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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,846 4,733 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.63% 10.93% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.11% 41.15% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,700 2,572 4,156
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,375 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -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 16,649 11,502 20,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.02% 26.56% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 7,544 12,629
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,050
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 5 October 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 October 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 2,544 £85,000 -2.86% 6,611
North of England -18 1,070 £66,805 +11.34% 1,236
South East +5 805 £62,500 +8.70% 1,295
South West +2 573 £62,500 +13.64% 697
North West -25 555 £67,500 +12.50% 635
Midlands -3 486 £60,000 - 610
East of England +9 310 £67,500 +17.39% 739
Yorkshire +2 278 £66,805 +0.84% 411
West Midlands -15 264 £62,500 +4.17% 340
North East +18 240 £67,500 +50.00% 197
East Midlands +17 220 £55,000 -15.38% 270
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
1 211 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 170 (2.91%) Apache
3 163 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.20%) Confluence
5 41 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 37 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.48%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) CMS
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
15 6 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 312 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.43%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 18 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.051%) Blender
10 3 (0.051%) Maya
10 3 (0.051%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.051%) Revit
10 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.051%) SPSS
10 3 (0.051%) Trello
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.068%) Shopify
6 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.051%) Line 50
6 3 (0.051%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Magento
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Actimize
8 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.017%) FastStats
8 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,055 (35.15%) Azure
2 1,852 (31.68%) AWS
3 724 (12.38%) GCP
4 691 (11.82%) Power Platform
5 442 (7.56%) Azure AI
6 393 (6.72%) GitHub
7 346 (5.92%) Serverless
8 249 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 243 (4.16%) SaaS
10 226 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
11 222 (3.80%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.73%) Snowflake
13 207 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 200 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 185 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
15 185 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 166 (2.84%) dbt
17 130 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
18 126 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 123 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.75%) Firewall
2 157 (2.69%) DNS
3 146 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 146 (2.50%) VPN
4 103 (1.76%) Network Security
5 89 (1.52%) WAN
6 77 (1.32%) Wireless
7 66 (1.13%) Broadband
8 63 (1.08%) DHCP
8 63 (1.08%) LAN
9 62 (1.06%) BGP
10 48 (0.82%) MQTT
11 43 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.74%) VLAN
12 42 (0.72%) OSPF
13 40 (0.68%) HTTP
14 33 (0.56%) SSL
15 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
16 24 (0.41%) 5G
17 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (10.64%) Power BI
2 326 (5.58%) Tableau
3 320 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
4 305 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 146 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 126 (2.16%) Big Data
10 115 (1.97%) MySQL
11 112 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.92%) Metadata
12 99 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 93 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 85 (1.45%) DynamoDB
15 83 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
16 76 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
17 73 (1.25%) Delta Lake
18 68 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 677 (11.58%) Git
2 313 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 259 (4.43%) GitLab
4 174 (2.98%) JIRA
5 68 (1.16%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.91%) Subversion
7 52 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.75%) Selenium
9 42 (0.72%) MLflow
10 38 (0.65%) JUnit
11 32 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
13 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.50%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.48%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.38%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.33%) Cucumber
18 18 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 1,797 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 1,340 (22.92%) Finance
3 816 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 349 (5.97%) Banking
6 260 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 224 (3.83%) Marketing
8 219 (3.75%) Law
9 166 (2.84%) Retail
10 132 (2.26%) Legal
11 112 (1.92%) Aerospace
11 112 (1.92%) Front Office
12 101 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.64%) Electronics
14 92 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 83 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 68 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.09%) Games
18 49 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 49 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,258 (21.52%) Senior
2 888 (15.19%) Software Engineer
3 814 (13.92%) Developer
4 705 (12.06%) Python Engineer
5 613 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 612 (10.47%) Lead
7 536 (9.17%) Analyst
8 442 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 360 (6.16%) Python Developer
10 356 (6.09%) Python Software Engineer
11 345 (5.90%) Data Analyst
12 272 (4.65%) Junior
13 262 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
14 218 (3.73%) Architect
15 214 (3.66%) Data Scientist
16 205 (3.51%) Senior Developer
17 200 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
18 194 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
19 193 (3.30%) Junior Analyst
20 189 (3.23%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (16.18%) Terraform
2 389 (6.65%) React
3 246 (4.21%) REST
4 232 (3.97%) .NET
5 227 (3.88%) Node.js
6 220 (3.76%) PySpark
7 218 (3.73%) Kafka
8 215 (3.68%) FastAPI
9 199 (3.40%) RESTful
10 178 (3.04%) LangChain
11 165 (2.82%) Django
12 154 (2.63%) PyTorch
13 136 (2.33%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.28%) HTML
15 129 (2.21%) CSS
16 127 (2.17%) Spring Boot
17 126 (2.16%) Spring
18 111 (1.90%) Flask
19 105 (1.80%) LangGraph
20 91 (1.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 602 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 295 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 281 (4.81%) Algorithms
4 268 (4.58%) AI Agents
5 231 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.56%) Robotics
10 90 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 88 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 86 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 85 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 84 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
15 81 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
16 75 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
17 70 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
18 65 (1.11%) Equities
18 65 (1.11%) Low-Code
19 64 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 706 (12.08%) Linux
2 325 (5.56%) Windows
3 81 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 80 (1.37%) Unix
5 49 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.74%) CentOS
7 39 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 16 (0.27%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.21%) Android
14 12 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,381 (40.73%) AI
2 1,708 (29.22%) Software Engineering
3 1,623 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 1,209 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 1,118 (19.12%) Analytics
6 1,095 (18.73%) DevOps
7 1,073 (18.35%) Agile
8 1,013 (17.33%) Machine Learning
9 954 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 786 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
11 785 (13.43%) Mentoring
12 731 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
13 727 (12.44%) Data Engineering
14 682 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 640 (10.95%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.62%) Decision-Making
17 612 (10.47%) Data Science
18 589 (10.08%) Containerisation
19 583 (9.97%) Test Automation
20 577 (9.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,924 (32.91%) SQL
2 820 (14.03%) Java
3 599 (10.25%) JavaScript
4 554 (9.48%) C++
5 529 (9.05%) Bash
6 488 (8.35%) PowerShell
7 480 (8.21%) C#
8 405 (6.93%) TypeScript
9 263 (4.50%) Go
10 197 (3.37%) C
11 159 (2.72%) R
12 106 (1.81%) Scala
13 100 (1.71%) Rust
14 99 (1.69%) Bicep
15 88 (1.51%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.44%) PHP
17 80 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 75 (1.28%) Ruby
20 55 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 923 (15.79%) Degree
2 881 (15.07%) Security Cleared
3 518 (8.86%) Azure Certification
4 502 (8.59%) SC Cleared
5 304 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 280 (4.79%) DV Cleared
7 221 (3.78%) Master's Degree
8 123 (2.10%) PhD
9 115 (1.97%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 56 (0.96%) CISSP
14 45 (0.77%) CCNP
15 40 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.60%) CCNA
17 33 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
20 29 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 559 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 244 (4.17%) QA
3 128 (2.19%) GDPR
4 102 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 74 (1.27%) NIST
6 62 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.48%) SLA
9 25 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.39%) NCSC
11 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.29%) WCAG
13 15 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
16 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 798 (13.65%) Docker
2 119 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.09%) Firmware
5 38 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.51%) vSphere
8 22 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 14 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.14%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.051%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 821 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 414 (7.08%) Ansible
3 241 (4.12%) Grafana
4 161 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 75 (1.28%) Puppet
6 63 (1.08%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.65%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.44%) Istio
11 26 (0.44%) Rancher
12 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.36%) Packer
13 21 (0.36%) Podman
14 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.26%) Graylog
16 15 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 930 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 438 (7.49%) Databricks
3 236 (4.04%) Google
4 149 (2.55%) Splunk
5 123 (2.10%) OpenAI
6 122 (2.09%) Oracle
7 118 (2.02%) VMware
8 106 (1.81%) Cisco
9 90 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 55 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 54 (0.92%) Foundry
13 42 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.65%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 37 (0.63%) Palo Alto
16 36 (0.62%) SAP
17 34 (0.58%) F5
18 33 (0.56%) Informatica
19 31 (0.53%) New Relic