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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,388 5,059 6,523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.74% 11.50% 9.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.06% 40.15% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,830 4,651
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £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 16,784 12,601 21,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 28.65% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,203 8,420 15,711
10th Percentile £38,250 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 2,646 £85,000 -2.86% 2,967
North of England -12 1,259 £65,500 +0.77% 588
South East +8 920 £60,000 - 704
South West +13 620 £60,000 +9.09% 326
North West -16 601 £65,500 +9.17% 318
Midlands +5 568 £62,000 -4.62% 258
Yorkshire +16 407 £65,500 +0.77% 162
East of England +9 319 £65,000 +18.18% 334
West Midlands +3 307 £62,500 -3.85% 154
East Midlands +19 260 £53,750 -10.42% 103
North East +23 251 £65,000 - 113
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
1 248 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 235 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 190 (2.97%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 54 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.34%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
14 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 706 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.078%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.047%) Magento
8 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.047%) Summit
9 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) FastStats
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,548 (39.89%) Azure
2 2,037 (31.89%) AWS
3 1,041 (16.30%) Power Platform
4 905 (14.17%) Azure AI
5 766 (11.99%) GCP
6 398 (6.23%) GitHub
7 377 (5.90%) Serverless
8 262 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 244 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 239 (3.74%) SaaS
10 239 (3.74%) Snowflake
11 231 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
12 208 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 200 (3.13%) dbt
14 182 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
17 140 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 131 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
19 121 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.51%) Firewall
2 134 (2.10%) DNS
3 131 (2.05%) Broadband
4 125 (1.96%) VPN
5 123 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 108 (1.69%) Network Security
7 95 (1.49%) WAN
8 78 (1.22%) Wireless
9 74 (1.16%) LAN
10 71 (1.11%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 47 (0.74%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) DHCP
15 42 (0.66%) HTTP
16 40 (0.63%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 34 (0.53%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 971 (15.20%) Power BI
2 783 (12.26%) Tableau
3 338 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.47%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 135 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 122 (1.91%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) MySQL
13 110 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 110 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
14 96 (1.50%) Metadata
15 87 (1.36%) DynamoDB
16 81 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.11%) Delta Lake
18 70 (1.10%) Looker
19 60 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 707 (11.07%) Git
2 289 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.77%) GitLab
4 168 (2.63%) JIRA
5 62 (0.97%) MLflow
6 61 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 60 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 41 (0.64%) Subversion
10 36 (0.56%) JUnit
11 35 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 34 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,180 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 1,343 (21.02%) Finance
3 860 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 330 (5.17%) Banking
4 330 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 240 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 224 (3.51%) Law
7 189 (2.96%) Marketing
8 170 (2.66%) Retail
9 138 (2.16%) Legal
10 123 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 118 (1.85%) Front Office
12 91 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 91 (1.42%) Electronics
13 85 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 79 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
16 73 (1.14%) Investment Banking
17 67 (1.05%) Games
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,259 (19.71%) Senior
2 927 (14.51%) Analyst
3 871 (13.63%) Developer
4 835 (13.07%) Software Engineer
5 739 (11.57%) Data Analyst
6 665 (10.41%) Python Engineer
7 655 (10.25%) Junior
8 632 (9.89%) Data Engineer
9 618 (9.67%) Lead
10 573 (8.97%) Junior Analyst
11 570 (8.92%) Junior Data Analyst
12 486 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 370 (5.79%) Python Developer
14 300 (4.70%) Python Software Engineer
15 243 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.46%) Architect
17 212 (3.32%) Data Scientist
18 203 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 189 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
20 187 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.47%) React
2 277 (4.34%) Kafka
3 241 (3.77%) Node.js
4 237 (3.71%) PySpark
5 233 (3.65%) .NET
6 229 (3.58%) REST
7 210 (3.29%) FastAPI
8 209 (3.27%) RESTful
9 195 (3.05%) HTML
10 191 (2.99%) Django
11 183 (2.86%) PyTorch
12 179 (2.80%) CSS
13 178 (2.79%) LangChain
14 155 (2.43%) TensorFlow
15 138 (2.16%) Pandas
16 132 (2.07%) Flask
17 124 (1.94%) scikit-learn
18 118 (1.85%) Spring
18 118 (1.85%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 589 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 339 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 319 (4.99%) Algorithms
4 220 (3.44%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 146 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 97 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 81 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 81 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 79 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 77 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 77 (1.21%) Robotics
12 77 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
13 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
13 74 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 72 (1.13%) Equities
15 65 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 724 (11.33%) Linux
2 328 (5.13%) Windows
3 93 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.28%) Unix
5 55 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,733 (42.78%) AI
2 1,635 (25.59%) Software Engineering
3 1,583 (24.78%) CI/CD
4 1,190 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
5 1,140 (17.85%) Analytics
6 1,125 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
7 1,123 (17.58%) Agile
8 1,089 (17.05%) DevOps
9 1,024 (16.03%) Machine Learning
10 935 (14.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 815 (12.76%) Mentoring
12 742 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
13 732 (11.46%) Data Engineering
14 671 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 659 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 640 (10.02%) Data Science
17 605 (9.47%) Containerisation
18 588 (9.20%) Computer Science
19 587 (9.19%) Decision-Making
20 576 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,323 (36.37%) SQL
2 814 (12.74%) Java
3 673 (10.54%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.58%) C++
5 503 (7.87%) PowerShell
6 494 (7.73%) Bash
7 470 (7.36%) C#
8 404 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 270 (4.23%) Go
10 188 (2.94%) C
11 170 (2.66%) R
12 124 (1.94%) Scala
13 103 (1.61%) PHP
14 97 (1.52%) Rust
15 91 (1.42%) Bicep
16 83 (1.30%) Perl
17 74 (1.16%) Ruby
18 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,029 (16.11%) Azure Certification
2 892 (13.96%) Degree
3 795 (12.45%) Security Cleared
4 445 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.16%) DV Cleared
7 206 (3.22%) Master's Degree
8 180 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 106 (1.66%) PhD
11 94 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 78 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.80%) CCNP
15 43 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (0.63%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 27 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 517 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.21%) QA
3 151 (2.36%) GDPR
4 109 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 69 (1.08%) NIST
6 58 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 32 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.39%) SLA
10 24 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.30%) PMO
14 16 (0.25%) GRC
15 14 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.22%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 767 (12.01%) Docker
2 115 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.00%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.39%) vSphere
8 24 (0.38%) KVM
9 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.094%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
17 2 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 941 (14.73%) Terraform
2 753 (11.79%) Kubernetes
3 404 (6.32%) Ansible
4 237 (3.71%) Grafana
5 147 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 56 (0.88%) Puppet
7 51 (0.80%) Argo
8 41 (0.64%) Nagios
9 37 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.56%) Kibana
11 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 30 (0.47%) Istio
13 29 (0.45%) Packer
14 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.30%) Podman
16 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
17 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
18 16 (0.25%) logstash
19 14 (0.22%) Graylog
19 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,357 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 456 (7.14%) Databricks
3 204 (3.19%) Google
4 152 (2.38%) Splunk
5 145 (2.27%) Oracle
6 134 (2.10%) VMware
7 121 (1.89%) Cisco
7 121 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 121 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 63 (0.99%) Foundry
10 54 (0.85%) Palo Alto
11 43 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 43 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 40 (0.63%) SolarWinds
13 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.59%) SAP
15 37 (0.58%) F5
16 34 (0.53%) Palantir
17 33 (0.52%) IBM