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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,762 5,039 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 12.11% 9.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.52% 34.48% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 3,267 5,300
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £97,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.93%

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 11,751 14,613 25,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.38% 35.12% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,604 9,506 21,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 7 March 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 7 March 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 0 2,133 £82,500 -5.71% 1,375
North of England -6 840 £45,794 -29.55% 524
South East -18 616 £62,500 -7.41% 805
Midlands -8 452 £55,000 - 278
South West +5 411 £58,497 -10.01% 331
Yorkshire +7 362 £42,000 -35.38% 207
North West -10 355 £55,000 -15.38% 233
West Midlands +6 292 £58,750 +6.82% 126
East of England -25 240 £50,000 -24.50% 340
East Midlands -13 162 £55,000 - 145
North East +15 123 £40,000 -38.46% 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
1 190 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 183 (3.84%) Apache Spark
3 139 (2.92%) Apache
4 59 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.71%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 19 (0.40%) Appian
9 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.34%) IIS
10 16 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.21%) nginx
12 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
14 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.084%) GeoServer
Applications
1 864 (18.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 58 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.084%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.042%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.021%) Actimize
8 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.021%) Primavera
8 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,020 (42.42%) Azure
2 1,636 (34.36%) AWS
3 1,009 (21.19%) Power Platform
4 603 (12.66%) Azure AI
5 546 (11.47%) GitHub
6 524 (11.00%) GCP
7 272 (5.71%) Serverless
8 196 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 191 (4.01%) SaaS
10 180 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
11 177 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
12 166 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
13 163 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 149 (3.13%) dbt
15 141 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 119 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 109 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
18 94 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 85 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
20 84 (1.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (4.98%) Internet
2 178 (3.74%) Firewall
3 112 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 101 (2.12%) VPN
5 92 (1.93%) Broadband
5 92 (1.93%) DNS
6 71 (1.49%) WAN
7 65 (1.36%) LAN
8 59 (1.24%) Network Security
9 58 (1.22%) BGP
9 58 (1.22%) Wireless
10 56 (1.18%) VLAN
11 52 (1.09%) HTTP
12 50 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (0.86%) OSPF
14 34 (0.71%) MPLS
14 34 (0.71%) SD-WAN
15 32 (0.67%) Wireshark
16 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 971 (20.39%) Power BI
2 926 (19.45%) Tableau
3 247 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 167 (3.51%) Data Mining
6 167 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 146 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 120 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 107 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 102 (2.14%) Big Data
11 99 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 96 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 93 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (1.76%) Metadata
15 78 (1.64%) MySQL
16 68 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
17 55 (1.15%) Hadoop
18 43 (0.90%) Delta Lake
18 43 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 612 (12.85%) Git
2 215 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 170 (3.57%) GitLab
4 103 (2.16%) JIRA
5 53 (1.11%) Selenium
6 51 (1.07%) MLflow
7 50 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
8 38 (0.80%) Postman
9 37 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.59%) JUnit
12 24 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.48%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.42%) JMeter
14 20 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.36%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.36%) Subversion
16 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.31%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,598 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 1,133 (23.79%) Finance
3 794 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (5.63%) Banking
5 222 (4.66%) Multimedia
6 207 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 194 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 172 (3.61%) Law
9 162 (3.40%) Retail
10 148 (3.11%) Front Office
11 140 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 125 (2.62%) Marketing
13 115 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.78%) Legal
15 75 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 74 (1.55%) Financial Institution
17 71 (1.49%) Investment Banking
18 70 (1.47%) Electronics
19 49 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
20 41 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,070 (22.47%) Analyst
2 878 (18.44%) Data Analyst
3 799 (16.78%) Developer
4 705 (14.80%) Senior
5 595 (12.49%) Junior
6 567 (11.91%) Junior Analyst
6 567 (11.91%) Junior Data Analyst
7 454 (9.53%) Data Engineer
8 414 (8.69%) Trainee
9 400 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 363 (7.62%) Lead
11 314 (6.59%) Python Developer
12 284 (5.96%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 159 (3.34%) Architect
15 144 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 142 (2.98%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (2.98%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 138 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
17 138 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (7.77%) React
2 365 (7.66%) HTML
3 312 (6.55%) CSS
4 212 (4.45%) Kafka
5 202 (4.24%) Node.js
6 183 (3.84%) REST
7 181 (3.80%) Django
8 161 (3.38%) PySpark
9 148 (3.11%) RESTful
10 138 (2.90%) .NET
11 137 (2.88%) Pandas
12 133 (2.79%) FastAPI
13 129 (2.71%) PyTorch
14 117 (2.46%) TensorFlow
15 111 (2.33%) Flask
16 102 (2.14%) scikit-learn
17 99 (2.08%) JSON
18 90 (1.89%) AngularJS
19 88 (1.85%) NumPy
20 85 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 248 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 234 (4.91%) Algorithms
3 185 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 107 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 92 (1.93%) Equities
9 88 (1.85%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 76 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 74 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 74 (1.55%) Hedge funds
13 71 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
14 68 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 63 (1.32%) Derivative
16 62 (1.30%) AI Agents
16 62 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
16 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 512 (10.75%) Linux
2 213 (4.47%) Windows
3 186 (3.91%) Unix
4 64 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 41 (0.86%) CentOS
6 29 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.23%) Android
10 11 (0.23%) Debian
11 10 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.15%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) Solaris
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.084%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.084%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
15 3 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,624 (34.10%) AI
2 1,074 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
3 1,062 (22.30%) CI/CD
4 948 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 909 (19.09%) Analytics
6 847 (17.79%) Agile
7 807 (16.95%) DevOps
8 799 (16.78%) Software Engineering
9 689 (14.47%) Mentoring
10 617 (12.96%) Machine Learning
11 532 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 519 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
12 519 (10.90%) Data Science
12 519 (10.90%) ETL
13 513 (10.77%) Data Modelling
14 479 (10.06%) Data Engineering
15 468 (9.83%) Computer Science
16 452 (9.49%) Containerisation
17 445 (9.34%) Data Analysis
18 444 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,993 (41.85%) SQL
2 767 (16.11%) JavaScript
3 610 (12.81%) Java
4 399 (8.38%) Bash
5 379 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 335 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 272 (5.71%) C#
8 242 (5.08%) C++
9 232 (4.87%) Go
10 230 (4.83%) R
11 123 (2.58%) C
12 91 (1.91%) Scala
13 72 (1.51%) VBA
14 68 (1.43%) Rust
15 59 (1.24%) PHP
16 44 (0.92%) Bicep
17 38 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.78%) MATLAB
18 37 (0.78%) T-SQL
19 32 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 858 (18.02%) Azure Certification
2 784 (16.46%) Degree
3 467 (9.81%) Security Cleared
4 377 (7.92%) AWS Certification
5 277 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 271 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 269 (5.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 235 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 168 (3.53%) DV Cleared
10 140 (2.94%) Master's Degree
11 91 (1.91%) PhD
12 65 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.18%) CCNP
14 52 (1.09%) CISSP
15 47 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 40 (0.84%) OSCP
18 36 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.61%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 177 (3.72%) QA
3 117 (2.46%) GDPR
4 112 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.25%) NIST
6 66 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.50%) SLA
10 21 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.38%) PMO
13 16 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.25%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.13%) WCAG
19 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 565 (11.86%) Docker
2 95 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.63%) Firmware
5 25 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.38%) KVM
8 14 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.10%) HDFS
12 5 (0.10%) iptables
13 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.063%) QEMU
14 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 596 (12.52%) Terraform
2 582 (12.22%) Kubernetes
3 322 (6.76%) Ansible
4 155 (3.25%) Grafana
5 145 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.34%) Argo
7 26 (0.55%) Puppet
8 23 (0.48%) Nagios
9 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.42%) Kibana
10 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 13 (0.27%) Control-M
11 13 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.25%) Nessus
12 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.23%) logstash
13 11 (0.23%) Rancher
14 10 (0.21%) Istio
14 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,456 (30.58%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.38%) Databricks
3 211 (4.43%) Google
4 149 (3.13%) Oracle
5 113 (2.37%) VMware
6 108 (2.27%) Cisco
7 95 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.51%) SAP
9 68 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 64 (1.34%) Splunk
12 51 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.05%) Informatica
14 43 (0.90%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 40 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.82%) Talend
18 36 (0.76%) Foundry
18 36 (0.76%) IBM
19 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft