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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,799 4,710 6,642
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.58% 10.93% 10.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.09% 41.28% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,700 2,567 4,083
10th Percentile £43,953 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,788 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £128,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 16,528 11,409 20,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.48% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,015 7,482 12,322
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,150
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 10 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 10 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 -3 2,565 £85,000 -2.58% 6,656
North of England -21 1,043 £66,805 +11.34% 918
South East +5 785 £62,500 +8.70% 885
South West +3 565 £62,500 +13.64% 442
North West -25 546 £67,500 +12.50% 514
Midlands -8 466 £62,500 +4.17% 414
East of England +8 317 £70,000 +21.74% 579
Yorkshire +4 259 £65,000 - 270
West Midlands -14 250 £65,000 +8.33% 257
North East +15 241 £67,500 +50.00% 136
East Midlands +12 214 £55,000 -15.38% 157
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
1 209 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 173 (2.98%) Apache
3 167 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.17%) Confluence
5 40 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.50%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) 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
17 5 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 270 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Simulink
4 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.24%) 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 (0.034%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.034%) 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
4 5 (0.086%) Shopify
5 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Line 50
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Magento
7 2 (0.034%) Odoo
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,981 (34.16%) Azure
2 1,872 (32.28%) AWS
3 742 (12.80%) GCP
4 664 (11.45%) Power Platform
5 401 (6.91%) GitHub
6 348 (6.00%) Azure AI
7 336 (5.79%) Serverless
8 259 (4.47%) SaaS
9 251 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 226 (3.90%) Snowflake
11 224 (3.86%) Amazon S3
11 224 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
12 204 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 204 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 187 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
13 187 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
14 170 (2.93%) dbt
15 132 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
16 130 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 125 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 218 (3.76%) Firewall
2 152 (2.62%) DNS
3 151 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 147 (2.53%) VPN
5 108 (1.86%) Network Security
6 88 (1.52%) WAN
7 75 (1.29%) Wireless
8 66 (1.14%) Broadband
9 65 (1.12%) BGP
10 63 (1.09%) LAN
11 59 (1.02%) DHCP
12 50 (0.86%) MQTT
13 46 (0.79%) VLAN
14 42 (0.72%) HTTP
14 42 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.71%) OSPF
16 32 (0.55%) SSL
17 27 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.41%) 5G
19 23 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 597 (10.29%) Power BI
2 326 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 306 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 285 (4.91%) Tableau
5 191 (3.29%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.66%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 122 (2.10%) Big Data
11 118 (2.03%) Metadata
12 116 (2.00%) MySQL
13 115 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 106 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
15 94 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 84 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.26%) Delta Lake
20 71 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 671 (11.57%) Git
2 317 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 266 (4.59%) GitLab
4 170 (2.93%) JIRA
5 71 (1.22%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.90%) Subversion
7 49 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.78%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 34 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 34 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.50%) LabVIEW
15 28 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 21 (0.36%) Maven
17 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 17 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,741 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 1,377 (23.75%) Finance
3 837 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 375 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 370 (6.38%) Banking
6 261 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 238 (4.10%) Marketing
8 220 (3.79%) Law
9 174 (3.00%) Retail
10 135 (2.33%) Legal
11 115 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 114 (1.97%) Front Office
13 100 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 95 (1.64%) Financial Institution
15 94 (1.62%) Electronics
16 85 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.10%) Games
19 51 (0.88%) Investment Banking
20 50 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,264 (21.80%) Senior
2 884 (15.24%) Software Engineer
3 807 (13.92%) Developer
4 697 (12.02%) Python Engineer
5 621 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 615 (10.61%) Lead
7 499 (8.60%) Analyst
8 402 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 358 (6.17%) Python Developer
10 353 (6.09%) Python Software Engineer
11 298 (5.14%) Data Analyst
12 263 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 224 (3.86%) Junior
14 221 (3.81%) Architect
15 220 (3.79%) Data Scientist
16 210 (3.62%) Senior Developer
17 202 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
18 193 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
19 176 (3.04%) Consultant
20 169 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 952 (16.42%) Terraform
2 390 (6.73%) React
3 256 (4.41%) REST
4 232 (4.00%) .NET
5 229 (3.95%) Node.js
6 224 (3.86%) PySpark
7 218 (3.76%) FastAPI
8 214 (3.69%) Kafka
9 198 (3.41%) RESTful
10 183 (3.16%) LangChain
11 165 (2.85%) Django
12 153 (2.64%) PyTorch
13 135 (2.33%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.29%) CSS
15 128 (2.21%) HTML
16 127 (2.19%) Spring Boot
17 126 (2.17%) Spring
18 107 (1.85%) Flask
18 107 (1.85%) LangGraph
19 89 (1.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 614 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 297 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 279 (4.81%) Algorithms
4 278 (4.79%) AI Agents
5 241 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 141 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 102 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.66%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.62%) Robotics
11 91 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 87 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
12 87 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 86 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 79 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
15 78 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
16 66 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
17 64 (1.10%) Equities
18 63 (1.09%) Low-Code
19 62 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 718 (12.38%) Linux
2 327 (5.64%) Windows
3 81 (1.40%) Unix
4 77 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.78%) CentOS
7 39 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 33 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.29%) Rocky
12 16 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.19%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 9 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.16%) VMS
17 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,343 (40.40%) AI
2 1,706 (29.42%) Software Engineering
3 1,633 (28.16%) CI/CD
4 1,228 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1,151 (19.85%) Analytics
6 1,092 (18.83%) DevOps
7 1,073 (18.50%) Agile
8 1,029 (17.74%) Machine Learning
9 961 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 785 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 767 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
12 746 (12.86%) Data Engineering
13 744 (12.83%) Data Pipeline
14 692 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 656 (11.31%) Data Modelling
16 637 (10.98%) Decision-Making
17 620 (10.69%) Data Science
18 600 (10.35%) Containerisation
19 595 (10.26%) Test Automation
20 578 (9.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,921 (33.13%) SQL
2 825 (14.23%) Java
3 600 (10.35%) JavaScript
4 551 (9.50%) C++
5 542 (9.35%) Bash
6 486 (8.38%) PowerShell
7 481 (8.29%) C#
8 414 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 273 (4.71%) Go
10 199 (3.43%) C
11 167 (2.88%) R
12 106 (1.83%) Scala
13 105 (1.81%) Rust
14 95 (1.64%) Bicep
15 93 (1.60%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 83 (1.43%) PHP
18 82 (1.41%) Perl
19 75 (1.29%) Ruby
20 57 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 943 (16.26%) Degree
2 889 (15.33%) Security Cleared
3 496 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 425 (7.33%) Azure Certification
5 298 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 288 (4.97%) DV Cleared
7 228 (3.93%) Master's Degree
8 133 (2.29%) PhD
9 115 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 64 (1.10%) CISSP
14 42 (0.72%) CCNP
15 40 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
17 33 (0.57%) CCNA
18 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.50%) CEH
19 29 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (10.05%) Data Quality
2 241 (4.16%) QA
3 123 (2.12%) GDPR
4 105 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 79 (1.36%) NIST
6 65 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (0.45%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 19 (0.33%) 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 10 (0.17%) GRC
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.14%) JTAG
19 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 803 (13.85%) Docker
2 113 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 99 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.07%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.52%) vSphere
8 22 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 19 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.052%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 838 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 421 (7.26%) Ansible
3 252 (4.35%) Grafana
4 163 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.38%) Puppet
6 61 (1.05%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.71%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.45%) Istio
13 24 (0.41%) Rancher
14 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.36%) Podman
16 20 (0.34%) Packer
17 19 (0.33%) logstash
18 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
18 18 (0.31%) vCenter Server
19 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 895 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 441 (7.60%) Databricks
3 253 (4.36%) Google
4 150 (2.59%) Splunk
5 124 (2.14%) VMware
6 123 (2.12%) Oracle
7 122 (2.10%) OpenAI
8 104 (1.79%) Cisco
9 91 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 56 (0.97%) Foundry
12 53 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 39 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.66%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.66%) SAP
15 36 (0.62%) Palo Alto
15 36 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 33 (0.57%) F5
16 33 (0.57%) Informatica
17 32 (0.55%) New Relic