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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,213 4,952 6,713
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.42% 11.32% 9.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.16% 40.24% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 2,754 4,669
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £131,750 £135,000
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 16,718 12,307 21,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.28% 28.13% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,245 8,197 15,467
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 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 28 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 28 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 2,583 £85,000 -5.56% 5,036
North of England -12 1,221 £66,750 +2.69% 788
South East +10 885 £60,000 - 958
South West +9 606 £60,000 +9.09% 513
North West -20 591 £66,750 +11.25% 440
Midlands +9 553 £62,000 -4.62% 364
Yorkshire +11 379 £67,500 +3.85% 218
East of England +9 313 £65,000 +18.18% 488
West Midlands -2 294 £65,000 - 210
East Midlands +15 257 £52,500 -19.23% 153
North East +29 251 £66,000 +1.54% 136
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
1 221 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 201 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (2.62%) Apache
4 70 (1.13%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 37 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.34%) SAS
11 13 (0.21%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
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
1 594 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) 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%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
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 (0.097%) 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 2,455 (39.51%) Azure
2 1,965 (31.63%) AWS
3 961 (15.47%) Power Platform
4 815 (13.12%) Azure AI
5 747 (12.02%) GCP
6 401 (6.45%) GitHub
7 368 (5.92%) Serverless
8 238 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
8 238 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 233 (3.75%) SaaS
11 232 (3.73%) Snowflake
12 209 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 194 (3.12%) dbt
14 188 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 166 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
17 144 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 132 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
19 121 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (3.56%) Firewall
2 138 (2.22%) DNS
3 128 (2.06%) VPN
4 126 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 114 (1.83%) 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 58 (0.93%) 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
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 889 (14.31%) Power BI
2 647 (10.41%) Tableau
3 346 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 282 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 173 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 143 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 130 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.98%) Big Data
12 115 (1.85%) MySQL
13 107 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 97 (1.56%) Metadata
16 90 (1.45%) DynamoDB
17 85 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.16%) Delta Lake
18 72 (1.16%) Looker
19 66 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 690 (11.11%) Git
2 298 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.86%) GitLab
4 171 (2.75%) JIRA
5 63 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 56 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.82%) Selenium
9 44 (0.71%) Subversion
10 43 (0.69%) 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 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) Maven
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,089 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 1,293 (20.81%) Finance
3 820 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (5.01%) Banking
6 240 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 216 (3.48%) Law
8 188 (3.03%) Marketing
9 149 (2.40%) Retail
10 126 (2.03%) Legal
11 106 (1.71%) Front Office
12 104 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 93 (1.50%) Electronics
14 83 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.06%) Games
18 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
19 48 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,254 (20.18%) Senior
2 853 (13.73%) Developer
3 837 (13.47%) Software Engineer
4 790 (12.72%) Analyst
5 673 (10.83%) Python Engineer
6 625 (10.06%) Data Analyst
7 622 (10.01%) Data Engineer
8 616 (9.91%) Lead
9 560 (9.01%) Junior
10 498 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.71%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.65%) Junior Data Analyst
13 369 (5.94%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.89%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 222 (3.57%) Architect
17 212 (3.41%) Data Scientist
18 200 (3.22%) Senior Developer
19 187 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
20 185 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 945 (15.21%) Terraform
2 400 (6.44%) React
3 262 (4.22%) Kafka
4 235 (3.78%) .NET
5 230 (3.70%) Node.js
6 226 (3.64%) REST
7 218 (3.51%) PySpark
8 210 (3.38%) RESTful
9 206 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.11%) HTML
11 186 (2.99%) Django
12 183 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 179 (2.88%) LangChain
14 176 (2.83%) CSS
15 156 (2.51%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.09%) Flask
17 115 (1.85%) Spring
17 115 (1.85%) Spring Boot
18 107 (1.72%) Pandas
18 107 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 599 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 296 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 227 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 202 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 149 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 146 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 85 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 83 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 79 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 79 (1.27%) Robotics
13 76 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
13 76 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.21%) Hedge funds
15 74 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 68 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
17 64 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 62 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 709 (11.41%) Linux
2 324 (5.21%) Windows
3 91 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.26%) Unix
5 51 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.71%) CentOS
7 37 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Rocky
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.18%) Android
13 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.097%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,609 (41.99%) AI
2 1,639 (26.38%) Software Engineering
3 1,545 (24.87%) CI/CD
4 1,178 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
5 1,096 (17.64%) Analytics
6 1,084 (17.45%) DevOps
7 1,078 (17.35%) Agile
8 1,050 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
9 1,007 (16.21%) Machine Learning
10 935 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 814 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 725 (11.67%) Data Engineering
13 715 (11.51%) Data Pipeline
14 663 (10.67%) Data Modelling
15 652 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 633 (10.19%) Data Science
17 597 (9.61%) Containerisation
18 589 (9.48%) Computer Science
19 585 (9.42%) Decision-Making
20 569 (9.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,192 (35.28%) SQL
2 816 (13.13%) Java
3 656 (10.56%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.82%) C++
5 498 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 496 (7.98%) Bash
7 470 (7.56%) C#
8 394 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 260 (4.18%) Go
10 190 (3.06%) C
11 170 (2.74%) R
12 118 (1.90%) Scala
13 100 (1.61%) PHP
14 93 (1.50%) Bicep
15 92 (1.48%) Rust
16 86 (1.38%) 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 (15.11%) Azure Certification
2 902 (14.52%) Degree
3 791 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 434 (6.99%) SC Cleared
5 323 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.40%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 124 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 110 (1.77%) PhD
11 80 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 74 (1.19%) 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 32 (0.52%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (8.02%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.30%) QA
3 139 (2.24%) GDPR
4 106 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 63 (1.01%) NIST
6 58 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 29 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.43%) SLA
9 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 20 (0.32%) PMO
11 19 (0.31%) WCAG
12 16 (0.26%) GRC
12 16 (0.26%) NCSC
13 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 759 (12.22%) Docker
2 118 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 103 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.09%) Firmware
5 45 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.048%) IAG
15 3 (0.048%) iptables
16 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 753 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.52%) Ansible
3 233 (3.75%) Grafana
4 139 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 58 (0.93%) Puppet
6 50 (0.80%) Argo
7 40 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.52%) Istio
10 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
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 1,242 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 457 (7.36%) Databricks
3 200 (3.22%) Google
4 150 (2.41%) Splunk
5 127 (2.04%) VMware
6 121 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 120 (1.93%) Cisco
8 117 (1.88%) Oracle
9 97 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.97%) Foundry
12 52 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 45 (0.72%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 40 (0.64%) Salesforce
16 39 (0.63%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.58%) F5
17 36 (0.58%) SAP
18 35 (0.56%) Palantir
19 31 (0.50%) IBM