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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,122 5,152 7,849
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.23% 12.77% 8.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.32% 40.46% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,648 2,888 5,924
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 15,571 12,732 28,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 31.55% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,271 8,565 22,763
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -2 2,442 £85,000 -5.56% 1,036
North of England -12 1,249 £62,500 -3.85% 330
South East +1 910 £60,000 -4.00% 564
Midlands +16 624 £60,000 +9.09% 166
North West -15 583 £65,000 - 175
South West +6 540 £58,497 +1.73% 194
Yorkshire +11 456 £65,000 - 97
West Midlands +14 322 £61,000 +3.39% 85
East Midlands +28 302 £55,000 - 81
East of England -4 289 £70,000 +5.73% 174
North East +26 210 £59,000 -1.67% 62
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
1 223 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 209 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 159 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.77%) WordPress
7 36 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.098%) nginx
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) Appian
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 919 (15.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Simulink
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Blender
8 3 (0.049%) Lightworks
8 3 (0.049%) Maya
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
4 4 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,655 (43.37%) Azure
2 1,944 (31.75%) AWS
3 1,192 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 1,082 (17.67%) Azure AI
5 712 (11.63%) GCP
6 412 (6.73%) GitHub
7 345 (5.64%) Serverless
8 242 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 241 (3.94%) SaaS
10 219 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
11 213 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
12 186 (3.04%) Snowflake
13 173 (2.83%) dbt
14 169 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 168 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 158 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
17 148 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 113 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
20 110 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 237 (3.87%) Firewall
2 188 (3.07%) Broadband
3 140 (2.29%) VPN
4 130 (2.12%) DNS
5 111 (1.81%) Network Security
6 99 (1.62%) WAN
7 97 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 88 (1.44%) Internet
9 83 (1.36%) LAN
10 81 (1.32%) Wireless
11 63 (1.03%) BGP
12 57 (0.93%) VLAN
13 52 (0.85%) HTTP
13 52 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 46 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 38 (0.62%) DHCP
17 34 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
18 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
19 32 (0.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (18.49%) Power BI
2 989 (16.15%) Tableau
3 291 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 245 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 188 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 166 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 165 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 100 (1.63%) Big Data
14 96 (1.57%) MySQL
15 91 (1.49%) Metadata
16 73 (1.19%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
17 69 (1.13%) Data Mining
18 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
19 57 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 626 (10.23%) Git
2 278 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.99%) GitLab
4 152 (2.48%) JIRA
5 81 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 56 (0.91%) MLflow
7 53 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 49 (0.80%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.67%) Selenium
10 37 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 30 (0.49%) Subversion
13 27 (0.44%) Postman
14 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 24 (0.39%) LabVIEW
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.31%) Eclipse
18 19 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 2,154 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 1,198 (19.57%) Finance
3 819 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (4.38%) Banking
5 266 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 220 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.14%) Retail
8 155 (2.53%) Law
9 133 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.11%) Front Office
11 106 (1.73%) Legal
12 90 (1.47%) Marketing
12 90 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 77 (1.26%) Electronics
14 75 (1.23%) Multimedia
15 71 (1.16%) Aerospace
16 65 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.01%) Games
18 61 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,142 (18.65%) Analyst
2 1,068 (17.45%) Senior
3 966 (15.78%) Data Analyst
4 912 (14.90%) Developer
5 811 (13.25%) Junior
6 760 (12.41%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.40%) Junior Data Analyst
8 694 (11.34%) Software Engineer
9 581 (9.49%) Data Engineer
10 552 (9.02%) Python Engineer
11 522 (8.53%) Lead
12 453 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 379 (6.19%) Python Developer
14 256 (4.18%) Python Software Engineer
15 193 (3.15%) Architect
16 190 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
17 189 (3.09%) Data Scientist
18 184 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
19 182 (2.97%) Trainee
20 174 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.37%) React
2 262 (4.28%) Kafka
3 234 (3.82%) Node.js
4 220 (3.59%) PySpark
5 212 (3.46%) REST
6 203 (3.32%) .NET
6 203 (3.32%) HTML
7 197 (3.22%) RESTful
8 187 (3.05%) CSS
9 179 (2.92%) Django
9 179 (2.92%) FastAPI
10 173 (2.83%) PyTorch
11 154 (2.52%) Pandas
12 147 (2.40%) TensorFlow
13 142 (2.32%) LangChain
14 128 (2.09%) Flask
15 122 (1.99%) scikit-learn
16 105 (1.72%) NumPy
17 103 (1.68%) Vue
18 99 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 484 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.31%) Algorithms
3 292 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 157 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 135 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 101 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 95 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 86 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 85 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 80 (1.31%) Equities
14 80 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 79 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.21%) Hedge funds
17 68 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
18 66 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
19 64 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 657 (10.73%) Linux
2 281 (4.59%) Windows
3 89 (1.45%) Unix
4 86 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.67%) CentOS
7 38 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
14 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.098%) Rocky
18 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,570 (41.98%) AI
2 1,401 (22.88%) CI/CD
3 1,368 (22.35%) Software Engineering
4 1,237 (20.21%) Business Intelligence
5 1,069 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 1,035 (16.91%) Agile
7 987 (16.12%) Analytics
8 978 (15.98%) DevOps
9 856 (13.98%) Machine Learning
10 821 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 740 (12.09%) Mentoring
12 626 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
13 623 (10.18%) Data Engineering
14 618 (10.09%) Data Modelling
15 589 (9.62%) Data Science
16 551 (9.00%) Computer Science
17 548 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 548 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
18 542 (8.85%) Containerisation
19 518 (8.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,341 (38.24%) SQL
2 697 (11.39%) Java
3 648 (10.58%) JavaScript
4 504 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 474 (7.74%) Bash
6 473 (7.73%) C++
7 405 (6.62%) C#
8 378 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.61%) Go
10 170 (2.78%) R
11 166 (2.71%) C
12 118 (1.93%) Scala
13 92 (1.50%) Rust
14 90 (1.47%) PHP
15 81 (1.32%) Bicep
16 61 (1.00%) MATLAB
17 54 (0.88%) Perl
17 54 (0.88%) VBA
18 50 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 46 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,221 (19.94%) Azure Certification
2 785 (12.82%) Degree
3 669 (10.93%) Security Cleared
4 392 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 220 (3.59%) AWS Certification
7 208 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 162 (2.65%) Master's Degree
9 136 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 136 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 83 (1.36%) PhD
11 76 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (0.93%) CCNP
13 52 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 46 (0.75%) OSCP
15 38 (0.62%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 27 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 242 (3.95%) QA
3 131 (2.14%) GDPR
4 87 (1.42%) NIST
5 73 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.38%) PMO
9 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 20 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.33%) SLA
11 12 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.18%) WCAG
13 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.13%) Basel III
14 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 664 (10.85%) Docker
2 107 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.93%) Firmware
5 41 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 19 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 858 (14.02%) Terraform
2 668 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 367 (5.99%) Ansible
4 225 (3.68%) Grafana
5 169 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.03%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 35 (0.57%) Puppet
9 33 (0.54%) Kibana
9 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.44%) Packer
11 26 (0.42%) Istio
12 23 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
16 17 (0.28%) Podman
17 16 (0.26%) logstash
18 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
19 14 (0.23%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,567 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 364 (5.95%) Databricks
3 200 (3.27%) Google
4 138 (2.25%) VMware
5 130 (2.12%) Oracle
6 128 (2.09%) Splunk
7 118 (1.93%) Cisco
8 99 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 98 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 63 (1.03%) Foundry
11 59 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 58 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) SAP
17 39 (0.64%) F5
18 37 (0.60%) Palantir
19 36 (0.59%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.52%) Arista