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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,953 4,706 6,698
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.75% 10.99% 10.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.33% 40.99% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,744 2,559 4,163
10th Percentile £44,139 £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 £92,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.76% -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 16,852 11,480 20,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 26.80% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,257 7,542 12,779
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £110,645
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 29 September 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 29 September 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 2,545 £85,000 -2.86% 5,426
North of England -18 1,108 £67,500 +8.00% 860
South East +11 835 £62,500 +4.17% 821
South West +5 589 £62,500 +13.64% 525
North West -22 564 £67,500 +12.50% 483
Midlands -3 507 £61,450 +1.57% 400
East of England +8 312 £67,500 +17.39% 521
Yorkshire +8 305 £66,805 -1.03% 264
West Midlands -10 276 £65,000 +8.33% 256
North East +21 241 £66,805 +40.64% 117
East Midlands +11 229 £55,000 -15.38% 144
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
1 209 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 170 (2.86%) Apache
3 165 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.16%) Confluence
5 41 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 35 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.47%) SAS
8 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) 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 (0.13%) Camunda
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.12%) WordPress
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 353 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.42%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.067%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.050%) Blender
11 3 (0.050%) Maya
11 3 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.050%) Revit
11 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.050%) SPSS
11 3 (0.050%) 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 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) Shopify
6 4 (0.067%) Line 50
6 4 (0.067%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
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%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,145 (36.03%) Azure
2 1,865 (31.33%) AWS
3 734 (12.33%) Power Platform
4 726 (12.20%) GCP
5 535 (8.99%) Azure AI
6 380 (6.38%) GitHub
7 356 (5.98%) Serverless
8 249 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 246 (4.13%) SaaS
10 233 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 227 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 217 (3.65%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 204 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 185 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 182 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
17 165 (2.77%) dbt
18 136 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
19 130 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.61%) Firewall
2 151 (2.54%) DNS
3 141 (2.37%) VPN
4 137 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.71%) Network Security
6 93 (1.56%) WAN
7 81 (1.36%) Wireless
8 65 (1.09%) Broadband
8 65 (1.09%) LAN
9 63 (1.06%) DHCP
10 61 (1.02%) BGP
11 47 (0.79%) MQTT
12 46 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 46 (0.77%) VLAN
13 43 (0.72%) OSPF
14 39 (0.66%) HTTP
15 35 (0.59%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 664 (11.15%) Power BI
2 377 (6.33%) Tableau
3 328 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
4 299 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.29%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 154 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.15%) Big Data
11 114 (1.92%) BigQuery
12 112 (1.88%) MySQL
13 108 (1.81%) Metadata
14 96 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
15 94 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 89 (1.50%) DynamoDB
17 85 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
18 78 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.23%) Delta Lake
20 72 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 683 (11.47%) Git
2 319 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 258 (4.33%) GitLab
4 173 (2.91%) JIRA
5 70 (1.18%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.89%) Subversion
7 52 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.76%) Selenium
9 42 (0.71%) MLflow
10 38 (0.64%) JUnit
10 38 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 32 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 28 (0.47%) LabVIEW
15 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.39%) Maven
17 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,881 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 1,315 (22.09%) Finance
3 807 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 359 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 335 (5.63%) Banking
6 260 (4.37%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.75%) Law
8 205 (3.44%) Marketing
9 168 (2.82%) Retail
10 134 (2.25%) Legal
11 112 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 109 (1.83%) Front Office
13 103 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 97 (1.63%) Electronics
15 88 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 82 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.06%) Games
19 48 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 47 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,270 (21.33%) Senior
2 881 (14.80%) Software Engineer
3 821 (13.79%) Developer
4 709 (11.91%) Python Engineer
5 623 (10.47%) Data Engineer
6 622 (10.45%) Lead
7 571 (9.59%) Analyst
8 489 (8.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 390 (6.55%) Data Analyst
10 356 (5.98%) Python Developer
11 353 (5.93%) Python Software Engineer
12 320 (5.38%) Junior
13 262 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 241 (4.05%) Junior Analyst
15 237 (3.98%) Junior Data Analyst
16 216 (3.63%) Architect
16 216 (3.63%) Data Scientist
17 203 (3.41%) Senior Developer
18 201 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
19 196 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 959 (16.11%) Terraform
2 398 (6.69%) React
3 242 (4.07%) REST
4 231 (3.88%) PySpark
5 229 (3.85%) .NET
6 227 (3.81%) Node.js
7 224 (3.76%) Kafka
8 214 (3.59%) FastAPI
9 207 (3.48%) RESTful
10 175 (2.94%) Django
11 174 (2.92%) LangChain
12 158 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 138 (2.32%) HTML
14 137 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 124 (2.08%) Spring
15 124 (2.08%) Spring Boot
16 119 (2.00%) Flask
17 118 (1.98%) CSS
18 100 (1.68%) LangGraph
19 97 (1.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 596 (10.01%) Cloud Native
2 307 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 286 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 258 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 220 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 93 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 90 (1.51%) Robotics
11 86 (1.44%) Hedge funds
12 85 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 84 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
14 83 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 81 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 73 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
17 72 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
18 70 (1.18%) Low-Code
19 64 (1.08%) Equities
20 63 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 708 (11.89%) Linux
2 327 (5.49%) Windows
3 82 (1.38%) Unix
4 81 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.72%) 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 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
15 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) 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 2,433 (40.87%) AI
2 1,700 (28.56%) Software Engineering
3 1,623 (27.26%) CI/CD
4 1,209 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
5 1,121 (18.83%) Analytics
6 1,110 (18.65%) DevOps
7 1,084 (18.21%) Agile
8 997 (16.75%) Machine Learning
9 962 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 831 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
11 789 (13.25%) Mentoring
12 731 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
13 726 (12.20%) Data Engineering
14 683 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 641 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 624 (10.48%) Decision-Making
17 612 (10.28%) Data Science
18 590 (9.91%) Containerisation
19 585 (9.83%) Computer Science
20 583 (9.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,977 (33.21%) SQL
2 832 (13.98%) Java
3 592 (9.94%) JavaScript
4 566 (9.51%) C++
5 529 (8.89%) Bash
6 495 (8.32%) PowerShell
7 483 (8.11%) C#
8 404 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 254 (4.27%) Go
10 197 (3.31%) C
11 153 (2.57%) R
12 108 (1.81%) Scala
13 98 (1.65%) Bicep
14 97 (1.63%) Rust
15 89 (1.50%) MATLAB
16 85 (1.43%) PHP
17 84 (1.41%) Perl
18 75 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 74 (1.24%) Ruby
20 57 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 931 (15.64%) Degree
2 883 (14.83%) Security Cleared
3 611 (10.26%) Azure Certification
4 499 (8.38%) SC Cleared
5 306 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 282 (4.74%) DV Cleared
7 220 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 123 (2.07%) PhD
9 112 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 81 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 77 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.86%) CISSP
14 46 (0.77%) CCNP
15 39 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.59%) CCNA
18 32 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.49%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 248 (4.17%) QA
3 128 (2.15%) GDPR
4 106 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 66 (1.11%) NIST
6 58 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.47%) SLA
9 25 (0.42%) 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 11 (0.18%) EU AI Act
13 11 (0.18%) GRC
13 11 (0.18%) PMO
14 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 786 (13.20%) Docker
2 118 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.08%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.47%) vSphere
8 22 (0.37%) 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 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) IAG
16 2 (0.034%) iptables
16 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 814 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 419 (7.04%) Ansible
3 245 (4.12%) Grafana
4 163 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.23%) Puppet
6 63 (1.06%) Argo
7 44 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.69%) Kibana
9 30 (0.50%) Nagios
10 29 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Istio
12 26 (0.44%) Rancher
13 25 (0.42%) Packer
13 25 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.35%) Podman
16 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.30%) logstash
17 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
18 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 972 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 444 (7.46%) Databricks
3 229 (3.85%) Google
4 153 (2.57%) Splunk
5 120 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 119 (2.00%) Oracle
6 119 (2.00%) VMware
7 110 (1.85%) Cisco
8 90 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 55 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 48 (0.81%) Foundry
12 42 (0.71%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 37 (0.62%) Fortinet
14 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds
15 36 (0.60%) SAP
16 34 (0.57%) F5
17 33 (0.55%) Informatica
18 32 (0.54%) New Relic