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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,354 5,208 6,695
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.05% 12.00% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.84% 40.06% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 2,930 4,919
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,358 12,999 22,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.14% 29.94% 29.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,918 8,748 17,595
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,000 £45,500
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 28 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 28 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 2,552 £85,000 -5.56% 1,578
North of England -11 1,289 £65,000 - 417
South East +4 940 £60,000 - 490
North West -16 605 £65,000 +8.33% 217
Midlands +13 604 £60,900 -2.56% 196
South West +9 600 £60,000 +4.86% 219
Yorkshire +13 446 £65,000 - 118
West Midlands +2 316 £62,500 -3.85% 102
East of England +7 307 £65,000 - 173
East Midlands +22 287 £55,000 - 94
North East +31 238 £59,500 -8.46% 87
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
1 238 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 231 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 175 (2.75%) Apache
4 75 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 58 (0.91%) Confluence
6 46 (0.72%) WordPress
7 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 27 (0.42%) SAS
9 24 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
14 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 870 (13.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.079%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,663 (41.91%) Azure
2 2,020 (31.79%) AWS
3 1,169 (18.40%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.34%) Azure AI
5 769 (12.10%) GCP
6 383 (6.03%) GitHub
7 369 (5.81%) Serverless
8 244 (3.84%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 231 (3.64%) SaaS
10 223 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 217 (3.42%) Snowflake
12 195 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 191 (3.01%) dbt
14 166 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
15 160 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 158 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 130 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 121 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
19 114 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (3.59%) Firewall
2 161 (2.53%) Broadband
3 133 (2.09%) DNS
4 132 (2.08%) VPN
5 115 (1.81%) Network Security
5 115 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 93 (1.46%) WAN
7 80 (1.26%) Wireless
8 73 (1.15%) LAN
9 70 (1.10%) Internet
10 56 (0.88%) BGP
11 53 (0.83%) VLAN
12 49 (0.77%) HTTP
13 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 39 (0.61%) DHCP
14 39 (0.61%) MQTT
14 39 (0.61%) OSPF
15 36 (0.57%) SSL
16 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
16 29 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,100 (17.31%) Power BI
2 943 (14.84%) Tableau
3 324 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 284 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 143 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 137 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.87%) Big Data
12 112 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
13 111 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 106 (1.67%) MySQL
15 99 (1.56%) Metadata
16 80 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 72 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 63 (0.99%) Looker
19 62 (0.98%) Delta Lake
20 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 666 (10.48%) Git
2 283 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 252 (3.97%) GitLab
4 161 (2.53%) JIRA
5 81 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 60 (0.94%) MLflow
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 45 (0.71%) Selenium
9 38 (0.60%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.44%) JUnit
13 27 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
15 24 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.36%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,218 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 1,298 (20.43%) Finance
3 837 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (4.66%) Banking
5 276 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 228 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 190 (2.99%) Law
8 185 (2.91%) Retail
9 134 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.03%) Front Office
11 128 (2.01%) Marketing
12 124 (1.95%) Legal
13 87 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 81 (1.27%) Electronics
15 78 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 76 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 74 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 67 (1.05%) Games
19 65 (1.02%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,201 (18.90%) Senior
2 1,065 (16.76%) Analyst
3 902 (14.20%) Data Analyst
4 900 (14.16%) Developer
5 807 (12.70%) Software Engineer
6 785 (12.35%) Junior
7 714 (11.24%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.21%) Junior Data Analyst
9 626 (9.85%) Python Engineer
10 623 (9.80%) Data Engineer
11 577 (9.08%) Lead
12 464 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 374 (5.89%) Python Developer
14 300 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 233 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 216 (3.40%) Architect
17 207 (3.26%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.04%) Senior Developer
19 187 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
20 178 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (6.36%) React
2 295 (4.64%) Kafka
3 253 (3.98%) Node.js
4 232 (3.65%) PySpark
5 228 (3.59%) REST
6 225 (3.54%) .NET
7 201 (3.16%) RESTful
8 200 (3.15%) FastAPI
9 193 (3.04%) Django
10 190 (2.99%) HTML
11 174 (2.74%) CSS
12 169 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 161 (2.53%) Pandas
14 159 (2.50%) LangChain
15 144 (2.27%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.16%) Flask
17 134 (2.11%) scikit-learn
18 111 (1.75%) Spring
19 110 (1.73%) NumPy
20 109 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 538 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 344 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 330 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 194 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 182 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 170 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 132 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 102 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
9 99 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 95 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.32%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 82 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 77 (1.21%) Equities
15 76 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 75 (1.18%) Hedge funds
17 72 (1.13%) Robotics
18 71 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
19 68 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
20 66 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 702 (11.05%) Linux
2 317 (4.99%) Windows
3 93 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.29%) Unix
5 51 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.66%) CentOS
7 36 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
8 23 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
9 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.13%) Android
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 5 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,752 (43.31%) AI
2 1,556 (24.49%) Software Engineering
3 1,535 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 1,226 (19.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1,128 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 1,110 (17.47%) Agile
7 1,062 (16.71%) Analytics
8 1,060 (16.68%) DevOps
9 960 (15.11%) Machine Learning
10 881 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 768 (12.09%) Mentoring
12 696 (10.95%) Data Engineering
13 695 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
14 671 (10.56%) Data Modelling
15 627 (9.87%) Data Science
16 606 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 596 (9.38%) Containerisation
18 570 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
19 560 (8.81%) Computer Science
20 552 (8.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,400 (37.77%) SQL
2 778 (12.24%) Java
3 659 (10.37%) JavaScript
4 524 (8.25%) C++
5 497 (7.82%) PowerShell
6 477 (7.51%) Bash
7 450 (7.08%) C#
8 400 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.42%) Go
10 179 (2.82%) C
11 167 (2.63%) R
12 130 (2.05%) Scala
13 98 (1.54%) PHP
14 96 (1.51%) Rust
15 88 (1.38%) Bicep
16 67 (1.05%) Perl
17 64 (1.01%) Ruby
18 61 (0.96%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,165 (18.33%) Azure Certification
2 832 (13.09%) Degree
3 728 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 418 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 307 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 244 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 201 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 186 (2.93%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 116 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 92 (1.45%) PhD
11 80 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 55 (0.87%) CCNP
13 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 40 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.54%) CISSP
17 34 (0.54%) OSCP
18 24 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 259 (4.08%) QA
3 149 (2.34%) GDPR
4 90 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.20%) NIST
6 63 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) GRC
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 20 (0.31%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 14 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 736 (11.58%) Docker
2 110 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.94%) Firmware
5 43 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 43 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 6 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.047%) IAG
14 3 (0.047%) iptables
14 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 898 (14.13%) Terraform
2 714 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 385 (6.06%) Ansible
4 240 (3.78%) Grafana
5 163 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Argo
7 45 (0.71%) Nagios
8 43 (0.68%) Puppet
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 27 (0.42%) Istio
13 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.24%) Kubeflow
16 15 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,513 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 418 (6.58%) Databricks
3 187 (2.94%) Google
4 149 (2.34%) Splunk
5 138 (2.17%) VMware
6 137 (2.16%) Oracle
7 121 (1.90%) Cisco
8 113 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 110 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.76%) Salesforce
14 47 (0.74%) SolarWinds
15 44 (0.69%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.66%) F5
17 40 (0.63%) SAP
18 37 (0.58%) Fortinet
19 33 (0.52%) Palantir
20 32 (0.50%) IBM