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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,412 5,168 6,476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.87% 11.81% 8.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.29% 40.28% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 2,882 4,665
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,875 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 16,747 12,830 21,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 29.31% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,174 8,566 15,968
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -3 2,637 £85,000 -5.56% 3,031
North of England -12 1,268 £65,000 - 575
South East +3 929 £60,000 - 645
South West +11 618 £60,000 +9.09% 311
North West -16 608 £65,500 +9.17% 308
Midlands +8 583 £61,450 -3.23% 250
Yorkshire +12 413 £65,000 - 173
East of England +8 316 £65,000 +8.33% 301
West Midlands -4 310 £62,500 -3.85% 139
East Midlands +19 272 £52,500 -6.67% 111
North East +26 247 £62,500 -3.85% 99
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
1 247 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 243 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.90%) Apache
4 65 (1.01%) Confluence
5 64 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 24 (0.37%) SAS
9 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.20%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 4 (0.062%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.062%) Headless CMS
15 4 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 765 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.047%) Blender
9 3 (0.047%) Maya
9 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.047%) Trello
10 2 (0.031%) CATIA
10 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.031%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.016%) Revit
11 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.12%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.078%) Shopify
5 4 (0.062%) Line 50
5 4 (0.062%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 2,592 (40.42%) Azure
2 2,067 (32.24%) AWS
3 1,082 (16.87%) Power Platform
4 945 (14.74%) Azure AI
5 790 (12.32%) GCP
6 395 (6.16%) GitHub
7 375 (5.85%) Serverless
8 261 (4.07%) Amazon S3
9 241 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
10 238 (3.71%) Snowflake
11 232 (3.62%) SaaS
12 226 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
13 209 (3.26%) dbt
14 206 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 172 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 158 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
18 135 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 129 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
20 119 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.59%) Firewall
2 148 (2.31%) Broadband
3 136 (2.12%) DNS
4 128 (2.00%) VPN
5 122 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 111 (1.73%) Network Security
7 94 (1.47%) WAN
8 78 (1.22%) Wireless
9 73 (1.14%) LAN
10 70 (1.09%) Internet
11 52 (0.81%) BGP
12 49 (0.76%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) HTTP
15 43 (0.67%) DHCP
16 40 (0.62%) MQTT
17 36 (0.56%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,016 (15.85%) Power BI
2 840 (13.10%) Tableau
3 342 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 294 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 201 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 167 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 143 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 120 (1.87%) Big Data
12 114 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 112 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 109 (1.70%) MySQL
15 103 (1.61%) Metadata
16 85 (1.33%) DynamoDB
17 80 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
18 71 (1.11%) Looker
19 70 (1.09%) Delta Lake
20 59 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 702 (10.95%) Git
2 286 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.81%) GitLab
4 169 (2.64%) JIRA
5 72 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 62 (0.97%) MLflow
7 59 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 49 (0.76%) Selenium
9 38 (0.59%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.53%) JUnit
11 34 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 26 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.34%) JMeter
17 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,196 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 1,344 (20.96%) Finance
3 861 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (5.04%) Banking
4 323 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 238 (3.71%) Public Sector
6 224 (3.49%) Law
7 182 (2.84%) Retail
8 172 (2.68%) Marketing
9 133 (2.07%) Legal
10 131 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 126 (1.97%) Front Office
12 89 (1.39%) Electronics
13 87 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 87 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 79 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
15 70 (1.09%) Investment Banking
16 67 (1.04%) Games
17 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,249 (19.48%) Senior
2 972 (15.16%) Analyst
3 885 (13.80%) Developer
4 836 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 795 (12.40%) Data Analyst
6 700 (10.92%) Junior
7 666 (10.39%) Python Engineer
8 640 (9.98%) Data Engineer
9 620 (9.67%) Junior Analyst
10 617 (9.62%) Junior Data Analyst
11 610 (9.51%) Lead
12 474 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 369 (5.75%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
16 216 (3.37%) Architect
17 214 (3.34%) Data Scientist
18 199 (3.10%) Senior Developer
19 187 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
20 185 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (6.43%) React
2 289 (4.51%) Kafka
3 241 (3.76%) Node.js
4 235 (3.67%) PySpark
5 228 (3.56%) .NET
5 228 (3.56%) REST
6 208 (3.24%) RESTful
7 204 (3.18%) FastAPI
8 196 (3.06%) Django
9 193 (3.01%) HTML
10 179 (2.79%) PyTorch
11 176 (2.74%) CSS
12 170 (2.65%) LangChain
13 151 (2.35%) TensorFlow
14 150 (2.34%) Pandas
15 135 (2.11%) Flask
16 130 (2.03%) scikit-learn
17 113 (1.76%) Spring
18 111 (1.73%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 578 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 348 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 328 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 206 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 198 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 160 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 137 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 95 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 87 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 84 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 77 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.19%) Equities
15 76 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 76 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
16 74 (1.15%) Robotics
17 69 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 727 (11.34%) Linux
2 332 (5.18%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.37%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.72%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 21 (0.33%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) Android
13 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.16%) Rocky
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Solaris
15 8 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,745 (42.81%) AI
2 1,618 (25.23%) Software Engineering
3 1,568 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 1,175 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1,162 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
6 1,146 (17.87%) Agile
7 1,120 (17.47%) Analytics
8 1,083 (16.89%) DevOps
9 1,011 (15.77%) Machine Learning
10 917 (14.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 803 (12.52%) Mentoring
12 740 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
13 731 (11.40%) Data Engineering
14 675 (10.53%) Data Modelling
15 652 (10.17%) Data Science
16 643 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 606 (9.45%) Containerisation
18 582 (9.08%) Computer Science
19 574 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
20 573 (8.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,370 (36.96%) SQL
2 813 (12.68%) Java
3 672 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.58%) C++
5 505 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 483 (7.53%) Bash
7 461 (7.19%) C#
8 408 (6.36%) TypeScript
9 280 (4.37%) Go
10 188 (2.93%) C
11 173 (2.70%) R
12 135 (2.11%) Scala
13 101 (1.58%) PHP
13 101 (1.58%) Rust
14 89 (1.39%) Bicep
15 76 (1.19%) Perl
16 72 (1.12%) Ruby
17 64 (1.00%) MATLAB
18 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 49 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,074 (16.75%) Azure Certification
2 882 (13.76%) Degree
3 777 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 436 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 319 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.10%) Master's Degree
8 194 (3.03%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 100 (1.56%) PhD
12 79 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.81%) CCNP
14 51 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 38 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
17 36 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 30 (0.47%) OSCP
20 26 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 268 (4.18%) QA
3 152 (2.37%) GDPR
4 104 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.14%) NIST
6 63 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 30 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.37%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.31%) PMO
13 19 (0.30%) GRC
14 13 (0.20%) NCSC
15 12 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.12%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 768 (11.98%) Docker
2 114 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 63 (0.98%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 27 (0.42%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.12%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.062%) iptables
15 4 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
Systems Management
1 928 (14.47%) Terraform
2 746 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 396 (6.18%) Ansible
4 240 (3.74%) Grafana
5 150 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 52 (0.81%) Argo
7 51 (0.80%) Puppet
8 43 (0.67%) Nagios
9 35 (0.55%) Kibana
10 34 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.45%) Istio
12 29 (0.45%) Packer
13 24 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,411 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 445 (6.94%) Databricks
3 207 (3.23%) Google
4 153 (2.39%) Splunk
5 146 (2.28%) Oracle
6 140 (2.18%) VMware
7 119 (1.86%) Cisco
8 117 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 116 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 74 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.95%) Foundry
12 56 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 42 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 40 (0.62%) F5
16 40 (0.62%) Fortinet
17 39 (0.61%) SAP
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 33 (0.51%) Palantir