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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,111 5,125 7,876
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.23% 12.74% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.34% 40.29% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 2,878 5,936
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,612 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 15,532 12,720 28,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.39% 31.62% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,243 8,575 22,839
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 26 June 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 26 June 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 2,441 £85,000 -5.56% 1,102
North of England -12 1,243 £62,500 -3.85% 346
South East 0 907 £60,000 -4.00% 577
Midlands +23 623 £60,000 +9.09% 164
North West -15 580 £65,000 - 189
South West +5 538 £58,497 +1.78% 216
Yorkshire +14 454 £62,500 -3.85% 100
West Midlands +17 322 £61,000 +3.39% 82
East Midlands +26 301 £55,000 +4.76% 82
East of England -3 291 £70,000 +5.73% 177
North East +26 209 £59,000 -1.67% 61
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
1 222 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 208 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 159 (2.60%) Apache
4 74 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.87%) Confluence
6 47 (0.77%) WordPress
7 36 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.13%) IIS
12 7 (0.11%) CMS
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.098%) Appian
13 6 (0.098%) nginx
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 922 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.23%) Simulink
8 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Blender
9 3 (0.049%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.049%) Maya
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.065%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.065%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,653 (43.41%) Azure
2 1,940 (31.75%) AWS
3 1,193 (19.52%) Power Platform
4 1,084 (17.74%) Azure AI
5 710 (11.62%) GCP
6 413 (6.76%) GitHub
7 342 (5.60%) Serverless
8 243 (3.98%) SaaS
9 241 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 218 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 211 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 181 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 170 (2.78%) dbt
14 167 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 166 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 159 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 149 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 112 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
20 110 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (3.86%) Firewall
2 188 (3.08%) Broadband
3 138 (2.26%) VPN
4 128 (2.09%) DNS
5 111 (1.82%) Network Security
6 100 (1.64%) WAN
7 97 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 92 (1.51%) Internet
9 84 (1.37%) LAN
10 81 (1.33%) Wireless
11 64 (1.05%) BGP
12 56 (0.92%) VLAN
13 53 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 52 (0.85%) HTTP
15 45 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
16 44 (0.72%) OSPF
17 37 (0.61%) DHCP
18 34 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
19 33 (0.54%) Wireshark
20 32 (0.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.54%) Power BI
2 991 (16.22%) Tableau
3 291 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 245 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 188 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 166 (2.72%) Data Lake
7 162 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.36%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.26%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 99 (1.62%) Big Data
14 94 (1.54%) MySQL
15 91 (1.49%) Metadata
16 72 (1.18%) DynamoDB
17 71 (1.16%) Data Mining
18 70 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
19 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
20 57 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 630 (10.31%) Git
2 274 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 243 (3.98%) GitLab
4 151 (2.47%) JIRA
5 81 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.95%) MLflow
7 53 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 48 (0.79%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.67%) Selenium
10 37 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 30 (0.49%) Subversion
13 27 (0.44%) Postman
14 26 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 23 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.31%) Eclipse
18 19 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 2,155 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 1,201 (19.65%) Finance
3 820 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (4.39%) Banking
5 266 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 218 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 191 (3.13%) Retail
8 154 (2.52%) Law
9 133 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.09%) Front Office
11 106 (1.73%) Legal
12 91 (1.49%) Marketing
13 90 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.29%) Multimedia
15 76 (1.24%) Electronics
16 71 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 62 (1.01%) Games
19 60 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 56 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,146 (18.75%) Analyst
2 1,062 (17.38%) Senior
3 969 (15.86%) Data Analyst
4 910 (14.89%) Developer
5 811 (13.27%) Junior
6 760 (12.44%) Junior Analyst
7 759 (12.42%) Junior Data Analyst
8 692 (11.32%) Software Engineer
9 578 (9.46%) Data Engineer
10 550 (9.00%) Python Engineer
11 516 (8.44%) Lead
12 456 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 378 (6.19%) Python Developer
14 255 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
15 192 (3.14%) Architect
15 192 (3.14%) Data Scientist
16 190 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
17 188 (3.08%) Trainee
18 184 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
19 173 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (6.40%) React
2 262 (4.29%) Kafka
3 234 (3.83%) Node.js
4 220 (3.60%) PySpark
5 214 (3.50%) REST
6 206 (3.37%) HTML
7 203 (3.32%) .NET
8 197 (3.22%) RESTful
9 191 (3.13%) CSS
10 179 (2.93%) Django
10 179 (2.93%) FastAPI
11 176 (2.88%) PyTorch
12 156 (2.55%) Pandas
13 149 (2.44%) TensorFlow
14 143 (2.34%) LangChain
15 128 (2.09%) Flask
16 124 (2.03%) scikit-learn
17 106 (1.73%) NumPy
18 104 (1.70%) Vue
19 99 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 478 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.30%) Algorithms
3 288 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 154 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 135 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 133 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 104 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 101 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 95 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 86 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 85 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 81 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 79 (1.29%) Equities
17 74 (1.21%) Hedge funds
18 68 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
19 67 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
20 63 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 654 (10.70%) Linux
2 279 (4.57%) Windows
3 89 (1.46%) Unix
4 86 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.67%) CentOS
7 38 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
14 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.098%) Rocky
18 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,567 (42.01%) AI
2 1,391 (22.76%) CI/CD
3 1,363 (22.30%) Software Engineering
4 1,237 (20.24%) Business Intelligence
5 1,061 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
6 1,029 (16.84%) Agile
7 984 (16.10%) Analytics
8 969 (15.86%) DevOps
9 861 (14.09%) Machine Learning
10 812 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 739 (12.09%) Mentoring
12 623 (10.19%) Data Engineering
13 622 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
14 617 (10.10%) Data Modelling
15 591 (9.67%) Data Science
16 553 (9.05%) Computer Science
17 545 (8.92%) Full-Stack Development
18 543 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 535 (8.75%) Containerisation
20 517 (8.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,337 (38.24%) SQL
2 691 (11.31%) Java
3 650 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 503 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 474 (7.76%) Bash
6 473 (7.74%) C++
7 404 (6.61%) C#
8 377 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 278 (4.55%) Go
10 174 (2.85%) R
11 166 (2.72%) C
12 118 (1.93%) Scala
13 92 (1.51%) Rust
14 89 (1.46%) PHP
15 80 (1.31%) Bicep
16 60 (0.98%) MATLAB
17 55 (0.90%) VBA
18 54 (0.88%) Perl
19 50 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,224 (20.03%) Azure Certification
2 789 (12.91%) Degree
3 659 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 390 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 296 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 224 (3.67%) AWS Certification
7 202 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 161 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 141 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 140 (2.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 83 (1.36%) PhD
12 77 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (0.95%) CCNP
14 51 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 46 (0.75%) OSCP
16 38 (0.62%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 27 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 241 (3.94%) QA
3 130 (2.13%) GDPR
4 86 (1.41%) NIST
5 73 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.38%) PMO
9 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 20 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.33%) SLA
11 12 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.18%) WCAG
13 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.13%) Basel III
14 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 659 (10.78%) Docker
2 107 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 103 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.93%) Firmware
5 40 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 24 (0.39%) vSphere
9 19 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 848 (13.88%) Terraform
2 661 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 362 (5.92%) Ansible
4 226 (3.70%) Grafana
5 170 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.03%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 35 (0.57%) Puppet
9 33 (0.54%) Kibana
9 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.43%) Istio
10 26 (0.43%) Packer
11 22 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 18 (0.29%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.28%) Podman
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
17 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,571 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 363 (5.94%) Databricks
3 200 (3.27%) Google
4 137 (2.24%) VMware
5 130 (2.13%) Oracle
6 128 (2.09%) Splunk
7 119 (1.95%) Cisco
8 101 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 99 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.05%) Foundry
11 59 (0.97%) Palo Alto
12 58 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 51 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.70%) SAP
17 39 (0.64%) F5
18 38 (0.62%) Fortinet
19 37 (0.61%) Palantir
20 32 (0.52%) Arista