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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,241 5,239 7,675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.12% 12.09% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.01% 40.04% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,740 2,971 5,734
10th Percentile £39,988 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,997 13,083 27,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 30.19% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,643 8,853 21,362
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £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 £85,000 £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 15 July 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 15 July 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 2,491 £85,000 -5.56% 1,149
North of England -12 1,257 £65,000 - 570
South East +2 944 £60,000 - 625
Midlands +16 609 £60,000 +1.69% 305
North West -16 588 £65,000 - 289
South West +8 571 £60,000 +4.45% 270
Yorkshire +14 451 £65,000 - 190
West Midlands +7 311 £62,500 +4.17% 150
East of England -11 299 £70,000 +5.73% 289
East Midlands +29 298 £54,500 -0.91% 154
North East +22 218 £59,000 -5.60% 94
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
1 223 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 222 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 162 (2.60%) Apache
4 77 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.75%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.45%) SAS
9 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.096%) Camunda
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
12 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 916 (14.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 40 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.26%) Simulink
7 11 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.048%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,677 (42.89%) Azure
2 1,981 (31.74%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 1,085 (17.39%) Azure AI
5 733 (11.74%) GCP
6 380 (6.09%) GitHub
7 364 (5.83%) Serverless
8 239 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.73%) SaaS
10 227 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 197 (3.16%) Snowflake
13 194 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.82%) dbt
15 169 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
16 161 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
17 153 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
18 128 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
20 118 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 236 (3.78%) Firewall
2 172 (2.76%) Broadband
3 140 (2.24%) VPN
4 134 (2.15%) DNS
5 116 (1.86%) Network Security
6 107 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 94 (1.51%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 74 (1.19%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 58 (0.93%) BGP
12 54 (0.87%) VLAN
13 51 (0.82%) HTTP
14 50 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 40 (0.64%) DHCP
17 38 (0.61%) MQTT
17 38 (0.61%) OSPF
18 30 (0.48%) SSL
18 30 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (18.14%) Power BI
2 984 (15.77%) Tableau
3 297 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 264 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 178 (2.85%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 165 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 143 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 117 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.79%) Big Data
13 105 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 104 (1.67%) MySQL
15 94 (1.51%) Metadata
16 77 (1.23%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 60 (0.96%) Data Mining
20 57 (0.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 620 (9.93%) Git
2 279 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 254 (4.07%) GitLab
4 155 (2.48%) JIRA
5 82 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.91%) Claude Code
7 55 (0.88%) MLflow
8 53 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 41 (0.66%) Selenium
10 39 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.53%) Subversion
12 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) JUnit
13 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 24 (0.38%) Postman
15 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
15 22 (0.35%) JMeter
15 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 2,192 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,246 (19.96%) Finance
3 808 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (4.39%) Banking
5 248 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.08%) Retail
8 162 (2.60%) Law
9 132 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.02%) Front Office
11 108 (1.73%) Legal
12 95 (1.52%) Marketing
13 82 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.27%) Electronics
15 74 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 73 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (0.99%) Games
19 61 (0.98%) Investment Banking
20 54 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,139 (18.25%) Senior
2 1,119 (17.93%) Analyst
3 951 (15.24%) Data Analyst
4 889 (14.24%) Developer
5 821 (13.15%) Junior
6 761 (12.19%) Junior Analyst
7 760 (12.18%) Software Engineer
8 759 (12.16%) Junior Data Analyst
9 596 (9.55%) Data Engineer
10 586 (9.39%) Python Engineer
11 544 (8.72%) Lead
12 461 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 375 (6.01%) Python Developer
14 286 (4.58%) Python Software Engineer
15 221 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 208 (3.33%) Architect
17 193 (3.09%) Data Scientist
18 183 (2.93%) Senior Developer
19 180 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
20 178 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (6.30%) React
2 280 (4.49%) Kafka
3 246 (3.94%) Node.js
4 222 (3.56%) REST
5 221 (3.54%) PySpark
6 213 (3.41%) .NET
7 202 (3.24%) RESTful
8 194 (3.11%) FastAPI
9 188 (3.01%) Django
10 182 (2.92%) HTML
11 166 (2.66%) CSS
12 165 (2.64%) PyTorch
13 153 (2.45%) Pandas
14 147 (2.36%) LangChain
15 142 (2.28%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.20%) Flask
17 125 (2.00%) scikit-learn
18 106 (1.70%) Vue
19 105 (1.68%) JSON
19 105 (1.68%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 511 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 323 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 317 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.93%) Data Structures
5 177 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 170 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 135 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 99 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 86 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 82 (1.31%) Management Information System
14 77 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.20%) Equities
15 75 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 73 (1.17%) Hedge funds
17 72 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
18 69 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
19 67 (1.07%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 693 (11.10%) Linux
2 299 (4.79%) Windows
3 88 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.33%) Unix
5 51 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.67%) CentOS
6 42 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.42%) Debian
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.19%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Rocky
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,678 (42.91%) AI
2 1,473 (23.60%) CI/CD
3 1,468 (23.52%) Software Engineering
4 1,244 (19.93%) Business Intelligence
5 1,089 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
6 1,052 (16.86%) Agile
7 1,026 (16.44%) DevOps
8 1,012 (16.22%) Analytics
9 896 (14.36%) Machine Learning
10 868 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 746 (11.95%) Mentoring
12 660 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
13 651 (10.43%) Data Engineering
14 636 (10.19%) Data Modelling
15 596 (9.55%) Data Science
16 576 (9.23%) Containerisation
17 571 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 557 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
19 549 (8.80%) Computer Science
20 537 (8.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,365 (37.89%) SQL
2 761 (12.19%) Java
3 643 (10.30%) JavaScript
4 508 (8.14%) PowerShell
5 505 (8.09%) C++
6 490 (7.85%) Bash
7 426 (6.83%) C#
8 384 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 280 (4.49%) Go
10 180 (2.88%) C
11 157 (2.52%) R
12 120 (1.92%) Scala
13 102 (1.63%) PHP
13 102 (1.63%) Rust
14 87 (1.39%) Bicep
15 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
15 63 (1.01%) Perl
15 63 (1.01%) Ruby
16 54 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 53 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,200 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 803 (12.87%) Degree
3 714 (11.44%) Security Cleared
4 404 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 296 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 234 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 208 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 180 (2.88%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 113 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 90 (1.44%) PhD
12 74 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (0.82%) CCNP
14 50 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 41 (0.66%) OSCP
17 37 (0.59%) CISSP
18 32 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
19 30 (0.48%) CREST Certified
20 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 246 (3.94%) QA
3 144 (2.31%) GDPR
4 86 (1.38%) NIST
5 80 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 71 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.35%) GRC
9 22 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.32%) SLA
11 19 (0.30%) PMO
12 15 (0.24%) WCAG
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 701 (11.23%) Docker
2 112 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.95%) Firmware
5 41 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 41 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.48%) KVM
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.048%) IAG
15 3 (0.048%) iptables
15 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 896 (14.36%) Terraform
2 700 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 385 (6.17%) Ansible
4 241 (3.86%) Grafana
5 168 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.99%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Puppet
8 39 (0.62%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 28 (0.45%) Istio
13 23 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Podman
16 17 (0.27%) logstash
17 16 (0.26%) Rancher
18 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,543 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 379 (6.07%) Databricks
3 192 (3.08%) Google
4 146 (2.34%) VMware
5 141 (2.26%) Splunk
6 134 (2.15%) Oracle
7 116 (1.86%) Cisco
8 105 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 102 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 64 (1.03%) Foundry
11 63 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 59 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.77%) Salesforce
14 47 (0.75%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.71%) SAP
17 42 (0.67%) F5
18 36 (0.58%) Fortinet
18 36 (0.58%) Palantir
19 33 (0.53%) Informatica