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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,069 5,130 7,681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.38% 13.06% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.30% 40.53% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,571 2,844 5,813
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
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 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 15,061 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.31% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,798 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £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 11 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 11 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 2,427 £85,000 -5.56% 807
North of England -10 1,241 £61,418 -5.51% 369
South East +2 875 £60,500 -3.20% 521
Midlands +29 644 £60,000 +9.09% 160
North West -15 574 £65,000 - 201
South West +5 528 £58,497 +1.78% 184
Yorkshire +11 471 £60,500 -6.92% 113
West Midlands +20 340 £60,000 +6.67% 86
East Midlands +29 304 £55,000 +20.88% 73
East of England -5 294 £70,000 +5.73% 154
North East +24 196 £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 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 200 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 153 (2.52%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 51 (0.84%) Confluence
6 47 (0.77%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.21%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
14 6 (0.099%) CMS
14 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 975 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) 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 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,687 (44.27%) Azure
2 1,894 (31.21%) AWS
3 1,242 (20.46%) Power Platform
4 1,127 (18.57%) Azure AI
5 678 (11.17%) GCP
6 431 (7.10%) GitHub
7 328 (5.40%) Serverless
8 241 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.84%) SaaS
10 215 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 207 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.95%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.74%) dbt
14 161 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 155 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 155 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 144 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
17 118 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 105 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
19 99 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.84%) Firewall
2 192 (3.16%) Broadband
3 130 (2.14%) VPN
4 122 (2.01%) DNS
5 119 (1.96%) Internet
6 107 (1.76%) Network Security
7 100 (1.65%) WAN
8 93 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 84 (1.38%) LAN
10 76 (1.25%) Wireless
11 64 (1.05%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 53 (0.87%) VLAN
14 52 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 46 (0.76%) OSPF
16 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 39 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
18 30 (0.49%) DHCP
18 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,184 (19.51%) Power BI
2 1,055 (17.38%) Tableau
3 286 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 243 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 163 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.32%) BigQuery
9 141 (2.32%) MongoDB
10 114 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 114 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 106 (1.75%) Big Data
12 92 (1.52%) Metadata
13 83 (1.37%) Data Mining
14 80 (1.32%) MySQL
15 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
15 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
16 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
17 54 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 637 (10.50%) Git
2 260 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 233 (3.84%) GitLab
4 140 (2.31%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.97%) MLflow
7 50 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.64%) Selenium
9 36 (0.59%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JMeter
16 18 (0.30%) JUnit
16 18 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 2,159 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 1,192 (19.64%) Finance
3 824 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 264 (4.35%) Banking
6 216 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.03%) Retail
8 156 (2.57%) Law
9 129 (2.13%) Front Office
10 128 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 105 (1.73%) Legal
12 104 (1.71%) Multimedia
13 95 (1.57%) Marketing
14 88 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.20%) Electronics
16 68 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 61 (1.01%) Games
19 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,194 (19.67%) Analyst
2 1,022 (16.84%) Data Analyst
3 1,018 (16.77%) Senior
4 914 (15.06%) Developer
5 852 (14.04%) Junior
6 806 (13.28%) Junior Analyst
6 806 (13.28%) Junior Data Analyst
7 657 (10.83%) Software Engineer
8 564 (9.29%) Data Engineer
9 519 (8.55%) Python Engineer
10 509 (8.39%) Lead
11 446 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 385 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 233 (3.84%) Python Software Engineer
14 221 (3.64%) Trainee
15 189 (3.11%) Data Scientist
16 186 (3.06%) Architect
17 182 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
18 181 (2.98%) Software Developer
19 175 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.31%) React
2 262 (4.32%) Kafka
3 234 (3.86%) HTML
4 227 (3.74%) Node.js
5 223 (3.67%) PySpark
6 218 (3.59%) CSS
7 213 (3.51%) REST
8 199 (3.28%) .NET
9 185 (3.05%) RESTful
10 175 (2.88%) PyTorch
11 169 (2.78%) Django
11 169 (2.78%) FastAPI
12 156 (2.57%) Pandas
13 148 (2.44%) TensorFlow
14 135 (2.22%) LangChain
15 124 (2.04%) Flask
16 123 (2.03%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.76%) NumPy
18 97 (1.60%) JSON
19 92 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 447 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 320 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 291 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 182 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 140 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 128 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 114 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 104 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 98 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 94 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 85 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 84 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
15 80 (1.32%) Equities
16 79 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
17 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
18 72 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
19 65 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
19 65 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 621 (10.23%) Linux
2 263 (4.33%) Windows
3 97 (1.60%) Unix
4 83 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 36 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) 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 (0.16%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
15 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,543 (41.90%) AI
2 1,339 (22.06%) CI/CD
3 1,288 (21.22%) Business Intelligence
4 1,284 (21.16%) Software Engineering
5 1,022 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 1,004 (16.54%) Agile
7 977 (16.10%) Analytics
8 958 (15.79%) DevOps
9 853 (14.06%) Machine Learning
10 769 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (12.21%) Mentoring
12 613 (10.10%) Data Modelling
13 601 (9.90%) Data Engineering
14 600 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
15 592 (9.75%) Data Science
16 535 (8.82%) Computer Science
17 523 (8.62%) Containerisation
18 522 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 521 (8.58%) Full-Stack Development
20 516 (8.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2,373 (39.10%) SQL
2 673 (11.09%) Java
3 672 (11.07%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.91%) PowerShell
5 456 (7.51%) Bash
6 428 (7.05%) C++
7 387 (6.38%) C#
8 379 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 292 (4.81%) Go
10 197 (3.25%) R
11 158 (2.60%) C
12 126 (2.08%) Scala
13 85 (1.40%) Rust
14 78 (1.29%) PHP
15 65 (1.07%) Bicep
16 55 (0.91%) VBA
17 54 (0.89%) MATLAB
18 47 (0.77%) Perl
19 45 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,292 (21.29%) Azure Certification
2 773 (12.74%) Degree
3 605 (9.97%) Security Cleared
4 361 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 281 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 249 (4.10%) AWS Certification
7 196 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 163 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 161 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 151 (2.49%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.43%) PhD
12 82 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.82%) OSCP
15 40 (0.66%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 31 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.44%) CCIE
19 25 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 228 (3.76%) QA
3 126 (2.08%) GDPR
4 92 (1.52%) NIST
5 76 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) 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 18 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 10 (0.16%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 625 (10.30%) Docker
2 104 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.94%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 14 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 814 (13.41%) Terraform
2 649 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 354 (5.83%) Ansible
4 210 (3.46%) Grafana
5 173 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.07%) Argo
7 41 (0.68%) Nagios
8 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 27 (0.44%) Kibana
11 24 (0.40%) Istio
11 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 23 (0.38%) Packer
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,638 (26.99%) Microsoft
2 347 (5.72%) Databricks
3 207 (3.41%) Google
4 131 (2.16%) VMware
5 125 (2.06%) Cisco
6 124 (2.04%) Oracle
7 122 (2.01%) Splunk
8 101 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 98 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 60 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 58 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 57 (0.94%) Foundry
13 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 53 (0.87%) SolarWinds
14 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.72%) SAP
17 41 (0.68%) F5
18 36 (0.59%) Palantir
19 31 (0.51%) Arista