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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,945 5,469 5,275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.55% 11.37% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.95% 33.60% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,705 3,290 4,157
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 £112,500 £120,000 £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 10,129 16,276 19,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.39% 33.84% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,568 16,015
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 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 12 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 1,953 £85,000 - 1,094
North of England -8 639 £52,250 -16.40% 737
South East -35 428 £60,000 -7.69% 1,404
Midlands -15 365 £60,000 +9.09% 462
South West -5 310 £60,000 -7.69% 557
Yorkshire +10 297 £50,000 -23.08% 319
North West -13 262 £55,000 -8.33% 291
West Midlands +2 254 £60,000 +4.35% 150
East of England -14 202 £50,000 -28.57% 654
East Midlands -25 114 £62,500 +13.64% 304
North East 0 82 £40,000 -42.29% 128
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
1 168 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 122 (3.09%) Apache
4 42 (1.06%) Confluence
5 34 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
6 26 (0.66%) WordPress
7 22 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 18 (0.46%) IIS
9 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (0.43%) Appian
11 16 (0.41%) nginx
11 16 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
12 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.18%) CMS
13 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.10%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 505 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.18%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) CATIA
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.051%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.076%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.051%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.051%) 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 1,538 (38.99%) Azure
2 1,372 (34.78%) AWS
3 681 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 510 (12.93%) GitHub
5 418 (10.60%) GCP
6 276 (7.00%) Azure AI
7 253 (6.41%) Serverless
8 176 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 161 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 154 (3.90%) SaaS
12 153 (3.88%) Amazon S3
13 143 (3.62%) dbt
14 136 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 134 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 95 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
17 86 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 86 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 80 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
19 72 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 252 (6.39%) Internet
2 144 (3.65%) Firewall
3 85 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 71 (1.80%) VPN
5 69 (1.75%) WAN
6 64 (1.62%) DNS
7 58 (1.47%) LAN
8 50 (1.27%) BGP
9 46 (1.17%) Wireless
10 40 (1.01%) Network Security
11 37 (0.94%) Broadband
11 37 (0.94%) OSPF
11 37 (0.94%) VLAN
12 36 (0.91%) HTTP
13 33 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (0.76%) MPLS
15 29 (0.74%) SSL
16 28 (0.71%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.66%) SAN
18 20 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (16.27%) Power BI
2 542 (13.74%) Tableau
3 264 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
4 225 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
5 216 (5.48%) SQL Server
6 162 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 162 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 138 (3.50%) Data Mining
8 128 (3.24%) Data Lake
9 111 (2.81%) MongoDB
10 102 (2.59%) Big Data
11 97 (2.46%) BigQuery
12 87 (2.21%) MySQL
13 84 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 82 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
16 72 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
17 71 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
18 68 (1.72%) Hadoop
19 64 (1.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 549 (13.92%) Git
2 216 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 133 (3.37%) GitLab
4 118 (2.99%) JIRA
5 57 (1.44%) Selenium
6 42 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.96%) JUnit
8 32 (0.81%) Postman
9 24 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.61%) JMeter
10 23 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.43%) Jaeger
13 16 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.38%) Mockito
15 13 (0.33%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.30%) Burp Suite
16 12 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
17 11 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 1,150 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 996 (25.25%) Finance
3 606 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (6.21%) Banking
5 236 (5.98%) Multimedia
6 172 (4.36%) Law
7 164 (4.16%) Marketing
7 164 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 153 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 146 (3.70%) Front Office
10 119 (3.02%) Retail
11 110 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 102 (2.59%) Manufacturing
13 87 (2.21%) Financial Institution
14 78 (1.98%) Electronics
15 72 (1.83%) Investment Banking
15 72 (1.83%) Legal
16 59 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (1.42%) Games
18 50 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 751 (19.04%) Developer
2 674 (17.08%) Analyst
3 651 (16.50%) Senior
4 494 (12.52%) Data Analyst
5 409 (10.37%) Data Engineer
6 353 (8.95%) Trainee
7 312 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 303 (7.68%) Python Developer
9 292 (7.40%) Lead
10 262 (6.64%) Junior
11 240 (6.08%) Python Engineer
12 235 (5.96%) Junior Analyst
12 235 (5.96%) Junior Data Analyst
13 187 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 148 (3.75%) Architect
15 142 (3.60%) Senior Developer
16 141 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
17 139 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
18 132 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
19 128 (3.24%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (9.40%) HTML
2 326 (8.26%) CSS
3 318 (8.06%) React
4 169 (4.28%) Node.js
5 163 (4.13%) REST
6 155 (3.93%) Django
7 142 (3.60%) RESTful
8 139 (3.52%) Kafka
9 136 (3.45%) Pandas
10 132 (3.35%) FastAPI
11 120 (3.04%) PySpark
12 114 (2.89%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.81%) .NET
14 106 (2.69%) Flask
15 102 (2.59%) AngularJS
16 98 (2.48%) TensorFlow
17 95 (2.41%) NumPy
18 87 (2.21%) Vue
19 83 (2.10%) JSON
20 77 (1.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (5.58%) Cloud Native
2 198 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 149 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 137 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 124 (3.14%) Equities
6 109 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 108 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 89 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 87 (2.21%) Fixed Income
10 86 (2.18%) Hedge funds
11 79 (2.00%) Derivative
12 77 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 74 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
14 68 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 66 (1.67%) Low-Code
16 61 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
17 53 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
18 52 (1.32%) AI Agents
19 50 (1.27%) Data Centre
20 49 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 481 (12.19%) Linux
2 205 (5.20%) Windows
3 182 (4.61%) Unix
4 72 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.63%) CentOS
8 21 (0.53%) Debian
9 20 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.43%) VMS
11 16 (0.41%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.18%) Android
15 6 (0.15%) zOS
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
18 3 (0.076%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (27.86%) AI
2 903 (22.89%) CI/CD
3 860 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
4 813 (20.61%) Analytics
5 767 (19.44%) Agile
6 748 (18.96%) Business Intelligence
7 737 (18.68%) DevOps
8 634 (16.07%) Mentoring
9 626 (15.87%) Software Engineering
10 527 (13.36%) Machine Learning
11 484 (12.27%) Data Science
12 462 (11.71%) ETL
13 452 (11.46%) Data Modelling
14 438 (11.10%) Data Pipeline
15 430 (10.90%) Data Engineering
16 426 (10.80%) Computer Science
17 402 (10.19%) Data Analysis
18 400 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 360 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
20 358 (9.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,596 (40.46%) SQL
2 697 (17.67%) JavaScript
3 573 (14.52%) Java
4 353 (8.95%) Bash
5 323 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 321 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 265 (6.72%) C#
8 243 (6.16%) R
9 196 (4.97%) C++
10 148 (3.75%) Go
11 105 (2.66%) C
12 79 (2.00%) Scala
13 60 (1.52%) PHP
14 51 (1.29%) VBA
15 50 (1.27%) Perl
16 48 (1.22%) Bicep
17 43 (1.09%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.96%) T-SQL
20 36 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 771 (19.54%) Degree
2 534 (13.54%) Azure Certification
3 392 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 348 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 284 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 240 (6.08%) SC Cleared
7 234 (5.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 202 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.79%) Master's Degree
10 152 (3.85%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.94%) PhD
12 75 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.47%) CCNP
14 50 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
15 47 (1.19%) CISSP
16 40 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.63%) CCIE
20 24 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.80%) QA
3 99 (2.51%) GDPR
4 95 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.90%) NIST
6 62 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.86%) SLA
8 22 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.41%) PMO
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) GRC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 488 (12.37%) Docker
2 77 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.63%) Firmware
5 20 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.43%) vSphere
7 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.25%) HDFS
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.18%) KVM
11 7 (0.18%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
12 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.13%) Postfix
13 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.10%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 508 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 464 (11.76%) Terraform
3 285 (7.22%) Ansible
4 113 (2.86%) Grafana
5 111 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.19%) Argo
7 25 (0.63%) Kibana
8 18 (0.46%) Puppet
9 15 (0.38%) Nessus
9 15 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.33%) Nagios
11 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (0.30%) Control-M
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.23%) Rancher
13 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,013 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.59%) Databricks
3 185 (4.69%) Google
4 130 (3.30%) Oracle
5 103 (2.61%) Cisco
6 98 (2.48%) VMware
7 83 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.72%) SAP
10 61 (1.55%) Splunk
11 56 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 55 (1.39%) Salesforce
13 44 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 44 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 44 (1.12%) IBM
14 41 (1.04%) Bloomberg
14 41 (1.04%) Informatica
15 40 (1.01%) Talend
16 29 (0.74%) Palantir
17 28 (0.71%) Palo Alto