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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,226 4,966 6,652
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.46% 11.35% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.28% 40.12% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 2,771 4,654
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
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 16,699 12,379 21,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.32% 28.29% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 8,261 15,507
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 26 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 26 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 2,595 £85,000 -2.86% 997
North of England -13 1,220 £66,750 +5.70% 270
South East +7 886 £60,000 - 270
South West +13 607 £60,000 +9.09% 296
North West -19 588 £66,750 +11.25% 137
Midlands +8 552 £62,250 -4.23% 125
Yorkshire +13 382 £67,500 +3.85% 77
East of England +8 313 £65,000 +18.18% 137
West Midlands -5 296 £65,000 - 79
East Midlands +17 254 £52,500 -19.23% 45
North East +28 250 £66,000 +1.54% 56
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
1 224 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 205 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.65%) Apache
4 69 (1.11%) Confluence
5 47 (0.75%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.35%) SAS
9 13 (0.21%) nginx
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.13%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.096%) JBoss
14 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 599 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 25 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.080%) 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%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.080%) 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%) SAP SD
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
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,445 (39.27%) Azure
2 1,964 (31.55%) AWS
3 957 (15.37%) Power Platform
4 814 (13.07%) Azure AI
5 745 (11.97%) GCP
6 401 (6.44%) GitHub
7 365 (5.86%) Serverless
8 237 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 237 (3.81%) SaaS
9 235 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
9 235 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 233 (3.74%) Snowflake
11 206 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 197 (3.16%) dbt
13 187 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 165 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
15 158 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
16 143 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 130 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
18 120 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.60%) Firewall
2 139 (2.23%) DNS
3 127 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 126 (2.02%) VPN
5 114 (1.83%) Broadband
6 108 (1.73%) Network Security
7 94 (1.51%) WAN
8 78 (1.25%) Wireless
9 71 (1.14%) Internet
9 71 (1.14%) LAN
10 56 (0.90%) BGP
11 50 (0.80%) DHCP
12 47 (0.75%) VLAN
13 46 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.66%) HTTP
14 41 (0.66%) MQTT
15 40 (0.64%) OSPF
16 35 (0.56%) SSL
17 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (14.21%) Power BI
2 650 (10.44%) Tableau
3 342 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 281 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 173 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.30%) MongoDB
10 130 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 121 (1.94%) Big Data
12 115 (1.85%) MySQL
13 107 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 106 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
15 96 (1.54%) Metadata
16 88 (1.41%) DynamoDB
17 83 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.16%) Delta Lake
18 72 (1.16%) Looker
19 63 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 690 (11.08%) Git
2 295 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 242 (3.89%) GitLab
4 171 (2.75%) JIRA
5 63 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 59 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.82%) Selenium
9 45 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 44 (0.71%) Subversion
11 38 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.59%) JUnit
13 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.35%) Maven
17 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
18 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2,092 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 1,301 (20.90%) Finance
3 827 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (5.01%) Banking
6 240 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.45%) Law
8 189 (3.04%) Marketing
9 154 (2.47%) Retail
10 126 (2.02%) Legal
11 109 (1.75%) Front Office
12 106 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 92 (1.48%) Electronics
15 83 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 67 (1.08%) Games
19 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
20 51 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,247 (20.03%) Senior
2 854 (13.72%) Developer
3 830 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 799 (12.83%) Analyst
5 671 (10.78%) Python Engineer
6 627 (10.07%) Data Analyst
7 624 (10.02%) Data Engineer
8 618 (9.93%) Lead
9 561 (9.01%) Junior
10 496 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.63%) Junior Data Analyst
13 368 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 299 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
15 241 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.55%) Architect
17 212 (3.41%) Data Scientist
18 198 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 187 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
20 182 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 945 (15.18%) Terraform
2 401 (6.44%) React
3 265 (4.26%) Kafka
4 235 (3.77%) .NET
5 231 (3.71%) Node.js
6 224 (3.60%) REST
7 219 (3.52%) PySpark
8 210 (3.37%) RESTful
9 207 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.10%) HTML
11 184 (2.96%) Django
12 183 (2.94%) PyTorch
13 178 (2.86%) LangChain
14 176 (2.83%) CSS
15 156 (2.51%) TensorFlow
16 129 (2.07%) Flask
17 117 (1.88%) Spring
17 117 (1.88%) Spring Boot
18 109 (1.75%) Pandas
19 107 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 599 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 327 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 299 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 228 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 202 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 146 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 95 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 93 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 84 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 80 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 79 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 79 (1.27%) Robotics
13 77 (1.24%) Hedge funds
14 76 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
14 76 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 72 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 68 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
17 65 (1.04%) Equities
18 64 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 717 (11.52%) Linux
2 326 (5.24%) Windows
3 91 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.27%) Unix
5 53 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.26%) Windows 10
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 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,608 (41.89%) AI
2 1,632 (26.21%) Software Engineering
3 1,549 (24.88%) CI/CD
4 1,183 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1,102 (17.70%) Analytics
6 1,086 (17.44%) DevOps
7 1,085 (17.43%) Agile
8 1,044 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
9 1,006 (16.16%) Machine Learning
10 933 (14.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 811 (13.03%) Mentoring
12 723 (11.61%) Data Engineering
13 718 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
14 665 (10.68%) Data Modelling
15 653 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 633 (10.17%) Data Science
17 599 (9.62%) Containerisation
18 589 (9.46%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.41%) Decision-Making
20 571 (9.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,201 (35.35%) SQL
2 820 (13.17%) Java
3 658 (10.57%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.80%) C++
5 501 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 498 (8.00%) Bash
7 470 (7.55%) C#
8 391 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 260 (4.18%) Go
10 189 (3.04%) C
11 171 (2.75%) R
12 118 (1.90%) Scala
13 102 (1.64%) PHP
14 94 (1.51%) Rust
15 93 (1.49%) Bicep
16 88 (1.41%) Perl
17 76 (1.22%) Ruby
18 63 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 44 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (15.08%) Azure Certification
2 901 (14.47%) Degree
3 795 (12.77%) Security Cleared
4 437 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 322 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 209 (3.36%) Master's Degree
8 167 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 124 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 109 (1.75%) PhD
11 79 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.80%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 41 (0.66%) CISSP
18 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.53%) OSCP
20 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.32%) QA
3 138 (2.22%) GDPR
4 108 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 64 (1.03%) NIST
6 57 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (0.45%) SLA
9 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.34%) WCAG
11 20 (0.32%) PMO
12 16 (0.26%) GRC
12 16 (0.26%) NCSC
13 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 761 (12.22%) Docker
2 117 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.06%) Firmware
5 45 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 21 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.096%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 757 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 408 (6.55%) Ansible
3 237 (3.81%) Grafana
4 142 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.96%) Puppet
6 50 (0.80%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.61%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.50%) Istio
12 29 (0.47%) Packer
13 24 (0.39%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
16 16 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
17 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,247 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 457 (7.34%) Databricks
3 200 (3.21%) Google
4 150 (2.41%) Splunk
5 129 (2.07%) VMware
6 122 (1.96%) OpenAI
7 121 (1.94%) Oracle
8 119 (1.91%) Cisco
9 99 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 58 (0.93%) Foundry
12 52 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 45 (0.72%) Dynatrace
14 40 (0.64%) Salesforce
14 40 (0.64%) SolarWinds
15 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.58%) F5
16 36 (0.58%) SAP
17 33 (0.53%) Palantir
18 31 (0.50%) IBM