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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,820 4,535 6,574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.57% 10.58% 10.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.90% 40.48% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,761 2,570 4,051
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £56,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.33% +4.17%

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 16,678 11,204 20,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.97% 26.14% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,134 7,469 12,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -2 2,626 £85,000 - 4,686
North of England -20 1,040 £66,805 +11.34% 746
South East +11 765 £62,500 +8.70% 612
South West +3 558 £63,500 +15.45% 362
North West -23 554 £67,500 +12.50% 429
Midlands -9 450 £62,500 +4.17% 301
East of England +10 321 £70,000 +21.74% 383
Yorkshire -2 249 £65,000 - 201
West Midlands -19 242 £65,000 +8.33% 198
North East +17 240 £67,500 +50.00% 118
East Midlands +16 206 £55,000 -15.38% 103
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
1 211 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 174 (2.99%) Apache
3 168 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.15%) Confluence
5 44 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.50%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
17 5 (0.086%) Headless CMS
18 4 (0.069%) Hedera
Applications
1 227 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.46%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
10 5 (0.086%) Mathematica
11 4 (0.069%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.069%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
13 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.069%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.069%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Line 50
7 2 (0.034%) Odoo
7 2 (0.034%) Quorum
7 2 (0.034%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,917 (32.94%) Azure
2 1,900 (32.65%) AWS
3 758 (13.02%) GCP
4 636 (10.93%) Power Platform
5 403 (6.92%) GitHub
6 343 (5.89%) Serverless
7 267 (4.59%) SaaS
8 258 (4.43%) Azure AI
9 254 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 231 (3.97%) Amazon S3
11 229 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 228 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 207 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 189 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 186 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
17 174 (2.99%) dbt
18 136 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
19 133 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 126 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 220 (3.78%) Firewall
2 155 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 152 (2.61%) DNS
4 151 (2.59%) VPN
5 108 (1.86%) Network Security
6 88 (1.51%) WAN
7 76 (1.31%) Wireless
8 68 (1.17%) BGP
9 66 (1.13%) Broadband
10 63 (1.08%) LAN
11 59 (1.01%) DHCP
12 51 (0.88%) MQTT
13 45 (0.77%) VLAN
14 43 (0.74%) HTTP
15 42 (0.72%) OSPF
15 42 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 33 (0.57%) SSL
17 27 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
18 25 (0.43%) 5G
19 24 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 569 (9.78%) Power BI
2 336 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 310 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 241 (4.14%) Tableau
5 196 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 151 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 127 (2.18%) Big Data
11 120 (2.06%) Metadata
12 119 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 114 (1.96%) MySQL
14 111 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
15 98 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 86 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (1.39%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
18 75 (1.29%) Delta Lake
19 71 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 676 (11.62%) Git
2 318 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 266 (4.57%) GitLab
4 169 (2.90%) JIRA
5 77 (1.32%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.91%) Subversion
7 48 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.70%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 36 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
15 29 (0.50%) LabVIEW
16 27 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
17 21 (0.36%) Maven
18 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 17 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,671 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 1,419 (24.38%) Finance
3 862 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 378 (6.49%) Banking
6 266 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 240 (4.12%) Marketing
8 223 (3.83%) Law
9 174 (2.99%) Retail
10 139 (2.39%) Legal
11 115 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 114 (1.96%) Front Office
13 99 (1.70%) Financial Institution
14 98 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 95 (1.63%) Electronics
16 87 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.10%) Games
19 53 (0.91%) Investment Banking
20 51 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,282 (22.03%) Senior
2 900 (15.46%) Software Engineer
3 823 (14.14%) Developer
4 706 (12.13%) Python Engineer
5 637 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 623 (10.70%) Lead
7 453 (7.78%) Analyst
8 364 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 363 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 359 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
11 266 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 255 (4.38%) Data Analyst
13 226 (3.88%) Data Scientist
14 225 (3.87%) Architect
15 217 (3.73%) Senior Developer
16 213 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
17 199 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
18 178 (3.06%) Consultant
18 178 (3.06%) Junior
19 172 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 971 (16.68%) Terraform
2 394 (6.77%) React
3 264 (4.54%) REST
4 237 (4.07%) .NET
5 235 (4.04%) PySpark
6 234 (4.02%) Node.js
7 220 (3.78%) FastAPI
8 215 (3.69%) Kafka
9 199 (3.42%) RESTful
10 188 (3.23%) LangChain
11 168 (2.89%) Django
12 155 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 136 (2.34%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.29%) Spring Boot
15 132 (2.27%) CSS
15 132 (2.27%) Spring
16 127 (2.18%) HTML
17 109 (1.87%) LangGraph
18 108 (1.86%) Flask
19 87 (1.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 626 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 300 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 290 (4.98%) AI Agents
4 281 (4.83%) Algorithms
5 250 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 143 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 136 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 112 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.65%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.62%) Robotics
11 93 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 90 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 87 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 85 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
15 82 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
16 78 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
17 67 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (1.10%) Equities
18 64 (1.10%) FPGA
19 63 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 727 (12.49%) Linux
2 326 (5.60%) Windows
3 82 (1.41%) Unix
4 76 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.77%) CentOS
7 38 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 31 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) macOS
11 17 (0.29%) Rocky
12 16 (0.27%) Apple iOS
13 15 (0.26%) Windows 10
14 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.17%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
17 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,311 (39.71%) AI
2 1,734 (29.79%) Software Engineering
3 1,666 (28.63%) CI/CD
4 1,250 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
5 1,184 (20.34%) Analytics
6 1,112 (19.11%) DevOps
7 1,083 (18.61%) Agile
8 1,057 (18.16%) Machine Learning
9 977 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 802 (13.78%) Mentoring
11 771 (13.25%) Data Engineering
12 764 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
13 735 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
14 704 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 682 (11.72%) Data Modelling
16 654 (11.24%) Decision-Making
17 638 (10.96%) Data Science
18 617 (10.60%) Containerisation
19 605 (10.40%) Test Automation
20 591 (10.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,921 (33.01%) SQL
2 842 (14.47%) Java
3 607 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 550 (9.45%) C++
5 546 (9.38%) Bash
6 486 (8.35%) PowerShell
7 485 (8.33%) C#
8 424 (7.29%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.85%) Go
10 200 (3.44%) C
11 176 (3.02%) R
12 114 (1.96%) Rust
13 107 (1.84%) Scala
14 98 (1.68%) Bicep
15 92 (1.58%) MATLAB
16 86 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 83 (1.43%) Perl
18 81 (1.39%) PHP
19 76 (1.31%) Ruby
20 57 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 956 (16.43%) Degree
2 904 (15.53%) Security Cleared
3 502 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 336 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 298 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 294 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 232 (3.99%) Master's Degree
8 138 (2.37%) PhD
9 117 (2.01%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.12%) CISSP
14 43 (0.74%) CCNP
15 39 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
16 37 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
17 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.55%) CCNA
18 30 (0.52%) CISM
19 29 (0.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 245 (4.21%) QA
3 124 (2.13%) GDPR
4 111 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.39%) NIST
6 67 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.45%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 20 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 17 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.29%) WCAG
13 13 (0.22%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
16 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 823 (14.14%) Docker
2 111 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.05%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.50%) vSphere
8 24 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.27%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.10%) Squid
16 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.052%) NFS
17 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
17 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 857 (14.73%) Kubernetes
2 433 (7.44%) Ansible
3 258 (4.43%) Grafana
4 166 (2.85%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.43%) Puppet
6 62 (1.07%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 42 (0.72%) Kibana
9 32 (0.55%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
11 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.41%) Rancher
13 21 (0.36%) Podman
13 21 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.33%) logstash
14 19 (0.33%) Packer
15 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 866 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 455 (7.82%) Databricks
3 263 (4.52%) Google
4 150 (2.58%) Splunk
5 127 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 126 (2.16%) VMware
7 121 (2.08%) Oracle
8 105 (1.80%) Cisco
9 92 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 61 (1.05%) Foundry
12 53 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 40 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 39 (0.67%) SAP
15 36 (0.62%) Palo Alto
15 36 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 34 (0.58%) F5
17 32 (0.55%) Informatica
17 32 (0.55%) New Relic