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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,104 4,945 7,338
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.36% 13.02% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.23% 41.04% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,563 2,800 5,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,250 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £68,679 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.27% +3.57% -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 14,806 12,050 27,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.85% 31.74% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,557 8,181 22,505
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 27 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 27 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% 1,374
North of England -9 1,249 £60,000 -7.69% 443
South East +4 902 £62,250 -0.80% 516
Midlands +16 656 £55,000 - 186
North West -27 552 £65,000 - 243
South West +7 523 £57,500 +0.10% 212
Yorkshire +16 506 £50,000 -21.88% 125
West Midlands +10 358 £60,000 +9.09% 85
East of England +1 313 £62,500 -5.60% 182
East Midlands +25 298 £55,000 +22.22% 100
North East +23 191 £52,500 -19.23% 78
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
1 209 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 193 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 145 (2.38%) Apache
4 72 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.90%) WordPress
6 46 (0.75%) Confluence
7 34 (0.56%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 10 (0.16%) Appian
13 6 (0.098%) nginx
13 6 (0.098%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,089 (17.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.033%) Blender
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Maya
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
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%) Actimize
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 2,802 (45.90%) Azure
2 1,874 (30.70%) AWS
3 1,343 (22.00%) Power Platform
4 1,222 (20.02%) Azure AI
5 655 (10.73%) GCP
6 473 (7.75%) GitHub
7 318 (5.21%) Serverless
8 233 (3.82%) Amazon S3
9 226 (3.70%) SaaS
10 224 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
11 199 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
12 174 (2.85%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
14 163 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.64%) dbt
16 150 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
17 141 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
18 123 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 102 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.75%) Firewall
2 172 (2.82%) Broadband
3 160 (2.62%) Internet
4 126 (2.06%) VPN
5 124 (2.03%) DNS
6 102 (1.67%) Network Security
7 98 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 96 (1.57%) WAN
9 83 (1.36%) LAN
10 74 (1.21%) Wireless
11 65 (1.06%) BGP
12 55 (0.90%) HTTP
13 52 (0.85%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 46 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
18 32 (0.52%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
19 29 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,284 (21.04%) Power BI
2 1,169 (19.15%) Tableau
3 285 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.67%) Data Lake
6 163 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 139 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 136 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 118 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 113 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 112 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.82%) Big Data
13 104 (1.70%) Data Mining
14 87 (1.43%) Metadata
15 79 (1.29%) MySQL
16 72 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
17 65 (1.06%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
19 54 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 658 (10.78%) Git
2 254 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 228 (3.74%) GitLab
4 130 (2.13%) JIRA
5 79 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.02%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.64%) Selenium
9 34 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 32 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 31 (0.51%) Postman
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
14 21 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.34%) Subversion
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JMeter
16 18 (0.29%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 2,259 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 1,191 (19.51%) Finance
3 830 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (4.19%) Banking
5 255 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 212 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 180 (2.95%) Retail
8 158 (2.59%) Law
9 144 (2.36%) Multimedia
10 131 (2.15%) Front Office
11 130 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 101 (1.65%) Legal
13 99 (1.62%) Marketing
14 89 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.31%) Electronics
16 68 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 60 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 58 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 54 (0.88%) Investment Banking
20 50 (0.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,297 (21.25%) Analyst
2 1,123 (18.40%) Data Analyst
3 977 (16.01%) Senior
4 941 (15.42%) Junior
5 926 (15.17%) Developer
6 900 (14.74%) Junior Analyst
6 900 (14.74%) Junior Data Analyst
7 614 (10.06%) Software Engineer
8 539 (8.83%) Data Engineer
9 495 (8.11%) Lead
10 492 (8.06%) Python Engineer
11 423 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.44%) Python Developer
13 280 (4.59%) Trainee
14 221 (3.62%) Python Software Engineer
15 195 (3.19%) Software Developer
16 181 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
17 176 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
18 175 (2.87%) Architect
19 173 (2.83%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (6.03%) React
2 274 (4.49%) HTML
3 259 (4.24%) Kafka
4 255 (4.18%) CSS
5 224 (3.67%) PySpark
6 210 (3.44%) Node.js
7 207 (3.39%) REST
8 195 (3.19%) .NET
9 180 (2.95%) RESTful
10 171 (2.80%) Django
11 162 (2.65%) PyTorch
12 158 (2.59%) Pandas
13 152 (2.49%) FastAPI
14 141 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 122 (2.00%) scikit-learn
16 120 (1.97%) Flask
17 116 (1.90%) LangChain
18 105 (1.72%) NumPy
19 96 (1.57%) JSON
20 86 (1.41%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 389 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 321 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 267 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 175 (2.87%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 121 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 115 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 101 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 95 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 92 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 89 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
12 86 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 84 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 83 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 80 (1.31%) Hedge funds
16 79 (1.29%) Security Posture
17 78 (1.28%) Equities
18 71 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
19 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
20 65 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 624 (10.22%) Linux
2 264 (4.33%) Windows
3 99 (1.62%) Unix
4 78 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 34 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
10 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.16%) Android
12 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
17 5 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,537 (41.56%) AI
2 1,383 (22.66%) Business Intelligence
3 1,303 (21.35%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (19.59%) Software Engineering
5 998 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 981 (16.07%) Agile
7 973 (15.94%) Analytics
8 950 (15.56%) DevOps
9 816 (13.37%) Machine Learning
10 735 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 731 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 606 (9.93%) Data Modelling
13 586 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
14 580 (9.50%) Data Science
15 571 (9.35%) Data Engineering
16 538 (8.81%) ETL
17 535 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 517 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 503 (8.24%) Containerisation
20 486 (7.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,427 (39.76%) SQL
2 696 (11.40%) JavaScript
3 660 (10.81%) Java
4 478 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 452 (7.40%) Bash
6 409 (6.70%) C++
7 375 (6.14%) C#
8 361 (5.91%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.54%) Go
10 212 (3.47%) R
11 161 (2.64%) C
12 125 (2.05%) Scala
13 84 (1.38%) Rust
14 72 (1.18%) PHP
15 61 (1.00%) VBA
16 59 (0.97%) Bicep
17 48 (0.79%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.75%) Perl
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,423 (23.31%) Azure Certification
2 771 (12.63%) Degree
3 576 (9.44%) Security Cleared
4 342 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 288 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 281 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 200 (3.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 200 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 183 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 153 (2.51%) Master's Degree
10 88 (1.44%) PhD
11 82 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 69 (1.13%) CCNP
13 51 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.82%) OSCP
15 38 (0.62%) CISSP
16 35 (0.57%) CREST Certified
17 30 (0.49%) CCIE
17 30 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 228 (3.74%) QA
3 123 (2.02%) GDPR
4 94 (1.54%) NIST
5 81 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.41%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.31%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 604 (9.90%) Docker
2 108 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.95%) Firmware
5 35 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.11%) Squid
14 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Lustre
16 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 781 (12.79%) Terraform
2 630 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.78%) Ansible
4 207 (3.39%) Grafana
5 169 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.06%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.43%) Kibana
11 23 (0.38%) Istio
12 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 20 (0.33%) Packer
14 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.23%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,782 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 333 (5.46%) Databricks
3 208 (3.41%) Google
4 130 (2.13%) Oracle
5 127 (2.08%) Cisco
5 127 (2.08%) VMware
6 109 (1.79%) Splunk
7 100 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 99 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 56 (0.92%) Foundry
9 56 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 53 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 52 (0.85%) SolarWinds
12 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
13 49 (0.80%) SAP
14 47 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
17 37 (0.61%) Informatica
17 37 (0.61%) Palantir