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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,031 5,500 5,209
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.59% 11.41% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.08% 33.66% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,769 3,320 4,095
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,220
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,316 16,342 18,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.43% 33.89% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,794 9,620 15,797
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,250 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 15 January 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 15 January 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 1,988 £84,250 -0.88% 973
North of England -8 659 £52,000 -16.80% 554
South East -36 427 £60,000 -7.69% 1,053
Midlands -14 374 £60,000 +9.09% 313
South West -2 326 £60,000 -7.69% 361
Yorkshire +12 302 £51,000 -21.54% 209
North West -15 272 £55,000 -8.33% 254
West Midlands +1 260 £60,000 +4.35% 131
East of England -12 205 £50,000 -28.57% 407
East Midlands -31 117 £62,500 +13.64% 177
North East 0 87 £40,000 -42.29% 94
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
1 169 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 141 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 129 (3.20%) Apache
4 44 (1.09%) Confluence
5 34 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.72%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.40%) Appian
11 16 (0.40%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.17%) CMS
15 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 510 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.099%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.099%) Windchill
9 3 (0.074%) CATIA
9 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.074%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,566 (38.85%) Azure
2 1,411 (35.00%) AWS
3 688 (17.07%) Power Platform
4 530 (13.15%) GitHub
5 426 (10.57%) GCP
6 276 (6.85%) Azure AI
7 262 (6.50%) Serverless
8 181 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 179 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 170 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (3.94%) Amazon S3
12 157 (3.89%) SaaS
13 146 (3.62%) dbt
14 140 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 140 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 97 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 89 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 89 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
17 82 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
18 73 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.38%) Internet
2 152 (3.77%) Firewall
3 87 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 77 (1.91%) VPN
5 71 (1.76%) WAN
6 67 (1.66%) DNS
7 62 (1.54%) LAN
8 52 (1.29%) BGP
9 48 (1.19%) Wireless
10 42 (1.04%) Network Security
11 40 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (0.97%) HTTP
12 39 (0.97%) OSPF
13 37 (0.92%) Broadband
14 36 (0.89%) VLAN
15 31 (0.77%) MPLS
16 30 (0.74%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.72%) SSL
18 27 (0.67%) SAN
19 21 (0.52%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (16.13%) Power BI
2 547 (13.57%) Tableau
3 269 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 219 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 166 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 163 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.47%) Data Mining
9 132 (3.27%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.88%) MongoDB
11 104 (2.58%) Big Data
12 95 (2.36%) BigQuery
13 90 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 86 (2.13%) MySQL
15 83 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
16 81 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
18 71 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
19 68 (1.69%) Hadoop
20 64 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 567 (14.07%) Git
2 228 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.42%) GitLab
4 124 (3.08%) JIRA
5 58 (1.44%) Selenium
6 43 (1.07%) MLflow
7 38 (0.94%) JUnit
8 35 (0.87%) Postman
9 26 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 25 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.60%) JMeter
12 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.30%) Burp Suite
16 12 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.30%) Metasploit
16 12 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 1,172 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (25.20%) Finance
3 622 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (6.15%) Banking
5 241 (5.98%) Multimedia
6 171 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 169 (4.19%) Law
8 161 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 154 (3.82%) Marketing
10 149 (3.70%) Front Office
11 116 (2.88%) Retail
12 111 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 101 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 87 (2.16%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.94%) Electronics
16 73 (1.81%) Investment Banking
16 73 (1.81%) Legal
17 60 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.39%) Games
19 51 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 765 (18.98%) Developer
2 683 (16.94%) Analyst
3 667 (16.55%) Senior
4 499 (12.38%) Data Analyst
5 422 (10.47%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.93%) Trainee
7 322 (7.99%) Software Engineer
8 305 (7.57%) Python Developer
9 298 (7.39%) Lead
10 261 (6.47%) Junior
11 246 (6.10%) Python Engineer
12 235 (5.83%) Junior Analyst
12 235 (5.83%) Junior Data Analyst
13 189 (4.69%) Software Developer
14 145 (3.60%) Senior Developer
15 144 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 142 (3.52%) Architect
17 141 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
18 140 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
19 129 (3.20%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (9.38%) HTML
2 333 (8.26%) CSS
3 324 (8.04%) React
4 171 (4.24%) Node.js
5 167 (4.14%) REST
6 155 (3.85%) Django
7 142 (3.52%) Kafka
8 141 (3.50%) RESTful
9 137 (3.40%) Pandas
10 133 (3.30%) FastAPI
11 128 (3.18%) PySpark
12 117 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.75%) .NET
14 103 (2.56%) Flask
15 101 (2.51%) AngularJS
16 99 (2.46%) TensorFlow
17 96 (2.38%) NumPy
18 86 (2.13%) Vue
19 83 (2.06%) JSON
20 77 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 200 (4.96%) Algorithms
3 152 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 142 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 128 (3.18%) Equities
6 112 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 92 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 89 (2.21%) Fixed Income
10 88 (2.18%) Hedge funds
11 82 (2.03%) Derivative
12 80 (1.98%) Product Ownership
13 73 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
14 70 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 66 (1.64%) Low-Code
16 62 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
17 56 (1.39%) AI Agents
18 55 (1.36%) Data Centre
18 55 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
19 50 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 497 (12.33%) Linux
2 208 (5.16%) Windows
3 185 (4.59%) Unix
4 71 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.62%) CentOS
8 22 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.52%) Debian
10 17 (0.42%) VMS
11 16 (0.40%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.17%) Android
15 6 (0.15%) zOS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.099%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
18 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (27.54%) AI
2 937 (23.24%) CI/CD
3 885 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 821 (20.37%) Analytics
5 786 (19.50%) Agile
6 765 (18.98%) DevOps
7 759 (18.83%) Business Intelligence
8 641 (15.90%) Software Engineering
9 636 (15.78%) Mentoring
10 527 (13.07%) Machine Learning
11 482 (11.96%) ETL
12 480 (11.91%) Data Science
13 460 (11.41%) Data Modelling
14 453 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
15 441 (10.94%) Data Engineering
16 440 (10.92%) Computer Science
17 422 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 409 (10.15%) Data Analysis
19 369 (9.15%) Containerisation
20 367 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,617 (40.11%) SQL
2 714 (17.71%) JavaScript
3 582 (14.44%) Java
4 369 (9.15%) Bash
5 334 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 330 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 272 (6.75%) C#
8 243 (6.03%) R
9 202 (5.01%) C++
10 148 (3.67%) Go
11 108 (2.68%) C
12 80 (1.98%) Scala
13 60 (1.49%) PHP
14 54 (1.34%) VBA
15 49 (1.22%) Bicep
15 49 (1.22%) Perl
16 45 (1.12%) MATLAB
17 39 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 39 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 788 (19.55%) Degree
2 543 (13.47%) Azure Certification
3 418 (10.37%) Security Cleared
4 356 (8.83%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 252 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 239 (5.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 205 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.69%) Master's Degree
10 158 (3.92%) DV Cleared
11 121 (3.00%) PhD
12 77 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.49%) CCNP
14 50 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 41 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.62%) CCIE
19 25 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.99%) QA
3 100 (2.48%) GDPR
4 98 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (1.89%) NIST
6 62 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.84%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.40%) PMO
11 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.099%) GRC
17 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 501 (12.43%) Docker
2 76 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.65%) Firmware
5 20 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.42%) vSphere
7 15 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.30%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.25%) HDFS
10 9 (0.22%) KVM
11 8 (0.20%) NFS
11 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.17%) Lustre
13 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.12%) Postfix
14 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
15 4 (0.099%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.099%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.099%) Squid
Systems Management
1 524 (13.00%) Kubernetes
2 490 (12.16%) Terraform
3 301 (7.47%) Ansible
4 120 (2.98%) Grafana
5 118 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 49 (1.22%) Argo
7 26 (0.65%) Kibana
8 21 (0.52%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.37%) Nessus
11 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.35%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.30%) Control-M
13 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
14 11 (0.27%) Rancher
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,030 (25.55%) Microsoft
2 266 (6.60%) Databricks
3 187 (4.64%) Google
4 133 (3.30%) Oracle
5 104 (2.58%) Cisco
6 97 (2.41%) VMware
7 83 (2.06%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.66%) SAP
10 61 (1.51%) Splunk
11 60 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 57 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.09%) Alteryx
14 44 (1.09%) IBM
15 42 (1.04%) Informatica
16 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 41 (1.02%) Talend
17 29 (0.72%) Palantir
18 27 (0.67%) Palo Alto