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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,165 5,163 7,843
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.18% 12.45% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 40.16% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 2,917 5,915
10th Percentile £38,615 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,375 £130,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,761 12,855 28,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 30.99% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 8,699 22,705
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £85,000 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -2 2,458 £85,000 -5.56% 1,734
North of England -11 1,250 £65,000 - 444
South East +4 923 £60,000 - 636
Midlands +21 618 £60,000 +9.09% 207
North West -15 585 £65,000 - 240
South West +6 551 £60,000 +4.35% 275
Yorkshire +14 454 £65,000 - 129
West Midlands +14 318 £62,500 +5.49% 106
East Midlands +31 300 £55,000 - 101
East of England -7 292 £70,000 +5.73% 220
North East +19 211 £59,000 -1.67% 78
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
1 224 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 210 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 160 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) Appian
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Camunda
17 2 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 920 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.28%) Simulink
7 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,655 (43.07%) Azure
2 1,951 (31.65%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.35%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.58%) Azure AI
5 723 (11.73%) GCP
6 400 (6.49%) GitHub
7 349 (5.66%) Serverless
8 240 (3.89%) Amazon S3
8 240 (3.89%) SaaS
9 222 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
10 213 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (3.03%) Snowflake
12 177 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 175 (2.84%) dbt
14 171 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
15 156 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 149 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 114 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
19 113 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 241 (3.91%) Firewall
2 187 (3.03%) Broadband
3 144 (2.34%) VPN
4 130 (2.11%) DNS
5 115 (1.87%) Network Security
6 100 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 100 (1.62%) WAN
7 84 (1.36%) LAN
8 83 (1.35%) Wireless
9 78 (1.27%) Internet
10 64 (1.04%) BGP
11 58 (0.94%) VLAN
12 53 (0.86%) HTTP
13 51 (0.83%) SD-WAN
14 47 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 39 (0.63%) DHCP
17 34 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (0.55%) MQTT
18 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.38%) Power BI
2 987 (16.01%) Tableau
3 291 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 251 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 185 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 165 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.22%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 100 (1.62%) Big Data
14 98 (1.59%) MySQL
15 91 (1.48%) Metadata
16 74 (1.20%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.07%) Data Mining
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 624 (10.12%) Git
2 278 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 248 (4.02%) GitLab
4 154 (2.50%) JIRA
5 81 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.92%) MLflow
7 55 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.83%) Claude Code
9 39 (0.63%) Selenium
10 38 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 32 (0.52%) Subversion
13 27 (0.44%) Postman
14 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.32%) Eclipse
16 20 (0.32%) JMeter
16 20 (0.32%) JUnit
16 20 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 2,170 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 1,210 (19.63%) Finance
3 808 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (4.38%) Banking
4 270 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 222 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 193 (3.13%) Retail
7 154 (2.50%) Law
8 133 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 128 (2.08%) Front Office
10 101 (1.64%) Legal
11 89 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 88 (1.43%) Marketing
13 76 (1.23%) Electronics
14 72 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 67 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 65 (1.05%) Multimedia
17 63 (1.02%) Games
17 63 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
18 59 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,139 (18.48%) Analyst
2 1,097 (17.79%) Senior
3 966 (15.67%) Data Analyst
4 902 (14.63%) Developer
5 812 (13.17%) Junior
6 760 (12.33%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.31%) Junior Data Analyst
8 713 (11.57%) Software Engineer
9 584 (9.47%) Data Engineer
10 560 (9.08%) Python Engineer
11 527 (8.55%) Lead
12 456 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 377 (6.12%) Python Developer
14 262 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
15 202 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 195 (3.16%) Architect
16 195 (3.16%) Data Scientist
17 183 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
18 175 (2.84%) Senior Developer
19 171 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.33%) React
2 265 (4.30%) Kafka
3 237 (3.84%) Node.js
4 218 (3.54%) PySpark
5 216 (3.50%) REST
6 208 (3.37%) .NET
7 198 (3.21%) RESTful
8 191 (3.10%) HTML
9 182 (2.95%) FastAPI
10 180 (2.92%) Django
11 176 (2.85%) CSS
12 172 (2.79%) PyTorch
13 153 (2.48%) Pandas
14 146 (2.37%) TensorFlow
15 143 (2.32%) LangChain
16 130 (2.11%) Flask
17 121 (1.96%) scikit-learn
18 105 (1.70%) Vue
19 104 (1.69%) NumPy
20 101 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 498 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 301 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 163 (2.64%) AI Agents
6 140 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 135 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 92 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 88 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 82 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 81 (1.31%) Equities
14 78 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 77 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 72 (1.17%) Hedge funds
17 69 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 68 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
19 64 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 671 (10.88%) Linux
2 281 (4.56%) Windows
3 88 (1.43%) Unix
4 85 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.68%) CentOS
7 39 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Debian
9 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.097%) Rocky
17 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,588 (41.98%) AI
2 1,419 (23.02%) CI/CD
3 1,400 (22.71%) Software Engineering
4 1,237 (20.06%) Business Intelligence
5 1,074 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
6 1,047 (16.98%) Agile
7 993 (16.11%) Analytics
7 993 (16.11%) DevOps
8 865 (14.03%) Machine Learning
9 838 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 732 (11.87%) Mentoring
11 632 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
12 623 (10.11%) Data Engineering
13 618 (10.02%) Data Modelling
14 592 (9.60%) Data Science
15 560 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 556 (9.02%) Containerisation
17 551 (8.94%) Computer Science
18 547 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
19 530 (8.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,336 (37.89%) SQL
2 718 (11.65%) Java
3 646 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 507 (8.22%) PowerShell
5 486 (7.88%) C++
6 483 (7.83%) Bash
7 408 (6.62%) C#
8 383 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 284 (4.61%) Go
10 172 (2.79%) C
11 167 (2.71%) R
12 118 (1.91%) Scala
13 96 (1.56%) Rust
14 92 (1.49%) PHP
15 83 (1.35%) Bicep
16 64 (1.04%) MATLAB
17 57 (0.92%) VBA
18 56 (0.91%) Perl
19 50 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,210 (19.63%) Azure Certification
2 789 (12.80%) Degree
3 687 (11.14%) Security Cleared
4 397 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 295 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 216 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.42%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 127 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 124 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (1.39%) PhD
12 77 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.92%) CCNP
14 52 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 45 (0.73%) OSCP
16 36 (0.58%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 32 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 27 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 26 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 249 (4.04%) QA
3 131 (2.12%) GDPR
4 85 (1.38%) NIST
5 75 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 71 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.37%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 18 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.19%) WCAG
14 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 680 (11.03%) Docker
2 108 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 105 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.97%) Firmware
5 42 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 25 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.19%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.065%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 873 (14.16%) Terraform
2 686 (11.13%) Kubernetes
3 376 (6.10%) Ansible
4 230 (3.73%) Grafana
5 173 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.05%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 39 (0.63%) Puppet
9 34 (0.55%) Kibana
10 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.44%) Istio
11 27 (0.44%) Packer
12 24 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
16 17 (0.28%) Podman
17 16 (0.26%) logstash
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
18 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,542 (25.01%) Microsoft
2 370 (6.00%) Databricks
3 201 (3.26%) Google
4 139 (2.25%) VMware
5 131 (2.12%) Oracle
6 130 (2.11%) Splunk
7 118 (1.91%) Cisco
8 101 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 100 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.04%) Foundry
11 61 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 58 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 52 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
16 41 (0.67%) SAP
17 40 (0.65%) F5
18 37 (0.60%) Palantir
19 36 (0.58%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.52%) Arista