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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,267 5,253 7,715
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.18% 12.15% 8.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.04% 40.09% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,758 2,974 5,779
10th Percentile £38,920 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
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 £107,500 £130,000 £123,000
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 16,051 13,102 27,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 30.30% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,683 8,857 21,562
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £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 11 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 11 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 -3 2,489 £85,000 -5.56% 1,145
North of England -12 1,267 £65,000 - 362
South East +4 945 £60,000 - 524
Midlands +19 617 £60,000 +1.69% 197
North West -16 590 £65,000 - 184
South West +8 577 £60,000 +4.35% 217
Yorkshire +13 456 £65,000 - 106
West Midlands +12 317 £62,500 +4.82% 101
East Midlands +26 300 £54,500 -0.91% 95
East of England -10 297 £70,000 +5.73% 170
North East +25 221 £59,000 -5.60% 75
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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 223 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 169 (2.70%) Apache
4 73 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.88%) Confluence
6 47 (0.75%) WordPress
7 38 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.48%) SAS
9 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
11 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.096%) nginx
13 5 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.080%) Camunda
13 5 (0.080%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 921 (14.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (0.27%) Simulink
7 12 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.048%) Blender
9 3 (0.048%) Maya
9 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.048%) Trello
10 2 (0.032%) CATIA
10 2 (0.032%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.080%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.064%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.032%) Summit
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,698 (43.05%) Azure
2 2,003 (31.96%) AWS
3 1,198 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.30%) Azure AI
5 746 (11.90%) GCP
6 399 (6.37%) GitHub
7 366 (5.84%) Serverless
8 245 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 236 (3.77%) SaaS
10 231 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 199 (3.18%) Snowflake
13 191 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 179 (2.86%) dbt
15 173 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 164 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 156 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 130 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
20 118 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 247 (3.94%) Firewall
2 172 (2.74%) Broadband
3 147 (2.35%) VPN
4 138 (2.20%) DNS
5 119 (1.90%) Network Security
6 108 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 99 (1.58%) WAN
8 83 (1.32%) Wireless
9 80 (1.28%) LAN
10 70 (1.12%) Internet
11 61 (0.97%) BGP
12 56 (0.89%) VLAN
13 54 (0.86%) HTTP
14 52 (0.83%) SD-WAN
15 49 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 42 (0.67%) OSPF
17 41 (0.65%) DHCP
18 37 (0.59%) MQTT
19 34 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 32 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,137 (18.14%) Power BI
2 987 (15.75%) Tableau
3 301 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 267 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 180 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 178 (2.84%) Data Lake
7 169 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 140 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 118 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.77%) Big Data
13 110 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.68%) MySQL
15 94 (1.50%) Metadata
16 78 (1.24%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 63 (1.01%) Data Mining
19 62 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 56 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 634 (10.12%) Git
2 291 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 258 (4.12%) GitLab
4 159 (2.54%) JIRA
5 81 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.91%) Claude Code
7 56 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 56 (0.89%) MLflow
8 43 (0.69%) Selenium
9 40 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 34 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 34 (0.54%) Subversion
11 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.43%) Postman
12 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
12 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 23 (0.37%) JUnit
14 22 (0.35%) JMeter
14 22 (0.35%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 2,198 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 1,247 (19.90%) Finance
3 821 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.39%) Banking
5 252 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 196 (3.13%) Retail
8 164 (2.62%) Law
9 132 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.04%) Front Office
11 105 (1.68%) Legal
12 94 (1.50%) Marketing
13 84 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.28%) Electronics
15 75 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 72 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
18 62 (0.99%) Games
19 61 (0.97%) Investment Banking
20 58 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,131 (18.05%) Senior
2 1,130 (18.03%) Analyst
3 959 (15.30%) Data Analyst
4 894 (14.27%) Developer
5 816 (13.02%) Junior
6 761 (12.14%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.11%) Junior Data Analyst
8 746 (11.90%) Software Engineer
9 606 (9.67%) Data Engineer
10 573 (9.14%) Python Engineer
11 541 (8.63%) Lead
12 460 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 370 (5.90%) Python Developer
14 273 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
15 216 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 206 (3.29%) Architect
17 196 (3.13%) Data Scientist
18 182 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
18 182 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
19 177 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (6.30%) React
2 282 (4.50%) Kafka
3 245 (3.91%) Node.js
4 228 (3.64%) PySpark
5 223 (3.56%) REST
6 212 (3.38%) .NET
7 202 (3.22%) RESTful
8 194 (3.10%) FastAPI
9 188 (3.00%) HTML
10 183 (2.92%) Django
11 173 (2.76%) CSS
12 168 (2.68%) PyTorch
13 155 (2.47%) Pandas
14 148 (2.36%) LangChain
15 142 (2.27%) TensorFlow
16 135 (2.15%) Flask
17 124 (1.98%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.71%) Vue
19 106 (1.69%) NumPy
20 105 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 511 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.19%) Algorithms
3 314 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 172 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 163 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 137 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 107 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 104 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 103 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 86 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 84 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 79 (1.26%) Equities
15 75 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 71 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
17 71 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 68 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 699 (11.15%) Linux
2 302 (4.82%) Windows
3 88 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.34%) Unix
5 51 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.69%) CentOS
6 43 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.40%) Debian
8 20 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
8 20 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 12 (0.19%) VMS
9 12 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
12 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Rocky
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,653 (42.33%) AI
2 1,492 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 1,450 (23.14%) Software Engineering
4 1,251 (19.96%) Business Intelligence
5 1,103 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 1,066 (17.01%) Agile
7 1,038 (16.56%) DevOps
8 1,022 (16.31%) Analytics
9 890 (14.20%) Machine Learning
10 878 (14.01%) Infrastructure as Code
11 751 (11.98%) Mentoring
12 662 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
13 650 (10.37%) Data Engineering
14 639 (10.20%) Data Modelling
15 598 (9.54%) Data Science
16 584 (9.32%) Containerisation
17 583 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 558 (8.90%) Computer Science
18 558 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
19 552 (8.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,373 (37.87%) SQL
2 761 (12.14%) Java
3 652 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 518 (8.27%) PowerShell
5 505 (8.06%) C++
6 495 (7.90%) Bash
7 427 (6.81%) C#
8 389 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 285 (4.55%) Go
10 183 (2.92%) C
11 160 (2.55%) R
12 121 (1.93%) Scala
13 102 (1.63%) Rust
14 99 (1.58%) PHP
15 88 (1.40%) Bicep
16 64 (1.02%) MATLAB
17 61 (0.97%) Perl
18 60 (0.96%) Ruby
19 54 (0.86%) VBA
20 53 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,208 (19.28%) Azure Certification
2 809 (12.91%) Degree
3 734 (11.71%) Security Cleared
4 413 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 299 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 237 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 211 (3.37%) AWS Certification
8 179 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 122 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 119 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 87 (1.39%) PhD
12 77 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.88%) CCNP
14 51 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.67%) OSCP
16 38 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.61%) CISSP
17 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 31 (0.49%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 453 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 254 (4.05%) QA
3 142 (2.27%) GDPR
4 87 (1.39%) NIST
5 79 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 73 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 22 (0.35%) GRC
11 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.34%) PMO
12 20 (0.32%) SLA
13 14 (0.22%) WCAG
14 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 709 (11.31%) Docker
2 112 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (0.97%) Firmware
5 43 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 39 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.49%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.064%) iptables
16 4 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.048%) Kamailio
17 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
17 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 916 (14.62%) Terraform
2 711 (11.35%) Kubernetes
3 399 (6.37%) Ansible
4 243 (3.88%) Grafana
5 172 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.99%) Argo
7 43 (0.69%) Puppet
8 40 (0.64%) Nagios
9 37 (0.59%) Kibana
10 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.45%) Istio
11 28 (0.45%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Proxmox
15 18 (0.29%) logstash
16 17 (0.27%) Podman
16 17 (0.27%) Rancher
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,556 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 379 (6.05%) Databricks
3 199 (3.18%) Google
4 146 (2.33%) VMware
5 137 (2.19%) Splunk
6 134 (2.14%) Oracle
7 118 (1.88%) Cisco
8 105 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 102 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 64 (1.02%) Foundry
11 63 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 59 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 51 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 49 (0.78%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.72%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.70%) F5
16 44 (0.70%) SAP
17 37 (0.59%) Fortinet
18 36 (0.57%) Palantir
19 35 (0.56%) Arista