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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,006 4,779 7,177
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.47% 12.58% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.85% 38.23% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,432 3,130 5,576
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,939 £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 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £122,500
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 14,017 12,502 27,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.43% 32.91% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,833 9,191 22,483
10th Percentile £35,850 £36,750 £35,150
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £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 May 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 May 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 2,348 £85,000 -5.56% 1,304
North of England -16 1,193 £55,000 -15.38% 509
South East -2 884 £60,000 -7.69% 588
Midlands +13 669 £55,000 - 226
Yorkshire +16 534 £50,000 -23.08% 158
South West +6 523 £57,500 - 201
North West -21 495 £61,250 -5.77% 268
West Midlands +24 384 £60,000 +9.09% 113
East of England -14 324 £60,000 -9.39% 204
East Midlands +18 285 £55,000 - 113
North East +17 164 £46,500 -28.46% 85
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
1 212 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 185 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.16%) Apache
4 65 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 13 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.100%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.083%) CMS
16 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
18 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,221 (20.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.067%) CATIA
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.033%) Windchill
11 1 (0.017%) Notion
11 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
3 4 (0.067%) Shopify
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,867 (47.74%) Azure
2 1,805 (30.05%) AWS
3 1,440 (23.98%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.89%) Azure AI
5 624 (10.39%) GCP
6 533 (8.87%) GitHub
7 291 (4.85%) Serverless
8 228 (3.80%) SaaS
9 209 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 206 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 184 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 172 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 161 (2.68%) dbt
15 160 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 130 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
17 128 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 122 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 94 (1.57%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (3.48%) Internet
2 203 (3.38%) Firewall
3 151 (2.51%) Broadband
4 123 (2.05%) DNS
5 113 (1.88%) VPN
6 92 (1.53%) Network Security
7 91 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 80 (1.33%) WAN
9 73 (1.22%) LAN
10 66 (1.10%) BGP
11 65 (1.08%) Wireless
12 55 (0.92%) HTTP
13 52 (0.87%) VLAN
14 47 (0.78%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
16 36 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 30 (0.50%) MPLS
19 29 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,393 (23.19%) Power BI
2 1,306 (21.74%) Tableau
3 270 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.21%) Data Mining
10 123 (2.05%) BigQuery
11 118 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 110 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 106 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.53%) Big Data
15 91 (1.52%) Metadata
16 79 (1.32%) MySQL
17 64 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
18 55 (0.92%) DynamoDB
18 55 (0.92%) Spark SQL
19 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 658 (10.96%) Git
2 242 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 214 (3.56%) GitLab
4 110 (1.83%) JIRA
5 78 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.05%) MLflow
7 54 (0.90%) Selenium
8 44 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.62%) Postman
11 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.33%) JUnit
15 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
16 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,332 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 1,161 (19.33%) Finance
3 801 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (4.23%) Banking
5 247 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 194 (3.23%) Multimedia
8 177 (2.95%) Retail
9 158 (2.63%) Law
10 147 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.20%) Front Office
12 101 (1.68%) Marketing
13 96 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.48%) Legal
15 75 (1.25%) Electronics
16 67 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 55 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
20 43 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,425 (23.73%) Analyst
2 1,243 (20.70%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.22%) Junior
4 994 (16.55%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.55%) Junior Data Analyst
5 907 (15.10%) Developer
6 862 (14.35%) Senior
7 553 (9.21%) Software Engineer
8 519 (8.64%) Data Engineer
9 480 (7.99%) Lead
10 443 (7.38%) Python Engineer
11 395 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 384 (6.39%) Python Developer
13 357 (5.94%) Trainee
14 209 (3.48%) Software Developer
15 195 (3.25%) Python Software Engineer
16 173 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
17 172 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
18 158 (2.63%) Senior Developer
19 156 (2.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.39%) React
2 330 (5.49%) HTML
3 291 (4.85%) CSS
4 242 (4.03%) Kafka
5 210 (3.50%) Node.js
6 204 (3.40%) PySpark
6 204 (3.40%) REST
7 188 (3.13%) Django
8 174 (2.90%) RESTful
9 166 (2.76%) Pandas
10 165 (2.75%) .NET
10 165 (2.75%) PyTorch
11 146 (2.43%) FastAPI
12 141 (2.35%) TensorFlow
13 129 (2.15%) scikit-learn
14 123 (2.05%) Flask
15 105 (1.75%) NumPy
16 100 (1.67%) JSON
16 100 (1.67%) LangChain
17 89 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 337 (5.61%) Cloud Native
2 292 (4.86%) Algorithms
3 239 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 124 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 102 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 91 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 87 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 86 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 84 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 81 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.30%) Equities
15 78 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
16 77 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
17 74 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 570 (9.49%) Linux
2 241 (4.01%) Windows
3 125 (2.08%) Unix
4 70 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.15%) Android
12 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.15%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.100%) Solaris
16 4 (0.067%) Rocky
16 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,502 (41.66%) AI
2 1,491 (24.83%) Business Intelligence
3 1,208 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 1,082 (18.02%) Software Engineering
5 963 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 941 (15.67%) Analytics
7 921 (15.33%) Agile
8 900 (14.99%) DevOps
9 727 (12.10%) Machine Learning
10 717 (11.94%) Mentoring
11 658 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 579 (9.64%) Data Modelling
13 565 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
14 562 (9.36%) Data Engineering
15 555 (9.24%) Data Science
16 545 (9.07%) ETL
17 529 (8.81%) Computer Science
18 521 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 492 (8.19%) Containerisation
20 453 (7.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,475 (41.21%) SQL
2 728 (12.12%) JavaScript
3 652 (10.86%) Java
4 440 (7.33%) PowerShell
5 431 (7.18%) Bash
6 364 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 338 (5.63%) C#
7 338 (5.63%) C++
8 282 (4.70%) Go
9 222 (3.70%) R
10 148 (2.46%) C
11 118 (1.96%) Scala
12 77 (1.28%) Rust
13 67 (1.12%) PHP
14 65 (1.08%) VBA
15 54 (0.90%) Bicep
16 42 (0.70%) Perl
17 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
19 32 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,557 (25.92%) Azure Certification
2 777 (12.94%) Degree
3 509 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 338 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 298 (4.96%) SC Cleared
6 279 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 250 (4.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 247 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 171 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 150 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.47%) PhD
12 76 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.07%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 47 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.85%) QA
3 124 (2.06%) GDPR
4 105 (1.75%) NIST
5 97 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.100%) Basel III
System Software
1 578 (9.62%) Docker
2 109 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 705 (11.74%) Terraform
2 611 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 338 (5.63%) Ansible
4 195 (3.25%) Grafana
5 152 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (0.50%) Nagios
9 29 (0.48%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.37%) Istio
12 20 (0.33%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Packer
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.22%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,898 (31.60%) Microsoft
2 320 (5.33%) Databricks
3 204 (3.40%) Google
4 133 (2.21%) Oracle
5 122 (2.03%) Cisco
6 120 (2.00%) VMware
7 105 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 95 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 59 (0.98%) SAP
11 56 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.83%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 48 (0.80%) Informatica
14 48 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.70%) SolarWinds
18 41 (0.68%) Palantir
19 40 (0.67%) Talend