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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,987 4,796 7,159
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.65% 8.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.80% 38.34% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,418 3,138 5,569
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,988 12,510 27,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.52% 32.99% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,805 9,216 22,491
10th Percentile £35,597 £36,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £87,500 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 0 2,342 £85,000 -5.56% 954
North of England -16 1,190 £55,000 -15.38% 392
South East -3 878 £60,000 -7.69% 546
Midlands +11 670 £55,000 - 201
Yorkshire +16 535 £50,000 -23.08% 110
South West +7 521 £57,500 -4.17% 178
North West -21 492 £60,163 -7.44% 205
West Midlands +23 388 £58,750 +6.82% 108
East of England -16 323 £58,750 -11.27% 173
East Midlands +8 282 £55,000 - 92
North East +16 163 £45,000 -30.77% 79
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
1 214 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.20%) Apache
4 64 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 13 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.10%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
18 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
19 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,223 (20.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.13%) Simulink
7 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.067%) CATIA
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.033%) Windchill
11 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.017%) Houdini
11 1 (0.017%) Notion
11 1 (0.017%) NUKE
11 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
3 4 (0.067%) Shopify
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,868 (47.90%) Azure
2 1,801 (30.08%) AWS
3 1,439 (24.04%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.98%) Azure AI
5 624 (10.42%) GCP
6 540 (9.02%) GitHub
7 295 (4.93%) Serverless
8 227 (3.79%) SaaS
9 206 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 205 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 163 (2.72%) dbt
15 159 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 130 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 129 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 122 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 95 (1.59%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 213 (3.56%) Internet
2 201 (3.36%) Firewall
3 145 (2.42%) Broadband
4 122 (2.04%) DNS
5 112 (1.87%) VPN
6 92 (1.54%) Network Security
6 92 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 82 (1.37%) WAN
8 74 (1.24%) LAN
9 66 (1.10%) Wireless
10 65 (1.09%) BGP
11 54 (0.90%) HTTP
11 54 (0.90%) VLAN
12 46 (0.77%) OSPF
13 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
13 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
14 38 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 34 (0.57%) DHCP
16 30 (0.50%) MPLS
17 29 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,392 (23.25%) Power BI
2 1,309 (21.86%) Tableau
3 272 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 207 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.39%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.27%) Data Mining
10 123 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 114 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 111 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 107 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 94 (1.57%) Big Data
15 88 (1.47%) Metadata
16 78 (1.30%) MySQL
17 61 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.92%) DynamoDB
19 54 (0.90%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 657 (10.97%) Git
2 238 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 211 (3.52%) GitLab
4 110 (1.84%) JIRA
5 76 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.07%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 43 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 38 (0.63%) Postman
11 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.40%) Claude Code
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
17 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,326 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 1,166 (19.48%) Finance
3 799 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (4.18%) Banking
5 243 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 206 (3.44%) Public Sector
7 198 (3.31%) Multimedia
8 177 (2.96%) Retail
9 161 (2.69%) Law
10 148 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.19%) Front Office
12 101 (1.69%) Marketing
13 98 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 90 (1.50%) Legal
15 75 (1.25%) Electronics
16 68 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 55 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
20 42 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,428 (23.85%) Analyst
2 1,246 (20.81%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.27%) Junior
4 994 (16.60%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.60%) Junior Data Analyst
5 906 (15.13%) Developer
6 859 (14.35%) Senior
7 553 (9.24%) Software Engineer
8 522 (8.72%) Data Engineer
9 476 (7.95%) Lead
10 434 (7.25%) Python Engineer
11 394 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.38%) Python Developer
13 364 (6.08%) Trainee
14 211 (3.52%) Software Developer
15 194 (3.24%) Python Software Engineer
16 171 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
17 168 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
18 157 (2.62%) Senior Developer
19 153 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (6.50%) React
2 335 (5.60%) HTML
3 296 (4.94%) CSS
4 244 (4.08%) Kafka
5 208 (3.47%) Node.js
6 204 (3.41%) PySpark
6 204 (3.41%) REST
7 191 (3.19%) Django
8 173 (2.89%) RESTful
9 167 (2.79%) Pandas
10 164 (2.74%) PyTorch
11 163 (2.72%) .NET
12 145 (2.42%) FastAPI
13 139 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 129 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 124 (2.07%) Flask
16 104 (1.74%) NumPy
17 100 (1.67%) JSON
17 100 (1.67%) LangChain
18 90 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 325 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 290 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 236 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 101 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 90 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 87 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 85 (1.42%) Low-Code
11 85 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 80 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
15 79 (1.32%) Equities
15 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
16 78 (1.30%) Security Posture
17 75 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
18 72 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 562 (9.39%) Linux
2 235 (3.93%) Windows
3 129 (2.15%) Unix
4 69 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 27 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 27 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.18%) Debian
8 11 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.15%) Android
10 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
12 7 (0.12%) VMS
13 6 (0.10%) Solaris
14 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,494 (41.66%) AI
2 1,491 (24.90%) Business Intelligence
3 1,199 (20.03%) CI/CD
4 1,071 (17.89%) Software Engineering
5 972 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
6 940 (15.70%) Analytics
7 925 (15.45%) Agile
8 899 (15.02%) DevOps
9 723 (12.08%) Machine Learning
10 719 (12.01%) Mentoring
11 649 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 576 (9.62%) Data Modelling
13 569 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
14 559 (9.34%) Data Engineering
15 557 (9.30%) Data Science
16 550 (9.19%) ETL
17 529 (8.84%) Computer Science
18 514 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 489 (8.17%) Containerisation
20 447 (7.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,477 (41.37%) SQL
2 734 (12.26%) JavaScript
3 648 (10.82%) Java
4 437 (7.30%) PowerShell
5 421 (7.03%) Bash
6 360 (6.01%) TypeScript
7 333 (5.56%) C++
8 326 (5.45%) C#
9 281 (4.69%) Go
10 219 (3.66%) R
11 147 (2.46%) C
12 118 (1.97%) Scala
13 74 (1.24%) Rust
14 70 (1.17%) PHP
15 66 (1.10%) VBA
16 54 (0.90%) Bicep
17 43 (0.72%) Perl
18 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,559 (26.04%) Azure Certification
2 779 (13.01%) Degree
3 508 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 343 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 297 (4.96%) SC Cleared
6 283 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 254 (4.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 249 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 170 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 153 (2.56%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.47%) PhD
12 76 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.05%) CCNP
14 50 (0.84%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 46 (0.77%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 226 (3.77%) QA
3 125 (2.09%) GDPR
4 108 (1.80%) NIST
5 98 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) GRC
13 16 (0.27%) SLA
14 15 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 573 (9.57%) Docker
2 109 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.85%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.33%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) iptables
13 5 (0.084%) Lustre
13 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 704 (11.76%) Terraform
2 608 (10.16%) Kubernetes
3 340 (5.68%) Ansible
4 191 (3.19%) Grafana
5 149 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.48%) Nagios
8 28 (0.47%) Puppet
9 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 22 (0.37%) Istio
11 20 (0.33%) Kibana
12 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.25%) logstash
14 14 (0.23%) Packer
14 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.20%) SCCM
17 11 (0.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,905 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 318 (5.31%) Databricks
3 206 (3.44%) Google
4 132 (2.20%) Oracle
5 121 (2.02%) Cisco
6 119 (1.99%) VMware
7 104 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 93 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 60 (1.00%) SAP
11 58 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 49 (0.82%) Foundry
12 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 47 (0.79%) Fortinet
13 47 (0.79%) Informatica
14 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
15 41 (0.68%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.68%) Talend
16 40 (0.67%) Palantir