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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,039 5,122 7,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.39% 12.97% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.69% 40.15% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,484 2,988 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 £102,500 £126,625 £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 14,485 12,758 27,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 32.30% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,259 8,915 22,387
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 18 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 18 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 2,379 £85,000 -5.56% 1,303
North of England -10 1,213 £60,000 -7.69% 562
South East +2 895 £61,000 -6.15% 620
Midlands +19 646 £55,000 - 243
North West -29 521 £62,500 -3.85% 301
South West +5 516 £57,500 - 259
Yorkshire +17 513 £50,000 -20.00% 151
West Midlands +18 363 £60,000 +9.09% 120
East of England +6 325 £62,500 -5.60% 218
East Midlands +30 283 £55,000 +10.00% 123
North East +22 179 £52,250 -18.04% 114
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
1 209 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.25%) Apache
4 68 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 44 (0.73%) Confluence
7 35 (0.58%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) Appian
12 13 (0.22%) IIS
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) CMS
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,147 (18.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
8 2 (0.033%) Trello
9 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.017%) SPSS
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 2,826 (46.80%) Azure
2 1,830 (30.30%) AWS
3 1,387 (22.97%) Power Platform
4 1,269 (21.01%) Azure AI
5 635 (10.51%) GCP
6 480 (7.95%) GitHub
7 308 (5.10%) Serverless
8 228 (3.78%) SaaS
9 219 (3.63%) Amazon S3
10 215 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
11 193 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
14 163 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.67%) dbt
16 138 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 135 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
18 121 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 95 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
20 88 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.59%) Firewall
2 172 (2.85%) Internet
3 162 (2.68%) Broadband
4 124 (2.05%) DNS
5 121 (2.00%) VPN
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 90 (1.49%) WAN
9 80 (1.32%) LAN
10 72 (1.19%) Wireless
11 67 (1.11%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 49 (0.81%) OSPF
15 45 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.55%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,331 (22.04%) Power BI
2 1,226 (20.30%) Tableau
3 273 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 162 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 153 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 133 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 130 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.89%) Data Mining
13 109 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.67%) Big Data
15 83 (1.37%) Metadata
16 75 (1.24%) MySQL
17 67 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (1.03%) DynamoDB
19 59 (0.98%) Spark SQL
20 52 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 651 (10.78%) Git
2 244 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 223 (3.69%) GitLab
4 120 (1.99%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 47 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.70%) 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 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 19 (0.31%) LabVIEW
18 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
19 17 (0.28%) JUnit
19 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,276 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 1,163 (19.26%) Finance
3 801 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 245 (4.06%) Banking
6 213 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 178 (2.95%) Retail
8 165 (2.73%) Law
9 156 (2.58%) Multimedia
10 138 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.17%) Front Office
12 103 (1.71%) Marketing
13 96 (1.59%) Legal
14 93 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.29%) Electronics
16 64 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 59 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (0.91%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 52 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,347 (22.31%) Analyst
2 1,168 (19.34%) Data Analyst
3 983 (16.28%) Junior
4 947 (15.68%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (15.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 914 (15.13%) Senior
6 907 (15.02%) Developer
7 598 (9.90%) Software Engineer
8 527 (8.73%) Data Engineer
9 483 (8.00%) Lead
10 480 (7.95%) Python Engineer
11 407 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 392 (6.49%) Python Developer
13 301 (4.98%) Trainee
14 214 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
15 197 (3.26%) Software Developer
16 179 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
17 174 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
18 167 (2.77%) Architect
19 154 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (6.19%) React
2 295 (4.88%) HTML
3 263 (4.36%) CSS
4 252 (4.17%) Kafka
5 216 (3.58%) PySpark
6 202 (3.34%) Node.js
7 200 (3.31%) REST
8 192 (3.18%) .NET
9 178 (2.95%) RESTful
10 169 (2.80%) Django
11 163 (2.70%) Pandas
12 157 (2.60%) PyTorch
13 143 (2.37%) FastAPI
14 132 (2.19%) TensorFlow
15 124 (2.05%) scikit-learn
16 115 (1.90%) Flask
17 105 (1.74%) LangChain
17 105 (1.74%) NumPy
18 99 (1.64%) JSON
19 81 (1.34%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 356 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 308 (5.10%) Algorithms
3 262 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 125 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 111 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 93 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 86 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 84 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
13 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 77 (1.28%) Equities
17 75 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
18 70 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
19 69 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 608 (10.07%) Linux
2 258 (4.27%) Windows
3 109 (1.80%) Unix
4 73 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.65%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) VMS
11 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
16 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,515 (41.65%) AI
2 1,427 (23.63%) Business Intelligence
3 1,252 (20.73%) CI/CD
4 1,161 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 956 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 949 (15.71%) Agile
7 948 (15.70%) Analytics
8 929 (15.38%) DevOps
9 762 (12.62%) Machine Learning
10 709 (11.74%) Mentoring
11 699 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 585 (9.69%) Data Modelling
13 565 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
14 560 (9.27%) Data Engineering
15 546 (9.04%) Data Science
16 538 (8.91%) ETL
17 528 (8.74%) Computer Science
18 509 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 483 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
20 479 (7.93%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,422 (40.11%) SQL
2 694 (11.49%) JavaScript
3 664 (11.00%) Java
4 456 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 442 (7.32%) Bash
6 389 (6.44%) C++
7 370 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 363 (6.01%) C#
9 278 (4.60%) Go
10 212 (3.51%) R
11 167 (2.77%) C
12 121 (2.00%) Scala
13 81 (1.34%) Rust
14 67 (1.11%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 56 (0.93%) Bicep
17 44 (0.73%) Perl
18 41 (0.68%) MATLAB
19 38 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,475 (24.42%) Azure Certification
2 770 (12.75%) Degree
3 550 (9.11%) Security Cleared
4 320 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 278 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 212 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 210 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 181 (3.00%) DV Cleared
10 149 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.51%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.13%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 49 (0.81%) OSCP
16 39 (0.65%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.48%) CCIE
19 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.79%) QA
3 127 (2.10%) GDPR
4 95 (1.57%) NIST
5 83 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.40%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) SLA
13 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.22%) 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
1 582 (9.64%) Docker
2 109 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.43%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.22%) 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
1 742 (12.29%) Terraform
2 610 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 348 (5.76%) Ansible
4 199 (3.30%) Grafana
5 160 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.98%) Argo
7 39 (0.65%) Nagios
8 32 (0.53%) 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%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.26%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,825 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 325 (5.38%) Databricks
3 205 (3.39%) Google
4 128 (2.12%) Oracle
5 127 (2.10%) Cisco
6 126 (2.09%) VMware
7 105 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 99 (1.64%) Splunk
9 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 55 (0.91%) SAP
11 54 (0.89%) Foundry
11 54 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
17 43 (0.71%) Informatica
18 42 (0.70%) F5
19 40 (0.66%) Palantir