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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,167 5,212 7,816
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.18% 12.38% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.14% 40.16% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,681 2,956 5,893
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 15,758 12,979 28,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 30.84% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,434 8,788 22,444
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -2 2,457 £85,000 -5.56% 1,708
North of England -12 1,250 £65,000 - 448
South East +3 928 £60,000 - 641
Midlands +19 616 £60,000 +6.67% 208
North West -15 587 £65,000 - 241
South West +6 553 £60,000 +4.35% 274
Yorkshire +14 452 £65,000 - 133
West Midlands +10 316 £62,250 +3.75% 104
East Midlands +30 300 £55,000 - 104
East of England -7 289 £70,000 +5.73% 220
North East +27 211 £59,000 -1.67% 78
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
1 223 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 212 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 161 (2.61%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
11 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Appian
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.049%) Camunda
Applications
1 917 (14.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Simulink
6 13 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.049%) Blender
8 3 (0.049%) Maya
8 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.032%) CATIA
9 2 (0.032%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,661 (43.15%) Azure
2 1,961 (31.80%) AWS
3 1,190 (19.30%) Power Platform
4 1,082 (17.54%) Azure AI
5 724 (11.74%) GCP
6 401 (6.50%) GitHub
7 355 (5.76%) Serverless
8 242 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 237 (3.84%) SaaS
10 225 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 213 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 188 (3.05%) Snowflake
13 181 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.85%) dbt
15 172 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
16 156 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 153 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 116 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
20 113 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 243 (3.94%) Firewall
2 187 (3.03%) Broadband
3 147 (2.38%) VPN
4 133 (2.16%) DNS
5 117 (1.90%) Network Security
6 103 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 101 (1.64%) WAN
8 84 (1.36%) LAN
9 83 (1.35%) Wireless
10 76 (1.23%) Internet
11 66 (1.07%) BGP
12 58 (0.94%) VLAN
13 53 (0.86%) HTTP
14 52 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 48 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 43 (0.70%) OSPF
17 40 (0.65%) DHCP
18 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 34 (0.55%) MQTT
19 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,127 (18.27%) Power BI
2 984 (15.96%) Tableau
3 292 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 250 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 183 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 167 (2.71%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.22%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 102 (1.65%) Big Data
14 99 (1.61%) MySQL
15 92 (1.49%) Metadata
16 75 (1.22%) DynamoDB
17 68 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.04%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 624 (10.12%) Git
2 278 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 250 (4.05%) GitLab
4 157 (2.55%) JIRA
5 81 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 55 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 55 (0.89%) MLflow
7 52 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 39 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 39 (0.63%) Selenium
9 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 32 (0.52%) Subversion
11 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.42%) Postman
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
13 20 (0.32%) Eclipse
13 20 (0.32%) JMeter
13 20 (0.32%) JUnit
13 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,178 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 1,211 (19.64%) Finance
3 808 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (4.39%) Banking
4 271 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 227 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 193 (3.13%) Retail
7 154 (2.50%) Law
8 133 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 129 (2.09%) Front Office
10 103 (1.67%) Legal
11 91 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 89 (1.44%) Marketing
13 77 (1.25%) Electronics
14 73 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 68 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 64 (1.04%) Multimedia
16 64 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 63 (1.02%) Games
18 60 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,132 (18.36%) Analyst
2 1,100 (17.84%) Senior
3 960 (15.57%) Data Analyst
4 900 (14.59%) Developer
5 812 (13.17%) Junior
6 760 (12.32%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.31%) Junior Data Analyst
8 719 (11.66%) Software Engineer
9 585 (9.49%) Data Engineer
10 558 (9.05%) Python Engineer
11 530 (8.59%) Lead
12 456 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 374 (6.06%) Python Developer
14 262 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
15 203 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
16 198 (3.21%) Architect
17 196 (3.18%) Data Scientist
18 181 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
19 174 (2.82%) Senior Developer
20 171 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (6.37%) React
2 266 (4.31%) Kafka
3 239 (3.88%) Node.js
4 219 (3.55%) PySpark
5 215 (3.49%) REST
6 210 (3.41%) .NET
7 198 (3.21%) RESTful
8 191 (3.10%) HTML
9 185 (3.00%) FastAPI
10 181 (2.93%) Django
11 175 (2.84%) CSS
12 168 (2.72%) PyTorch
13 153 (2.48%) Pandas
14 143 (2.32%) LangChain
14 143 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.09%) Flask
16 121 (1.96%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.72%) Vue
18 105 (1.70%) NumPy
19 101 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 504 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 307 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 164 (2.66%) AI Agents
6 147 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 106 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 101 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 92 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 87 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 84 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.28%) Equities
15 78 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 76 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
17 71 (1.15%) Hedge funds
18 70 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
19 67 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
20 66 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 676 (10.96%) Linux
2 284 (4.61%) Windows
3 90 (1.46%) Unix
4 86 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.70%) CentOS
7 40 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.097%) Rocky
17 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,595 (42.08%) AI
2 1,432 (23.22%) CI/CD
3 1,407 (22.81%) Software Engineering
4 1,233 (19.99%) Business Intelligence
5 1,079 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1,054 (17.09%) Agile
7 998 (16.18%) DevOps
8 993 (16.10%) Analytics
9 868 (14.07%) Machine Learning
10 844 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 737 (11.95%) Mentoring
12 638 (10.35%) Data Pipeline
13 624 (10.12%) Data Engineering
14 617 (10.00%) Data Modelling
15 596 (9.66%) Data Science
16 569 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 560 (9.08%) Containerisation
18 553 (8.97%) Computer Science
19 550 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
20 535 (8.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,334 (37.85%) SQL
2 725 (11.76%) Java
3 648 (10.51%) JavaScript
4 508 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 491 (7.96%) C++
6 482 (7.82%) Bash
7 413 (6.70%) C#
8 384 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.62%) Go
10 178 (2.89%) C
11 164 (2.66%) R
12 119 (1.93%) Scala
13 96 (1.56%) Rust
14 95 (1.54%) PHP
15 85 (1.38%) Bicep
16 64 (1.04%) MATLAB
17 58 (0.94%) Perl
18 56 (0.91%) VBA
19 51 (0.83%) Ruby
20 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,210 (19.62%) Azure Certification
2 793 (12.86%) Degree
3 694 (11.25%) Security Cleared
4 401 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 298 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 218 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 214 (3.47%) AWS Certification
8 170 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 126 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 124 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (1.39%) PhD
12 78 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.92%) CCNP
14 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 45 (0.73%) OSCP
16 37 (0.60%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 32 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 30 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 251 (4.07%) QA
3 134 (2.17%) GDPR
4 87 (1.41%) NIST
5 76 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 72 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.21%) WCAG
14 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 683 (11.08%) Docker
2 107 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.50%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 878 (14.24%) Terraform
2 689 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 377 (6.11%) Ansible
4 229 (3.71%) Grafana
5 170 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.07%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
7 40 (0.65%) Puppet
8 34 (0.55%) Kibana
9 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.44%) Istio
10 27 (0.44%) Packer
11 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.28%) Podman
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Graylog
17 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,545 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 367 (5.95%) Databricks
3 200 (3.24%) Google
4 142 (2.30%) VMware
5 132 (2.14%) Splunk
6 131 (2.12%) Oracle
7 120 (1.95%) Cisco
8 101 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 100 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 63 (1.02%) Foundry
11 61 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 58 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 51 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.68%) F5
17 41 (0.66%) SAP
18 37 (0.60%) Palantir
19 35 (0.57%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.52%) Arista