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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,036 4,847 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.95% 11.23% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.85% 41.06% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 2,662 4,285
10th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £135,000
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 16,838 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.61% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,286 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 17 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 17 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 2,520 £85,000 -5.56% 6,839
North of England -16 1,158 £67,500 +8.00% 1,010
South East +8 866 £62,500 +4.17% 1,150
South West +10 598 £62,500 +13.64% 588
North West -22 574 £67,500 +12.50% 545
Midlands +1 529 £61,450 -5.10% 495
Yorkshire +9 339 £68,038 +4.67% 332
East of England +9 313 £65,000 +18.18% 695
West Midlands -11 286 £65,000 +4.00% 280
North East +19 245 £67,153 +41.37% 137
East Midlands +16 241 £52,500 -19.23% 215
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
1 218 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 175 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.72%) Apache
4 74 (1.23%) Confluence
5 39 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 27 (0.45%) SAS
8 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.33%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.12%) IIS
15 7 (0.12%) WordPress
16 6 (0.099%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 443 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.36%) Simulink
4 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 20 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.099%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.050%) Blender
10 3 (0.050%) Mathematica
10 3 (0.050%) Maya
10 3 (0.050%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) 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 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,279 (37.76%) Azure
2 1,866 (30.91%) AWS
3 836 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 727 (12.04%) GCP
5 676 (11.20%) Azure AI
6 367 (6.08%) GitHub
7 364 (6.03%) Serverless
8 255 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 236 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 228 (3.78%) Amazon S3
11 223 (3.69%) SaaS
12 220 (3.64%) Snowflake
13 209 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 202 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 181 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
16 176 (2.92%) dbt
17 175 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
18 138 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
20 126 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.55%) Firewall
2 147 (2.44%) DNS
3 133 (2.20%) VPN
4 131 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 101 (1.67%) Network Security
6 96 (1.59%) WAN
7 82 (1.36%) Wireless
8 77 (1.28%) Broadband
9 69 (1.14%) LAN
10 62 (1.03%) DHCP
11 59 (0.98%) BGP
12 50 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 46 (0.76%) VLAN
14 45 (0.75%) MQTT
15 43 (0.71%) OSPF
16 37 (0.61%) HTTP
17 36 (0.60%) SSL
18 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
18 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 763 (12.64%) Power BI
2 485 (8.04%) Tableau
3 338 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 281 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 184 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 146 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 126 (2.09%) BigQuery
10 124 (2.05%) Big Data
11 111 (1.84%) MySQL
12 105 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 105 (1.74%) Metadata
13 98 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
14 92 (1.52%) DynamoDB
15 90 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
16 78 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
17 74 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 73 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 666 (11.03%) Git
2 309 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 249 (4.13%) GitLab
4 176 (2.92%) JIRA
5 66 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 52 (0.86%) MLflow
6 52 (0.86%) Subversion
7 51 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.83%) Selenium
9 38 (0.63%) JUnit
9 38 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 36 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 33 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.45%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 22 (0.36%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 1,990 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (21.31%) Finance
3 805 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 342 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (5.25%) Banking
6 253 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.60%) Law
8 193 (3.20%) Marketing
9 161 (2.67%) Retail
10 129 (2.14%) Legal
11 109 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 104 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 102 (1.69%) Front Office
14 99 (1.64%) Electronics
15 85 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 59 (0.98%) Games
19 46 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
20 45 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,252 (20.74%) Senior
2 854 (14.15%) Software Engineer
3 831 (13.77%) Developer
4 690 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 659 (10.92%) Analyst
6 621 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 604 (10.01%) Lead
8 518 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 480 (7.95%) Data Analyst
10 412 (6.83%) Junior
11 358 (5.93%) Python Developer
12 335 (5.55%) Junior Analyst
13 331 (5.48%) Junior Data Analyst
14 330 (5.47%) Python Software Engineer
15 250 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 219 (3.63%) Data Scientist
17 218 (3.61%) Architect
18 199 (3.30%) Senior Developer
19 192 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
20 190 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 955 (15.82%) Terraform
2 397 (6.58%) React
3 242 (4.01%) Kafka
4 235 (3.89%) .NET
5 233 (3.86%) REST
6 228 (3.78%) PySpark
7 225 (3.73%) Node.js
8 209 (3.46%) RESTful
9 208 (3.45%) FastAPI
10 181 (3.00%) Django
11 179 (2.97%) LangChain
12 172 (2.85%) PyTorch
13 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
14 145 (2.40%) HTML
15 129 (2.14%) CSS
16 126 (2.09%) Flask
17 119 (1.97%) Spring
17 119 (1.97%) Spring Boot
18 102 (1.69%) Pandas
19 97 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 602 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 309 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 288 (4.77%) Algorithms
4 244 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 214 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 152 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 135 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 86 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 86 (1.42%) Robotics
10 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 83 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
12 82 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 79 (1.31%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
15 76 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 71 (1.18%) Low-Code
17 66 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
18 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 706 (11.70%) Linux
2 326 (5.40%) Windows
3 86 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.36%) Unix
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.73%) CentOS
7 41 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.41%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.27%) Rocky
13 14 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 12 (0.20%) Solaris
16 11 (0.18%) Android
17 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,525 (41.83%) AI
2 1,668 (27.63%) Software Engineering
3 1,595 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 1,194 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
5 1,107 (18.34%) DevOps
6 1,100 (18.22%) Analytics
7 1,084 (17.96%) Agile
8 1,002 (16.60%) Machine Learning
9 954 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 927 (15.36%) Business Intelligence
11 804 (13.32%) Mentoring
12 738 (12.23%) Data Engineering
13 723 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
14 663 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 647 (10.72%) Data Modelling
16 629 (10.42%) Data Science
17 613 (10.16%) Decision-Making
18 595 (9.86%) Computer Science
19 578 (9.58%) Containerisation
20 576 (9.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,069 (34.28%) SQL
2 815 (13.50%) Java
3 598 (9.91%) JavaScript
4 570 (9.44%) C++
5 520 (8.61%) Bash
6 497 (8.23%) PowerShell
7 487 (8.07%) C#
8 397 (6.58%) TypeScript
9 250 (4.14%) Go
10 199 (3.30%) C
11 134 (2.22%) R
12 113 (1.87%) Scala
13 95 (1.57%) Bicep
13 95 (1.57%) Rust
14 93 (1.54%) PHP
15 86 (1.42%) Perl
16 79 (1.31%) MATLAB
17 75 (1.24%) Ruby
18 68 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 53 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 925 (15.32%) Degree
2 849 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 752 (12.46%) Azure Certification
4 484 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 270 (4.47%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.97%) PhD
9 111 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 82 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 76 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 65 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 49 (0.81%) CCNP
14 46 (0.76%) CISSP
15 43 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.55%) CCNA
18 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (0.48%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 258 (4.27%) QA
3 139 (2.30%) GDPR
4 106 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 62 (1.03%) NIST
6 54 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.33%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 16 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.23%) PMO
15 13 (0.22%) GRC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 759 (12.57%) Docker
2 113 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.06%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.28%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
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
1 777 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 411 (6.81%) Ansible
3 233 (3.86%) Grafana
4 155 (2.57%) Prometheus
5 64 (1.06%) Puppet
6 59 (0.98%) Argo
7 43 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 39 (0.65%) Kibana
9 32 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.46%) Istio
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.45%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.36%) Podman
13 22 (0.36%) Rancher
14 18 (0.30%) logstash
14 18 (0.30%) Proxmox
14 18 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 16 (0.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,064 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 444 (7.36%) Databricks
3 214 (3.55%) Google
4 153 (2.53%) Splunk
5 120 (1.99%) OpenAI
5 120 (1.99%) VMware
6 119 (1.97%) Oracle
7 114 (1.89%) Cisco
8 95 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 51 (0.84%) Foundry
11 50 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 47 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.66%) Salesforce
15 37 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 35 (0.58%) SAP
17 31 (0.51%) F5
17 31 (0.51%) Informatica
18 30 (0.50%) New Relic