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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,995 4,796 7,188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.68% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.89% 38.43% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,420 3,144 5,583
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £56,250 £50,000
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 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,979 12,479 27,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.48% 32.99% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,797 9,200 22,513
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £87,500 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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 0 2,344 £85,000 -5.56% 1,153
North of England -15 1,189 £55,000 -15.38% 449
South East -3 880 £60,000 -7.69% 557
Midlands +13 669 £55,000 - 225
Yorkshire +17 532 £50,000 -23.08% 128
South West +7 522 £57,500 -2.13% 203
North West -21 492 £60,326 -7.19% 238
West Midlands +24 386 £60,000 +9.09% 111
East of England -17 325 £58,750 -11.27% 204
East Midlands +7 283 £55,000 - 113
North East +15 165 £45,750 -29.62% 85
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
1 211 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 131 (2.19%) Apache
4 65 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 13 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.10%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.083%) CMS
16 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
18 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,222 (20.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.13%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.067%) CATIA
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.033%) Windchill
11 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.017%) Houdini
11 1 (0.017%) Notion
11 1 (0.017%) NUKE
11 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
3 4 (0.067%) Shopify
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,866 (47.81%) Azure
2 1,801 (30.04%) AWS
3 1,438 (23.99%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.95%) Azure AI
5 623 (10.39%) GCP
6 538 (8.97%) GitHub
7 290 (4.84%) Serverless
8 228 (3.80%) SaaS
9 207 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 205 (3.42%) Amazon S3
11 184 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 170 (2.84%) Snowflake
14 162 (2.70%) dbt
15 158 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 131 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 128 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 122 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 95 (1.58%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 212 (3.54%) Internet
2 203 (3.39%) Firewall
3 150 (2.50%) Broadband
4 123 (2.05%) DNS
5 113 (1.88%) VPN
6 93 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 92 (1.53%) Network Security
8 82 (1.37%) WAN
9 74 (1.23%) LAN
10 66 (1.10%) Wireless
11 65 (1.08%) BGP
12 55 (0.92%) HTTP
13 54 (0.90%) VLAN
14 46 (0.77%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
16 38 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
17 34 (0.57%) DHCP
18 30 (0.50%) MPLS
19 29 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,391 (23.20%) Power BI
2 1,304 (21.75%) Tableau
3 269 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 209 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 144 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 123 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 116 (1.93%) MongoDB
12 110 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 107 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 93 (1.55%) Big Data
15 91 (1.52%) Metadata
16 78 (1.30%) MySQL
17 62 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.92%) DynamoDB
19 54 (0.90%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 659 (10.99%) Git
2 240 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 213 (3.55%) GitLab
4 110 (1.83%) JIRA
5 77 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.05%) MLflow
7 53 (0.88%) Selenium
8 44 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 38 (0.63%) Postman
11 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.40%) Claude Code
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
17 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,331 (38.88%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (19.35%) Finance
3 795 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (4.20%) Banking
5 245 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 206 (3.44%) Public Sector
7 197 (3.29%) Multimedia
8 177 (2.95%) Retail
9 161 (2.69%) Law
10 148 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.19%) Front Office
12 101 (1.68%) Marketing
13 96 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.48%) Legal
15 76 (1.27%) Electronics
16 67 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.90%) Financial Institution
19 42 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,426 (23.79%) Analyst
2 1,243 (20.73%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.25%) Junior
4 994 (16.58%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.58%) Junior Data Analyst
5 905 (15.10%) Developer
6 862 (14.38%) Senior
7 553 (9.22%) Software Engineer
8 520 (8.67%) Data Engineer
9 479 (7.99%) Lead
10 437 (7.29%) Python Engineer
11 395 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 385 (6.42%) Python Developer
13 360 (6.01%) Trainee
14 212 (3.54%) Software Developer
15 195 (3.25%) Python Software Engineer
16 171 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
17 170 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
18 158 (2.64%) Senior Developer
19 155 (2.59%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (6.47%) React
2 334 (5.57%) HTML
3 295 (4.92%) CSS
4 242 (4.04%) Kafka
5 211 (3.52%) Node.js
6 205 (3.42%) PySpark
7 202 (3.37%) REST
8 190 (3.17%) Django
9 173 (2.89%) RESTful
10 167 (2.79%) Pandas
11 165 (2.75%) PyTorch
12 162 (2.70%) .NET
13 146 (2.44%) FastAPI
14 141 (2.35%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.15%) scikit-learn
16 124 (2.07%) Flask
17 104 (1.73%) NumPy
18 100 (1.67%) JSON
18 100 (1.67%) LangChain
19 89 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 335 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 290 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 236 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 122 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 122 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 100 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 90 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 89 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 86 (1.43%) Low-Code
10 85 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 84 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 84 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 83 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 79 (1.32%) Equities
13 79 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 79 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 78 (1.30%) Hedge funds
15 77 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
16 73 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 565 (9.42%) Linux
2 238 (3.97%) Windows
3 126 (2.10%) Unix
4 70 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.68%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.18%) Debian
9 11 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.13%) VMS
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.10%) Solaris
15 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,496 (41.63%) AI
2 1,489 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
3 1,206 (20.12%) CI/CD
4 1,073 (17.90%) Software Engineering
5 965 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
6 936 (15.61%) Analytics
7 924 (15.41%) Agile
8 897 (14.96%) DevOps
9 726 (12.11%) Machine Learning
10 720 (12.01%) Mentoring
11 658 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 576 (9.61%) Data Modelling
13 566 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
14 560 (9.34%) Data Engineering
15 559 (9.32%) Data Science
16 546 (9.11%) ETL
17 527 (8.79%) Computer Science
18 515 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 490 (8.17%) Containerisation
20 450 (7.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,474 (41.27%) SQL
2 726 (12.11%) JavaScript
3 649 (10.83%) Java
4 441 (7.36%) PowerShell
5 429 (7.16%) Bash
6 361 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 333 (5.55%) C++
8 331 (5.52%) C#
9 280 (4.67%) Go
10 220 (3.67%) R
11 148 (2.47%) C
12 117 (1.95%) Scala
13 77 (1.28%) Rust
14 69 (1.15%) PHP
15 68 (1.13%) VBA
16 54 (0.90%) Bicep
17 43 (0.72%) Perl
18 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
20 31 (0.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,559 (26.01%) Azure Certification
2 777 (12.96%) Degree
3 508 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 341 (5.69%) AWS Certification
5 299 (4.99%) SC Cleared
6 279 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 253 (4.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 249 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 170 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 152 (2.54%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.47%) PhD
12 76 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.05%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 46 (0.77%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.85%) QA
3 123 (2.05%) GDPR
4 107 (1.78%) NIST
5 97 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.27%) SLA
13 15 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 575 (9.59%) Docker
2 109 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 81 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.87%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.35%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 708 (11.81%) Terraform
2 609 (10.16%) Kubernetes
3 339 (5.65%) Ansible
4 195 (3.25%) Grafana
5 152 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 29 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.48%) Nagios
7 29 (0.48%) Puppet
8 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 22 (0.37%) Istio
10 20 (0.33%) Kibana
11 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 14 (0.23%) Packer
13 14 (0.23%) Rancher
14 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.20%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,902 (31.73%) Microsoft
2 318 (5.30%) Databricks
3 204 (3.40%) Google
4 131 (2.19%) Oracle
5 122 (2.04%) Cisco
6 120 (2.00%) VMware
7 104 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 93 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 60 (1.00%) SAP
11 57 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.83%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 47 (0.78%) Informatica
15 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
16 41 (0.68%) Palantir
16 41 (0.68%) SolarWinds
17 40 (0.67%) Talend