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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,007 5,562 5,157
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 11.41% 10.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.99% 33.60% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 3,363 4,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £125,000
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 10,277 16,554 18,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.54% 33.95% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,757 9,745 15,319
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 -2 1,991 £85,000 - 999
North of England -9 641 £52,500 -16.00% 486
South East -35 433 £60,000 -8.05% 936
Midlands -13 376 £60,000 +9.09% 275
South West -5 308 £60,000 -7.69% 330
Yorkshire +10 300 £53,500 -17.69% 197
North West -13 265 £55,000 -8.33% 207
West Midlands -1 261 £60,000 - 113
East of England -12 212 £50,000 -28.57% 375
East Midlands -21 118 £62,500 +13.64% 159
North East -3 78 £40,000 -38.46% 83
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
1 178 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 130 (3.24%) Apache
4 43 (1.07%) Confluence
5 35 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
6 26 (0.65%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.45%) Appian
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 10 (0.25%) CMS
13 9 (0.22%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 503 (12.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.100%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.100%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) CATIA
9 3 (0.075%) MadCap Flare
9 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.100%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,580 (39.43%) Azure
2 1,393 (34.76%) AWS
3 694 (17.32%) Power Platform
4 517 (12.90%) GitHub
5 438 (10.93%) GCP
6 280 (6.99%) Azure AI
7 260 (6.49%) Serverless
8 185 (4.62%) Snowflake
9 183 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
10 163 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (3.94%) Amazon S3
11 158 (3.94%) SaaS
12 155 (3.87%) dbt
13 136 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 136 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 97 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 89 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
16 87 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 83 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
18 76 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 253 (6.31%) Internet
2 146 (3.64%) Firewall
3 88 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 69 (1.72%) VPN
5 67 (1.67%) WAN
6 64 (1.60%) DNS
7 56 (1.40%) LAN
8 40 (1.00%) BGP
8 40 (1.00%) Wireless
9 37 (0.92%) HTTP
9 37 (0.92%) Network Security
10 36 (0.90%) OSPF
11 33 (0.82%) VLAN
12 31 (0.77%) SSL
12 31 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (0.75%) SAN
14 28 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.60%) Broadband
16 21 (0.52%) DHCP
16 21 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (16.32%) Power BI
2 550 (13.73%) Tableau
3 277 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
4 235 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
5 220 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 167 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 160 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 136 (3.39%) Data Mining
9 134 (3.34%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.85%) MongoDB
11 109 (2.72%) BigQuery
12 103 (2.57%) Big Data
13 92 (2.30%) MySQL
14 86 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
15 84 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 80 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
17 78 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
17 78 (1.95%) Apache Iceberg
18 68 (1.70%) Hadoop
19 63 (1.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 553 (13.80%) Git
2 221 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 136 (3.39%) GitLab
4 126 (3.14%) JIRA
5 58 (1.45%) Selenium
6 44 (1.10%) MLflow
7 39 (0.97%) JUnit
8 31 (0.77%) Postman
9 25 (0.62%) JMeter
10 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 16 (0.40%) Mockito
14 15 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 11 (0.27%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,155 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 1,026 (25.61%) Finance
3 610 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (6.24%) Banking
5 237 (5.91%) Multimedia
6 186 (4.64%) Law
7 179 (4.47%) Marketing
8 166 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 157 (3.92%) Front Office
10 135 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 125 (3.12%) Retail
12 108 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 90 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 80 (2.00%) Electronics
16 76 (1.90%) Investment Banking
17 72 (1.80%) Legal
18 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.37%) Games
20 53 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 757 (18.89%) Developer
2 680 (16.97%) Analyst
3 659 (16.45%) Senior
4 498 (12.43%) Data Analyst
5 419 (10.46%) Data Engineer
6 351 (8.76%) Trainee
7 314 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 306 (7.64%) Python Developer
9 285 (7.11%) Lead
10 262 (6.54%) Junior
11 242 (6.04%) Python Engineer
12 236 (5.89%) Junior Analyst
13 235 (5.86%) Junior Data Analyst
14 187 (4.67%) Software Developer
15 166 (4.14%) Architect
16 150 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
17 146 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
18 139 (3.47%) Senior Developer
19 135 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
20 132 (3.29%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (9.36%) HTML
2 326 (8.14%) CSS
3 320 (7.99%) React
4 177 (4.42%) Node.js
5 166 (4.14%) REST
6 156 (3.89%) Django
7 146 (3.64%) Kafka
8 144 (3.59%) Pandas
9 142 (3.54%) RESTful
10 135 (3.37%) FastAPI
11 118 (2.94%) PySpark
12 114 (2.85%) PyTorch
13 112 (2.80%) .NET
14 105 (2.62%) AngularJS
14 105 (2.62%) Flask
15 101 (2.52%) NumPy
15 101 (2.52%) TensorFlow
16 89 (2.22%) Vue
17 87 (2.17%) JSON
18 80 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 205 (5.12%) Algorithms
3 155 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 140 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 136 (3.39%) Equities
6 114 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 112 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 94 (2.35%) Fixed Income
9 93 (2.32%) Hedge funds
10 90 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (2.10%) Derivative
12 79 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 77 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
14 76 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 63 (1.57%) Low-Code
16 60 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
17 55 (1.37%) AI Agents
18 53 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
19 52 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
20 50 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 491 (12.25%) Linux
2 211 (5.27%) Windows
3 184 (4.59%) Unix
4 71 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.60%) CentOS
8 21 (0.52%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 17 (0.42%) VMS
12 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.17%) Android
14 7 (0.17%) zOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.100%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (27.80%) AI
2 939 (23.43%) CI/CD
3 867 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
4 830 (20.71%) Analytics
5 782 (19.52%) Agile
6 766 (19.12%) Business Intelligence
7 758 (18.92%) DevOps
8 644 (16.07%) Mentoring
9 637 (15.90%) Software Engineering
10 537 (13.40%) Machine Learning
11 493 (12.30%) Data Science
12 467 (11.65%) Data Modelling
13 465 (11.60%) ETL
14 448 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
15 438 (10.93%) Data Engineering
16 427 (10.66%) Computer Science
17 405 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 404 (10.08%) Data Analysis
19 373 (9.31%) Containerisation
20 364 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,638 (40.88%) SQL
2 703 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 590 (14.72%) Java
4 361 (9.01%) Bash
5 330 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 325 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 271 (6.76%) C#
8 250 (6.24%) R
9 196 (4.89%) C++
10 153 (3.82%) Go
11 105 (2.62%) C
12 80 (2.00%) Scala
13 58 (1.45%) PHP
14 50 (1.25%) Perl
15 49 (1.22%) Bicep
16 48 (1.20%) VBA
17 44 (1.10%) MATLAB
18 40 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 40 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 781 (19.49%) Degree
2 537 (13.40%) Azure Certification
3 393 (9.81%) Security Cleared
4 344 (8.58%) AWS Certification
5 291 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 238 (5.94%) SC Cleared
7 234 (5.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 204 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 195 (4.87%) Master's Degree
10 152 (3.79%) DV Cleared
11 118 (2.94%) PhD
12 73 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.35%) CCNP
14 53 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 42 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 24 (0.60%) CCNA
19 24 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 152 (3.79%) QA
3 103 (2.57%) GDPR
4 97 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.92%) NIST
6 62 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.87%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.30%) PMO
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.100%) GRC
16 4 (0.100%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 501 (12.50%) Docker
2 79 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 22 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.45%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
8 8 (0.20%) NFS
8 8 (0.20%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.17%) Lustre
9 7 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.15%) KVM
10 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.12%) Postfix
12 4 (0.100%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.100%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.100%) Squid
Systems Management
1 527 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 472 (11.78%) Terraform
3 293 (7.31%) Ansible
4 118 (2.94%) Grafana
5 110 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.02%) Argo
7 27 (0.67%) Kibana
8 18 (0.45%) Puppet
9 15 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.32%) Control-M
11 13 (0.32%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Nessus
12 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.22%) Rancher
16 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,027 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.74%) Databricks
3 196 (4.89%) Google
4 131 (3.27%) Oracle
5 107 (2.67%) VMware
6 95 (2.37%) Cisco
7 90 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.75%) Splunk
9 69 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 68 (1.70%) SAP
11 55 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 54 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 47 (1.17%) Fortinet
14 45 (1.12%) Alteryx
14 45 (1.12%) IBM
15 42 (1.05%) Bloomberg
16 40 (1.00%) Informatica
16 40 (1.00%) Talend
17 30 (0.75%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.70%) Palantir