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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,966 5,449 5,271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.55% 11.36% 10.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.82% 33.59% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,724 3,276 4,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +2.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,216 16,221 19,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.44% 33.81% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,522 15,997
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,275 £38,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 1,958 £85,000 - 1,017
North of England -8 647 £52,500 -16.00% 530
South East -36 428 £60,000 -7.69% 1,078
Midlands -13 366 £60,000 +9.09% 302
South West -4 314 £60,000 -7.69% 365
Yorkshire +12 299 £52,000 -20.00% 208
North West -13 267 £55,000 -8.33% 237
West Midlands +4 254 £60,000 +4.35% 116
East of England -13 204 £50,000 -28.57% 414
East Midlands -27 115 £62,500 +13.64% 181
North East 0 83 £40,000 -42.29% 86
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
1 168 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 123 (3.10%) Apache
4 42 (1.06%) Confluence
5 34 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
6 26 (0.66%) WordPress
7 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 21 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
11 17 (0.43%) Appian
12 16 (0.40%) nginx
12 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
13 11 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.18%) CMS
14 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.13%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.10%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 508 (12.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.18%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.10%) Windchill
10 3 (0.076%) CATIA
10 3 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.076%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.076%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,543 (38.91%) Azure
2 1,381 (34.82%) AWS
3 683 (17.22%) Power Platform
4 514 (12.96%) GitHub
5 422 (10.64%) GCP
6 277 (6.98%) Azure AI
7 257 (6.48%) Serverless
8 177 (4.46%) Snowflake
9 176 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 164 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (3.93%) Amazon S3
12 154 (3.88%) SaaS
13 144 (3.63%) dbt
14 137 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 134 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
16 95 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 87 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 87 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
18 81 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
19 72 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 255 (6.43%) Internet
2 144 (3.63%) Firewall
3 85 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 71 (1.79%) VPN
5 69 (1.74%) WAN
6 64 (1.61%) DNS
7 58 (1.46%) LAN
8 50 (1.26%) BGP
9 47 (1.19%) Wireless
10 41 (1.03%) Network Security
11 37 (0.93%) Broadband
11 37 (0.93%) HTTP
11 37 (0.93%) OSPF
11 37 (0.93%) VLAN
12 34 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (0.76%) MPLS
14 29 (0.73%) SSL
15 28 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 27 (0.68%) SAN
17 20 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (16.24%) Power BI
2 545 (13.74%) Tableau
3 268 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 216 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 162 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 162 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 140 (3.53%) Data Mining
8 129 (3.25%) Data Lake
9 113 (2.85%) MongoDB
10 102 (2.57%) Big Data
11 98 (2.47%) BigQuery
12 87 (2.19%) MySQL
13 85 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 82 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 80 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
16 72 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
17 71 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
18 68 (1.71%) Hadoop
19 64 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 554 (13.97%) Git
2 218 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 133 (3.35%) GitLab
4 119 (3.00%) JIRA
5 58 (1.46%) Selenium
6 43 (1.08%) MLflow
7 38 (0.96%) JUnit
8 34 (0.86%) Postman
9 24 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 24 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.61%) JMeter
10 19 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.43%) Jaeger
12 16 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 15 (0.38%) Mockito
14 13 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.30%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
16 11 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 1,155 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 997 (25.14%) Finance
3 610 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (6.20%) Banking
5 238 (6.00%) Multimedia
6 172 (4.34%) Law
7 164 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 162 (4.08%) Marketing
9 153 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 147 (3.71%) Front Office
11 118 (2.98%) Retail
12 109 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 101 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 87 (2.19%) Financial Institution
15 77 (1.94%) Electronics
16 72 (1.82%) Investment Banking
17 71 (1.79%) Legal
18 60 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (1.41%) Games
20 50 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 753 (18.99%) Developer
2 676 (17.04%) Analyst
3 658 (16.59%) Senior
4 495 (12.48%) Data Analyst
5 413 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 357 (9.00%) Trainee
7 315 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 303 (7.64%) Python Developer
9 292 (7.36%) Lead
10 262 (6.61%) Junior
11 244 (6.15%) Python Engineer
12 235 (5.93%) Junior Analyst
12 235 (5.93%) Junior Data Analyst
13 189 (4.77%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.76%) Architect
15 142 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
15 142 (3.58%) Senior Developer
16 139 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
17 133 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 129 (3.25%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (9.40%) HTML
2 328 (8.27%) CSS
3 318 (8.02%) React
4 169 (4.26%) Node.js
5 165 (4.16%) REST
6 156 (3.93%) Django
7 142 (3.58%) RESTful
8 139 (3.50%) Kafka
9 135 (3.40%) Pandas
10 132 (3.33%) FastAPI
11 120 (3.03%) PySpark
12 114 (2.87%) PyTorch
13 110 (2.77%) .NET
14 105 (2.65%) Flask
15 102 (2.57%) AngularJS
16 98 (2.47%) TensorFlow
17 95 (2.40%) NumPy
18 87 (2.19%) Vue
19 83 (2.09%) JSON
20 77 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 199 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 149 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 137 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 125 (3.15%) Equities
6 109 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 108 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 89 (2.24%) Fixed Income
8 89 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.14%) Hedge funds
10 81 (2.04%) Derivative
11 77 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 74 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 66 (1.66%) Low-Code
15 61 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 54 (1.36%) AI Agents
17 53 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
18 50 (1.26%) Data Centre
18 50 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 485 (12.23%) Linux
2 207 (5.22%) Windows
3 182 (4.59%) Unix
4 72 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.63%) CentOS
8 21 (0.53%) Debian
9 20 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.43%) VMS
11 16 (0.40%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.18%) Android
15 6 (0.15%) zOS
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.076%) FreeRTOS
18 3 (0.076%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (27.79%) AI
2 908 (22.89%) CI/CD
3 863 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
4 820 (20.68%) Analytics
5 772 (19.47%) Agile
6 749 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
7 740 (18.66%) DevOps
8 638 (16.09%) Mentoring
9 630 (15.89%) Software Engineering
10 528 (13.31%) Machine Learning
11 485 (12.23%) Data Science
12 465 (11.72%) ETL
13 451 (11.37%) Data Modelling
14 441 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
15 432 (10.89%) Data Engineering
16 428 (10.79%) Computer Science
17 404 (10.19%) Data Analysis
17 404 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 362 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
19 360 (9.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,601 (40.37%) SQL
2 701 (17.68%) JavaScript
3 575 (14.50%) Java
4 356 (8.98%) Bash
5 326 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 323 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 265 (6.68%) C#
8 243 (6.13%) R
9 198 (4.99%) C++
10 149 (3.76%) Go
11 107 (2.70%) C
12 79 (1.99%) Scala
13 60 (1.51%) PHP
14 52 (1.31%) VBA
15 50 (1.26%) Perl
16 49 (1.24%) Bicep
17 43 (1.08%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.96%) T-SQL
20 36 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 772 (19.47%) Degree
2 538 (13.57%) Azure Certification
3 393 (9.91%) Security Cleared
4 351 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 287 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 241 (6.08%) SC Cleared
7 236 (5.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 202 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.79%) Master's Degree
10 153 (3.86%) DV Cleared
11 116 (2.92%) PhD
12 75 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.46%) CCNP
14 50 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
15 47 (1.19%) CISSP
16 41 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.63%) CCIE
20 24 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 154 (3.88%) QA
3 99 (2.50%) GDPR
4 95 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.89%) NIST
6 62 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.86%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.40%) PMO
10 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.10%) GRC
16 4 (0.10%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 491 (12.38%) Docker
2 77 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.66%) Firmware
5 20 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.43%) vSphere
7 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.25%) HDFS
10 8 (0.20%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.18%) KVM
11 7 (0.18%) Lustre
12 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
12 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.13%) Postfix
13 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.10%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 511 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 467 (11.78%) Terraform
3 288 (7.26%) Ansible
4 115 (2.90%) Grafana
5 113 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.19%) Argo
7 25 (0.63%) Kibana
8 19 (0.48%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.38%) Nessus
11 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
12 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.33%) Nagios
12 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.30%) Control-M
13 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.23%) Rancher
14 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,018 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.58%) Databricks
3 187 (4.72%) Google
4 132 (3.33%) Oracle
5 103 (2.60%) Cisco
6 99 (2.50%) VMware
7 83 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 68 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.69%) SAP
10 61 (1.54%) Splunk
11 56 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 55 (1.39%) Salesforce
13 44 (1.11%) Alteryx
13 44 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 44 (1.11%) IBM
14 41 (1.03%) Bloomberg
14 41 (1.03%) Informatica
15 40 (1.01%) Talend
16 29 (0.73%) Palantir
17 28 (0.71%) Palo Alto