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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,265 5,250 7,036
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.04% 12.13% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.79% 40.18% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,801 2,965 5,190
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
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 16,152 13,065 24,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 30.19% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11,823 8,807 18,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £111,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 23 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 23 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 -3 2,524 £85,000 -5.56% 1,660
North of England -12 1,267 £65,000 - 459
South East +2 931 £60,000 -4.00% 504
Midlands +18 601 £60,000 - 194
North West -16 588 £65,000 +8.33% 265
South West +8 576 £60,000 +4.45% 245
Yorkshire +14 448 £65,000 - 119
West Midlands +4 314 £62,500 - 109
East of England +1 300 £65,000 -1.82% 167
East Midlands +23 287 £54,000 -1.82% 85
North East +29 231 £59,000 -9.23% 80
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
1 232 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 223 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.62%) Apache
4 77 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.86%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.45%) SAS
9 23 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) nginx
13 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 868 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.048%) Blender
9 3 (0.048%) Maya
9 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.048%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.048%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,622 (41.85%) Azure
2 1,974 (31.51%) AWS
3 1,155 (18.44%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.57%) Azure AI
5 745 (11.89%) GCP
6 375 (5.99%) GitHub
7 367 (5.86%) Serverless
8 241 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.74%) SaaS
10 230 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
12 211 (3.37%) Snowflake
13 188 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 178 (2.84%) dbt
15 163 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
16 162 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 156 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 127 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
20 115 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 235 (3.75%) Firewall
2 163 (2.60%) Broadband
3 136 (2.17%) VPN
4 132 (2.11%) DNS
5 118 (1.88%) Network Security
6 109 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 93 (1.48%) WAN
8 81 (1.29%) Wireless
9 72 (1.15%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) Internet
11 58 (0.93%) BGP
12 56 (0.89%) VLAN
13 53 (0.85%) HTTP
14 50 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 40 (0.64%) OSPF
16 39 (0.62%) MQTT
17 37 (0.59%) DHCP
18 33 (0.53%) SSL
18 33 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
19 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,094 (17.46%) Power BI
2 942 (15.04%) Tableau
3 311 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 280 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 185 (2.95%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 140 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.85%) Big Data
12 115 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 108 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.68%) MySQL
15 94 (1.50%) Metadata
16 79 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 73 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
18 61 (0.97%) Spark SQL
19 60 (0.96%) Delta Lake
19 60 (0.96%) Looker
Development Applications
1 639 (10.20%) Git
2 283 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 256 (4.09%) GitLab
4 154 (2.46%) JIRA
5 84 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 57 (0.91%) MLflow
8 54 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 44 (0.70%) Selenium
10 36 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.53%) Subversion
12 31 (0.49%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.43%) JUnit
14 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 2,179 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 1,279 (20.42%) Finance
3 815 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (4.64%) Banking
5 256 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 189 (3.02%) Retail
8 176 (2.81%) Law
9 134 (2.14%) Front Office
10 133 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 117 (1.87%) Legal
12 111 (1.77%) Marketing
13 86 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.26%) Electronics
15 78 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 76 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 68 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 65 (1.04%) Games
19 63 (1.01%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,178 (18.80%) Senior
2 1,064 (16.98%) Analyst
3 902 (14.40%) Data Analyst
4 896 (14.30%) Developer
5 786 (12.55%) Software Engineer
6 780 (12.45%) Junior
7 714 (11.40%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.36%) Junior Data Analyst
9 620 (9.90%) Python Engineer
10 605 (9.66%) Data Engineer
11 555 (8.86%) Lead
12 461 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 382 (6.10%) Python Developer
14 296 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 228 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
16 206 (3.29%) Architect
17 200 (3.19%) Data Scientist
18 192 (3.06%) Senior Developer
19 184 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
20 181 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.23%) React
2 289 (4.61%) Kafka
3 249 (3.97%) Node.js
4 225 (3.59%) PySpark
4 225 (3.59%) REST
5 216 (3.45%) .NET
6 205 (3.27%) RESTful
7 200 (3.19%) FastAPI
8 196 (3.13%) Django
9 185 (2.95%) HTML
10 167 (2.67%) PyTorch
11 166 (2.65%) CSS
12 159 (2.54%) Pandas
13 152 (2.43%) LangChain
14 142 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 136 (2.17%) Flask
16 129 (2.06%) scikit-learn
17 109 (1.74%) JSON
18 108 (1.72%) NumPy
19 104 (1.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 521 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 333 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 332 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 186 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 180 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 175 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 129 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
9 100 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 95 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 87 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 80 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 78 (1.25%) Equities
15 77 (1.23%) Hedge funds
16 73 (1.17%) Robotics
17 71 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
18 69 (1.10%) Security Posture
19 68 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 693 (11.06%) Linux
2 309 (4.93%) Windows
3 88 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.23%) Unix
5 47 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.61%) CentOS
7 37 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
18 4 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,694 (43.00%) AI
2 1,517 (24.21%) Software Engineering
3 1,503 (23.99%) CI/CD
4 1,217 (19.43%) Business Intelligence
5 1,101 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1,065 (17.00%) Agile
7 1,036 (16.54%) DevOps
8 1,026 (16.38%) Analytics
9 923 (14.73%) Machine Learning
10 865 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (11.83%) Mentoring
12 679 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
13 671 (10.71%) Data Engineering
14 650 (10.38%) Data Modelling
15 611 (9.75%) Data Science
16 586 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 584 (9.32%) Containerisation
18 564 (9.00%) Full-Stack Development
19 555 (8.86%) Computer Science
20 543 (8.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,355 (37.59%) SQL
2 759 (12.11%) Java
3 635 (10.14%) JavaScript
4 516 (8.24%) C++
5 494 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 481 (7.68%) Bash
7 435 (6.94%) C#
8 388 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.39%) Go
10 177 (2.83%) C
11 162 (2.59%) R
12 126 (2.01%) Scala
13 98 (1.56%) PHP
14 97 (1.55%) Rust
15 87 (1.39%) Bicep
16 64 (1.02%) Perl
17 63 (1.01%) Ruby
18 61 (0.97%) MATLAB
19 57 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,161 (18.53%) Azure Certification
2 814 (12.99%) Degree
3 706 (11.27%) Security Cleared
4 411 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 304 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 235 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.18%) AWS Certification
8 180 (2.87%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 116 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 89 (1.42%) PhD
11 81 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (0.89%) CCNP
13 47 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.59%) CISSP
16 36 (0.57%) OSCP
17 35 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 31 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
19 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 251 (4.01%) QA
3 147 (2.35%) GDPR
4 84 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 79 (1.26%) NIST
6 66 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.34%) GRC
9 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 21 (0.34%) SLA
10 19 (0.30%) PMO
11 18 (0.29%) WCAG
12 12 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) Basel III
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 716 (11.43%) Docker
2 108 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.93%) Firmware
5 40 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.45%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.048%) IAG
14 3 (0.048%) iptables
14 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 888 (14.17%) Terraform
2 699 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 384 (6.13%) Ansible
4 244 (3.89%) Grafana
5 166 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.85%) Argo
7 42 (0.67%) Puppet
8 41 (0.65%) Nagios
9 35 (0.56%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
11 29 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.29%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
17 14 (0.22%) Kubeflow
17 14 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,507 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 400 (6.38%) Databricks
3 183 (2.92%) Google
4 144 (2.30%) Splunk
5 140 (2.23%) VMware
6 137 (2.19%) Oracle
7 122 (1.95%) Cisco
8 111 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 102 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.96%) Foundry
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
15 43 (0.69%) F5
16 42 (0.67%) SAP
17 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
18 32 (0.51%) Palantir
19 31 (0.49%) IBM