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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,694 4,496 6,995
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.60% 12.25% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.44% 36.42% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 3,210 5,468
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,125
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 £92,000
90th Percentile £103,300 £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 13,416 12,346 26,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.91% 33.64% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,511 9,339 22,443
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 12 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 12 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 0 2,281 £85,000 -5.56% 1,152
North of England -4 1,103 £50,000 -23.08% 475
South East -5 813 £60,000 -7.69% 576
Midlands +9 613 £55,000 - 255
South West +3 504 £57,500 -4.17% 280
Yorkshire +16 492 £49,000 -23.44% 164
North West -11 456 £57,500 -11.54% 230
West Midlands +30 372 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -16 319 £55,000 -16.94% 219
East Midlands +1 242 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 155 £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
1 208 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.35%) Apache
4 70 (1.23%) WordPress
5 62 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 37 (0.65%) Confluence
7 32 (0.56%) SAS
8 30 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 25 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.28%) Appian
12 14 (0.25%) IIS
13 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.16%) nginx
15 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.088%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.088%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.070%) CMS
17 4 (0.070%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.070%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1,156 (20.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 50 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 5 (0.088%) CATIA
9 4 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.070%) Windchill
10 3 (0.053%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.035%) Weka
12 1 (0.018%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.018%) Houdini
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) NUKE
12 1 (0.018%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Shopify
3 5 (0.088%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.088%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.070%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.053%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.053%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.035%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.035%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.035%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.035%) Line 50
6 2 (0.035%) Magento
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%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.018%) Primavera
7 1 (0.018%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,685 (47.15%) Azure
2 1,806 (31.72%) AWS
3 1,342 (23.57%) Power Platform
4 1,125 (19.76%) Azure AI
5 618 (10.85%) GCP
6 582 (10.22%) GitHub
7 298 (5.23%) Serverless
8 217 (3.81%) SaaS
9 207 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 190 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 189 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 165 (2.90%) dbt
14 162 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 159 (2.79%) Snowflake
16 129 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 116 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
19 98 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
20 93 (1.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.41%) Internet
2 191 (3.35%) Firewall
3 138 (2.42%) Broadband
4 108 (1.90%) VPN
5 106 (1.86%) DNS
6 103 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 80 (1.40%) Network Security
8 77 (1.35%) WAN
9 71 (1.25%) LAN
10 69 (1.21%) Wireless
11 67 (1.18%) BGP
12 59 (1.04%) VLAN
13 50 (0.88%) HTTP
14 46 (0.81%) OSPF
15 42 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.65%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.60%) DHCP
19 32 (0.56%) MPLS
20 30 (0.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,300 (22.83%) Power BI
2 1,252 (21.99%) Tableau
3 270 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 171 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 154 (2.70%) Data Mining
8 150 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.02%) BigQuery
11 113 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 100 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 97 (1.70%) Big Data
15 84 (1.48%) Metadata
16 78 (1.37%) MySQL
17 70 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (0.90%) Delta Lake
19 49 (0.86%) Looker
20 48 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 677 (11.89%) Git
2 222 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 187 (3.28%) GitLab
4 109 (1.91%) JIRA
5 65 (1.14%) MLflow
6 64 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 52 (0.91%) Selenium
8 44 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 39 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 36 (0.63%) Postman
11 25 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
12 22 (0.39%) JUnit
13 21 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.35%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.35%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.35%) Jaeger
15 19 (0.33%) JMeter
16 18 (0.32%) Claude Code
17 17 (0.30%) Subversion
17 17 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 2,145 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 1,176 (20.65%) Finance
3 828 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (4.55%) Banking
5 237 (4.16%) Multimedia
6 228 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 216 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 178 (3.13%) Retail
9 169 (2.97%) Law
10 152 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.34%) Front Office
12 111 (1.95%) Marketing
13 105 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.56%) Legal
15 79 (1.39%) Electronics
16 74 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 55 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 44 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
20 43 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,356 (23.81%) Analyst
2 1,179 (20.71%) Data Analyst
3 936 (16.44%) Junior
4 900 (15.81%) Junior Analyst
4 900 (15.81%) Junior Data Analyst
5 892 (15.67%) Developer
6 809 (14.21%) Senior
7 506 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 493 (8.66%) Software Engineer
9 439 (7.71%) Lead
10 420 (7.38%) Trainee
11 380 (6.67%) Python Engineer
12 368 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 285 (5.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 218 (3.83%) Software Developer
15 166 (2.92%) Python Software Engineer
16 158 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
17 157 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
17 157 (2.76%) Senior Developer
18 156 (2.74%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.85%) HTML
2 384 (6.74%) React
3 342 (6.01%) CSS
4 242 (4.25%) Kafka
5 206 (3.62%) REST
6 201 (3.53%) Django
7 198 (3.48%) Node.js
8 195 (3.42%) PySpark
9 178 (3.13%) RESTful
10 162 (2.85%) PyTorch
11 153 (2.69%) Pandas
12 149 (2.62%) .NET
13 139 (2.44%) FastAPI
14 136 (2.39%) TensorFlow
15 132 (2.32%) Flask
16 130 (2.28%) scikit-learn
17 108 (1.90%) JSON
18 98 (1.72%) NumPy
19 91 (1.60%) LangChain
20 89 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 300 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 261 (4.58%) Algorithms
3 226 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 96 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 93 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 90 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 87 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 86 (1.51%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 82 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 81 (1.42%) Equities
15 79 (1.39%) AI Agents
15 79 (1.39%) Hedge funds
16 76 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
17 75 (1.32%) Security Posture
18 72 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
19 62 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 553 (9.71%) Linux
2 224 (3.93%) Windows
3 159 (2.79%) Unix
4 67 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.72%) CentOS
7 30 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.23%) Debian
10 12 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.18%) Android
12 10 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.12%) Solaris
13 7 (0.12%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.11%) VMS
15 5 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.070%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.053%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,252 (39.55%) AI
2 1,407 (24.71%) Business Intelligence
3 1,159 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 1,003 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 966 (16.97%) Software Engineering
6 949 (16.67%) Analytics
7 919 (16.14%) Agile
8 875 (15.37%) DevOps
9 735 (12.91%) Mentoring
10 688 (12.08%) Machine Learning
11 617 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 574 (10.08%) Data Modelling
13 551 (9.68%) Data Science
14 543 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
15 541 (9.50%) ETL
16 535 (9.40%) Data Engineering
17 515 (9.04%) Computer Science
18 508 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 494 (8.68%) Containerisation
20 419 (7.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,381 (41.82%) SQL
2 788 (13.84%) JavaScript
3 640 (11.24%) Java
4 422 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 411 (7.22%) Bash
6 341 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 307 (5.39%) C#
8 298 (5.23%) C++
9 282 (4.95%) Go
10 249 (4.37%) R
11 145 (2.55%) C
12 112 (1.97%) Scala
13 71 (1.25%) Rust
14 69 (1.21%) VBA
15 62 (1.09%) PHP
16 50 (0.88%) Bicep
17 41 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 41 (0.72%) Perl
18 36 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 31 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,402 (24.62%) Azure Certification
2 791 (13.89%) Degree
3 466 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 389 (6.83%) AWS Certification
5 292 (5.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 285 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 281 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 266 (4.67%) SC Cleared
9 171 (3.00%) DV Cleared
10 137 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.51%) PhD
12 71 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.07%) CCNP
14 48 (0.84%) OSCP
15 47 (0.83%) CISSP
16 39 (0.68%) DBS Check
17 37 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.58%) CREST Certified
18 33 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
19 27 (0.47%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 222 (3.90%) QA
3 131 (2.30%) GDPR
4 109 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (1.91%) NIST
5 65 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 49 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 38 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 37 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 25 (0.44%) PMO
10 22 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.39%) GRC
10 22 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.37%) SLA
12 15 (0.26%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.14%) WCAG
14 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
14 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 592 (10.40%) Docker
2 101 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.72%) Firmware
5 34 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.28%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.12%) Lustre
11 7 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.088%) iptables
13 5 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.053%) HDFS
15 3 (0.053%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 686 (12.05%) Terraform
2 616 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 337 (5.92%) Ansible
4 187 (3.28%) Grafana
5 149 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.09%) Argo
7 28 (0.49%) Nagios
8 26 (0.46%) Puppet
9 25 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.33%) Istio
10 19 (0.33%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.32%) Kibana
12 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.23%) Rancher
13 12 (0.21%) logstash
13 12 (0.21%) Nessus
14 11 (0.19%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 11 (0.19%) SCCM
14 11 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,835 (32.23%) Microsoft
2 312 (5.48%) Databricks
3 207 (3.64%) Google
4 133 (2.34%) Oracle
5 124 (2.18%) Cisco
6 117 (2.05%) VMware
7 102 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 75 (1.32%) Splunk
9 72 (1.26%) SAP
10 64 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 54 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 50 (0.88%) Informatica
13 49 (0.86%) Foundry
14 48 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 46 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 45 (0.79%) Typelevel
17 43 (0.76%) Talend
18 41 (0.72%) Palantir
19 39 (0.68%) Dell