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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,296 5,000 6,571
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.61% 11.44% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.71% 40.14% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 2,785 4,634
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £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 16,697 12,456 21,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.53% 28.51% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,177 8,314 15,577
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.95% -5.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 August 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 August 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 -3 2,637 £85,000 -2.86% 834
North of England -12 1,230 £66,750 +5.70% 387
South East +9 897 £60,000 - 563
South West +12 612 £60,000 +9.09% 219
North West -19 593 £66,750 +11.25% 193
Midlands +4 551 £62,000 -4.62% 193
Yorkshire +13 389 £67,500 +3.85% 120
East of England +8 315 £65,000 +18.18% 184
West Midlands -4 295 £63,750 -1.92% 103
East Midlands +17 255 £52,500 -12.50% 88
North East +30 248 £66,000 +1.54% 77
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
1 244 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 228 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 187 (2.97%) Apache
4 70 (1.11%) Confluence
5 47 (0.75%) WordPress
6 40 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 40 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.35%) SAS
9 13 (0.21%) nginx
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.095%) Camunda
12 6 (0.095%) JBoss
12 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 647 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.17%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.079%) Shopify
7 4 (0.064%) Line 50
7 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,500 (39.71%) Azure
2 2,017 (32.04%) AWS
3 999 (15.87%) Power Platform
4 859 (13.64%) Azure AI
5 765 (12.15%) GCP
6 395 (6.27%) GitHub
7 373 (5.92%) Serverless
8 261 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 240 (3.81%) SaaS
10 238 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 233 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 208 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 197 (3.13%) dbt
15 183 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 166 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
17 155 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 143 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
20 120 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (3.54%) Firewall
2 137 (2.18%) DNS
3 126 (2.00%) Broadband
4 125 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 125 (1.99%) VPN
5 108 (1.72%) Network Security
6 95 (1.51%) WAN
7 77 (1.22%) Wireless
8 74 (1.18%) LAN
9 71 (1.13%) Internet
10 55 (0.87%) BGP
11 50 (0.79%) DHCP
12 47 (0.75%) VLAN
13 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.65%) MQTT
15 39 (0.62%) HTTP
15 39 (0.62%) OSPF
16 35 (0.56%) SSL
17 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 928 (14.74%) Power BI
2 720 (11.44%) Tableau
3 340 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
4 289 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 208 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 144 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 132 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 121 (1.92%) Big Data
11 114 (1.81%) MySQL
12 110 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 107 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 95 (1.51%) Metadata
15 88 (1.40%) DynamoDB
16 83 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.14%) Looker
18 71 (1.13%) Delta Lake
19 62 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 712 (11.31%) Git
2 290 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 239 (3.80%) GitLab
4 173 (2.75%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 60 (0.95%) MLflow
7 59 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 49 (0.78%) Selenium
9 46 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 43 (0.68%) Subversion
11 38 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.59%) JUnit
13 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 23 (0.37%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
18 21 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,140 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 1,324 (21.03%) Finance
3 845 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (5.34%) Banking
5 329 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (3.84%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.45%) Law
8 189 (3.00%) Marketing
9 156 (2.48%) Retail
10 136 (2.16%) Legal
11 117 (1.86%) Front Office
12 107 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 91 (1.45%) Electronics
15 82 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 71 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 67 (1.06%) Games
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,245 (19.77%) Senior
2 871 (13.83%) Analyst
2 871 (13.83%) Developer
3 833 (13.23%) Software Engineer
4 675 (10.72%) Data Analyst
5 660 (10.48%) Python Engineer
6 625 (9.93%) Data Engineer
7 623 (9.90%) Lead
8 609 (9.67%) Junior
9 527 (8.37%) Junior Analyst
10 523 (8.31%) Junior Data Analyst
11 491 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 370 (5.88%) Python Developer
13 296 (4.70%) Python Software Engineer
14 242 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 219 (3.48%) Architect
16 211 (3.35%) Data Scientist
17 200 (3.18%) Senior Developer
18 186 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
18 186 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 942 (14.96%) Terraform
2 411 (6.53%) React
3 271 (4.30%) Kafka
4 242 (3.84%) Node.js
5 239 (3.80%) PySpark
6 235 (3.73%) .NET
7 227 (3.61%) REST
8 212 (3.37%) RESTful
9 209 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 192 (3.05%) HTML
11 188 (2.99%) Django
12 183 (2.91%) PyTorch
13 178 (2.83%) LangChain
14 175 (2.78%) CSS
15 155 (2.46%) TensorFlow
16 131 (2.08%) Flask
17 122 (1.94%) Pandas
18 117 (1.86%) Spring
18 117 (1.86%) Spring Boot
19 109 (1.73%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 597 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 339 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 300 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 226 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 205 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 145 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 94 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 94 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 83 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 78 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 77 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
13 76 (1.21%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.19%) Robotics
15 74 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
15 74 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
16 70 (1.11%) Equities
17 64 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 714 (11.34%) Linux
2 329 (5.23%) Windows
3 94 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.25%) Unix
5 54 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.75%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.17%) Android
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,671 (42.42%) AI
2 1,633 (25.94%) Software Engineering
3 1,581 (25.11%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1,121 (17.80%) Agile
6 1,120 (17.79%) Analytics
7 1,088 (17.28%) DevOps
8 1,086 (17.25%) Business Intelligence
9 1,017 (16.15%) Machine Learning
10 938 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 816 (12.96%) Mentoring
12 740 (11.75%) Data Pipeline
13 732 (11.63%) Data Engineering
14 666 (10.58%) Data Modelling
15 662 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 641 (10.18%) Data Science
17 606 (9.63%) Containerisation
18 589 (9.36%) Computer Science
19 585 (9.29%) Decision-Making
20 577 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,267 (36.01%) SQL
2 818 (12.99%) Java
3 669 (10.63%) JavaScript
4 545 (8.66%) C++
5 502 (7.97%) PowerShell
6 492 (7.81%) Bash
7 470 (7.47%) C#
8 403 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 270 (4.29%) Go
10 188 (2.99%) C
11 171 (2.72%) R
12 125 (1.99%) Scala
13 102 (1.62%) PHP
14 94 (1.49%) Rust
15 91 (1.45%) Bicep
16 85 (1.35%) Perl
17 75 (1.19%) Ruby
18 63 (1.00%) MATLAB
19 62 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 45 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 983 (15.61%) Azure Certification
2 897 (14.25%) Degree
3 794 (12.61%) Security Cleared
4 443 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 321 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.19%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.29%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 122 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.67%) PhD
11 79 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 57 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.79%) CCNP
15 44 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (0.64%) CISSP
18 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 32 (0.51%) OSCP
20 28 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 270 (4.29%) QA
3 150 (2.38%) GDPR
4 108 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 68 (1.08%) NIST
6 59 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 30 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.43%) SLA
10 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.25%) GRC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.24%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 774 (12.29%) Docker
2 118 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.02%) Firmware
5 45 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.43%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 757 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 406 (6.45%) Ansible
3 236 (3.75%) Grafana
4 143 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 59 (0.94%) Puppet
6 51 (0.81%) Argo
7 41 (0.65%) Nagios
8 40 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.49%) Istio
12 29 (0.46%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
17 16 (0.25%) logstash
18 15 (0.24%) Graylog
19 14 (0.22%) Proxmox
19 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,287 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 454 (7.21%) Databricks
3 203 (3.22%) Google
4 153 (2.43%) Splunk
5 141 (2.24%) Oracle
6 133 (2.11%) VMware
7 122 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 119 (1.89%) Cisco
8 119 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 69 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.94%) Foundry
11 53 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 44 (0.70%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.57%) F5
16 36 (0.57%) SAP
17 33 (0.52%) Palantir
18 31 (0.49%) IBM