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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,051 5,091 7,267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.38% 12.93% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.63% 40.14% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,487 2,968 5,598
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £125,375 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +3.57% -3.45%

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 14,535 12,684 27,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 32.23% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,296 8,857 22,386
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 2,377 £85,000 -5.56% 1,289
North of England -10 1,219 £60,000 -7.69% 713
South East +1 898 £62,000 -4.62% 721
Midlands +17 652 £55,000 - 374
North West -29 525 £62,573 -3.73% 345
South West +5 518 £57,500 - 286
Yorkshire +16 513 £50,000 -20.00% 239
West Midlands +18 365 £60,000 +9.09% 195
East of England +7 324 £62,500 -5.60% 239
East Midlands +30 287 £55,000 +10.00% 179
North East +22 181 £52,250 -16.40% 133
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
1 207 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 189 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 135 (2.23%) Apache
4 67 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 43 (0.71%) Confluence
7 36 (0.59%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 13 (0.21%) Appian
11 12 (0.20%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.083%) CMS
13 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.050%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,147 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
9 2 (0.033%) Trello
10 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
3 4 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,829 (46.75%) Azure
2 1,836 (30.34%) AWS
3 1,387 (22.92%) Power Platform
4 1,268 (20.96%) Azure AI
5 638 (10.54%) GCP
6 479 (7.92%) GitHub
7 313 (5.17%) Serverless
8 227 (3.75%) SaaS
9 223 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 214 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 196 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (2.64%) dbt
16 139 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 135 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
18 121 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 96 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
20 88 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.60%) Firewall
2 172 (2.84%) Internet
3 170 (2.81%) Broadband
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
5 121 (2.00%) VPN
6 102 (1.69%) Network Security
7 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 92 (1.52%) WAN
8 81 (1.34%) LAN
9 72 (1.19%) Wireless
10 66 (1.09%) BGP
11 54 (0.89%) HTTP
12 53 (0.88%) VLAN
13 48 (0.79%) OSPF
14 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,331 (22.00%) Power BI
2 1,227 (20.28%) Tableau
3 274 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 161 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 153 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 133 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.88%) Data Mining
13 111 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.67%) Big Data
15 86 (1.42%) Metadata
16 76 (1.26%) MySQL
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (1.02%) DynamoDB
19 59 (0.98%) Spark SQL
20 53 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 650 (10.74%) Git
2 243 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 222 (3.67%) GitLab
4 119 (1.97%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.02%) MLflow
7 45 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.68%) Selenium
9 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.53%) Postman
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 22 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JMeter
15 20 (0.33%) LabVIEW
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) JUnit
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,283 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 1,162 (19.20%) Finance
3 808 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 246 (4.07%) Banking
6 212 (3.50%) Public Sector
7 179 (2.96%) Retail
8 166 (2.74%) Law
9 155 (2.56%) Multimedia
10 137 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.16%) Front Office
12 101 (1.67%) Marketing
13 96 (1.59%) Legal
14 93 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.29%) Electronics
16 65 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (0.91%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 51 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,350 (22.31%) Analyst
2 1,169 (19.32%) Data Analyst
3 982 (16.23%) Junior
4 947 (15.65%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (15.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 920 (15.20%) Senior
6 913 (15.09%) Developer
7 601 (9.93%) Software Engineer
8 526 (8.69%) Data Engineer
9 486 (8.03%) Python Engineer
10 483 (7.98%) Lead
11 405 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.49%) Python Developer
13 300 (4.96%) Trainee
14 218 (3.60%) Python Software Engineer
15 199 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 179 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
17 176 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
18 168 (2.78%) Architect
19 157 (2.59%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (6.13%) React
2 293 (4.84%) HTML
3 261 (4.31%) CSS
4 253 (4.18%) Kafka
5 218 (3.60%) PySpark
6 200 (3.31%) Node.js
7 199 (3.29%) REST
8 191 (3.16%) .NET
9 177 (2.93%) RESTful
10 168 (2.78%) Django
11 161 (2.66%) Pandas
11 161 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 144 (2.38%) FastAPI
13 137 (2.26%) TensorFlow
14 123 (2.03%) scikit-learn
15 116 (1.92%) Flask
16 105 (1.74%) LangChain
17 103 (1.70%) NumPy
18 99 (1.64%) JSON
19 81 (1.34%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 366 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 308 (5.09%) Algorithms
3 264 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 117 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 111 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 91 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
12 87 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
14 83 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 77 (1.27%) Equities
18 74 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
19 70 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
20 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 605 (10.00%) Linux
2 257 (4.25%) Windows
3 110 (1.82%) Unix
4 72 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
16 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,522 (41.68%) AI
2 1,428 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
3 1,259 (20.81%) CI/CD
4 1,167 (19.29%) Software Engineering
5 961 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 955 (15.78%) Analytics
7 948 (15.67%) Agile
8 927 (15.32%) DevOps
9 767 (12.68%) Machine Learning
10 720 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 703 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 586 (9.68%) Data Modelling
13 564 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
14 562 (9.29%) Data Engineering
15 555 (9.17%) Data Science
16 539 (8.91%) ETL
17 530 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 512 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 484 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
20 477 (7.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,431 (40.18%) SQL
2 689 (11.39%) JavaScript
3 657 (10.86%) Java
4 456 (7.54%) PowerShell
5 440 (7.27%) Bash
6 391 (6.46%) C++
7 367 (6.07%) TypeScript
8 366 (6.05%) C#
9 277 (4.58%) Go
10 213 (3.52%) R
11 168 (2.78%) C
12 121 (2.00%) Scala
13 82 (1.36%) Rust
14 67 (1.11%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 55 (0.91%) Bicep
17 44 (0.73%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) MATLAB
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,476 (24.39%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.77%) Degree
3 551 (9.11%) Security Cleared
4 321 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 298 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 279 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 211 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 210 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 182 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 149 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.50%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 49 (0.81%) OSCP
16 39 (0.64%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 30 (0.50%) CCIE
19 29 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 227 (3.75%) QA
3 128 (2.12%) GDPR
4 93 (1.54%) NIST
5 81 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) SLA
13 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.20%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 580 (9.59%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.45%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Squid
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.083%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Lustre
15 3 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 745 (12.31%) Terraform
2 607 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.77%) Ansible
4 199 (3.29%) Grafana
5 160 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.98%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (0.41%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 17 (0.28%) Packer
12 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
13 16 (0.26%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
14 15 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,828 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 326 (5.39%) Databricks
3 205 (3.39%) Google
4 128 (2.12%) Oracle
5 127 (2.10%) Cisco
6 124 (2.05%) VMware
7 102 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 101 (1.67%) Splunk
9 97 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 54 (0.89%) Foundry
10 54 (0.89%) SAP
11 53 (0.88%) Palo Alto
11 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
16 42 (0.69%) Informatica
17 40 (0.66%) Palantir