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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,055 5,118 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.25% 12.87% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.61% 40.40% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,597 2,858 5,937
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,612 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £125,750 £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 15,286 12,668 29,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.30% 31.85% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,029 8,500 23,330
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 19 June 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 19 June 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 2,437 £85,000 -5.56% 937
North of England -13 1,227 £62,500 -3.85% 409
South East +2 886 £60,000 -4.00% 582
Midlands +20 628 £60,000 +9.09% 179
North West -15 572 £65,000 - 225
South West +5 523 £58,497 +1.78% 215
Yorkshire +13 456 £62,500 -3.85% 125
West Midlands +17 324 £60,000 +6.67% 94
East Midlands +26 304 £55,000 +10.00% 85
East of England -4 289 £70,000 +5.73% 188
North East +26 199 £57,500 -4.17% 62
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
1 220 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 153 (2.53%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 52 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 30 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.15%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
13 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 922 (15.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.21%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2,625 (43.35%) Azure
2 1,911 (31.56%) AWS
3 1,190 (19.65%) Power Platform
4 1,082 (17.87%) Azure AI
5 692 (11.43%) GCP
6 410 (6.77%) GitHub
7 335 (5.53%) Serverless
8 237 (3.91%) Amazon S3
8 237 (3.91%) SaaS
9 214 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
10 212 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 180 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 167 (2.76%) dbt
13 164 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
14 160 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 155 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 148 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
17 121 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 110 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
19 104 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.75%) Firewall
2 193 (3.19%) Broadband
3 133 (2.20%) VPN
4 122 (2.01%) DNS
5 109 (1.80%) Network Security
6 98 (1.62%) WAN
7 94 (1.55%) Internet
8 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
9 82 (1.35%) LAN
10 76 (1.26%) Wireless
11 62 (1.02%) BGP
12 53 (0.88%) HTTP
13 52 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 52 (0.86%) VLAN
14 44 (0.73%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 36 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
17 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
18 29 (0.48%) DHCP
19 28 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (18.70%) Power BI
2 996 (16.45%) Tableau
3 286 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 239 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 186 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 161 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 148 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.28%) MongoDB
11 111 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 102 (1.68%) Big Data
14 87 (1.44%) Metadata
15 84 (1.39%) MySQL
16 72 (1.19%) Data Mining
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 67 (1.11%) DynamoDB
19 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 615 (10.16%) Git
2 270 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 236 (3.90%) GitLab
4 145 (2.39%) JIRA
5 81 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.97%) MLflow
7 49 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 43 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.68%) Selenium
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 21 (0.35%) LabVIEW
15 20 (0.33%) JMeter
15 20 (0.33%) JUnit
15 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 2,133 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 1,186 (19.59%) Finance
3 812 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 265 (4.38%) Banking
6 216 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.04%) Retail
8 155 (2.56%) Law
9 132 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.08%) Front Office
11 106 (1.75%) Legal
12 95 (1.57%) Marketing
13 88 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.32%) Multimedia
15 73 (1.21%) Electronics
16 70 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.04%) Games
19 56 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,142 (18.86%) Analyst
2 1,037 (17.13%) Senior
3 969 (16.00%) Data Analyst
4 916 (15.13%) Developer
5 807 (13.33%) Junior
6 759 (12.54%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.54%) Junior Data Analyst
7 677 (11.18%) Software Engineer
8 563 (9.30%) Data Engineer
9 542 (8.95%) Python Engineer
10 520 (8.59%) Lead
11 454 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 383 (6.33%) Python Developer
13 247 (4.08%) Python Software Engineer
14 193 (3.19%) Architect
15 190 (3.14%) Data Scientist
16 189 (3.12%) Trainee
17 186 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
18 185 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
19 176 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.44%) React
2 259 (4.28%) Kafka
3 232 (3.83%) Node.js
4 217 (3.58%) PySpark
5 211 (3.48%) HTML
6 210 (3.47%) REST
7 199 (3.29%) .NET
8 196 (3.24%) CSS
9 191 (3.15%) RESTful
10 180 (2.97%) PyTorch
11 175 (2.89%) FastAPI
12 173 (2.86%) Django
13 156 (2.58%) Pandas
14 150 (2.48%) TensorFlow
15 141 (2.33%) LangChain
16 128 (2.11%) Flask
17 125 (2.06%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.77%) NumPy
19 99 (1.64%) Vue
20 94 (1.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 470 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 320 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 289 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 151 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 130 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 127 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 96 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 95 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 85 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 83 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.32%) Equities
15 80 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 75 (1.24%) Hedge funds
17 70 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
18 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
19 62 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 638 (10.54%) Linux
2 274 (4.53%) Windows
3 92 (1.52%) Unix
4 84 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 36 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.31%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.17%) Android
13 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
17 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,549 (42.10%) AI
2 1,361 (22.48%) CI/CD
3 1,330 (21.97%) Software Engineering
4 1,234 (20.38%) Business Intelligence
5 1,038 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1,010 (16.68%) Agile
7 974 (16.09%) Analytics
8 961 (15.87%) DevOps
9 860 (14.20%) Machine Learning
10 793 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 731 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 612 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 609 (10.06%) Data Engineering
14 604 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
15 594 (9.81%) Data Science
16 545 (9.00%) Computer Science
17 543 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
18 534 (8.82%) Containerisation
19 527 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 510 (8.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,323 (38.36%) SQL
2 682 (11.26%) Java
3 654 (10.80%) JavaScript
4 490 (8.09%) PowerShell
5 466 (7.70%) Bash
6 457 (7.55%) C++
7 398 (6.57%) C#
8 383 (6.33%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.71%) Go
10 178 (2.94%) R
11 161 (2.66%) C
12 119 (1.97%) Scala
13 88 (1.45%) Rust
14 83 (1.37%) PHP
15 72 (1.19%) Bicep
16 57 (0.94%) MATLAB
17 54 (0.89%) VBA
18 49 (0.81%) Perl
19 44 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 41 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,224 (20.21%) Azure Certification
2 781 (12.90%) Degree
3 632 (10.44%) Security Cleared
4 380 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 290 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 231 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 196 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 154 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 139 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 139 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 85 (1.40%) PhD
11 76 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (0.97%) CCNP
13 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 47 (0.78%) OSCP
15 39 (0.64%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 233 (3.85%) QA
3 127 (2.10%) GDPR
4 89 (1.47%) NIST
5 75 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 70 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
12 21 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.31%) SLA
14 14 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.17%) WCAG
17 9 (0.15%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) Basel III
19 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 647 (10.69%) Docker
2 103 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 37 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.50%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
16 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 833 (13.76%) Terraform
2 656 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 357 (5.90%) Ansible
4 221 (3.65%) Grafana
5 177 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.53%) Puppet
10 30 (0.50%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 22 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) Podman
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
19 13 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,566 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 354 (5.85%) Databricks
3 206 (3.40%) Google
4 131 (2.16%) VMware
5 128 (2.11%) Oracle
6 126 (2.08%) Splunk
7 118 (1.95%) Cisco
8 101 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 94 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 59 (0.97%) Foundry
11 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 57 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
15 42 (0.69%) SAP
16 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
17 39 (0.64%) F5
18 36 (0.59%) Palantir
19 31 (0.51%) Arista