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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,363 4,453 6,825
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.66% 12.16% 8.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.37% 35.59% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,227 3,226 5,407
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 12,657 12,511 26,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.07% 34.17% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,069 9,342 22,200
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 2,248 £83,500 -7.22% 1,152
North of England -2 1,004 £47,500 -26.92% 475
South East -10 742 £60,000 -8.05% 576
Midlands +2 545 £55,200 +0.36% 255
South West +5 464 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +15 446 £45,000 -29.69% 164
North West -8 412 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +19 335 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -20 294 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -6 211 £55,000 - 125
North East +19 146 £45,000 -30.77% 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
1 204 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.42%) Apache
4 68 (1.27%) WordPress
5 62 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 35 (0.65%) Confluence
7 32 (0.60%) SAS
7 32 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.32%) Appian
11 14 (0.26%) IIS
12 13 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
16 5 (0.093%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.075%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.075%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,082 (20.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 53 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.093%) Simulink
8 4 (0.075%) CATIA
8 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.075%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.075%) Windchill
9 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.037%) Weka
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Houdini
10 1 (0.019%) Notion
10 1 (0.019%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.093%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.093%) Shopify
3 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.056%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.056%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.037%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Actimize
6 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Findur
6 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.019%) Primavera
6 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,480 (46.24%) Azure
2 1,773 (33.06%) AWS
3 1,243 (23.18%) Power Platform
4 935 (17.43%) Azure AI
5 601 (11.21%) GitHub
6 591 (11.02%) GCP
7 278 (5.18%) Serverless
8 206 (3.84%) SaaS
9 200 (3.73%) Amazon S3
10 185 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 177 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 173 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 166 (3.10%) dbt
14 160 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 159 (2.96%) Snowflake
16 122 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
17 118 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 105 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
19 90 (1.68%) OpenShift
20 89 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.07%) Internet
2 186 (3.47%) Firewall
3 140 (2.61%) Broadband
4 110 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.90%) VPN
6 98 (1.83%) DNS
7 74 (1.38%) Network Security
8 71 (1.32%) WAN
9 68 (1.27%) LAN
10 63 (1.17%) BGP
11 62 (1.16%) Wireless
12 57 (1.06%) VLAN
13 50 (0.93%) HTTP
14 44 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.80%) OSPF
16 38 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (0.62%) MPLS
17 33 (0.62%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.58%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,205 (22.47%) Power BI
2 1,178 (21.97%) Tableau
3 265 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.65%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.15%) Data Mining
7 167 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
11 109 (2.03%) BigQuery
12 105 (1.96%) MongoDB
13 95 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 91 (1.70%) Big Data
15 84 (1.57%) Metadata
16 80 (1.49%) MySQL
17 71 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (0.93%) Looker
19 49 (0.91%) Delta Lake
20 46 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 673 (12.55%) Git
2 212 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.32%) GitLab
4 106 (1.98%) JIRA
5 65 (1.21%) MLflow
6 59 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
7 56 (1.04%) Selenium
8 37 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.69%) Postman
9 34 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
11 24 (0.45%) JUnit
12 22 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 21 (0.39%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.37%) JMeter
15 19 (0.35%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.32%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 1,938 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 1,172 (21.85%) Finance
3 835 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (5.03%) Banking
5 260 (4.85%) Multimedia
6 213 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 169 (3.15%) Retail
9 167 (3.11%) Law
10 149 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 137 (2.55%) Front Office
12 120 (2.24%) Marketing
13 107 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.58%) Legal
15 75 (1.40%) Electronics
16 71 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 70 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.16%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.82%) Games
20 43 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,285 (23.96%) Analyst
2 1,104 (20.59%) Data Analyst
3 871 (16.24%) Developer
4 838 (15.63%) Junior
5 804 (14.99%) Junior Analyst
5 804 (14.99%) Junior Data Analyst
6 763 (14.23%) Senior
7 480 (8.95%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.48%) Trainee
9 444 (8.28%) Software Engineer
10 413 (7.70%) Lead
11 351 (6.54%) Python Developer
12 338 (6.30%) Python Engineer
13 224 (4.18%) Software Developer
14 185 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 157 (2.93%) Architect
16 154 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 150 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
18 145 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
19 144 (2.69%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (7.59%) HTML
2 376 (7.01%) React
3 361 (6.73%) CSS
4 234 (4.36%) Kafka
5 210 (3.92%) Node.js
6 201 (3.75%) Django
7 191 (3.56%) REST
8 177 (3.30%) PySpark
9 166 (3.10%) RESTful
10 158 (2.95%) PyTorch
11 145 (2.70%) .NET
12 144 (2.69%) Pandas
13 138 (2.57%) FastAPI
14 136 (2.54%) TensorFlow
15 128 (2.39%) Flask
16 126 (2.35%) scikit-learn
17 98 (1.83%) JSON
18 94 (1.75%) NumPy
19 84 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
20 82 (1.53%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 282 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 254 (4.74%) Algorithms
3 210 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 103 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 103 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 88 (1.64%) Equities
7 88 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 86 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 85 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 80 (1.49%) Hedge funds
12 78 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 74 (1.38%) Public Cloud
14 72 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
15 71 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
16 69 (1.29%) AI Agents
17 67 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
18 66 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.20%) Linux
2 222 (4.14%) Windows
3 176 (3.28%) Unix
4 69 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.75%) CentOS
7 29 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Android
11 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Solaris
12 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.075%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.056%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.056%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,032 (37.89%) AI
2 1,315 (24.52%) Business Intelligence
3 1,121 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 987 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
5 945 (17.62%) Analytics
6 889 (16.58%) Software Engineering
7 887 (16.54%) Agile
8 841 (15.68%) DevOps
9 729 (13.59%) Mentoring
10 692 (12.90%) Machine Learning
11 573 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 558 (10.40%) Data Modelling
13 547 (10.20%) Data Science
14 531 (9.90%) ETL
15 528 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
16 504 (9.40%) Data Engineering
17 490 (9.14%) Computer Science
18 485 (9.04%) Containerisation
18 485 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 431 (8.04%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,272 (42.36%) SQL
2 800 (14.92%) JavaScript
3 604 (11.26%) Java
4 402 (7.50%) Bash
5 395 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 326 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 286 (5.33%) C#
8 270 (5.03%) C++
8 270 (5.03%) Go
9 263 (4.90%) R
10 137 (2.55%) C
11 110 (2.05%) Scala
12 71 (1.32%) Rust
12 71 (1.32%) VBA
13 67 (1.25%) PHP
14 45 (0.84%) Bicep
15 42 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 37 (0.69%) Perl
17 35 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 29 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,230 (22.93%) Azure Certification
2 775 (14.45%) Degree
3 441 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 410 (7.64%) AWS Certification
5 313 (5.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 304 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 262 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 250 (4.66%) SC Cleared
9 168 (3.13%) DV Cleared
10 133 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.68%) PhD
12 67 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.04%) CCNP
14 51 (0.95%) CISSP
15 44 (0.82%) OSCP
16 43 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 30 (0.56%) CREST Certified
19 29 (0.54%) DBS Check
20 27 (0.50%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 204 (3.80%) QA
3 124 (2.31%) GDPR
4 114 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.01%) NIST
6 62 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.47%) PMO
10 21 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.39%) SLA
11 20 (0.37%) GRC
12 17 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.15%) WCAG
15 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 582 (10.85%) Docker
2 94 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.65%) Firmware
5 33 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.093%) iptables
12 5 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.093%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.056%) HDFS
14 3 (0.056%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 644 (12.01%) Terraform
2 591 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 325 (6.06%) Ansible
4 175 (3.26%) Grafana
5 146 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.14%) Argo
7 28 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.43%) Puppet
9 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.32%) Istio
12 16 (0.30%) Kibana
13 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.22%) Nessus
13 12 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.21%) Control-M
14 11 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,748 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 299 (5.58%) Databricks
3 204 (3.80%) Google
4 141 (2.63%) Oracle
5 119 (2.22%) Cisco
5 119 (2.22%) VMware
6 100 (1.86%) Red Hat
7 75 (1.40%) SAP
8 70 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.27%) Splunk
10 64 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 56 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 49 (0.91%) Informatica
13 48 (0.90%) Fortinet
14 45 (0.84%) Foundry
14 45 (0.84%) Typelevel
15 42 (0.78%) Dell
15 42 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.76%) Talend
17 39 (0.73%) Palantir