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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,180 5,209 7,846
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.16% 12.31% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.08% 40.08% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 2,953 5,916
10th Percentile £38,920 £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 15,814 12,997 28,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.32% 30.72% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,475 8,802 22,448
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 5 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 5 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 2,462 £85,000 -5.56% 1,708
North of England -12 1,253 £65,000 - 448
South East +4 931 £60,000 - 641
Midlands +16 617 £60,000 +4.35% 208
North West -15 587 £65,000 - 241
South West +6 554 £60,000 +4.35% 274
Yorkshire +13 452 £65,000 - 133
West Midlands +12 315 £62,500 +4.17% 104
East Midlands +29 302 £55,000 - 104
East of England -7 289 £70,000 +5.73% 220
North East +26 214 £59,000 -5.60% 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 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 213 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 161 (2.61%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) 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%) Camunda
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 917 (14.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.13%) 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 (43.06%) Azure
2 1,964 (31.78%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.30%) Power Platform
4 1,082 (17.51%) Azure AI
5 726 (11.75%) GCP
6 395 (6.39%) GitHub
7 360 (5.83%) Serverless
8 244 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.79%) SaaS
10 229 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 189 (3.06%) Snowflake
13 184 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.85%) dbt
15 173 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
16 156 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
17 153 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 118 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
20 114 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 243 (3.93%) Firewall
2 187 (3.03%) Broadband
3 148 (2.39%) VPN
4 134 (2.17%) DNS
5 119 (1.93%) Network Security
6 103 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 102 (1.65%) WAN
8 85 (1.38%) Wireless
9 84 (1.36%) LAN
10 70 (1.13%) Internet
11 68 (1.10%) BGP
12 58 (0.94%) VLAN
13 53 (0.86%) HTTP
13 53 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 50 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 40 (0.65%) DHCP
17 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (0.55%) MQTT
18 33 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,130 (18.28%) Power BI
2 987 (15.97%) Tableau
3 294 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 252 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 183 (2.96%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 168 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 136 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 103 (1.67%) Big Data
14 99 (1.60%) MySQL
15 92 (1.49%) Metadata
16 75 (1.21%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.04%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 620 (10.03%) Git
2 279 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 251 (4.06%) GitLab
4 159 (2.57%) 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 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 32 (0.52%) Subversion
11 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.42%) Postman
12 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 21 (0.34%) JUnit
14 20 (0.32%) Eclipse
14 20 (0.32%) JMeter
14 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,182 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 1,218 (19.71%) Finance
3 810 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (4.39%) Banking
4 271 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 230 (3.72%) Public Sector
6 193 (3.12%) Retail
7 158 (2.56%) Law
8 133 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 129 (2.09%) Front Office
10 103 (1.67%) Legal
11 91 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 90 (1.46%) Marketing
13 78 (1.26%) Electronics
14 73 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 68 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 64 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 63 (1.02%) Games
18 60 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 58 (0.94%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,132 (18.32%) Analyst
2 1,107 (17.91%) Senior
3 960 (15.53%) Data Analyst
4 900 (14.56%) Developer
5 812 (13.14%) Junior
6 760 (12.30%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.28%) Junior Data Analyst
8 722 (11.68%) Software Engineer
9 589 (9.53%) Data Engineer
10 558 (9.03%) Python Engineer
11 532 (8.61%) Lead
12 456 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 375 (6.07%) Python Developer
14 263 (4.26%) Python Software Engineer
15 203 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 199 (3.22%) Architect
17 196 (3.17%) Data Scientist
18 181 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
19 178 (2.88%) Senior Developer
20 173 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (6.39%) React
2 268 (4.34%) Kafka
3 240 (3.88%) Node.js
4 219 (3.54%) PySpark
5 217 (3.51%) REST
6 210 (3.40%) .NET
7 198 (3.20%) RESTful
8 186 (3.01%) HTML
9 185 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 181 (2.93%) Django
11 170 (2.75%) CSS
12 168 (2.72%) PyTorch
13 153 (2.48%) Pandas
14 143 (2.31%) LangChain
14 143 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.09%) Flask
16 121 (1.96%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.72%) Vue
18 105 (1.70%) NumPy
19 101 (1.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 505 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 308 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 164 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 152 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 107 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 101 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 92 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 87 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 85 (1.38%) 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 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
19 69 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
20 67 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 682 (11.04%) Linux
2 285 (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 18 (0.29%) 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 2,604 (42.14%) AI
2 1,436 (23.24%) CI/CD
3 1,412 (22.85%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1,081 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
6 1,056 (17.09%) Agile
7 1,003 (16.23%) DevOps
8 996 (16.12%) Analytics
9 873 (14.13%) Machine Learning
10 848 (13.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 734 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 640 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
13 627 (10.15%) Data Engineering
14 621 (10.05%) Data Modelling
15 597 (9.66%) Data Science
16 569 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 562 (9.09%) Containerisation
18 555 (8.98%) Computer Science
19 553 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
20 535 (8.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,342 (37.90%) SQL
2 732 (11.84%) Java
3 643 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 509 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 492 (7.96%) C++
6 485 (7.85%) Bash
7 414 (6.70%) C#
8 384 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.61%) Go
10 183 (2.96%) C
11 160 (2.59%) R
12 119 (1.93%) Scala
13 99 (1.60%) PHP
14 98 (1.59%) Rust
15 85 (1.38%) Bicep
16 64 (1.04%) MATLAB
17 60 (0.97%) Perl
18 56 (0.91%) VBA
19 54 (0.87%) Ruby
20 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,204 (19.48%) Azure Certification
2 798 (12.91%) Degree
3 701 (11.34%) Security Cleared
4 404 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 300 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 222 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.41%) AWS Certification
8 171 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 120 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 118 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (1.39%) PhD
12 79 (1.28%) 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 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 33 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 32 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 250 (4.05%) QA
3 135 (2.18%) GDPR
4 87 (1.41%) NIST
5 76 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 72 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.74%) 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%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 13 (0.21%) WCAG
13 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 684 (11.07%) Docker
2 107 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.50%) KVM
8 25 (0.40%) 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
1 884 (14.30%) Terraform
2 691 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 380 (6.15%) Ansible
4 229 (3.71%) Grafana
5 170 (2.75%) 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 1,540 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 368 (5.95%) Databricks
3 202 (3.27%) Google
4 142 (2.30%) VMware
5 133 (2.15%) Splunk
6 132 (2.14%) Oracle
7 122 (1.97%) Cisco
8 101 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 101 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 63 (1.02%) Foundry
10 61 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 58 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.84%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
14 43 (0.70%) F5
15 42 (0.68%) SAP
16 37 (0.60%) Palantir
17 35 (0.57%) Fortinet
18 32 (0.52%) Arista