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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,983 5,499 5,155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.58% 11.39% 10.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.92% 33.56% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,741 3,320 4,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,235 16,387 18,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.47% 33.95% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,731 9,626 15,531
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 1,972 £85,000 - 1,090
North of England -8 638 £52,250 -16.40% 809
South East -34 434 £60,000 -7.69% 1,399
Midlands -11 376 £60,000 +9.09% 530
South West -6 308 £60,000 -7.69% 591
Yorkshire +11 296 £51,000 -21.54% 368
North West -14 264 £55,000 -8.33% 300
West Midlands +2 263 £60,000 +4.35% 167
East of England -16 208 £50,000 -28.57% 713
East Midlands -28 116 £62,500 +13.64% 349
North East -1 80 £40,000 -38.46% 142
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
1 171 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 141 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 126 (3.16%) Apache
4 43 (1.08%) Confluence
5 35 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
6 26 (0.65%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) nginx
11 17 (0.43%) Appian
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 9 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.18%) CMS
16 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 504 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.075%) CATIA
10 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.075%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,561 (39.19%) Azure
2 1,382 (34.70%) AWS
3 692 (17.37%) Power Platform
4 512 (12.85%) GitHub
5 435 (10.92%) GCP
6 280 (7.03%) Azure AI
7 257 (6.45%) Serverless
8 183 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 180 (4.52%) Snowflake
10 162 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (3.94%) Amazon S3
11 157 (3.94%) SaaS
12 150 (3.77%) dbt
13 136 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 134 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
15 94 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 88 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
17 87 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 81 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
19 74 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 253 (6.35%) Internet
2 147 (3.69%) Firewall
3 87 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 72 (1.81%) VPN
5 69 (1.73%) WAN
6 64 (1.61%) DNS
7 57 (1.43%) LAN
8 43 (1.08%) BGP
8 43 (1.08%) Wireless
9 39 (0.98%) OSPF
10 38 (0.95%) Network Security
11 37 (0.93%) HTTP
12 36 (0.90%) VLAN
13 32 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (0.78%) SSL
15 29 (0.73%) SAN
15 29 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 24 (0.60%) Broadband
17 21 (0.53%) MPLS
18 20 (0.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 652 (16.37%) Power BI
2 551 (13.83%) Tableau
3 272 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 233 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 219 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 162 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 159 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 136 (3.41%) Data Mining
9 128 (3.21%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.81%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.74%) BigQuery
12 103 (2.59%) Big Data
13 89 (2.23%) MySQL
14 85 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 82 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
16 79 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
17 75 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
17 75 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
18 68 (1.71%) Hadoop
19 65 (1.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 549 (13.78%) Git
2 216 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 135 (3.39%) GitLab
4 124 (3.11%) JIRA
5 57 (1.43%) Selenium
6 41 (1.03%) MLflow
7 38 (0.95%) JUnit
8 32 (0.80%) Postman
9 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.60%) JMeter
10 23 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 15 (0.38%) Mockito
14 14 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 11 (0.28%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.28%) Metasploit
16 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,146 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (25.51%) Finance
3 609 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (6.13%) Banking
5 237 (5.95%) Multimedia
6 187 (4.69%) Law
7 179 (4.49%) Marketing
8 165 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 150 (3.77%) Front Office
10 130 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 122 (3.06%) Retail
12 108 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 89 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 80 (2.01%) Electronics
16 73 (1.83%) Legal
17 72 (1.81%) Investment Banking
18 59 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.38%) Games
20 52 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 760 (19.08%) Developer
2 682 (17.12%) Analyst
3 658 (16.52%) Senior
4 500 (12.55%) Data Analyst
5 414 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 351 (8.81%) Trainee
7 310 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 309 (7.76%) Python Developer
9 285 (7.16%) Lead
10 261 (6.55%) Junior
11 240 (6.03%) Python Engineer
12 236 (5.93%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.90%) Junior Data Analyst
14 188 (4.72%) Software Developer
15 162 (4.07%) Architect
16 145 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
17 143 (3.59%) Senior Developer
18 142 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
19 135 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
20 130 (3.26%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (9.39%) HTML
2 327 (8.21%) CSS
3 322 (8.08%) React
4 176 (4.42%) Node.js
5 163 (4.09%) REST
6 153 (3.84%) Django
7 143 (3.59%) RESTful
8 141 (3.54%) Kafka
9 139 (3.49%) Pandas
10 132 (3.31%) FastAPI
11 119 (2.99%) PySpark
12 112 (2.81%) .NET
13 109 (2.74%) PyTorch
14 105 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 105 (2.64%) Flask
15 97 (2.44%) NumPy
16 96 (2.41%) TensorFlow
17 89 (2.23%) Vue
18 86 (2.16%) JSON
19 79 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 150 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 140 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 132 (3.31%) Equities
6 113 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 112 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 91 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 90 (2.26%) Fixed Income
10 85 (2.13%) Hedge funds
11 80 (2.01%) Derivative
12 77 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 77 (1.93%) Product Ownership
13 71 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 64 (1.61%) Low-Code
15 60 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 55 (1.38%) AI Agents
17 53 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 52 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
19 50 (1.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 484 (12.15%) Linux
2 206 (5.17%) Windows
3 182 (4.57%) Unix
4 72 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.63%) CentOS
8 21 (0.53%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.43%) Solaris
10 17 (0.43%) VMS
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (0.18%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) zOS
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,098 (27.57%) AI
2 918 (23.05%) CI/CD
3 867 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
4 828 (20.79%) Analytics
5 775 (19.46%) Agile
6 762 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
7 750 (18.83%) DevOps
8 638 (16.02%) Mentoring
9 626 (15.72%) Software Engineering
10 528 (13.26%) Machine Learning
11 489 (12.28%) Data Science
12 465 (11.67%) ETL
13 463 (11.62%) Data Modelling
14 443 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
15 435 (10.92%) Data Engineering
16 427 (10.72%) Computer Science
17 406 (10.19%) Data Analysis
18 400 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 362 (9.09%) Containerisation
20 359 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,624 (40.77%) SQL
2 695 (17.45%) JavaScript
3 585 (14.69%) Java
4 355 (8.91%) Bash
5 327 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 325 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 268 (6.73%) C#
8 251 (6.30%) R
9 196 (4.92%) C++
10 151 (3.79%) Go
11 104 (2.61%) C
12 81 (2.03%) Scala
13 60 (1.51%) PHP
14 51 (1.28%) VBA
15 50 (1.26%) Perl
16 49 (1.23%) Bicep
17 44 (1.10%) MATLAB
18 40 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 40 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 780 (19.58%) Degree
2 537 (13.48%) Azure Certification
3 389 (9.77%) Security Cleared
4 344 (8.64%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 237 (5.95%) SC Cleared
7 234 (5.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 205 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 193 (4.85%) Master's Degree
10 151 (3.79%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.91%) PhD
12 76 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.43%) CCNP
14 52 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.23%) CISSP
16 42 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.63%) CCNA
20 24 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 152 (3.82%) QA
3 100 (2.51%) GDPR
4 95 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.88%) NIST
6 61 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.88%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.35%) PMO
11 13 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) GRC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 489 (12.28%) Docker
2 77 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.68%) Firmware
5 21 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.45%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
7 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) NFS
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.18%) Lustre
9 7 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.15%) KVM
10 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.13%) Postfix
12 4 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.10%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 517 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 469 (11.78%) Terraform
3 290 (7.28%) Ansible
4 115 (2.89%) Grafana
5 107 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.03%) Argo
7 25 (0.63%) Kibana
8 19 (0.48%) Puppet
9 15 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.35%) Nessus
10 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.33%) Nagios
12 12 (0.30%) Control-M
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.23%) Rancher
13 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,019 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 268 (6.73%) Databricks
3 194 (4.87%) Google
4 131 (3.29%) Oracle
5 104 (2.61%) VMware
6 95 (2.39%) Cisco
7 88 (2.21%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.73%) SAP
9 66 (1.66%) Splunk
10 56 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 46 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 45 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 44 (1.10%) IBM
15 41 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 40 (1.00%) Informatica
16 40 (1.00%) Talend
17 29 (0.73%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.70%) Palantir