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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,413 5,166 6,477
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.83% 11.79% 8.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.31% 40.32% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 2,880 4,664
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 16,738 12,812 21,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 29.25% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,164 8,555 15,941
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 August 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 August 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 2,638 £85,000 -5.56% 3,332
North of England -11 1,271 £65,000 - 579
South East +4 930 £60,000 - 688
South West +12 617 £60,000 +9.09% 315
North West -17 609 £65,500 +9.17% 312
Midlands +9 582 £62,000 -2.36% 243
Yorkshire +12 414 £65,000 - 170
East of England +7 316 £65,000 +8.33% 317
West Midlands -2 309 £62,500 -3.85% 139
East Midlands +21 272 £52,500 -6.67% 104
North East +26 248 £62,500 -3.85% 102
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
1 246 (3.84%) Apache Spark
2 244 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.90%) Apache
4 65 (1.01%) Confluence
5 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 24 (0.37%) SAS
9 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.20%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 4 (0.062%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.062%) Headless CMS
15 4 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 765 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.062%) Line 50
5 4 (0.062%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,588 (40.36%) Azure
2 2,066 (32.22%) AWS
3 1,080 (16.84%) Power Platform
4 945 (14.74%) Azure AI
5 790 (12.32%) GCP
6 394 (6.14%) GitHub
7 376 (5.86%) Serverless
8 262 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 242 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 237 (3.70%) Snowflake
11 232 (3.62%) SaaS
12 225 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 210 (3.27%) dbt
14 206 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 171 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 158 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
18 134 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
20 119 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.59%) Firewall
2 148 (2.31%) Broadband
3 136 (2.12%) DNS
4 128 (2.00%) VPN
5 124 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 111 (1.73%) Network Security
7 93 (1.45%) WAN
8 78 (1.22%) Wireless
9 72 (1.12%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 52 (0.81%) BGP
12 48 (0.75%) VLAN
13 45 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) HTTP
15 43 (0.67%) DHCP
16 40 (0.62%) MQTT
17 36 (0.56%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
20 25 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,014 (15.81%) Power BI
2 839 (13.08%) Tableau
3 338 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 295 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.12%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 167 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 143 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 119 (1.86%) Big Data
12 114 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 112 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 109 (1.70%) MySQL
15 103 (1.61%) Metadata
16 85 (1.33%) DynamoDB
17 80 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 73 (1.14%) Looker
19 69 (1.08%) Delta Lake
20 59 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 700 (10.92%) Git
2 286 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.80%) GitLab
4 168 (2.62%) JIRA
5 72 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 59 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 39 (0.61%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 35 (0.55%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,195 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 1,348 (21.02%) Finance
3 862 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (5.05%) Banking
6 237 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 224 (3.49%) Law
8 182 (2.84%) Retail
9 174 (2.71%) Marketing
10 133 (2.07%) Legal
11 131 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 127 (1.98%) Front Office
13 88 (1.37%) Electronics
14 87 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 87 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 70 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 67 (1.04%) Games
19 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,254 (19.55%) Senior
2 976 (15.22%) Analyst
3 882 (13.75%) Developer
4 837 (13.05%) Software Engineer
5 796 (12.41%) Data Analyst
6 700 (10.92%) Junior
7 668 (10.42%) Python Engineer
8 637 (9.93%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.67%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.62%) Junior Data Analyst
11 611 (9.53%) Lead
12 475 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 367 (5.72%) Python Developer
14 303 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 217 (3.38%) Architect
17 213 (3.32%) Data Scientist
18 200 (3.12%) Senior Developer
19 186 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.44%) React
2 288 (4.49%) Kafka
3 242 (3.77%) Node.js
4 233 (3.63%) PySpark
5 228 (3.56%) .NET
6 226 (3.52%) REST
7 207 (3.23%) RESTful
8 204 (3.18%) FastAPI
9 195 (3.04%) Django
10 194 (3.03%) HTML
11 181 (2.82%) PyTorch
12 177 (2.76%) CSS
13 171 (2.67%) LangChain
14 153 (2.39%) TensorFlow
15 150 (2.34%) Pandas
16 134 (2.09%) Flask
17 132 (2.06%) scikit-learn
18 113 (1.76%) Spring
19 111 (1.73%) Spring Boot
20 102 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 580 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 349 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 328 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 207 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 199 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 160 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 137 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 95 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 86 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 81 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 78 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 78 (1.22%) Hedge funds
13 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 76 (1.19%) Equities
14 76 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 74 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
15 74 (1.15%) Robotics
16 69 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 728 (11.35%) Linux
2 331 (5.16%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.37%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.73%) CentOS
7 38 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.17%) Rocky
14 10 (0.16%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
14 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,746 (42.82%) AI
2 1,621 (25.28%) Software Engineering
3 1,568 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 1,176 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
5 1,160 (18.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1,142 (17.81%) Agile
7 1,121 (17.48%) Analytics
8 1,078 (16.81%) DevOps
9 1,012 (15.78%) Machine Learning
10 914 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 804 (12.54%) Mentoring
12 740 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
13 731 (11.40%) Data Engineering
14 673 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 651 (10.15%) Data Science
16 641 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 607 (9.47%) Containerisation
18 581 (9.06%) Computer Science
19 574 (8.95%) Decision-Making
20 573 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,370 (36.96%) SQL
2 810 (12.63%) Java
3 674 (10.51%) JavaScript
4 549 (8.56%) C++
5 504 (7.86%) PowerShell
6 483 (7.53%) Bash
7 460 (7.17%) C#
8 409 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.40%) Go
10 187 (2.92%) C
11 171 (2.67%) R
12 134 (2.09%) Scala
13 101 (1.57%) PHP
13 101 (1.57%) Rust
14 89 (1.39%) Bicep
15 77 (1.20%) Perl
16 73 (1.14%) Ruby
17 63 (0.98%) MATLAB
18 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 49 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,071 (16.70%) Azure Certification
2 883 (13.77%) Degree
3 776 (12.10%) Security Cleared
4 435 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 320 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 198 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 194 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 116 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 99 (1.54%) PhD
12 78 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.80%) CCNP
14 45 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
16 36 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.56%) CISSP
17 30 (0.47%) OSCP
18 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 265 (4.13%) QA
3 150 (2.34%) GDPR
4 103 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.14%) NIST
6 64 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 30 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.37%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.31%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) GRC
14 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.20%) NCSC
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.12%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 769 (11.99%) Docker
2 113 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 62 (0.97%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.12%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.12%) Squid
11 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.062%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 2 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 924 (14.41%) Terraform
2 745 (11.62%) Kubernetes
3 393 (6.13%) Ansible
4 241 (3.76%) Grafana
5 150 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.81%) Argo
7 51 (0.80%) Puppet
8 43 (0.67%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 34 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,407 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 443 (6.91%) Databricks
3 206 (3.21%) Google
4 153 (2.39%) Splunk
5 144 (2.25%) Oracle
6 139 (2.17%) VMware
7 118 (1.84%) Cisco
7 118 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 116 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 73 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 61 (0.95%) Foundry
11 55 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 46 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 42 (0.65%) SolarWinds
14 41 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 40 (0.62%) F5
16 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 38 (0.59%) SAP
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 33 (0.51%) Palantir