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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,902 4,734 6,704
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.68% 10.97% 10.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.10% 40.97% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,761 2,580 4,158
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.33% +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 16,817 11,554 20,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.20% 26.77% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,275 7,605 12,720
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,556
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 2,556 £85,000 -2.86% 5,841
North of England -17 1,085 £67,500 +8.00% 927
South East +8 819 £62,500 +4.17% 919
South West +8 583 £62,500 +13.64% 597
North West -23 565 £67,500 +12.50% 537
Midlands 0 490 £60,900 +0.66% 442
East of England +10 311 £67,500 +17.39% 610
Yorkshire +4 285 £66,805 -1.03% 270
West Midlands -12 270 £65,000 +8.33% 282
North East +19 237 £66,805 +40.64% 121
East Midlands +13 218 £55,000 -15.38% 160
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
1 212 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 172 (2.91%) Apache
3 166 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (1.20%) Confluence
5 41 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 36 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 16 (0.27%) nginx
11 12 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
12 9 (0.15%) IIS
13 8 (0.14%) Camunda
13 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 310 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.42%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
11 3 (0.051%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.051%) Revit
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) SPSS
11 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.085%) Shopify
6 4 (0.068%) Line 50
6 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.051%) Magento
7 3 (0.051%) Summit
8 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,072 (35.11%) Azure
2 1,878 (31.82%) AWS
3 737 (12.49%) GCP
4 700 (11.86%) Power Platform
5 442 (7.49%) Azure AI
6 388 (6.57%) GitHub
7 359 (6.08%) Serverless
8 253 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 246 (4.17%) SaaS
10 235 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (3.86%) Amazon S3
12 220 (3.73%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 205 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
16 185 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
17 166 (2.81%) dbt
18 138 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
19 131 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
20 128 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.68%) Firewall
2 152 (2.58%) DNS
3 144 (2.44%) VPN
4 140 (2.37%) TCP/IP
5 103 (1.75%) Network Security
6 93 (1.58%) WAN
7 81 (1.37%) Wireless
8 66 (1.12%) Broadband
9 65 (1.10%) LAN
10 62 (1.05%) BGP
10 62 (1.05%) DHCP
11 48 (0.81%) MQTT
12 46 (0.78%) SD-WAN
12 46 (0.78%) VLAN
13 43 (0.73%) OSPF
14 39 (0.66%) HTTP
15 35 (0.59%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.41%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 628 (10.64%) Power BI
2 332 (5.63%) Tableau
3 328 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 306 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.32%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 150 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 148 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.17%) Big Data
11 115 (1.95%) BigQuery
11 115 (1.95%) MySQL
12 112 (1.90%) Metadata
13 99 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
14 95 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 89 (1.51%) DynamoDB
16 86 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
17 78 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
18 73 (1.24%) Delta Lake
19 71 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 687 (11.64%) Git
2 321 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 262 (4.44%) GitLab
4 175 (2.97%) JIRA
5 72 (1.22%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.90%) Subversion
7 52 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.76%) Selenium
9 42 (0.71%) MLflow
10 38 (0.64%) JUnit
10 38 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 33 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 30 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
13 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
13 28 (0.47%) TeamCity
14 23 (0.39%) Maven
15 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,803 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 1,331 (22.55%) Finance
3 824 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 362 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 343 (5.81%) Banking
6 268 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 225 (3.81%) Law
8 207 (3.51%) Marketing
9 172 (2.91%) Retail
10 134 (2.27%) Legal
11 114 (1.93%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.85%) Front Office
13 103 (1.75%) Manufacturing
14 97 (1.64%) Electronics
15 92 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 83 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 70 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.07%) Games
19 48 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 47 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,274 (21.59%) Senior
2 893 (15.13%) Software Engineer
3 819 (13.88%) Developer
4 714 (12.10%) Python Engineer
5 625 (10.59%) Lead
6 624 (10.57%) Data Engineer
7 534 (9.05%) Analyst
8 444 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 357 (6.05%) Python Software Engineer
10 353 (5.98%) Python Developer
11 346 (5.86%) Data Analyst
12 273 (4.63%) Junior
13 264 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 220 (3.73%) Data Scientist
15 217 (3.68%) Architect
16 205 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
17 203 (3.44%) Senior Developer
18 195 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
19 194 (3.29%) Junior Analyst
20 190 (3.22%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 967 (16.38%) Terraform
2 401 (6.79%) React
3 245 (4.15%) REST
4 231 (3.91%) .NET
4 231 (3.91%) PySpark
5 229 (3.88%) Node.js
6 226 (3.83%) Kafka
7 220 (3.73%) FastAPI
8 207 (3.51%) RESTful
9 176 (2.98%) LangChain
10 174 (2.95%) Django
11 158 (2.68%) PyTorch
12 138 (2.34%) HTML
13 137 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 127 (2.15%) Spring
14 127 (2.15%) Spring Boot
15 119 (2.02%) CSS
16 118 (2.00%) Flask
17 101 (1.71%) LangGraph
18 98 (1.66%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 605 (10.25%) Cloud Native
2 307 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 262 (4.44%) AI Agents
5 221 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 90 (1.52%) Robotics
11 88 (1.49%) Hedge funds
12 86 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 84 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
13 84 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 83 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 75 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
16 73 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
17 70 (1.19%) Low-Code
18 64 (1.08%) Equities
19 63 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 713 (12.08%) Linux
2 326 (5.52%) Windows
3 82 (1.39%) Unix
4 80 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.42%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) Android
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
15 11 (0.19%) Solaris
15 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.15%) VMS
17 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,360 (39.99%) AI
2 1,718 (29.11%) Software Engineering
3 1,642 (27.82%) CI/CD
4 1,224 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 1,135 (19.23%) Analytics
6 1,120 (18.98%) DevOps
7 1,096 (18.57%) Agile
8 1,012 (17.15%) Machine Learning
9 969 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 798 (13.52%) Mentoring
11 795 (13.47%) Business Intelligence
12 738 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
13 732 (12.40%) Data Engineering
14 687 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 648 (10.98%) Data Modelling
16 633 (10.73%) Decision-Making
17 625 (10.59%) Data Science
18 598 (10.13%) Containerisation
19 591 (10.01%) Test Automation
20 587 (9.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,955 (33.12%) SQL
2 841 (14.25%) Java
3 601 (10.18%) JavaScript
4 561 (9.51%) C++
5 534 (9.05%) Bash
6 494 (8.37%) PowerShell
7 484 (8.20%) C#
8 411 (6.96%) TypeScript
9 262 (4.44%) Go
10 196 (3.32%) C
11 157 (2.66%) R
12 108 (1.83%) Scala
13 99 (1.68%) Rust
14 98 (1.66%) Bicep
15 88 (1.49%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.44%) PHP
17 84 (1.42%) Perl
18 79 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 74 (1.25%) Ruby
20 57 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 945 (16.01%) Degree
2 893 (15.13%) Security Cleared
3 519 (8.79%) Azure Certification
4 507 (8.59%) SC Cleared
5 307 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 284 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 222 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 125 (2.12%) PhD
9 114 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 83 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 53 (0.90%) CISSP
14 46 (0.78%) CCNP
15 39 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
15 39 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 35 (0.59%) CCNA
17 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 30 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
19 29 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 564 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 250 (4.24%) QA
3 129 (2.19%) GDPR
4 106 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.19%) NIST
6 59 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 27 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) NCSC
11 17 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.29%) WCAG
12 14 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.19%) GRC
14 11 (0.19%) PMO
15 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.14%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 797 (13.50%) Docker
2 117 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.07%) Firmware
5 37 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 21 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 12 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.14%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.051%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) iptables
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.034%) Snort
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 829 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 423 (7.17%) Ansible
3 249 (4.22%) Grafana
4 164 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.24%) Puppet
6 62 (1.05%) Argo
7 44 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.69%) Kibana
9 30 (0.51%) Nagios
10 29 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.46%) Istio
12 26 (0.44%) Rancher
12 26 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (0.42%) Packer
14 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
15 22 (0.37%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
16 18 (0.30%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 932 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 445 (7.54%) Databricks
3 238 (4.03%) Google
4 154 (2.61%) Splunk
5 122 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 120 (2.03%) Oracle
6 120 (2.03%) VMware
7 109 (1.85%) Cisco
8 91 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 55 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 53 (0.90%) Foundry
12 41 (0.69%) Palo Alto
12 41 (0.69%) Salesforce
13 37 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 37 (0.63%) SolarWinds
14 35 (0.59%) SAP
15 34 (0.58%) F5
16 33 (0.56%) Informatica
17 32 (0.54%) New Relic