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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,099 4,966 7,209
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 12.68% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.42% 38.92% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,492 3,135 5,588
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £48,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £126,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 14,377 12,760 27,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 32.58% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10,138 9,198 22,447
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 10 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 10 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 2,404 £85,000 -5.56% 1,314
North of England -15 1,223 £57,593 -11.40% 478
South East +1 888 £60,000 -7.69% 603
Midlands +17 661 £55,000 - 218
South West +7 532 £57,500 - 208
Yorkshire +15 528 £50,000 -23.08% 138
North West -26 519 £61,418 -5.51% 257
West Midlands +22 376 £60,000 +9.09% 104
East of England 0 325 £60,050 -9.31% 181
East Midlands +26 285 £55,000 - 114
North East +15 176 £48,445 -25.47% 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
1 217 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 189 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.23%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.93%) WordPress
6 42 (0.69%) Confluence
7 37 (0.61%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.082%) CMS
15 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.082%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,210 (19.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.016%) Notion
10 1 (0.016%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.016%) Trello
10 1 (0.016%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
6 1 (0.016%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,891 (47.40%) Azure
2 1,845 (30.25%) AWS
3 1,448 (23.74%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.56%) Azure AI
5 640 (10.49%) GCP
6 508 (8.33%) GitHub
7 305 (5.00%) Serverless
8 232 (3.80%) SaaS
9 219 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 216 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 193 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 181 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 175 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 164 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (2.67%) dbt
16 135 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 134 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
18 123 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 91 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
20 86 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (3.53%) Firewall
2 188 (3.08%) Internet
3 162 (2.66%) Broadband
4 127 (2.08%) DNS
5 120 (1.97%) VPN
6 100 (1.64%) Network Security
7 95 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.46%) WAN
9 80 (1.31%) LAN
10 71 (1.16%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 58 (0.95%) HTTP
13 50 (0.82%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 46 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 42 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 34 (0.56%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) MPLS
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,397 (22.91%) Power BI
2 1,286 (21.09%) Tableau
3 275 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 154 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 136 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 128 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 127 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 122 (2.00%) Data Mining
12 115 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 111 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (1.61%) Big Data
15 90 (1.48%) Metadata
16 77 (1.26%) MySQL
17 68 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (0.95%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 50 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 653 (10.71%) Git
2 242 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 219 (3.59%) GitLab
4 120 (1.97%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.05%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 48 (0.79%) Selenium
8 36 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 36 (0.59%) Postman
9 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 27 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
14 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.28%) JMeter
15 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,342 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 1,168 (19.15%) Finance
3 807 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (4.16%) Banking
5 253 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 212 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 174 (2.85%) Retail
8 173 (2.84%) Multimedia
9 162 (2.66%) Law
10 142 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 134 (2.20%) Front Office
12 103 (1.69%) Marketing
13 95 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 93 (1.52%) Legal
15 78 (1.28%) Electronics
16 67 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (0.98%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.89%) Financial Institution
18 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,410 (23.12%) Analyst
2 1,229 (20.15%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (16.92%) Junior
4 994 (16.30%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.30%) Junior Data Analyst
5 926 (15.18%) Developer
6 893 (14.64%) Senior
7 576 (9.44%) Software Engineer
8 537 (8.80%) Data Engineer
9 483 (7.92%) Lead
10 465 (7.62%) Python Engineer
11 403 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 394 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 326 (5.35%) Trainee
14 203 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
14 203 (3.33%) Software Developer
15 178 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
16 175 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
17 166 (2.72%) Architect
18 160 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (6.35%) React
2 316 (5.18%) HTML
3 281 (4.61%) CSS
4 254 (4.16%) Kafka
5 217 (3.56%) PySpark
6 210 (3.44%) Node.js
7 207 (3.39%) REST
8 184 (3.02%) RESTful
9 183 (3.00%) .NET
10 179 (2.93%) Django
11 165 (2.71%) Pandas
12 164 (2.69%) PyTorch
13 148 (2.43%) FastAPI
14 140 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.08%) scikit-learn
16 120 (1.97%) Flask
17 106 (1.74%) LangChain
18 105 (1.72%) NumPy
19 101 (1.66%) JSON
20 83 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 353 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 302 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 261 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 108 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 89 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 85 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
13 84 (1.38%) Fixed Income
14 81 (1.33%) Equities
14 81 (1.33%) Hedge funds
15 80 (1.31%) Security Posture
16 76 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 74 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
18 69 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 602 (9.87%) Linux
2 257 (4.21%) Windows
3 119 (1.95%) Unix
4 71 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 54 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 27 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.16%) Debian
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.098%) Solaris
15 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (41.92%) AI
2 1,494 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1,252 (20.53%) CI/CD
4 1,132 (18.56%) Software Engineering
5 963 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 953 (15.63%) Analytics
7 946 (15.51%) Agile
8 925 (15.17%) DevOps
9 751 (12.31%) Machine Learning
10 718 (11.77%) Mentoring
11 696 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 600 (9.84%) Data Modelling
13 583 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
14 567 (9.30%) Data Engineering
15 556 (9.12%) ETL
16 552 (9.05%) Data Science
17 533 (8.74%) Computer Science
18 521 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 489 (8.02%) Containerisation
20 483 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,499 (40.97%) SQL
2 718 (11.77%) JavaScript
3 663 (10.87%) Java
4 450 (7.38%) PowerShell
5 447 (7.33%) Bash
6 371 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 368 (6.03%) C++
8 350 (5.74%) C#
9 287 (4.71%) Go
10 215 (3.53%) R
11 161 (2.64%) C
12 120 (1.97%) Scala
13 79 (1.30%) Rust
14 68 (1.11%) PHP
15 64 (1.05%) VBA
16 56 (0.92%) Bicep
17 44 (0.72%) Perl
18 43 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 37 (0.61%) MATLAB
19 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,537 (25.20%) Azure Certification
2 776 (12.72%) Degree
3 547 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 322 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 315 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 281 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 229 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 228 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 184 (3.02%) DV Cleared
10 150 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.43%) PhD
12 81 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.13%) CCNP
14 50 (0.82%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) CISSP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 33 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 28 (0.46%) CCIE
18 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.79%) QA
3 127 (2.08%) GDPR
4 103 (1.69%) NIST
5 89 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.34%) GRC
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 7 (0.11%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 579 (9.49%) Docker
2 108 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 88 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.92%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.39%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
14 5 (0.082%) Lustre
14 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.082%) Squid
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 737 (12.08%) Terraform
2 617 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.79%) Ansible
4 197 (3.23%) Grafana
5 156 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.98%) Argo
7 33 (0.54%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Puppet
10 22 (0.36%) Istio
10 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 20 (0.33%) Kibana
12 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.26%) Packer
14 15 (0.25%) logstash
14 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
16 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,893 (31.04%) Microsoft
2 331 (5.43%) Databricks
3 205 (3.36%) Google
4 129 (2.12%) Cisco
4 129 (2.12%) Oracle
5 127 (2.08%) VMware
6 109 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 100 (1.64%) OpenAI
8 93 (1.52%) Splunk
9 57 (0.93%) SAP
10 55 (0.90%) Palo Alto
10 55 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 52 (0.85%) Foundry
12 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 48 (0.79%) SolarWinds
15 47 (0.77%) Informatica
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 41 (0.67%) F5
17 41 (0.67%) Palantir