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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,250 5,339 6,386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.59% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.52% 34.02% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,845 3,259 5,085
10th Percentile £31,450 £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 £89,000 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 10,755 15,693 23,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.86% 34.06% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,063 9,298 20,467
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 £87,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 5 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 5 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 2,029 £80,939 -7.50% 1,315
North of England -12 710 £47,500 -26.92% 462
South East -24 496 £60,000 -11.11% 666
Midlands -14 383 £55,000 - 226
South West -2 350 £60,000 -7.69% 267
Yorkshire +10 317 £45,000 -30.77% 160
North West -16 296 £55,000 -12.00% 251
West Midlands +2 253 £55,000 - 110
East of England -17 217 £52,500 -20.74% 206
East Midlands -22 133 £55,000 - 116
North East -1 97 £40,000 -42.29% 54
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
1 156 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.82%) Apache
4 37 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 36 (0.85%) Confluence
6 31 (0.73%) SAS
7 28 (0.66%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.64%) WordPress
9 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.45%) Appian
12 18 (0.42%) IIS
12 18 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.24%) nginx
15 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 602 (14.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.094%) Windchill
9 3 (0.071%) CATIA
9 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.047%) Stata
10 2 (0.047%) Weka
11 1 (0.024%) 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 (0.094%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.047%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,714 (40.33%) Azure
2 1,482 (34.87%) AWS
3 761 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 537 (12.64%) GitHub
5 443 (10.42%) GCP
6 373 (8.78%) Azure AI
7 272 (6.40%) Serverless
8 183 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (3.84%) Amazon S3
10 163 (3.84%) SaaS
11 156 (3.67%) Snowflake
12 148 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
13 141 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 122 (2.87%) dbt
15 114 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 104 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
17 83 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
18 80 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 73 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.05%) Internet
2 156 (3.67%) Firewall
3 96 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.07%) VPN
5 72 (1.69%) DNS
6 71 (1.67%) WAN
7 60 (1.41%) LAN
8 59 (1.39%) Broadband
9 56 (1.32%) BGP
10 54 (1.27%) Wireless
11 53 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
12 47 (1.11%) Network Security
13 43 (1.01%) VLAN
14 39 (0.92%) OSPF
15 38 (0.89%) HTTP
16 34 (0.80%) MPLS
17 32 (0.75%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.75%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.61%) VXLAN
19 25 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 718 (16.89%) Power BI
2 645 (15.18%) Tableau
3 244 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 215 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
6 182 (4.28%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.67%) Data Mining
8 155 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 119 (2.80%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.71%) Big Data
11 112 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 88 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 88 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
13 86 (2.02%) MySQL
14 85 (2.00%) BigQuery
15 75 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (1.72%) Metadata
17 71 (1.67%) Hadoop
18 52 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 573 (13.48%) Git
2 219 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 150 (3.53%) GitLab
4 111 (2.61%) JIRA
5 59 (1.39%) Selenium
6 44 (1.04%) MLflow
7 40 (0.94%) Postman
8 34 (0.80%) JUnit
9 28 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.54%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.49%) JMeter
13 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 18 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.38%) Burp Suite
15 16 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 16 (0.38%) Metasploit
16 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 1,312 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (24.80%) Finance
3 687 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.67%) Multimedia
5 236 (5.55%) Banking
6 182 (4.28%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 171 (4.02%) Law
9 135 (3.18%) Marketing
10 134 (3.15%) Front Office
11 113 (2.66%) Retail
11 113 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 112 (2.64%) Manufacturing
13 88 (2.07%) Financial Institution
14 78 (1.84%) Electronics
15 74 (1.74%) Legal
16 59 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 55 (1.29%) Games
18 52 (1.22%) Investment Banking
19 49 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 784 (18.45%) Developer
2 775 (18.24%) Analyst
3 659 (15.51%) Senior
4 614 (14.45%) Data Analyst
5 420 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 389 (9.15%) Trainee
7 349 (8.21%) Junior
8 334 (7.86%) Software Engineer
9 329 (7.74%) Junior Analyst
9 329 (7.74%) Junior Data Analyst
10 322 (7.58%) Lead
11 311 (7.32%) Python Developer
12 242 (5.69%) Python Engineer
13 194 (4.56%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.53%) Architect
15 146 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 132 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 129 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
18 126 (2.96%) Trainee Analyst
18 126 (2.96%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (9.18%) HTML
2 345 (8.12%) React
3 343 (8.07%) CSS
4 185 (4.35%) REST
5 180 (4.24%) Node.js
6 169 (3.98%) Django
7 155 (3.65%) Kafka
8 150 (3.53%) RESTful
9 135 (3.18%) PySpark
10 134 (3.15%) FastAPI
11 129 (3.04%) .NET
12 128 (3.01%) PyTorch
13 115 (2.71%) Pandas
14 111 (2.61%) Flask
15 107 (2.52%) TensorFlow
16 97 (2.28%) AngularJS
17 87 (2.05%) JSON
18 81 (1.91%) Vue
19 80 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
20 79 (1.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 218 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 165 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 103 (2.42%) Equities
8 99 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.81%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.79%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 70 (1.65%) Data Centre
13 70 (1.65%) Derivative
13 70 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
14 65 (1.53%) Fixed Income
15 63 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
16 62 (1.46%) AI Agents
17 58 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
18 55 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 501 (11.79%) Linux
2 200 (4.71%) Windows
3 181 (4.26%) Unix
4 66 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.75%) CentOS
7 30 (0.71%) 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 (0.094%) zOS
17 3 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,284 (30.21%) AI
2 985 (23.18%) CI/CD
3 938 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
4 831 (19.55%) Analytics
5 829 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
6 781 (18.38%) Agile
7 769 (18.09%) DevOps
8 704 (16.56%) Software Engineering
9 670 (15.76%) Mentoring
10 570 (13.41%) Machine Learning
11 487 (11.46%) Data Science
12 485 (11.41%) ETL
13 475 (11.18%) Data Modelling
14 472 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 466 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
16 460 (10.82%) Data Engineering
17 459 (10.80%) Computer Science
18 422 (9.93%) Data Analysis
19 400 (9.41%) Containerisation
20 390 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,690 (39.76%) SQL
2 746 (17.55%) JavaScript
3 587 (13.81%) Java
4 395 (9.29%) Bash
5 349 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 324 (7.62%) TypeScript
7 277 (6.52%) C#
8 232 (5.46%) R
9 219 (5.15%) C++
10 176 (4.14%) Go
11 128 (3.01%) C
12 82 (1.93%) Scala
13 64 (1.51%) PHP
14 62 (1.46%) VBA
15 49 (1.15%) Bicep
15 49 (1.15%) Rust
16 45 (1.06%) MATLAB
17 42 (0.99%) Perl
18 41 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 790 (18.59%) Degree
2 633 (14.89%) Azure Certification
3 448 (10.54%) Security Cleared
4 372 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.26%) SC Cleared
7 253 (5.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 219 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 182 (4.28%) Master's Degree
10 161 (3.79%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.73%) PhD
12 73 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.44%) CCNP
14 49 (1.15%) CISSP
15 48 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.68%) OSCP
19 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 164 (3.86%) QA
3 109 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (2.45%) GDPR
5 93 (2.19%) NIST
6 66 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.68%) SLA
9 19 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.19%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.094%) ECSS
19 4 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 522 (12.28%) Docker
2 84 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.71%) Firmware
5 20 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) vSphere
8 11 (0.26%) KVM
9 10 (0.24%) HDFS
9 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.24%) 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 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.071%) iptables
14 3 (0.071%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.071%) QEMU
14 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 551 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 542 (12.75%) Terraform
3 317 (7.46%) Ansible
4 128 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 127 (2.99%) Grafana
6 61 (1.44%) Argo
7 24 (0.56%) Kibana
7 24 (0.56%) Puppet
8 20 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.31%) Nagios
11 13 (0.31%) Nessus
11 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.28%) Rancher
13 11 (0.26%) Control-M
13 11 (0.26%) logstash
13 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,170 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.00%) Databricks
3 197 (4.64%) Google
4 127 (2.99%) Oracle
5 102 (2.40%) Cisco
6 96 (2.26%) VMware
7 79 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.65%) SAP
10 60 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 59 (1.39%) Splunk
12 52 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.15%) Informatica
14 44 (1.04%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.01%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.01%) IBM
16 41 (0.96%) Talend
17 39 (0.92%) Alteryx
18 33 (0.78%) Palantir
19 32 (0.75%) Atlassian