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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,370 5,170 6,495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.86% 11.87% 8.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.33% 40.24% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,875 2,885 4,680
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £130,000 £132,500
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 16,619 12,849 21,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.91% 29.50% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12,123 8,581 16,126
10th Percentile £37,800 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +5.79% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 2,615 £85,000 -5.56% 3,005
North of England -12 1,262 £65,000 - 585
South East +2 932 £60,000 - 679
South West +11 611 £60,000 +9.09% 324
North West -16 602 £65,500 +9.17% 305
Midlands +9 579 £62,500 -3.10% 267
Yorkshire +13 415 £65,860 +1.32% 175
East of England +8 309 £65,000 +4.00% 308
West Midlands 0 307 £63,750 -1.92% 151
East Midlands +22 271 £53,750 -2.27% 116
North East +26 245 £61,250 -5.77% 109
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
1 244 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 238 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 184 (2.89%) Apache
4 64 (1.00%) Confluence
4 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 48 (0.75%) WordPress
6 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.39%) SAS
8 24 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.17%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
15 4 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 766 (12.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
4 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.078%) Shopify
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,585 (40.58%) Azure
2 2,053 (32.23%) AWS
3 1,082 (16.99%) Power Platform
4 945 (14.84%) Azure AI
5 784 (12.31%) GCP
6 392 (6.15%) GitHub
7 368 (5.78%) Serverless
8 254 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 230 (3.61%) SaaS
10 230 (3.61%) Snowflake
11 226 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
12 204 (3.20%) dbt
13 202 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 168 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 162 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
16 160 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
17 132 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
19 119 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.61%) Firewall
2 148 (2.32%) Broadband
3 137 (2.15%) DNS
4 130 (2.04%) VPN
5 123 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 112 (1.76%) Network Security
7 96 (1.51%) WAN
8 80 (1.26%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 53 (0.83%) VLAN
13 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 46 (0.72%) HTTP
15 42 (0.66%) DHCP
16 41 (0.64%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
20 26 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,015 (15.93%) Power BI
2 839 (13.17%) Tableau
3 335 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 164 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.23%) BigQuery
10 141 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.87%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 111 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.73%) MySQL
15 101 (1.59%) Metadata
16 83 (1.30%) DynamoDB
17 76 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
18 68 (1.07%) Looker
19 67 (1.05%) Delta Lake
20 60 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 693 (10.88%) Git
2 285 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 246 (3.86%) GitLab
4 167 (2.62%) JIRA
5 71 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 61 (0.96%) Claude Code
8 49 (0.77%) Selenium
9 39 (0.61%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.53%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,180 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 1,326 (20.82%) Finance
3 856 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (4.99%) Banking
5 313 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 209 (3.28%) Law
8 180 (2.83%) Retail
9 160 (2.51%) Marketing
10 128 (2.01%) Legal
10 128 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 127 (1.99%) Front Office
12 88 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 86 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 86 (1.35%) Electronics
14 80 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
16 69 (1.08%) Investment Banking
17 66 (1.04%) Games
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,236 (19.40%) Senior
2 967 (15.18%) Analyst
3 895 (14.05%) Developer
4 836 (13.12%) Software Engineer
5 794 (12.46%) Data Analyst
6 699 (10.97%) Junior
7 659 (10.35%) Python Engineer
8 636 (9.98%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.73%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.69%) Junior Data Analyst
11 598 (9.39%) Lead
12 469 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 367 (5.76%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 241 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
16 215 (3.38%) Architect
17 213 (3.34%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.09%) Senior Developer
19 187 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
20 185 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.48%) React
2 294 (4.62%) Kafka
3 248 (3.89%) Node.js
4 232 (3.64%) PySpark
5 231 (3.63%) REST
6 228 (3.58%) .NET
7 207 (3.25%) RESTful
8 205 (3.22%) FastAPI
9 196 (3.08%) Django
10 192 (3.01%) HTML
11 175 (2.75%) CSS
11 175 (2.75%) PyTorch
12 168 (2.64%) LangChain
13 148 (2.32%) Pandas
13 148 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 136 (2.14%) Flask
15 129 (2.03%) scikit-learn
16 113 (1.77%) Spring
17 111 (1.74%) Spring Boot
18 104 (1.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 570 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 349 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 326 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 204 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 192 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 163 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 136 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 91 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
11 83 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 82 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 80 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 77 (1.21%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
16 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
16 74 (1.16%) Equities
17 72 (1.13%) Robotics
18 67 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 725 (11.38%) Linux
2 330 (5.18%) Windows
3 97 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.38%) Unix
5 54 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.71%) CentOS
7 36 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
13 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Solaris
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,719 (42.68%) AI
2 1,603 (25.16%) Software Engineering
3 1,567 (24.60%) CI/CD
4 1,167 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
5 1,154 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
6 1,142 (17.93%) Agile
7 1,100 (17.27%) Analytics
8 1,081 (16.97%) DevOps
9 988 (15.51%) Machine Learning
10 912 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 791 (12.42%) Mentoring
12 729 (11.44%) Data Pipeline
13 717 (11.26%) Data Engineering
14 673 (10.57%) Data Modelling
15 641 (10.06%) Data Science
16 633 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 600 (9.42%) Containerisation
18 579 (9.09%) Computer Science
19 576 (9.04%) Full-Stack Development
20 571 (8.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,346 (36.83%) SQL
2 806 (12.65%) Java
3 670 (10.52%) JavaScript
4 542 (8.51%) C++
5 506 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 482 (7.57%) Bash
7 456 (7.16%) C#
8 409 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 282 (4.43%) Go
10 182 (2.86%) C
11 169 (2.65%) R
12 130 (2.04%) Scala
13 101 (1.59%) PHP
14 100 (1.57%) Rust
15 89 (1.40%) Bicep
16 74 (1.16%) Perl
17 70 (1.10%) Ruby
18 63 (0.99%) MATLAB
19 62 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,073 (16.84%) Azure Certification
2 876 (13.75%) Degree
3 768 (12.06%) Security Cleared
4 436 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 318 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 256 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 195 (3.06%) Master's Degree
8 193 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 97 (1.52%) PhD
12 81 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 47 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
17 37 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 25 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 495 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.19%) QA
3 151 (2.37%) GDPR
4 100 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.13%) NIST
6 63 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 30 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 22 (0.35%) PMO
10 22 (0.35%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.30%) GRC
14 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.19%) NCSC
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 754 (11.84%) Docker
2 116 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 62 (0.97%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 27 (0.42%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 3 (0.047%) Xen
Systems Management
1 921 (14.46%) Terraform
2 737 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 396 (6.22%) Ansible
4 243 (3.81%) Grafana
5 154 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.82%) Argo
7 49 (0.77%) Puppet
8 45 (0.71%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 33 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.46%) Istio
12 29 (0.46%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 17 (0.27%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,409 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 435 (6.83%) Databricks
3 199 (3.12%) Google
4 155 (2.43%) Splunk
5 143 (2.24%) Oracle
5 143 (2.24%) VMware
6 122 (1.92%) Cisco
7 116 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 114 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 75 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 61 (0.96%) Foundry
11 57 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
12 48 (0.75%) SolarWinds
13 42 (0.66%) F5
14 40 (0.63%) Dynatrace
14 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.63%) SAP
15 36 (0.57%) Typelevel
16 33 (0.52%) Palantir