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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,004 4,799 6,622
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.98% 11.17% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.03% 41.08% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,713 2,615 4,284
10th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £70,039 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% -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 16,664 11,681 20,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.19% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,202 7,668 13,605
10th Percentile £39,753 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 September 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 September 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 2,497 £85,000 -5.56% 7,672
North of England -16 1,156 £67,500 +8.00% 1,101
South East +10 862 £62,500 +4.17% 1,164
South West +10 595 £62,500 +13.64% 629
North West -21 569 £67,500 +12.50% 625
Midlands +1 530 £62,250 -4.23% 513
Yorkshire +12 344 £68,500 +5.38% 345
East of England +9 311 £65,000 +18.18% 732
West Midlands -7 283 £65,000 +0.39% 306
East Midlands +22 245 £52,500 -20.75% 206
North East +22 243 £66,805 +24.29% 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
1 217 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 174 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.73%) Apache
4 72 (1.20%) Confluence
5 40 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.43%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) Camunda
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.100%) IIS
15 6 (0.100%) JBoss
16 5 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 486 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.35%) Simulink
5 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.100%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.083%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.100%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,302 (38.34%) Azure
2 1,858 (30.95%) AWS
3 870 (14.49%) Power Platform
4 725 (12.08%) GCP
5 723 (12.04%) Azure AI
6 363 (6.05%) Serverless
7 353 (5.88%) GitHub
8 247 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 236 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 225 (3.75%) Amazon S3
11 218 (3.63%) Snowflake
12 215 (3.58%) SaaS
13 206 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 174 (2.90%) dbt
15 174 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
16 168 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
17 136 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 131 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
19 127 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 210 (3.50%) Firewall
2 140 (2.33%) DNS
3 127 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 127 (2.12%) VPN
4 100 (1.67%) Network Security
5 96 (1.60%) WAN
6 81 (1.35%) Wireless
7 77 (1.28%) Broadband
8 71 (1.18%) LAN
9 60 (1.00%) BGP
10 58 (0.97%) DHCP
11 48 (0.80%) VLAN
12 47 (0.78%) SD-WAN
13 43 (0.72%) MQTT
13 43 (0.72%) OSPF
14 38 (0.63%) HTTP
15 35 (0.58%) SSL
16 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
17 25 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 800 (13.32%) Power BI
2 533 (8.88%) Tableau
3 335 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 273 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 206 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.93%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 125 (2.08%) Big Data
11 120 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 111 (1.85%) MySQL
13 104 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 103 (1.72%) Metadata
15 94 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.50%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
18 74 (1.23%) Delta Lake
19 69 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 652 (10.86%) Git
2 302 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 241 (4.01%) GitLab
4 169 (2.81%) JIRA
5 64 (1.07%) Claude Code
6 51 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 51 (0.85%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Subversion
8 48 (0.80%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) JUnit
9 38 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 36 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 21 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,010 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (21.32%) Finance
3 793 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 316 (5.26%) Banking
6 249 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.58%) Law
8 189 (3.15%) Marketing
9 159 (2.65%) Retail
10 125 (2.08%) Legal
11 108 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 101 (1.68%) Front Office
13 100 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 97 (1.62%) Electronics
15 84 (1.40%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
18 58 (0.97%) Games
19 44 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,238 (20.62%) Senior
2 845 (14.07%) Software Engineer
3 816 (13.59%) Developer
4 693 (11.54%) Analyst
5 688 (11.46%) Python Engineer
6 616 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 601 (10.01%) Lead
8 522 (8.69%) Data Analyst
9 518 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 458 (7.63%) Junior
11 382 (6.36%) Junior Analyst
12 378 (6.30%) Junior Data Analyst
13 361 (6.01%) Python Developer
14 328 (5.46%) Python Software Engineer
15 249 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 218 (3.63%) Architect
17 215 (3.58%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
19 192 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
19 192 (3.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 949 (15.81%) Terraform
2 384 (6.40%) React
3 246 (4.10%) Kafka
4 228 (3.80%) .NET
5 224 (3.73%) PySpark
5 224 (3.73%) REST
6 217 (3.61%) Node.js
7 209 (3.48%) RESTful
8 205 (3.41%) FastAPI
9 182 (3.03%) Django
10 177 (2.95%) LangChain
11 171 (2.85%) PyTorch
12 147 (2.45%) TensorFlow
13 137 (2.28%) HTML
14 125 (2.08%) Flask
15 122 (2.03%) CSS
16 116 (1.93%) Spring
16 116 (1.93%) Spring Boot
17 104 (1.73%) Pandas
18 96 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 596 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 308 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 240 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 85 (1.42%) Robotics
10 83 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 81 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 80 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
12 80 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
16 72 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
17 70 (1.17%) Low-Code
18 66 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
19 61 (1.02%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 692 (11.53%) Linux
2 312 (5.20%) Windows
3 82 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.27%) Unix
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.75%) CentOS
7 40 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 29 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.27%) Rocky
12 15 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Android
16 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.100%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,536 (42.24%) AI
2 1,646 (27.42%) Software Engineering
3 1,554 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 1,175 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1,085 (18.07%) DevOps
6 1,080 (17.99%) Analytics
7 1,064 (17.72%) Agile
8 988 (16.46%) Machine Learning
9 966 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
10 939 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 788 (13.12%) Mentoring
12 729 (12.14%) Data Engineering
13 712 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
14 650 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 646 (10.76%) Data Modelling
16 619 (10.31%) Data Science
17 598 (9.96%) Decision-Making
18 589 (9.81%) Computer Science
19 576 (9.59%) Containerisation
20 557 (9.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,089 (34.79%) SQL
2 799 (13.31%) Java
3 574 (9.56%) JavaScript
4 562 (9.36%) C++
5 509 (8.48%) Bash
6 486 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 470 (7.83%) C#
8 388 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 249 (4.15%) Go
10 195 (3.25%) C
11 133 (2.22%) R
12 112 (1.87%) Scala
13 93 (1.55%) Bicep
13 93 (1.55%) Rust
14 92 (1.53%) PHP
15 87 (1.45%) Perl
16 76 (1.27%) Ruby
17 75 (1.25%) MATLAB
18 67 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 52 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 911 (15.17%) Degree
2 835 (13.91%) Security Cleared
3 794 (13.22%) Azure Certification
4 474 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 116 (1.93%) PhD
9 107 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.85%) CCNP
14 44 (0.73%) CISSP
15 42 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.55%) CCNA
18 31 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 255 (4.25%) QA
3 134 (2.23%) GDPR
4 106 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 60 (1.00%) NIST
6 52 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 17 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.27%) PMO
15 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.22%) GRC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 751 (12.51%) Docker
2 110 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.05%) Firmware
5 40 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.067%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 764 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.75%) Ansible
3 232 (3.86%) Grafana
4 152 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 63 (1.05%) Puppet
6 58 (0.97%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.63%) Kibana
9 34 (0.57%) Istio
10 32 (0.53%) Nagios
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.37%) Podman
13 22 (0.37%) Rancher
14 17 (0.28%) logstash
14 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
14 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,093 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 446 (7.43%) Databricks
3 206 (3.43%) Google
4 149 (2.48%) Splunk
5 120 (2.00%) VMware
6 119 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 118 (1.97%) Oracle
8 117 (1.95%) Cisco
9 95 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 51 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 51 (0.85%) Foundry
12 47 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 39 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.63%) SolarWinds
16 32 (0.53%) SAP
17 31 (0.52%) F5
18 30 (0.50%) IBM
19 29 (0.48%) Informatica