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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,038 5,113 7,804
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.26% 12.93% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.78% 40.41% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,593 2,852 5,859
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,667 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £50,375
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 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,250 £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 15,180 12,652 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.24% 31.99% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,485 23,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £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 17 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 17 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 2,414 £85,000 -5.56% 1,421
North of England -12 1,241 £61,418 -5.51% 868
South East +3 877 £60,000 -4.00% 1,077
Midlands +22 632 £60,000 +9.09% 481
North West -14 579 £65,000 - 417
South West +3 520 £58,497 +1.83% 416
Yorkshire +12 460 £61,500 -5.38% 293
West Midlands +19 329 £60,000 +6.67% 223
East Midlands +26 303 £55,000 +10.00% 257
East of England -5 289 £70,000 +5.73% 573
North East +27 202 £56,500 -9.60% 161
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
1 223 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
2 203 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 155 (2.57%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.88%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.18%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 926 (15.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) 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%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
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
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,634 (43.62%) Azure
2 1,905 (31.55%) AWS
3 1,188 (19.68%) Power Platform
4 1,077 (17.84%) Azure AI
5 684 (11.33%) GCP
6 427 (7.07%) GitHub
7 327 (5.42%) Serverless
8 238 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.88%) SaaS
10 215 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
11 210 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
12 181 (3.00%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.78%) dbt
14 163 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
15 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 154 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 144 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 120 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 109 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
19 100 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (3.83%) Firewall
2 194 (3.21%) Broadband
3 132 (2.19%) VPN
4 121 (2.00%) DNS
5 110 (1.82%) Internet
6 107 (1.77%) Network Security
7 100 (1.66%) WAN
8 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 84 (1.39%) LAN
10 78 (1.29%) Wireless
11 64 (1.06%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 53 (0.88%) HTTP
14 52 (0.86%) VLAN
15 46 (0.76%) OSPF
16 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 37 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
19 30 (0.50%) DHCP
20 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.76%) Power BI
2 1,005 (16.64%) Tableau
3 285 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 239 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 188 (3.11%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 145 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.27%) MongoDB
11 112 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 110 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 104 (1.72%) Big Data
14 87 (1.44%) Metadata
15 82 (1.36%) MySQL
16 80 (1.32%) Data Mining
17 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 636 (10.53%) Git
2 267 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 234 (3.88%) GitLab
4 145 (2.40%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.98%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 41 (0.68%) Selenium
9 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 29 (0.48%) Postman
12 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.41%) Subversion
13 21 (0.35%) LabVIEW
14 20 (0.33%) JMeter
15 19 (0.31%) JUnit
15 19 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 2,126 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 1,180 (19.54%) Finance
3 816 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.36%) Banking
6 212 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.05%) Retail
8 156 (2.58%) Law
9 130 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 124 (2.05%) Front Office
11 103 (1.71%) Legal
12 97 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 92 (1.52%) Marketing
14 89 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 72 (1.19%) Electronics
16 69 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.04%) Games
19 56 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,150 (19.05%) Analyst
2 1,020 (16.89%) Senior
3 975 (16.15%) Data Analyst
4 923 (15.29%) Developer
5 807 (13.37%) Junior
6 759 (12.57%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.57%) Junior Data Analyst
7 664 (11.00%) Software Engineer
8 567 (9.39%) Data Engineer
9 532 (8.81%) Python Engineer
10 518 (8.58%) Lead
11 449 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.33%) Python Developer
13 242 (4.01%) Python Software Engineer
14 213 (3.53%) Trainee
15 189 (3.13%) Data Scientist
16 188 (3.11%) Architect
17 185 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
18 182 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
18 182 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (6.38%) React
2 260 (4.31%) Kafka
3 229 (3.79%) HTML
4 227 (3.76%) Node.js
5 219 (3.63%) PySpark
6 215 (3.56%) REST
7 214 (3.54%) CSS
8 199 (3.30%) .NET
9 190 (3.15%) RESTful
10 176 (2.91%) PyTorch
11 168 (2.78%) FastAPI
12 167 (2.77%) Django
13 155 (2.57%) Pandas
14 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 139 (2.30%) LangChain
16 125 (2.07%) Flask
16 125 (2.07%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.77%) NumPy
18 99 (1.64%) Vue
19 95 (1.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 461 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 316 (5.23%) Algorithms
3 290 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 148 (2.45%) AI Agents
6 128 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 94 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 79 (1.31%) Equities
13 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.24%) Hedge funds
15 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
16 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 62 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 630 (10.43%) Linux
2 271 (4.49%) Windows
3 93 (1.54%) Unix
4 84 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 38 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.31%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,520 (41.74%) AI
2 1,349 (22.34%) CI/CD
3 1,309 (21.68%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.47%) Business Intelligence
5 1,031 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
6 1,005 (16.64%) Agile
7 979 (16.21%) Analytics
8 948 (15.70%) DevOps
9 847 (14.03%) Machine Learning
10 781 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 743 (12.31%) Mentoring
12 615 (10.19%) Data Modelling
13 607 (10.05%) Data Engineering
14 602 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
15 593 (9.82%) Data Science
16 534 (8.84%) Computer Science
17 530 (8.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 526 (8.71%) Containerisation
19 525 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
20 510 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,333 (38.64%) SQL
2 671 (11.11%) Java
3 665 (11.01%) JavaScript
4 483 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 460 (7.62%) Bash
6 442 (7.32%) C++
7 391 (6.48%) C#
8 378 (6.26%) TypeScript
9 283 (4.69%) Go
10 188 (3.11%) R
11 157 (2.60%) C
12 122 (2.02%) Scala
13 86 (1.42%) Rust
14 80 (1.32%) PHP
15 69 (1.14%) Bicep
16 55 (0.91%) MATLAB
17 53 (0.88%) VBA
18 46 (0.76%) Perl
19 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,241 (20.55%) Azure Certification
2 770 (12.75%) Degree
3 620 (10.27%) Security Cleared
4 374 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 283 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 240 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 195 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 155 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 151 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.41%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.04%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 47 (0.78%) OSCP
16 38 (0.63%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 25 (0.41%) GIAC
19 24 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.83%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 86 (1.42%) NIST
5 73 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
12 21 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.30%) SLA
14 15 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.17%) WCAG
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 635 (10.52%) Docker
2 104 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 37 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 815 (13.50%) Terraform
2 644 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 356 (5.90%) Ansible
4 216 (3.58%) Grafana
5 176 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.55%) Puppet
9 29 (0.48%) Kibana
10 26 (0.43%) Istio
10 26 (0.43%) Packer
11 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 21 (0.35%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 15 (0.25%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,581 (26.18%) Microsoft
2 354 (5.86%) Databricks
3 205 (3.40%) Google
4 130 (2.15%) VMware
5 126 (2.09%) Oracle
6 124 (2.05%) Splunk
7 123 (2.04%) Cisco
8 98 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 97 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 57 (0.94%) Foundry
10 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
10 57 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 49 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
14 41 (0.68%) SAP
15 39 (0.65%) F5
16 36 (0.60%) Palantir
17 31 (0.51%) Arista