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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,958 4,862 7,077
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 12.98% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.93% 38.23% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,395 3,189 5,535
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 13,877 12,718 27,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 33.95% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,731 9,352 22,538
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,213
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £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 23 April 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 23 April 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 0 2,305 £85,000 -5.56% 1,112
North of England -14 1,192 £50,000 -23.08% 440
South East -2 870 £60,000 -7.69% 629
Midlands +8 663 £55,000 - 239
Yorkshire +17 543 £49,500 -23.85% 135
South West +3 528 £57,500 -4.17% 231
North West -19 485 £57,000 -12.31% 223
West Midlands +20 388 £55,200 +0.36% 116
East of England -17 335 £57,500 -13.16% 259
East Midlands +4 275 £55,000 - 121
North East +17 164 £45,000 -30.77% 84
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
1 211 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.22%) Apache
4 72 (1.21%) WordPress
5 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 29 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
18 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
19 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,239 (20.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.084%) CATIA
9 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.067%) Windchill
10 3 (0.050%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.084%) Shopify
3 4 (0.067%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Line 50
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,876 (48.27%) Azure
2 1,809 (30.36%) AWS
3 1,439 (24.15%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (22.07%) Azure AI
5 610 (10.24%) GCP
6 577 (9.68%) GitHub
7 301 (5.05%) Serverless
8 220 (3.69%) SaaS
9 204 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 199 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 166 (2.79%) Snowflake
14 162 (2.72%) dbt
15 161 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 124 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 123 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
18 122 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
19 93 (1.56%) OpenShift
20 90 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.21%) Internet
2 199 (3.34%) Firewall
3 138 (2.32%) Broadband
4 116 (1.95%) DNS
5 111 (1.86%) VPN
6 93 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 87 (1.46%) Network Security
8 80 (1.34%) WAN
9 73 (1.23%) LAN
10 67 (1.12%) Wireless
11 66 (1.11%) BGP
12 57 (0.96%) VLAN
13 53 (0.89%) HTTP
14 47 (0.79%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.65%) SD-WAN
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 32 (0.54%) MPLS
19 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,394 (23.40%) Power BI
2 1,327 (22.27%) Tableau
3 275 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 207 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 193 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 150 (2.52%) Data Mining
8 142 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 119 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.88%) MongoDB
12 110 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 107 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.59%) Big Data
15 88 (1.48%) Metadata
16 80 (1.34%) MySQL
17 62 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (0.87%) Spark SQL
19 49 (0.82%) DynamoDB
19 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 691 (11.60%) Git
2 228 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 202 (3.39%) GitLab
4 109 (1.83%) JIRA
5 74 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.07%) MLflow
7 52 (0.87%) Selenium
8 42 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 37 (0.62%) Postman
10 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 21 (0.35%) Claude Code
13 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
13 20 (0.34%) JUnit
14 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
15 17 (0.29%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.29%) Subversion
16 16 (0.27%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,318 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (19.59%) Finance
3 814 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (4.20%) Banking
5 236 (3.96%) Multimedia
6 228 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 174 (2.92%) Retail
9 162 (2.72%) Law
10 145 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.18%) Front Office
12 101 (1.70%) Marketing
13 99 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.46%) Legal
15 73 (1.23%) Electronics
16 68 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 56 (0.94%) Investment Banking
19 48 (0.81%) Aerospace
20 43 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,445 (24.25%) Analyst
2 1,263 (21.20%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (17.32%) Junior
4 994 (16.68%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 906 (15.21%) Developer
6 833 (13.98%) Senior
7 541 (9.08%) Software Engineer
8 509 (8.54%) Data Engineer
9 453 (7.60%) Lead
10 416 (6.98%) Trainee
11 415 (6.97%) Python Engineer
12 385 (6.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 377 (6.33%) Python Developer
14 221 (3.71%) Software Developer
15 187 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
16 168 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
18 159 (2.67%) Senior Developer
19 151 (2.53%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.43%) HTML
1 383 (6.43%) React
2 335 (5.62%) CSS
3 245 (4.11%) Kafka
4 203 (3.41%) Node.js
4 203 (3.41%) REST
5 197 (3.31%) PySpark
6 192 (3.22%) Django
7 174 (2.92%) RESTful
8 167 (2.80%) Pandas
9 162 (2.72%) PyTorch
10 157 (2.64%) .NET
11 144 (2.42%) FastAPI
12 137 (2.30%) TensorFlow
13 129 (2.17%) scikit-learn
14 128 (2.15%) Flask
15 106 (1.78%) JSON
16 104 (1.75%) NumPy
17 95 (1.59%) LangChain
18 89 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 310 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 279 (4.68%) Algorithms
3 226 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 127 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 92 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 89 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 87 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 87 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 87 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 84 (1.41%) Fixed Income
11 82 (1.38%) Low-Code
12 81 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 79 (1.33%) Hedge funds
13 79 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 78 (1.31%) Equities
14 78 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
15 71 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 551 (9.25%) Linux
2 231 (3.88%) Windows
3 138 (2.32%) Unix
4 70 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 29 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.18%) Debian
9 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.13%) VMS
13 7 (0.12%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) Solaris
14 6 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,461 (41.31%) AI
2 1,497 (25.13%) Business Intelligence
3 1,172 (19.67%) CI/CD
4 1,037 (17.41%) Software Engineering
5 981 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 943 (15.83%) Analytics
7 918 (15.41%) Agile
8 881 (14.79%) DevOps
9 737 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 700 (11.75%) Machine Learning
11 625 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 572 (9.60%) Data Modelling
13 555 (9.32%) Data Science
14 553 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
15 546 (9.16%) ETL
16 543 (9.11%) Data Engineering
17 522 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 514 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 489 (8.21%) Containerisation
20 431 (7.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,479 (41.61%) SQL
2 781 (13.11%) JavaScript
3 646 (10.84%) Java
4 434 (7.28%) PowerShell
5 415 (6.97%) Bash
6 349 (5.86%) TypeScript
7 320 (5.37%) C++
8 318 (5.34%) C#
9 277 (4.65%) Go
10 243 (4.08%) R
11 145 (2.43%) C
12 115 (1.93%) Scala
13 73 (1.23%) Rust
14 68 (1.14%) PHP
14 68 (1.14%) VBA
15 53 (0.89%) Bicep
16 43 (0.72%) Perl
17 41 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 35 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 29 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,594 (26.75%) Azure Certification
2 786 (13.19%) Degree
3 481 (8.07%) Security Cleared
4 382 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 292 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 285 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 283 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 274 (4.60%) SC Cleared
9 170 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.46%) PhD
12 76 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.06%) CCNP
14 51 (0.86%) OSCP
15 49 (0.82%) CISSP
16 44 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.55%) CREST Certified
19 29 (0.49%) GIAC
20 25 (0.42%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 219 (3.68%) QA
3 127 (2.13%) GDPR
4 108 (1.81%) NIST
5 98 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 35 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.39%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) GRC
13 18 (0.30%) SLA
14 13 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) DICOM
17 6 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 579 (9.72%) Docker
2 107 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (0.81%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.32%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) iptables
12 5 (0.084%) Lustre
12 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.050%) Squid
13 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 687 (11.53%) Terraform
2 607 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 337 (5.66%) Ansible
4 188 (3.16%) Grafana
5 149 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.09%) Argo
7 29 (0.49%) Nagios
8 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.45%) Puppet
9 23 (0.39%) Istio
9 23 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 20 (0.34%) Kibana
11 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 13 (0.22%) Rancher
14 12 (0.20%) Packer
14 12 (0.20%) SCCM
14 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,946 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 312 (5.24%) Databricks
3 200 (3.36%) Google
4 132 (2.22%) Oracle
5 123 (2.06%) Cisco
6 114 (1.91%) VMware
7 105 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 85 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 79 (1.33%) Splunk
10 61 (1.02%) SAP
11 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 51 (0.86%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 48 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 48 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 46 (0.77%) Informatica
16 45 (0.76%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.70%) Talend
18 40 (0.67%) Palantir
19 39 (0.65%) SolarWinds