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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,078 5,022 7,465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.30% 12.94% 8.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.83% 40.51% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,549 2,814 5,692
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,040
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 14,887 12,398 27,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.89% 31.94% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,611 8,396 22,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 2,395 £85,000 -5.56% 1,762
North of England -13 1,240 £61,418 -5.51% 479
South East +2 887 £62,500 - 605
Midlands +15 660 £55,000 - 198
North West -25 558 £65,000 - 267
South West +4 528 £57,500 +0.10% 262
Yorkshire +17 488 £60,000 -7.69% 126
West Midlands +6 350 £60,000 +9.09% 95
East Midlands +31 310 £55,000 +19.57% 102
East of England +1 307 £67,500 +1.95% 221
North East +22 194 £55,000 -15.38% 88
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
1 219 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 197 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 150 (2.47%) Apache
4 75 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 50 (0.82%) WordPress
6 47 (0.77%) Confluence
7 33 (0.54%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
13 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,032 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,723 (44.80%) Azure
2 1,863 (30.65%) AWS
3 1,293 (21.27%) Power Platform
4 1,171 (19.27%) Azure AI
5 660 (10.86%) GCP
6 436 (7.17%) GitHub
7 324 (5.33%) Serverless
8 237 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 227 (3.73%) SaaS
10 219 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 167 (2.75%) dbt
14 159 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 159 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
15 150 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 141 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
17 118 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 103 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
19 98 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (3.85%) Firewall
2 180 (2.96%) Broadband
3 132 (2.17%) Internet
4 129 (2.12%) VPN
5 123 (2.02%) DNS
6 104 (1.71%) Network Security
7 98 (1.61%) WAN
8 96 (1.58%) TCP/IP
9 83 (1.37%) LAN
10 77 (1.27%) Wireless
11 66 (1.09%) BGP
12 55 (0.90%) HTTP
13 53 (0.87%) VLAN
14 49 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 48 (0.79%) OSPF
16 41 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
18 31 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
19 30 (0.49%) DHCP
19 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,235 (20.32%) Power BI
2 1,115 (18.34%) Tableau
3 283 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 189 (3.11%) SQL Server
6 162 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 161 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.34%) BigQuery
8 142 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 119 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 115 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 111 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.79%) Big Data
13 94 (1.55%) Data Mining
14 89 (1.46%) Metadata
15 76 (1.25%) MySQL
16 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
17 63 (1.04%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
19 52 (0.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 642 (10.56%) Git
2 254 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 230 (3.78%) GitLab
4 133 (2.19%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.95%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.63%) Selenium
9 34 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.49%) Postman
11 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.38%) Subversion
14 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
16 20 (0.33%) JUnit
17 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 2,211 (36.38%) Social Skills
2 1,201 (19.76%) Finance
3 835 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 259 (4.26%) Banking
6 215 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 183 (3.01%) Retail
8 155 (2.55%) Law
9 130 (2.14%) Front Office
10 129 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 117 (1.92%) Multimedia
12 104 (1.71%) Legal
13 99 (1.63%) Marketing
14 89 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.30%) Electronics
16 69 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 59 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 58 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,248 (20.53%) Analyst
2 1,073 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 1,001 (16.47%) Senior
4 920 (15.14%) Developer
5 897 (14.76%) Junior
6 853 (14.03%) Junior Analyst
6 853 (14.03%) Junior Data Analyst
7 637 (10.48%) Software Engineer
8 551 (9.07%) Data Engineer
9 504 (8.29%) Lead
10 499 (8.21%) Python Engineer
11 432 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 385 (6.33%) Python Developer
13 244 (4.01%) Trainee
14 224 (3.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 187 (3.08%) Software Developer
16 186 (3.06%) Data Scientist
17 184 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
18 176 (2.90%) Architect
19 174 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (6.14%) React
2 258 (4.24%) Kafka
3 248 (4.08%) HTML
4 229 (3.77%) CSS
5 224 (3.69%) PySpark
6 215 (3.54%) Node.js
7 206 (3.39%) REST
8 198 (3.26%) .NET
9 175 (2.88%) RESTful
10 171 (2.81%) Django
11 169 (2.78%) PyTorch
12 159 (2.62%) FastAPI
13 156 (2.57%) Pandas
14 146 (2.40%) TensorFlow
15 121 (1.99%) Flask
15 121 (1.99%) LangChain
16 120 (1.97%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.74%) NumPy
18 98 (1.61%) JSON
19 91 (1.50%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 408 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 271 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 124 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 103 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
10 93 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 90 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 86 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 82 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 81 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 81 (1.33%) Hedge funds
15 80 (1.32%) Equities
16 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 70 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
17 63 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 618 (10.17%) Linux
2 267 (4.39%) Windows
3 98 (1.61%) Unix
4 81 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 34 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
15 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,528 (41.59%) AI
2 1,337 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1,316 (21.65%) CI/CD
4 1,237 (20.35%) Software Engineering
5 1,014 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 995 (16.37%) Agile
7 972 (15.99%) Analytics
8 953 (15.68%) DevOps
9 832 (13.69%) Machine Learning
10 747 (12.29%) Mentoring
11 742 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 615 (10.12%) Data Modelling
13 597 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
14 594 (9.77%) Data Engineering
15 592 (9.74%) Data Science
16 535 (8.80%) Computer Science
17 530 (8.72%) ETL
18 513 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 502 (8.26%) Containerisation
20 491 (8.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,404 (39.55%) SQL
2 674 (11.09%) JavaScript
3 660 (10.86%) Java
4 476 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 456 (7.50%) Bash
6 421 (6.93%) C++
7 389 (6.40%) C#
8 368 (6.05%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.59%) Go
10 200 (3.29%) R
11 161 (2.65%) C
12 124 (2.04%) Scala
13 85 (1.40%) Rust
14 75 (1.23%) PHP
15 61 (1.00%) Bicep
16 57 (0.94%) VBA
17 51 (0.84%) MATLAB
18 47 (0.77%) Perl
19 41 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,349 (22.19%) Azure Certification
2 770 (12.67%) Degree
3 590 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 348 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 283 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 260 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 192 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 175 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 173 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 150 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.41%) PhD
12 84 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.14%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) OSCP
15 50 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 40 (0.66%) CISSP
17 35 (0.58%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.48%) CCIE
20 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.80%) QA
3 122 (2.01%) GDPR
4 94 (1.55%) NIST
5 80 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.43%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) IFRS
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 603 (9.92%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.95%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 20 (0.33%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Lustre
15 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 793 (13.05%) Terraform
2 624 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 354 (5.82%) Ansible
4 207 (3.41%) Grafana
5 169 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.05%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 26 (0.43%) Kibana
10 24 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 23 (0.38%) Istio
12 22 (0.36%) Packer
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.25%) Podman
18 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
19 13 (0.21%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,698 (27.94%) Microsoft
2 340 (5.59%) Databricks
3 209 (3.44%) Google
4 129 (2.12%) VMware
5 128 (2.11%) Cisco
5 128 (2.11%) Oracle
6 116 (1.91%) Splunk
7 101 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 96 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 58 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 56 (0.92%) Foundry
10 56 (0.92%) Palo Alto
11 55 (0.90%) SolarWinds
12 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 48 (0.79%) SAP
14 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
17 38 (0.63%) Palantir
18 31 (0.51%) Arista