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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,026 5,119 7,795
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.26% 12.94% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.77% 40.45% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,582 2,857 5,857
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £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 15,152 12,655 28,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.25% 31.99% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,916 8,485 23,112
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 16 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 16 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 2,406 £85,000 -5.56% 1,540
North of England -11 1,239 £61,418 -5.51% 430
South East +1 875 £60,000 -4.00% 619
Midlands +24 632 £60,000 +9.09% 204
North West -15 579 £65,000 - 234
South West +4 520 £58,497 +1.78% 216
Yorkshire +10 459 £60,500 -6.92% 132
West Midlands +18 330 £60,000 +6.67% 103
East Midlands +30 302 £55,000 +10.00% 100
East of England -3 293 £70,000 +5.73% 232
North East +26 201 £55,750 -10.80% 67
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
1 222 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 155 (2.57%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 51 (0.85%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.18%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.100%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 925 (15.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,627 (43.59%) Azure
2 1,896 (31.46%) AWS
3 1,189 (19.73%) Power Platform
4 1,078 (17.89%) Azure AI
5 683 (11.33%) GCP
6 425 (7.05%) GitHub
7 325 (5.39%) Serverless
8 236 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 230 (3.82%) SaaS
10 212 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
11 208 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.95%) Snowflake
13 167 (2.77%) dbt
14 160 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
15 154 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 152 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 144 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 109 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.80%) Firewall
2 195 (3.24%) Broadband
3 130 (2.16%) VPN
4 121 (2.01%) DNS
5 110 (1.83%) Internet
6 106 (1.76%) Network Security
7 100 (1.66%) WAN
8 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 83 (1.38%) LAN
10 77 (1.28%) Wireless
11 64 (1.06%) BGP
12 54 (0.90%) SD-WAN
13 53 (0.88%) HTTP
14 51 (0.85%) VLAN
15 46 (0.76%) OSPF
16 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 37 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
18 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
19 30 (0.50%) DHCP
20 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.80%) Power BI
2 1,005 (16.68%) Tableau
3 285 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 239 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 159 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 143 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.31%) BigQuery
9 139 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 112 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 111 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
12 104 (1.73%) Big Data
13 87 (1.44%) Metadata
14 80 (1.33%) Data Mining
15 79 (1.31%) MySQL
16 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (1.10%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
19 54 (0.90%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 632 (10.49%) Git
2 265 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 233 (3.87%) GitLab
4 143 (2.37%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.95%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 22 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 19 (0.32%) JMeter
16 19 (0.32%) JUnit
16 19 (0.32%) TeamCity
17 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 2,121 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 1,178 (19.55%) Finance
3 818 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.36%) Banking
6 210 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.05%) Retail
8 157 (2.61%) Law
9 129 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 125 (2.07%) Front Office
11 103 (1.71%) Legal
12 97 (1.61%) Multimedia
13 91 (1.51%) Marketing
14 88 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.21%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 64 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.05%) Games
19 56 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
20 54 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,147 (19.03%) Analyst
2 1,019 (16.91%) Senior
3 974 (16.16%) Data Analyst
4 920 (15.27%) Developer
5 807 (13.39%) Junior
6 759 (12.60%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.60%) Junior Data Analyst
7 664 (11.02%) Software Engineer
8 568 (9.43%) Data Engineer
9 528 (8.76%) Python Engineer
10 518 (8.60%) Lead
11 450 (7.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 240 (3.98%) Python Software Engineer
14 213 (3.53%) Trainee
15 190 (3.15%) Data Scientist
16 185 (3.07%) Architect
17 184 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
18 182 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
18 182 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (6.34%) React
2 261 (4.33%) Kafka
3 229 (3.80%) HTML
4 227 (3.77%) Node.js
5 219 (3.63%) PySpark
6 212 (3.52%) CSS
6 212 (3.52%) REST
7 196 (3.25%) .NET
8 187 (3.10%) RESTful
9 176 (2.92%) PyTorch
10 170 (2.82%) FastAPI
11 169 (2.80%) Django
12 154 (2.56%) Pandas
13 149 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 138 (2.29%) LangChain
15 124 (2.06%) Flask
15 124 (2.06%) scikit-learn
16 106 (1.76%) NumPy
17 99 (1.64%) Vue
18 97 (1.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 458 (7.60%) Cloud Native
2 318 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 290 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 187 (3.10%) Data Structures
5 146 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 127 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 116 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 102 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 95 (1.58%) Low-Code
11 93 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 83 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 82 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 81 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.33%) Equities
16 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 75 (1.24%) Hedge funds
18 67 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
19 66 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 627 (10.40%) Linux
2 270 (4.48%) Windows
3 96 (1.59%) Unix
4 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.65%) CentOS
7 37 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.30%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,517 (41.77%) AI
2 1,345 (22.32%) CI/CD
3 1,303 (21.62%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
5 1,029 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
6 1,005 (16.68%) Agile
7 976 (16.20%) Analytics
8 945 (15.68%) DevOps
9 847 (14.06%) Machine Learning
10 775 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 744 (12.35%) Mentoring
12 610 (10.12%) Data Modelling
13 604 (10.02%) Data Engineering
14 599 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
15 594 (9.86%) Data Science
16 533 (8.85%) Computer Science
17 526 (8.73%) Full-Stack Development
18 524 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 521 (8.65%) Containerisation
20 509 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,328 (38.63%) SQL
2 669 (11.10%) Java
3 665 (11.04%) JavaScript
4 482 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 460 (7.63%) Bash
6 441 (7.32%) C++
7 389 (6.46%) C#
8 376 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.73%) Go
10 185 (3.07%) R
11 157 (2.61%) C
12 121 (2.01%) Scala
13 86 (1.43%) Rust
14 79 (1.31%) PHP
15 66 (1.10%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 52 (0.86%) VBA
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,240 (20.58%) Azure Certification
2 770 (12.78%) Degree
3 617 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 373 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 281 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 240 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 194 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 156 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 155 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 151 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.41%) PhD
12 80 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.05%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 48 (0.80%) OSCP
16 38 (0.63%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 33 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
19 26 (0.43%) GIAC
20 24 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 229 (3.80%) QA
3 125 (2.07%) GDPR
4 87 (1.44%) NIST
5 73 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 15 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 630 (10.45%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.100%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 811 (13.46%) Terraform
2 642 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 355 (5.89%) Ansible
4 215 (3.57%) Grafana
5 175 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.10%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.53%) Puppet
10 29 (0.48%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 21 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.32%) Proxmox
15 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,580 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 351 (5.82%) Databricks
3 204 (3.39%) Google
4 129 (2.14%) VMware
5 125 (2.07%) Oracle
6 124 (2.06%) Splunk
7 122 (2.02%) Cisco
8 99 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 97 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 57 (0.95%) Foundry
10 57 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 57 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 49 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
14 44 (0.73%) Fortinet
15 41 (0.68%) SAP
16 39 (0.65%) F5
17 36 (0.60%) Palantir
18 31 (0.51%) Arista