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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,385 5,171 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.86% 11.87% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.31% 40.30% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,876 2,887 4,674
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £130,000 £134,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,666 12,832 21,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.90% 29.46% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,143 8,567 16,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -3 2,618 £85,000 -5.56% 2,978
North of England -12 1,267 £65,000 - 570
South East +3 932 £60,000 - 648
South West +10 613 £60,000 +9.09% 307
North West -17 607 £65,500 +9.17% 302
Midlands +10 579 £62,000 -3.88% 247
Yorkshire +12 413 £65,000 - 168
East of England +8 314 £65,000 +4.00% 291
West Midlands -3 307 £62,500 -3.85% 137
East Midlands +20 271 £53,750 -2.27% 110
North East +26 247 £62,500 -3.85% 104
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
1 245 (3.84%) Apache Spark
2 240 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 184 (2.88%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) SAS
9 24 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
16 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 764 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
5 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 2,588 (40.53%) Azure
2 2,062 (32.29%) AWS
3 1,081 (16.93%) Power Platform
4 945 (14.80%) Azure AI
5 786 (12.31%) GCP
6 391 (6.12%) GitHub
7 373 (5.84%) Serverless
8 258 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 239 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (3.68%) Snowflake
11 233 (3.65%) SaaS
12 225 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
13 206 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 206 (3.23%) dbt
14 172 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 159 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
17 135 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 129 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
19 120 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.59%) Firewall
2 148 (2.32%) Broadband
3 134 (2.10%) DNS
4 129 (2.02%) VPN
5 121 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 112 (1.75%) Network Security
7 96 (1.50%) WAN
8 80 (1.25%) Wireless
9 75 (1.17%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 54 (0.85%) BGP
12 52 (0.81%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.67%) DHCP
14 43 (0.67%) HTTP
15 41 (0.64%) MQTT
16 38 (0.60%) OSPF
17 34 (0.53%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
19 27 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,015 (15.90%) Power BI
2 839 (13.14%) Tableau
3 339 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 295 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 166 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.26%) MongoDB
10 143 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 119 (1.86%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 111 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.72%) MySQL
15 103 (1.61%) Metadata
16 85 (1.33%) DynamoDB
17 80 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 70 (1.10%) Looker
19 69 (1.08%) Delta Lake
20 59 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 698 (10.93%) Git
2 285 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.82%) GitLab
4 167 (2.62%) JIRA
5 71 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 61 (0.96%) MLflow
8 60 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 49 (0.77%) Selenium
10 37 (0.58%) Subversion
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.53%) JUnit
12 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
13 31 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,191 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 1,335 (20.91%) Finance
3 855 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 319 (5.00%) Banking
5 318 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.40%) Law
8 181 (2.83%) Retail
9 165 (2.58%) Marketing
10 132 (2.07%) Legal
11 130 (2.04%) Front Office
11 130 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 87 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 86 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 86 (1.35%) Electronics
14 79 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.10%) Investment Banking
17 66 (1.03%) Games
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,241 (19.44%) Senior
2 970 (15.19%) Analyst
3 888 (13.91%) Developer
4 840 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 795 (12.45%) Data Analyst
6 700 (10.96%) Junior
7 664 (10.40%) Python Engineer
8 634 (9.93%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.71%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.66%) Junior Data Analyst
11 602 (9.43%) Lead
12 470 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 366 (5.73%) Python Developer
14 305 (4.78%) Python Software Engineer
15 243 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
16 217 (3.40%) Architect
17 214 (3.35%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.09%) Senior Developer
19 187 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
19 187 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (6.48%) React
2 295 (4.62%) Kafka
3 247 (3.87%) Node.js
4 235 (3.68%) PySpark
5 228 (3.57%) REST
6 227 (3.56%) .NET
7 207 (3.24%) RESTful
8 204 (3.19%) FastAPI
9 195 (3.05%) Django
10 193 (3.02%) HTML
11 177 (2.77%) PyTorch
12 176 (2.76%) CSS
13 167 (2.62%) LangChain
14 149 (2.33%) Pandas
14 149 (2.33%) TensorFlow
15 135 (2.11%) Flask
16 129 (2.02%) scikit-learn
17 112 (1.75%) Spring
18 110 (1.72%) Spring Boot
19 104 (1.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 571 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 348 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 205 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 194 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 161 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 138 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 97 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
10 89 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 81 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 77 (1.21%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
16 75 (1.17%) Equities
17 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
18 73 (1.14%) Robotics
19 69 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 723 (11.32%) Linux
2 332 (5.20%) Windows
3 97 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.38%) Unix
5 52 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.72%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
13 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.16%) Rocky
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.13%) Solaris
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,730 (42.76%) AI
2 1,616 (25.31%) Software Engineering
3 1,562 (24.46%) CI/CD
4 1,169 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 1,160 (18.17%) Business Intelligence
6 1,146 (17.95%) Agile
7 1,107 (17.34%) Analytics
8 1,078 (16.88%) DevOps
9 998 (15.63%) Machine Learning
10 911 (14.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 793 (12.42%) Mentoring
12 736 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
13 721 (11.29%) Data Engineering
14 674 (10.56%) Data Modelling
15 648 (10.15%) Data Science
16 638 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 601 (9.41%) Containerisation
18 584 (9.15%) Computer Science
19 578 (9.05%) Full-Stack Development
20 568 (8.90%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,355 (36.88%) SQL
2 810 (12.69%) Java
3 672 (10.52%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.58%) C++
5 508 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 481 (7.53%) Bash
7 459 (7.19%) C#
8 409 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.42%) Go
10 186 (2.91%) C
11 171 (2.68%) R
12 132 (2.07%) Scala
13 101 (1.58%) PHP
14 99 (1.55%) Rust
15 90 (1.41%) Bicep
16 74 (1.16%) Perl
17 72 (1.13%) Ruby
18 63 (0.99%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 50 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,075 (16.84%) Azure Certification
2 881 (13.80%) Degree
3 772 (12.09%) Security Cleared
4 435 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 197 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 193 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 119 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 99 (1.55%) PhD
12 81 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.85%) CCNP
14 49 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
17 37 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 268 (4.20%) QA
3 152 (2.38%) GDPR
4 101 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 71 (1.11%) NIST
6 62 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 30 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.36%) SLA
11 22 (0.34%) PMO
12 21 (0.33%) WCAG
13 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 19 (0.30%) GRC
15 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.19%) NCSC
17 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.13%) JTAG
19 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 762 (11.93%) Docker
2 113 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 113 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (0.97%) Firmware
4 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.44%) KVM
6 27 (0.42%) vSphere
7 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
11 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.047%) IAG
14 3 (0.047%) iptables
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 925 (14.49%) Terraform
2 739 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 394 (6.17%) Ansible
4 240 (3.76%) Grafana
5 152 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 51 (0.80%) Argo
7 50 (0.78%) Puppet
8 43 (0.67%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 33 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,411 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 440 (6.89%) Databricks
3 204 (3.19%) Google
4 153 (2.40%) Splunk
5 145 (2.27%) Oracle
6 139 (2.18%) VMware
7 122 (1.91%) Cisco
8 116 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 114 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 75 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 56 (0.88%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.70%) SolarWinds
15 42 (0.66%) F5
16 40 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
16 40 (0.63%) SAP
17 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
18 33 (0.52%) Palantir