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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,206 4,984 6,666
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.38% 11.36% 9.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.14% 40.39% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 2,786 4,535
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,719 £53,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,711 12,341 21,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.19% 28.13% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,221 8,236 14,861
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 2,572 £85,000 -5.56% 2,875
North of England -14 1,219 £66,750 +6.80% 566
South East +8 885 £60,000 +4.35% 704
South West +11 605 £60,000 +9.09% 396
North West -18 590 £66,750 +11.25% 302
Midlands +7 554 £62,000 -4.62% 281
Yorkshire +9 379 £67,500 +3.85% 177
East of England +12 318 £65,000 +18.18% 331
West Midlands -3 293 £65,000 - 156
East Midlands +19 259 £52,500 -19.23% 122
North East +22 250 £66,000 +10.00% 91
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
1 222 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 199 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.64%) Apache
4 70 (1.13%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 21 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.34%) SAS
10 13 (0.21%) nginx
11 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.13%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) Camunda
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.097%) JBoss
16 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 592 (9.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.097%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.081%) Shopify
7 4 (0.064%) Line 50
7 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.032%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,453 (39.53%) Azure
2 1,954 (31.49%) AWS
3 960 (15.47%) Power Platform
4 815 (13.13%) Azure AI
5 737 (11.88%) GCP
6 401 (6.46%) GitHub
7 366 (5.90%) Serverless
8 239 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 230 (3.71%) SaaS
11 230 (3.71%) Snowflake
12 206 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 190 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 190 (3.06%) dbt
14 169 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
15 158 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
16 145 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 132 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
18 122 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (3.56%) Firewall
2 139 (2.24%) DNS
3 128 (2.06%) VPN
4 126 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 114 (1.84%) Broadband
6 107 (1.72%) Network Security
7 95 (1.53%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 72 (1.16%) LAN
10 71 (1.14%) Internet
11 59 (0.95%) BGP
12 51 (0.82%) DHCP
13 48 (0.77%) VLAN
14 46 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.68%) OSPF
16 41 (0.66%) MQTT
17 40 (0.64%) HTTP
18 35 (0.56%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
20 25 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 888 (14.31%) Power BI
2 645 (10.39%) Tableau
3 346 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 278 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 213 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 172 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 130 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.98%) Big Data
12 116 (1.87%) MySQL
13 106 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 98 (1.58%) Metadata
16 90 (1.45%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.19%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.16%) Looker
20 66 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 693 (11.17%) Git
2 297 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 238 (3.83%) GitLab
4 171 (2.76%) JIRA
5 64 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 56 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.82%) Selenium
9 46 (0.74%) Subversion
10 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 38 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.60%) JUnit
13 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 33 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
16 26 (0.42%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) Maven
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,092 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 1,283 (20.67%) Finance
3 817 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 310 (5.00%) Banking
6 240 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 216 (3.48%) Law
8 188 (3.03%) Marketing
9 149 (2.40%) Retail
10 126 (2.03%) Legal
11 103 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 99 (1.60%) Front Office
13 94 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 94 (1.51%) Electronics
14 83 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.31%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.06%) Games
18 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
19 47 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,256 (20.24%) Senior
2 839 (13.52%) Developer
3 837 (13.49%) Software Engineer
4 790 (12.73%) Analyst
5 679 (10.94%) Python Engineer
6 626 (10.09%) Data Analyst
7 620 (9.99%) Data Engineer
8 606 (9.76%) Lead
9 559 (9.01%) Junior
10 501 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.72%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.65%) Junior Data Analyst
13 364 (5.87%) Python Developer
14 311 (5.01%) Python Software Engineer
15 248 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 223 (3.59%) Architect
17 212 (3.42%) Data Scientist
18 198 (3.19%) Senior Developer
19 187 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
20 186 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 944 (15.21%) Terraform
2 389 (6.27%) React
3 254 (4.09%) Kafka
4 235 (3.79%) .NET
5 225 (3.63%) REST
6 220 (3.54%) Node.js
7 219 (3.53%) PySpark
8 210 (3.38%) RESTful
9 204 (3.29%) FastAPI
10 192 (3.09%) HTML
11 186 (3.00%) Django
12 183 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 179 (2.88%) LangChain
14 175 (2.82%) CSS
15 156 (2.51%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.09%) Flask
17 115 (1.85%) Spring
17 115 (1.85%) Spring Boot
18 106 (1.71%) Pandas
18 106 (1.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 599 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 328 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 297 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 228 (3.67%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 144 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 84 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 83 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 81 (1.31%) Robotics
13 78 (1.26%) Low-Code
14 77 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
14 77 (1.24%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 68 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
18 64 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
19 63 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.46%) Linux
2 322 (5.19%) Windows
3 89 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.26%) Unix
5 52 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.71%) CentOS
7 36 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.097%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,613 (42.10%) AI
2 1,639 (26.41%) Software Engineering
3 1,545 (24.90%) CI/CD
4 1,176 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
5 1,096 (17.66%) Analytics
6 1,082 (17.43%) DevOps
7 1,069 (17.23%) Agile
8 1,051 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
9 1,007 (16.23%) Machine Learning
10 933 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 809 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 729 (11.75%) Data Engineering
13 717 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
14 665 (10.72%) Data Modelling
15 651 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 636 (10.25%) Data Science
17 593 (9.56%) Containerisation
18 591 (9.52%) Decision-Making
19 588 (9.47%) Computer Science
20 570 (9.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,188 (35.26%) SQL
2 809 (13.04%) Java
3 642 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 552 (8.89%) C++
5 497 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 496 (7.99%) Bash
7 474 (7.64%) C#
8 383 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 254 (4.09%) Go
10 190 (3.06%) C
11 170 (2.74%) R
12 119 (1.92%) Scala
13 100 (1.61%) PHP
14 95 (1.53%) Rust
15 94 (1.51%) Bicep
16 88 (1.42%) Perl
17 76 (1.22%) Ruby
18 64 (1.03%) MATLAB
19 63 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 44 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 941 (15.16%) Azure Certification
2 903 (14.55%) Degree
3 790 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 433 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 324 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 261 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.40%) Master's Degree
8 164 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 127 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (1.79%) PhD
11 80 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.82%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.66%) CISSP
16 41 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.50%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.30%) QA
3 138 (2.22%) GDPR
4 106 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 62 (1.00%) NIST
6 58 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.44%) SLA
10 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.31%) WCAG
14 16 (0.26%) GRC
14 16 (0.26%) NCSC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 753 (12.13%) Docker
2 116 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 103 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.11%) Firmware
5 45 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 21 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 21 (0.34%) KVM
9 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.097%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.048%) IAG
15 3 (0.048%) iptables
16 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 751 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.53%) Ansible
3 233 (3.75%) Grafana
4 139 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.97%) Puppet
6 50 (0.81%) Argo
7 40 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 36 (0.58%) Kibana
8 36 (0.58%) Nagios
9 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.52%) Istio
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.26%) logstash
15 16 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
16 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
17 14 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,246 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 457 (7.36%) Databricks
3 199 (3.21%) Google
4 149 (2.40%) Splunk
5 127 (2.05%) VMware
6 121 (1.95%) Cisco
6 121 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 116 (1.87%) Oracle
8 98 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 69 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 60 (0.97%) Foundry
11 52 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 46 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.66%) SolarWinds
14 40 (0.64%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 36 (0.58%) F5
16 35 (0.56%) Palantir
16 35 (0.56%) SAP
17 31 (0.50%) IBM