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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,302 5,330 6,421
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.52% 11.59% 9.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.81% 34.03% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 3,249 5,116
10th Percentile £31,550 £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 £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £117,625
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.80%

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 10,805 15,664 24,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.88% 34.05% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,063 9,285 20,583
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
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 £103,750 £111,250 £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 6 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 6 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 -1 2,032 £82,500 -5.71% 1,180
North of England -12 726 £47,500 -26.92% 454
South East -25 506 £60,000 -14.29% 607
Midlands -12 394 £55,000 - 222
South West -1 357 £60,000 -7.69% 262
Yorkshire +11 323 £45,000 -30.77% 154
North West -16 303 £55,000 -12.00% 250
West Midlands +4 259 £55,000 - 107
East of England -19 221 £51,250 -22.63% 191
East Midlands -21 138 £55,000 - 115
North East 0 100 £40,000 -42.29% 53
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
1 159 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.79%) Apache
4 37 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 36 (0.84%) Confluence
6 31 (0.72%) SAS
7 29 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.63%) WordPress
9 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.44%) Appian
12 18 (0.42%) IIS
13 17 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.23%) nginx
15 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 648 (15.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.093%) Windchill
9 3 (0.070%) CATIA
9 3 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.046%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.046%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.046%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.046%) Stata
10 2 (0.046%) Weka
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 4 (0.093%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,768 (41.10%) Azure
2 1,486 (34.54%) AWS
3 809 (18.81%) Power Platform
4 539 (12.53%) GitHub
5 445 (10.34%) GCP
6 421 (9.79%) Azure AI
7 271 (6.30%) Serverless
8 185 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 166 (3.86%) SaaS
11 162 (3.77%) Amazon S3
12 156 (3.63%) Snowflake
13 149 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
14 142 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 126 (2.93%) dbt
16 115 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
18 82 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 71 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.97%) Internet
2 158 (3.67%) Firewall
3 97 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.05%) VPN
5 73 (1.70%) DNS
6 71 (1.65%) WAN
7 60 (1.39%) Broadband
7 60 (1.39%) LAN
8 56 (1.30%) BGP
9 54 (1.26%) Wireless
10 53 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 48 (1.12%) Network Security
12 43 (1.00%) VLAN
13 39 (0.91%) HTTP
13 39 (0.91%) OSPF
14 34 (0.79%) MPLS
15 32 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 32 (0.74%) Wireshark
16 26 (0.60%) VXLAN
17 25 (0.58%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 766 (17.81%) Power BI
2 691 (16.06%) Tableau
3 242 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.09%) SQL Server
5 215 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 181 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 155 (3.60%) Data Mining
8 154 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 119 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.65%) Big Data
11 113 (2.63%) MongoDB
12 88 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
13 87 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 87 (2.02%) MySQL
14 85 (1.98%) BigQuery
15 74 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (1.70%) Metadata
17 71 (1.65%) Hadoop
18 52 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 572 (13.30%) Git
2 218 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 151 (3.51%) GitLab
4 111 (2.58%) JIRA
5 59 (1.37%) Selenium
6 43 (1.00%) MLflow
7 40 (0.93%) Postman
8 33 (0.77%) JUnit
9 28 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.53%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.46%) JMeter
13 19 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
14 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 16 (0.37%) Burp Suite
15 16 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.37%) Metasploit
16 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 1,360 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (24.52%) Finance
3 689 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.60%) Multimedia
5 235 (5.46%) Banking
6 182 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (4.00%) Law
9 135 (3.14%) Front Office
9 135 (3.14%) Marketing
10 114 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 114 (2.65%) Retail
11 113 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 88 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 78 (1.81%) Electronics
14 74 (1.72%) Legal
15 59 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
16 55 (1.28%) Games
17 52 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 48 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 822 (19.11%) Analyst
2 783 (18.20%) Developer
3 663 (15.41%) Data Analyst
4 662 (15.39%) Senior
5 423 (9.83%) Data Engineer
6 398 (9.25%) Junior
7 390 (9.07%) Trainee
8 377 (8.76%) Junior Analyst
8 377 (8.76%) Junior Data Analyst
9 336 (7.81%) Software Engineer
10 324 (7.53%) Lead
11 314 (7.30%) Python Developer
12 244 (5.67%) Python Engineer
13 194 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 151 (3.51%) Architect
15 147 (3.42%) Senior Developer
16 131 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
17 128 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
18 126 (2.93%) Trainee Analyst
18 126 (2.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (9.04%) HTML
2 346 (8.04%) React
3 343 (7.97%) CSS
4 184 (4.28%) REST
5 182 (4.23%) Node.js
6 169 (3.93%) Django
7 158 (3.67%) Kafka
8 149 (3.46%) RESTful
9 136 (3.16%) PySpark
10 134 (3.11%) FastAPI
11 130 (3.02%) .NET
12 126 (2.93%) PyTorch
13 116 (2.70%) Pandas
14 111 (2.58%) Flask
15 105 (2.44%) TensorFlow
16 97 (2.25%) AngularJS
17 88 (2.05%) JSON
18 81 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
18 81 (1.88%) Vue
19 80 (1.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 216 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 164 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 144 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 102 (2.37%) Equities
8 99 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.79%) Hedge funds
10 77 (1.79%) Low-Code
11 73 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 70 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.63%) Derivative
12 70 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
13 66 (1.53%) Fixed Income
14 63 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
15 62 (1.44%) AI Agents
16 58 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 57 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 500 (11.62%) Linux
2 201 (4.67%) Windows
3 181 (4.21%) Unix
4 66 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.74%) CentOS
7 30 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.42%) Debian
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.28%) VMS
13 11 (0.26%) Android
13 11 (0.26%) Solaris
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.093%) zOS
17 3 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.070%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,336 (31.06%) AI
2 985 (22.90%) CI/CD
3 938 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
4 875 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
5 832 (19.34%) Analytics
6 783 (18.20%) Agile
7 768 (17.85%) DevOps
8 706 (16.41%) Software Engineering
9 669 (15.55%) Mentoring
10 571 (13.27%) Machine Learning
11 489 (11.37%) Data Science
12 483 (11.23%) ETL
13 477 (11.09%) Data Modelling
14 475 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 467 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
16 461 (10.72%) Data Engineering
17 458 (10.65%) Computer Science
18 420 (9.76%) Data Analysis
19 402 (9.34%) Containerisation
20 391 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (40.33%) SQL
2 747 (17.36%) JavaScript
3 587 (13.64%) Java
4 393 (9.14%) Bash
5 351 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 324 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 276 (6.42%) C#
8 234 (5.44%) R
9 220 (5.11%) C++
10 178 (4.14%) Go
11 128 (2.98%) C
12 82 (1.91%) Scala
13 64 (1.49%) PHP
14 62 (1.44%) VBA
15 50 (1.16%) Rust
16 49 (1.14%) Bicep
17 45 (1.05%) MATLAB
18 41 (0.95%) Perl
18 41 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 35 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 790 (18.36%) Degree
2 681 (15.83%) Azure Certification
3 447 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 371 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.18%) SC Cleared
7 254 (5.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 219 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 181 (4.21%) Master's Degree
10 160 (3.72%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.70%) PhD
12 74 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.42%) CCNP
14 50 (1.16%) CISSP
15 48 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.72%) OSCP
19 27 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 164 (3.81%) QA
3 111 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.37%) GDPR
5 95 (2.21%) NIST
6 65 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.70%) SLA
9 20 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.30%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.19%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.093%) NIST 800
19 4 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 521 (12.11%) Docker
2 86 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.70%) Firmware
5 20 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.30%) vSphere
8 11 (0.26%) KVM
9 10 (0.23%) HDFS
9 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.070%) iptables
14 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.070%) QEMU
14 3 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 550 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 547 (12.72%) Terraform
3 316 (7.35%) Ansible
4 131 (3.05%) Grafana
5 130 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.42%) Argo
7 24 (0.56%) Puppet
8 23 (0.53%) Kibana
9 20 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.30%) Nagios
12 13 (0.30%) Nessus
12 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.28%) Rancher
14 11 (0.26%) Control-M
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
14 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,219 (28.34%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.88%) Databricks
3 196 (4.56%) Google
4 126 (2.93%) Oracle
5 102 (2.37%) Cisco
6 96 (2.23%) VMware
7 78 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.63%) SAP
10 60 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.35%) Splunk
12 52 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.14%) Informatica
14 44 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.00%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.00%) IBM
16 41 (0.95%) Talend
17 39 (0.91%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.74%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.74%) Palantir