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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,978 4,804 7,115
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.68% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.75% 38.36% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,416 3,138 5,528
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
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 £120,000
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 13,984 12,523 26,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.54% 33.05% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,817 9,215 22,411
10th Percentile £35,222 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,643 £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 29 April 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 29 April 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 2,330 £85,000 -5.56% 972
North of England -15 1,190 £55,000 -15.38% 396
South East -3 875 £60,000 -7.69% 524
Midlands +10 672 £55,000 - 185
Yorkshire +16 534 £50,000 -23.08% 105
South West +6 526 £57,500 -4.17% 165
North West -21 495 £60,000 -7.69% 216
West Midlands +23 391 £55,200 +0.36% 103
East of England -16 323 £58,750 -11.27% 167
East Midlands +5 281 £55,000 - 81
North East +15 161 £45,000 -30.77% 77
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
1 212 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.17%) Apache
4 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 38 (0.64%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 29 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.43%) 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 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
18 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
19 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,226 (20.51%) 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 (0.084%) 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 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
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 SD
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
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
Cloud Services
1 2,872 (48.04%) Azure
2 1,798 (30.08%) AWS
3 1,444 (24.16%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (22.01%) Azure AI
5 621 (10.39%) GCP
6 544 (9.10%) GitHub
7 294 (4.92%) Serverless
8 225 (3.76%) SaaS
9 205 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 203 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 164 (2.74%) dbt
15 159 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 128 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 128 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 95 (1.59%) OpenShift
19 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 219 (3.66%) Internet
2 200 (3.35%) Firewall
3 139 (2.33%) Broadband
4 121 (2.02%) DNS
5 112 (1.87%) VPN
6 93 (1.56%) Network Security
7 92 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 82 (1.37%) WAN
9 74 (1.24%) LAN
10 67 (1.12%) Wireless
11 66 (1.10%) BGP
12 56 (0.94%) VLAN
13 54 (0.90%) HTTP
14 47 (0.79%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
16 39 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 31 (0.52%) MPLS
19 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,397 (23.37%) Power BI
2 1,311 (21.93%) Tableau
3 272 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 203 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 141 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.31%) Data Mining
8 138 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.02%) BigQuery
10 113 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 111 (1.86%) MongoDB
12 106 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 93 (1.56%) Big Data
14 87 (1.46%) Metadata
15 77 (1.29%) MySQL
16 61 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
17 54 (0.90%) Spark SQL
18 52 (0.87%) DynamoDB
19 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 664 (11.11%) Git
2 235 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 209 (3.50%) GitLab
4 111 (1.86%) JIRA
5 77 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.07%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 43 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 43 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 39 (0.65%) Postman
10 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.40%) Claude Code
12 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.33%) JUnit
14 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
15 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
15 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,330 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 1,164 (19.47%) Finance
3 802 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (4.17%) Banking
5 237 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (3.40%) Multimedia
6 203 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 178 (2.98%) Retail
8 160 (2.68%) Law
9 146 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 132 (2.21%) Front Office
11 101 (1.69%) Marketing
12 98 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 88 (1.47%) Legal
14 75 (1.25%) Electronics
15 69 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (0.94%) Investment Banking
17 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 53 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 42 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,432 (23.95%) Analyst
2 1,250 (20.91%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.30%) Junior
4 994 (16.63%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.63%) Junior Data Analyst
5 902 (15.09%) Developer
6 860 (14.39%) Senior
7 555 (9.28%) Software Engineer
8 519 (8.68%) Data Engineer
9 471 (7.88%) Lead
10 433 (7.24%) Python Engineer
11 392 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 378 (6.32%) Python Developer
13 371 (6.21%) Trainee
14 211 (3.53%) Software Developer
15 193 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
16 170 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
17 166 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
18 156 (2.61%) Senior Developer
19 151 (2.53%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (6.56%) React
2 340 (5.69%) HTML
3 299 (5.00%) CSS
4 244 (4.08%) Kafka
5 207 (3.46%) Node.js
6 205 (3.43%) REST
7 203 (3.40%) PySpark
8 193 (3.23%) Django
9 172 (2.88%) RESTful
10 168 (2.81%) Pandas
11 164 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 161 (2.69%) .NET
13 147 (2.46%) FastAPI
14 139 (2.33%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.16%) scikit-learn
16 126 (2.11%) Flask
17 104 (1.74%) NumPy
18 100 (1.67%) JSON
19 99 (1.66%) LangChain
20 90 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 314 (5.25%) Cloud Native
2 289 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 230 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 100 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 90 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 90 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 84 (1.41%) Fixed Income
10 84 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 83 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 81 (1.35%) Low-Code
13 79 (1.32%) Equities
13 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
13 79 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 78 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 73 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 560 (9.37%) Linux
2 235 (3.93%) Windows
3 130 (2.17%) Unix
4 70 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) 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
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.12%) Solaris
13 7 (0.12%) VMS
14 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,487 (41.60%) AI
2 1,492 (24.96%) Business Intelligence
3 1,188 (19.87%) CI/CD
4 1,065 (17.82%) Software Engineering
5 975 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
6 941 (15.74%) Analytics
7 922 (15.42%) Agile
8 897 (15.01%) DevOps
9 719 (12.03%) Mentoring
10 718 (12.01%) Machine Learning
11 638 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 575 (9.62%) Data Modelling
13 563 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
14 556 (9.30%) Data Science
15 549 (9.18%) Data Engineering
15 549 (9.18%) ETL
16 526 (8.80%) Computer Science
17 513 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 491 (8.21%) Containerisation
19 439 (7.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,476 (41.42%) SQL
2 745 (12.46%) JavaScript
3 649 (10.86%) Java
4 435 (7.28%) PowerShell
5 417 (6.98%) Bash
6 362 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 329 (5.50%) C++
8 322 (5.39%) C#
9 278 (4.65%) Go
10 221 (3.70%) R
11 151 (2.53%) C
12 118 (1.97%) Scala
13 74 (1.24%) Rust
14 68 (1.14%) PHP
15 66 (1.10%) VBA
16 53 (0.89%) Bicep
17 43 (0.72%) Perl
18 41 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.59%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,565 (26.18%) Azure Certification
2 776 (12.98%) Degree
3 509 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 349 (5.84%) AWS Certification
5 294 (4.92%) SC Cleared
6 282 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 259 (4.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 254 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 174 (2.91%) DV Cleared
10 152 (2.54%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.46%) PhD
12 77 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.84%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 46 (0.77%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.55%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 222 (3.71%) QA
3 125 (2.09%) GDPR
4 108 (1.81%) NIST
5 98 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) GRC
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
1 578 (9.67%) Docker
2 110 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.85%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.33%) 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 (0.084%) iptables
13 5 (0.084%) Lustre
13 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 698 (11.68%) Terraform
2 614 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 340 (5.69%) Ansible
4 190 (3.18%) Grafana
5 148 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.07%) Argo
7 29 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.49%) Nagios
8 28 (0.47%) Puppet
9 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 22 (0.37%) Istio
11 20 (0.33%) Kibana
12 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.25%) logstash
12 15 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.23%) Packer
13 14 (0.23%) Rancher
14 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.20%) SCCM
16 11 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,915 (32.03%) Microsoft
2 318 (5.32%) Databricks
3 206 (3.45%) Google
4 131 (2.19%) Oracle
5 123 (2.06%) Cisco
6 118 (1.97%) VMware
7 105 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 92 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 59 (0.99%) SAP
11 58 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 51 (0.85%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
14 48 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 47 (0.79%) Fortinet
16 46 (0.77%) Informatica
17 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
18 41 (0.69%) SolarWinds
19 40 (0.67%) Palantir
19 40 (0.67%) Talend