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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,100 5,433 5,711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 11.35% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.22% 33.62% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,766 3,267 4,536
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,622
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 10,454 16,161 20,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.19% 33.78% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,844 9,498 17,743
10th Percentile £32,838 £37,789 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,994 £48,750 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.89% -7.31%
75th Percentile £83,250 £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 22 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 22 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 1,990 £83,500 -4.57% 1,130
North of England -7 670 £50,000 -23.08% 558
South East -32 451 £60,000 -7.69% 1,182
Midlands -14 382 £55,200 +0.36% 344
South West -3 341 £60,000 -7.69% 433
Yorkshire +11 302 £48,500 -25.38% 223
North West -17 281 £55,000 -12.00% 245
West Midlands +1 262 £55,200 -4.00% 142
East of England -17 212 £50,000 -28.57% 437
East Midlands -24 123 £57,600 +4.73% 197
North East +2 89 £40,000 -42.29% 94
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
1 166 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 129 (3.15%) Apache
4 43 (1.05%) Confluence
5 36 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.44%) IIS
12 17 (0.41%) Appian
13 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
14 15 (0.37%) nginx
15 14 (0.34%) Jupyter
16 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.17%) CMS
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
19 4 (0.098%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 557 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.098%) Windchill
10 3 (0.073%) CATIA
10 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.049%) Stata
11 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%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.098%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.024%) Actimize
8 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.024%) Endur
8 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.024%) Odoo
8 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,628 (39.71%) Azure
2 1,441 (35.15%) AWS
3 737 (17.98%) Power Platform
4 533 (13.00%) GitHub
5 423 (10.32%) GCP
6 324 (7.90%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.37%) Serverless
8 185 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.27%) Snowflake
10 169 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (3.90%) Amazon S3
12 152 (3.71%) SaaS
13 146 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.41%) dbt
15 139 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 108 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 92 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
20 82 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.27%) Internet
2 153 (3.73%) Firewall
3 89 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.90%) VPN
5 71 (1.73%) DNS
5 71 (1.73%) WAN
6 62 (1.51%) LAN
7 51 (1.24%) BGP
8 48 (1.17%) Wireless
9 45 (1.10%) Broadband
10 43 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 42 (1.02%) Network Security
12 39 (0.95%) HTTP
13 37 (0.90%) OSPF
13 37 (0.90%) VLAN
14 33 (0.80%) MPLS
15 30 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.68%) SSL
17 27 (0.66%) SAN
18 24 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (17.00%) Power BI
2 591 (14.41%) Tableau
3 257 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
4 220 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 219 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 178 (4.34%) NoSQL
7 165 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.46%) Data Mining
9 129 (3.15%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.78%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.66%) Big Data
12 90 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 86 (2.10%) BigQuery
13 86 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (2.02%) MySQL
15 79 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
16 70 (1.71%) Hadoop
16 70 (1.71%) Metadata
17 65 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
18 64 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 576 (14.05%) Git
2 226 (5.51%) Jenkins
3 140 (3.41%) GitLab
4 118 (2.88%) JIRA
5 58 (1.41%) Selenium
6 43 (1.05%) MLflow
7 38 (0.93%) JUnit
7 38 (0.93%) Postman
8 28 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.59%) JMeter
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.34%) Maven
15 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
16 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,236 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (24.80%) Finance
3 629 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.88%) Banking
4 241 (5.88%) Multimedia
5 180 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 169 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 163 (3.98%) Law
8 141 (3.44%) Marketing
9 139 (3.39%) Front Office
10 110 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 108 (2.63%) Retail
12 101 (2.46%) Manufacturing
13 86 (2.10%) Financial Institution
14 78 (1.90%) Electronics
15 73 (1.78%) Legal
16 68 (1.66%) Investment Banking
17 61 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 57 (1.39%) Games
19 47 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 763 (18.61%) Developer
2 736 (17.95%) Analyst
3 650 (15.85%) Senior
4 548 (13.37%) Data Analyst
5 417 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.78%) Trainee
7 326 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.49%) Lead
9 305 (7.44%) Junior
10 298 (7.27%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.88%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.88%) Junior Data Analyst
12 238 (5.80%) Python Engineer
13 187 (4.56%) Software Developer
14 143 (3.49%) Senior Developer
15 140 (3.41%) Architect
16 137 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
17 135 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
18 132 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
19 122 (2.98%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (9.37%) HTML
2 339 (8.27%) CSS
3 334 (8.15%) React
4 175 (4.27%) REST
5 170 (4.15%) Node.js
6 158 (3.85%) Django
7 143 (3.49%) Kafka
8 141 (3.44%) RESTful
9 134 (3.27%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.17%) PySpark
11 126 (3.07%) Pandas
12 121 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 115 (2.80%) .NET
14 107 (2.61%) Flask
15 105 (2.56%) AngularJS
16 100 (2.44%) TensorFlow
17 87 (2.12%) NumPy
17 87 (2.12%) Vue
18 84 (2.05%) JSON
19 76 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 221 (5.39%) Cloud Native
2 198 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 151 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 114 (2.78%) Equities
6 111 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 101 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 98 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 82 (2.00%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.88%) Fixed Income
12 75 (1.83%) Derivative
12 75 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.68%) Low-Code
14 63 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 63 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 58 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 58 (1.41%) Data Centre
16 56 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
17 54 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 511 (12.46%) Linux
2 209 (5.10%) Windows
3 191 (4.66%) Unix
4 75 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.78%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.41%) VMS
10 16 (0.39%) Solaris
11 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 10 (0.24%) Android
14 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.12%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (28.85%) AI
2 951 (23.20%) CI/CD
3 906 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
4 819 (19.98%) Analytics
5 804 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
6 791 (19.29%) Agile
7 779 (19.00%) DevOps
8 649 (15.83%) Software Engineering
9 647 (15.78%) Mentoring
10 538 (13.12%) Machine Learning
11 484 (11.80%) ETL
12 478 (11.66%) Data Science
13 463 (11.29%) Data Modelling
14 461 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
15 446 (10.88%) Data Engineering
16 445 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 438 (10.68%) Computer Science
18 407 (9.93%) Data Analysis
19 383 (9.34%) Containerisation
20 379 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,651 (40.27%) SQL
2 732 (17.85%) JavaScript
3 583 (14.22%) Java
4 385 (9.39%) Bash
5 342 (8.34%) PowerShell
6 330 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 274 (6.68%) C#
8 233 (5.68%) R
9 206 (5.02%) C++
10 155 (3.78%) Go
11 117 (2.85%) C
12 81 (1.98%) Scala
13 64 (1.56%) PHP
14 57 (1.39%) VBA
15 51 (1.24%) Bicep
16 48 (1.17%) Perl
17 46 (1.12%) MATLAB
18 43 (1.05%) Rust
19 39 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 791 (19.29%) Degree
2 588 (14.34%) Azure Certification
3 446 (10.88%) Security Cleared
4 363 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 259 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 208 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 188 (4.59%) Master's Degree
10 166 (4.05%) DV Cleared
11 122 (2.98%) PhD
12 73 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.41%) CCNP
14 48 (1.17%) CISSP
14 48 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
15 41 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.63%) HND
19 25 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.93%) QA
3 100 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.41%) GDPR
5 82 (2.00%) NIST
6 65 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.83%) SLA
8 24 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
11 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.098%) ECSS
16 4 (0.098%) GRC
16 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 513 (12.51%) Docker
2 79 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.66%) Firmware
5 20 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.39%) vSphere
8 11 (0.27%) KVM
9 10 (0.24%) HDFS
9 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
10 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.17%) Lustre
12 7 (0.17%) NFS
13 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.098%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 538 (13.12%) Kubernetes
2 514 (12.54%) Terraform
3 310 (7.56%) Ansible
4 123 (3.00%) Grafana
5 122 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 58 (1.41%) Argo
7 27 (0.66%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.41%) Nessus
11 15 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.32%) Rancher
14 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 12 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.29%) Nagios
15 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
16 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,081 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 257 (6.27%) Databricks
3 188 (4.59%) Google
4 130 (3.17%) Oracle
5 102 (2.49%) Cisco
5 102 (2.49%) VMware
6 87 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 67 (1.63%) SAP
9 62 (1.51%) Splunk
10 58 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.34%) ServiceNow
12 45 (1.10%) Informatica
13 44 (1.07%) Alteryx
13 44 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.05%) IBM
15 42 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 42 (1.02%) Talend
16 33 (0.80%) Palantir
17 32 (0.78%) Atlassian