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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,857 4,724 6,708
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.63% 10.93% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.08% 40.94% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,726 2,567 4,150
10th Percentile £43,983 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £131,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 16,694 11,538 20,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.05% 26.69% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,167 7,582 12,689
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
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 3 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 3 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 2,546 £85,000 -2.86% 7,141
North of England -18 1,077 £66,805 +7.75% 1,632
South East +8 809 £62,500 +8.70% 1,648
South West +5 575 £62,500 +13.64% 933
North West -24 560 £67,500 +12.50% 809
Midlands 0 483 £60,000 -4.00% 902
East of England +6 309 £67,500 +17.39% 982
Yorkshire +3 280 £66,805 -1.03% 525
West Midlands -13 263 £62,500 +4.17% 497
North East +20 240 £67,500 +42.11% 314
East Midlands +12 218 £55,000 -15.38% 405
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
1 212 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 171 (2.92%) Apache
3 166 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.18%) 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 (0.20%) 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 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 311 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.43%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
11 3 (0.051%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.051%) Revit
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) SPSS
11 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 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 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.085%) Shopify
5 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.051%) Line 50
6 3 (0.051%) Magento
6 3 (0.051%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) FastStats
8 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,066 (35.27%) Azure
2 1,858 (31.72%) AWS
3 726 (12.40%) GCP
4 693 (11.83%) Power Platform
5 442 (7.55%) Azure AI
6 391 (6.68%) GitHub
7 350 (5.98%) Serverless
8 252 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 246 (4.20%) SaaS
10 229 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 217 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 209 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
16 184 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
17 168 (2.87%) dbt
18 131 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
19 126 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
20 125 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.72%) Firewall
2 156 (2.66%) DNS
3 146 (2.49%) VPN
4 143 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 104 (1.78%) Network Security
6 91 (1.55%) WAN
7 79 (1.35%) Wireless
8 66 (1.13%) Broadband
9 64 (1.09%) DHCP
10 63 (1.08%) BGP
10 63 (1.08%) LAN
11 48 (0.82%) MQTT
12 45 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 45 (0.77%) VLAN
13 43 (0.73%) OSPF
14 40 (0.68%) HTTP
15 35 (0.60%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.41%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 623 (10.64%) Power BI
2 326 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
2 326 (5.57%) Tableau
3 305 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 191 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 181 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 157 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 148 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 147 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 127 (2.17%) Big Data
10 114 (1.95%) MySQL
11 112 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.91%) Metadata
12 100 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
13 94 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 88 (1.50%) DynamoDB
15 82 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
16 77 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
17 72 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 69 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 679 (11.59%) Git
2 312 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 258 (4.40%) GitLab
4 172 (2.94%) JIRA
5 68 (1.16%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.90%) 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
11 32 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
12 30 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.50%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.48%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.38%) Maven
16 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.32%) Cucumber
18 18 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 1,794 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 1,329 (22.69%) Finance
3 817 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 354 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 347 (5.92%) Banking
6 266 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 218 (3.72%) Law
8 217 (3.70%) Marketing
9 165 (2.82%) Retail
10 132 (2.25%) Legal
11 112 (1.91%) Aerospace
11 112 (1.91%) Front Office
12 102 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 97 (1.66%) Electronics
14 92 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 82 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 69 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.09%) Games
18 49 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
19 48 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,258 (21.48%) Senior
2 890 (15.20%) Software Engineer
3 816 (13.93%) Developer
4 711 (12.14%) Python Engineer
5 617 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 615 (10.50%) Lead
7 535 (9.13%) Analyst
8 442 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 359 (6.13%) Python Developer
10 357 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
11 345 (5.89%) Data Analyst
12 271 (4.63%) Junior
13 261 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 218 (3.72%) Architect
15 214 (3.65%) Data Scientist
16 204 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 197 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 193 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
18 193 (3.30%) Junior Analyst
19 189 (3.23%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 950 (16.22%) Terraform
2 395 (6.74%) React
3 240 (4.10%) REST
4 233 (3.98%) .NET
5 227 (3.88%) Node.js
6 224 (3.82%) PySpark
7 222 (3.79%) Kafka
8 217 (3.70%) FastAPI
9 202 (3.45%) RESTful
10 179 (3.06%) LangChain
11 166 (2.83%) Django
12 154 (2.63%) PyTorch
13 136 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 134 (2.29%) HTML
15 127 (2.17%) Spring Boot
16 126 (2.15%) Spring
17 123 (2.10%) CSS
18 111 (1.90%) Flask
19 105 (1.79%) LangGraph
20 94 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 603 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 298 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 281 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 266 (4.54%) AI Agents
5 225 (3.84%) Onboarding
6 143 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 129 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.55%) Hedge funds
9 91 (1.55%) Robotics
10 88 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 86 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 84 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 83 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
14 82 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
15 75 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
16 70 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 67 (1.14%) Low-Code
18 65 (1.11%) Equities
19 63 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 705 (12.04%) Linux
2 327 (5.58%) Windows
3 83 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.38%) Unix
5 50 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.72%) CentOS
7 39 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 15 (0.26%) Rocky
14 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.20%) Android
15 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
16 11 (0.19%) Solaris
17 9 (0.15%) VMS
18 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,369 (40.45%) AI
2 1,710 (29.20%) Software Engineering
3 1,628 (27.80%) CI/CD
4 1,215 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 1,120 (19.12%) Analytics
6 1,101 (18.80%) DevOps
7 1,076 (18.37%) Agile
8 1,011 (17.26%) Machine Learning
9 957 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 791 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
11 788 (13.45%) Mentoring
12 733 (12.51%) Data Pipeline
13 730 (12.46%) Data Engineering
14 685 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 642 (10.96%) Data Modelling
16 624 (10.65%) Decision-Making
17 612 (10.45%) Data Science
18 586 (10.01%) Containerisation
18 586 (10.01%) Test Automation
19 576 (9.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,932 (32.99%) SQL
2 825 (14.09%) Java
3 594 (10.14%) JavaScript
4 556 (9.49%) C++
5 529 (9.03%) Bash
6 494 (8.43%) PowerShell
7 480 (8.20%) C#
8 406 (6.93%) TypeScript
9 261 (4.46%) Go
10 197 (3.36%) C
11 158 (2.70%) R
12 106 (1.81%) Scala
13 100 (1.71%) Bicep
14 98 (1.67%) Rust
15 88 (1.50%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.43%) PHP
17 80 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 74 (1.26%) Ruby
20 55 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 927 (15.83%) Degree
2 884 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 520 (8.88%) Azure Certification
4 504 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 306 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 283 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 220 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 121 (2.07%) PhD
9 113 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 56 (0.96%) CISSP
14 46 (0.79%) 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
1 557 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 246 (4.20%) QA
3 129 (2.20%) GDPR
4 102 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 75 (1.28%) NIST
6 61 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.58%) 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 (0.20%) EU AI Act
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
15 11 (0.19%) PMO
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 (13.62%) Docker
2 122 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.60%) 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%) IAG
16 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 820 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 415 (7.09%) Ansible
3 244 (4.17%) Grafana
4 164 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 75 (1.28%) Puppet
6 61 (1.04%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.65%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.44%) Rancher
11 26 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.43%) Istio
13 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.38%) Podman
15 21 (0.36%) Packer
16 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
18 15 (0.26%) Graylog
18 15 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 935 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 442 (7.55%) Databricks
3 237 (4.05%) Google
4 152 (2.60%) Splunk
5 123 (2.10%) OpenAI
6 121 (2.07%) Oracle
7 120 (2.05%) VMware
8 107 (1.83%) 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 39 (0.67%) Palo Alto
14 39 (0.67%) SolarWinds
15 36 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 35 (0.60%) F5
16 35 (0.60%) SAP
17 33 (0.56%) Informatica
18 31 (0.53%) New Relic