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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,219 5,268 7,327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.02% 12.12% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.68% 40.19% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 2,995 5,430
10th Percentile £39,160 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,246
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +0.35% -3.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £125,000
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 16,078 13,109 25,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,772 8,859 20,006
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 20 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 20 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 -3 2,496 £85,000 -5.56% 1,412
North of England -13 1,259 £65,000 - 369
South East +3 930 £60,000 - 472
Midlands +17 599 £60,000 - 179
North West -16 587 £65,250 +0.38% 201
South West +9 567 £60,000 +4.86% 181
Yorkshire +17 446 £65,000 - 102
West Midlands +4 311 £62,500 - 97
East of England -8 299 £65,000 -1.82% 161
East Midlands +28 288 £54,500 -0.91% 81
North East +26 226 £59,500 -8.46% 68
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 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 219 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 161 (2.59%) Apache
4 76 (1.22%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 46 (0.74%) WordPress
7 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.096%) Camunda
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
12 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 872 (14.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 40 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.63%) 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%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 2,621 (42.15%) Azure
2 1,970 (31.68%) AWS
3 1,142 (18.36%) Power Platform
4 1,037 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 735 (11.82%) GCP
6 378 (6.08%) GitHub
7 364 (5.85%) Serverless
8 238 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.75%) SaaS
10 227 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 196 (3.15%) Snowflake
13 192 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 174 (2.80%) dbt
15 166 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 160 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 157 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
18 128 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 118 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
20 116 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (3.79%) Firewall
2 169 (2.72%) Broadband
3 140 (2.25%) VPN
4 131 (2.11%) DNS
5 118 (1.90%) Network Security
6 106 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 92 (1.48%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 71 (1.14%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 57 (0.92%) BGP
11 57 (0.92%) VLAN
12 52 (0.84%) HTTP
13 50 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 38 (0.61%) MQTT
14 38 (0.61%) OSPF
15 37 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
16 36 (0.58%) DHCP
17 31 (0.50%) SSL
18 29 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,081 (17.38%) Power BI
2 936 (15.05%) Tableau
3 297 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 275 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 180 (2.89%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 160 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 118 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.78%) Big Data
13 106 (1.70%) MySQL
14 105 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 93 (1.50%) Metadata
16 78 (1.25%) DynamoDB
17 71 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
18 60 (0.96%) Spark SQL
19 58 (0.93%) Data Mining
20 57 (0.92%) Looker
Development Applications
1 622 (10.00%) Git
2 279 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 257 (4.13%) GitLab
4 155 (2.49%) JIRA
5 83 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.93%) Claude Code
7 56 (0.90%) MLflow
8 52 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.69%) Selenium
10 37 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.51%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) JUnit
13 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
14 22 (0.35%) JMeter
15 21 (0.34%) Postman
15 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 2,156 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 1,254 (20.16%) Finance
3 810 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (4.55%) Banking
5 247 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 188 (3.02%) Retail
8 164 (2.64%) Law
9 134 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 131 (2.11%) Front Office
11 109 (1.75%) Legal
12 99 (1.59%) Marketing
13 82 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.29%) Electronics
15 74 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 72 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (1.00%) Games
18 62 (1.00%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,156 (18.59%) Senior
2 1,067 (17.16%) Analyst
3 903 (14.52%) Data Analyst
3 903 (14.52%) Developer
4 776 (12.48%) Junior
5 765 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 714 (11.48%) Junior Analyst
7 712 (11.45%) Junior Data Analyst
8 604 (9.71%) Python Engineer
9 594 (9.55%) Data Engineer
10 544 (8.75%) Lead
11 460 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 384 (6.17%) Python Developer
13 289 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
14 223 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 209 (3.36%) Architect
16 195 (3.14%) Data Scientist
17 187 (3.01%) Senior Developer
18 183 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
19 180 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (6.35%) React
2 282 (4.53%) Kafka
3 246 (3.96%) Node.js
4 220 (3.54%) REST
5 219 (3.52%) PySpark
6 216 (3.47%) .NET
7 202 (3.25%) RESTful
8 196 (3.15%) FastAPI
9 188 (3.02%) Django
10 187 (3.01%) HTML
11 168 (2.70%) CSS
12 165 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 156 (2.51%) Pandas
14 151 (2.43%) LangChain
15 142 (2.28%) TensorFlow
16 134 (2.15%) Flask
17 127 (2.04%) scikit-learn
18 110 (1.77%) JSON
19 108 (1.74%) NumPy
20 102 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 511 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.24%) Algorithms
3 322 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 178 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 173 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 131 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
9 100 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 97 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 87 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 83 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 78 (1.25%) Equities
14 78 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 71 (1.14%) Security Posture
17 70 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.13%) Robotics
18 67 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 686 (11.03%) Linux
2 306 (4.92%) Windows
3 87 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.35%) Unix
5 46 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.61%) CentOS
6 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.39%) Debian
8 21 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
17 6 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
18 4 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
18 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,649 (42.60%) AI
2 1,490 (23.96%) Software Engineering
3 1,471 (23.65%) CI/CD
4 1,197 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
5 1,091 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
6 1,055 (16.96%) Agile
7 1,031 (16.58%) DevOps
8 1,005 (16.16%) Analytics
9 896 (14.41%) Machine Learning
10 865 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (11.92%) Mentoring
12 658 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
13 648 (10.42%) Data Engineering
14 638 (10.26%) Data Modelling
15 594 (9.55%) Data Science
16 574 (9.23%) Containerisation
17 570 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 564 (9.07%) Full-Stack Development
19 547 (8.80%) Computer Science
20 532 (8.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,329 (37.45%) SQL
2 760 (12.22%) Java
3 643 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 505 (8.12%) PowerShell
5 504 (8.10%) C++
6 482 (7.75%) Bash
7 429 (6.90%) C#
8 386 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.49%) Go
10 178 (2.86%) C
11 156 (2.51%) R
12 122 (1.96%) Scala
13 101 (1.62%) PHP
14 97 (1.56%) Rust
15 87 (1.40%) Bicep
16 64 (1.03%) Perl
16 64 (1.03%) Ruby
17 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
18 54 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 53 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,157 (18.60%) Azure Certification
2 802 (12.90%) Degree
3 710 (11.42%) Security Cleared
4 404 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 294 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 236 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 204 (3.28%) AWS Certification
8 178 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 113 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 89 (1.43%) PhD
12 77 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.84%) CCNP
14 48 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) OSCP
17 37 (0.59%) CISSP
18 34 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
20 26 (0.42%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 243 (3.91%) QA
3 145 (2.33%) GDPR
4 84 (1.35%) NIST
5 81 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 69 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 22 (0.35%) GRC
11 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.32%) SLA
13 19 (0.31%) PMO
14 16 (0.26%) WCAG
15 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.13%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 704 (11.32%) Docker
2 111 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.95%) Firmware
5 39 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.45%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.23%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.14%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.048%) IAG
17 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 894 (14.38%) Terraform
2 691 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 386 (6.21%) Ansible
4 241 (3.88%) Grafana
5 169 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.95%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Nagios
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 35 (0.56%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
12 26 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.29%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.23%) Graylog
17 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,502 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 389 (6.26%) Databricks
3 187 (3.01%) Google
4 144 (2.32%) Splunk
5 142 (2.28%) VMware
6 135 (2.17%) Oracle
7 119 (1.91%) Cisco
8 102 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 66 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 62 (1.00%) Foundry
12 59 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 47 (0.76%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.71%) SAP
17 43 (0.69%) F5
18 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
19 34 (0.55%) Palantir
20 33 (0.53%) IBM