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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,022 5,126 7,776
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.29% 13.00% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.94% 40.49% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 2,855 5,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £125,000 £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 15,077 12,661 28,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 32.10% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,855 8,478 23,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,725 £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 13 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 13 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 2,414 £85,000 -5.56% 887
North of England -11 1,230 £62,500 -3.85% 363
South East +2 873 £60,000 -4.00% 521
Midlands +25 629 £60,000 +9.09% 153
North West -15 572 £65,000 - 195
South West +5 522 £57,998 +0.92% 157
Yorkshire +11 462 £62,500 -3.85% 113
West Midlands +14 331 £60,000 +4.35% 85
East Midlands +29 298 £55,000 +14.58% 67
East of England -4 291 £70,000 +5.73% 138
North East +25 196 £55,000 -12.00% 56
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
1 221 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 154 (2.56%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 51 (0.85%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
8 27 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.22%) IIS
11 7 (0.12%) Appian
11 7 (0.12%) CMS
11 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 6 (0.100%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
15 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 926 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) 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 6 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
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%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,631 (43.69%) Azure
2 1,898 (31.52%) AWS
3 1,192 (19.79%) Power Platform
4 1,078 (17.90%) Azure AI
5 679 (11.28%) GCP
6 427 (7.09%) GitHub
7 328 (5.45%) Serverless
8 240 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 232 (3.85%) SaaS
10 214 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
11 209 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.76%) dbt
14 162 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 154 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 154 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 144 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
17 119 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 109 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
19 97 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.85%) Firewall
2 192 (3.19%) Broadband
3 130 (2.16%) VPN
4 123 (2.04%) DNS
5 111 (1.84%) Internet
6 107 (1.78%) Network Security
7 101 (1.68%) WAN
8 94 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 85 (1.41%) LAN
10 78 (1.30%) Wireless
11 65 (1.08%) BGP
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
13 53 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 47 (0.78%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 31 (0.51%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.50%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,134 (18.83%) Power BI
2 1,006 (16.71%) Tableau
3 283 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 186 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 172 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 161 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.31%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 106 (1.76%) Big Data
14 90 (1.49%) Metadata
15 82 (1.36%) Data Mining
16 79 (1.31%) MySQL
17 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.10%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
20 55 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 636 (10.56%) Git
2 262 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 235 (3.90%) GitLab
4 144 (2.39%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.95%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.42%) Subversion
14 22 (0.37%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.32%) JMeter
15 19 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,115 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,186 (19.69%) Finance
3 822 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 264 (4.38%) Banking
6 213 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 183 (3.04%) Retail
8 157 (2.61%) Law
9 128 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 127 (2.11%) Front Office
11 104 (1.73%) Legal
12 97 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 96 (1.59%) Marketing
14 88 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.23%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.03%) Games
19 57 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,147 (19.05%) Analyst
2 1,018 (16.90%) Senior
3 974 (16.17%) Data Analyst
4 912 (15.14%) Developer
5 807 (13.40%) Junior
6 759 (12.60%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.60%) Junior Data Analyst
7 664 (11.03%) Software Engineer
8 563 (9.35%) Data Engineer
9 524 (8.70%) Python Engineer
10 515 (8.55%) Lead
11 451 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 379 (6.29%) Python Developer
13 235 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
14 213 (3.54%) Trainee
15 187 (3.11%) Architect
16 186 (3.09%) Data Scientist
17 184 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
18 180 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
18 180 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (6.33%) React
2 261 (4.33%) Kafka
3 228 (3.79%) HTML
4 227 (3.77%) Node.js
5 223 (3.70%) PySpark
6 212 (3.52%) REST
7 211 (3.50%) CSS
8 194 (3.22%) .NET
9 185 (3.07%) RESTful
10 173 (2.87%) PyTorch
11 169 (2.81%) Django
12 168 (2.79%) FastAPI
13 155 (2.57%) Pandas
14 146 (2.42%) TensorFlow
15 138 (2.29%) LangChain
16 123 (2.04%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.78%) NumPy
18 98 (1.63%) JSON
19 93 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 452 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 322 (5.35%) Algorithms
3 294 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 185 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 145 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 129 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 104 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
9 97 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.38%) Security Posture
13 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 81 (1.35%) Equities
15 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.23%) Hedge funds
17 69 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 66 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
19 64 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 630 (10.46%) Linux
2 267 (4.43%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 36 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.28%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,506 (41.61%) AI
2 1,345 (22.33%) CI/CD
3 1,299 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 1,237 (20.54%) Business Intelligence
5 1,031 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
6 1,008 (16.74%) Agile
7 981 (16.29%) Analytics
8 956 (15.88%) DevOps
9 851 (14.13%) Machine Learning
10 774 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 740 (12.29%) Mentoring
12 610 (10.13%) Data Modelling
13 603 (10.01%) Data Pipeline
14 602 (10.00%) Data Engineering
15 593 (9.85%) Data Science
16 540 (8.97%) Computer Science
17 525 (8.72%) Containerisation
18 523 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
19 519 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
20 508 (8.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,321 (38.54%) SQL
2 675 (11.21%) Java
3 668 (11.09%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.97%) PowerShell
5 459 (7.62%) Bash
6 437 (7.26%) C++
7 389 (6.46%) C#
8 377 (6.26%) TypeScript
9 287 (4.77%) Go
10 187 (3.11%) R
11 161 (2.67%) C
12 125 (2.08%) Scala
13 87 (1.44%) Rust
14 78 (1.30%) PHP
15 63 (1.05%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 52 (0.86%) VBA
18 48 (0.80%) Perl
19 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,240 (20.59%) Azure Certification
2 778 (12.92%) Degree
3 618 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 370 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 286 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 242 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 198 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 156 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 152 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 86 (1.43%) PhD
11 81 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 64 (1.06%) CCNP
13 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 50 (0.83%) OSCP
14 39 (0.65%) CISSP
15 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
16 33 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 26 (0.43%) CCIE
18 25 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.84%) QA
3 125 (2.08%) GDPR
4 89 (1.48%) NIST
5 74 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.42%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 17 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 631 (10.48%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.100%) 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
1 813 (13.50%) Terraform
2 648 (10.76%) Kubernetes
3 355 (5.90%) Ansible
4 215 (3.57%) Grafana
5 175 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.10%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 29 (0.48%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 25 (0.42%) Istio
13 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
16 19 (0.32%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.25%) Podman
18 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,583 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 348 (5.78%) Databricks
3 204 (3.39%) Google
4 132 (2.19%) VMware
5 125 (2.08%) Oracle
5 125 (2.08%) Splunk
6 124 (2.06%) Cisco
7 100 (1.66%) OpenAI
7 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 60 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 57 (0.95%) Foundry
9 57 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 52 (0.86%) SolarWinds
12 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
13 44 (0.73%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.70%) SAP
15 41 (0.68%) F5
16 36 (0.60%) Palantir
17 31 (0.51%) Arista