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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,056 4,785 6,617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.89% 11.18% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.75% 41.01% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,773 2,624 4,198
10th Percentile £43,965 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £100,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -3.33% +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 16,938 11,668 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.25% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,330 7,699 13,047
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 September 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 September 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 -2 2,552 £85,000 -2.86% 6,558
North of England -17 1,142 £67,500 +8.00% 1,067
South East +9 865 £62,500 +4.17% 1,137
South West +8 599 £62,500 +13.64% 637
North West -23 569 £67,500 +12.50% 576
Midlands -2 526 £60,900 -5.58% 512
Yorkshire +7 330 £67,500 +1.89% 353
East of England +7 316 £65,000 +13.04% 655
West Midlands -13 285 £65,000 +7.44% 312
North East +19 244 £67,500 +42.11% 143
East Midlands +13 239 £52,500 -20.75% 200
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
1 210 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 169 (2.79%) Apache
3 162 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (1.22%) Confluence
5 41 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 33 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.46%) SAS
8 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 18 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.23%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) CMS
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.13%) IIS
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 400 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.40%) Simulink
4 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
9 4 (0.066%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Revit
10 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.050%) SPSS
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.033%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.066%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,244 (37.05%) Azure
2 1,864 (30.78%) AWS
3 784 (12.95%) Power Platform
4 725 (11.97%) GCP
5 630 (10.40%) Azure AI
6 377 (6.23%) GitHub
7 364 (6.01%) Serverless
8 260 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 240 (3.96%) SaaS
10 237 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 226 (3.73%) Amazon S3
12 213 (3.52%) Snowflake
13 210 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 206 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 183 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
15 183 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
16 163 (2.69%) dbt
17 132 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
18 130 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
19 129 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 216 (3.57%) Firewall
2 147 (2.43%) DNS
3 138 (2.28%) VPN
4 136 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 101 (1.67%) Network Security
6 95 (1.57%) WAN
7 82 (1.35%) Wireless
8 75 (1.24%) Broadband
9 67 (1.11%) LAN
10 63 (1.04%) DHCP
11 60 (0.99%) BGP
12 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 47 (0.78%) MQTT
13 47 (0.78%) VLAN
14 43 (0.71%) OSPF
15 38 (0.63%) HTTP
16 36 (0.59%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
18 24 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (11.76%) Power BI
2 428 (7.07%) Tableau
3 328 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 293 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.22%) Data Lake
6 180 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.58%) NoSQL
8 151 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 147 (2.43%) MongoDB
10 129 (2.13%) Big Data
11 112 (1.85%) BigQuery
11 112 (1.85%) MySQL
12 107 (1.77%) Metadata
13 96 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
14 93 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
16 83 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
17 80 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
18 77 (1.27%) Delta Lake
19 73 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 683 (11.28%) Git
2 320 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 251 (4.14%) GitLab
4 177 (2.92%) JIRA
5 66 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.88%) Subversion
7 52 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.79%) Selenium
9 39 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 38 (0.63%) JUnit
11 37 (0.61%) MLflow
12 36 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 26 (0.43%) TeamCity
18 24 (0.40%) Maven
19 21 (0.35%) JMeter
20 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,967 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 1,302 (21.50%) Finance
3 806 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 355 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 328 (5.42%) Banking
6 256 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 223 (3.68%) Law
8 199 (3.29%) Marketing
9 169 (2.79%) Retail
10 129 (2.13%) Legal
11 113 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 103 (1.70%) Front Office
13 102 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 99 (1.63%) Electronics
15 89 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 60 (0.99%) Games
19 47 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,258 (20.77%) Senior
2 874 (14.43%) Software Engineer
3 837 (13.82%) Developer
4 705 (11.64%) Python Engineer
5 631 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 621 (10.25%) Analyst
7 615 (10.16%) Lead
8 526 (8.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 439 (7.25%) Data Analyst
10 369 (6.09%) Junior
11 360 (5.94%) Python Developer
12 347 (5.73%) Python Software Engineer
13 288 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
14 284 (4.69%) Junior Data Analyst
15 257 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.65%) Data Scientist
17 216 (3.57%) Architect
18 202 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
19 201 (3.32%) Senior Developer
20 190 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (16.05%) Terraform
2 400 (6.61%) React
3 241 (3.98%) REST
4 237 (3.91%) PySpark
5 232 (3.83%) .NET
6 227 (3.75%) Kafka
6 227 (3.75%) Node.js
7 216 (3.57%) FastAPI
8 213 (3.52%) RESTful
9 179 (2.96%) Django
10 169 (2.79%) LangChain
11 158 (2.61%) PyTorch
12 145 (2.39%) HTML
13 134 (2.21%) TensorFlow
14 128 (2.11%) CSS
15 124 (2.05%) Flask
16 123 (2.03%) Spring
16 123 (2.03%) Spring Boot
17 100 (1.65%) Pandas
18 97 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 599 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 314 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 287 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 254 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 217 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 136 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 91 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.47%) Robotics
10 87 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 86 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
13 82 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 80 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 79 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
16 77 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
17 71 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
18 70 (1.16%) Low-Code
19 68 (1.12%) Public Cloud
20 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 715 (11.81%) Linux
2 331 (5.47%) Windows
3 86 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.37%) Unix
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.71%) CentOS
7 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 26 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Android
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) VMS
15 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,504 (41.35%) AI
2 1,696 (28.01%) Software Engineering
3 1,633 (26.96%) CI/CD
4 1,220 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
5 1,125 (18.58%) DevOps
6 1,113 (18.38%) Analytics
7 1,096 (18.10%) Agile
8 1,002 (16.55%) Machine Learning
9 969 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 880 (14.53%) Business Intelligence
11 808 (13.34%) Mentoring
12 730 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
13 729 (12.04%) Data Engineering
14 683 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 643 (10.62%) Data Modelling
16 621 (10.25%) Data Science
16 621 (10.25%) Decision-Making
17 597 (9.86%) Computer Science
18 593 (9.79%) Containerisation
19 583 (9.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,038 (33.65%) SQL
2 831 (13.72%) Java
3 601 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 575 (9.49%) C++
5 532 (8.78%) Bash
6 504 (8.32%) PowerShell
7 489 (8.07%) C#
8 410 (6.77%) TypeScript
9 259 (4.28%) Go
10 197 (3.25%) C
11 147 (2.43%) R
12 117 (1.93%) Scala
13 98 (1.62%) Bicep
13 98 (1.62%) Rust
14 90 (1.49%) PHP
15 85 (1.40%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.39%) Perl
17 75 (1.24%) Ruby
18 71 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 57 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (15.51%) Degree
2 876 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 708 (11.69%) Azure Certification
4 495 (8.17%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 279 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 221 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 121 (2.00%) PhD
9 111 (1.83%) AWS Certification
10 82 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 66 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 50 (0.83%) CISSP
14 47 (0.78%) CCNP
15 42 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 256 (4.23%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 107 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 63 (1.04%) NIST
6 55 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.46%) SLA
9 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.35%) NCSC
11 18 (0.30%) WCAG
12 16 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.21%) PMO
15 11 (0.18%) GRC
16 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 786 (12.98%) Docker
2 119 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.07%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.26%) KVM
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
16 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 809 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 421 (6.95%) Ansible
3 242 (4.00%) Grafana
4 163 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.17%) Puppet
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 40 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.50%) Nagios
10 27 (0.45%) Istio
10 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.45%) Packer
11 26 (0.43%) Rancher
12 24 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.36%) Podman
15 18 (0.30%) logstash
16 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,024 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 451 (7.45%) Databricks
3 222 (3.67%) Google
4 155 (2.56%) Splunk
5 123 (2.03%) VMware
6 121 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 118 (1.95%) Oracle
8 112 (1.85%) Cisco
9 94 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 49 (0.81%) Foundry
13 46 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 39 (0.64%) Fortinet
16 38 (0.63%) SAP
17 36 (0.59%) SolarWinds
18 33 (0.54%) F5
18 33 (0.54%) Informatica
19 31 (0.51%) New Relic