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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,726 4,317 6,557
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.46% 10.14% 10.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.44% 39.38% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 2,573 4,048
10th Percentile £43,983 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% +4.17%

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 16,627 10,963 20,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.86% 25.75% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,152 7,458 12,088
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,329 £47,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 16 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 16 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 2,618 £85,000 - 549
North of England -23 1,014 £66,805 +11.34% 248
South East +11 743 £62,500 +8.70% 248
North West -21 547 £67,500 +12.50% 115
South West +4 539 £64,250 +16.82% 168
Midlands -8 434 £62,500 +4.17% 116
East of England +11 320 £70,000 +21.74% 113
North East +17 237 £67,500 +50.00% 49
West Midlands -21 237 £65,000 +8.33% 77
Yorkshire -5 233 £65,000 - 86
East Midlands +12 195 £55,000 -15.38% 39
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
1 210 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 172 (3.00%) Apache
3 170 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.19%) Confluence
5 47 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 39 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 29 (0.51%) SAS
8 24 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.16%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.10%) CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
16 4 (0.070%) Ethereum
16 4 (0.070%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 182 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.49%) Simulink
4 19 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.12%) Lightworks
10 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
10 6 (0.10%) Revit
11 5 (0.087%) Mathematica
12 4 (0.070%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.052%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.052%) Blender
13 3 (0.052%) Maya
13 3 (0.052%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.052%) SPSS
14 2 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.23%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.070%) Shopify
6 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.052%) Summit
7 2 (0.035%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.035%) Line 50
7 2 (0.035%) Odoo
7 2 (0.035%) Quorum
7 2 (0.035%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.035%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.035%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.035%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,887 (32.95%) AWS
2 1,821 (31.80%) Azure
3 758 (13.24%) GCP
4 595 (10.39%) Power Platform
5 403 (7.04%) GitHub
6 340 (5.94%) Serverless
7 270 (4.72%) SaaS
8 255 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
9 231 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 228 (3.98%) Snowflake
11 227 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 207 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 205 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 188 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
15 183 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
16 171 (2.99%) dbt
17 165 (2.88%) Azure AI
18 136 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
19 133 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 126 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.75%) Firewall
2 158 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 150 (2.62%) DNS
4 149 (2.60%) VPN
5 108 (1.89%) Network Security
6 86 (1.50%) WAN
7 76 (1.33%) Wireless
8 68 (1.19%) BGP
9 67 (1.17%) Broadband
10 62 (1.08%) LAN
11 60 (1.05%) DHCP
12 51 (0.89%) MQTT
13 45 (0.79%) VLAN
14 42 (0.73%) OSPF
14 42 (0.73%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.72%) HTTP
16 32 (0.56%) SSL
17 26 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
18 25 (0.44%) Multicast
18 25 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 525 (9.17%) Power BI
2 336 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
3 311 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 199 (3.48%) Tableau
5 194 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 151 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 142 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 128 (2.24%) Big Data
11 121 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 120 (2.10%) Metadata
13 117 (2.04%) MySQL
14 110 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 86 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
17 80 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 77 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
19 75 (1.31%) Delta Lake
20 72 (1.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 678 (11.84%) Git
2 311 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 262 (4.58%) GitLab
4 175 (3.06%) JIRA
5 77 (1.34%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.93%) Subversion
7 47 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.72%) MLflow
10 36 (0.63%) JUnit
10 36 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 30 (0.52%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.51%) Eclipse
13 29 (0.51%) LabVIEW
14 26 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 19 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 19 (0.33%) Cucumber
15 19 (0.33%) Maven
16 18 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 1,583 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 1,412 (24.66%) Finance
3 871 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (6.58%) Banking
5 376 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 270 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 241 (4.21%) Marketing
8 223 (3.89%) Law
9 175 (3.06%) Retail
10 139 (2.43%) Legal
11 114 (1.99%) Aerospace
11 114 (1.99%) Front Office
12 99 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.68%) Financial Institution
14 95 (1.66%) Electronics
15 87 (1.52%) Telecoms
16 73 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.12%) Games
18 52 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
18 52 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,290 (22.53%) Senior
2 899 (15.70%) Software Engineer
3 824 (14.39%) Developer
4 707 (12.35%) Python Engineer
5 640 (11.18%) Data Engineer
6 625 (10.92%) Lead
7 407 (7.11%) Analyst
8 365 (6.37%) Python Developer
9 359 (6.27%) Python Software Engineer
10 318 (5.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 268 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 225 (3.93%) Data Scientist
13 224 (3.91%) Architect
14 219 (3.82%) Senior Developer
15 211 (3.68%) Data Analyst
15 211 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
16 198 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
17 177 (3.09%) Consultant
18 171 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
19 166 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 963 (16.82%) Terraform
2 392 (6.85%) React
3 263 (4.59%) REST
4 240 (4.19%) PySpark
5 236 (4.12%) .NET
6 231 (4.03%) Node.js
7 217 (3.79%) FastAPI
8 211 (3.68%) Kafka
9 196 (3.42%) RESTful
10 185 (3.23%) LangChain
11 168 (2.93%) Django
12 157 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 138 (2.41%) TensorFlow
14 132 (2.31%) CSS
14 132 (2.31%) Spring Boot
15 131 (2.29%) Spring
16 126 (2.20%) HTML
17 107 (1.87%) LangGraph
18 106 (1.85%) Flask
19 87 (1.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 621 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 299 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 292 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 281 (4.91%) Algorithms
5 245 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 138 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 134 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 110 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 97 (1.69%) Hedge funds
10 94 (1.64%) Robotics
11 92 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 91 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 85 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
13 85 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 84 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
15 76 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
16 67 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
17 66 (1.15%) Equities
18 64 (1.12%) FPGA
18 64 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 724 (12.64%) Linux
2 323 (5.64%) Windows
3 83 (1.45%) Unix
4 76 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.77%) CentOS
7 38 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 31 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 27 (0.47%) Debian
10 17 (0.30%) macOS
10 17 (0.30%) Rocky
11 16 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.17%) Solaris
14 10 (0.17%) VMS
15 8 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
15 8 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
16 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,233 (39.00%) AI
2 1,730 (30.21%) Software Engineering
3 1,657 (28.94%) CI/CD
4 1,254 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 1,191 (20.80%) Analytics
6 1,104 (19.28%) DevOps
7 1,087 (18.98%) Agile
8 1,065 (18.60%) Machine Learning
9 970 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 798 (13.94%) Mentoring
11 775 (13.53%) Data Engineering
12 768 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
13 701 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 691 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
15 685 (11.96%) Data Modelling
16 661 (11.54%) Decision-Making
17 641 (11.19%) Data Science
18 612 (10.69%) Containerisation
19 609 (10.64%) Test Automation
20 587 (10.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,883 (32.89%) SQL
2 837 (14.62%) Java
3 605 (10.57%) JavaScript
4 554 (9.68%) C++
5 540 (9.43%) Bash
6 484 (8.45%) C#
7 480 (8.38%) PowerShell
8 424 (7.40%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.91%) Go
10 202 (3.53%) C
11 179 (3.13%) R
12 115 (2.01%) Rust
13 108 (1.89%) Scala
14 97 (1.69%) Bicep
14 97 (1.69%) MATLAB
15 90 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 83 (1.45%) Perl
17 81 (1.41%) PHP
18 76 (1.33%) Ruby
19 57 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 958 (16.73%) Degree
2 894 (15.61%) Security Cleared
3 500 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 299 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 293 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 240 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 233 (4.07%) Master's Degree
8 139 (2.43%) PhD
9 117 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 82 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 72 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 69 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.14%) CISSP
14 41 (0.72%) CCNP
15 39 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
16 37 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 32 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.56%) CCNA
18 30 (0.52%) CISM
19 28 (0.49%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (10.65%) Data Quality
2 254 (4.44%) QA
3 126 (2.20%) GDPR
4 112 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 81 (1.41%) NIST
6 68 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (0.42%) SLA
10 23 (0.40%) NCSC
11 20 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 17 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.30%) WCAG
13 13 (0.23%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.21%) PMO
15 10 (0.17%) GRC
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 821 (14.34%) Docker
2 110 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.10%) Firmware
5 35 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.51%) vSphere
8 24 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 16 (0.28%) KVM
12 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.10%) Squid
16 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.052%) NFS
17 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
17 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 849 (14.83%) Kubernetes
2 427 (7.46%) Ansible
3 250 (4.37%) Grafana
4 162 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 81 (1.41%) Puppet
6 60 (1.05%) Argo
7 45 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.68%) Kibana
9 32 (0.56%) Nagios
10 29 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.42%) Istio
12 24 (0.42%) Rancher
13 21 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.35%) Podman
14 20 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 19 (0.33%) Packer
16 18 (0.31%) Proxmox
17 16 (0.28%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 826 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 466 (8.14%) Databricks
3 266 (4.65%) Google
4 145 (2.53%) Splunk
5 128 (2.24%) OpenAI
6 125 (2.18%) VMware
7 120 (2.10%) Oracle
8 103 (1.80%) Cisco
9 88 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 66 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 62 (1.08%) Foundry
12 53 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 40 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.68%) SAP
15 38 (0.66%) Fortinet
16 35 (0.61%) SolarWinds
17 33 (0.58%) F5
17 33 (0.58%) Palo Alto
18 32 (0.56%) Informatica
18 32 (0.56%) New Relic