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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,098 5,127 7,889
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.24% 12.80% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.40% 40.38% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,620 2,880 5,939
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,000
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 £122,500
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 15,477 12,697 29,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.37% 31.71% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,187 8,552 23,249
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,269 £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 £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 23 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 23 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% 1,089
North of England -12 1,239 £62,500 -3.85% 368
South East +1 902 £60,000 -4.00% 573
Midlands +20 624 £60,000 +9.09% 168
North West -15 576 £65,000 - 195
South West +5 536 £58,497 +1.83% 181
Yorkshire +18 455 £62,500 -3.85% 110
West Midlands +13 321 £62,000 +6.44% 79
East Midlands +26 303 £55,000 +4.76% 89
East of England -6 289 £70,000 +5.73% 176
North East +26 208 £59,000 -1.67% 67
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
1 223 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 207 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 160 (2.62%) Apache
4 76 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 52 (0.85%) Confluence
6 47 (0.77%) WordPress
7 34 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 31 (0.51%) 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 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 923 (15.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.23%) Simulink
8 5 (0.082%) 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 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
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
7 1 (0.016%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 2,639 (43.28%) Azure
2 1,934 (31.72%) AWS
3 1,191 (19.53%) Power Platform
4 1,082 (17.74%) Azure AI
5 706 (11.58%) GCP
6 411 (6.74%) GitHub
7 342 (5.61%) Serverless
8 242 (3.97%) Amazon S3
8 242 (3.97%) SaaS
9 217 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
10 211 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 182 (2.98%) Snowflake
12 167 (2.74%) dbt
13 164 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 161 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
15 155 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 150 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 112 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
19 108 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.77%) Firewall
2 194 (3.18%) Broadband
3 134 (2.20%) VPN
4 125 (2.05%) DNS
5 111 (1.82%) Network Security
6 98 (1.61%) WAN
7 95 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 93 (1.53%) Internet
9 82 (1.34%) LAN
10 76 (1.25%) Wireless
11 62 (1.02%) BGP
12 53 (0.87%) VLAN
13 52 (0.85%) HTTP
13 52 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 42 (0.69%) OSPF
15 41 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
16 34 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
17 33 (0.54%) DHCP
18 31 (0.51%) MQTT
18 31 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.58%) Power BI
2 995 (16.32%) Tableau
3 289 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 244 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 185 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 165 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 149 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.38%) BigQuery
10 139 (2.28%) MongoDB
11 119 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 102 (1.67%) Big Data
14 91 (1.49%) Metadata
15 89 (1.46%) MySQL
16 72 (1.18%) DynamoDB
17 71 (1.16%) Data Mining
18 70 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
19 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
20 58 (0.95%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 627 (10.28%) Git
2 271 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 241 (3.95%) GitLab
4 151 (2.48%) JIRA
5 81 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.93%) MLflow
7 52 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 46 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 41 (0.67%) Selenium
10 37 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Subversion
13 28 (0.46%) Postman
14 26 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
18 18 (0.30%) Eclipse
18 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,143 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 1,200 (19.68%) Finance
3 818 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 269 (4.41%) Banking
6 219 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 190 (3.12%) Retail
8 153 (2.51%) Law
9 133 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.12%) Front Office
11 107 (1.75%) Legal
12 95 (1.56%) Marketing
13 88 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 79 (1.30%) Multimedia
15 74 (1.21%) Electronics
16 71 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 66 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 61 (1.00%) Games
19 58 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,146 (18.79%) Analyst
2 1,051 (17.24%) Senior
3 970 (15.91%) Data Analyst
4 914 (14.99%) Developer
5 809 (13.27%) Junior
6 759 (12.45%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.45%) Junior Data Analyst
7 688 (11.28%) Software Engineer
8 571 (9.36%) Data Engineer
9 555 (9.10%) Python Engineer
10 516 (8.46%) Lead
11 454 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 382 (6.26%) Python Developer
13 252 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
14 194 (3.18%) Architect
15 193 (3.16%) Data Scientist
16 191 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
17 188 (3.08%) Trainee
18 186 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
19 173 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (6.41%) React
2 262 (4.30%) Kafka
3 232 (3.80%) Node.js
4 223 (3.66%) PySpark
5 211 (3.46%) REST
6 208 (3.41%) HTML
7 203 (3.33%) .NET
8 197 (3.23%) RESTful
9 192 (3.15%) CSS
10 177 (2.90%) FastAPI
10 177 (2.90%) PyTorch
11 175 (2.87%) Django
12 157 (2.57%) Pandas
13 148 (2.43%) TensorFlow
14 141 (2.31%) LangChain
15 128 (2.10%) Flask
16 125 (2.05%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.75%) NumPy
18 103 (1.69%) Vue
19 98 (1.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 478 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 322 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 288 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 190 (3.12%) Data Structures
5 153 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 136 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 132 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 103 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 98 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 94 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 86 (1.41%) Fixed Income
12 86 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.34%) Equities
14 81 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 78 (1.28%) Hedge funds
17 67 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
17 67 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
18 63 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 655 (10.74%) Linux
2 278 (4.56%) Windows
3 97 (1.59%) Unix
4 84 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 38 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.34%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.18%) Android
12 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 9 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
13 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.098%) Rocky
17 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,562 (42.01%) AI
2 1,377 (22.58%) CI/CD
3 1,352 (22.17%) Software Engineering
4 1,240 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1,054 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
6 1,029 (16.87%) Agile
7 985 (16.15%) Analytics
8 975 (15.99%) DevOps
9 862 (14.14%) Machine Learning
10 811 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 737 (12.09%) Mentoring
12 619 (10.15%) Data Modelling
13 618 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
14 614 (10.07%) Data Engineering
15 598 (9.81%) Data Science
16 550 (9.02%) Computer Science
17 545 (8.94%) Full-Stack Development
18 539 (8.84%) Containerisation
19 534 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
20 518 (8.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,339 (38.36%) SQL
2 690 (11.32%) Java
3 657 (10.77%) JavaScript
4 496 (8.13%) PowerShell
5 479 (7.86%) Bash
6 462 (7.58%) C++
7 403 (6.61%) C#
8 383 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 284 (4.66%) Go
10 176 (2.89%) R
11 165 (2.71%) C
12 119 (1.95%) Scala
13 90 (1.48%) PHP
13 90 (1.48%) Rust
14 76 (1.25%) Bicep
15 59 (0.97%) MATLAB
16 55 (0.90%) VBA
17 53 (0.87%) Perl
18 47 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 45 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,226 (20.10%) Azure Certification
2 786 (12.89%) Degree
3 657 (10.77%) Security Cleared
4 392 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 293 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 232 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 202 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 158 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 142 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 140 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 84 (1.38%) PhD
12 73 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.90%) CCNP
14 49 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 46 (0.75%) OSCP
16 39 (0.64%) CISSP
17 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 26 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 238 (3.90%) QA
3 128 (2.10%) GDPR
4 87 (1.43%) NIST
5 73 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 21 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.33%) SLA
13 13 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.16%) WCAG
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 656 (10.76%) Docker
2 104 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.90%) Firmware
5 38 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 37 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.49%) KVM
8 23 (0.38%) vSphere
9 18 (0.30%) 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 (0.066%) 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 (13.91%) Terraform
2 665 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 364 (5.97%) Ansible
4 225 (3.69%) Grafana
5 178 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.13%) Argo
7 39 (0.64%) Nagios
8 35 (0.57%) Puppet
9 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.54%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 22 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) logstash
16 16 (0.26%) Podman
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,571 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 361 (5.92%) Databricks
3 209 (3.43%) Google
4 133 (2.18%) VMware
5 127 (2.08%) Splunk
6 126 (2.07%) Oracle
7 117 (1.92%) Cisco
8 102 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 97 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 62 (1.02%) Foundry
11 57 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 56 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 50 (0.82%) SolarWinds
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.72%) SAP
17 39 (0.64%) F5
18 38 (0.62%) Fortinet
19 37 (0.61%) Palantir
20 32 (0.52%) Arista