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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,050 5,087 7,271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.36% 12.91% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.58% 40.10% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 2,962 5,598
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £125,000 £122,500
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 14,550 12,686 27,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 32.20% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,297 8,850 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £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 20 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 20 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 2,388 £85,000 -5.56% 1,438
North of England -10 1,217 £60,000 -7.69% 735
South East 0 893 £61,000 -6.15% 811
Midlands +14 652 £55,000 - 389
North West -28 527 £62,823 -3.35% 346
South West +5 516 £57,500 - 319
Yorkshire +22 509 £51,250 -18.97% 257
West Midlands +15 365 £60,000 +9.09% 198
East of England +6 323 £62,500 -5.60% 289
East Midlands +30 287 £55,000 +10.00% 191
North East +22 181 £52,500 -16.00% 135
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
1 208 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 193 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.25%) Apache
4 68 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 43 (0.71%) Confluence
7 36 (0.60%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 13 (0.21%) IIS
11 12 (0.20%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.083%) CMS
13 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
14 3 (0.050%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,141 (18.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
9 2 (0.033%) Trello
10 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
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 (46.71%) Azure
2 1,837 (30.36%) AWS
3 1,386 (22.91%) Power Platform
4 1,269 (20.98%) Azure AI
5 640 (10.58%) GCP
6 477 (7.88%) GitHub
7 314 (5.19%) Serverless
8 226 (3.74%) SaaS
9 223 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 217 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 196 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
12 176 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 159 (2.63%) dbt
16 141 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 135 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 96 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
20 92 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.60%) Firewall
2 172 (2.84%) Broadband
3 170 (2.81%) Internet
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
5 121 (2.00%) VPN
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 92 (1.52%) WAN
8 81 (1.34%) LAN
9 72 (1.19%) Wireless
10 66 (1.09%) BGP
11 54 (0.89%) HTTP
12 53 (0.88%) VLAN
13 48 (0.79%) OSPF
14 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,330 (21.98%) Power BI
2 1,224 (20.23%) Tableau
3 276 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 162 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 154 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.28%) BigQuery
9 135 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 113 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.79%) Data Mining
14 102 (1.69%) Big Data
15 87 (1.44%) Metadata
16 79 (1.31%) MySQL
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 63 (1.04%) DynamoDB
19 59 (0.98%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 650 (10.74%) Git
2 250 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 222 (3.67%) GitLab
4 120 (1.98%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (1.01%) MLflow
7 46 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 32 (0.53%) Postman
9 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 30 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.33%) JMeter
13 20 (0.33%) LabVIEW
14 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
14 18 (0.30%) JUnit
14 18 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 2,286 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 1,158 (19.14%) Finance
3 798 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 247 (4.08%) Banking
6 209 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 177 (2.93%) Retail
8 164 (2.71%) Law
9 153 (2.53%) Multimedia
10 133 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.18%) Front Office
12 98 (1.62%) Marketing
13 97 (1.60%) Legal
14 89 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.24%) Electronics
16 65 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (0.91%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 51 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,344 (22.21%) Analyst
2 1,166 (19.27%) Data Analyst
3 984 (16.26%) Junior
4 947 (15.65%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (15.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 928 (15.34%) Senior
6 917 (15.16%) Developer
7 602 (9.95%) Software Engineer
8 526 (8.69%) Data Engineer
9 491 (8.12%) Python Engineer
10 486 (8.03%) Lead
11 409 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 399 (6.60%) Python Developer
13 292 (4.83%) Trainee
14 221 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
15 199 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 180 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
17 174 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
18 169 (2.79%) Architect
19 157 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (6.05%) React
2 288 (4.76%) HTML
3 257 (4.25%) CSS
3 257 (4.25%) Kafka
4 217 (3.59%) PySpark
5 199 (3.29%) Node.js
6 197 (3.26%) REST
7 191 (3.16%) .NET
8 177 (2.93%) RESTful
9 170 (2.81%) Django
10 160 (2.64%) PyTorch
11 158 (2.61%) Pandas
12 146 (2.41%) FastAPI
13 136 (2.25%) TensorFlow
14 122 (2.02%) scikit-learn
15 117 (1.93%) Flask
16 105 (1.74%) LangChain
17 103 (1.70%) NumPy
18 98 (1.62%) JSON
19 81 (1.34%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 368 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 314 (5.19%) Algorithms
3 262 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 166 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 128 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 116 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 112 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 100 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 92 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 88 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
11 87 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 79 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 77 (1.27%) Equities
17 74 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
18 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
19 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 607 (10.03%) Linux
2 254 (4.20%) Windows
3 107 (1.77%) Unix
4 73 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 30 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.20%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.17%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,528 (41.79%) AI
2 1,426 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
3 1,259 (20.81%) CI/CD
4 1,173 (19.39%) Software Engineering
5 962 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
6 948 (15.67%) Agile
7 946 (15.64%) Analytics
8 925 (15.29%) DevOps
9 765 (12.64%) Machine Learning
10 721 (11.92%) Mentoring
11 702 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 590 (9.75%) Data Modelling
13 562 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
14 561 (9.27%) Data Engineering
15 556 (9.19%) Data Science
16 537 (8.88%) ETL
17 530 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 510 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 484 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
20 481 (7.95%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,423 (40.05%) SQL
2 681 (11.26%) JavaScript
3 651 (10.76%) Java
4 454 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 438 (7.24%) Bash
6 394 (6.51%) C++
7 367 (6.07%) C#
8 360 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 276 (4.56%) Go
10 211 (3.49%) R
11 163 (2.69%) C
12 123 (2.03%) Scala
13 82 (1.36%) Rust
14 69 (1.14%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 55 (0.91%) Bicep
17 45 (0.74%) Perl
18 43 (0.71%) MATLAB
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,479 (24.45%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.78%) Degree
3 551 (9.11%) Security Cleared
4 326 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 296 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 278 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 210 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 209 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 177 (2.93%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 92 (1.52%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 49 (0.81%) OSCP
16 37 (0.61%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 30 (0.50%) CCIE
19 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 226 (3.74%) QA
3 126 (2.08%) GDPR
4 90 (1.49%) NIST
5 81 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.69%) 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 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.33%) SLA
13 12 (0.20%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 584 (9.65%) Docker
2 108 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.45%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) 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
1 748 (12.36%) Terraform
2 610 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.77%) Ansible
4 198 (3.27%) Grafana
5 158 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 58 (0.96%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) 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%) Progress Chef
12 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
13 16 (0.26%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,819 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 325 (5.37%) Databricks
3 205 (3.39%) Google
4 128 (2.12%) Oracle
5 127 (2.10%) Cisco
6 125 (2.07%) VMware
7 102 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 100 (1.65%) Splunk
9 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 56 (0.93%) Foundry
11 53 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 51 (0.84%) SAP
14 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.69%) F5
18 41 (0.68%) Informatica
18 41 (0.68%) Palantir