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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,408 4,441 6,865
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.61% 12.15% 8.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.21% 35.67% 26.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,256 3,226 5,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 12,812 12,450 26,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.02% 34.06% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 9,321 22,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £47,250 £48,000 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 3 April 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 April 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 2,259 £85,000 -5.56% 1,152
North of England -5 1,012 £48,445 -25.47% 475
South East -8 755 £60,000 -8.40% 576
Midlands +6 556 £56,350 +2.45% 255
South West +6 466 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +13 449 £48,445 -24.31% 164
North West -8 418 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +23 341 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -17 296 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -4 216 £55,000 - 125
North East +21 145 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 206 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.46%) Apache
4 69 (1.28%) WordPress
5 62 (1.15%) Jupyter
6 35 (0.65%) Confluence
7 32 (0.59%) SAS
8 31 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.31%) Appian
12 14 (0.26%) IIS
13 12 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.17%) nginx
15 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.092%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.092%) GeoServer
16 5 (0.092%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
17 3 (0.055%) CMS
Applications
1 1,071 (19.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 53 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) CATIA
8 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.074%) Windchill
9 3 (0.055%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.037%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.037%) Weka
11 1 (0.018%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.018%) Houdini
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.11%) Shopify
3 5 (0.092%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.074%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.055%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.055%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.037%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.037%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.018%) Actimize
7 1 (0.018%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.018%) Endur
7 1 (0.018%) Findur
7 1 (0.018%) Line 50
7 1 (0.018%) Magento
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.018%) Primavera
7 1 (0.018%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,485 (45.95%) Azure
2 1,790 (33.10%) AWS
3 1,251 (23.13%) Power Platform
4 936 (17.31%) Azure AI
5 610 (11.28%) GCP
6 586 (10.84%) GitHub
7 289 (5.34%) Serverless
8 207 (3.83%) SaaS
9 205 (3.79%) Amazon S3
10 184 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
11 183 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 173 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (3.09%) dbt
14 165 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.98%) Snowflake
16 129 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 108 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
20 90 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 256 (4.73%) Internet
2 184 (3.40%) Firewall
3 139 (2.57%) Broadband
4 108 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 104 (1.92%) VPN
6 96 (1.78%) DNS
7 74 (1.37%) Network Security
8 73 (1.35%) WAN
9 70 (1.29%) LAN
10 64 (1.18%) Wireless
11 63 (1.16%) BGP
12 58 (1.07%) VLAN
13 50 (0.92%) HTTP
14 43 (0.80%) OSPF
14 43 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.63%) SD-WAN
17 33 (0.61%) MPLS
18 30 (0.55%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,211 (22.39%) Power BI
2 1,169 (21.62%) Tableau
3 268 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.96%) Data Mining
8 146 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.57%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.13%) BigQuery
10 115 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 105 (1.94%) MongoDB
12 99 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 91 (1.68%) Big Data
14 84 (1.55%) Metadata
15 77 (1.42%) MySQL
16 72 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
17 49 (0.91%) Delta Lake
18 48 (0.89%) Looker
19 47 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 666 (12.32%) Git
2 221 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 185 (3.42%) GitLab
4 107 (1.98%) JIRA
5 65 (1.20%) MLflow
6 61 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 55 (1.02%) Selenium
8 45 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 38 (0.70%) Postman
10 36 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.43%) JUnit
13 22 (0.41%) SonarQube
14 21 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 21 (0.39%) Jaeger
15 20 (0.37%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.37%) JMeter
16 18 (0.33%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.31%) Metasploit
17 17 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 1,952 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 1,179 (21.80%) Finance
3 830 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (4.94%) Banking
5 243 (4.49%) Multimedia
6 226 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 211 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 176 (3.25%) Retail
9 170 (3.14%) Law
10 151 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.50%) Front Office
12 115 (2.13%) Marketing
13 107 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.63%) Legal
15 75 (1.39%) Electronics
16 73 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 68 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.09%) Investment Banking
19 42 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 42 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,269 (23.47%) Analyst
2 1,093 (20.21%) Data Analyst
3 867 (16.03%) Developer
4 840 (15.53%) Junior
5 805 (14.89%) Junior Analyst
5 805 (14.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 786 (14.53%) Senior
7 492 (9.10%) Data Engineer
8 460 (8.51%) Software Engineer
9 430 (7.95%) Trainee
10 426 (7.88%) Lead
11 353 (6.53%) Python Developer
12 351 (6.49%) Python Engineer
13 217 (4.01%) Software Developer
14 190 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 157 (2.90%) Architect
16 156 (2.88%) Senior Developer
17 155 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
18 152 (2.81%) Python Software Engineer
19 150 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (7.29%) HTML
2 384 (7.10%) React
3 347 (6.42%) CSS
4 237 (4.38%) Kafka
5 212 (3.92%) Django
6 203 (3.75%) Node.js
6 203 (3.75%) REST
7 187 (3.46%) PySpark
8 172 (3.18%) RESTful
9 163 (3.01%) PyTorch
10 149 (2.76%) Pandas
11 145 (2.68%) .NET
12 141 (2.61%) FastAPI
13 138 (2.55%) TensorFlow
14 133 (2.46%) Flask
15 130 (2.40%) scikit-learn
16 104 (1.92%) JSON
17 95 (1.76%) NumPy
18 90 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
19 88 (1.63%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 290 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 253 (4.68%) Algorithms
3 220 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 110 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 101 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 90 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 88 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 86 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 84 (1.55%) Equities
12 81 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (1.48%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 74 (1.37%) AI Agents
15 74 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
16 72 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
17 69 (1.28%) Security Posture
18 66 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 549 (10.15%) Linux
2 216 (3.99%) Windows
3 171 (3.16%) Unix
4 64 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.74%) CentOS
7 28 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.17%) Android
11 9 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.13%) Solaris
13 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.11%) VMS
14 5 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.074%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.055%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.055%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,041 (37.74%) AI
2 1,317 (24.35%) Business Intelligence
3 1,139 (21.06%) CI/CD
4 995 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
5 953 (17.62%) Analytics
6 911 (16.85%) Agile
7 910 (16.83%) Software Engineering
8 852 (15.75%) DevOps
9 729 (13.48%) Mentoring
10 689 (12.74%) Machine Learning
11 597 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 564 (10.43%) Data Modelling
13 560 (10.36%) Data Science
14 538 (9.95%) ETL
15 535 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
16 518 (9.58%) Data Engineering
17 502 (9.28%) Computer Science
18 496 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 491 (9.08%) Containerisation
20 418 (7.73%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,287 (42.29%) SQL
2 792 (14.64%) JavaScript
3 616 (11.39%) Java
4 404 (7.47%) Bash
5 400 (7.40%) PowerShell
6 338 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 293 (5.42%) C#
8 275 (5.09%) C++
9 273 (5.05%) Go
10 256 (4.73%) R
11 137 (2.53%) C
12 113 (2.09%) Scala
13 73 (1.35%) Rust
14 70 (1.29%) VBA
15 64 (1.18%) PHP
16 44 (0.81%) Bicep
17 42 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 42 (0.78%) Perl
18 37 (0.68%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,217 (22.50%) Azure Certification
2 782 (14.46%) Degree
3 451 (8.34%) Security Cleared
4 396 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 298 (5.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 289 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 266 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 257 (4.75%) SC Cleared
9 165 (3.05%) DV Cleared
10 131 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.63%) PhD
12 67 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.04%) CCNP
14 50 (0.92%) CISSP
15 46 (0.85%) OSCP
16 38 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.65%) DBS Check
19 31 (0.57%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 214 (3.96%) QA
3 125 (2.31%) GDPR
4 112 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (1.98%) NIST
6 64 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.46%) PMO
10 22 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.37%) GRC
12 20 (0.37%) SLA
13 17 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.15%) WCAG
16 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 585 (10.82%) Docker
2 93 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.67%) Firmware
5 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 5 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.055%) HDFS
14 3 (0.055%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 669 (12.37%) Terraform
2 604 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 331 (6.12%) Ansible
4 181 (3.35%) Grafana
5 147 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.13%) Argo
7 28 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.43%) Puppet
9 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.35%) Istio
10 19 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.22%) logstash
12 12 (0.22%) Nessus
12 12 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.18%) Control-M
14 10 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,728 (31.95%) Microsoft
2 307 (5.68%) Databricks
3 207 (3.83%) Google
4 134 (2.48%) Oracle
5 121 (2.24%) Cisco
6 119 (2.20%) VMware
7 101 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.39%) SAP
9 74 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 69 (1.28%) Splunk
11 62 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 54 (1.00%) ServiceNow
13 49 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 49 (0.91%) Informatica
14 46 (0.85%) Foundry
15 45 (0.83%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 41 (0.76%) Talend
18 40 (0.74%) Dell
19 39 (0.72%) Palantir