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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,081 4,997 7,291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.38% 13.02% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.58% 40.83% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,839 5,612
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £41,006
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 14,626 12,240 27,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 31.89% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,355 8,364 22,348
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -1 2,397 £85,000 -5.56% 1,327
North of England -10 1,235 £60,000 -7.69% 506
South East +3 898 £62,000 -4.62% 684
Midlands +13 654 £55,000 - 238
North West -29 537 £65,000 - 267
South West +6 518 £57,500 +0.05% 272
Yorkshire +21 513 £50,000 -21.88% 145
West Midlands +13 365 £60,000 +9.09% 123
East of England +7 319 £63,750 -3.71% 247
East Midlands +28 289 £55,000 +19.57% 115
North East +23 185 £52,500 -19.23% 98
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
1 208 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 196 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 139 (2.29%) Apache
4 69 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 44 (0.72%) Confluence
7 36 (0.59%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 12 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,139 (18.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
8 2 (0.033%) SPSS
8 2 (0.033%) Trello
9 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.016%) Blender
9 1 (0.016%) Maya
9 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,830 (46.54%) Azure
2 1,848 (30.39%) AWS
3 1,386 (22.79%) Power Platform
4 1,269 (20.87%) Azure AI
5 643 (10.57%) GCP
6 472 (7.76%) GitHub
7 316 (5.20%) Serverless
8 226 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 221 (3.63%) SaaS
10 217 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 198 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
12 176 (2.89%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 160 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 160 (2.63%) dbt
15 141 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 138 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 121 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
18 96 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.60%) Firewall
2 172 (2.83%) Broadband
3 168 (2.76%) Internet
4 123 (2.02%) DNS
5 121 (1.99%) VPN
6 101 (1.66%) Network Security
7 92 (1.51%) TCP/IP
8 90 (1.48%) WAN
9 80 (1.32%) LAN
10 72 (1.18%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 52 (0.86%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 44 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.54%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
19 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,328 (21.84%) Power BI
2 1,221 (20.08%) Tableau
3 278 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.22%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 156 (2.57%) Data Lake
8 136 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 136 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 123 (2.02%) MongoDB
10 115 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 114 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 108 (1.78%) Data Mining
13 103 (1.69%) Big Data
14 86 (1.41%) Metadata
15 80 (1.32%) MySQL
16 69 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (1.05%) DynamoDB
18 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 52 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 651 (10.71%) Git
2 248 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 223 (3.67%) GitLab
4 124 (2.04%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.02%) MLflow
7 46 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 32 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 31 (0.51%) Postman
11 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.33%) JMeter
13 20 (0.33%) LabVIEW
14 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
14 18 (0.30%) JUnit
14 18 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 2,292 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 1,166 (19.17%) Finance
3 802 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 247 (4.06%) Banking
6 210 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 177 (2.91%) Retail
8 163 (2.68%) Law
9 151 (2.48%) Multimedia
10 133 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.17%) Front Office
12 101 (1.66%) Legal
12 101 (1.66%) Marketing
13 87 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 74 (1.22%) Electronics
15 64 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 57 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 55 (0.90%) Financial Institution
18 53 (0.87%) Games
19 52 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,345 (22.12%) Analyst
2 1,167 (19.19%) Data Analyst
3 985 (16.20%) Junior
4 949 (15.61%) Senior
5 947 (15.57%) Junior Analyst
5 947 (15.57%) Junior Data Analyst
6 912 (15.00%) Developer
7 608 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 533 (8.77%) Data Engineer
9 492 (8.09%) Python Engineer
10 490 (8.06%) Lead
11 416 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 396 (6.51%) Python Developer
13 290 (4.77%) Trainee
14 223 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
15 196 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 178 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
17 175 (2.88%) Architect
17 175 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
18 161 (2.65%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (6.00%) React
2 286 (4.70%) HTML
3 259 (4.26%) CSS
3 259 (4.26%) Kafka
4 217 (3.57%) PySpark
5 204 (3.35%) Node.js
6 201 (3.31%) REST
7 193 (3.17%) .NET
8 176 (2.89%) RESTful
9 172 (2.83%) Django
10 161 (2.65%) PyTorch
11 160 (2.63%) Pandas
12 150 (2.47%) FastAPI
13 138 (2.27%) TensorFlow
14 124 (2.04%) scikit-learn
15 120 (1.97%) Flask
16 112 (1.84%) LangChain
17 105 (1.73%) NumPy
18 98 (1.61%) JSON
19 81 (1.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 372 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 320 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 265 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 168 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 117 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 113 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 101 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 93 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 93 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 88 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
11 87 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 86 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.36%) Fixed Income
14 79 (1.30%) Equities
14 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 69 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
18 65 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 614 (10.10%) Linux
2 258 (4.24%) Windows
3 103 (1.69%) Unix
4 75 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 30 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.20%) Debian
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,544 (41.84%) AI
2 1,425 (23.43%) Business Intelligence
3 1,269 (20.87%) CI/CD
4 1,184 (19.47%) Software Engineering
5 970 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 957 (15.74%) Analytics
7 951 (15.64%) Agile
8 926 (15.23%) DevOps
9 781 (12.84%) Machine Learning
10 726 (11.94%) Mentoring
11 703 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 597 (9.82%) Data Modelling
13 572 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
14 569 (9.36%) Data Science
15 567 (9.32%) Data Engineering
16 540 (8.88%) ETL
17 533 (8.77%) Computer Science
18 511 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 485 (7.98%) Containerisation
20 484 (7.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,442 (40.16%) SQL
2 690 (11.35%) JavaScript
3 654 (10.75%) Java
4 457 (7.52%) PowerShell
5 433 (7.12%) Bash
6 396 (6.51%) C++
7 370 (6.08%) C#
8 363 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.52%) Go
10 212 (3.49%) R
11 162 (2.66%) C
12 125 (2.06%) Scala
13 82 (1.35%) Rust
14 69 (1.13%) PHP
15 62 (1.02%) VBA
16 54 (0.89%) Bicep
17 45 (0.74%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) MATLAB
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,478 (24.31%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.71%) Degree
3 548 (9.01%) Security Cleared
4 325 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 296 (4.87%) AWS Certification
6 280 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 208 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 207 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 176 (2.89%) DV Cleared
10 152 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 93 (1.53%) PhD
12 79 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.10%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 49 (0.81%) OSCP
16 38 (0.62%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 30 (0.49%) CCIE
19 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 225 (3.70%) QA
3 123 (2.02%) GDPR
4 90 (1.48%) NIST
5 82 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.39%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.33%) SLA
13 12 (0.20%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 587 (9.65%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.92%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.44%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Squid
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Lustre
15 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 749 (12.32%) Terraform
2 613 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 347 (5.71%) Ansible
4 199 (3.27%) Grafana
5 159 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.99%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.43%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 18 (0.30%) Packer
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
14 16 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,824 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 329 (5.41%) Databricks
3 205 (3.37%) Google
4 130 (2.14%) Oracle
5 126 (2.07%) VMware
6 125 (2.06%) Cisco
7 102 (1.68%) Splunk
8 101 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 99 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 57 (0.94%) Foundry
11 53 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 51 (0.84%) SAP
13 51 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
17 40 (0.66%) Informatica
17 40 (0.66%) Palantir