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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,608 5,091 6,400
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.54% 11.96% 9.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.56% 34.44% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,966 3,158 5,126
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% -1.27%

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 11,362 14,783 24,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.60% 34.72% 36.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,109 20,726
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
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 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
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 24 February 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 24 February 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 2,049 £83,500 -4.57% 1,027
North of England -9 836 £45,000 -30.77% 443
South East -20 590 £61,000 -12.86% 607
Midlands -8 441 £55,000 - 225
South West 0 391 £58,497 -10.01% 241
Yorkshire +8 367 £40,000 -38.46% 151
North West -12 344 £50,000 -20.00% 222
West Midlands +9 284 £55,000 - 108
East of England -24 230 £50,000 -24.52% 190
East Midlands -16 159 £55,000 - 116
North East +12 125 £40,000 -38.46% 71
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
1 167 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.58%) Apache
4 56 (1.22%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.69%) SAS
7 28 (0.61%) WordPress
8 27 (0.59%) Confluence
9 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.41%) Appian
11 17 (0.37%) IIS
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 11 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.20%) nginx
16 6 (0.13%) CMS
17 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.087%) JBoss
Applications
1 823 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.087%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.087%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.087%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,951 (42.34%) Azure
2 1,577 (34.22%) AWS
3 952 (20.66%) Power Platform
4 558 (12.11%) GitHub
5 556 (12.07%) Azure AI
6 501 (10.87%) GCP
7 263 (5.71%) Serverless
8 185 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (3.71%) SaaS
10 170 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (3.54%) Amazon S3
12 162 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 156 (3.39%) Snowflake
14 141 (3.06%) dbt
15 136 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 123 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
19 81 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 69 (1.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 256 (5.56%) Internet
2 170 (3.69%) Firewall
3 105 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 96 (2.08%) VPN
5 83 (1.80%) Broadband
6 81 (1.76%) DNS
7 71 (1.54%) WAN
8 62 (1.35%) LAN
9 59 (1.28%) BGP
10 58 (1.26%) Wireless
11 55 (1.19%) Network Security
12 54 (1.17%) VLAN
13 50 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
14 46 (1.00%) HTTP
15 42 (0.91%) OSPF
16 34 (0.74%) MPLS
17 33 (0.72%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.69%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.61%) DHCP
20 27 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 914 (19.84%) Power BI
2 870 (18.88%) Tableau
3 240 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 180 (3.91%) Data Mining
7 172 (3.73%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 113 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 107 (2.32%) MongoDB
11 104 (2.26%) Big Data
12 92 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 87 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
14 82 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 82 (1.78%) Metadata
15 77 (1.67%) MySQL
16 67 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
17 58 (1.26%) Hadoop
18 45 (0.98%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 590 (12.80%) Git
2 215 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 166 (3.60%) GitLab
4 103 (2.24%) JIRA
5 53 (1.15%) Selenium
6 47 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
7 45 (0.98%) MLflow
8 38 (0.82%) Postman
9 31 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.65%) JUnit
11 28 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.43%) JMeter
13 20 (0.43%) LabVIEW
14 17 (0.37%) Subversion
15 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
15 16 (0.35%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 1,545 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 1,123 (24.37%) Finance
3 763 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.23%) Multimedia
5 240 (5.21%) Banking
6 194 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 186 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 176 (3.82%) Law
9 149 (3.23%) Retail
10 141 (3.06%) Front Office
11 137 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 121 (2.63%) Marketing
13 116 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 77 (1.67%) Financial Institution
15 75 (1.63%) Legal
16 70 (1.52%) Electronics
16 70 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
17 52 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
18 48 (1.04%) Investment Banking
19 46 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,004 (21.79%) Analyst
2 837 (18.16%) Data Analyst
3 795 (17.25%) Developer
4 685 (14.87%) Senior
5 542 (11.76%) Junior
6 519 (11.26%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.26%) Junior Data Analyst
7 441 (9.57%) Trainee
8 439 (9.53%) Data Engineer
9 375 (8.14%) Software Engineer
10 348 (7.55%) Lead
11 307 (6.66%) Python Developer
12 263 (5.71%) Python Engineer
13 203 (4.41%) Software Developer
14 155 (3.36%) Architect
15 150 (3.26%) Trainee Analyst
15 150 (3.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 140 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 134 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (8.33%) HTML
2 362 (7.86%) React
3 338 (7.34%) CSS
4 193 (4.19%) Node.js
5 190 (4.12%) Kafka
6 180 (3.91%) REST
7 176 (3.82%) Django
8 145 (3.15%) RESTful
9 135 (2.93%) PySpark
10 133 (2.89%) .NET
11 132 (2.86%) Pandas
12 130 (2.82%) FastAPI
13 122 (2.65%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.41%) Flask
15 109 (2.37%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.15%) JSON
17 95 (2.06%) AngularJS
18 93 (2.02%) NumPy
18 93 (2.02%) scikit-learn
19 84 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 236 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 230 (4.99%) Algorithms
3 176 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (2.08%) Equities
8 95 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 82 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 81 (1.76%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.65%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.58%) Hedge funds
13 71 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 68 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
15 66 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
16 63 (1.37%) Derivative
17 61 (1.32%) AI Agents
17 61 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
18 59 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 501 (10.87%) Linux
2 201 (4.36%) Windows
3 181 (3.93%) Unix
4 61 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 58 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 36 (0.78%) CentOS
7 29 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.30%) Debian
11 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.24%) Android
13 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.087%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.043%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,518 (32.94%) AI
2 1,025 (22.24%) CI/CD
3 1,017 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
4 934 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
5 869 (18.86%) Analytics
6 817 (17.73%) Agile
7 797 (17.30%) DevOps
8 755 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 697 (15.13%) Mentoring
10 587 (12.74%) Machine Learning
11 517 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 502 (10.89%) Data Science
13 494 (10.72%) Data Modelling
14 489 (10.61%) ETL
15 480 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
16 473 (10.26%) Computer Science
17 468 (10.16%) Data Engineering
18 450 (9.77%) Data Analysis
19 432 (9.38%) Containerisation
20 417 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,920 (41.67%) SQL
2 770 (16.71%) JavaScript
3 610 (13.24%) Java
4 397 (8.62%) Bash
5 366 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 330 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 276 (5.99%) C#
8 238 (5.16%) R
9 235 (5.10%) C++
10 213 (4.62%) Go
11 130 (2.82%) C
12 84 (1.82%) Scala
13 66 (1.43%) VBA
14 61 (1.32%) Rust
15 57 (1.24%) PHP
16 44 (0.95%) Bicep
17 40 (0.87%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.85%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.82%) Perl
20 36 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 829 (17.99%) Azure Certification
2 801 (17.38%) Degree
3 463 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 397 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 282 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 271 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 235 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 164 (3.56%) DV Cleared
10 162 (3.52%) Master's Degree
11 96 (2.08%) PhD
12 71 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.32%) CCNP
14 52 (1.13%) CISSP
15 47 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 36 (0.78%) OSCP
18 29 (0.63%) CREST Certified
19 28 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 165 (3.58%) QA
3 114 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.24%) NIST
5 102 (2.21%) GDPR
6 67 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.52%) SLA
10 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.35%) PMO
12 15 (0.33%) ISO 22301
13 14 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.26%) GRC
15 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.20%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.11%) DICOM
16 5 (0.11%) NCSC
17 4 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 542 (11.76%) Docker
2 89 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.63%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.37%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) HDFS
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.087%) iptables
13 4 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.065%) NFS
14 3 (0.065%) QEMU
15 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 580 (12.59%) Terraform
2 578 (12.54%) Kubernetes
3 318 (6.90%) Ansible
4 147 (3.19%) Grafana
5 140 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.41%) Argo
7 22 (0.48%) Kibana
7 22 (0.48%) Puppet
8 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.37%) Nagios
10 13 (0.28%) Control-M
10 13 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.26%) Nessus
11 12 (0.26%) Rancher
12 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (0.24%) logstash
12 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,422 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.43%) Databricks
3 210 (4.56%) Google
4 127 (2.76%) Oracle
5 109 (2.37%) Cisco
6 106 (2.30%) VMware
7 76 (1.65%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.50%) SAP
10 66 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 65 (1.41%) Splunk
12 55 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.06%) Informatica
14 44 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.85%) Alteryx
16 39 (0.85%) IBM
17 38 (0.82%) Talend
18 35 (0.76%) Foundry
19 34 (0.74%) Palantir