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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,125 5,431 5,952
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 11.36% 10.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.15% 33.68% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 3,273 4,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,536 16,126 21,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.15% 33.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,894 9,474 18,529
10th Percentile £33,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 24 January 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 24 January 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 2,006 £84,250 -3.71% 1,119
North of England -8 675 £48,445 -25.47% 688
South East -28 459 £60,000 -7.69% 1,319
Midlands -13 377 £55,100 +0.18% 450
South West -3 336 £60,000 -7.69% 517
Yorkshire +10 301 £48,445 -25.47% 290
North West -17 284 £55,000 -12.00% 287
West Midlands +3 257 £55,200 -4.00% 165
East of England -14 216 £50,000 -24.53% 559
East Midlands -25 123 £55,000 - 278
North East +2 90 £40,000 -42.29% 115
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
1 167 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.10%) Apache
4 43 (1.04%) Confluence
5 35 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.70%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.48%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.36%) Jupyter
12 15 (0.36%) nginx
13 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.17%) CMS
15 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.097%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 557 (13.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 8 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.097%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.097%) Windchill
10 3 (0.073%) CATIA
10 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.048%) Stata
11 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Endur
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,642 (39.81%) Azure
2 1,453 (35.22%) AWS
3 738 (17.89%) Power Platform
4 541 (13.12%) GitHub
5 429 (10.40%) GCP
6 325 (7.88%) Azure AI
7 264 (6.40%) Serverless
8 187 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
9 174 (4.22%) Snowflake
10 170 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 162 (3.93%) Amazon S3
12 156 (3.78%) SaaS
13 152 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
14 140 (3.39%) dbt
15 139 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 112 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 96 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
19 84 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 83 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.23%) Internet
2 162 (3.93%) Firewall
3 94 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.01%) VPN
5 74 (1.79%) DNS
6 71 (1.72%) WAN
7 62 (1.50%) LAN
8 53 (1.28%) BGP
9 48 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 48 (1.16%) Wireless
10 45 (1.09%) Broadband
11 42 (1.02%) Network Security
12 41 (0.99%) HTTP
12 41 (0.99%) VLAN
13 37 (0.90%) OSPF
14 33 (0.80%) MPLS
15 31 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 29 (0.70%) Wireshark
17 28 (0.68%) SSL
18 27 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 697 (16.90%) Power BI
2 593 (14.38%) Tableau
3 254 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
4 225 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 222 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
6 178 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 164 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 141 (3.42%) Data Mining
9 126 (3.05%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.64%) Big Data
12 91 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 90 (2.18%) BigQuery
14 85 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
15 83 (2.01%) MySQL
16 80 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.72%) Hadoop
18 70 (1.70%) Metadata
19 65 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
19 65 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (14.04%) Git
2 228 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 143 (3.47%) GitLab
4 117 (2.84%) JIRA
5 57 (1.38%) Selenium
6 42 (1.02%) MLflow
7 38 (0.92%) Postman
8 37 (0.90%) JUnit
9 28 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 27 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.58%) JMeter
12 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
13 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.36%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.36%) Mockito
16 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
16 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
17 13 (0.32%) Maven
17 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,248 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 1,031 (24.99%) Finance
3 645 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (5.94%) Banking
5 241 (5.84%) Multimedia
6 183 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 174 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.07%) Law
9 142 (3.44%) Front Office
9 142 (3.44%) Marketing
10 112 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 109 (2.64%) Retail
12 101 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 90 (2.18%) Financial Institution
14 79 (1.92%) Electronics
15 74 (1.79%) Legal
16 65 (1.58%) Investment Banking
17 60 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.36%) Games
19 47 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 764 (18.52%) Developer
2 734 (17.79%) Analyst
3 646 (15.66%) Senior
4 548 (13.28%) Data Analyst
5 412 (9.99%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.73%) Trainee
7 328 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 306 (7.42%) Lead
9 303 (7.35%) Junior
10 301 (7.30%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.84%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.84%) Junior Data Analyst
12 242 (5.87%) Python Engineer
13 185 (4.48%) Software Developer
14 145 (3.52%) Architect
15 139 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
15 139 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
17 126 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
18 123 (2.98%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (9.33%) HTML
2 340 (8.24%) CSS
3 337 (8.17%) React
4 178 (4.32%) REST
5 172 (4.17%) Node.js
6 161 (3.90%) Django
7 144 (3.49%) Kafka
8 143 (3.47%) RESTful
9 134 (3.25%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.15%) PySpark
11 125 (3.03%) Pandas
12 121 (2.93%) PyTorch
13 118 (2.86%) .NET
14 106 (2.57%) Flask
15 105 (2.55%) AngularJS
16 99 (2.40%) TensorFlow
17 88 (2.13%) Vue
18 87 (2.11%) NumPy
19 84 (2.04%) JSON
20 79 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 229 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 199 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 154 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 151 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 113 (2.74%) Equities
5 113 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 99 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 85 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 81 (1.96%) Hedge funds
10 75 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 74 (1.79%) Derivative
11 74 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
12 73 (1.77%) Low-Code
13 67 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 63 (1.53%) Data Centre
15 62 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 61 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
17 58 (1.41%) AI Agents
18 57 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 515 (12.48%) Linux
2 211 (5.12%) Windows
3 191 (4.63%) Unix
4 74 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 34 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.78%) CentOS
8 23 (0.56%) Debian
8 23 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.44%) VMS
10 15 (0.36%) Solaris
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.27%) Android
13 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.097%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (28.85%) AI
2 964 (23.37%) CI/CD
3 924 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 824 (19.98%) Analytics
5 805 (19.52%) Business Intelligence
6 788 (19.10%) Agile
6 788 (19.10%) DevOps
7 663 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 656 (15.90%) Mentoring
9 540 (13.09%) Machine Learning
10 482 (11.68%) ETL
11 474 (11.49%) Data Science
12 463 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
13 460 (11.15%) Data Modelling
14 455 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
15 448 (10.86%) Data Engineering
16 446 (10.81%) Computer Science
17 408 (9.89%) Data Analysis
18 387 (9.38%) Containerisation
19 382 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,650 (40.00%) SQL
2 735 (17.82%) JavaScript
3 586 (14.21%) Java
4 392 (9.50%) Bash
5 348 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 326 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 275 (6.67%) C#
8 233 (5.65%) R
9 208 (5.04%) C++
10 160 (3.88%) Go
11 118 (2.86%) C
12 78 (1.89%) Scala
13 65 (1.58%) PHP
14 58 (1.41%) VBA
15 52 (1.26%) Bicep
16 47 (1.14%) MATLAB
16 47 (1.14%) Perl
17 45 (1.09%) Rust
18 38 (0.92%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 802 (19.44%) Degree
2 592 (14.35%) Azure Certification
3 448 (10.86%) Security Cleared
4 365 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 258 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 213 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.61%) Master's Degree
10 164 (3.98%) DV Cleared
11 124 (3.01%) PhD
12 71 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.38%) CCNP
14 49 (1.19%) CISSP
15 48 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.65%) OSCP
18 27 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.90%) QA
3 103 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.45%) GDPR
5 83 (2.01%) NIST
6 67 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.85%) SLA
8 27 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) GRC
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.097%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 517 (12.53%) Docker
2 80 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.68%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
10 7 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.12%) Postfix
11 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.097%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.097%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 544 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 532 (12.90%) Terraform
3 316 (7.66%) Ansible
4 129 (3.13%) Grafana
4 129 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 59 (1.43%) Argo
6 26 (0.63%) Kibana
7 23 (0.56%) Puppet
8 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.41%) Nessus
10 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.32%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) Rancher
13 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 11 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.27%) logstash
14 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,082 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.16%) Databricks
3 192 (4.65%) Google
4 129 (3.13%) Oracle
5 103 (2.50%) VMware
6 101 (2.45%) Cisco
7 86 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.67%) SAP
10 62 (1.50%) Splunk
11 61 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.09%) IBM
13 45 (1.09%) Informatica
14 43 (1.04%) Alteryx
14 43 (1.04%) Bloomberg
15 42 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 42 (1.02%) Talend
16 33 (0.80%) Palantir
17 32 (0.78%) Atlassian