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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,055 5,054 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 12.97% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.00% 39.75% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,453 2,964 5,608
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,000 £41,042
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,935 £69,500
% change year-on-year -5.32% +6.38% -4.14%

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 14,416 12,716 27,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 32.64% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 8,884 22,381
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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 2,372 £85,000 -5.56% 1,304
North of England -9 1,212 £60,000 -7.69% 637
South East +2 897 £60,000 -7.69% 672
Midlands +18 659 £55,000 - 335
Yorkshire +17 520 £50,000 -21.88% 201
South West +8 519 £57,500 - 267
North West -28 517 £62,647 -3.62% 320
West Midlands +22 368 £60,000 +9.09% 159
East of England +5 330 £62,500 -5.60% 232
East Midlands +27 291 £55,000 +10.00% 176
North East +21 175 £50,000 -23.08% 120
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
1 208 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 191 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.25%) Apache
4 68 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 42 (0.69%) Confluence
7 35 (0.58%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 14 (0.23%) Appian
11 13 (0.21%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.083%) CMS
13 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,198 (19.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 46 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.17%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.017%) SPSS
9 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
3 4 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,862 (47.27%) Azure
2 1,817 (30.01%) AWS
3 1,434 (23.68%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.73%) Azure AI
5 632 (10.44%) GCP
6 479 (7.91%) GitHub
7 307 (5.07%) Serverless
8 229 (3.78%) SaaS
9 217 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 211 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 192 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) dbt
15 159 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 138 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
17 130 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 94 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
20 87 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 212 (3.50%) Firewall
2 173 (2.86%) Internet
3 162 (2.68%) Broadband
4 123 (2.03%) DNS
5 118 (1.95%) VPN
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 90 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 88 (1.45%) WAN
9 78 (1.29%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 67 (1.11%) BGP
12 53 (0.88%) HTTP
12 53 (0.88%) VLAN
13 49 (0.81%) OSPF
14 45 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (0.53%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,380 (22.79%) Power BI
2 1,274 (21.04%) Tableau
3 273 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 161 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 131 (2.16%) BigQuery
9 130 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 124 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.88%) Data Mining
13 110 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (1.62%) Big Data
15 84 (1.39%) Metadata
16 74 (1.22%) MySQL
17 65 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
18 62 (1.02%) DynamoDB
19 59 (0.97%) Spark SQL
20 51 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 646 (10.67%) Git
2 242 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 221 (3.65%) GitLab
4 118 (1.95%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 46 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.69%) Selenium
9 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.53%) Postman
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
18 17 (0.28%) JUnit
18 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,322 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 1,158 (19.12%) Finance
3 800 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 246 (4.06%) Banking
6 211 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 175 (2.89%) Retail
8 166 (2.74%) Law
9 157 (2.59%) Multimedia
10 138 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.15%) Front Office
12 103 (1.70%) Marketing
13 96 (1.59%) Legal
14 94 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 76 (1.26%) Electronics
16 62 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
17 61 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 55 (0.91%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.89%) Games
20 51 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,400 (23.12%) Analyst
2 1,221 (20.17%) Data Analyst
3 1,030 (17.01%) Junior
4 994 (16.42%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.42%) Junior Data Analyst
5 903 (14.91%) Senior
6 902 (14.90%) Developer
7 587 (9.69%) Software Engineer
8 524 (8.65%) Data Engineer
9 483 (7.98%) Lead
10 467 (7.71%) Python Engineer
11 405 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 392 (6.47%) Python Developer
13 302 (4.99%) Trainee
14 206 (3.40%) Python Software Engineer
15 194 (3.20%) Software Developer
16 177 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 172 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 164 (2.71%) Architect
19 156 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (6.19%) React
2 296 (4.89%) HTML
3 259 (4.28%) CSS
4 250 (4.13%) Kafka
5 214 (3.53%) PySpark
6 203 (3.35%) Node.js
6 203 (3.35%) REST
7 188 (3.10%) .NET
8 178 (2.94%) RESTful
9 171 (2.82%) Django
10 163 (2.69%) Pandas
11 159 (2.63%) PyTorch
12 141 (2.33%) FastAPI
13 134 (2.21%) TensorFlow
14 124 (2.05%) scikit-learn
15 114 (1.88%) Flask
16 105 (1.73%) NumPy
17 104 (1.72%) LangChain
18 103 (1.70%) JSON
19 81 (1.34%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 354 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 303 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 260 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 126 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 109 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 87 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 82 (1.35%) Management Information System
15 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 76 (1.26%) Equities
17 76 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 70 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
19 68 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 605 (9.99%) Linux
2 254 (4.19%) Windows
3 113 (1.87%) Unix
4 71 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.099%) Solaris
16 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,559 (42.26%) AI
2 1,477 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
3 1,245 (20.56%) CI/CD
4 1,146 (18.93%) Software Engineering
5 957 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
6 949 (15.67%) Analytics
7 941 (15.54%) Agile
8 918 (15.16%) DevOps
9 758 (12.52%) Machine Learning
10 709 (11.71%) Mentoring
11 692 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 585 (9.66%) Data Modelling
13 564 (9.31%) Data Pipeline
14 559 (9.23%) Data Engineering
15 545 (9.00%) Data Science
16 538 (8.89%) ETL
17 528 (8.72%) Computer Science
18 513 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 480 (7.93%) Containerisation
19 480 (7.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,469 (40.78%) SQL
2 694 (11.46%) JavaScript
3 658 (10.87%) Java
4 449 (7.42%) PowerShell
5 435 (7.18%) Bash
6 375 (6.19%) C++
7 369 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 353 (5.83%) C#
9 281 (4.64%) Go
10 211 (3.48%) R
11 163 (2.69%) C
12 120 (1.98%) Scala
13 82 (1.35%) Rust
14 65 (1.07%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 54 (0.89%) Bicep
17 43 (0.71%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 37 (0.61%) MATLAB
20 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,522 (25.14%) Azure Certification
2 769 (12.70%) Degree
3 543 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 318 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 275 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 213 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 210 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 179 (2.96%) DV Cleared
10 148 (2.44%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.49%) PhD
12 79 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.69%) CISSP
17 33 (0.55%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.48%) CCIE
19 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 227 (3.75%) QA
3 127 (2.10%) GDPR
4 99 (1.64%) NIST
5 84 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) SLA
13 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 579 (9.56%) Docker
2 107 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.40%) KVM
8 17 (0.28%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Squid
14 3 (0.050%) IAG
14 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 735 (12.14%) Terraform
2 609 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 346 (5.71%) Ansible
4 197 (3.25%) Grafana
5 158 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.97%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 32 (0.53%) Puppet
9 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (0.41%) Kibana
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.26%) Packer
12 16 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.23%) Podman
14 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,868 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 322 (5.32%) Databricks
3 205 (3.39%) Google
4 127 (2.10%) Cisco
5 125 (2.06%) Oracle
6 123 (2.03%) VMware
7 103 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
8 98 (1.62%) Splunk
9 55 (0.91%) Foundry
10 54 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 54 (0.89%) SAP
11 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.71%) Informatica
17 42 (0.69%) F5
18 41 (0.68%) Palantir