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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,114 5,052 7,384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.35% 13.06% 8.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.89% 40.61% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,596 2,841 5,639
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,375 £125,000 £122,500
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 14,953 12,439 27,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 32.15% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 8,439 22,585
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 30 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 30 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 2,423 £85,000 -5.56% 592
North of England -11 1,249 £60,000 -7.69% 336
South East +3 894 £62,250 -0.40% 471
Midlands +17 650 £55,000 - 147
North West -27 561 £65,000 - 177
South West +7 525 £57,500 +0.10% 143
Yorkshire +18 494 £52,500 -18.60% 98
West Midlands +8 356 £60,000 +9.09% 66
East of England +2 310 £63,750 -3.72% 120
East Midlands +32 294 £55,000 +20.88% 80
North East +19 194 £52,500 -19.23% 64
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
1 220 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 152 (2.49%) Apache
4 76 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.88%) WordPress
6 46 (0.75%) Confluence
7 34 (0.56%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 10 (0.16%) Appian
13 6 (0.098%) nginx
13 6 (0.098%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,041 (17.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.033%) Blender
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Maya
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.065%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
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%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) FastStats
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,763 (45.19%) Azure
2 1,888 (30.88%) AWS
3 1,298 (21.23%) Power Platform
4 1,174 (19.20%) Azure AI
5 665 (10.88%) GCP
6 462 (7.56%) GitHub
7 324 (5.30%) Serverless
8 237 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.78%) SaaS
10 222 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
11 201 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.93%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.72%) dbt
14 165 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 150 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 142 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 103 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (3.78%) Firewall
2 180 (2.94%) Broadband
3 152 (2.49%) Internet
4 128 (2.09%) VPN
5 124 (2.03%) DNS
6 105 (1.72%) Network Security
7 99 (1.62%) TCP/IP
8 97 (1.59%) WAN
9 83 (1.36%) LAN
10 76 (1.24%) Wireless
11 66 (1.08%) BGP
12 56 (0.92%) HTTP
13 53 (0.87%) VLAN
14 48 (0.79%) OSPF
14 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 38 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (0.51%) DHCP
18 30 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,237 (20.23%) Power BI
2 1,120 (18.32%) Tableau
3 294 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 164 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 142 (2.32%) BigQuery
9 141 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 121 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 117 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 116 (1.90%) Big Data
13 112 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 102 (1.67%) Data Mining
15 91 (1.49%) Metadata
16 79 (1.29%) MySQL
17 71 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.08%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
20 53 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 662 (10.83%) Git
2 254 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 229 (3.75%) GitLab
4 132 (2.16%) JIRA
5 80 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.01%) MLflow
7 47 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.62%) Selenium
9 34 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.49%) Postman
11 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.36%) Subversion
14 21 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 18 (0.29%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 2,227 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 1,204 (19.69%) Finance
3 839 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 258 (4.22%) Banking
6 215 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 183 (2.99%) Retail
8 161 (2.63%) Law
9 136 (2.22%) Multimedia
10 131 (2.14%) Front Office
10 131 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 105 (1.72%) Legal
12 101 (1.65%) Marketing
13 90 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.31%) Electronics
15 68 (1.11%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 59 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 54 (0.88%) Investment Banking
18 53 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,250 (20.44%) Analyst
2 1,073 (17.55%) Data Analyst
3 992 (16.23%) Senior
4 929 (15.19%) Developer
5 896 (14.65%) Junior
6 853 (13.95%) Junior Analyst
6 853 (13.95%) Junior Data Analyst
7 632 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 554 (9.06%) Data Engineer
9 498 (8.15%) Lead
10 493 (8.06%) Python Engineer
11 430 (7.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 392 (6.41%) Python Developer
13 270 (4.42%) Trainee
14 224 (3.66%) Python Software Engineer
15 197 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 184 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
17 180 (2.94%) Architect
18 178 (2.91%) Data Scientist
19 176 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (6.13%) React
2 268 (4.38%) HTML
3 261 (4.27%) Kafka
4 249 (4.07%) CSS
5 230 (3.76%) PySpark
6 215 (3.52%) Node.js
7 211 (3.45%) REST
8 200 (3.27%) .NET
9 181 (2.96%) RESTful
10 172 (2.81%) Django
11 166 (2.72%) PyTorch
12 159 (2.60%) FastAPI
12 159 (2.60%) Pandas
13 145 (2.37%) TensorFlow
14 123 (2.01%) scikit-learn
15 122 (2.00%) Flask
16 118 (1.93%) LangChain
17 107 (1.75%) NumPy
18 98 (1.60%) JSON
19 87 (1.42%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 403 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.32%) Algorithms
3 275 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 102 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
10 92 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 89 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 82 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 81 (1.32%) Hedge funds
13 81 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 80 (1.31%) Equities
15 74 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
16 71 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
17 64 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 624 (10.21%) Linux
2 267 (4.37%) Windows
3 100 (1.64%) Unix
4 79 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 33 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,529 (41.36%) AI
2 1,345 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1,323 (21.64%) CI/CD
4 1,230 (20.12%) Software Engineering
5 1,011 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
6 998 (16.32%) Agile
7 994 (16.26%) Analytics
8 965 (15.78%) DevOps
9 832 (13.61%) Machine Learning
10 750 (12.27%) Mentoring
11 742 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 628 (10.27%) Data Modelling
13 609 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
14 601 (9.83%) Data Engineering
15 593 (9.70%) Data Science
16 548 (8.96%) ETL
17 544 (8.90%) Computer Science
18 519 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 507 (8.29%) Containerisation
20 494 (8.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,417 (39.53%) SQL
2 698 (11.42%) JavaScript
3 667 (10.91%) Java
4 479 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 457 (7.47%) Bash
6 423 (6.92%) C++
7 391 (6.40%) C#
8 371 (6.07%) TypeScript
9 278 (4.55%) Go
10 211 (3.45%) R
11 164 (2.68%) C
12 126 (2.06%) Scala
13 85 (1.39%) Rust
14 74 (1.21%) PHP
15 62 (1.01%) VBA
16 59 (0.96%) Bicep
17 52 (0.85%) MATLAB
18 47 (0.77%) Perl
19 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,369 (22.39%) Azure Certification
2 785 (12.84%) Degree
3 588 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 349 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 286 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 281 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 193 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 192 (3.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 190 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 157 (2.57%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.47%) PhD
12 82 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.11%) CCNP
14 51 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 50 (0.82%) OSCP
16 40 (0.65%) CISSP
17 35 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.47%) CCIE
20 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 232 (3.79%) QA
3 122 (2.00%) GDPR
4 94 (1.54%) NIST
5 80 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.43%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.31%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 609 (9.96%) Docker
2 108 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.95%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.47%) KVM
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.11%) Squid
14 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Lustre
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 791 (12.94%) Terraform
2 630 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 352 (5.76%) Ansible
4 205 (3.35%) Grafana
5 166 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.00%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 26 (0.43%) Kibana
10 22 (0.36%) Istio
10 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 20 (0.33%) Packer
11 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
16 13 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,732 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 342 (5.59%) Databricks
3 208 (3.40%) Google
4 130 (2.13%) Oracle
5 128 (2.09%) VMware
6 127 (2.08%) Cisco
7 112 (1.83%) Splunk
8 99 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 98 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 58 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 56 (0.92%) Foundry
12 55 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 54 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 52 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 50 (0.82%) SAP
16 46 (0.75%) Fortinet
17 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
18 42 (0.69%) F5
19 38 (0.62%) Palantir
20 37 (0.61%) Informatica