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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,766 4,733 6,656
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.56% 10.91% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.00% 41.22% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,689 2,578 4,095
10th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,088 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £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 16,472 11,481 20,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.88% 26.46% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 7,531 12,358
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £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 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%

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 9 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 9 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 2,551 £85,000 -2.86% 7,119
North of England -21 1,038 £66,805 +11.34% 952
South East +7 779 £62,500 +8.70% 943
South West +2 566 £62,500 +13.64% 488
North West -26 544 £67,500 +12.50% 540
Midlands -6 461 £62,000 +3.33% 447
East of England +10 314 £70,000 +21.74% 647
Yorkshire 0 258 £65,500 +0.77% 278
West Midlands -12 248 £65,000 +8.33% 283
North East +21 239 £67,153 +49.23% 136
East Midlands +13 211 £55,000 -15.38% 164
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
1 208 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 172 (2.98%) Apache
3 165 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 38 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.49%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) 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 (0.087%) Headless CMS
17 5 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 266 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.47%) Simulink
4 17 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
8 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 4 (0.069%) Mathematica
9 4 (0.069%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.052%) Blender
10 3 (0.052%) Maya
10 3 (0.052%) Revit
10 3 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.052%) SPSS
11 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.035%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.069%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.069%) Shopify
7 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.052%) Line 50
7 3 (0.052%) Summit
8 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.035%) Magento
8 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
9 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
9 1 (0.017%) Quorum
9 1 (0.017%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,963 (34.04%) Azure
2 1,859 (32.24%) AWS
3 736 (12.76%) GCP
4 654 (11.34%) Power Platform
5 392 (6.80%) GitHub
6 348 (6.04%) Azure AI
7 334 (5.79%) Serverless
8 254 (4.41%) SaaS
9 248 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
10 221 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 218 (3.78%) Snowflake
13 206 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 185 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
17 165 (2.86%) dbt
18 134 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
19 128 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 125 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.76%) Firewall
2 153 (2.65%) DNS
3 151 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 148 (2.57%) VPN
5 108 (1.87%) Network Security
6 88 (1.53%) WAN
7 75 (1.30%) Wireless
8 66 (1.14%) Broadband
9 65 (1.13%) BGP
10 63 (1.09%) LAN
11 60 (1.04%) DHCP
12 50 (0.87%) MQTT
13 44 (0.76%) VLAN
14 42 (0.73%) HTTP
14 42 (0.73%) OSPF
14 42 (0.73%) SD-WAN
15 32 (0.55%) SSL
16 26 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.42%) 5G
18 23 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (10.18%) Power BI
2 318 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
3 304 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 282 (4.89%) Tableau
5 190 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 142 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 123 (2.13%) Big Data
11 118 (2.05%) Metadata
12 116 (2.01%) MySQL
13 112 (1.94%) BigQuery
14 104 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
15 91 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 85 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
17 81 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 75 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
19 72 (1.25%) Delta Lake
20 69 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 666 (11.55%) Git
2 318 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 264 (4.58%) GitLab
4 170 (2.95%) JIRA
5 71 (1.23%) Claude Code
6 54 (0.94%) Subversion
7 50 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.76%) Selenium
9 41 (0.71%) MLflow
10 37 (0.64%) JUnit
11 33 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 33 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 30 (0.52%) Eclipse
13 28 (0.49%) LabVIEW
13 28 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
14 21 (0.36%) Cucumber
14 21 (0.36%) Maven
15 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,732 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 1,368 (23.73%) Finance
3 832 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 362 (6.28%) Banking
6 257 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 232 (4.02%) Marketing
8 220 (3.82%) Law
9 171 (2.97%) Retail
10 131 (2.27%) Legal
11 114 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 112 (1.94%) Front Office
13 99 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 95 (1.65%) Financial Institution
15 92 (1.60%) Electronics
16 85 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 64 (1.11%) Games
19 50 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
19 50 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,253 (21.73%) Senior
2 884 (15.33%) Software Engineer
3 803 (13.93%) Developer
4 693 (12.02%) Python Engineer
5 608 (10.54%) Data Engineer
5 608 (10.54%) Lead
6 495 (8.58%) Analyst
7 397 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 356 (6.17%) Python Developer
9 351 (6.09%) Python Software Engineer
10 299 (5.19%) Data Analyst
11 262 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 224 (3.88%) Junior
13 219 (3.80%) Architect
14 218 (3.78%) Data Scientist
15 207 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 202 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 192 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
18 171 (2.97%) Consultant
19 170 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 947 (16.42%) Terraform
2 391 (6.78%) React
3 254 (4.41%) REST
4 231 (4.01%) .NET
5 230 (3.99%) Node.js
6 220 (3.82%) PySpark
7 217 (3.76%) FastAPI
8 212 (3.68%) Kafka
9 198 (3.43%) RESTful
10 179 (3.10%) LangChain
11 164 (2.84%) Django
12 154 (2.67%) PyTorch
13 135 (2.34%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.31%) CSS
15 128 (2.22%) HTML
16 127 (2.20%) Spring Boot
17 126 (2.19%) Spring
18 107 (1.86%) Flask
19 104 (1.80%) LangGraph
20 89 (1.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 615 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 297 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 278 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 268 (4.65%) AI Agents
5 240 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 142 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 132 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 100 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 93 (1.61%) Hedge funds
10 92 (1.60%) Robotics
11 91 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 88 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
13 87 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
14 86 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 79 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
16 78 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
17 66 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (1.11%) Equities
18 64 (1.11%) Low-Code
19 62 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 716 (12.42%) Linux
2 325 (5.64%) Windows
3 81 (1.40%) Unix
4 77 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.78%) CentOS
7 40 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.45%) Debian
10 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.29%) Windows 10
12 16 (0.28%) Rocky
13 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.21%) Android
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 9 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.16%) VMS
17 7 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,319 (40.22%) AI
2 1,705 (29.57%) Software Engineering
3 1,624 (28.17%) CI/CD
4 1,216 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1,139 (19.75%) Analytics
6 1,088 (18.87%) DevOps
7 1,071 (18.57%) Agile
8 1,029 (17.85%) Machine Learning
9 959 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 781 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 752 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
12 731 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
13 729 (12.64%) Data Engineering
14 692 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 644 (11.17%) Data Modelling
16 631 (10.94%) Decision-Making
17 617 (10.70%) Data Science
18 599 (10.39%) Containerisation
19 589 (10.22%) Test Automation
20 572 (9.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,894 (32.85%) SQL
2 826 (14.33%) Java
3 602 (10.44%) JavaScript
4 547 (9.49%) C++
5 540 (9.37%) Bash
6 485 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 475 (8.24%) C#
8 413 (7.16%) TypeScript
9 276 (4.79%) Go
10 196 (3.40%) C
11 163 (2.83%) R
12 107 (1.86%) Scala
13 106 (1.84%) Rust
14 95 (1.65%) Bicep
15 91 (1.58%) MATLAB
16 83 (1.44%) PHP
17 82 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 81 (1.40%) Perl
19 74 (1.28%) Ruby
20 56 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 935 (16.22%) Degree
2 892 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 497 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 423 (7.34%) Azure Certification
5 296 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 289 (5.01%) DV Cleared
7 226 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 131 (2.27%) PhD
9 114 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 85 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 67 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 62 (1.08%) CISSP
14 44 (0.76%) CCNP
15 40 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.61%) CCNA
16 35 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
17 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 29 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 570 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 243 (4.21%) QA
3 123 (2.13%) GDPR
4 102 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 77 (1.34%) NIST
6 65 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (0.47%) SLA
9 23 (0.40%) NCSC
10 19 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 17 (0.29%) WCAG
13 12 (0.21%) EU AI Act
13 12 (0.21%) PMO
14 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.16%) GRC
15 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.14%) JTAG
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 801 (13.89%) Docker
2 114 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.09%) Firmware
5 37 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.50%) vSphere
8 22 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 18 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.12%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.052%) NFS
15 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 835 (14.48%) Kubernetes
2 418 (7.25%) Ansible
3 249 (4.32%) Grafana
4 162 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.42%) Puppet
6 63 (1.09%) Argo
7 46 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.71%) Kibana
9 31 (0.54%) Nagios
10 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.47%) Rancher
10 27 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Istio
12 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.36%) Podman
14 20 (0.35%) Packer
15 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.31%) logstash
15 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 17 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 880 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 432 (7.49%) Databricks
3 247 (4.28%) Google
4 147 (2.55%) Splunk
5 122 (2.12%) OpenAI
5 122 (2.12%) Oracle
5 122 (2.12%) VMware
6 104 (1.80%) Cisco
7 91 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 67 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 56 (0.97%) Foundry
10 53 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 40 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 38 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 37 (0.64%) SAP
13 37 (0.64%) SolarWinds
14 35 (0.61%) Palo Alto
15 33 (0.57%) F5
15 33 (0.57%) Informatica
16 32 (0.55%) New Relic