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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,236 4,973 6,656
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.48% 11.38% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.34% 40.21% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 2,774 4,654
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £99,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
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 16,699 12,369 21,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.35% 28.31% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,221 8,251 15,513
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
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 25 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 25 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 -2 2,614 £85,000 -2.86% 902
North of England -13 1,216 £66,750 +6.80% 401
South East +8 886 £60,000 - 561
South West +12 609 £60,000 +9.09% 347
North West -19 586 £66,750 +11.25% 202
Midlands +5 548 £62,000 -4.62% 200
Yorkshire +12 380 £67,750 +4.23% 125
East of England +9 310 £65,000 +18.18% 183
West Midlands -5 294 £65,000 - 114
East Midlands +13 252 £52,500 -19.23% 85
North East +30 250 £66,000 +1.54% 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
1 227 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 209 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 169 (2.71%) Apache
4 70 (1.12%) Confluence
5 47 (0.75%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 25 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.35%) SAS
9 13 (0.21%) nginx
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.13%) CMS
11 8 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) Camunda
12 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 6 (0.096%) JBoss
14 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 598 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 27 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.080%) Shopify
7 4 (0.064%) Line 50
7 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) FastStats
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,451 (39.30%) Azure
2 1,983 (31.80%) AWS
3 957 (15.35%) Power Platform
4 813 (13.04%) Azure AI
5 755 (12.11%) GCP
6 401 (6.43%) GitHub
7 368 (5.90%) Serverless
8 241 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 239 (3.83%) SaaS
10 236 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 235 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 233 (3.74%) Snowflake
13 206 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 198 (3.18%) dbt
15 187 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
17 159 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
18 144 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 130 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
20 121 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.59%) Firewall
2 139 (2.23%) DNS
3 127 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 126 (2.02%) VPN
5 122 (1.96%) Broadband
6 108 (1.73%) Network Security
7 94 (1.51%) WAN
8 78 (1.25%) Wireless
9 72 (1.15%) LAN
10 71 (1.14%) Internet
11 56 (0.90%) BGP
12 50 (0.80%) DHCP
13 47 (0.75%) VLAN
14 46 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.66%) MQTT
16 40 (0.64%) OSPF
17 39 (0.63%) HTTP
18 35 (0.56%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (14.19%) Power BI
2 655 (10.50%) Tableau
3 341 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
4 281 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 132 (2.12%) BigQuery
11 121 (1.94%) Big Data
12 114 (1.83%) MySQL
13 109 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 108 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
15 96 (1.54%) Metadata
16 88 (1.41%) DynamoDB
17 83 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.15%) Delta Lake
18 72 (1.15%) Looker
19 62 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 692 (11.10%) Git
2 293 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.85%) GitLab
4 172 (2.76%) JIRA
5 62 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 59 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.80%) Selenium
9 45 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 44 (0.71%) Subversion
11 38 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.59%) JUnit
13 35 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
16 22 (0.35%) Maven
17 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
18 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2,092 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 1,303 (20.89%) Finance
3 832 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 316 (5.07%) Banking
6 241 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 214 (3.43%) Law
8 188 (3.01%) Marketing
9 154 (2.47%) Retail
10 127 (2.04%) Legal
11 106 (1.70%) Front Office
11 106 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 93 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 92 (1.48%) Electronics
14 84 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 80 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.07%) Games
18 54 (0.87%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,246 (19.98%) Senior
2 857 (13.74%) Developer
3 829 (13.29%) Software Engineer
4 804 (12.89%) Analyst
5 669 (10.73%) Python Engineer
6 628 (10.07%) Data Engineer
7 627 (10.05%) Data Analyst
8 618 (9.91%) Lead
9 562 (9.01%) Junior
10 497 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.68%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.62%) Junior Data Analyst
13 368 (5.90%) Python Developer
14 297 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 242 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.53%) Architect
17 212 (3.40%) Data Scientist
18 197 (3.16%) Senior Developer
19 187 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (15.17%) Terraform
2 401 (6.43%) React
3 266 (4.27%) Kafka
4 234 (3.75%) .NET
5 232 (3.72%) Node.js
6 225 (3.61%) REST
7 222 (3.56%) PySpark
8 210 (3.37%) RESTful
9 207 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 192 (3.08%) HTML
11 186 (2.98%) Django
12 184 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 177 (2.84%) LangChain
14 175 (2.81%) CSS
15 157 (2.52%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.08%) Flask
17 117 (1.88%) Spring
17 117 (1.88%) Spring Boot
18 112 (1.80%) Pandas
19 108 (1.73%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 600 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 335 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 302 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 227 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 204 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 148 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 147 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 94 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 94 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 84 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 78 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 78 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 78 (1.25%) Robotics
12 77 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
14 75 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
15 73 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
16 66 (1.06%) Equities
17 64 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 717 (11.50%) Linux
2 326 (5.23%) Windows
3 91 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.27%) Unix
5 54 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,613 (41.90%) AI
2 1,636 (26.23%) Software Engineering
3 1,561 (25.03%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1,106 (17.74%) Analytics
6 1,091 (17.50%) Agile
7 1,088 (17.45%) DevOps
8 1,044 (16.74%) Business Intelligence
9 1,017 (16.31%) Machine Learning
10 934 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 812 (13.02%) Mentoring
12 726 (11.64%) Data Engineering
13 724 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
14 666 (10.68%) Data Modelling
15 656 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 641 (10.28%) Data Science
17 607 (9.73%) Containerisation
18 588 (9.43%) Computer Science
19 584 (9.36%) Decision-Making
20 571 (9.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,205 (35.36%) SQL
2 815 (13.07%) Java
3 656 (10.52%) JavaScript
4 548 (8.79%) C++
5 501 (8.03%) PowerShell
6 497 (7.97%) Bash
7 469 (7.52%) C#
8 392 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 268 (4.30%) Go
10 190 (3.05%) C
11 171 (2.74%) R
12 126 (2.02%) Scala
13 102 (1.64%) PHP
14 94 (1.51%) Rust
15 93 (1.49%) Bicep
16 88 (1.41%) Perl
17 76 (1.22%) Ruby
18 63 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 63 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 44 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 940 (15.07%) Azure Certification
2 895 (14.35%) Degree
3 794 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 438 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 319 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 208 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 167 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 124 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 107 (1.72%) PhD
11 79 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 50 (0.80%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 41 (0.66%) CISSP
18 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.53%) OSCP
20 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (8.02%) Data Quality
2 269 (4.31%) QA
3 140 (2.25%) GDPR
4 108 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.04%) NIST
6 58 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 29 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.45%) SLA
9 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.34%) WCAG
11 20 (0.32%) PMO
12 16 (0.26%) GRC
12 16 (0.26%) NCSC
13 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 770 (12.35%) Docker
2 117 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 105 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.04%) Firmware
5 45 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.35%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.096%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.048%) IAG
16 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 757 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 409 (6.56%) Ansible
3 236 (3.78%) Grafana
4 142 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.96%) Puppet
6 50 (0.80%) Argo
7 41 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 40 (0.64%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.50%) Istio
12 29 (0.47%) Packer
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
16 16 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
17 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,245 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 458 (7.34%) Databricks
3 201 (3.22%) Google
4 150 (2.41%) Splunk
5 131 (2.10%) VMware
6 123 (1.97%) Oracle
7 122 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 119 (1.91%) Cisco
9 103 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 58 (0.93%) Foundry
12 52 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.74%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.66%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 38 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.58%) F5
16 36 (0.58%) SAP
17 33 (0.53%) Palantir
18 31 (0.50%) IBM