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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,789 4,504 6,574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.56% 10.53% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.86% 40.41% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 2,547 4,054
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.33% +4.17%

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 16,605 11,145 20,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.95% 26.07% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,091 7,427 12,111
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,862 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -2 2,612 £85,000 - 4,725
North of England -21 1,029 £66,805 +11.34% 743
South East +16 763 £62,500 +8.70% 594
South West +4 556 £63,500 +15.45% 340
North West -23 549 £67,500 +12.50% 416
Midlands -9 448 £62,500 +4.17% 301
East of England +12 321 £70,000 +21.74% 365
Yorkshire -3 245 £65,000 - 209
West Midlands -18 242 £65,000 +8.33% 190
North East +15 238 £67,500 +50.00% 121
East Midlands +16 204 £55,000 -15.38% 111
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
1 210 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 173 (2.99%) Apache
3 167 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.16%) Confluence
5 40 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.50%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.16%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) CMS
16 6 (0.10%) JBoss
17 5 (0.086%) Headless CMS
18 4 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 227 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
10 5 (0.086%) Mathematica
11 4 (0.069%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.069%) Revit
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
12 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.052%) SPSS
13 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.069%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.035%) Line 50
7 2 (0.035%) Odoo
7 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Magento
8 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.017%) Quorum
8 1 (0.017%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,907 (32.94%) Azure
2 1,898 (32.79%) AWS
3 756 (13.06%) GCP
4 632 (10.92%) Power Platform
5 402 (6.94%) GitHub
6 340 (5.87%) Serverless
7 265 (4.58%) SaaS
8 257 (4.44%) Azure AI
9 250 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
10 230 (3.97%) Amazon S3
11 228 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 227 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 206 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 205 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 188 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 186 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
17 172 (2.97%) dbt
18 136 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
19 132 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 126 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 221 (3.82%) Firewall
2 155 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 152 (2.63%) DNS
4 150 (2.59%) VPN
5 109 (1.88%) Network Security
6 88 (1.52%) WAN
7 76 (1.31%) Wireless
8 68 (1.17%) BGP
9 66 (1.14%) Broadband
10 63 (1.09%) LAN
11 59 (1.02%) DHCP
12 51 (0.88%) MQTT
13 45 (0.78%) VLAN
14 43 (0.74%) HTTP
15 42 (0.73%) OSPF
15 42 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 33 (0.57%) SSL
17 27 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
18 25 (0.43%) 5G
19 24 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 565 (9.76%) Power BI
2 336 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
3 310 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 241 (4.16%) Tableau
5 194 (3.35%) Data Lake
6 181 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.66%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.57%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.47%) MongoDB
10 127 (2.19%) Big Data
11 119 (2.06%) Metadata
12 118 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 114 (1.97%) MySQL
14 111 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
15 97 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 85 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.26%) Delta Lake
20 71 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 675 (11.66%) Git
2 318 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 266 (4.59%) GitLab
4 169 (2.92%) JIRA
5 75 (1.30%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.92%) Subversion
7 48 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.78%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 36 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 30 (0.52%) LabVIEW
15 27 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.36%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 17 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,668 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 1,405 (24.27%) Finance
3 859 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 374 (6.46%) Banking
6 265 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 238 (4.11%) Marketing
8 223 (3.85%) Law
9 173 (2.99%) Retail
10 138 (2.38%) Legal
11 114 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 114 (1.97%) Front Office
12 99 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 98 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 95 (1.64%) Electronics
15 87 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.11%) Games
18 52 (0.90%) Investment Banking
19 50 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,274 (22.01%) Senior
2 893 (15.43%) Software Engineer
3 815 (14.08%) Developer
4 705 (12.18%) Python Engineer
5 632 (10.92%) Data Engineer
6 622 (10.74%) Lead
7 452 (7.81%) Analyst
8 362 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 360 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 358 (6.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 263 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 253 (4.37%) Data Analyst
13 226 (3.90%) Data Scientist
14 224 (3.87%) Architect
15 215 (3.71%) Senior Developer
16 211 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
17 197 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
18 178 (3.07%) Consultant
18 178 (3.07%) Junior
19 171 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (16.72%) Terraform
2 393 (6.79%) React
3 261 (4.51%) REST
4 232 (4.01%) .NET
4 232 (4.01%) Node.js
5 231 (3.99%) PySpark
6 220 (3.80%) FastAPI
7 214 (3.70%) Kafka
8 199 (3.44%) RESTful
9 186 (3.21%) LangChain
10 167 (2.88%) Django
11 155 (2.68%) PyTorch
12 136 (2.35%) TensorFlow
13 133 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 132 (2.28%) CSS
14 132 (2.28%) Spring
15 127 (2.19%) HTML
16 108 (1.87%) Flask
16 108 (1.87%) LangGraph
17 88 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 621 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 299 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.94%) AI Agents
4 281 (4.85%) Algorithms
5 247 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 142 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 112 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.66%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.62%) Robotics
11 93 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 89 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 86 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 85 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
15 82 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
16 78 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
17 67 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (1.11%) Equities
18 64 (1.11%) FPGA
19 63 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 724 (12.51%) Linux
2 326 (5.63%) Windows
3 80 (1.38%) Unix
4 76 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.78%) CentOS
7 38 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 31 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) macOS
11 17 (0.29%) Rocky
12 16 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 15 (0.26%) Windows 10
14 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
15 10 (0.17%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) VMS
16 9 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
17 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,295 (39.64%) AI
2 1,724 (29.78%) Software Engineering
3 1,658 (28.64%) CI/CD
4 1,246 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 1,178 (20.35%) Analytics
6 1,104 (19.07%) DevOps
7 1,077 (18.60%) Agile
8 1,051 (18.16%) Machine Learning
9 975 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 796 (13.75%) Mentoring
11 764 (13.20%) Data Engineering
12 757 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
13 731 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
14 702 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 675 (11.66%) Data Modelling
16 652 (11.26%) Decision-Making
17 636 (10.99%) Data Science
18 616 (10.64%) Containerisation
19 604 (10.43%) Test Automation
20 586 (10.12%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,912 (33.03%) SQL
2 837 (14.46%) Java
3 607 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 550 (9.50%) C++
5 545 (9.41%) Bash
6 485 (8.38%) PowerShell
7 480 (8.29%) C#
8 422 (7.29%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.78%) Go
10 201 (3.47%) C
11 176 (3.04%) R
12 112 (1.93%) Rust
13 107 (1.85%) Scala
14 95 (1.64%) Bicep
15 92 (1.59%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 82 (1.42%) Perl
17 82 (1.42%) PHP
18 76 (1.31%) Ruby
19 56 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 951 (16.43%) Degree
2 904 (15.62%) Security Cleared
3 501 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 334 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 295 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 295 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 230 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 137 (2.37%) PhD
8 117 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 85 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
10 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 68 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 66 (1.14%) CISSP
13 43 (0.74%) CCNP
14 40 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
16 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 32 (0.55%) CCNA
17 31 (0.54%) CISM
18 29 (0.50%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 594 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 244 (4.21%) QA
3 123 (2.12%) GDPR
4 111 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 82 (1.42%) NIST
6 68 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.45%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 21 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.29%) WCAG
14 13 (0.22%) EU AI Act
15 12 (0.21%) PMO
16 11 (0.19%) GRC
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.14%) JTAG
19 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
19 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 819 (14.15%) Docker
2 111 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.07%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.50%) vSphere
8 24 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.10%) Squid
16 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.052%) NFS
17 2 (0.035%) IAG
17 2 (0.035%) iptables
17 2 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 855 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 432 (7.46%) Ansible
3 257 (4.44%) Grafana
4 165 (2.85%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.43%) Puppet
6 62 (1.07%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 42 (0.73%) Kibana
9 32 (0.55%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
11 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.41%) Rancher
13 21 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 21 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.35%) Podman
15 19 (0.33%) logstash
15 19 (0.33%) Packer
16 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
17 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 860 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 450 (7.77%) Databricks
3 261 (4.51%) Google
4 150 (2.59%) Splunk
5 126 (2.18%) OpenAI
5 126 (2.18%) VMware
6 121 (2.09%) Oracle
7 105 (1.81%) Cisco
8 91 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 67 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 60 (1.04%) Foundry
11 53 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 39 (0.67%) Fortinet
12 39 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 39 (0.67%) SAP
13 36 (0.62%) Palo Alto
13 36 (0.62%) SolarWinds
14 34 (0.59%) F5
15 32 (0.55%) Informatica
15 32 (0.55%) New Relic