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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,761 4,810 6,646
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.40% 12.19% 9.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.89% 34.83% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,981 3,240 5,359
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £121,250 £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 11,643 13,810 25,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.10% 35.01% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,387 21,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 10 March 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 10 March 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 2,098 £82,500 -5.71% 972
North of England -6 846 £45,000 -30.77% 466
South East -15 627 £62,500 -7.41% 719
Midlands -6 461 £55,200 +0.36% 246
South West +5 414 £58,497 -10.01% 284
Yorkshire +6 365 £40,000 -38.46% 179
North West -10 356 £55,000 -15.38% 212
West Midlands +4 296 £60,000 +9.09% 112
East of England -21 243 £50,000 -24.51% 276
East Midlands -15 167 £55,000 - 131
North East +17 125 £40,000 -38.46% 79
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
1 185 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 179 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.86%) Apache
4 59 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.69%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 19 (0.40%) Appian
9 18 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.32%) IIS
10 15 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.19%) nginx
11 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.084%) GeoServer
Applications
1 906 (19.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.26%) Chatbot
3 56 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.063%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.042%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.021%) Actimize
8 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.021%) Primavera
8 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,049 (43.04%) Azure
2 1,612 (33.86%) AWS
3 1,044 (21.93%) Power Platform
4 650 (13.65%) Azure AI
5 542 (11.38%) GitHub
6 513 (10.78%) GCP
7 267 (5.61%) Serverless
8 195 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 190 (3.99%) SaaS
10 175 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
10 175 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 164 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 158 (3.32%) Snowflake
13 145 (3.05%) dbt
14 139 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
15 120 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 107 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
17 94 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 82 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (4.98%) Internet
2 175 (3.68%) Firewall
3 108 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 101 (2.12%) VPN
5 94 (1.97%) Broadband
6 87 (1.83%) DNS
7 69 (1.45%) WAN
8 64 (1.34%) LAN
9 61 (1.28%) Network Security
10 59 (1.24%) BGP
11 58 (1.22%) Wireless
12 56 (1.18%) VLAN
13 50 (1.05%) HTTP
14 49 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.88%) OSPF
16 34 (0.71%) MPLS
17 33 (0.69%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (0.67%) Wireshark
19 26 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,008 (21.17%) Power BI
2 968 (20.33%) Tableau
3 241 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 207 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (4.16%) SQL Server
6 167 (3.51%) Data Mining
7 160 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 143 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 117 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 101 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 97 (2.04%) BigQuery
12 95 (2.00%) Big Data
12 95 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
13 93 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (1.76%) Metadata
15 76 (1.60%) MySQL
16 66 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
17 48 (1.01%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.92%) Delta Lake
19 42 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 609 (12.79%) Git
2 207 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 169 (3.55%) GitLab
4 98 (2.06%) JIRA
5 51 (1.07%) MLflow
6 50 (1.05%) Selenium
6 50 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 38 (0.80%) Postman
8 35 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 27 (0.57%) JUnit
11 25 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
12 22 (0.46%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 19 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.38%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.36%) JMeter
16 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
17 15 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,637 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 1,113 (23.38%) Finance
3 789 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (5.57%) Banking
5 221 (4.64%) Multimedia
6 205 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 194 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 164 (3.44%) Law
9 159 (3.34%) Retail
10 140 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 138 (2.90%) Front Office
12 124 (2.60%) Marketing
13 110 (2.31%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.72%) Legal
15 73 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 73 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.47%) Electronics
16 70 (1.47%) Investment Banking
17 47 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 39 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,111 (23.34%) Analyst
2 921 (19.34%) Data Analyst
3 792 (16.64%) Developer
4 701 (14.72%) Senior
5 642 (13.48%) Junior
6 614 (12.90%) Junior Analyst
6 614 (12.90%) Junior Data Analyst
7 444 (9.33%) Data Engineer
8 413 (8.67%) Trainee
9 399 (8.38%) Software Engineer
10 365 (7.67%) Lead
11 310 (6.51%) Python Developer
12 287 (6.03%) Python Engineer
13 198 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.15%) Architect
15 145 (3.05%) Senior Developer
16 142 (2.98%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (2.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 135 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
18 133 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (7.58%) HTML
1 361 (7.58%) React
2 310 (6.51%) CSS
3 206 (4.33%) Kafka
4 197 (4.14%) Node.js
5 182 (3.82%) Django
6 180 (3.78%) REST
7 160 (3.36%) PySpark
8 150 (3.15%) RESTful
9 135 (2.84%) .NET
9 135 (2.84%) FastAPI
10 132 (2.77%) Pandas
11 129 (2.71%) PyTorch
12 117 (2.46%) TensorFlow
13 111 (2.33%) Flask
14 101 (2.12%) scikit-learn
15 96 (2.02%) JSON
16 85 (1.79%) AngularJS
16 85 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
17 84 (1.76%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 243 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 233 (4.89%) Algorithms
3 181 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 107 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 86 (1.81%) Equities
9 83 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 81 (1.70%) Product Ownership
11 77 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 76 (1.60%) Data Centre
13 73 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 72 (1.51%) Hedge funds
15 68 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
16 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
17 61 (1.28%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.28%) Derivative
18 60 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 502 (10.54%) Linux
2 208 (4.37%) Windows
3 180 (3.78%) Unix
4 62 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.80%) CentOS
7 29 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.23%) Debian
10 11 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.21%) Android
12 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.11%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.084%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.063%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,663 (34.93%) AI
2 1,113 (23.38%) Business Intelligence
3 1,047 (21.99%) CI/CD
4 938 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 898 (18.86%) Analytics
6 842 (17.69%) Agile
7 800 (16.80%) Software Engineering
8 793 (16.66%) DevOps
9 683 (14.35%) Mentoring
10 616 (12.94%) Machine Learning
11 530 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 514 (10.80%) Data Science
13 507 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
14 506 (10.63%) Data Modelling
14 506 (10.63%) ETL
15 471 (9.89%) Computer Science
16 467 (9.81%) Data Engineering
17 449 (9.43%) Containerisation
18 445 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 437 (9.18%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,019 (42.41%) SQL
2 750 (15.75%) JavaScript
3 594 (12.48%) Java
4 390 (8.19%) Bash
5 370 (7.77%) PowerShell
6 322 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 262 (5.50%) C#
8 242 (5.08%) C++
9 232 (4.87%) Go
10 226 (4.75%) R
11 124 (2.60%) C
12 89 (1.87%) Scala
13 72 (1.51%) VBA
14 69 (1.45%) Rust
15 58 (1.22%) PHP
16 43 (0.90%) Bicep
17 38 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
19 35 (0.74%) T-SQL
20 31 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 902 (18.95%) Azure Certification
2 777 (16.32%) Degree
3 459 (9.64%) Security Cleared
4 370 (7.77%) AWS Certification
5 272 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 269 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (5.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 235 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 170 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 135 (2.84%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.83%) PhD
12 65 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.20%) CCNP
14 50 (1.05%) CISSP
15 46 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (0.86%) OSCP
17 38 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 36 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 30 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 26 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 176 (3.70%) QA
3 111 (2.33%) GDPR
4 110 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.23%) NIST
6 65 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.48%) SLA
10 22 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.42%) PMO
12 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.25%) GRC
15 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 553 (11.62%) Docker
2 92 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.63%) Firmware
5 23 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.34%) KVM
8 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
8 14 (0.29%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Lustre
10 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.11%) iptables
13 4 (0.084%) HDFS
13 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.042%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 591 (12.41%) Terraform
2 571 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 315 (6.62%) Ansible
4 155 (3.26%) Grafana
5 144 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.32%) Argo
7 25 (0.53%) Puppet
8 24 (0.50%) Nagios
9 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 19 (0.40%) Kibana
12 13 (0.27%) Control-M
13 12 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.25%) Nessus
13 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.23%) logstash
15 10 (0.21%) Istio
15 10 (0.21%) Rancher
15 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,489 (31.27%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.31%) Databricks
3 206 (4.33%) Google
4 142 (2.98%) Oracle
5 110 (2.31%) VMware
6 107 (2.25%) Cisco
7 93 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.49%) SAP
9 68 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 63 (1.32%) Splunk
12 53 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.03%) Informatica
14 43 (0.90%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.82%) Alteryx
17 38 (0.80%) Talend
18 36 (0.76%) Foundry
18 36 (0.76%) MuleSoft
19 35 (0.74%) Palantir