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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,542 5,199 6,401
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.46% 11.93% 9.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.23% 34.44% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,953 3,209 5,135
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,300 £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 11,289 15,098 24,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.55% 34.66% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,351 9,232 20,742
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 22 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 22 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 2,030 £82,500 -5.71% 1,102
North of England -9 821 £45,000 -30.77% 456
South East -20 580 £60,000 -14.29% 649
Midlands -10 429 £55,000 - 249
South West 0 384 £58,497 -10.01% 255
Yorkshire +7 358 £42,000 -35.38% 151
North West -14 340 £51,250 -18.00% 231
West Midlands +7 278 £55,000 - 119
East of England -27 226 £50,000 -24.52% 211
East Midlands -18 153 £55,000 - 129
North East +10 123 £40,000 -38.46% 75
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
1 165 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 116 (2.55%) Apache
4 56 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.70%) SAS
7 29 (0.64%) Confluence
8 28 (0.62%) WordPress
9 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.42%) Appian
11 17 (0.37%) IIS
11 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.37%) 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
1 776 (17.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.22%) 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%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.044%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
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 1,895 (41.72%) Azure
2 1,563 (34.41%) AWS
3 906 (19.95%) Power Platform
4 560 (12.33%) GitHub
5 509 (11.21%) Azure AI
6 493 (10.85%) GCP
7 262 (5.77%) Serverless
8 185 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 172 (3.79%) SaaS
10 169 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
12 159 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 155 (3.41%) Snowflake
14 142 (3.13%) dbt
15 137 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 123 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 106 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 87 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
19 79 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 70 (1.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 256 (5.64%) Internet
2 170 (3.74%) Firewall
3 105 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 96 (2.11%) VPN
5 80 (1.76%) Broadband
5 80 (1.76%) DNS
6 71 (1.56%) 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 (1.01%) HTTP
14 42 (0.92%) OSPF
15 34 (0.75%) MPLS
16 33 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.70%) Wireshark
18 27 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 868 (19.11%) Power BI
2 819 (18.03%) Tableau
3 241 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 210 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 179 (3.94%) Data Mining
7 172 (3.79%) NoSQL
8 150 (3.30%) Relational Database
9 114 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 107 (2.36%) Big Data
10 107 (2.36%) MongoDB
11 93 (2.05%) BigQuery
12 86 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 82 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 82 (1.81%) Metadata
14 80 (1.76%) MySQL
15 66 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
16 60 (1.32%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.01%) RDBMS
18 42 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 582 (12.81%) Git
2 214 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 163 (3.59%) GitLab
4 107 (2.36%) JIRA
5 54 (1.19%) Selenium
6 47 (1.03%) 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 (0.37%) Subversion
16 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
16 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
17 15 (0.33%) TeamCity
18 14 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,492 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 1,111 (24.46%) Finance
3 761 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.31%) Multimedia
5 235 (5.17%) Banking
6 193 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 184 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 177 (3.90%) Law
9 149 (3.28%) Retail
10 137 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.93%) Front Office
12 120 (2.64%) Marketing
13 116 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 78 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 74 (1.63%) Legal
16 72 (1.59%) Electronics
17 69 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
18 52 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
19 46 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
20 45 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 956 (21.05%) Analyst
2 789 (17.37%) Data Analyst
3 784 (17.26%) Developer
4 684 (15.06%) Senior
5 494 (10.88%) Junior
6 471 (10.37%) Junior Analyst
6 471 (10.37%) Junior Data Analyst
7 440 (9.69%) Trainee
8 439 (9.67%) Data Engineer
9 362 (7.97%) Software Engineer
10 339 (7.46%) Lead
11 305 (6.72%) Python Developer
12 260 (5.72%) Python Engineer
13 202 (4.45%) Software Developer
14 154 (3.39%) Architect
15 149 (3.28%) Trainee Analyst
15 149 (3.28%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 139 (3.06%) Senior Developer
17 133 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
18 128 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (8.52%) HTML
2 352 (7.75%) React
3 341 (7.51%) CSS
4 184 (4.05%) Kafka
5 182 (4.01%) Node.js
6 180 (3.96%) REST
7 176 (3.87%) Django
8 145 (3.19%) RESTful
9 135 (2.97%) .NET
10 132 (2.91%) PySpark
11 130 (2.86%) Pandas
12 129 (2.84%) FastAPI
13 122 (2.69%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.44%) Flask
15 109 (2.40%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.18%) JSON
17 94 (2.07%) AngularJS
18 93 (2.05%) NumPy
18 93 (2.05%) scikit-learn
19 83 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 236 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 232 (5.11%) Algorithms
3 176 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 99 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 92 (2.03%) Equities
9 84 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 76 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 73 (1.61%) Hedge funds
12 72 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.59%) Fixed Income
13 71 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 68 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
15 65 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
16 61 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
17 60 (1.32%) AI Agents
18 59 (1.30%) Derivative
18 59 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 503 (11.07%) Linux
2 201 (4.43%) Windows
3 185 (4.07%) Unix
4 61 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 58 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.77%) CentOS
7 28 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.48%) 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 8 (0.18%) Solaris
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
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 1,467 (32.30%) AI
2 1,015 (22.35%) CI/CD
3 972 (21.40%) Business Intelligence
4 935 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 868 (19.11%) Analytics
6 805 (17.72%) Agile
7 790 (17.39%) DevOps
8 742 (16.34%) Software Engineering
9 688 (15.15%) Mentoring
10 586 (12.90%) Machine Learning
11 509 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 503 (11.07%) Data Science
13 494 (10.88%) Data Modelling
14 486 (10.70%) ETL
15 479 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
16 473 (10.41%) Computer Science
17 468 (10.30%) Data Engineering
18 447 (9.84%) Data Analysis
19 427 (9.40%) Containerisation
20 414 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,872 (41.22%) SQL
2 760 (16.73%) JavaScript
3 603 (13.28%) Java
4 398 (8.76%) Bash
5 362 (7.97%) PowerShell
6 319 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 276 (6.08%) C#
8 238 (5.24%) R
9 233 (5.13%) C++
10 208 (4.58%) Go
11 131 (2.88%) C
12 85 (1.87%) Scala
13 66 (1.45%) VBA
14 61 (1.34%) Rust
15 58 (1.28%) PHP
16 44 (0.97%) Bicep
17 41 (0.90%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.86%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.84%) Perl
20 35 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 802 (17.66%) Degree
2 782 (17.22%) Azure Certification
3 460 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 397 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 282 (6.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 269 (5.92%) SC Cleared
8 232 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 164 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 164 (3.61%) Master's Degree
10 98 (2.16%) PhD
11 71 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 61 (1.34%) CCNP
13 52 (1.14%) CISSP
14 47 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
15 42 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
16 36 (0.79%) OSCP
17 29 (0.64%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.68%) QA
3 113 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.25%) NIST
5 101 (2.22%) GDPR
6 67 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.92%) 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
1 534 (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 (0.37%) KVM
8 13 (0.29%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.18%) HDFS
12 7 (0.15%) Lustre
12 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.088%) iptables
15 3 (0.066%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.066%) NFS
15 3 (0.066%) QEMU
15 3 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
16 2 (0.044%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 577 (12.70%) Terraform
2 570 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 317 (6.98%) Ansible
4 145 (3.19%) Grafana
5 139 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.43%) Argo
7 22 (0.48%) Kibana
7 22 (0.48%) Puppet
8 20 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.37%) 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 1,374 (30.25%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.50%) Databricks
3 210 (4.62%) Google
4 124 (2.73%) Oracle
5 109 (2.40%) Cisco
6 105 (2.31%) VMware
7 73 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.52%) SAP
9 66 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 63 (1.39%) Splunk
11 55 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 50 (1.10%) Informatica
13 44 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.92%) Bloomberg
15 40 (0.88%) IBM
16 39 (0.86%) Talend
17 38 (0.84%) Alteryx
18 34 (0.75%) Foundry
18 34 (0.75%) Palantir