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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,041 5,082 7,486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.30% 13.01% 8.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.66% 40.61% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,554 2,839 5,698
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 14,859 12,515 27,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 32.05% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,619 8,434 22,691
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £85,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 5 June 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 5 June 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 2,401 £85,000 -5.56% 1,804
North of England -11 1,232 £61,418 -5.51% 487
South East +2 876 £62,250 -0.40% 620
Midlands +23 645 £55,000 - 212
North West -24 561 £65,000 - 272
South West +6 526 £57,500 +0.10% 251
Yorkshire +15 479 £60,000 -7.69% 132
West Midlands +10 341 £60,000 +9.09% 107
East Midlands +29 304 £55,000 +20.88% 104
East of England 0 300 £70,000 +5.72% 233
North East +20 192 £55,000 -13.73% 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
1 219 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 199 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 152 (2.52%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 50 (0.83%) Confluence
6 48 (0.79%) WordPress
7 33 (0.55%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
13 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) CMS
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.050%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 983 (16.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.017%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,674 (44.26%) Azure
2 1,865 (30.87%) AWS
3 1,244 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 1,125 (18.62%) Azure AI
5 664 (10.99%) GCP
6 438 (7.25%) GitHub
7 324 (5.36%) Serverless
8 237 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 228 (3.77%) SaaS
10 216 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.93%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.75%) dbt
14 161 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 159 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 143 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 104 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
20 95 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (3.87%) Firewall
2 180 (2.98%) Broadband
3 130 (2.15%) VPN
4 129 (2.14%) Internet
5 125 (2.07%) DNS
6 105 (1.74%) Network Security
7 98 (1.62%) WAN
8 97 (1.61%) TCP/IP
9 83 (1.37%) LAN
10 77 (1.27%) Wireless
11 67 (1.11%) BGP
12 55 (0.91%) HTTP
13 54 (0.89%) VLAN
14 49 (0.81%) OSPF
14 49 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (0.53%) DHCP
18 31 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
19 30 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,186 (19.63%) Power BI
2 1,067 (17.66%) Tableau
3 285 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 189 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 165 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 162 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 125 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 111 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 108 (1.79%) Big Data
14 93 (1.54%) Data Mining
15 90 (1.49%) Metadata
16 79 (1.31%) MySQL
17 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.06%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
20 53 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 641 (10.61%) Git
2 256 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 232 (3.84%) GitLab
4 136 (2.25%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.98%) MLflow
7 49 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 35 (0.58%) Claude Code
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.40%) Subversion
15 22 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JMeter
16 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,161 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 1,197 (19.81%) Finance
3 833 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (4.32%) Banking
6 216 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 185 (3.06%) Retail
8 156 (2.58%) Law
9 129 (2.14%) Front Office
10 128 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 114 (1.89%) Multimedia
12 103 (1.71%) Legal
13 98 (1.62%) Marketing
14 90 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.31%) Electronics
16 69 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 62 (1.03%) Financial Institution
18 57 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,201 (19.88%) Analyst
2 1,026 (16.98%) Data Analyst
3 1,006 (16.65%) Senior
4 916 (15.16%) Developer
5 851 (14.09%) Junior
6 806 (13.34%) Junior Analyst
6 806 (13.34%) Junior Data Analyst
7 641 (10.61%) Software Engineer
8 555 (9.19%) Data Engineer
9 503 (8.33%) Python Engineer
10 500 (8.28%) Lead
11 436 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.32%) Python Developer
13 240 (3.97%) Trainee
14 226 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 187 (3.10%) Data Scientist
15 187 (3.10%) Software Developer
16 181 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
17 180 (2.98%) Architect
18 172 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (6.14%) React
2 256 (4.24%) Kafka
3 246 (4.07%) HTML
4 228 (3.77%) CSS
5 226 (3.74%) PySpark
6 219 (3.63%) Node.js
7 208 (3.44%) REST
8 197 (3.26%) .NET
9 174 (2.88%) RESTful
10 171 (2.83%) PyTorch
11 170 (2.81%) Django
12 162 (2.68%) FastAPI
13 157 (2.60%) Pandas
14 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 125 (2.07%) LangChain
16 123 (2.04%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.77%) NumPy
18 99 (1.64%) JSON
19 91 (1.51%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 416 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 274 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.15%) AI Agents
5 130 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 115 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 103 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 94 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
9 89 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 85 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 82 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 81 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 80 (1.32%) Equities
14 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 79 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 70 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
16 69 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 63 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 617 (10.21%) Linux
2 266 (4.40%) Windows
3 98 (1.62%) Unix
4 81 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.65%) CentOS
7 34 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) VMS
11 10 (0.17%) Android
11 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,496 (41.32%) AI
2 1,318 (21.82%) CI/CD
3 1,291 (21.37%) Business Intelligence
4 1,244 (20.59%) Software Engineering
5 1,025 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
6 994 (16.45%) Agile
7 977 (16.17%) Analytics
8 950 (15.73%) DevOps
9 835 (13.82%) Machine Learning
10 747 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (12.27%) Mentoring
12 616 (10.20%) Data Modelling
13 598 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
14 595 (9.85%) Data Engineering
15 591 (9.78%) Data Science
16 536 (8.87%) Computer Science
17 529 (8.76%) ETL
18 510 (8.44%) Containerisation
19 509 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
20 497 (8.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,368 (39.20%) SQL
2 674 (11.16%) JavaScript
3 665 (11.01%) Java
4 478 (7.91%) PowerShell
5 455 (7.53%) Bash
6 423 (7.00%) C++
7 386 (6.39%) C#
8 367 (6.08%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.62%) Go
10 199 (3.29%) R
11 161 (2.67%) C
12 127 (2.10%) Scala
13 85 (1.41%) Rust
14 75 (1.24%) PHP
15 62 (1.03%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) VBA
17 53 (0.88%) MATLAB
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,298 (21.49%) Azure Certification
2 768 (12.71%) Degree
3 600 (9.93%) Security Cleared
4 356 (5.89%) SC Cleared
5 281 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 257 (4.25%) AWS Certification
7 194 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 172 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 171 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 152 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.46%) PhD
12 83 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.11%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 38 (0.63%) CISSP
16 35 (0.58%) CREST Certified
17 32 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 28 (0.46%) CCIE
19 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.79%) QA
3 123 (2.04%) GDPR
4 92 (1.52%) NIST
5 78 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.43%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 19 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) IFRS
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 612 (10.13%) Docker
2 108 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 20 (0.33%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Lustre
15 3 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 795 (13.16%) Terraform
2 633 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 351 (5.81%) Ansible
4 205 (3.39%) Grafana
5 167 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.04%) Argo
7 41 (0.68%) Nagios
8 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 26 (0.43%) Kibana
11 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 23 (0.38%) Istio
13 22 (0.36%) Packer
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
16 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
17 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.25%) Podman
18 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
19 13 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,651 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 347 (5.74%) Databricks
3 207 (3.43%) Google
4 129 (2.14%) VMware
5 127 (2.10%) Oracle
6 126 (2.09%) Cisco
7 117 (1.94%) Splunk
8 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 97 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 59 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 56 (0.93%) Foundry
11 56 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 55 (0.91%) SolarWinds
13 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
14 48 (0.79%) SAP
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.73%) Fortinet
17 42 (0.70%) F5
18 38 (0.63%) Palantir
19 31 (0.51%) Arista