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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,966 4,775 6,737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.77% 11.05% 9.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.36% 40.89% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 2,618 4,218
10th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,446
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 16,870 11,678 21,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.31% 27.02% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,308 7,714 13,108
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 £110,689
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 2,548 £85,000 -2.86% 6,659
North of England -18 1,114 £67,500 +8.00% 1,030
South East +3 838 £62,500 +4.17% 1,157
South West +6 589 £62,500 +13.64% 635
North West -22 565 £67,500 +12.50% 560
Midlands -3 507 £61,450 -1.68% 507
East of England +7 314 £65,000 +13.04% 664
Yorkshire +7 308 £66,805 -1.03% 334
West Midlands -8 279 £65,000 +7.88% 305
North East +20 243 £67,500 +42.11% 142
East Midlands +12 226 £53,750 -17.31% 202
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
1 209 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 171 (2.87%) Apache
3 164 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.19%) Confluence
5 40 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 353 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.067%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Revit
10 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.034%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,148 (36.00%) Azure
2 1,870 (31.34%) AWS
3 736 (12.34%) Power Platform
4 733 (12.29%) GCP
5 535 (8.97%) Azure AI
6 380 (6.37%) GitHub
7 358 (6.00%) Serverless
8 252 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 243 (4.07%) SaaS
10 236 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
11 227 (3.80%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 187 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 182 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
17 166 (2.78%) dbt
18 135 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
19 129 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.60%) Firewall
2 149 (2.50%) DNS
3 139 (2.33%) VPN
4 137 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.71%) Network Security
6 94 (1.58%) WAN
7 82 (1.37%) Wireless
8 74 (1.24%) Broadband
9 66 (1.11%) LAN
10 63 (1.06%) DHCP
11 61 (1.02%) BGP
12 47 (0.79%) MQTT
12 47 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 47 (0.79%) VLAN
13 43 (0.72%) OSPF
14 38 (0.64%) HTTP
15 35 (0.59%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (11.15%) Power BI
2 381 (6.39%) Tableau
3 328 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
4 297 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 153 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.15%) Big Data
11 114 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 112 (1.88%) MySQL
13 107 (1.79%) Metadata
14 95 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
15 93 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 90 (1.51%) DynamoDB
17 84 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 79 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.22%) Delta Lake
19 73 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 683 (11.45%) Git
2 317 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 256 (4.29%) GitLab
4 174 (2.92%) JIRA
5 68 (1.14%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.89%) Subversion
7 52 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.80%) Selenium
9 40 (0.67%) MLflow
10 39 (0.65%) SonarQube
11 38 (0.64%) JUnit
12 34 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
16 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
17 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
18 23 (0.39%) Maven
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,878 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 1,312 (21.99%) Finance
3 805 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 334 (5.60%) Banking
6 265 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.74%) Law
8 206 (3.45%) Marketing
9 170 (2.85%) Retail
10 132 (2.21%) Legal
11 111 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.83%) Front Office
13 103 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 102 (1.71%) Electronics
15 88 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 82 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 61 (1.02%) Games
19 48 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
20 46 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,262 (21.15%) Senior
2 879 (14.73%) Software Engineer
3 835 (14.00%) Developer
4 704 (11.80%) Python Engineer
5 627 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 619 (10.38%) Lead
7 573 (9.60%) Analyst
8 487 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 390 (6.54%) Data Analyst
10 361 (6.05%) Python Developer
11 347 (5.82%) Python Software Engineer
12 321 (5.38%) Junior
13 258 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 241 (4.04%) Junior Analyst
15 237 (3.97%) Junior Data Analyst
16 218 (3.65%) Data Scientist
17 215 (3.60%) Architect
18 201 (3.37%) Senior Developer
19 200 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
20 191 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 963 (16.14%) Terraform
2 400 (6.70%) React
3 243 (4.07%) REST
4 232 (3.89%) PySpark
5 230 (3.86%) .NET
6 227 (3.80%) Node.js
7 225 (3.77%) Kafka
8 217 (3.64%) FastAPI
9 210 (3.52%) RESTful
10 175 (2.93%) Django
11 174 (2.92%) LangChain
12 156 (2.61%) PyTorch
13 141 (2.36%) HTML
14 134 (2.25%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.06%) CSS
15 123 (2.06%) Spring
15 123 (2.06%) Spring Boot
16 121 (2.03%) Flask
17 100 (1.68%) Pandas
18 99 (1.66%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 601 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 315 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 285 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 256 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 222 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 149 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 91 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.49%) Robotics
10 87 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 86 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
11 86 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 85 (1.42%) Hedge funds
13 82 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 81 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 71 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
17 70 (1.17%) Low-Code
18 67 (1.12%) Public Cloud
19 65 (1.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 710 (11.90%) Linux
2 327 (5.48%) Windows
3 82 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.36%) Unix
5 49 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.72%) CentOS
7 41 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.44%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
15 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,423 (40.61%) AI
2 1,702 (28.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,632 (27.36%) CI/CD
4 1,218 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 1,115 (18.69%) Analytics
6 1,114 (18.67%) DevOps
7 1,090 (18.27%) Agile
8 1,002 (16.80%) Machine Learning
9 967 (16.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 834 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
11 798 (13.38%) Mentoring
12 732 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
13 729 (12.22%) Data Engineering
14 684 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 639 (10.71%) Data Modelling
16 622 (10.43%) Data Science
16 622 (10.43%) Decision-Making
17 597 (10.01%) Containerisation
18 592 (9.92%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,984 (33.26%) SQL
2 838 (14.05%) Java
3 597 (10.01%) JavaScript
4 574 (9.62%) C++
5 529 (8.87%) Bash
6 499 (8.36%) PowerShell
7 489 (8.20%) C#
8 407 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 264 (4.43%) Go
10 202 (3.39%) C
11 149 (2.50%) R
12 117 (1.96%) Scala
13 98 (1.64%) Bicep
13 98 (1.64%) Rust
14 89 (1.49%) PHP
15 87 (1.46%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.41%) Perl
17 75 (1.26%) Ruby
18 74 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 57 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 937 (15.71%) Degree
2 880 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 612 (10.26%) Azure Certification
4 498 (8.35%) SC Cleared
5 308 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 281 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 219 (3.67%) Master's Degree
8 121 (2.03%) PhD
9 113 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 80 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.85%) CISSP
14 46 (0.77%) CCNP
15 38 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 38 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.57%) CCNA
17 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 30 (0.50%) OSCP
19 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 552 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 253 (4.24%) QA
3 126 (2.11%) GDPR
4 107 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 66 (1.11%) NIST
6 58 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 25 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.39%) NCSC
11 18 (0.30%) WCAG
12 17 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.20%) PMO
15 11 (0.18%) GRC
16 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) EU AI Act
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 790 (13.24%) Docker
2 117 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.11%) Firmware
5 35 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.49%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 8 (0.13%) Squid
15 6 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.034%) IAG
17 2 (0.034%) iptables
17 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
17 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 814 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 418 (7.01%) Ansible
3 245 (4.11%) Grafana
4 163 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.21%) Puppet
6 63 (1.06%) Argo
7 43 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.65%) Kibana
9 30 (0.50%) Nagios
10 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Istio
12 26 (0.44%) Packer
12 26 (0.44%) Rancher
13 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.35%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
18 15 (0.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 977 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 443 (7.43%) Databricks
3 231 (3.87%) Google
4 154 (2.58%) Splunk
5 121 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 119 (1.99%) VMware
7 117 (1.96%) Oracle
8 111 (1.86%) Cisco
9 90 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 54 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.80%) Foundry
13 44 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 42 (0.70%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.64%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds
17 36 (0.60%) SAP
18 33 (0.55%) F5
19 32 (0.54%) Informatica
19 32 (0.54%) New Relic