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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,339 5,238 6,706
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.06% 12.03% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.85% 40.06% 29.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,826 2,958 4,920
10th Percentile £39,100 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
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 16,315 13,074 23,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 30.02% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,892 8,815 17,620
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,231 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 27 July 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 27 July 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 2,549 £85,000 -5.56% 1,578
North of England -11 1,287 £65,000 - 418
South East +5 935 £60,000 - 488
Midlands +14 608 £60,000 -2.44% 195
North West -16 602 £65,250 +8.75% 216
South West +6 593 £60,000 +4.86% 219
Yorkshire +15 447 £65,000 - 117
West Midlands +1 319 £62,500 -3.47% 101
East of England +7 304 £65,000 - 180
East Midlands +24 288 £55,000 - 94
North East +28 238 £59,000 -9.23% 90
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
1 237 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 229 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 174 (2.74%) Apache
4 76 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.87%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.44%) SAS
9 23 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.16%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.095%) JBoss
14 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 870 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 40 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.24%) Simulink
6 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.047%) Blender
9 3 (0.047%) Maya
9 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.047%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.079%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,648 (41.77%) Azure
2 2,018 (31.83%) AWS
3 1,162 (18.33%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.37%) Azure AI
5 763 (12.04%) GCP
6 380 (5.99%) GitHub
7 370 (5.84%) Serverless
8 245 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 232 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 231 (3.64%) SaaS
11 221 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 217 (3.42%) Snowflake
13 195 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 189 (2.98%) dbt
15 166 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 160 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
17 153 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
18 130 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
20 114 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.63%) Firewall
2 163 (2.57%) Broadband
3 134 (2.11%) DNS
3 134 (2.11%) VPN
4 117 (1.85%) Network Security
5 114 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 95 (1.50%) WAN
7 82 (1.29%) Wireless
8 74 (1.17%) LAN
9 70 (1.10%) Internet
10 58 (0.91%) BGP
11 54 (0.85%) VLAN
12 49 (0.77%) HTTP
12 49 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 41 (0.65%) OSPF
14 39 (0.62%) DHCP
14 39 (0.62%) MQTT
15 36 (0.57%) SSL
16 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
16 29 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,099 (17.34%) Power BI
2 947 (14.94%) Tableau
3 318 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
4 285 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 174 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 162 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 142 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 136 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 118 (1.86%) Big Data
12 112 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 107 (1.69%) MySQL
15 98 (1.55%) Metadata
16 80 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 72 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
18 63 (0.99%) Looker
19 62 (0.98%) Delta Lake
20 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 656 (10.35%) Git
2 283 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 251 (3.96%) GitLab
4 156 (2.46%) JIRA
5 82 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
6 59 (0.93%) MLflow
7 58 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.71%) Selenium
9 37 (0.58%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.44%) JUnit
13 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
15 24 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.36%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 22 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 2,207 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 1,301 (20.52%) Finance
3 834 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (4.67%) Banking
5 275 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 227 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 189 (2.98%) Law
8 187 (2.95%) Retail
9 135 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 130 (2.05%) Front Office
11 124 (1.96%) Marketing
12 123 (1.94%) Legal
13 86 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.26%) Electronics
15 78 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 74 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 73 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.04%) Games
19 65 (1.03%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,199 (18.91%) Senior
2 1,072 (16.91%) Analyst
3 908 (14.32%) Data Analyst
4 900 (14.20%) Developer
5 808 (12.75%) Software Engineer
6 784 (12.37%) Junior
7 714 (11.26%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.23%) Junior Data Analyst
9 625 (9.86%) Python Engineer
10 621 (9.80%) Data Engineer
11 573 (9.04%) Lead
12 463 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 375 (5.92%) Python Developer
14 302 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 233 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 211 (3.33%) Architect
17 206 (3.25%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.04%) Senior Developer
19 186 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
20 179 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (6.33%) React
2 295 (4.65%) Kafka
3 253 (3.99%) Node.js
4 231 (3.64%) PySpark
5 228 (3.60%) REST
6 222 (3.50%) .NET
7 202 (3.19%) RESTful
8 199 (3.14%) FastAPI
9 191 (3.01%) Django
10 190 (3.00%) HTML
11 173 (2.73%) CSS
12 170 (2.68%) PyTorch
13 161 (2.54%) Pandas
14 158 (2.49%) LangChain
15 145 (2.29%) TensorFlow
16 136 (2.15%) Flask
17 135 (2.13%) scikit-learn
18 110 (1.74%) JSON
18 110 (1.74%) NumPy
18 110 (1.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 536 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 343 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 331 (5.22%) Algorithms
4 190 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 181 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 172 (2.71%) Data Structures
7 132 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
9 98 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 95 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 85 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 82 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 82 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 77 (1.21%) Equities
14 76 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.18%) Hedge funds
16 73 (1.15%) Robotics
17 71 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
18 68 (1.07%) Security Posture
19 67 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 702 (11.07%) Linux
2 317 (5.00%) Windows
3 92 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.28%) Unix
5 51 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.66%) CentOS
7 36 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
9 22 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
17 5 (0.079%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,737 (43.18%) AI
2 1,549 (24.44%) Software Engineering
3 1,522 (24.01%) CI/CD
4 1,223 (19.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1,119 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 1,099 (17.34%) Agile
7 1,059 (16.71%) Analytics
8 1,052 (16.60%) DevOps
9 954 (15.05%) Machine Learning
10 880 (13.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 759 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 697 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
13 691 (10.90%) Data Engineering
14 669 (10.55%) Data Modelling
15 626 (9.88%) Data Science
16 603 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 596 (9.40%) Containerisation
18 570 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
19 557 (8.79%) Computer Science
20 549 (8.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,392 (37.73%) SQL
2 776 (12.24%) Java
3 650 (10.25%) JavaScript
4 523 (8.25%) C++
5 494 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 477 (7.52%) Bash
7 439 (6.93%) C#
8 397 (6.26%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.43%) Go
10 179 (2.82%) C
11 166 (2.62%) R
12 131 (2.07%) Scala
13 99 (1.56%) PHP
14 97 (1.53%) Rust
15 88 (1.39%) Bicep
16 66 (1.04%) Perl
17 64 (1.01%) Ruby
18 61 (0.96%) MATLAB
19 59 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,164 (18.36%) Azure Certification
2 829 (13.08%) Degree
3 724 (11.42%) Security Cleared
4 417 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 306 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 243 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 202 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 185 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 116 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 91 (1.44%) PhD
12 82 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.90%) CCNP
14 46 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 40 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 37 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 35 (0.55%) CISSP
17 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.54%) OSCP
19 26 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 256 (4.04%) QA
3 150 (2.37%) GDPR
4 90 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 79 (1.25%) NIST
6 64 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) GRC
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) PMO
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 14 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 730 (11.52%) Docker
2 110 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.95%) Firmware
5 43 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 43 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 893 (14.09%) Terraform
2 709 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 385 (6.07%) Ansible
4 240 (3.79%) Grafana
5 163 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.84%) Argo
7 44 (0.69%) Nagios
8 43 (0.68%) Puppet
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 27 (0.43%) Istio
13 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,511 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 417 (6.58%) Databricks
3 183 (2.89%) Google
4 149 (2.35%) Splunk
5 138 (2.18%) VMware
6 137 (2.16%) Oracle
7 123 (1.94%) Cisco
8 113 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 109 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.95%) Foundry
12 59 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.76%) SolarWinds
14 46 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.71%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.68%) F5
17 40 (0.63%) SAP
18 38 (0.60%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.50%) IBM
19 32 (0.50%) Palantir