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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,317 5,245 6,831
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.07% 12.11% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.87% 40.24% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,814 2,968 5,018
10th Percentile £39,321 £42,675 £42,500
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 £96,250
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 16,251 13,034 23,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.19% 30.10% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,846 8,790 18,112
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,713 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 25 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 25 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 2,550 £85,000 -5.56% 1,579
North of England -11 1,273 £65,000 - 415
South East +4 932 £60,000 - 477
Midlands +16 608 £60,000 -4.00% 182
South West +8 591 £60,000 +4.45% 208
North West -16 590 £65,000 +8.33% 222
Yorkshire +14 446 £65,000 - 113
West Midlands +4 319 £62,500 -3.47% 103
East of England 0 299 £65,000 -1.81% 166
East Midlands +19 288 £55,000 -2.22% 79
North East +27 237 £59,000 -9.23% 85
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
1 238 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 227 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 170 (2.69%) Apache
4 76 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.85%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 38 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.44%) SAS
9 23 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) nginx
12 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
14 5 (0.079%) JBoss
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 869 (13.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 40 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.079%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) 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%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,638 (41.76%) Azure
2 2,005 (31.74%) AWS
3 1,157 (18.32%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.43%) Azure AI
5 757 (11.98%) GCP
6 376 (5.95%) GitHub
7 367 (5.81%) Serverless
8 242 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.70%) SaaS
10 229 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 218 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 215 (3.40%) Snowflake
13 193 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 185 (2.93%) dbt
15 164 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 159 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
17 153 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
18 129 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
20 115 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.63%) Firewall
2 163 (2.58%) Broadband
3 134 (2.12%) VPN
4 133 (2.11%) DNS
5 117 (1.85%) Network Security
6 110 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 94 (1.49%) WAN
8 83 (1.31%) Wireless
9 73 (1.16%) LAN
10 70 (1.11%) Internet
11 58 (0.92%) BGP
12 54 (0.85%) VLAN
13 52 (0.82%) HTTP
14 49 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.65%) OSPF
16 39 (0.62%) MQTT
17 38 (0.60%) DHCP
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
19 29 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,095 (17.33%) Power BI
2 945 (14.96%) Tableau
3 316 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 188 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 161 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 141 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 137 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 137 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 119 (1.88%) Big Data
11 114 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.71%) MySQL
14 97 (1.54%) Metadata
15 78 (1.23%) DynamoDB
16 73 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
17 62 (0.98%) Looker
18 61 (0.97%) Delta Lake
18 61 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 652 (10.32%) Git
2 281 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 252 (3.99%) GitLab
4 155 (2.45%) JIRA
5 83 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.95%) MLflow
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 57 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 46 (0.73%) Selenium
10 36 (0.57%) Subversion
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 28 (0.44%) JUnit
14 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 24 (0.38%) TeamCity
17 23 (0.36%) Eclipse
18 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 22 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 2,197 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 1,296 (20.52%) Finance
3 828 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (4.61%) Banking
5 268 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 186 (2.94%) Retail
8 183 (2.90%) Law
9 135 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 131 (2.07%) Front Office
11 122 (1.93%) Legal
12 120 (1.90%) Marketing
13 86 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.25%) Electronics
15 77 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 75 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 71 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.04%) Games
19 65 (1.03%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,193 (18.89%) Senior
2 1,071 (16.95%) Analyst
3 908 (14.37%) Data Analyst
4 906 (14.34%) Developer
5 801 (12.68%) Software Engineer
6 782 (12.38%) Junior
7 714 (11.30%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.27%) Junior Data Analyst
9 624 (9.88%) Python Engineer
10 614 (9.72%) Data Engineer
11 570 (9.02%) Lead
12 462 (7.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 380 (6.02%) Python Developer
14 299 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
15 233 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 208 (3.29%) Architect
17 204 (3.23%) Data Scientist
18 194 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 181 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
19 181 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (6.28%) React
2 296 (4.69%) Kafka
3 255 (4.04%) Node.js
4 230 (3.64%) REST
5 228 (3.61%) PySpark
6 220 (3.48%) .NET
7 205 (3.25%) RESTful
8 200 (3.17%) FastAPI
9 193 (3.06%) Django
10 188 (2.98%) HTML
11 170 (2.69%) PyTorch
12 169 (2.68%) CSS
13 161 (2.55%) Pandas
14 157 (2.49%) LangChain
15 145 (2.30%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.17%) Flask
17 132 (2.09%) scikit-learn
18 109 (1.73%) NumPy
19 108 (1.71%) JSON
20 107 (1.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 530 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 341 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 331 (5.24%) Algorithms
4 188 (2.98%) AI Agents
5 181 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 174 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 130 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 98 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 94 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 85 (1.35%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.30%) Low-Code
13 79 (1.25%) Equities
14 77 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.22%) Hedge funds
15 74 (1.17%) Robotics
16 72 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.11%) Security Posture
18 68 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 700 (11.08%) Linux
2 312 (4.94%) Windows
3 91 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.28%) Unix
5 50 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.65%) CentOS
7 37 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
9 22 (0.35%) 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
14 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,724 (43.12%) AI
2 1,540 (24.38%) Software Engineering
3 1,516 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 1,221 (19.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1,116 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1,091 (17.27%) Agile
7 1,047 (16.57%) Analytics
8 1,044 (16.53%) DevOps
9 943 (14.93%) Machine Learning
10 876 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 749 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 689 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
13 685 (10.84%) Data Engineering
14 660 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 621 (9.83%) Data Science
16 598 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 591 (9.36%) Containerisation
18 570 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
19 560 (8.86%) Computer Science
20 549 (8.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,371 (37.53%) SQL
2 776 (12.28%) Java
3 647 (10.24%) JavaScript
4 525 (8.31%) C++
5 495 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 478 (7.57%) Bash
7 438 (6.93%) C#
8 394 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.42%) Go
10 180 (2.85%) C
11 165 (2.61%) R
12 130 (2.06%) Scala
13 98 (1.55%) PHP
13 98 (1.55%) Rust
14 88 (1.39%) Bicep
15 65 (1.03%) Perl
16 63 (1.00%) Ruby
17 60 (0.95%) MATLAB
18 58 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 51 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,163 (18.41%) Azure Certification
2 827 (13.09%) Degree
3 717 (11.35%) Security Cleared
4 417 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 307 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 236 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 202 (3.20%) AWS Certification
8 184 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 117 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 92 (1.46%) PhD
11 82 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (0.90%) CCNP
13 46 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.59%) CISSP
16 36 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
17 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.55%) OSCP
18 26 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 257 (4.07%) QA
3 149 (2.36%) GDPR
4 88 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.27%) NIST
6 66 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 33 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) GRC
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) PMO
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 15 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 727 (11.51%) Docker
2 110 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.93%) Firmware
5 42 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.44%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 888 (14.06%) Terraform
2 706 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 380 (6.02%) Ansible
4 241 (3.82%) Grafana
5 163 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 54 (0.85%) Argo
7 43 (0.68%) Nagios
7 43 (0.68%) Puppet
8 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 27 (0.43%) Istio
13 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,512 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 410 (6.49%) Databricks
3 184 (2.91%) Google
4 147 (2.33%) Splunk
5 140 (2.22%) Oracle
6 137 (2.17%) VMware
7 122 (1.93%) Cisco
8 113 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 107 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.95%) Foundry
12 59 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.76%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.71%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.68%) F5
17 41 (0.65%) SAP
18 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.51%) IBM
19 32 (0.51%) Palantir