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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,165 5,422 6,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.46% 11.53% 10.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.24% 33.91% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,793 3,279 4,982
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £51,250
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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 10,615 15,989 23,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.01% 33.99% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7,947 9,363 19,705
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,195 £46,250
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 £103,750
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 30 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 30 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 2,021 £82,500 -5.71% 1,170
North of England -10 675 £48,445 -25.47% 510
South East -29 469 £60,000 -11.11% 925
Midlands -13 378 £55,000 - 282
South West -3 344 £60,000 -7.69% 337
Yorkshire +10 300 £47,972 -26.20% 189
North West -17 283 £55,000 -12.00% 249
West Midlands +6 254 £55,000 - 113
East of England -20 216 £51,250 -22.63% 338
East Midlands -25 127 £55,000 - 165
North East 0 92 £40,000 -42.29% 75
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
1 162 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 123 (2.95%) Apache
4 41 (0.98%) Confluence
5 36 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.74%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.48%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.43%) Appian
11 18 (0.43%) IIS
11 18 (0.43%) Jupyter
12 17 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
13 16 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (0.29%) nginx
15 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 565 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.22%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.096%) Windchill
9 3 (0.072%) CATIA
9 3 (0.072%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.048%) Stata
10 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
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 CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
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 1,648 (39.57%) Azure
2 1,466 (35.20%) AWS
3 732 (17.58%) Power Platform
4 536 (12.87%) GitHub
5 436 (10.47%) GCP
6 326 (7.83%) Azure AI
7 267 (6.41%) Serverless
8 182 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
9 174 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (3.96%) Amazon S3
11 161 (3.87%) Snowflake
12 155 (3.72%) SaaS
13 147 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
15 128 (3.07%) dbt
16 110 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 102 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 80 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.17%) Internet
2 158 (3.79%) Firewall
3 95 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 84 (2.02%) VPN
5 74 (1.78%) DNS
6 71 (1.70%) WAN
7 60 (1.44%) LAN
8 59 (1.42%) Broadband
9 55 (1.32%) BGP
10 52 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (1.22%) Wireless
12 46 (1.10%) Network Security
13 43 (1.03%) VLAN
14 39 (0.94%) HTTP
15 38 (0.91%) OSPF
16 34 (0.82%) MPLS
17 32 (0.77%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.72%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.67%) SSL
20 26 (0.62%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 692 (16.61%) Power BI
2 593 (14.24%) Tableau
3 242 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 217 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 181 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 157 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 148 (3.55%) Data Mining
8 123 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 112 (2.69%) Big Data
10 111 (2.67%) MongoDB
11 88 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 88 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 85 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 83 (1.99%) MySQL
14 81 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
15 74 (1.78%) Metadata
16 71 (1.70%) Hadoop
17 59 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (13.90%) Git
2 222 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 145 (3.48%) GitLab
4 116 (2.79%) JIRA
5 58 (1.39%) Selenium
6 43 (1.03%) MLflow
7 38 (0.91%) Postman
8 35 (0.84%) JUnit
9 27 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.55%) Jaeger
11 22 (0.53%) JMeter
12 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
14 16 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
15 14 (0.34%) Subversion
16 13 (0.31%) Maven
16 13 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 1,254 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 1,032 (24.78%) Finance
3 667 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (5.91%) Banking
5 241 (5.79%) Multimedia
6 183 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (4.06%) Law
9 137 (3.29%) Front Office
10 136 (3.27%) Marketing
11 111 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 104 (2.50%) Retail
13 103 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 77 (1.85%) Electronics
16 75 (1.80%) Legal
17 60 (1.44%) Investment Banking
18 59 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (1.34%) Games
20 47 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 771 (18.51%) Developer
2 734 (17.62%) Analyst
3 650 (15.61%) Senior
4 556 (13.35%) Data Analyst
5 414 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 371 (8.91%) Trainee
7 334 (8.02%) Software Engineer
8 309 (7.42%) Lead
9 307 (7.37%) Python Developer
10 303 (7.27%) Junior
11 282 (6.77%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.77%) Junior Data Analyst
12 241 (5.79%) Python Engineer
13 189 (4.54%) Software Developer
14 146 (3.51%) Architect
15 144 (3.46%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
17 132 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
18 119 (2.86%) Python Software Engineer
19 118 (2.83%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.29%) HTML
2 339 (8.14%) CSS
3 335 (8.04%) React
4 179 (4.30%) REST
5 177 (4.25%) Node.js
6 164 (3.94%) Django
7 150 (3.60%) Kafka
8 147 (3.53%) RESTful
9 134 (3.22%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.12%) PySpark
11 128 (3.07%) PyTorch
12 123 (2.95%) .NET
13 114 (2.74%) Pandas
14 108 (2.59%) Flask
15 104 (2.50%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.38%) AngularJS
17 84 (2.02%) JSON
18 83 (1.99%) Vue
19 79 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
20 78 (1.87%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 204 (4.90%) Algorithms
3 162 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 153 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.52%) Equities
7 104 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 79 (1.90%) Hedge funds
11 74 (1.78%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
13 70 (1.68%) Derivative
13 70 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.66%) Data Centre
15 68 (1.63%) Fixed Income
16 62 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
17 60 (1.44%) AI Agents
18 57 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 56 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 509 (12.22%) Linux
2 208 (4.99%) Windows
3 185 (4.44%) Unix
4 70 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.77%) CentOS
7 31 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.43%) Debian
10 16 (0.38%) VMS
11 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (0.29%) Solaris
14 11 (0.26%) Android
15 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.096%) zOS
18 3 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (28.93%) AI
2 976 (23.43%) CI/CD
3 932 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
4 826 (19.83%) Analytics
5 801 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
6 778 (18.68%) Agile
7 773 (18.56%) DevOps
8 688 (16.52%) Software Engineering
9 662 (15.89%) Mentoring
10 553 (13.28%) Machine Learning
11 489 (11.74%) Data Science
12 482 (11.57%) ETL
13 464 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 462 (11.09%) Data Modelling
14 462 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
15 453 (10.88%) Computer Science
16 449 (10.78%) Data Engineering
17 416 (9.99%) Data Analysis
18 397 (9.53%) Containerisation
19 384 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,646 (39.52%) SQL
2 734 (17.62%) JavaScript
3 586 (14.07%) Java
4 391 (9.39%) Bash
5 352 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 272 (6.53%) C#
8 232 (5.57%) R
9 214 (5.14%) C++
10 170 (4.08%) Go
11 123 (2.95%) C
12 85 (2.04%) Scala
13 63 (1.51%) PHP
14 61 (1.46%) VBA
15 51 (1.22%) Bicep
16 46 (1.10%) MATLAB
16 46 (1.10%) Rust
17 45 (1.08%) Perl
18 40 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 806 (19.35%) Degree
2 589 (14.14%) Azure Certification
3 447 (10.73%) Security Cleared
4 365 (8.76%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 263 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 243 (5.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 215 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.56%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.82%) DV Cleared
11 122 (2.93%) PhD
12 74 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.44%) CCNP
14 50 (1.20%) CISSP
15 47 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.65%) OSCP
18 27 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.89%) QA
3 106 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.42%) GDPR
5 88 (2.11%) NIST
6 65 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.77%) SLA
9 19 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.14%) GRC
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.096%) NIST 800
19 4 (0.096%) WCAG
System Software
1 522 (12.53%) Docker
2 83 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.70%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) 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
11 6 (0.14%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.096%) Postfix
13 4 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
13 4 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.072%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.072%) Squid
Systems Management
1 546 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 537 (12.89%) Terraform
3 317 (7.61%) Ansible
4 128 (3.07%) Grafana
5 127 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.44%) Argo
7 24 (0.58%) Kibana
8 22 (0.53%) Puppet
9 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.31%) Nessus
12 13 (0.31%) Rancher
13 12 (0.29%) Control-M
13 12 (0.29%) Nagios
14 11 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,097 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.12%) Databricks
3 191 (4.59%) Google
4 129 (3.10%) Oracle
5 101 (2.42%) Cisco
6 99 (2.38%) VMware
7 82 (1.97%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.66%) SAP
10 59 (1.42%) Splunk
11 58 (1.39%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.13%) Informatica
14 46 (1.10%) IBM
15 43 (1.03%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 40 (0.96%) Talend
17 39 (0.94%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.77%) Palantir
19 31 (0.74%) Atlassian