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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,236 4,464 6,784
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 12.29% 8.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.17% 35.65% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,198 3,220 5,397
10th Percentile £32,737 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,735 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.67% +11.11% -6.25%

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 12,415 12,521 26,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.06% 34.48% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,942 9,289 22,149
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 27 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 27 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 -1 2,234 £83,500 -7.22% 1,152
North of England -4 968 £47,500 -26.92% 475
South East -10 715 £60,000 -8.40% 576
Midlands +3 520 £55,200 +0.36% 255
South West +5 449 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +10 425 £45,000 -30.23% 164
North West -8 401 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +23 322 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -18 281 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -6 199 £55,000 - 125
North East +17 142 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 204 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 131 (2.50%) Apache
4 68 (1.30%) WordPress
5 62 (1.18%) Jupyter
6 34 (0.65%) Confluence
7 33 (0.63%) SAS
8 32 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.32%) Appian
12 14 (0.27%) IIS
12 14 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
17 5 (0.095%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.076%) Apache Solr
18 4 (0.076%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,038 (19.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.26%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.076%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.076%) CATIA
8 4 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.076%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.076%) Windchill
9 2 (0.038%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.038%) Weka
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Houdini
10 1 (0.019%) Notion
10 1 (0.019%) NUKE
10 1 (0.019%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.095%) Shopify
3 5 (0.095%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.076%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.057%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.038%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.038%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.019%) Actimize
7 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.019%) Endur
7 1 (0.019%) Findur
7 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.019%) Primavera
7 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,382 (45.49%) Azure
2 1,761 (33.63%) AWS
3 1,199 (22.90%) Power Platform
4 841 (16.06%) Azure AI
5 602 (11.50%) GitHub
6 580 (11.08%) GCP
7 281 (5.37%) Serverless
8 202 (3.86%) Amazon S3
8 202 (3.86%) SaaS
9 183 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 179 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 172 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 167 (3.19%) dbt
13 163 (3.11%) Snowflake
14 160 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
15 122 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 120 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 103 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
18 92 (1.76%) OpenShift
19 90 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.19%) Internet
2 186 (3.55%) Firewall
3 131 (2.50%) Broadband
4 110 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 103 (1.97%) VPN
6 97 (1.85%) DNS
7 72 (1.38%) Network Security
8 71 (1.36%) WAN
9 68 (1.30%) LAN
10 63 (1.20%) BGP
11 61 (1.17%) Wireless
12 57 (1.09%) VLAN
13 50 (0.95%) HTTP
14 44 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.82%) OSPF
16 38 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (0.63%) MPLS
17 33 (0.63%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.59%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,162 (22.19%) Power BI
2 1,132 (21.62%) Tableau
3 268 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
4 214 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.25%) Data Mining
7 168 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.81%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 106 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.76%) Big Data
15 86 (1.64%) Metadata
16 80 (1.53%) MySQL
17 73 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (0.97%) Looker
19 48 (0.92%) Delta Lake
20 46 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 671 (12.82%) Git
2 214 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.40%) GitLab
4 104 (1.99%) JIRA
5 64 (1.22%) MLflow
6 59 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 55 (1.05%) Selenium
8 37 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 36 (0.69%) Postman
10 33 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 25 (0.48%) IBM UrbanCode
11 25 (0.48%) JUnit
12 22 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 21 (0.40%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.38%) JMeter
15 19 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 19 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.32%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 1,846 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 1,165 (22.25%) Finance
3 841 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (5.18%) Banking
5 260 (4.97%) Multimedia
6 213 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 204 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 170 (3.25%) Retail
9 166 (3.17%) Law
10 150 (2.86%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.58%) Front Office
12 121 (2.31%) Marketing
13 108 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.66%) Legal
15 72 (1.38%) Electronics
15 72 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.36%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.18%) Investment Banking
18 44 (0.84%) Games
18 44 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,243 (23.74%) Analyst
2 1,060 (20.24%) Data Analyst
3 852 (16.27%) Developer
4 792 (15.13%) Junior
5 757 (14.46%) Junior Analyst
5 757 (14.46%) Junior Data Analyst
5 757 (14.46%) Senior
6 482 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 455 (8.69%) Trainee
8 440 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 409 (7.81%) Lead
10 344 (6.57%) Python Developer
11 332 (6.34%) Python Engineer
12 215 (4.11%) Software Developer
13 157 (3.00%) Architect
14 151 (2.88%) Senior Developer
15 147 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
16 145 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (2.75%) Trainee Analyst
17 144 (2.75%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (7.73%) HTML
2 375 (7.16%) React
3 357 (6.82%) CSS
4 233 (4.45%) Kafka
5 212 (4.05%) Node.js
6 199 (3.80%) Django
7 190 (3.63%) REST
8 175 (3.34%) PySpark
9 160 (3.06%) RESTful
10 156 (2.98%) PyTorch
11 144 (2.75%) .NET
12 143 (2.73%) Pandas
13 136 (2.60%) FastAPI
14 135 (2.58%) TensorFlow
15 126 (2.41%) scikit-learn
16 124 (2.37%) Flask
17 99 (1.89%) JSON
18 93 (1.78%) NumPy
19 84 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
20 81 (1.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 282 (5.39%) Cloud Native
2 250 (4.77%) Algorithms
3 202 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 103 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 88 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 85 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 85 (1.62%) Equities
9 85 (1.62%) Fixed Income
10 82 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 78 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 78 (1.49%) Hedge funds
12 73 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 71 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
14 69 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
15 67 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 65 (1.24%) Security Posture
17 63 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 546 (10.43%) Linux
2 219 (4.18%) Windows
3 180 (3.44%) Unix
4 68 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.76%) CentOS
7 27 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.21%) Debian
10 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Android
11 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.11%) Solaris
12 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.095%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.076%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.057%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.057%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,930 (36.86%) AI
2 1,273 (24.31%) Business Intelligence
3 1,109 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 982 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 953 (18.20%) Analytics
6 886 (16.92%) Agile
7 878 (16.77%) Software Engineering
8 834 (15.93%) DevOps
9 729 (13.92%) Mentoring
10 683 (13.04%) Machine Learning
11 569 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 559 (10.68%) Data Modelling
13 540 (10.31%) Data Science
14 535 (10.22%) ETL
15 534 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
16 503 (9.61%) Data Engineering
17 485 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 484 (9.24%) Computer Science
19 479 (9.15%) Containerisation
20 430 (8.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,232 (42.63%) SQL
2 800 (15.28%) JavaScript
3 601 (11.48%) Java
4 400 (7.64%) Bash
5 390 (7.45%) PowerShell
6 327 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 282 (5.39%) C#
8 264 (5.04%) R
9 262 (5.00%) C++
10 259 (4.95%) Go
11 130 (2.48%) C
12 101 (1.93%) Scala
13 70 (1.34%) Rust
14 69 (1.32%) VBA
15 64 (1.22%) PHP
16 44 (0.84%) Bicep
17 42 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.69%) Perl
20 30 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,137 (21.72%) Azure Certification
2 774 (14.78%) Degree
3 442 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 411 (7.85%) AWS Certification
5 313 (5.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 305 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 259 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 248 (4.74%) SC Cleared
9 172 (3.28%) DV Cleared
10 129 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.70%) PhD
12 67 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.07%) CCNP
14 51 (0.97%) CISSP
15 44 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.82%) OSCP
17 37 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.55%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.55%) DBS Check
19 27 (0.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 204 (3.90%) QA
3 125 (2.39%) GDPR
4 113 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.04%) NIST
6 62 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 36 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.46%) PMO
11 22 (0.42%) SLA
12 21 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 20 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.34%) GRC
15 17 (0.32%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.15%) WCAG
18 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 573 (10.94%) Docker
2 96 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.65%) Firmware
5 33 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.38%) KVM
8 16 (0.31%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.095%) iptables
12 5 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.057%) HDFS
14 3 (0.057%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 642 (12.26%) Terraform
2 592 (11.31%) Kubernetes
3 328 (6.26%) Ansible
4 175 (3.34%) Grafana
5 147 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.15%) Argo
7 28 (0.53%) Nagios
8 23 (0.44%) Puppet
9 21 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.34%) Kibana
12 17 (0.32%) Istio
13 12 (0.23%) Nessus
13 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.21%) Control-M
14 11 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.21%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,703 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 299 (5.71%) Databricks
3 204 (3.90%) Google
4 144 (2.75%) Oracle
5 118 (2.25%) Cisco
5 118 (2.25%) VMware
6 100 (1.91%) Red Hat
7 73 (1.39%) SAP
8 69 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.32%) Splunk
9 62 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 49 (0.94%) Informatica
12 48 (0.92%) Fortinet
13 44 (0.84%) Dell
13 44 (0.84%) Foundry
14 41 (0.78%) Bloomberg
14 41 (0.78%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.78%) Talend
15 40 (0.76%) Palantir