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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,407 5,212 6,445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.98% 11.94% 8.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.66% 40.16% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,892 2,935 4,702
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £131,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,574 12,978 21,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 29.74% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,082 8,725 16,267
10th Percentile £37,525 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2,612 £85,000 -5.56% 2,183
North of England -9 1,286 £65,000 - 490
South East +3 940 £60,000 - 551
North West -17 608 £65,000 +8.33% 257
South West +8 606 £60,000 +9.09% 274
Midlands +12 594 £62,250 -0.40% 210
Yorkshire +12 430 £65,000 - 146
West Midlands -4 316 £62,500 -3.85% 128
East of England +8 308 £65,000 - 211
East Midlands +21 277 £55,000 - 81
North East +28 248 £60,000 -7.69% 93
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
1 247 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 238 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
3 182 (2.84%) Apache
4 72 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 62 (0.97%) Confluence
6 47 (0.73%) WordPress
7 40 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 22 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.078%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.062%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 819 (12.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.23%) Simulink
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.062%) Line 50
6 4 (0.062%) Shopify
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,637 (41.16%) Azure
2 2,051 (32.01%) AWS
3 1,130 (17.64%) Power Platform
4 991 (15.47%) Azure AI
5 781 (12.19%) GCP
6 386 (6.02%) GitHub
7 370 (5.77%) Serverless
8 250 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 235 (3.67%) SaaS
10 233 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 228 (3.56%) Snowflake
12 226 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
13 202 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 198 (3.09%) dbt
15 166 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 161 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
17 160 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
18 131 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 125 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
20 116 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.62%) Firewall
2 149 (2.33%) Broadband
3 135 (2.11%) DNS
4 131 (2.04%) VPN
5 120 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 114 (1.78%) Network Security
7 96 (1.50%) WAN
8 82 (1.28%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 53 (0.83%) VLAN
13 49 (0.76%) HTTP
14 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.66%) DHCP
16 40 (0.62%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 30 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
20 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,060 (16.54%) Power BI
2 891 (13.91%) Tableau
3 332 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 164 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 142 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 120 (1.87%) Big Data
11 113 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 112 (1.75%) MySQL
13 99 (1.55%) Metadata
14 81 (1.26%) DynamoDB
15 75 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
16 66 (1.03%) Looker
17 65 (1.01%) Delta Lake
18 61 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 683 (10.66%) Git
2 284 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 254 (3.96%) GitLab
4 165 (2.58%) JIRA
5 79 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 60 (0.94%) MLflow
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 38 (0.59%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.48%) JUnit
13 29 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 24 (0.37%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 20 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 2,218 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 1,328 (20.73%) Finance
3 858 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (4.81%) Banking
5 301 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 205 (3.20%) Law
8 184 (2.87%) Retail
9 147 (2.29%) Marketing
10 134 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.03%) Front Office
12 127 (1.98%) Legal
13 88 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.33%) Electronics
15 82 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 78 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 77 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 67 (1.05%) Investment Banking
19 65 (1.01%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,233 (19.24%) Senior
2 1,022 (15.95%) Analyst
3 903 (14.09%) Developer
4 850 (13.27%) Data Analyst
5 826 (12.89%) Software Engineer
6 744 (11.61%) Junior
7 668 (10.43%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.38%) Junior Data Analyst
9 654 (10.21%) Python Engineer
10 637 (9.94%) Data Engineer
11 602 (9.40%) Lead
12 469 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 379 (5.92%) Python Developer
14 305 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 238 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 214 (3.34%) Architect
17 210 (3.28%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 190 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
20 183 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (6.48%) React
2 299 (4.67%) Kafka
3 252 (3.93%) Node.js
4 236 (3.68%) PySpark
5 233 (3.64%) REST
6 225 (3.51%) .NET
7 206 (3.22%) RESTful
8 203 (3.17%) FastAPI
9 197 (3.07%) Django
10 190 (2.97%) HTML
11 173 (2.70%) CSS
12 172 (2.68%) PyTorch
13 165 (2.58%) LangChain
14 155 (2.42%) Pandas
15 146 (2.28%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.14%) Flask
17 133 (2.08%) scikit-learn
18 112 (1.75%) Spring
19 110 (1.72%) Spring Boot
20 109 (1.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 554 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 345 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 330 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 202 (3.15%) AI Agents
5 191 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 171 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 133 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 98 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
11 86 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 86 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 80 (1.25%) Equities
14 79 (1.23%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 72 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
16 72 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 72 (1.12%) Robotics
17 68 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 722 (11.27%) Linux
2 324 (5.06%) Windows
3 97 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.37%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.70%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.12%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,752 (42.95%) AI
2 1,593 (24.86%) Software Engineering
3 1,558 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (18.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1,164 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
6 1,138 (17.76%) Agile
7 1,086 (16.95%) Analytics
8 1,078 (16.83%) DevOps
9 978 (15.26%) Machine Learning
10 904 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 788 (12.30%) Mentoring
12 713 (11.13%) Data Pipeline
13 710 (11.08%) Data Engineering
14 673 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 633 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 628 (9.80%) Data Science
17 599 (9.35%) Containerisation
18 580 (9.05%) Computer Science
19 579 (9.04%) Full-Stack Development
20 563 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,388 (37.27%) SQL
2 793 (12.38%) Java
3 671 (10.47%) JavaScript
4 540 (8.43%) C++
5 505 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 485 (7.57%) Bash
7 454 (7.09%) C#
8 411 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.35%) Go
10 180 (2.81%) C
11 172 (2.68%) R
12 126 (1.97%) Scala
13 100 (1.56%) PHP
13 100 (1.56%) Rust
14 89 (1.39%) Bicep
15 73 (1.14%) Perl
16 68 (1.06%) Ruby
17 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 61 (0.95%) MATLAB
18 50 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,118 (17.45%) Azure Certification
2 867 (13.53%) Degree
3 745 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 427 (6.66%) SC Cleared
5 322 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 248 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 200 (3.12%) AWS Certification
8 190 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 97 (1.51%) PhD
12 82 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 25 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 266 (4.15%) QA
3 152 (2.37%) GDPR
4 94 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.19%) NIST
6 65 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
10 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 20 (0.31%) GRC
11 20 (0.31%) WCAG
12 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.19%) NCSC
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.12%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 751 (11.72%) Docker
2 113 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 113 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (0.91%) Firmware
4 45 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 45 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.45%) KVM
6 28 (0.44%) vSphere
7 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.12%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.047%) IAG
14 3 (0.047%) iptables
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 915 (14.28%) Terraform
2 728 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 391 (6.10%) Ansible
4 242 (3.78%) Grafana
5 157 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Argo
7 46 (0.72%) Nagios
8 45 (0.70%) Puppet
9 36 (0.56%) Kibana
10 31 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 28 (0.44%) Istio
14 24 (0.37%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.30%) Podman
16 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,471 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 427 (6.66%) Databricks
3 196 (3.06%) Google
4 153 (2.39%) Splunk
5 142 (2.22%) Oracle
6 141 (2.20%) VMware
7 123 (1.92%) Cisco
8 114 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 114 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 61 (0.95%) Foundry
11 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 47 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 47 (0.73%) SolarWinds
13 42 (0.66%) F5
14 40 (0.62%) Fortinet
15 39 (0.61%) SAP
16 37 (0.58%) Dynatrace
17 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
18 34 (0.53%) Palantir