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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,223 5,255 7,663
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.10% 12.13% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.93% 40.11% 28.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,737 2,984 5,723
10th Percentile £39,766 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £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 15,984 13,103 27,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 30.24% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,651 8,867 21,262
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £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 16 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 16 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 -3 2,484 £85,000 -5.56% 1,080
North of England -12 1,253 £65,000 - 348
South East +3 943 £60,000 - 482
Midlands +18 609 £60,000 - 183
North West -16 586 £65,000 - 187
South West +6 567 £60,000 +5.26% 202
Yorkshire +14 450 £65,000 - 98
West Midlands +5 311 £62,500 +4.17% 98
East of England -9 300 £70,000 +5.73% 172
East Midlands +28 298 £54,500 -0.91% 83
North East +22 217 £59,000 -5.60% 66
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
1 222 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 220 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 160 (2.57%) Apache
4 77 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.096%) Camunda
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
12 6 (0.096%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 915 (14.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 40 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.26%) Simulink
7 11 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) 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%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,670 (42.91%) Azure
2 1,968 (31.62%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.17%) Power Platform
4 1,085 (17.44%) Azure AI
5 727 (11.68%) GCP
6 381 (6.12%) GitHub
7 362 (5.82%) Serverless
8 237 (3.81%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.74%) SaaS
10 225 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
12 196 (3.15%) Snowflake
13 189 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 176 (2.83%) dbt
15 169 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 161 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 153 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
18 127 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 117 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
19 117 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.74%) Firewall
2 172 (2.76%) Broadband
3 139 (2.23%) VPN
4 135 (2.17%) DNS
5 116 (1.86%) Network Security
6 108 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 94 (1.51%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 74 (1.19%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 58 (0.93%) BGP
12 54 (0.87%) VLAN
13 51 (0.82%) HTTP
14 50 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 40 (0.64%) DHCP
16 38 (0.61%) MQTT
16 38 (0.61%) OSPF
17 37 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 30 (0.48%) SSL
19 29 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (18.19%) Power BI
2 983 (15.80%) Tableau
3 299 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 266 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 178 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 114 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.75%) Big Data
13 104 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 102 (1.64%) MySQL
15 92 (1.48%) Metadata
16 76 (1.22%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 61 (0.98%) Spark SQL
19 60 (0.96%) Data Mining
20 57 (0.92%) Looker
Development Applications
1 621 (9.98%) Git
2 276 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 252 (4.05%) GitLab
4 154 (2.47%) JIRA
5 82 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 55 (0.88%) MLflow
8 52 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 40 (0.64%) Selenium
10 38 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.51%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) JUnit
13 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 24 (0.39%) Postman
15 22 (0.35%) Eclipse
15 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 2,188 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 1,236 (19.86%) Finance
3 801 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (4.45%) Banking
5 248 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 228 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 192 (3.09%) Retail
8 162 (2.60%) Law
9 132 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.02%) Front Office
11 108 (1.74%) Legal
12 97 (1.56%) Marketing
13 83 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.27%) Electronics
15 73 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 68 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (1.00%) Games
19 61 (0.98%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,144 (18.38%) Senior
2 1,115 (17.92%) Analyst
3 950 (15.27%) Data Analyst
4 890 (14.30%) Developer
5 821 (13.19%) Junior
6 761 (12.23%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.20%) Junior Data Analyst
8 757 (12.16%) Software Engineer
9 595 (9.56%) Data Engineer
10 590 (9.48%) Python Engineer
11 545 (8.76%) Lead
12 461 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 376 (6.04%) Python Developer
14 286 (4.60%) Python Software Engineer
15 221 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
16 206 (3.31%) Architect
17 194 (3.12%) Data Scientist
18 184 (2.96%) Senior Developer
19 180 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
20 177 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (6.33%) React
2 279 (4.48%) Kafka
3 245 (3.94%) Node.js
4 221 (3.55%) PySpark
5 220 (3.54%) REST
6 212 (3.41%) .NET
7 200 (3.21%) RESTful
8 195 (3.13%) FastAPI
9 188 (3.02%) Django
10 181 (2.91%) HTML
11 166 (2.67%) PyTorch
12 165 (2.65%) CSS
13 154 (2.47%) Pandas
14 150 (2.41%) LangChain
15 143 (2.30%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.20%) Flask
17 127 (2.04%) scikit-learn
18 106 (1.70%) JSON
18 106 (1.70%) NumPy
19 105 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 509 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 322 (5.17%) Algorithms
3 319 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 176 (2.83%) AI Agents
6 170 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 135 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 95 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 86 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 85 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 83 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 77 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.21%) Equities
16 74 (1.19%) Hedge funds
16 74 (1.19%) Security Posture
17 72 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
18 69 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
19 67 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 683 (10.98%) Linux
2 298 (4.79%) Windows
3 88 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.32%) Unix
5 49 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.63%) CentOS
6 39 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.39%) Debian
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Android
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.11%) Rocky
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,682 (43.10%) AI
2 1,470 (23.62%) CI/CD
3 1,466 (23.56%) Software Engineering
4 1,245 (20.01%) Business Intelligence
5 1,075 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 1,047 (16.82%) Agile
7 1,023 (16.44%) DevOps
8 1,012 (16.26%) Analytics
9 892 (14.33%) Machine Learning
10 859 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 739 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 662 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
13 651 (10.46%) Data Engineering
14 637 (10.24%) Data Modelling
15 596 (9.58%) Data Science
16 571 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 566 (9.10%) Containerisation
18 558 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
19 548 (8.81%) Computer Science
20 535 (8.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,365 (38.00%) SQL
2 754 (12.12%) Java
3 638 (10.25%) JavaScript
4 504 (8.10%) PowerShell
5 502 (8.07%) C++
6 482 (7.75%) Bash
7 426 (6.85%) C#
8 386 (6.20%) TypeScript
9 278 (4.47%) Go
10 179 (2.88%) C
11 155 (2.49%) R
12 121 (1.94%) Scala
13 102 (1.64%) PHP
14 100 (1.61%) Rust
15 86 (1.38%) Bicep
16 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
16 63 (1.01%) Perl
16 63 (1.01%) Ruby
17 54 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 52 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,203 (19.33%) Azure Certification
2 801 (12.87%) Degree
3 708 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 405 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 295 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 233 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 180 (2.89%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 113 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 90 (1.45%) PhD
12 75 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.84%) CCNP
14 50 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 40 (0.64%) OSCP
17 37 (0.59%) CISSP
18 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
19 28 (0.45%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 245 (3.94%) QA
3 145 (2.33%) GDPR
4 84 (1.35%) NIST
5 79 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 69 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.35%) GRC
9 22 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.32%) SLA
11 19 (0.31%) PMO
12 15 (0.24%) WCAG
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 696 (11.18%) Docker
2 111 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.95%) Firmware
5 41 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 40 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.47%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
16 3 (0.048%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
16 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 886 (14.24%) Terraform
2 688 (11.06%) Kubernetes
3 376 (6.04%) Ansible
4 239 (3.84%) Grafana
5 168 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.98%) Argo
7 39 (0.63%) Nagios
8 38 (0.61%) Puppet
9 34 (0.55%) Kibana
10 31 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
13 23 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Podman
16 15 (0.24%) logstash
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
17 14 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,545 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 383 (6.15%) Databricks
3 187 (3.00%) Google
4 143 (2.30%) VMware
5 139 (2.23%) Splunk
6 133 (2.14%) Oracle
7 118 (1.90%) Cisco
8 102 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 101 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.03%) Foundry
11 63 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 59 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 47 (0.76%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.71%) SAP
17 43 (0.69%) F5
18 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
19 36 (0.58%) Palantir
20 32 (0.51%) IBM