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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,986 4,825 6,648
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.98% 11.16% 9.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.06% 41.01% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,690 2,636 4,311
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £132,500 £135,000
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 16,598 11,766 20,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.58% 27.21% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,141 7,745 13,721
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,733 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +0.37% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 14 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 14 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 2,495 £85,000 -5.56% 6,877
North of England -16 1,148 £67,500 +8.00% 1,033
South East +10 862 £62,500 +4.17% 1,166
South West +11 587 £62,500 +13.64% 616
North West -20 567 £67,500 +12.50% 577
Midlands +3 529 £62,250 -4.23% 493
Yorkshire +12 339 £70,000 +7.69% 333
East of England +9 311 £65,000 +18.18% 701
West Midlands -6 283 £65,000 +0.78% 278
East Midlands +21 244 £52,500 -19.23% 214
North East +21 242 £67,153 +24.93% 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
1 215 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 173 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 161 (2.69%) Apache
4 71 (1.19%) Confluence
5 39 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.43%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 7 (0.12%) Camunda
13 7 (0.12%) WordPress
14 6 (0.10%) IIS
14 6 (0.10%) JBoss
15 5 (0.084%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 485 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.35%) Simulink
5 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.084%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) Zemax
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 ERP
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%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,291 (38.27%) Azure
2 1,847 (30.86%) AWS
3 864 (14.43%) Power Platform
4 722 (12.06%) Azure AI
5 720 (12.03%) GCP
6 361 (6.03%) Serverless
7 348 (5.81%) GitHub
8 243 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
9 235 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 225 (3.76%) Amazon S3
11 216 (3.61%) Snowflake
12 212 (3.54%) SaaS
13 199 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 196 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 173 (2.89%) dbt
15 173 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
16 163 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
17 136 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
19 125 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.49%) Firewall
2 139 (2.32%) DNS
3 126 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 125 (2.09%) VPN
5 100 (1.67%) Network Security
6 96 (1.60%) WAN
7 92 (1.54%) Broadband
8 81 (1.35%) Wireless
9 71 (1.19%) LAN
10 60 (1.00%) BGP
11 57 (0.95%) DHCP
12 48 (0.80%) VLAN
13 47 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.72%) MQTT
14 43 (0.72%) OSPF
15 38 (0.63%) HTTP
16 35 (0.58%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
18 25 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 794 (13.26%) Power BI
2 532 (8.89%) Tableau
3 333 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 276 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 151 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.39%) MongoDB
10 123 (2.05%) Big Data
11 119 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 110 (1.84%) MySQL
13 104 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.69%) Metadata
15 93 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
16 89 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
18 73 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
18 73 (1.22%) Delta Lake
19 70 (1.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 649 (10.84%) Git
2 298 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 236 (3.94%) GitLab
4 168 (2.81%) JIRA
5 64 (1.07%) Claude Code
6 51 (0.85%) MLflow
7 50 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 50 (0.84%) Subversion
8 48 (0.80%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) JUnit
9 38 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 37 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 21 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,002 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 1,273 (21.27%) Finance
3 795 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 314 (5.25%) Banking
6 244 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.59%) Law
8 187 (3.12%) Marketing
9 156 (2.61%) Retail
10 123 (2.05%) Legal
11 105 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 101 (1.69%) Front Office
13 100 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 95 (1.59%) Electronics
15 84 (1.40%) Financial Institution
16 80 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 70 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
18 61 (1.02%) Games
19 43 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,236 (20.65%) Senior
2 839 (14.02%) Software Engineer
3 818 (13.67%) Developer
4 691 (11.54%) Analyst
5 683 (11.41%) Python Engineer
6 608 (10.16%) Data Engineer
7 600 (10.02%) Lead
8 522 (8.72%) Data Analyst
9 519 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 458 (7.65%) Junior
11 382 (6.38%) Junior Analyst
12 378 (6.31%) Junior Data Analyst
13 362 (6.05%) Python Developer
14 321 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
15 249 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
16 217 (3.63%) Architect
17 215 (3.59%) Data Scientist
18 192 (3.21%) Senior Developer
19 189 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
20 188 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 938 (15.67%) Terraform
2 384 (6.41%) React
3 245 (4.09%) Kafka
4 228 (3.81%) .NET
5 226 (3.78%) REST
6 221 (3.69%) PySpark
7 216 (3.61%) Node.js
8 208 (3.47%) RESTful
9 206 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 183 (3.06%) Django
11 177 (2.96%) LangChain
12 172 (2.87%) PyTorch
13 147 (2.46%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.29%) HTML
15 125 (2.09%) Flask
16 122 (2.04%) CSS
17 115 (1.92%) Spring
17 115 (1.92%) Spring Boot
18 104 (1.74%) Pandas
19 95 (1.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 590 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 310 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 287 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 240 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 154 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 84 (1.40%) Robotics
10 81 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 80 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 79 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
13 78 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 74 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
16 72 (1.20%) Low-Code
17 71 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
18 65 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
19 60 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 687 (11.48%) Linux
2 312 (5.21%) Windows
3 83 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 75 (1.25%) Unix
5 52 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.74%) CentOS
7 39 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Debian
10 17 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 15 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.25%) Rocky
12 13 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
13 12 (0.20%) Solaris
14 11 (0.18%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,530 (42.27%) AI
2 1,644 (27.46%) Software Engineering
3 1,540 (25.73%) CI/CD
4 1,177 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
5 1,073 (17.93%) DevOps
6 1,071 (17.89%) Analytics
7 1,059 (17.69%) Agile
8 990 (16.54%) Machine Learning
9 958 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
10 930 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 784 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 720 (12.03%) Data Engineering
13 703 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
14 648 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 642 (10.73%) Data Modelling
16 615 (10.27%) Data Science
17 599 (10.01%) Decision-Making
18 585 (9.77%) Computer Science
19 568 (9.49%) Containerisation
20 561 (9.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,073 (34.63%) SQL
2 800 (13.36%) Java
3 575 (9.61%) JavaScript
4 558 (9.32%) C++
5 502 (8.39%) Bash
6 483 (8.07%) PowerShell
7 473 (7.90%) C#
8 388 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 250 (4.18%) Go
10 193 (3.22%) C
11 132 (2.21%) R
12 111 (1.85%) Scala
13 93 (1.55%) Bicep
14 92 (1.54%) PHP
15 91 (1.52%) Rust
16 87 (1.45%) Perl
17 75 (1.25%) MATLAB
17 75 (1.25%) Ruby
18 67 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 50 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 907 (15.15%) Degree
2 822 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 794 (13.26%) Azure Certification
4 464 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 259 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 215 (3.59%) Master's Degree
8 116 (1.94%) PhD
9 106 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.85%) CCNP
14 43 (0.72%) CISSP
15 42 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.55%) CCNA
18 31 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 257 (4.29%) QA
3 133 (2.22%) GDPR
4 106 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 60 (1.00%) NIST
6 52 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 17 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.27%) PMO
15 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.22%) GRC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 741 (12.38%) Docker
2 110 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.05%) Firmware
5 42 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.067%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 751 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 400 (6.68%) Ansible
3 233 (3.89%) Grafana
4 148 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.04%) Puppet
6 55 (0.92%) Argo
7 40 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.63%) Kibana
9 33 (0.55%) Istio
10 32 (0.53%) Nagios
11 28 (0.47%) Packer
12 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.37%) Podman
15 21 (0.35%) Rancher
16 17 (0.28%) logstash
16 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
17 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
17 16 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,090 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 443 (7.40%) Databricks
3 208 (3.47%) Google
4 149 (2.49%) Splunk
5 120 (2.00%) VMware
6 119 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 118 (1.97%) Cisco
8 115 (1.92%) Oracle
9 93 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 51 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 51 (0.85%) Foundry
12 48 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.63%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.63%) SolarWinds
15 32 (0.53%) F5
15 32 (0.53%) SAP
16 30 (0.50%) IBM
17 29 (0.48%) Informatica