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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,104 5,403 6,179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.42% 11.48% 10.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.05% 33.91% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 3,255 4,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £51,500
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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,509 15,934 22,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.00% 33.84% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,856 9,301 19,352
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 27 January 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 27 January 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 1,995 £82,500 -5.71% 1,132
North of England -7 668 £48,445 -25.47% 613
South East -30 461 £60,000 -9.77% 1,183
Midlands -14 371 £55,000 - 359
South West -6 337 £60,000 -7.69% 424
Yorkshire +10 297 £47,972 -26.20% 250
North West -17 281 £55,000 -12.00% 270
West Midlands +3 252 £55,000 -4.35% 140
East of England -21 215 £50,000 -24.52% 458
East Midlands -27 122 £55,000 - 213
North East +1 90 £40,000 -42.29% 97
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
1 160 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 123 (3.00%) Apache
4 41 (1.00%) Confluence
5 35 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
11 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.37%) Jupyter
13 13 (0.32%) nginx
14 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.17%) CMS
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.097%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 556 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.22%) Simulink
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.097%) Windchill
8 3 (0.073%) CATIA
8 3 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.049%) Stata
9 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,635 (39.84%) Azure
2 1,442 (35.14%) AWS
3 734 (17.88%) Power Platform
4 539 (13.13%) GitHub
5 424 (10.33%) GCP
6 325 (7.92%) Azure AI
7 262 (6.38%) Serverless
8 185 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
10 169 (4.12%) Snowflake
11 161 (3.92%) Amazon S3
12 156 (3.80%) SaaS
13 152 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 132 (3.22%) dbt
16 109 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 99 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 80 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.26%) Internet
2 157 (3.83%) Firewall
3 94 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.02%) VPN
5 73 (1.78%) DNS
6 70 (1.71%) WAN
7 61 (1.49%) LAN
8 53 (1.29%) BGP
9 49 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 49 (1.19%) Wireless
10 45 (1.10%) Broadband
11 42 (1.02%) Network Security
12 40 (0.97%) HTTP
12 40 (0.97%) VLAN
13 37 (0.90%) OSPF
14 33 (0.80%) MPLS
15 31 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 31 (0.76%) Wireshark
16 26 (0.63%) SSL
17 25 (0.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 694 (16.91%) Power BI
2 589 (14.35%) Tableau
3 247 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 217 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
6 177 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 158 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.41%) Data Mining
9 121 (2.95%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.73%) MongoDB
11 110 (2.68%) Big Data
12 91 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 88 (2.14%) BigQuery
14 87 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
15 83 (2.02%) MySQL
16 80 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.73%) Hadoop
18 70 (1.71%) Metadata
19 58 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
20 57 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 578 (14.08%) Git
2 222 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.51%) GitLab
4 115 (2.80%) JIRA
5 58 (1.41%) Selenium
6 43 (1.05%) MLflow
7 37 (0.90%) Postman
8 36 (0.88%) JUnit
9 27 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
11 23 (0.56%) JMeter
12 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Burp Suite
14 15 (0.37%) Metasploit
15 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.34%) Mockito
16 13 (0.32%) Maven
16 13 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,244 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 1,023 (24.93%) Finance
3 646 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.87%) Banking
4 241 (5.87%) Multimedia
5 179 (4.36%) Public Sector
6 175 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 168 (4.09%) Law
8 140 (3.41%) Marketing
9 137 (3.34%) Front Office
10 110 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 102 (2.49%) Retail
12 99 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 89 (2.17%) Financial Institution
14 77 (1.88%) Electronics
15 74 (1.80%) Legal
16 61 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 61 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (1.36%) Games
18 47 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 762 (18.57%) Developer
2 729 (17.76%) Analyst
3 638 (15.55%) Senior
4 547 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 408 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.77%) Trainee
7 322 (7.85%) Software Engineer
8 305 (7.43%) Lead
9 304 (7.41%) Junior
10 301 (7.33%) Python Developer
11 282 (6.87%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.87%) Junior Data Analyst
12 238 (5.80%) Python Engineer
13 185 (4.51%) Software Developer
14 144 (3.51%) Architect
15 140 (3.41%) Senior Developer
16 135 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 130 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
18 119 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
19 116 (2.83%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (9.41%) HTML
2 340 (8.28%) CSS
3 332 (8.09%) React
4 177 (4.31%) REST
5 172 (4.19%) Node.js
6 164 (4.00%) Django
7 147 (3.58%) Kafka
8 143 (3.48%) RESTful
9 134 (3.27%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.17%) PySpark
11 122 (2.97%) PyTorch
12 117 (2.85%) .NET
13 115 (2.80%) Pandas
14 107 (2.61%) Flask
15 100 (2.44%) AngularJS
15 100 (2.44%) TensorFlow
16 84 (2.05%) JSON
17 83 (2.02%) Vue
18 79 (1.92%) NumPy
19 78 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 227 (5.53%) Cloud Native
2 200 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 154 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 153 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 114 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 108 (2.63%) Equities
7 104 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 98 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 80 (1.95%) Hedge funds
11 74 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 73 (1.78%) Low-Code
13 70 (1.71%) Derivative
14 69 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
15 68 (1.66%) Fixed Income
16 64 (1.56%) Data Centre
17 61 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
18 59 (1.44%) AI Agents
19 57 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
20 56 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 505 (12.31%) Linux
2 207 (5.04%) Windows
3 185 (4.51%) Unix
4 70 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.78%) CentOS
6 32 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.46%) Debian
9 17 (0.41%) VMS
10 15 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.29%) Solaris
13 11 (0.27%) Android
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.097%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (29.07%) AI
2 955 (23.27%) CI/CD
3 918 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 816 (19.88%) Analytics
5 804 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
6 778 (18.96%) Agile
7 774 (18.86%) DevOps
8 664 (16.18%) Software Engineering
9 653 (15.91%) Mentoring
10 538 (13.11%) Machine Learning
11 481 (11.72%) ETL
12 472 (11.50%) Data Science
13 460 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
14 455 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 454 (11.06%) Data Modelling
16 452 (11.01%) Computer Science
17 447 (10.89%) Data Engineering
18 408 (9.94%) Data Analysis
19 382 (9.31%) Containerisation
20 378 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,633 (39.79%) SQL
2 728 (17.74%) JavaScript
3 587 (14.30%) Java
4 385 (9.38%) Bash
5 346 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 320 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 273 (6.65%) C#
8 230 (5.60%) R
9 212 (5.17%) C++
10 159 (3.87%) Go
11 119 (2.90%) C
12 77 (1.88%) Scala
13 63 (1.54%) PHP
14 60 (1.46%) VBA
15 51 (1.24%) Bicep
16 46 (1.12%) MATLAB
16 46 (1.12%) Perl
16 46 (1.12%) Rust
17 39 (0.95%) T-SQL
18 38 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 803 (19.57%) Degree
2 590 (14.38%) Azure Certification
3 447 (10.89%) Security Cleared
4 363 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 260 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 214 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 192 (4.68%) Master's Degree
10 161 (3.92%) DV Cleared
11 125 (3.05%) PhD
12 71 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.39%) CCNP
14 49 (1.19%) CISSP
15 47 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.66%) OSCP
18 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.95%) QA
3 104 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.41%) GDPR
5 82 (2.00%) NIST
6 65 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 32 (0.78%) SLA
8 28 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) GRC
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.097%) ECSS
17 4 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 510 (12.43%) Docker
2 81 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.66%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.097%) Postfix
13 4 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.073%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.073%) Squid
Systems Management
1 542 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 531 (12.94%) Terraform
3 310 (7.55%) Ansible
4 126 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 125 (3.05%) Grafana
6 60 (1.46%) Argo
7 25 (0.61%) Kibana
8 21 (0.51%) Puppet
9 20 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.34%) Nessus
12 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.32%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.32%) Rancher
13 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 11 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,078 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.19%) Databricks
3 196 (4.78%) Google
4 130 (3.17%) Oracle
5 100 (2.44%) Cisco
6 98 (2.39%) VMware
7 83 (2.02%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.68%) SAP
10 61 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.41%) Splunk
12 55 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 46 (1.12%) Informatica
14 45 (1.10%) IBM
15 43 (1.05%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.02%) Alteryx
16 42 (1.02%) Talend
17 33 (0.80%) Palantir
18 31 (0.76%) Atlassian