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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,643 5,132 6,320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.55% 11.98% 9.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.61% 34.49% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,979 3,193 5,071
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.91% -2.80%

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 11,434 14,879 23,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.60% 34.74% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,418 9,202 20,512
10th Percentile £33,925 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 26 February 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 February 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 2,084 £83,250 -4.86% 774
North of England -9 834 £45,000 -30.77% 309
South East -20 588 £60,500 -13.57% 297
Midlands -9 439 £55,000 - 149
South West +3 393 £57,500 -11.54% 178
Yorkshire +5 362 £40,000 -38.46% 106
North West -12 347 £52,500 -16.00% 152
West Midlands +8 283 £55,000 - 82
East of England -24 234 £50,000 -24.52% 124
East Midlands -15 158 £55,000 - 64
North East +11 125 £40,000 -38.46% 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
1 186 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 138 (2.97%) Apache
4 56 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.69%) SAS
7 28 (0.60%) Confluence
7 28 (0.60%) WordPress
8 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.41%) Appian
10 17 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
13 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) nginx
15 6 (0.13%) CMS
16 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.086%) JBoss
Applications
1 821 (17.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.086%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.086%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.086%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,960 (42.21%) Azure
2 1,615 (34.78%) AWS
3 951 (20.48%) Power Platform
4 559 (12.04%) GitHub
5 555 (11.95%) Azure AI
6 513 (11.05%) GCP
7 268 (5.77%) Serverless
8 185 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
9 184 (3.96%) Amazon S3
10 172 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 172 (3.70%) SaaS
11 163 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (3.32%) Snowflake
13 141 (3.04%) dbt
14 137 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 122 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 108 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
17 85 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
18 82 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 77 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.49%) Internet
2 171 (3.68%) Firewall
3 106 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 97 (2.09%) VPN
5 92 (1.98%) Broadband
6 82 (1.77%) DNS
7 72 (1.55%) WAN
8 65 (1.40%) LAN
9 59 (1.27%) BGP
10 58 (1.25%) Wireless
11 55 (1.18%) Network Security
11 55 (1.18%) VLAN
12 51 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 47 (1.01%) HTTP
14 42 (0.90%) OSPF
15 34 (0.73%) MPLS
16 33 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.69%) Wireshark
18 28 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
18 28 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 913 (19.66%) Power BI
2 884 (19.04%) Tableau
3 239 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 209 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 178 (3.83%) Data Mining
7 170 (3.66%) NoSQL
8 146 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 113 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 108 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 106 (2.28%) Big Data
12 93 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 90 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
15 82 (1.77%) Metadata
16 78 (1.68%) MySQL
17 67 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
18 59 (1.27%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.93%) RDBMS
20 42 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 613 (13.20%) Git
2 213 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 167 (3.60%) GitLab
4 106 (2.28%) JIRA
5 53 (1.14%) Selenium
6 47 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
7 45 (0.97%) MLflow
8 38 (0.82%) Postman
9 31 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 29 (0.62%) JUnit
11 28 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
14 20 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 19 (0.41%) JMeter
16 17 (0.37%) Subversion
17 16 (0.34%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.34%) Metasploit
17 16 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 1,541 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 1,140 (24.55%) Finance
3 777 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (5.62%) Banking
5 240 (5.17%) Multimedia
6 196 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 187 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 175 (3.77%) Law
9 151 (3.25%) Retail
10 142 (3.06%) Front Office
11 135 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 121 (2.61%) Marketing
13 116 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.83%) Legal
15 78 (1.68%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.49%) Electronics
18 65 (1.40%) Investment Banking
19 52 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,022 (22.01%) Analyst
2 837 (18.03%) Data Analyst
3 801 (17.25%) Developer
4 688 (14.82%) Senior
5 543 (11.70%) Junior
6 519 (11.18%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.18%) Junior Data Analyst
7 444 (9.56%) Data Engineer
8 438 (9.43%) Trainee
9 379 (8.16%) Software Engineer
10 348 (7.50%) Lead
11 309 (6.66%) Python Developer
12 270 (5.82%) Python Engineer
13 204 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.36%) Architect
15 150 (3.23%) Trainee Analyst
15 150 (3.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 143 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 134 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
18 133 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (8.21%) HTML
2 363 (7.82%) React
3 332 (7.15%) CSS
4 194 (4.18%) Node.js
5 192 (4.14%) Kafka
6 182 (3.92%) REST
7 181 (3.90%) Django
8 154 (3.32%) PySpark
9 149 (3.21%) RESTful
10 142 (3.06%) Pandas
11 132 (2.84%) .NET
12 130 (2.80%) FastAPI
13 124 (2.67%) PyTorch
14 112 (2.41%) Flask
15 110 (2.37%) TensorFlow
16 97 (2.09%) JSON
17 94 (2.02%) AngularJS
17 94 (2.02%) NumPy
18 93 (2.00%) scikit-learn
19 83 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 237 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 234 (5.04%) Algorithms
3 187 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (2.07%) Equities
8 95 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 84 (1.81%) Fixed Income
10 80 (1.72%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 73 (1.57%) Hedge funds
13 72 (1.55%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
15 68 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
16 65 (1.40%) Derivative
17 61 (1.31%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
17 61 (1.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 500 (10.77%) Linux
2 202 (4.35%) Windows
3 182 (3.92%) Unix
4 62 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.78%) CentOS
7 28 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Debian
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.24%) Android
12 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.086%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
17 2 (0.043%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,540 (33.17%) AI
2 1,055 (22.72%) CI/CD
3 1,016 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
4 946 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
5 886 (19.08%) Analytics
6 836 (18.01%) Agile
7 803 (17.29%) DevOps
8 772 (16.63%) Software Engineering
9 695 (14.97%) Mentoring
10 595 (12.81%) Machine Learning
11 521 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 511 (11.01%) Data Science
13 504 (10.86%) ETL
14 500 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
15 498 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 476 (10.25%) Data Engineering
17 474 (10.21%) Computer Science
18 453 (9.76%) Data Analysis
19 439 (9.46%) Containerisation
20 432 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,932 (41.61%) SQL
2 768 (16.54%) JavaScript
3 602 (12.97%) Java
4 396 (8.53%) Bash
5 370 (7.97%) PowerShell
6 332 (7.15%) TypeScript
7 274 (5.90%) C#
8 239 (5.15%) C++
9 237 (5.10%) R
10 221 (4.76%) Go
11 127 (2.74%) C
12 92 (1.98%) Scala
13 66 (1.42%) VBA
14 63 (1.36%) Rust
15 55 (1.18%) PHP
16 43 (0.93%) Bicep
17 40 (0.86%) MATLAB
17 40 (0.86%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 34 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 828 (17.83%) Azure Certification
2 799 (17.21%) Degree
3 464 (9.99%) Security Cleared
4 395 (8.51%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 281 (6.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 274 (5.90%) SC Cleared
8 237 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 164 (3.53%) DV Cleared
10 156 (3.36%) Master's Degree
11 96 (2.07%) PhD
12 71 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.31%) CCNP
14 53 (1.14%) CISSP
15 47 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.80%) OSCP
18 36 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.62%) CREST Certified
20 28 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.60%) QA
3 114 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 111 (2.39%) GDPR
5 106 (2.28%) NIST
6 67 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.52%) SLA
10 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.34%) PMO
12 15 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.26%) GRC
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
17 5 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 549 (11.82%) Docker
2 90 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.60%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.37%) KVM
8 14 (0.30%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) HDFS
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.086%) iptables
13 4 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.065%) NFS
14 3 (0.065%) QEMU
15 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 579 (12.47%) Terraform
2 574 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 320 (6.89%) Ansible
4 148 (3.19%) Grafana
5 140 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.38%) Argo
7 22 (0.47%) Puppet
8 21 (0.45%) Kibana
9 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 19 (0.41%) Nagios
11 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
12 13 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.26%) Nessus
13 12 (0.26%) Rancher
14 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.24%) logstash
14 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,416 (30.50%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.38%) Databricks
3 212 (4.57%) Google
4 143 (3.08%) Oracle
5 110 (2.37%) Cisco
6 109 (2.35%) VMware
7 94 (2.02%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 68 (1.46%) SAP
10 64 (1.38%) Splunk
11 55 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.06%) Informatica
13 45 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.90%) Bloomberg
15 39 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 39 (0.84%) IBM
16 38 (0.82%) Talend
17 35 (0.75%) Foundry
18 34 (0.73%) Palantir