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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,098 5,423 5,748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.57% 11.37% 10.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.25% 33.64% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 3,258 4,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
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 10,442 16,119 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.28% 33.80% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,835 9,459 17,832
10th Percentile £32,838 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 21 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 21 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 -1 1,993 £82,500 -5.71% 1,119
North of England -8 670 £50,000 -23.08% 528
South East -34 449 £60,000 -8.05% 1,108
Midlands -13 383 £56,350 +2.45% 314
South West -3 339 £60,000 -7.69% 400
Yorkshire +11 305 £49,000 -24.62% 206
North West -16 278 £55,000 -12.00% 236
West Midlands +2 263 £55,200 -4.00% 133
East of England -16 211 £50,000 -28.57% 409
East Midlands -27 123 £60,000 +9.09% 177
North East 0 89 £40,000 -42.29% 90
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
1 166 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.12%) Apache
4 43 (1.05%) Confluence
5 35 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.68%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
10 18 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.41%) Appian
12 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 15 (0.37%) nginx
14 14 (0.34%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.098%) JBoss
Applications
1 559 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.098%) Windchill
10 3 (0.073%) CATIA
10 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.049%) Stata
11 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.098%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.024%) Actimize
8 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.024%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.024%) Endur
8 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.024%) Odoo
8 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,625 (39.65%) Azure
2 1,438 (35.09%) AWS
3 736 (17.96%) Power Platform
4 529 (12.91%) GitHub
5 425 (10.37%) GCP
6 324 (7.91%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.37%) Serverless
8 184 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.27%) Snowflake
10 169 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (3.93%) Amazon S3
12 154 (3.76%) SaaS
13 143 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.42%) dbt
15 138 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 106 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 91 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
18 84 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 81 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.27%) Internet
2 153 (3.73%) Firewall
3 89 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 79 (1.93%) VPN
5 71 (1.73%) DNS
5 71 (1.73%) WAN
6 62 (1.51%) LAN
7 51 (1.24%) BGP
8 49 (1.20%) Wireless
9 46 (1.12%) Broadband
10 43 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 42 (1.02%) Network Security
12 39 (0.95%) HTTP
13 37 (0.90%) OSPF
13 37 (0.90%) VLAN
14 33 (0.81%) MPLS
15 30 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.68%) SSL
17 27 (0.66%) SAN
18 24 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (16.98%) Power BI
2 591 (14.42%) Tableau
3 260 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.32%) SQL Server
6 178 (4.34%) NoSQL
7 166 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.47%) Data Mining
9 127 (3.10%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.83%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.66%) Big Data
12 90 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 85 (2.07%) BigQuery
14 84 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (2.05%) MySQL
15 80 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
16 70 (1.71%) Hadoop
16 70 (1.71%) Metadata
17 64 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
17 64 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 582 (14.20%) Git
2 227 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.37%) GitLab
4 119 (2.90%) JIRA
5 58 (1.42%) Selenium
6 43 (1.05%) MLflow
7 38 (0.93%) JUnit
7 38 (0.93%) Postman
8 28 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 26 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.59%) JMeter
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
12 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Burp Suite
14 15 (0.37%) Metasploit
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.34%) Maven
16 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,234 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 1,018 (24.84%) Finance
3 631 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (5.91%) Banking
5 241 (5.88%) Multimedia
6 180 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 168 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 164 (4.00%) Law
9 141 (3.44%) Marketing
10 139 (3.39%) Front Office
11 112 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 107 (2.61%) Retail
13 101 (2.46%) Manufacturing
14 86 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 77 (1.88%) Electronics
16 73 (1.78%) Legal
17 68 (1.66%) Investment Banking
18 61 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
19 57 (1.39%) Games
20 48 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (18.50%) Developer
2 738 (18.01%) Analyst
3 652 (15.91%) Senior
4 550 (13.42%) Data Analyst
5 418 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.78%) Trainee
7 324 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.49%) Junior
8 307 (7.49%) Lead
9 296 (7.22%) Python Developer
10 282 (6.88%) Junior Analyst
10 282 (6.88%) Junior Data Analyst
11 238 (5.81%) Python Engineer
12 185 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 144 (3.51%) Senior Developer
14 140 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 139 (3.39%) Architect
16 135 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
17 133 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
18 122 (2.98%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (9.30%) HTML
2 336 (8.20%) CSS
3 328 (8.00%) React
4 175 (4.27%) REST
5 169 (4.12%) Node.js
6 159 (3.88%) Django
7 144 (3.51%) Kafka
8 141 (3.44%) RESTful
9 135 (3.29%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.17%) PySpark
11 128 (3.12%) Pandas
12 121 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 113 (2.76%) .NET
14 108 (2.64%) Flask
15 101 (2.46%) AngularJS
16 100 (2.44%) TensorFlow
17 87 (2.12%) NumPy
18 86 (2.10%) Vue
19 84 (2.05%) JSON
20 77 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 218 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 199 (4.86%) Algorithms
3 152 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.83%) Equities
6 112 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 103 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 98 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 82 (2.00%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.88%) Fixed Income
12 75 (1.83%) Derivative
12 75 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.68%) Low-Code
14 63 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 62 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
16 58 (1.42%) AI Agents
17 57 (1.39%) Data Centre
18 56 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
19 54 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 517 (12.62%) Linux
2 213 (5.20%) Windows
3 192 (4.69%) Unix
4 76 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.78%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.41%) VMS
10 16 (0.39%) Solaris
11 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.22%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.12%) zOS
16 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,181 (28.82%) AI
2 955 (23.30%) CI/CD
3 909 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
4 820 (20.01%) Analytics
5 804 (19.62%) Business Intelligence
6 794 (19.38%) Agile
7 778 (18.98%) DevOps
8 652 (15.91%) Mentoring
9 646 (15.76%) Software Engineering
10 537 (13.10%) Machine Learning
11 487 (11.88%) ETL
12 479 (11.69%) Data Science
13 464 (11.32%) Data Modelling
13 464 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
14 450 (10.98%) Data Engineering
15 444 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 440 (10.74%) Computer Science
17 409 (9.98%) Data Analysis
18 382 (9.32%) Containerisation
19 372 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,658 (40.46%) SQL
2 723 (17.64%) JavaScript
3 581 (14.18%) Java
4 387 (9.44%) Bash
5 340 (8.30%) PowerShell
6 327 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 271 (6.61%) C#
8 236 (5.76%) R
9 205 (5.00%) C++
10 152 (3.71%) Go
11 112 (2.73%) C
12 80 (1.95%) Scala
13 63 (1.54%) PHP
14 57 (1.39%) VBA
15 51 (1.24%) Bicep
16 48 (1.17%) Perl
17 45 (1.10%) MATLAB
18 42 (1.02%) Rust
19 39 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 39 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 790 (19.28%) Degree
2 589 (14.37%) Azure Certification
3 439 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 364 (8.88%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 259 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 207 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.61%) Master's Degree
10 162 (3.95%) DV Cleared
11 120 (2.93%) PhD
12 73 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.42%) CCNP
14 48 (1.17%) CISSP
14 48 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
15 41 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.63%) HND
19 25 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.93%) QA
3 99 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (2.39%) GDPR
5 80 (1.95%) NIST
6 65 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.83%) SLA
8 24 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
11 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.098%) GRC
17 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 511 (12.47%) Docker
2 79 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.63%) Firmware
5 20 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.39%) vSphere
8 11 (0.27%) KVM
9 10 (0.24%) HDFS
9 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
10 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 7 (0.17%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 535 (13.06%) Kubernetes
2 513 (12.52%) Terraform
3 313 (7.64%) Ansible
4 124 (3.03%) Grafana
5 122 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 58 (1.42%) Argo
7 28 (0.68%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.44%) Nessus
11 16 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.34%) Nagios
13 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.32%) Rancher
14 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 12 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
16 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,080 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.39%) Databricks
3 188 (4.59%) Google
4 132 (3.22%) Oracle
5 102 (2.49%) Cisco
6 101 (2.46%) VMware
7 87 (2.12%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.63%) SAP
10 63 (1.54%) Splunk
11 60 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.10%) Informatica
14 44 (1.07%) Alteryx
14 44 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.05%) IBM
16 42 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 42 (1.02%) Talend
17 33 (0.81%) Palantir
18 30 (0.73%) Atlassian