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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,062 4,808 6,741
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.92% 11.20% 9.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.95% 41.05% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 2,644 4,302
10th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,860 11,713 21,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.28% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 7,740 13,470
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -3 2,529 £85,000 -4.23% 7,731
North of England -16 1,155 £67,500 +8.00% 1,085
South East +9 873 £62,500 +6.38% 1,169
South West +10 600 £62,500 +11.61% 650
North West -22 570 £67,500 +12.50% 613
Midlands 0 535 £62,000 -3.88% 509
Yorkshire +10 339 £68,000 +2.64% 340
East of England +6 316 £65,000 +13.04% 739
West Midlands -14 290 £65,000 +7.44% 301
North East +21 247 £67,500 +42.11% 138
East Midlands +14 243 £52,500 -20.75% 208
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
1 217 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 168 (2.77%) Apache
2 168 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (1.20%) Confluence
4 40 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 33 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 28 (0.46%) SAS
7 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.23%) nginx
10 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.16%) CMS
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.13%) Camunda
13 8 (0.13%) IIS
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 446 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Mathematica
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.049%) SPSS
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.033%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,284 (37.68%) Azure
2 1,863 (30.73%) AWS
3 833 (13.74%) Power Platform
4 718 (11.84%) GCP
5 677 (11.17%) Azure AI
6 375 (6.19%) GitHub
7 364 (6.00%) Serverless
8 258 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 238 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 228 (3.76%) SaaS
11 227 (3.74%) Amazon S3
12 220 (3.63%) Snowflake
13 209 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 183 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
16 182 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
17 170 (2.80%) dbt
18 136 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 131 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
20 129 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.55%) Firewall
2 149 (2.46%) DNS
3 135 (2.23%) VPN
4 133 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 99 (1.63%) Network Security
6 95 (1.57%) WAN
7 80 (1.32%) Wireless
8 75 (1.24%) Broadband
9 67 (1.11%) LAN
10 63 (1.04%) DHCP
11 59 (0.97%) BGP
12 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 45 (0.74%) MQTT
13 45 (0.74%) VLAN
14 43 (0.71%) OSPF
15 38 (0.63%) HTTP
16 36 (0.59%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 24 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 761 (12.55%) Power BI
2 483 (7.97%) Tableau
3 334 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
4 285 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
5 203 (3.35%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 129 (2.13%) Big Data
11 119 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 109 (1.80%) MySQL
13 107 (1.77%) Metadata
14 99 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
15 94 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
16 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
17 91 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
18 81 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
19 77 (1.27%) Delta Lake
20 74 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 677 (11.17%) Git
2 316 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 249 (4.11%) GitLab
4 176 (2.90%) JIRA
5 66 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.86%) Subversion
7 51 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.82%) Selenium
9 46 (0.76%) MLflow
10 39 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.63%) JUnit
12 36 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 24 (0.40%) Maven
18 22 (0.36%) TeamCity
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,997 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 1,281 (21.13%) Finance
3 808 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 347 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 318 (5.25%) Banking
6 254 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.58%) Law
8 199 (3.28%) Marketing
9 162 (2.67%) Retail
10 130 (2.14%) Legal
11 110 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 103 (1.70%) Front Office
12 103 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.58%) Electronics
14 84 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (0.99%) Games
18 47 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 44 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,254 (20.69%) Senior
2 864 (14.25%) Software Engineer
3 828 (13.66%) Developer
4 701 (11.56%) Python Engineer
5 663 (10.94%) Analyst
6 630 (10.39%) Data Engineer
7 607 (10.01%) Lead
8 524 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 485 (8.00%) Data Analyst
10 414 (6.83%) Junior
11 358 (5.91%) Python Developer
12 340 (5.61%) Python Software Engineer
13 335 (5.53%) Junior Analyst
14 331 (5.46%) Junior Data Analyst
15 254 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.65%) Data Scientist
17 218 (3.60%) Architect
18 201 (3.32%) Senior Developer
19 199 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
20 194 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 959 (15.82%) Terraform
2 396 (6.53%) React
3 235 (3.88%) REST
4 234 (3.86%) Kafka
4 234 (3.86%) PySpark
5 232 (3.83%) .NET
6 225 (3.71%) Node.js
7 209 (3.45%) FastAPI
8 207 (3.41%) RESTful
9 177 (2.92%) LangChain
10 176 (2.90%) Django
11 168 (2.77%) PyTorch
12 147 (2.42%) HTML
13 144 (2.38%) TensorFlow
14 128 (2.11%) CSS
15 125 (2.06%) Flask
16 123 (2.03%) Spring
16 123 (2.03%) Spring Boot
17 100 (1.65%) Pandas
18 97 (1.60%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 598 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 310 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 287 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 250 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 217 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 149 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 92 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 90 (1.48%) Robotics
10 87 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 85 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
12 83 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 81 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 79 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 79 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (1.25%) Public Cloud
16 75 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
17 71 (1.17%) Low-Code
18 67 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
19 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 704 (11.61%) Linux
2 324 (5.34%) Windows
3 85 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.34%) Unix
5 53 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.71%) CentOS
7 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 14 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
15 12 (0.20%) Solaris
16 11 (0.18%) Android
17 10 (0.16%) VMS
17 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,540 (41.90%) AI
2 1,677 (27.66%) Software Engineering
3 1,611 (26.58%) CI/CD
4 1,207 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 1,112 (18.34%) DevOps
6 1,107 (18.26%) Analytics
7 1,082 (17.85%) Agile
8 1,008 (16.63%) Machine Learning
9 959 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 926 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
11 794 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 737 (12.16%) Data Engineering
13 731 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
14 669 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 647 (10.67%) Data Modelling
16 625 (10.31%) Data Science
17 616 (10.16%) Decision-Making
18 589 (9.72%) Computer Science
19 584 (9.63%) Containerisation
20 576 (9.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,079 (34.30%) SQL
2 816 (13.46%) Java
3 598 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 568 (9.37%) C++
5 523 (8.63%) Bash
6 498 (8.22%) PowerShell
7 486 (8.02%) C#
8 406 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 252 (4.16%) Go
10 195 (3.22%) C
11 145 (2.39%) R
12 116 (1.91%) Scala
13 96 (1.58%) Bicep
14 94 (1.55%) Rust
15 90 (1.48%) PHP
16 85 (1.40%) Perl
17 82 (1.35%) MATLAB
18 75 (1.24%) Ruby
19 69 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 54 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 927 (15.29%) Degree
2 866 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 755 (12.45%) Azure Certification
4 492 (8.12%) SC Cleared
5 317 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 275 (4.54%) DV Cleared
7 218 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.96%) PhD
9 111 (1.83%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 66 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 48 (0.79%) CISSP
14 47 (0.78%) CCNP
15 42 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 28 (0.46%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 540 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 254 (4.19%) QA
3 132 (2.18%) GDPR
4 107 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 61 (1.01%) NIST
6 52 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.35%) NCSC
10 18 (0.30%) WCAG
11 17 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.21%) PMO
13 13 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.18%) GRC
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 773 (12.75%) Docker
2 117 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.07%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.46%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 16 (0.26%) KVM
9 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.049%) IAG
14 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 787 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 416 (6.86%) Ansible
3 240 (3.96%) Grafana
4 162 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 65 (1.07%) Puppet
6 60 (0.99%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.64%) Kibana
9 30 (0.49%) Nagios
10 28 (0.46%) Istio
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Packer
12 25 (0.41%) Rancher
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.36%) Podman
15 20 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
18 16 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,065 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 454 (7.49%) Databricks
3 214 (3.53%) Google
4 152 (2.51%) Splunk
5 122 (2.01%) OpenAI
6 119 (1.96%) VMware
7 117 (1.93%) Oracle
8 112 (1.85%) Cisco
9 94 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.79%) Foundry
13 46 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 39 (0.64%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.59%) SAP
16 36 (0.59%) SolarWinds
17 33 (0.54%) F5
17 33 (0.54%) Informatica
18 30 (0.49%) New Relic