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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,531 5,161 6,398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.92% 9.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.26% 34.39% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,944 3,176 5,127
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,225 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.91% -1.97%

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 11,253 15,008 24,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.50% 34.67% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,319 9,176 20,721
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 23 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 23 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 -1 2,023 £82,500 -5.71% 1,070
North of England -8 821 £45,000 -30.77% 438
South East -20 578 £60,000 -14.29% 622
Midlands -10 429 £55,000 - 242
South West 0 383 £58,497 -10.01% 245
Yorkshire +5 358 £40,000 -38.46% 145
North West -13 340 £50,000 -20.00% 222
West Midlands +7 278 £55,000 - 120
East of England -26 226 £50,000 -24.52% 202
East Midlands -15 153 £55,000 - 121
North East +8 123 £40,000 -38.46% 72
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
1 163 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.54%) Apache
4 56 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.71%) SAS
7 28 (0.62%) WordPress
8 27 (0.60%) Confluence
9 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.42%) Appian
11 17 (0.38%) IIS
11 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.29%) 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 (0.088%) JBoss
Applications
1 775 (17.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.088%) Windchill
10 3 (0.066%) CATIA
11 2 (0.044%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.044%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.044%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.044%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.088%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.088%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.044%) 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 1,891 (41.73%) Azure
2 1,559 (34.41%) AWS
3 904 (19.95%) Power Platform
4 558 (12.32%) GitHub
5 509 (11.23%) Azure AI
6 491 (10.84%) GCP
7 261 (5.76%) Serverless
8 185 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (3.77%) SaaS
10 169 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 162 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
12 159 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 155 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 141 (3.11%) dbt
15 136 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 122 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
19 79 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 70 (1.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 256 (5.65%) Internet
2 170 (3.75%) Firewall
3 105 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 96 (2.12%) VPN
5 80 (1.77%) Broadband
5 80 (1.77%) DNS
6 71 (1.57%) WAN
7 62 (1.37%) LAN
8 59 (1.30%) BGP
9 58 (1.28%) Wireless
10 55 (1.21%) Network Security
11 54 (1.19%) VLAN
12 50 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (1.02%) HTTP
14 42 (0.93%) OSPF
15 34 (0.75%) MPLS
16 33 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.71%) Wireshark
18 27 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 866 (19.11%) Power BI
2 819 (18.08%) Tableau
3 239 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 209 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
6 180 (3.97%) Data Mining
7 172 (3.80%) NoSQL
8 149 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 113 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.34%) MongoDB
11 105 (2.32%) Big Data
12 92 (2.03%) BigQuery
13 86 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 82 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 82 (1.81%) Metadata
15 78 (1.72%) MySQL
16 66 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
17 59 (1.30%) Hadoop
18 46 (1.02%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 582 (12.84%) Git
2 213 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 163 (3.60%) GitLab
4 103 (2.27%) JIRA
5 54 (1.19%) Selenium
6 47 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 45 (0.99%) MLflow
8 39 (0.86%) Postman
9 31 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.66%) JUnit
11 28 (0.62%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.51%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.44%) JMeter
13 20 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 19 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.38%) Subversion
16 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
16 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
17 15 (0.33%) TeamCity
18 14 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,489 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 1,108 (24.45%) Finance
3 760 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.32%) Multimedia
5 235 (5.19%) Banking
6 193 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 183 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 177 (3.91%) Law
9 148 (3.27%) Retail
10 136 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.89%) Front Office
12 120 (2.65%) Marketing
13 116 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 77 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 74 (1.63%) Legal
16 71 (1.57%) Electronics
17 69 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
18 52 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 46 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
20 45 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 953 (21.03%) Analyst
2 789 (17.41%) Data Analyst
3 784 (17.30%) Developer
4 681 (15.03%) Senior
5 494 (10.90%) Junior
6 471 (10.40%) Junior Analyst
6 471 (10.40%) Junior Data Analyst
7 441 (9.73%) Trainee
8 438 (9.67%) Data Engineer
9 362 (7.99%) Software Engineer
10 337 (7.44%) Lead
11 305 (6.73%) Python Developer
12 260 (5.74%) Python Engineer
13 202 (4.46%) Software Developer
14 154 (3.40%) Architect
15 150 (3.31%) Trainee Analyst
15 150 (3.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 139 (3.07%) Senior Developer
17 133 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (8.47%) HTML
2 351 (7.75%) React
3 338 (7.46%) CSS
4 184 (4.06%) Kafka
5 182 (4.02%) Node.js
6 180 (3.97%) REST
7 176 (3.88%) Django
8 145 (3.20%) RESTful
9 133 (2.94%) .NET
10 131 (2.89%) PySpark
11 130 (2.87%) Pandas
12 129 (2.85%) FastAPI
13 122 (2.69%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.45%) Flask
15 109 (2.41%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.18%) JSON
17 93 (2.05%) AngularJS
17 93 (2.05%) NumPy
17 93 (2.05%) scikit-learn
18 83 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 235 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 232 (5.12%) Algorithms
3 175 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 92 (2.03%) Equities
9 83 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 76 (1.68%) Low-Code
11 73 (1.61%) Hedge funds
12 72 (1.59%) Fixed Income
13 71 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 68 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
15 65 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
16 61 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 59 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 59 (1.30%) Derivative
17 59 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 502 (11.08%) Linux
2 199 (4.39%) Windows
3 183 (4.04%) Unix
4 61 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.77%) CentOS
7 28 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.33%) Debian
9 15 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.24%) Android
12 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.088%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.044%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,465 (32.33%) AI
2 1,012 (22.34%) CI/CD
3 970 (21.41%) Business Intelligence
4 931 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 866 (19.11%) Analytics
6 800 (17.66%) Agile
7 789 (17.41%) DevOps
8 742 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 685 (15.12%) Mentoring
10 585 (12.91%) Machine Learning
11 508 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 502 (11.08%) Data Science
13 493 (10.88%) Data Modelling
14 485 (10.70%) ETL
15 477 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
16 472 (10.42%) Computer Science
17 466 (10.28%) Data Engineering
18 447 (9.87%) Data Analysis
19 425 (9.38%) Containerisation
20 414 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,866 (41.18%) SQL
2 756 (16.69%) JavaScript
3 601 (13.26%) Java
4 397 (8.76%) Bash
5 362 (7.99%) PowerShell
6 319 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 271 (5.98%) C#
8 237 (5.23%) R
9 233 (5.14%) C++
10 207 (4.57%) Go
11 131 (2.89%) C
12 84 (1.85%) Scala
13 66 (1.46%) VBA
14 61 (1.35%) Rust
15 57 (1.26%) PHP
16 44 (0.97%) Bicep
17 40 (0.88%) MATLAB
18 38 (0.84%) Perl
18 38 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 35 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 800 (17.66%) Degree
2 782 (17.26%) Azure Certification
3 458 (10.11%) Security Cleared
4 397 (8.76%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 282 (6.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 267 (5.89%) SC Cleared
8 232 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 164 (3.62%) Master's Degree
10 163 (3.60%) DV Cleared
11 98 (2.16%) PhD
12 71 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.35%) CCNP
14 52 (1.15%) CISSP
15 47 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 36 (0.79%) OSCP
18 29 (0.64%) CREST Certified
19 28 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 163 (3.60%) QA
3 113 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.25%) NIST
5 101 (2.23%) GDPR
6 67 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.55%) SLA
10 18 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.35%) PMO
12 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.26%) GRC
14 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.11%) DICOM
16 5 (0.11%) NCSC
17 4 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 533 (11.76%) Docker
2 88 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.64%) Firmware
5 24 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.38%) KVM
8 13 (0.29%) 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 (0.088%) iptables
14 3 (0.066%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.066%) NFS
14 3 (0.066%) QEMU
14 3 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.044%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 576 (12.71%) Terraform
2 568 (12.54%) Kubernetes
3 316 (6.97%) Ansible
4 145 (3.20%) Grafana
5 139 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.41%) Argo
7 22 (0.49%) Kibana
7 22 (0.49%) Puppet
8 20 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.35%) Nagios
11 13 (0.29%) Control-M
11 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.26%) Nessus
12 12 (0.26%) Rancher
13 11 (0.24%) logstash
13 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,373 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 249 (5.50%) Databricks
3 209 (4.61%) Google
4 124 (2.74%) Oracle
5 109 (2.41%) Cisco
6 105 (2.32%) VMware
7 73 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.52%) SAP
9 66 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 63 (1.39%) Splunk
11 55 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 50 (1.10%) Informatica
13 44 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.93%) Bloomberg
15 39 (0.86%) IBM
15 39 (0.86%) Talend
16 38 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 34 (0.75%) Foundry
17 34 (0.75%) Palantir