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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,119 4,858 6,670
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.11% 11.18% 9.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.37% 40.93% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,798 2,669 4,337
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 16,823 11,869 21,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 27.31% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,332 7,839 13,864
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 11 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 11 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 2,547 £85,000 -5.56% 3,864
North of England -15 1,184 £66,805 +6.89% 600
South East +8 872 £60,000 - 828
South West +12 599 £60,500 +10.00% 405
North West -20 583 £67,153 +11.92% 304
Midlands +5 540 £60,000 -7.69% 298
Yorkshire +8 354 £68,000 +4.62% 210
East of England +9 321 £65,000 +18.18% 405
West Midlands -7 289 £62,500 - 142
East Midlands +17 249 £52,500 -19.23% 155
North East +21 247 £66,000 +10.00% 89
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
1 219 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 185 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.70%) Apache
4 72 (1.18%) Confluence
5 47 (0.77%) WordPress
6 39 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 35 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 26 (0.42%) SAS
9 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.20%) nginx
11 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.098%) JBoss
15 5 (0.082%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 497 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.34%) Simulink
5 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.098%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.082%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) Mathematica
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Shopify
6 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
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 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,354 (38.47%) Azure
2 1,922 (31.41%) AWS
3 871 (14.23%) Power Platform
4 731 (11.95%) GCP
5 721 (11.78%) Azure AI
6 400 (6.54%) GitHub
7 368 (6.01%) Serverless
8 246 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 239 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 234 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 219 (3.58%) Snowflake
12 216 (3.53%) SaaS
13 205 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 176 (2.88%) dbt
16 171 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
17 165 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
18 139 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.55%) Firewall
2 143 (2.34%) DNS
3 128 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 128 (2.09%) VPN
4 109 (1.78%) Broadband
5 103 (1.68%) Network Security
6 96 (1.57%) WAN
7 81 (1.32%) Wireless
8 71 (1.16%) LAN
9 65 (1.06%) Internet
10 60 (0.98%) BGP
11 59 (0.96%) DHCP
12 48 (0.78%) VLAN
13 47 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.70%) MQTT
14 43 (0.70%) OSPF
15 38 (0.62%) HTTP
16 35 (0.57%) SSL
17 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 801 (13.09%) Power BI
2 546 (8.92%) Tableau
3 341 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 286 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 180 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 146 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 126 (2.06%) Big Data
11 119 (1.94%) BigQuery
12 114 (1.86%) MySQL
13 106 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.65%) Metadata
15 96 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.47%) DynamoDB
17 89 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.21%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 706 (11.54%) Git
2 302 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 243 (3.97%) GitLab
4 173 (2.83%) JIRA
5 64 (1.05%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 53 (0.87%) MLflow
7 52 (0.85%) Selenium
8 50 (0.82%) Subversion
9 40 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 38 (0.62%) JUnit
10 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 33 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 32 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 19 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 2,014 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 1,299 (21.23%) Finance
3 811 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 335 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 315 (5.15%) Banking
6 242 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.55%) Law
8 187 (3.06%) Marketing
9 158 (2.58%) Retail
10 127 (2.08%) Legal
11 106 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 104 (1.70%) Aerospace
13 99 (1.62%) Electronics
14 98 (1.60%) Front Office
15 84 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 84 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.05%) Games
18 48 (0.78%) Multimedia
19 44 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,253 (20.48%) Senior
2 841 (13.74%) Software Engineer
3 834 (13.63%) Developer
4 705 (11.52%) Analyst
5 679 (11.10%) Python Engineer
6 621 (10.15%) Data Engineer
7 610 (9.97%) Lead
8 534 (8.73%) Data Analyst
9 513 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 463 (7.57%) Junior
11 384 (6.28%) Junior Analyst
12 380 (6.21%) Junior Data Analyst
13 368 (6.01%) Python Developer
14 313 (5.12%) Python Software Engineer
15 251 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
16 219 (3.58%) Architect
17 218 (3.56%) Data Scientist
18 196 (3.20%) Senior Developer
19 194 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
20 187 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 951 (15.54%) Terraform
2 393 (6.42%) React
3 251 (4.10%) Kafka
4 231 (3.78%) .NET
5 230 (3.76%) REST
6 222 (3.63%) PySpark
7 220 (3.60%) Node.js
8 211 (3.45%) RESTful
9 207 (3.38%) FastAPI
10 189 (3.09%) HTML
11 186 (3.04%) Django
12 183 (2.99%) PyTorch
13 175 (2.86%) LangChain
14 172 (2.81%) CSS
15 154 (2.52%) TensorFlow
16 129 (2.11%) Flask
17 117 (1.91%) Spring
17 117 (1.91%) Spring Boot
18 110 (1.80%) Pandas
19 101 (1.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 595 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 321 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
3 300 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 237 (3.87%) AI Agents
5 207 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 158 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 137 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 85 (1.39%) Robotics
10 84 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 82 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 82 (1.34%) Management Information System
11 82 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 77 (1.26%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 75 (1.23%) Low-Code
15 69 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
16 65 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 708 (11.57%) Linux
2 317 (5.18%) Windows
3 83 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.29%) Unix
5 52 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.72%) CentOS
7 39 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.39%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.21%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Android
16 10 (0.16%) VMS
17 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,544 (41.58%) AI
2 1,657 (27.08%) Software Engineering
3 1,569 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 1,192 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 1,095 (17.90%) Analytics
6 1,090 (17.81%) DevOps
7 1,072 (17.52%) Agile
8 1,016 (16.60%) Machine Learning
9 963 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
10 944 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 802 (13.11%) Mentoring
12 730 (11.93%) Data Engineering
13 718 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
14 656 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 655 (10.70%) Data Modelling
16 633 (10.34%) Data Science
17 603 (9.85%) Decision-Making
18 594 (9.71%) Computer Science
19 587 (9.59%) Containerisation
20 574 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,105 (34.40%) SQL
2 809 (13.22%) Java
3 629 (10.28%) JavaScript
4 562 (9.18%) C++
5 507 (8.29%) Bash
6 490 (8.01%) PowerShell
7 476 (7.78%) C#
8 390 (6.37%) TypeScript
9 260 (4.25%) Go
10 197 (3.22%) C
11 173 (2.83%) R
12 120 (1.96%) Scala
13 95 (1.55%) PHP
14 94 (1.54%) Bicep
15 91 (1.49%) Rust
16 89 (1.45%) Perl
17 76 (1.24%) Ruby
18 74 (1.21%) MATLAB
19 69 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 918 (15.00%) Degree
2 840 (13.73%) Azure Certification
3 823 (13.45%) Security Cleared
4 457 (7.47%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 219 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 158 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 121 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 117 (1.91%) PhD
11 85 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 66 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 63 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.83%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.70%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 33 (0.54%) CCNA
19 32 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 30 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 264 (4.31%) QA
3 135 (2.21%) GDPR
4 106 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.98%) NIST
6 56 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) SLA
8 27 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.29%) NCSC
12 18 (0.29%) WCAG
13 16 (0.26%) PMO
14 15 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.25%) GRC
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 758 (12.39%) Docker
2 111 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 98 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.13%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.29%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) iptables
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 757 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.62%) Ansible
3 236 (3.86%) Grafana
4 148 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.01%) Puppet
6 54 (0.88%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.62%) Kibana
9 33 (0.54%) Istio
10 32 (0.52%) Nagios
11 28 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.46%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.36%) Podman
14 21 (0.34%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,162 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 455 (7.44%) Databricks
3 206 (3.37%) Google
4 148 (2.42%) Splunk
5 123 (2.01%) Cisco
5 123 (2.01%) VMware
6 121 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 115 (1.88%) Oracle
8 97 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 53 (0.87%) Foundry
11 51 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 50 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 38 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.62%) SolarWinds
15 34 (0.56%) F5
16 33 (0.54%) SAP
17 31 (0.51%) IBM
18 30 (0.49%) Informatica