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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,983 5,565 5,159
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.67% 11.39% 11.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.05% 33.56% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,735 3,364 4,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,199 16,584 18,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.63% 33.94% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,767 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +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 4 January 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 4 January 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 1,981 £85,000 - 1,879
North of England -9 636 £52,500 -16.00% 873
South East -31 433 £60,000 -7.69% 1,626
Midlands -11 370 £60,000 +9.09% 695
South West -3 305 £58,750 -9.62% 530
Yorkshire +11 300 £53,500 -17.69% 394
North West -15 260 £55,000 -8.33% 379
West Midlands 0 259 £60,000 - 360
East of England -13 212 £50,000 -28.57% 705
East Midlands -27 114 £62,500 +13.64% 300
North East -2 78 £40,000 -38.46% 105
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
1 177 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.21%) Apache
4 43 (1.08%) Confluence
5 35 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
6 26 (0.65%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.45%) Appian
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 10 (0.25%) CMS
12 10 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 503 (12.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.10%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) CATIA
9 3 (0.075%) MadCap Flare
9 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,577 (39.59%) Azure
2 1,389 (34.87%) AWS
3 693 (17.40%) Power Platform
4 513 (12.88%) GitHub
5 437 (10.97%) GCP
6 280 (7.03%) Azure AI
7 255 (6.40%) Serverless
8 185 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 182 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
10 158 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (3.94%) dbt
12 155 (3.89%) SaaS
13 153 (3.84%) Amazon S3
14 135 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 134 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
16 97 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
17 87 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
20 76 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 252 (6.33%) Internet
2 145 (3.64%) Firewall
3 88 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.66%) VPN
4 66 (1.66%) WAN
5 64 (1.61%) DNS
6 54 (1.36%) LAN
7 41 (1.03%) Wireless
8 40 (1.00%) BGP
9 37 (0.93%) HTTP
10 36 (0.90%) Network Security
10 36 (0.90%) OSPF
11 33 (0.83%) VLAN
12 31 (0.78%) SSL
13 30 (0.75%) SAN
14 29 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (0.68%) SD-WAN
16 24 (0.60%) Broadband
17 21 (0.53%) DHCP
17 21 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (16.42%) Power BI
2 550 (13.81%) Tableau
3 275 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 235 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
5 219 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 168 (4.22%) NoSQL
7 161 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 137 (3.44%) Data Mining
9 133 (3.34%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.86%) MongoDB
11 106 (2.66%) BigQuery
12 104 (2.61%) Big Data
13 93 (2.33%) MySQL
14 84 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
15 81 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 79 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
17 78 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
17 78 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
18 69 (1.73%) Hadoop
19 63 (1.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 549 (13.78%) Git
2 219 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 136 (3.41%) GitLab
4 124 (3.11%) JIRA
5 58 (1.46%) Selenium
6 44 (1.10%) MLflow
7 39 (0.98%) JUnit
8 31 (0.78%) Postman
9 25 (0.63%) JMeter
10 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.40%) Mockito
14 15 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
15 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 11 (0.28%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.28%) Metasploit
16 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,153 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 1,026 (25.76%) Finance
3 610 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (6.25%) Banking
5 237 (5.95%) Multimedia
6 189 (4.75%) Law
7 181 (4.54%) Marketing
8 164 (4.12%) Public Sector
9 157 (3.94%) Front Office
10 135 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 125 (3.14%) Retail
12 108 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 90 (2.26%) Financial Institution
15 80 (2.01%) Electronics
16 76 (1.91%) Investment Banking
17 72 (1.81%) Legal
18 61 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.38%) Games
20 52 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 748 (18.78%) Developer
2 679 (17.05%) Analyst
3 652 (16.37%) Senior
4 498 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 418 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 351 (8.81%) Trainee
7 310 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 299 (7.51%) Python Developer
9 281 (7.05%) Lead
10 262 (6.58%) Junior
11 239 (6.00%) Python Engineer
12 236 (5.93%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.90%) Junior Data Analyst
14 185 (4.64%) Software Developer
15 166 (4.17%) Architect
16 149 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
17 145 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
18 137 (3.44%) Senior Developer
19 135 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
20 131 (3.29%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (9.31%) HTML
2 324 (8.13%) CSS
3 313 (7.86%) React
4 172 (4.32%) Node.js
5 166 (4.17%) REST
6 153 (3.84%) Django
7 145 (3.64%) Kafka
8 144 (3.62%) Pandas
9 141 (3.54%) RESTful
10 136 (3.41%) FastAPI
11 119 (2.99%) PySpark
12 113 (2.84%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.79%) .NET
14 105 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 105 (2.64%) Flask
15 101 (2.54%) NumPy
16 100 (2.51%) TensorFlow
17 89 (2.23%) Vue
18 87 (2.18%) JSON
19 80 (2.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 202 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 155 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 138 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 136 (3.41%) Equities
6 113 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 112 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 94 (2.36%) Fixed Income
9 93 (2.33%) Hedge funds
10 89 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (2.11%) Derivative
12 78 (1.96%) Product Ownership
13 77 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
14 76 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 61 (1.53%) Low-Code
16 58 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
17 55 (1.38%) AI Agents
18 53 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
18 53 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
19 50 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 490 (12.30%) Linux
2 207 (5.20%) Windows
3 183 (4.59%) Unix
4 71 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.60%) CentOS
8 21 (0.53%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 17 (0.43%) VMS
12 13 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.18%) zOS
15 6 (0.15%) Android
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.075%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,109 (27.84%) AI
2 937 (23.52%) CI/CD
3 864 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
4 830 (20.84%) Analytics
5 780 (19.58%) Agile
6 764 (19.18%) Business Intelligence
7 756 (18.98%) DevOps
8 641 (16.09%) Mentoring
9 629 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 534 (13.41%) Machine Learning
11 494 (12.40%) Data Science
12 468 (11.75%) Data Modelling
13 465 (11.67%) ETL
14 449 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
15 438 (11.00%) Data Engineering
16 422 (10.60%) Computer Science
17 405 (10.17%) Data Analysis
18 402 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
19 370 (9.29%) Containerisation
20 363 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,633 (41.00%) SQL
2 698 (17.52%) JavaScript
3 589 (14.79%) Java
4 361 (9.06%) Bash
5 326 (8.18%) PowerShell
6 320 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 269 (6.75%) C#
8 250 (6.28%) R
9 194 (4.87%) C++
10 152 (3.82%) Go
11 103 (2.59%) C
12 80 (2.01%) Scala
13 57 (1.43%) PHP
14 50 (1.26%) Perl
15 49 (1.23%) Bicep
16 48 (1.21%) VBA
17 43 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 40 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.98%) T-SQL
20 38 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 775 (19.46%) Degree
2 537 (13.48%) Azure Certification
3 387 (9.72%) Security Cleared
4 343 (8.61%) AWS Certification
5 291 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 235 (5.90%) SC Cleared
7 234 (5.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 199 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 196 (4.92%) Master's Degree
10 149 (3.74%) DV Cleared
11 118 (2.96%) PhD
12 73 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.36%) CCNP
14 53 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.23%) CISSP
16 41 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
19 24 (0.60%) CCNA
20 23 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.79%) QA
3 103 (2.59%) GDPR
4 97 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.93%) NIST
6 62 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.88%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.30%) PMO
13 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) GRC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 500 (12.55%) Docker
2 79 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.65%) Firmware
5 22 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.45%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
8 8 (0.20%) NFS
8 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.18%) Lustre
9 7 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.15%) KVM
10 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.13%) Postfix
12 4 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.10%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 525 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 469 (11.78%) Terraform
3 292 (7.33%) Ansible
4 118 (2.96%) Grafana
5 110 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.03%) Argo
7 27 (0.68%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 15 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.33%) Control-M
11 13 (0.33%) Nagios
11 13 (0.33%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.28%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.23%) Rancher
15 8 (0.20%) logstash
15 8 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,021 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.80%) Databricks
3 191 (4.80%) Google
4 132 (3.31%) Oracle
5 107 (2.69%) VMware
6 95 (2.39%) Cisco
7 90 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.76%) Splunk
9 69 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 68 (1.71%) SAP
11 55 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 52 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 47 (1.18%) Fortinet
14 45 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 45 (1.13%) IBM
15 42 (1.05%) Bloomberg
16 41 (1.03%) Informatica
16 41 (1.03%) Talend
17 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.70%) Palantir