1.86%) DNS
7 72 (1.38%) Network Security
8 69 (1.32%) WAN
9 67 (1.28%) LAN
10 63 (1.21%) BGP
11 61 (1.17%) Wireless
12 56 (1.07%) VLAN
13 50 (0.96%) HTTP
14 44 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.82%) OSPF
16 37 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (0.63%) MPLS
18 32 (0.61%) SD-WAN
19 31 (0.59%) Wireshark
20 28 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,160 (22.24%) Power BI
2 1,127 (21.61%) Tableau
3 264 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.24%) Data Mining
7 167 (3.20%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 135 (2.59%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (2.09%) BigQuery
12 107 (2.05%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.76%) Big Data
15 85 (1.63%) Metadata
16 80 (1.53%) MySQL
17 73 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
18 48 (0.92%) Delta Lake
18 48 (0.92%) Looker
19 46 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 669 (12.83%) Git
2 218 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 180 (3.45%) GitLab
4 105 (2.01%) JIRA
5 64 (1.23%) MLflow
6 58 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
7 53 (1.02%) Selenium
8 37 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.71%) Postman
9 32 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.48%) JUnit
11 22 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 21 (0.40%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.38%) LabVIEW
14 19 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.36%) JMeter
15 17 (0.33%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 1,847 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 1,162 (22.28%) Finance
3 835 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (5.22%) Banking
5 260 (4.99%) Multimedia
6 213 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 167 (3.20%) Retail
9 166 (3.18%) Law
10 148 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.61%) Front Office
12 119 (2.28%) Marketing
13 108 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.67%) Legal
15 71 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 71 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.34%) Electronics
17 63 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 46 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
19 44 (0.84%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,241 (23.80%) Analyst
2 1,060 (20.33%) Data Analyst
3 851 (16.32%) Developer
4 791 (15.17%) Junior
5 757 (14.52%) Junior Analyst
5 757 (14.52%) Junior Data Analyst
6 755 (14.48%) Senior
7 477 (9.15%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.72%) Trainee
9 433 (8.30%) Software Engineer
10 406 (7.79%) Lead
11 340 (6.52%) Python Developer
12 323 (6.19%) Python Engineer
13 215 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 158 (3.03%) Architect
15 152 (2.91%) Senior Developer
16 146 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (2.76%) Trainee Analyst
17 144 (2.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (7.77%) HTML
2 374 (7.17%) React
3 356 (6.83%) CSS
4 232 (4.45%) Kafka
5 212 (4.07%) Node.js
6 197 (3.78%) Django
7 190 (3.64%) REST
8 173 (3.32%) PySpark
9 159 (3.05%) RESTful
10 156 (2.99%) PyTorch
11 148 (2.84%) .NET
12 141 (2.70%) Pandas
13 135 (2.59%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.55%) FastAPI
15 125 (2.40%) scikit-learn
16 122 (2.34%) Flask
17 99 (1.90%) JSON
18 92 (1.76%) NumPy
19 84 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
20 82 (1.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 279 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 250 (4.79%) Algorithms
3 200 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (3.24%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 101 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 90 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 86 (1.65%) Equities
9 86 (1.65%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 81 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 78 (1.50%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 70 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
14 70 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 69 (1.32%) AI Agents
15 69 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
16 65 (1.25%) Security Posture
17 63 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 545 (10.45%) Linux
2 218 (4.18%) Windows
3 182 (3.49%) Unix
4 66 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.77%) CentOS
7 27 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.21%) Debian
10 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Android
11 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.12%) Solaris
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.096%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.077%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.058%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.058%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,921 (36.84%) AI
2 1,268 (24.31%) Business Intelligence
3 1,108 (21.25%) CI/CD
4 980 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
5 942 (18.06%) Analytics
6 884 (16.95%) Agile
7 870 (16.68%) Software Engineering
8 836 (16.03%) DevOps
9 727 (13.94%) Mentoring
10 678 (13.00%) Machine Learning
11 563 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 557 (10.68%) Data Modelling
13 535 (10.26%) Data Science
14 532 (10.20%) ETL
15 530 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
16 496 (9.51%) Data Engineering
17 483 (9.26%) Computer Science
18 482 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 479 (9.19%) Containerisation
20 429 (8.23%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,221 (42.59%) SQL
2 798 (15.30%) JavaScript
3 601 (11.52%) Java
4 405 (7.77%) Bash
5 390 (7.48%) PowerShell
6 329 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 283 (5.43%) C#
8 265 (5.08%) R
9 260 (4.99%) Go
10 259 (4.97%) C++
11 128 (2.45%) C
12 101 (1.94%) Scala
13 72 (1.38%) Rust
14 69 (1.32%) VBA
15 63 (1.21%) PHP
16 45 (0.86%) Bicep
17 42 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.69%) Perl
20 30 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,137 (21.80%) Azure Certification
2 771 (14.78%) Degree
3 441 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 412 (7.90%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 307 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 256 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 246 (4.72%) SC Cleared
9 172 (3.30%) DV Cleared
10 128 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.69%) PhD
12 68 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.09%) CCNP
14 51 (0.98%) CISSP
15 44 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.82%) OSCP
17 38 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.56%) DBS Check
19 27 (0.52%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 204 (3.91%) QA
3 125 (2.40%) GDPR
4 115 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (2.09%) NIST
6 63 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.46%) PMO
11 22 (0.42%) SLA
12 21 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 20 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.35%) GRC
15 17 (0.33%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.13%) WCAG
18 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.12%) DICOM
System Software
1 576 (11.05%) Docker
2 95 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.61%) Firmware
6 26 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.38%) KVM
8 16 (0.31%) ProxySG
9 12 (0.23%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.096%) iptables
12 5 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.058%) HDFS
14 3 (0.058%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 636 (12.20%) Terraform
2 589 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 327 (6.27%) Ansible
4 174 (3.34%) Grafana
5 148 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.15%) Argo
7 28 (0.54%) Nagios
8 23 (0.44%) Puppet
9 21 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.35%) Kibana
12 17 (0.33%) Istio
13 12 (0.23%) Nessus
13 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.21%) Control-M
14 11 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.21%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,703 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 296 (5.68%) Databricks
3 202 (3.87%) Google
4 144 (2.76%) Oracle
5 116 (2.22%) Cisco
5 116 (2.22%) VMware
6 100 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 73 (1.40%) SAP
8 69 (1.32%) Splunk
9 68 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 63 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 49 (0.94%) Informatica
13 46 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 44 (0.84%) Dell
14 44 (0.84%) Foundry
15 41 (0.79%) Bloomberg
15 41 (0.79%) Talend
16 40 (0.77%) Alteryx
16 40 (0.77%) Palantir