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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,087 4,932 7,196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.54% 12.66% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.56% 38.83% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,481 3,114 5,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £48,250 £55,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,875 £122,500
UK median annual salary £68,679 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +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 14,302 12,701 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 32.60% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,060 9,133 22,450
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -1 2,401 £85,000 -5.56% 1,319
North of England -14 1,214 £57,687 -11.25% 477
South East +1 885 £60,000 -7.69% 610
Midlands +14 662 £55,000 - 216
South West +8 532 £57,500 - 205
Yorkshire +15 527 £50,000 -23.08% 133
North West -26 513 £62,500 -3.85% 256
West Midlands +25 377 £60,000 +9.09% 103
East of England +3 326 £60,050 -9.31% 181
East Midlands +27 285 £55,000 - 113
North East +14 174 £48,445 -25.47% 88
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
1 217 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.23%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 41 (0.67%) Confluence
7 37 (0.61%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.082%) CMS
15 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.082%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
17 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,210 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 5 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.016%) Notion
10 1 (0.016%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.016%) Trello
10 1 (0.016%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,886 (47.41%) Azure
2 1,845 (30.31%) AWS
3 1,446 (23.76%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.60%) Azure AI
5 639 (10.50%) GCP
6 507 (8.33%) GitHub
7 306 (5.03%) Serverless
8 232 (3.81%) SaaS
9 218 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 215 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 194 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 181 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 175 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 163 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
14 163 (2.68%) dbt
15 135 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 91 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
19 86 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.52%) Firewall
2 189 (3.10%) Internet
3 164 (2.69%) Broadband
4 127 (2.09%) DNS
5 119 (1.95%) VPN
6 100 (1.64%) Network Security
7 94 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.46%) WAN
9 80 (1.31%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 58 (0.95%) HTTP
13 50 (0.82%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 42 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
18 34 (0.56%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) MPLS
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,395 (22.92%) Power BI
2 1,285 (21.11%) Tableau
3 274 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 153 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 128 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 127 (2.09%) MongoDB
11 123 (2.02%) Data Mining
12 115 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 111 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 99 (1.63%) Big Data
15 90 (1.48%) Metadata
16 76 (1.25%) MySQL
17 67 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (0.95%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.80%) Looker
Development Applications
1 653 (10.73%) Git
2 242 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 220 (3.61%) GitLab
4 118 (1.94%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.03%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Selenium
8 47 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 36 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.59%) Postman
10 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 27 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 19 (0.31%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,342 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 1,164 (19.12%) Finance
3 806 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (4.16%) Banking
4 253 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (3.48%) Public Sector
6 175 (2.87%) Retail
7 174 (2.86%) Multimedia
8 161 (2.64%) Law
9 142 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 134 (2.20%) Front Office
11 104 (1.71%) Marketing
12 95 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 93 (1.53%) Legal
14 77 (1.26%) Electronics
15 67 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
18 53 (0.87%) Games
19 52 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,408 (23.13%) Analyst
2 1,229 (20.19%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (16.95%) Junior
4 994 (16.33%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.33%) Junior Data Analyst
5 923 (15.16%) Developer
6 890 (14.62%) Senior
7 571 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 534 (8.77%) Data Engineer
9 482 (7.92%) Lead
10 463 (7.61%) Python Engineer
11 403 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 327 (5.37%) Trainee
14 202 (3.32%) Software Developer
15 201 (3.30%) Python Software Engineer
16 177 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
17 175 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
18 165 (2.71%) Architect
19 161 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.29%) React
2 317 (5.21%) HTML
3 281 (4.62%) CSS
4 253 (4.16%) Kafka
5 216 (3.55%) PySpark
6 209 (3.43%) Node.js
7 207 (3.40%) REST
8 184 (3.02%) RESTful
9 182 (2.99%) .NET
10 180 (2.96%) Django
11 165 (2.71%) Pandas
12 164 (2.69%) PyTorch
13 147 (2.41%) FastAPI
14 140 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.09%) scikit-learn
16 120 (1.97%) Flask
17 105 (1.72%) LangChain
17 105 (1.72%) NumPy
18 102 (1.68%) JSON
19 83 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 353 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 302 (4.96%) Algorithms
3 260 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 108 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 95 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 86 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 85 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
14 83 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 81 (1.33%) Hedge funds
16 80 (1.31%) Equities
16 80 (1.31%) Security Posture
17 76 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
19 68 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 597 (9.81%) Linux
2 254 (4.17%) Windows
3 121 (1.99%) Unix
4 71 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 27 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.16%) Debian
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 5 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,554 (41.96%) AI
2 1,492 (24.51%) Business Intelligence
3 1,248 (20.50%) CI/CD
4 1,126 (18.50%) Software Engineering
5 960 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
6 951 (15.62%) Analytics
7 947 (15.56%) Agile
8 923 (15.16%) DevOps
9 752 (12.35%) Machine Learning
10 717 (11.78%) Mentoring
11 694 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 597 (9.81%) Data Modelling
13 582 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
14 567 (9.31%) Data Engineering
15 556 (9.13%) Data Science
16 555 (9.12%) ETL
17 532 (8.74%) Computer Science
18 521 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 490 (8.05%) Containerisation
20 480 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,497 (41.02%) SQL
2 718 (11.80%) JavaScript
3 663 (10.89%) Java
4 447 (7.34%) PowerShell
5 445 (7.31%) Bash
6 369 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 364 (5.98%) C++
8 349 (5.73%) C#
9 288 (4.73%) Go
10 214 (3.52%) R
11 161 (2.64%) C
12 121 (1.99%) Scala
13 79 (1.30%) Rust
14 67 (1.10%) PHP
15 64 (1.05%) VBA
16 55 (0.90%) Bicep
17 44 (0.72%) Perl
18 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 37 (0.61%) MATLAB
19 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,538 (25.27%) Azure Certification
2 777 (12.76%) Degree
3 543 (8.92%) Security Cleared
4 319 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 280 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 230 (3.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 229 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 183 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.45%) PhD
12 81 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.13%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) CISSP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 33 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 28 (0.46%) CCIE
17 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (6.55%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.78%) QA
3 126 (2.07%) GDPR
4 103 (1.69%) NIST
5 89 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.34%) GRC
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.11%) Basel III
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 578 (9.50%) Docker
2 108 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.89%) Firmware
5 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.38%) KVM
8 17 (0.28%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
14 5 (0.082%) Lustre
14 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.082%) Squid
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 735 (12.07%) Terraform
2 616 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.80%) Ansible
4 196 (3.22%) Grafana
5 157 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.00%) Argo
7 33 (0.54%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
12 20 (0.33%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.26%) Packer
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,889 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 330 (5.42%) Databricks
3 207 (3.40%) Google
4 129 (2.12%) Cisco
4 129 (2.12%) Oracle
5 125 (2.05%) VMware
6 108 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 100 (1.64%) OpenAI
8 93 (1.53%) Splunk
9 56 (0.92%) SAP
10 55 (0.90%) Palo Alto
10 55 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 52 (0.85%) Foundry
12 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.82%) Fortinet
14 48 (0.79%) SolarWinds
15 47 (0.77%) Informatica
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 41 (0.67%) F5
17 41 (0.67%) Palantir