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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,963 4,849 7,093
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.61% 12.97% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.91% 38.26% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,403 3,177 5,546
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 £122,500
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 13,895 12,673 27,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 33.90% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,749 9,319 22,524
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,450 £35,250
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 24 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 24 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 2,316 £85,000 -5.56% 986
North of England -15 1,192 £50,000 -23.08% 406
South East -3 869 £60,000 -7.69% 592
Midlands +9 663 £55,000 - 191
Yorkshire +18 541 £49,000 -24.62% 117
South West +5 526 £57,500 -4.17% 195
North West -21 487 £57,000 -12.31% 206
West Midlands +25 388 £55,200 +0.36% 97
East of England -17 332 £56,250 -15.05% 222
East Midlands -1 275 £55,000 - 92
North East +17 164 £45,000 -30.77% 85
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
1 212 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 185 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.23%) Apache
4 72 (1.21%) WordPress
5 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 28 (0.47%) 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%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,237 (20.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.79%) 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 EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,885 (48.38%) Azure
2 1,809 (30.34%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.15%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (22.05%) Azure AI
5 613 (10.28%) GCP
6 573 (9.61%) GitHub
7 298 (5.00%) Serverless
8 223 (3.74%) SaaS
9 204 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 199 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (2.80%) Snowflake
14 162 (2.72%) dbt
15 159 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 124 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 123 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 93 (1.56%) OpenShift
19 90 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 249 (4.18%) Internet
2 200 (3.35%) Firewall
3 138 (2.31%) Broadband
4 118 (1.98%) DNS
5 111 (1.86%) VPN
6 92 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 87 (1.46%) Network Security
8 81 (1.36%) WAN
9 74 (1.24%) LAN
10 66 (1.11%) BGP
10 66 (1.11%) Wireless
11 56 (0.94%) VLAN
12 54 (0.91%) HTTP
13 47 (0.79%) OSPF
14 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 40 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (0.65%) SD-WAN
16 34 (0.57%) DHCP
17 31 (0.52%) MPLS
18 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,395 (23.39%) Power BI
2 1,325 (22.22%) Tableau
3 274 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 207 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 191 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 171 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 149 (2.50%) Data Mining
8 142 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 119 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 113 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 106 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 94 (1.58%) Big Data
15 87 (1.46%) Metadata
16 82 (1.38%) MySQL
17 61 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (0.87%) Spark SQL
19 50 (0.84%) DynamoDB
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 693 (11.62%) Git
2 228 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 203 (3.40%) GitLab
4 109 (1.83%) JIRA
5 75 (1.26%) 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 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 1,165 (19.54%) Finance
3 810 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (4.19%) Banking
5 234 (3.92%) Multimedia
6 229 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 201 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 175 (2.93%) Retail
9 161 (2.70%) Law
10 146 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.20%) Front Office
12 101 (1.69%) Marketing
13 99 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.46%) Legal
15 73 (1.22%) Electronics
16 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 56 (0.94%) Investment Banking
18 49 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 42 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,444 (24.22%) Analyst
2 1,261 (21.15%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.34%) Junior
4 994 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.67%) Junior Data Analyst
5 907 (15.21%) Developer
6 836 (14.02%) Senior
7 544 (9.12%) Software Engineer
8 512 (8.59%) Data Engineer
9 456 (7.65%) Lead
10 419 (7.03%) Python Engineer
11 413 (6.93%) Trainee
12 386 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 377 (6.32%) Python Developer
14 222 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 188 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
16 169 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
17 164 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
18 161 (2.70%) Senior Developer
19 150 (2.52%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (6.46%) React
2 376 (6.31%) HTML
3 330 (5.53%) CSS
4 245 (4.11%) Kafka
5 204 (3.42%) Node.js
5 204 (3.42%) REST
6 197 (3.30%) PySpark
7 192 (3.22%) Django
8 175 (2.93%) RESTful
9 168 (2.82%) Pandas
10 162 (2.72%) PyTorch
11 159 (2.67%) .NET
12 143 (2.40%) FastAPI
13 137 (2.30%) TensorFlow
14 129 (2.16%) scikit-learn
15 126 (2.11%) Flask
16 104 (1.74%) JSON
16 104 (1.74%) NumPy
17 95 (1.59%) LangChain
18 89 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 312 (5.23%) Cloud Native
2 279 (4.68%) Algorithms
3 227 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.77%) Data Structures
5 125 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 119 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 93 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 90 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 87 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 85 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 84 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 82 (1.38%) Low-Code
13 82 (1.38%) Public Cloud
14 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.31%) Equities
15 78 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
16 77 (1.29%) Security Posture
17 71 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
17 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 550 (9.22%) Linux
2 231 (3.87%) Windows
3 135 (2.26%) Unix
4 71 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.69%) CentOS
7 29 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.44%) 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 2,469 (41.41%) AI
2 1,499 (25.14%) Business Intelligence
3 1,174 (19.69%) CI/CD
4 1,040 (17.44%) Software Engineering
5 980 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 944 (15.83%) Analytics
7 914 (15.33%) Agile
8 884 (14.82%) DevOps
9 731 (12.26%) Mentoring
10 706 (11.84%) Machine Learning
11 625 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 573 (9.61%) Data Modelling
13 556 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
13 556 (9.32%) Data Science
14 548 (9.19%) ETL
15 544 (9.12%) Data Engineering
16 523 (8.77%) Computer Science
17 513 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 489 (8.20%) Containerisation
19 436 (7.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,484 (41.66%) SQL
2 777 (13.03%) JavaScript
3 646 (10.83%) Java
4 434 (7.28%) PowerShell
5 416 (6.98%) Bash
6 353 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 323 (5.42%) C#
7 323 (5.42%) C++
8 276 (4.63%) Go
9 244 (4.09%) R
10 146 (2.45%) C
11 114 (1.91%) Scala
12 73 (1.22%) Rust
13 67 (1.12%) PHP
13 67 (1.12%) VBA
14 54 (0.91%) Bicep
15 44 (0.74%) Perl
16 43 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 34 (0.57%) T-SQL
18 29 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,595 (26.75%) Azure Certification
2 785 (13.16%) Degree
3 482 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 380 (6.37%) AWS Certification
5 290 (4.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 285 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 284 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 276 (4.63%) SC Cleared
9 170 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.46%) PhD
12 75 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.06%) CCNP
14 49 (0.82%) CISSP
14 49 (0.82%) OSCP
15 44 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 35 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 34 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 27 (0.45%) GIAC
19 25 (0.42%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 220 (3.69%) QA
3 125 (2.10%) GDPR
4 108 (1.81%) NIST
5 99 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.39%) PMO
10 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) GRC
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 578 (9.69%) Docker
2 108 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (0.80%) 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%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 687 (11.52%) Terraform
2 608 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 339 (5.69%) Ansible
4 190 (3.19%) Grafana
5 149 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.09%) Argo
7 30 (0.50%) 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%) Packer
13 13 (0.22%) Rancher
14 12 (0.20%) SCCM
14 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.18%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,946 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 312 (5.23%) Databricks
3 201 (3.37%) Google
4 131 (2.20%) Oracle
5 124 (2.08%) Cisco
6 116 (1.95%) VMware
7 106 (1.78%) Red Hat
8 85 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 79 (1.32%) Splunk
10 61 (1.02%) SAP
11 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 51 (0.86%) Foundry
13 50 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 47 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 47 (0.79%) Informatica
16 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.70%) Talend
18 41 (0.69%) Palantir
19 39 (0.65%) SolarWinds