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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,967 4,646 6,649
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 12.19% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.45% 35.32% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,098 3,225 5,330
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -4.86%

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 11,984 13,155 25,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.04% 34.51% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,700 9,309 21,794
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £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 £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 19 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 19 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 -1 2,183 £82,500 -8.33% 1,292
North of England -5 892 £45,000 -30.77% 522
South East -15 654 £60,000 -11.11% 632
Midlands -1 484 £55,000 - 235
South West +2 420 £57,500 -11.54% 267
Yorkshire +10 386 £40,000 -38.46% 196
North West -7 373 £50,000 -23.08% 239
West Midlands +13 307 £60,000 +9.09% 112
East of England -22 257 £50,000 -24.50% 236
East Midlands -14 178 £55,000 - 123
North East +22 133 £40,000 -38.46% 90
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
1 196 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.70%) Apache
4 68 (1.37%) WordPress
5 62 (1.25%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.66%) SAS
6 33 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 31 (0.62%) Confluence
8 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.36%) Appian
11 14 (0.28%) IIS
11 14 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.16%) nginx
12 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
14 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.081%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.060%) JBoss
Applications
1 946 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.10%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.081%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.081%) Windchill
10 3 (0.060%) CATIA
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.040%) Weka
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Houdini
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) NUKE
12 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.081%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.060%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.020%) Actimize
8 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.020%) Endur
8 1 (0.020%) Findur
8 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.020%) Primavera
8 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,192 (44.13%) Azure
2 1,714 (34.51%) AWS
3 1,088 (21.90%) Power Platform
4 699 (14.07%) Azure AI
5 595 (11.98%) GitHub
6 550 (11.07%) GCP
7 277 (5.58%) Serverless
8 200 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 197 (3.97%) SaaS
10 179 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 176 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 169 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
13 154 (3.10%) Snowflake
14 153 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 153 (3.08%) dbt
15 123 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 106 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
17 105 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 92 (1.85%) OpenShift
19 91 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.48%) Internet
2 186 (3.74%) Firewall
3 129 (2.60%) Broadband
4 109 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 105 (2.11%) VPN
6 93 (1.87%) DNS
7 71 (1.43%) WAN
8 70 (1.41%) Network Security
9 68 (1.37%) LAN
10 61 (1.23%) BGP
11 60 (1.21%) Wireless
12 57 (1.15%) VLAN
13 50 (1.01%) HTTP
14 47 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.87%) OSPF
16 37 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (0.68%) MPLS
17 34 (0.68%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.64%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.56%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,052 (21.18%) Power BI
2 1,019 (20.52%) Tableau
3 252 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.40%) Data Mining
7 166 (3.34%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.44%) Data Lake
10 105 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 105 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 101 (2.03%) BigQuery
12 91 (1.83%) Big Data
13 90 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 86 (1.73%) Metadata
15 80 (1.61%) MySQL
16 69 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
17 45 (0.91%) Delta Lake
17 45 (0.91%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 660 (13.29%) Git
2 215 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.58%) GitLab
4 99 (1.99%) JIRA
5 56 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 54 (1.09%) MLflow
6 54 (1.09%) Selenium
7 38 (0.77%) Postman
8 37 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.52%) JUnit
11 25 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
12 22 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 21 (0.42%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.40%) JMeter
14 20 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.34%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.34%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,690 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 1,142 (22.99%) Finance
3 816 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.52%) Banking
5 260 (5.23%) Multimedia
6 210 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 168 (3.38%) Law
9 165 (3.32%) Retail
10 146 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.74%) Front Office
12 120 (2.42%) Marketing
13 109 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.73%) Legal
15 72 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.41%) Electronics
18 66 (1.33%) Investment Banking
19 45 (0.91%) Games
19 45 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,149 (23.13%) Analyst
2 968 (19.49%) Data Analyst
3 822 (16.55%) Developer
4 729 (14.68%) Senior
5 696 (14.01%) Junior
6 663 (13.35%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (13.35%) Junior Data Analyst
7 463 (9.32%) Data Engineer
8 455 (9.16%) Trainee
9 413 (8.31%) Software Engineer
10 396 (7.97%) Lead
11 326 (6.56%) Python Developer
12 299 (6.02%) Python Engineer
13 203 (4.09%) Software Developer
14 157 (3.16%) Architect
15 149 (3.00%) Senior Developer
16 144 (2.90%) Trainee Analyst
16 144 (2.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 143 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
18 137 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (8.11%) HTML
2 370 (7.45%) React
3 350 (7.05%) CSS
4 219 (4.41%) Kafka
5 205 (4.13%) Node.js
6 192 (3.87%) Django
7 188 (3.78%) REST
8 166 (3.34%) PySpark
9 155 (3.12%) RESTful
10 139 (2.80%) .NET
10 139 (2.80%) PyTorch
11 137 (2.76%) Pandas
12 133 (2.68%) FastAPI
13 122 (2.46%) TensorFlow
14 118 (2.38%) Flask
15 112 (2.25%) scikit-learn
16 100 (2.01%) JSON
17 90 (1.81%) NumPy
18 87 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
19 81 (1.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 241 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 201 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 90 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 84 (1.69%) Equities
9 84 (1.69%) Fixed Income
10 82 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 81 (1.63%) Low-Code
12 75 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 74 (1.49%) Hedge funds
14 72 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.29%) Security Posture
17 63 (1.27%) AI Agents
18 62 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
19 61 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 526 (10.59%) Linux
2 211 (4.25%) Windows
3 181 (3.64%) Unix
4 63 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.79%) CentOS
7 28 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.16%) Android
11 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.10%) Solaris
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.081%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.060%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.060%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,742 (35.07%) AI
2 1,165 (23.45%) Business Intelligence
3 1,088 (21.90%) CI/CD
4 964 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
5 922 (18.56%) Analytics
6 864 (17.39%) Agile
7 841 (16.93%) Software Engineering
8 815 (16.41%) DevOps
9 713 (14.35%) Mentoring
10 647 (13.03%) Machine Learning
11 552 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 536 (10.79%) Data Modelling
13 523 (10.53%) Data Science
14 519 (10.45%) ETL
15 518 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
16 481 (9.68%) Data Engineering
17 478 (9.62%) Containerisation
18 475 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 468 (9.42%) Computer Science
20 426 (8.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,093 (42.14%) SQL
2 793 (15.97%) JavaScript
3 602 (12.12%) Java
4 393 (7.91%) Bash
5 381 (7.67%) PowerShell
6 323 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 276 (5.56%) C#
8 263 (5.29%) R
9 257 (5.17%) Go
10 242 (4.87%) C++
11 122 (2.46%) C
12 97 (1.95%) Scala
13 72 (1.45%) Rust
14 69 (1.39%) VBA
15 59 (1.19%) PHP
16 45 (0.91%) Bicep
17 40 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.77%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.68%) Perl
20 30 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 995 (20.03%) Azure Certification
2 764 (15.38%) Degree
3 439 (8.84%) Security Cleared
4 414 (8.34%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 308 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 242 (4.87%) SC Cleared
8 241 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 172 (3.46%) DV Cleared
10 128 (2.58%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.75%) PhD
12 69 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.19%) CCNP
14 50 (1.01%) CISSP
15 45 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.87%) OSCP
17 41 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.54%) ACCA
19 27 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 197 (3.97%) QA
3 113 (2.28%) GDPR
4 112 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.15%) NIST
6 65 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 27 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.46%) PMO
10 23 (0.46%) SLA
11 20 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 16 (0.32%) GRC
15 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 572 (11.52%) Docker
2 91 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Firmware
5 31 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.38%) KVM
8 16 (0.32%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.28%) vSphere
10 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Lustre
11 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.10%) iptables
14 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.060%) HDFS
15 3 (0.060%) Kamailio
16 2 (0.040%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 620 (12.48%) Terraform
2 585 (11.78%) Kubernetes
3 319 (6.42%) Ansible
4 169 (3.40%) Grafana
5 145 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.21%) Argo
7 25 (0.50%) Nagios
8 23 (0.46%) Puppet
9 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.40%) Kibana
11 19 (0.38%) Kustomize
12 16 (0.32%) Istio
13 12 (0.24%) Control-M
13 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.24%) logstash
13 12 (0.24%) Nessus
14 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,594 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 272 (5.48%) Databricks
3 201 (4.05%) Google
4 143 (2.88%) Oracle
5 116 (2.34%) Cisco
6 114 (2.30%) VMware
7 95 (1.91%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.47%) SAP
9 68 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.35%) Splunk
11 64 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.01%) Informatica
14 45 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 44 (0.89%) Foundry
16 42 (0.85%) Palantir
17 41 (0.83%) Bloomberg
18 40 (0.81%) Talend
19 39 (0.79%) Alteryx
20 37 (0.74%) MuleSoft