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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,779 4,804 6,649
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.41% 12.20% 9.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.90% 34.94% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,001 3,250 5,356
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,125 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.80%

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 11,685 13,751 25,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.11% 34.92% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,513 9,373 21,839
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 11 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 11 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 0 2,114 £82,500 -5.71% 953
North of England -5 847 £45,000 -30.77% 504
South East -16 626 £62,500 -7.41% 758
Midlands -6 464 £55,200 +0.36% 272
South West +6 411 £57,998 -10.77% 295
Yorkshire +8 366 £40,000 -38.46% 207
North West -10 356 £55,000 -15.38% 221
West Midlands +11 299 £60,000 +9.09% 132
East of England -20 245 £50,000 -24.51% 296
East Midlands -15 167 £55,000 - 137
North East +19 125 £40,000 -38.46% 81
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
1 185 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.78%) Apache
4 60 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 35 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.69%) SAS
7 28 (0.59%) Confluence
7 28 (0.59%) WordPress
8 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 19 (0.40%) Appian
11 15 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 14 (0.29%) IIS
13 9 (0.19%) nginx
13 9 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
15 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.084%) GeoServer
Applications
1 907 (18.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.17%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.084%) Windchill
10 3 (0.063%) CATIA
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) Weka
12 1 (0.021%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) NUKE
12 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.084%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.063%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.042%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.021%) Actimize
8 1 (0.021%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.021%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.021%) Primavera
8 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.021%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,063 (43.17%) Azure
2 1,632 (34.15%) AWS
3 1,043 (21.82%) Power Platform
4 651 (13.62%) Azure AI
5 552 (11.55%) GitHub
6 516 (10.80%) GCP
7 269 (5.63%) Serverless
8 196 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 192 (4.02%) SaaS
10 177 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 176 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
12 166 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
13 157 (3.29%) Snowflake
14 148 (3.10%) dbt
15 142 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 121 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 108 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
18 96 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 84 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
20 82 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 241 (5.04%) Internet
2 176 (3.68%) Firewall
3 109 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 102 (2.13%) VPN
5 95 (1.99%) Broadband
6 89 (1.86%) DNS
7 68 (1.42%) WAN
8 63 (1.32%) LAN
9 61 (1.28%) Network Security
10 59 (1.23%) BGP
11 57 (1.19%) Wireless
12 56 (1.17%) VLAN
13 50 (1.05%) HTTP
14 48 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.88%) OSPF
16 34 (0.71%) MPLS
17 33 (0.69%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (0.67%) Wireshark
19 26 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,007 (21.07%) Power BI
2 969 (20.28%) Tableau
3 241 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 206 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 168 (3.52%) Data Mining
7 160 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 141 (2.95%) Relational Database
9 116 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 100 (2.09%) MongoDB
11 96 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 95 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (1.97%) Big Data
14 91 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
15 84 (1.76%) Metadata
16 77 (1.61%) MySQL
17 66 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
18 48 (1.00%) Hadoop
19 44 (0.92%) Delta Lake
20 42 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 619 (12.95%) Git
2 211 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 172 (3.60%) GitLab
4 96 (2.01%) JIRA
5 53 (1.11%) Selenium
6 52 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 50 (1.05%) MLflow
8 39 (0.82%) Postman
9 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 27 (0.56%) JUnit
12 25 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.46%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.42%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.42%) JMeter
14 20 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 18 (0.38%) Metasploit
15 18 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 1,640 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (23.44%) Finance
3 794 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (5.59%) Banking
5 226 (4.73%) Multimedia
6 205 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 198 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 166 (3.47%) Law
9 160 (3.35%) Retail
10 139 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 138 (2.89%) Front Office
12 122 (2.55%) Marketing
13 108 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.72%) Legal
15 74 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
16 73 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.46%) Investment Banking
18 69 (1.44%) Electronics
19 46 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
20 39 (0.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,112 (23.27%) Analyst
2 923 (19.31%) Data Analyst
3 799 (16.72%) Developer
4 702 (14.69%) Senior
5 643 (13.45%) Junior
6 614 (12.85%) Junior Analyst
6 614 (12.85%) Junior Data Analyst
7 443 (9.27%) Data Engineer
8 419 (8.77%) Trainee
9 403 (8.43%) Software Engineer
10 371 (7.76%) Lead
11 311 (6.51%) Python Developer
12 290 (6.07%) Python Engineer
13 201 (4.21%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.14%) Architect
15 145 (3.03%) Senior Developer
16 143 (2.99%) Trainee Analyst
16 143 (2.99%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 136 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
18 134 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (7.68%) HTML
2 359 (7.51%) React
3 316 (6.61%) CSS
4 206 (4.31%) Kafka
5 198 (4.14%) Node.js
6 182 (3.81%) Django
7 180 (3.77%) REST
8 161 (3.37%) PySpark
9 150 (3.14%) RESTful
10 134 (2.80%) FastAPI
11 133 (2.78%) .NET
11 133 (2.78%) Pandas
12 129 (2.70%) PyTorch
13 117 (2.45%) TensorFlow
14 111 (2.32%) Flask
15 102 (2.13%) scikit-learn
16 95 (1.99%) JSON
17 86 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
18 85 (1.78%) NumPy
19 84 (1.76%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 247 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 231 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 184 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 167 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 114 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 86 (1.80%) Equities
8 86 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 84 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 77 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 77 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 74 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 72 (1.51%) Hedge funds
13 68 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 68 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 62 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 60 (1.26%) Derivative
15 60 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 509 (10.65%) Linux
2 212 (4.44%) Windows
3 180 (3.77%) Unix
4 63 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.84%) CentOS
7 29 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.23%) Debian
10 11 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.21%) Android
12 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.063%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
15 3 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,664 (34.82%) AI
2 1,112 (23.27%) Business Intelligence
3 1,059 (22.16%) CI/CD
4 936 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
5 905 (18.94%) Analytics
6 848 (17.74%) Agile
7 808 (16.91%) Software Engineering
8 801 (16.76%) DevOps
9 697 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 615 (12.87%) Machine Learning
11 537 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 511 (10.69%) Data Science
13 510 (10.67%) Data Modelling
14 508 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
14 508 (10.63%) ETL
15 470 (9.83%) Data Engineering
16 463 (9.69%) Computer Science
17 456 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 455 (9.52%) Containerisation
19 435 (9.10%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,021 (42.29%) SQL
2 757 (15.84%) JavaScript
3 592 (12.39%) Java
4 393 (8.22%) Bash
5 373 (7.80%) PowerShell
6 320 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 261 (5.46%) C#
8 240 (5.02%) C++
9 233 (4.88%) Go
10 227 (4.75%) R
11 123 (2.57%) C
12 89 (1.86%) Scala
13 72 (1.51%) VBA
14 71 (1.49%) Rust
15 57 (1.19%) PHP
16 43 (0.90%) Bicep
17 37 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 35 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 33 (0.69%) MATLAB
20 31 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 910 (19.04%) Azure Certification
2 770 (16.11%) Degree
3 454 (9.50%) Security Cleared
4 377 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 275 (5.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 275 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 268 (5.61%) SC Cleared
7 235 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 171 (3.58%) DV Cleared
9 131 (2.74%) Master's Degree
10 88 (1.84%) PhD
11 64 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (1.17%) CCNP
13 50 (1.05%) CISSP
14 46 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
15 41 (0.86%) OSCP
16 40 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 30 (0.63%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
19 27 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 181 (3.79%) QA
3 110 (2.30%) GDPR
4 108 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (2.20%) NIST
6 67 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.48%) SLA
10 22 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.42%) PMO
12 18 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.33%) ISO 22301
14 14 (0.29%) GRC
15 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.15%) WCAG
17 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 560 (11.72%) Docker
2 93 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.61%) Firmware
5 24 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.38%) KVM
8 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
8 14 (0.29%) vSphere
9 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.15%) Lustre
10 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.10%) iptables
13 4 (0.084%) HDFS
13 4 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.042%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 597 (12.49%) Terraform
2 578 (12.09%) Kubernetes
3 319 (6.68%) Ansible
4 161 (3.37%) Grafana
5 144 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.32%) Argo
7 25 (0.52%) Nagios
7 25 (0.52%) Puppet
8 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (0.42%) Kibana
9 20 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.27%) Control-M
11 12 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.25%) logstash
11 12 (0.25%) Nessus
11 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.21%) Istio
13 10 (0.21%) Rancher
13 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,500 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.31%) Databricks
3 203 (4.25%) Google
4 141 (2.95%) Oracle
5 113 (2.36%) VMware
6 107 (2.24%) Cisco
7 95 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.49%) SAP
9 69 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 66 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 66 (1.38%) Splunk
11 54 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.03%) Informatica
13 42 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 42 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 41 (0.86%) Foundry
15 39 (0.82%) Alteryx
15 39 (0.82%) Palantir
15 39 (0.82%) Talend
16 36 (0.75%) MuleSoft