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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,327 5,028 6,574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.66% 11.49% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.78% 40.23% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 2,805 4,651
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 16,749 12,497 21,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.62% 28.56% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,205 8,338 15,703
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,625
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 19 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 19 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 -3 2,642 £85,000 -2.86% 3,029
North of England -13 1,239 £66,000 +1.54% 590
South East +9 904 £60,000 - 742
South West +14 615 £60,000 +9.09% 326
North West -17 594 £66,750 +11.25% 321
Midlands +3 557 £62,000 -4.62% 262
Yorkshire +13 394 £66,762 +2.71% 160
East of England +11 315 £65,000 +18.18% 353
West Midlands 0 300 £62,500 -3.85% 152
East Midlands +15 256 £52,500 -12.50% 109
North East +24 251 £65,000 - 114
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
1 246 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 230 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 187 (2.96%) Apache
4 65 (1.03%) Confluence
5 47 (0.74%) WordPress
6 46 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.21%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.095%) Camunda
14 6 (0.095%) JBoss
14 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 655 (10.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 33 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 14 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) 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 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.079%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.047%) Magento
8 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.047%) 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%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,501 (39.53%) Azure
2 2,038 (32.21%) AWS
3 994 (15.71%) Power Platform
4 858 (13.56%) Azure AI
5 767 (12.12%) GCP
6 399 (6.31%) GitHub
7 377 (5.96%) Serverless
8 262 (4.14%) Amazon S3
9 241 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 238 (3.76%) Snowflake
11 236 (3.73%) SaaS
12 231 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
13 210 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 199 (3.15%) dbt
15 180 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
18 140 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
20 121 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.59%) Firewall
2 137 (2.17%) DNS
3 126 (1.99%) Broadband
4 125 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 124 (1.96%) VPN
6 108 (1.71%) Network Security
7 95 (1.50%) WAN
8 78 (1.23%) Wireless
9 74 (1.17%) LAN
10 71 (1.12%) Internet
11 55 (0.87%) BGP
12 47 (0.74%) DHCP
13 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.73%) VLAN
14 41 (0.65%) HTTP
15 40 (0.63%) MQTT
16 39 (0.62%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
19 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 923 (14.59%) Power BI
2 730 (11.54%) Tableau
3 335 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
4 290 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 174 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 159 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 132 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.94%) Big Data
12 114 (1.80%) MySQL
13 111 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 108 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 94 (1.49%) Metadata
16 87 (1.38%) DynamoDB
17 82 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.14%) Looker
19 71 (1.12%) Delta Lake
20 60 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 707 (11.17%) Git
2 293 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 245 (3.87%) GitLab
4 169 (2.67%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) Claude Code
5 62 (0.98%) MLflow
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 53 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
8 49 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.65%) Subversion
10 38 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 36 (0.57%) JUnit
12 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,136 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 1,336 (21.12%) Finance
3 853 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (5.25%) Banking
5 331 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 222 (3.51%) Law
8 189 (2.99%) Marketing
9 162 (2.56%) Retail
10 138 (2.18%) Legal
11 118 (1.87%) Front Office
12 116 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 92 (1.45%) Electronics
15 85 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 83 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 77 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 72 (1.14%) Investment Banking
19 67 (1.06%) Games
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,252 (19.79%) Senior
2 869 (13.73%) Analyst
3 866 (13.69%) Developer
4 838 (13.24%) Software Engineer
5 682 (10.78%) Data Analyst
6 664 (10.49%) Python Engineer
7 629 (9.94%) Data Engineer
8 624 (9.86%) Lead
9 609 (9.63%) Junior
10 527 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
11 523 (8.27%) Junior Data Analyst
12 488 (7.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 369 (5.83%) Python Developer
14 299 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
15 242 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.49%) Architect
17 216 (3.41%) Data Scientist
18 201 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 190 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
20 187 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.53%) React
2 275 (4.35%) Kafka
3 244 (3.86%) Node.js
4 234 (3.70%) PySpark
5 233 (3.68%) .NET
6 226 (3.57%) REST
7 208 (3.29%) FastAPI
7 208 (3.29%) RESTful
8 193 (3.05%) HTML
9 189 (2.99%) Django
10 185 (2.92%) PyTorch
11 177 (2.80%) CSS
11 177 (2.80%) LangChain
12 157 (2.48%) TensorFlow
13 131 (2.07%) Flask
14 128 (2.02%) Pandas
15 118 (1.87%) Spring
15 118 (1.87%) Spring Boot
16 117 (1.85%) scikit-learn
17 102 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 594 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 340 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 307 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 226 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 203 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 146 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 143 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 94 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 93 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 79 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 79 (1.25%) Low-Code
12 77 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
13 75 (1.19%) Hedge funds
13 75 (1.19%) Robotics
14 74 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
14 74 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
15 70 (1.11%) Equities
16 64 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 722 (11.41%) Linux
2 331 (5.23%) Windows
3 94 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.28%) Unix
5 54 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.73%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,680 (42.36%) AI
2 1,638 (25.89%) Software Engineering
3 1,587 (25.08%) CI/CD
4 1,195 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 1,129 (17.84%) Analytics
6 1,123 (17.75%) Agile
7 1,093 (17.28%) DevOps
8 1,079 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
9 1,021 (16.14%) Machine Learning
10 943 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 818 (12.93%) Mentoring
12 743 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
13 732 (11.57%) Data Engineering
14 665 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 663 (10.48%) Data Modelling
16 642 (10.15%) Data Science
17 613 (9.69%) Containerisation
18 593 (9.37%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.26%) Decision-Making
20 579 (9.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,267 (35.83%) SQL
2 816 (12.90%) Java
3 672 (10.62%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.66%) C++
5 506 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 496 (7.84%) Bash
7 471 (7.44%) C#
8 406 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 272 (4.30%) Go
10 190 (3.00%) C
11 171 (2.70%) R
12 123 (1.94%) Scala
13 102 (1.61%) PHP
14 97 (1.53%) Rust
15 91 (1.44%) Bicep
16 82 (1.30%) Perl
17 74 (1.17%) Ruby
18 64 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 47 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 982 (15.52%) Azure Certification
2 902 (14.26%) Degree
3 797 (12.60%) Security Cleared
4 444 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 321 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 267 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.27%) Master's Degree
8 173 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 120 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 106 (1.68%) PhD
11 86 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 80 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.81%) CCNP
15 44 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (0.63%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.55%) OSCP
19 28 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 513 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 272 (4.30%) QA
3 149 (2.35%) GDPR
4 109 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 69 (1.09%) NIST
6 59 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 31 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.43%) SLA
10 23 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.25%) GRC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.24%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 772 (12.20%) Docker
2 117 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.01%) Firmware
5 46 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.43%) vSphere
8 24 (0.38%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 944 (14.92%) Terraform
2 760 (12.01%) Kubernetes
3 410 (6.48%) Ansible
4 239 (3.78%) Grafana
5 147 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.93%) Puppet
7 51 (0.81%) Argo
8 41 (0.65%) Nagios
9 40 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.57%) Kibana
11 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 31 (0.49%) Istio
13 29 (0.46%) Packer
14 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.30%) Podman
16 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
17 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
18 16 (0.25%) logstash
19 15 (0.24%) Graylog
20 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,294 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 454 (7.18%) Databricks
3 201 (3.18%) Google
4 153 (2.42%) Splunk
5 144 (2.28%) Oracle
6 137 (2.17%) VMware
7 122 (1.93%) Cisco
7 122 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 120 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 60 (0.95%) Foundry
11 54 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 43 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.66%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.58%) F5
17 36 (0.57%) SAP
18 34 (0.54%) Palantir
19 33 (0.52%) IBM