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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,398 4,446 6,826
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.67% 12.16% 8.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.40% 35.64% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,254 3,221 5,406
10th Percentile £32,838 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 12,732 12,474 26,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 34.13% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,123 9,319 22,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,630 £47,683 £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 £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 1 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 1 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 2,260 £85,000 -5.56% 1,152
North of England -3 1,012 £47,500 -26.92% 475
South East -7 750 £60,000 -7.69% 576
Midlands +6 550 £55,200 +0.36% 255
South West +4 466 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +14 450 £47,000 -26.56% 164
North West -8 416 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +21 339 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -18 295 £50,000 -24.50% 219
East Midlands -3 212 £55,000 - 125
North East +19 146 £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
1 204 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 182 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 129 (2.39%) Apache
4 68 (1.26%) WordPress
5 62 (1.15%) Jupyter
6 35 (0.65%) Confluence
7 32 (0.59%) SAS
7 32 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.31%) Appian
11 14 (0.26%) IIS
12 12 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.093%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.093%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.093%) WebSphere Application Server
16 4 (0.074%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.074%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,083 (20.06%) 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 5 (0.093%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) CATIA
8 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.074%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.074%) Windchill
9 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.037%) Weka
10 1 (0.019%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.019%) Houdini
10 1 (0.019%) Notion
10 1 (0.019%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.093%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.093%) Shopify
3 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.056%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.056%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.037%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.037%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.019%) Actimize
6 1 (0.019%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.019%) Endur
6 1 (0.019%) Findur
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.019%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.019%) Primavera
6 1 (0.019%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,492 (46.17%) Azure
2 1,788 (33.12%) AWS
3 1,248 (23.12%) Power Platform
4 936 (17.34%) Azure AI
5 602 (11.15%) GitHub
6 598 (11.08%) GCP
7 286 (5.30%) Serverless
8 205 (3.80%) SaaS
9 204 (3.78%) Amazon S3
10 185 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 181 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 172 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (3.09%) dbt
14 161 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 161 (2.98%) Snowflake
15 123 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 120 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 106 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
18 94 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
19 89 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.04%) Internet
2 186 (3.45%) Firewall
3 140 (2.59%) Broadband
4 108 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 102 (1.89%) VPN
6 96 (1.78%) DNS
7 75 (1.39%) Network Security
8 72 (1.33%) WAN
9 69 (1.28%) LAN
10 63 (1.17%) BGP
10 63 (1.17%) Wireless
11 58 (1.07%) VLAN
12 50 (0.93%) HTTP
13 44 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
14 43 (0.80%) OSPF
15 39 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
16 33 (0.61%) MPLS
16 33 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 31 (0.57%) Wireshark
18 29 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,209 (22.40%) Power BI
2 1,179 (21.84%) Tableau
3 266 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.13%) Data Mining
6 169 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 145 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 139 (2.58%) Data Lake
9 117 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 112 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 109 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 95 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 90 (1.67%) Big Data
14 85 (1.57%) Metadata
15 79 (1.46%) MySQL
16 71 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
17 50 (0.93%) Looker
18 49 (0.91%) Delta Lake
19 47 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 680 (12.60%) Git
2 218 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 182 (3.37%) GitLab
4 111 (2.06%) JIRA
5 65 (1.20%) MLflow
6 59 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 55 (1.02%) Selenium
8 40 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 37 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 37 (0.69%) Postman
10 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
11 24 (0.44%) JUnit
12 22 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 21 (0.39%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.37%) Cypress.io
15 19 (0.35%) JMeter
15 19 (0.35%) LabVIEW
15 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
16 17 (0.31%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 1,945 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 1,180 (21.86%) Finance
3 838 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (5.02%) Banking
5 260 (4.82%) Multimedia
6 218 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 206 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 172 (3.19%) Retail
9 166 (3.08%) Law
10 151 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.52%) Front Office
12 119 (2.20%) Marketing
13 108 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.59%) Legal
15 75 (1.39%) Electronics
16 72 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.28%) Financial Institution
18 61 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 43 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
20 41 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,283 (23.77%) Analyst
2 1,104 (20.45%) Data Analyst
3 880 (16.30%) Developer
4 839 (15.54%) Junior
5 805 (14.91%) Junior Analyst
5 805 (14.91%) Junior Data Analyst
6 774 (14.34%) Senior
7 483 (8.95%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.43%) Trainee
9 449 (8.32%) Software Engineer
10 415 (7.69%) Lead
11 354 (6.56%) Python Developer
12 342 (6.34%) Python Engineer
13 225 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 187 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 159 (2.95%) Architect
16 156 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 153 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
18 149 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
19 147 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (7.58%) HTML
2 379 (7.02%) React
3 362 (6.71%) CSS
4 235 (4.35%) Kafka
5 209 (3.87%) Node.js
6 206 (3.82%) Django
7 199 (3.69%) REST
8 179 (3.32%) PySpark
9 170 (3.15%) RESTful
10 161 (2.98%) PyTorch
11 146 (2.70%) Pandas
12 145 (2.69%) .NET
13 139 (2.58%) FastAPI
14 138 (2.56%) TensorFlow
15 130 (2.41%) Flask
16 128 (2.37%) scikit-learn
17 103 (1.91%) JSON
18 95 (1.76%) NumPy
19 88 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
20 85 (1.57%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 285 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 253 (4.69%) Algorithms
3 217 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 118 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 105 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 103 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 88 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.61%) Equities
9 87 (1.61%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 83 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 80 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 79 (1.46%) Hedge funds
14 75 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 72 (1.33%) AI Agents
15 72 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
15 72 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
16 67 (1.24%) Security Posture
17 65 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 551 (10.21%) Linux
2 219 (4.06%) Windows
3 174 (3.22%) Unix
4 67 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.74%) CentOS
7 29 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Android
11 8 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Solaris
12 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.074%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.056%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.056%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,038 (37.75%) AI
2 1,318 (24.42%) Business Intelligence
3 1,131 (20.95%) CI/CD
4 992 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
5 950 (17.60%) Analytics
6 898 (16.64%) Agile
7 896 (16.60%) Software Engineering
8 849 (15.73%) DevOps
9 732 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 693 (12.84%) Machine Learning
11 583 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 562 (10.41%) Data Modelling
13 550 (10.19%) Data Science
14 532 (9.86%) ETL
15 528 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
16 507 (9.39%) Data Engineering
17 495 (9.17%) Computer Science
18 489 (9.06%) Containerisation
19 487 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
20 431 (7.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,286 (42.35%) SQL
2 803 (14.88%) JavaScript
3 610 (11.30%) Java
4 403 (7.47%) Bash
5 397 (7.35%) PowerShell
6 329 (6.09%) TypeScript
7 287 (5.32%) C#
8 273 (5.06%) C++
9 272 (5.04%) Go
10 262 (4.85%) R
11 138 (2.56%) C
12 110 (2.04%) Scala
13 72 (1.33%) Rust
14 70 (1.30%) VBA
15 66 (1.22%) PHP
16 45 (0.83%) Bicep
17 42 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 41 (0.76%) Perl
19 37 (0.69%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,231 (22.80%) Azure Certification
2 778 (14.41%) Degree
3 446 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 410 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 313 (5.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 305 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 263 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 254 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 168 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 129 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.63%) PhD
12 67 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.04%) CCNP
14 51 (0.94%) CISSP
15 45 (0.83%) OSCP
16 41 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.57%) DBS Check
19 27 (0.50%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 208 (3.85%) QA
3 125 (2.32%) GDPR
4 114 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.00%) NIST
6 64 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.46%) PMO
10 21 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.37%) GRC
11 20 (0.37%) SLA
12 17 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.15%) WCAG
15 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 585 (10.84%) Docker
2 93 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.67%) Firmware
5 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.093%) iptables
12 5 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.093%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.056%) HDFS
14 3 (0.056%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 653 (12.10%) Terraform
2 600 (11.12%) Kubernetes
3 329 (6.09%) Ansible
4 176 (3.26%) Grafana
5 146 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.15%) Argo
7 28 (0.52%) Nagios
8 23 (0.43%) Puppet
9 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.33%) Istio
12 16 (0.30%) Kibana
13 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.22%) Nessus
13 12 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 10 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,751 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 302 (5.59%) Databricks
3 207 (3.83%) Google
4 137 (2.54%) Oracle
5 120 (2.22%) Cisco
6 117 (2.17%) VMware
7 99 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.39%) SAP
9 73 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 69 (1.28%) Splunk
11 64 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 49 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 49 (0.91%) Informatica
14 46 (0.85%) Foundry
15 45 (0.83%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 41 (0.76%) Dell
17 41 (0.76%) Talend
18 39 (0.72%) Palantir