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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,273 5,243 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.04% 12.12% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.79% 40.19% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 2,964 5,101
10th Percentile £39,913 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
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 16,173 13,044 23,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.14% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,813 8,795 18,501
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -2 2,528 £85,000 -5.56% 1,722
North of England -12 1,268 £65,000 - 475
South East +5 929 £60,000 - 498
Midlands +16 604 £60,000 -0.83% 190
North West -16 590 £65,000 +8.33% 271
South West +8 582 £60,000 +4.86% 256
Yorkshire +12 447 £65,000 - 120
West Midlands +1 317 £62,500 -1.57% 109
East of England +2 298 £65,000 -1.82% 173
East Midlands +21 286 £54,500 -0.91% 81
North East +29 231 £59,000 -9.23% 89
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
1 233 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 224 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 166 (2.65%) Apache
4 76 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.86%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.45%) SAS
9 23 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) nginx
12 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 4 (0.064%) JBoss
Applications
1 869 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.048%) Blender
9 3 (0.048%) Maya
9 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.048%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.048%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,617 (41.72%) Azure
2 1,978 (31.53%) AWS
3 1,156 (18.43%) Power Platform
4 1,037 (16.53%) Azure AI
5 747 (11.91%) GCP
6 370 (5.90%) GitHub
7 363 (5.79%) Serverless
8 240 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.73%) SaaS
10 227 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
12 212 (3.38%) Snowflake
13 190 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 184 (2.93%) dbt
15 164 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 157 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
17 155 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 129 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 120 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
20 114 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.65%) Firewall
2 163 (2.60%) Broadband
3 133 (2.12%) VPN
4 130 (2.07%) DNS
5 118 (1.88%) Network Security
6 108 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 91 (1.45%) WAN
8 81 (1.29%) Wireless
9 70 (1.12%) Internet
9 70 (1.12%) LAN
10 57 (0.91%) BGP
11 54 (0.86%) VLAN
12 51 (0.81%) HTTP
13 48 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 40 (0.64%) OSPF
15 39 (0.62%) MQTT
16 36 (0.57%) DHCP
17 35 (0.56%) SSL
18 30 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
19 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,095 (17.46%) Power BI
2 946 (15.08%) Tableau
3 312 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 174 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 161 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 140 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 136 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 117 (1.87%) Big Data
11 114 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 106 (1.69%) MySQL
14 96 (1.53%) Metadata
15 78 (1.24%) DynamoDB
16 72 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
17 61 (0.97%) Delta Lake
17 61 (0.97%) Looker
17 61 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 643 (10.25%) Git
2 276 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 251 (4.00%) GitLab
4 155 (2.47%) JIRA
5 83 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.96%) MLflow
7 59 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 56 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 44 (0.70%) Selenium
10 36 (0.57%) Subversion
11 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.43%) JUnit
14 26 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 23 (0.37%) TeamCity
17 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,192 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 1,282 (20.44%) Finance
3 814 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (4.58%) Banking
5 259 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 186 (2.97%) Retail
8 177 (2.82%) Law
9 134 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 130 (2.07%) Front Office
11 122 (1.94%) Legal
12 115 (1.83%) Marketing
13 85 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 78 (1.24%) Electronics
15 77 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 72 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.05%) Games
19 63 (1.00%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,188 (18.94%) Senior
2 1,070 (17.06%) Analyst
3 907 (14.46%) Data Analyst
4 897 (14.30%) Developer
5 789 (12.58%) Software Engineer
6 781 (12.45%) Junior
7 714 (11.38%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.35%) Junior Data Analyst
9 623 (9.93%) Python Engineer
10 608 (9.69%) Data Engineer
11 559 (8.91%) Lead
12 460 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 379 (6.04%) Python Developer
14 297 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
15 231 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 206 (3.28%) Architect
17 202 (3.22%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.08%) Senior Developer
19 181 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
19 181 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (6.25%) React
2 292 (4.65%) Kafka
3 252 (4.02%) Node.js
4 226 (3.60%) PySpark
5 225 (3.59%) REST
6 214 (3.41%) .NET
7 202 (3.22%) RESTful
8 199 (3.17%) FastAPI
9 193 (3.08%) Django
10 187 (2.98%) HTML
11 168 (2.68%) CSS
12 167 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 158 (2.52%) Pandas
14 154 (2.45%) LangChain
15 142 (2.26%) TensorFlow
16 136 (2.17%) Flask
17 128 (2.04%) scikit-learn
18 108 (1.72%) NumPy
19 107 (1.71%) JSON
20 106 (1.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 521 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 339 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.21%) Algorithms
4 186 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 177 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 175 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 129 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
9 98 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 93 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 85 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 78 (1.24%) Equities
14 77 (1.23%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.18%) Robotics
17 71 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
18 69 (1.10%) Security Posture
19 65 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 695 (11.08%) Linux
2 309 (4.93%) Windows
3 89 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 80 (1.28%) Unix
5 47 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.61%) CentOS
7 37 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 21 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
14 8 (0.13%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Android
15 7 (0.11%) Rocky
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,709 (43.19%) AI
2 1,521 (24.25%) Software Engineering
3 1,494 (23.82%) CI/CD
4 1,219 (19.43%) Business Intelligence
5 1,101 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1,068 (17.03%) Agile
7 1,033 (16.47%) Analytics
8 1,031 (16.44%) DevOps
9 930 (14.83%) Machine Learning
10 864 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 741 (11.81%) Mentoring
12 680 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
13 674 (10.74%) Data Engineering
14 655 (10.44%) Data Modelling
15 613 (9.77%) Data Science
16 587 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 582 (9.28%) Containerisation
18 564 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
19 552 (8.80%) Computer Science
20 541 (8.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,357 (37.57%) SQL
2 763 (12.16%) Java
3 639 (10.19%) JavaScript
4 521 (8.31%) C++
5 493 (7.86%) PowerShell
6 475 (7.57%) Bash
7 431 (6.87%) C#
8 393 (6.26%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.38%) Go
10 179 (2.85%) C
11 163 (2.60%) R
12 128 (2.04%) Scala
13 98 (1.56%) PHP
14 96 (1.53%) Rust
15 88 (1.40%) Bicep
16 65 (1.04%) Perl
17 63 (1.00%) Ruby
18 60 (0.96%) MATLAB
19 57 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 52 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,161 (18.51%) Azure Certification
2 816 (13.01%) Degree
3 709 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 414 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 303 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 234 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 200 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 183 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 117 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 91 (1.45%) PhD
11 81 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (0.89%) CCNP
13 46 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.59%) CISSP
16 35 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.56%) OSCP
17 31 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 26 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 252 (4.02%) QA
3 146 (2.33%) GDPR
4 87 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 78 (1.24%) NIST
6 65 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 33 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) GRC
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) PMO
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 14 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 8 (0.13%) NCSC
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 715 (11.40%) Docker
2 108 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.92%) Firmware
5 40 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.45%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
16 3 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 883 (14.08%) Terraform
2 698 (11.13%) Kubernetes
3 378 (6.03%) Ansible
4 239 (3.81%) Grafana
5 161 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 54 (0.86%) Argo
7 43 (0.69%) Nagios
7 43 (0.69%) Puppet
8 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 27 (0.43%) Istio
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.29%) Podman
15 16 (0.26%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.26%) logstash
15 16 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,507 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 407 (6.49%) Databricks
3 180 (2.87%) Google
4 146 (2.33%) Splunk
5 138 (2.20%) Oracle
6 137 (2.18%) VMware
7 121 (1.93%) Cisco
8 111 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 104 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.96%) Foundry
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 46 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.67%) F5
17 41 (0.65%) SAP
18 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.51%) IBM
19 32 (0.51%) Palantir