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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,799 4,754 7,042
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 12.83% 8.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.67% 37.79% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,327 3,196 5,503
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £102,800 £123,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.67% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,589 12,579 26,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.85% 33.94% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,548 9,309 22,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,490
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 0 2,284 £85,000 -5.56% 1,157
North of England -14 1,135 £50,000 -23.08% 462
South East -5 837 £60,000 -7.69% 593
Midlands +8 630 £55,000 - 279
South West +5 525 £57,500 -4.17% 243
Yorkshire +17 508 £48,445 -24.31% 175
North West -21 467 £57,250 -11.92% 217
West Midlands +22 376 £60,000 +9.09% 138
East of England -15 326 £55,000 -16.94% 246
East Midlands +2 254 £55,000 - 140
North East +20 160 £45,000 -30.77% 72
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 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 135 (2.33%) Apache
4 71 (1.22%) WordPress
5 62 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 38 (0.66%) Confluence
7 31 (0.53%) SAS
8 29 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.28%) Appian
12 14 (0.24%) IIS
13 9 (0.16%) nginx
13 9 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.086%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.086%) CMS
15 5 (0.086%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.052%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.052%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1,196 (20.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.10%) Simulink
8 5 (0.086%) CATIA
9 4 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.069%) Windchill
10 3 (0.052%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.034%) Weka
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Shopify
3 5 (0.086%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.069%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.052%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.052%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.034%) Line 50
6 2 (0.034%) Magento
7 1 (0.017%) Actimize
7 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,768 (47.73%) Azure
2 1,806 (31.14%) AWS
3 1,385 (23.88%) Power Platform
4 1,220 (21.04%) Azure AI
5 619 (10.67%) GCP
6 579 (9.98%) GitHub
7 299 (5.16%) Serverless
8 219 (3.78%) SaaS
9 205 (3.54%) Amazon S3
10 188 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (2.88%) dbt
14 160 (2.76%) Snowflake
15 159 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 126 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 120 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
19 95 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
19 95 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 249 (4.29%) Internet
2 195 (3.36%) Firewall
3 138 (2.38%) Broadband
4 110 (1.90%) DNS
5 108 (1.86%) VPN
6 100 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 83 (1.43%) Network Security
8 79 (1.36%) WAN
9 72 (1.24%) LAN
10 68 (1.17%) Wireless
11 66 (1.14%) BGP
12 59 (1.02%) VLAN
13 52 (0.90%) HTTP
14 45 (0.78%) OSPF
15 41 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.59%) DHCP
19 31 (0.53%) MPLS
20 30 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,343 (23.16%) Power BI
2 1,290 (22.25%) Tableau
3 269 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 187 (3.22%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.60%) Data Mining
8 143 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 113 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 109 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 101 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (1.69%) Big Data
15 83 (1.43%) Metadata
16 76 (1.31%) MySQL
17 69 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
18 49 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 49 (0.84%) Looker
18 49 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 684 (11.80%) Git
2 226 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 193 (3.33%) GitLab
4 109 (1.88%) JIRA
5 68 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 65 (1.12%) MLflow
7 53 (0.91%) Selenium
8 45 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 40 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 36 (0.62%) Postman
11 25 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.36%) JUnit
15 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.34%) Jaeger
16 19 (0.33%) Claude Code
17 18 (0.31%) JMeter
18 17 (0.29%) Subversion
18 17 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 2,232 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 1,170 (20.18%) Finance
3 820 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (4.41%) Banking
5 236 (4.07%) Multimedia
6 230 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 210 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 179 (3.09%) Retail
9 170 (2.93%) Law
10 154 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.26%) Front Office
12 109 (1.88%) Marketing
13 103 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 91 (1.57%) Legal
15 79 (1.36%) Electronics
16 73 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 55 (0.95%) Investment Banking
19 47 (0.81%) Aerospace
20 43 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,401 (24.16%) Analyst
2 1,221 (21.06%) Data Analyst
3 984 (16.97%) Junior
4 947 (16.33%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (16.33%) Junior Data Analyst
5 892 (15.38%) Developer
6 818 (14.11%) Senior
7 509 (8.78%) Software Engineer
8 503 (8.67%) Data Engineer
9 443 (7.64%) Lead
10 417 (7.19%) Trainee
11 387 (6.67%) Python Engineer
12 370 (6.38%) Python Developer
13 335 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 218 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 170 (2.93%) Python Software Engineer
16 160 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
16 160 (2.76%) Senior Developer
17 158 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
18 154 (2.66%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (6.67%) HTML
2 381 (6.57%) React
3 338 (5.83%) CSS
4 243 (4.19%) Kafka
5 206 (3.55%) REST
6 199 (3.43%) Django
6 199 (3.43%) Node.js
7 194 (3.35%) PySpark
8 178 (3.07%) RESTful
9 161 (2.78%) PyTorch
10 158 (2.72%) Pandas
11 150 (2.59%) .NET
12 140 (2.41%) FastAPI
13 135 (2.33%) TensorFlow
14 132 (2.28%) Flask
15 130 (2.24%) scikit-learn
16 107 (1.85%) JSON
17 103 (1.78%) NumPy
18 93 (1.60%) LangChain
19 92 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 306 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 267 (4.60%) Algorithms
3 227 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 127 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 119 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 93 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 93 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 89 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 87 (1.50%) Low-Code
10 86 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 82 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 82 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 80 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 80 (1.38%) Equities
13 78 (1.35%) Hedge funds
13 78 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 77 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 71 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
16 62 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 558 (9.62%) Linux
2 224 (3.86%) Windows
3 152 (2.62%) Unix
4 65 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.71%) CentOS
7 30 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.22%) Debian
10 12 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.16%) Android
12 9 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.12%) Solaris
15 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.10%) VMS
16 5 (0.086%) FreeRTOS
16 5 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.052%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,347 (40.47%) AI
2 1,449 (24.99%) Business Intelligence
3 1,165 (20.09%) CI/CD
4 998 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
5 988 (17.04%) Software Engineering
6 943 (16.26%) Analytics
7 920 (15.86%) Agile
8 876 (15.11%) DevOps
9 732 (12.62%) Mentoring
10 691 (11.92%) Machine Learning
11 625 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 572 (9.86%) Data Modelling
13 545 (9.40%) Data Science
14 542 (9.35%) ETL
15 540 (9.31%) Data Pipeline
16 536 (9.24%) Data Engineering
17 515 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 514 (8.86%) Computer Science
19 497 (8.57%) Containerisation
20 421 (7.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,415 (41.65%) SQL
2 786 (13.55%) JavaScript
3 640 (11.04%) Java
4 425 (7.33%) PowerShell
5 418 (7.21%) Bash
6 343 (5.91%) TypeScript
7 311 (5.36%) C#
8 309 (5.33%) C++
9 279 (4.81%) Go
10 245 (4.22%) R
11 146 (2.52%) C
12 111 (1.91%) Scala
13 71 (1.22%) Rust
14 69 (1.19%) VBA
15 61 (1.05%) PHP
16 53 (0.91%) Bicep
17 43 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (0.72%) Perl
19 33 (0.57%) T-SQL
20 31 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,496 (25.80%) Azure Certification
2 785 (13.54%) Degree
3 479 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 386 (6.66%) AWS Certification
5 292 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 285 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 276 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 271 (4.67%) SC Cleared
9 173 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 139 (2.40%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.52%) PhD
12 72 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.05%) CCNP
14 50 (0.86%) OSCP
15 46 (0.79%) CISSP
16 41 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 36 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.57%) CREST Certified
19 29 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
20 27 (0.47%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 223 (3.85%) QA
3 131 (2.26%) GDPR
4 109 (1.88%) NIST
5 107 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 49 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 39 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 36 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.40%) GRC
10 23 (0.40%) PMO
11 22 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.34%) SLA
13 14 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.14%) WCAG
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 593 (10.23%) Docker
2 103 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.76%) Firmware
5 35 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.36%) KVM
8 16 (0.28%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) Lustre
11 7 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.086%) iptables
13 5 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.052%) HDFS
14 3 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 697 (12.02%) Terraform
2 620 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 343 (5.91%) Ansible
4 192 (3.31%) Grafana
5 150 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.10%) Argo
7 28 (0.48%) Nagios
7 28 (0.48%) Puppet
8 26 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (0.36%) Istio
9 21 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 19 (0.33%) Kibana
11 15 (0.26%) logstash
12 13 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.22%) Rancher
13 12 (0.21%) Nessus
13 12 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.19%) Packer
14 11 (0.19%) SCCM
14 11 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,880 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 306 (5.28%) Databricks
3 209 (3.60%) Google
4 134 (2.31%) Oracle
5 122 (2.10%) Cisco
6 117 (2.02%) VMware
7 105 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 77 (1.33%) Splunk
9 75 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 71 (1.22%) SAP
11 63 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.90%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.86%) Foundry
13 50 (0.86%) Informatica
14 47 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 47 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 45 (0.78%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.76%) Talend
17 42 (0.72%) Palantir
18 39 (0.67%) Dell