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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,069 5,058 7,455
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.30% 12.97% 8.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.81% 40.55% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,553 2,839 5,685
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £125,000 £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 14,873 12,472 27,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.88% 31.98% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,625 8,455 22,705
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £86,250 £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 2 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 2 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 2,397 £85,000 -5.56% 1,873
North of England -12 1,238 £61,418 -5.51% 452
South East +3 889 £62,000 -0.80% 671
Midlands +16 649 £55,000 - 211
North West -28 560 £65,000 - 249
South West +6 527 £57,500 +0.10% 277
Yorkshire +17 487 £57,500 -11.54% 121
West Midlands +8 353 £60,000 +9.09% 97
East of England +2 308 £67,500 +1.95% 281
East Midlands +32 296 £55,000 +19.57% 113
North East +22 191 £55,000 -15.38% 85
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
1 217 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 197 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 151 (2.49%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 52 (0.86%) WordPress
6 46 (0.76%) Confluence
7 33 (0.54%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 9 (0.15%) Appian
13 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,036 (17.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.033%) Blender
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Maya
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.049%) Magento
5 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
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
7 1 (0.016%) Endur
7 1 (0.016%) FastStats
7 1 (0.016%) Findur
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,732 (45.02%) Azure
2 1,866 (30.75%) AWS
3 1,293 (21.30%) Power Platform
4 1,171 (19.29%) Azure AI
5 659 (10.86%) GCP
6 443 (7.30%) GitHub
7 324 (5.34%) Serverless
8 238 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 226 (3.72%) SaaS
10 220 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
12 176 (2.90%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.74%) dbt
14 161 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 160 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 149 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
17 142 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
18 121 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 102 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (3.84%) Firewall
2 180 (2.97%) Broadband
3 137 (2.26%) Internet
4 128 (2.11%) VPN
5 123 (2.03%) DNS
6 104 (1.71%) Network Security
7 98 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 97 (1.60%) WAN
9 83 (1.37%) LAN
10 76 (1.25%) Wireless
11 66 (1.09%) BGP
12 55 (0.91%) HTTP
13 53 (0.87%) VLAN
14 48 (0.79%) OSPF
14 48 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 38 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (0.51%) DHCP
18 30 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,234 (20.33%) Power BI
2 1,116 (18.39%) Tableau
3 286 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 220 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 164 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 161 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 142 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 137 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 119 (1.96%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 111 (1.83%) Big Data
12 111 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.60%) Data Mining
14 91 (1.50%) Metadata
15 77 (1.27%) MySQL
16 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (1.05%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
19 52 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 646 (10.64%) Git
2 252 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 229 (3.77%) GitLab
4 132 (2.17%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.99%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.63%) Selenium
9 34 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.49%) Postman
11 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.36%) Subversion
14 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 19 (0.31%) JUnit
16 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 2,213 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 1,195 (19.69%) Finance
3 830 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 256 (4.22%) Banking
6 216 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 183 (3.02%) Retail
8 157 (2.59%) Law
9 130 (2.14%) Front Office
10 129 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 122 (2.01%) Multimedia
12 104 (1.71%) Legal
13 100 (1.65%) Marketing
14 90 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.32%) Electronics
16 69 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 59 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,244 (20.50%) Analyst
2 1,068 (17.60%) Data Analyst
3 992 (16.35%) Senior
4 913 (15.04%) Developer
5 895 (14.75%) Junior
6 853 (14.06%) Junior Analyst
6 853 (14.06%) Junior Data Analyst
7 632 (10.41%) Software Engineer
8 550 (9.06%) Data Engineer
9 498 (8.21%) Lead
10 497 (8.19%) Python Engineer
11 432 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 385 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 252 (4.15%) Trainee
14 224 (3.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 186 (3.06%) Software Developer
16 183 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
17 179 (2.95%) Data Scientist
18 176 (2.90%) Architect
19 173 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (6.13%) React
2 257 (4.23%) Kafka
3 253 (4.17%) HTML
4 234 (3.86%) CSS
5 228 (3.76%) PySpark
6 215 (3.54%) Node.js
7 208 (3.43%) REST
8 198 (3.26%) .NET
9 175 (2.88%) RESTful
10 170 (2.80%) Django
11 168 (2.77%) PyTorch
12 158 (2.60%) FastAPI
13 156 (2.57%) Pandas
14 147 (2.42%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.03%) scikit-learn
16 119 (1.96%) Flask
16 119 (1.96%) LangChain
17 106 (1.75%) NumPy
18 98 (1.61%) JSON
19 88 (1.45%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 405 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 324 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 272 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 178 (2.93%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.03%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 102 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
10 93 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 91 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 87 (1.43%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 81 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 81 (1.33%) Hedge funds
14 81 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.32%) Equities
16 71 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
18 64 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 619 (10.20%) Linux
2 267 (4.40%) Windows
3 99 (1.63%) Unix
4 80 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 33 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,523 (41.57%) AI
2 1,339 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
3 1,313 (21.63%) CI/CD
4 1,230 (20.27%) Software Engineering
5 1,000 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 994 (16.38%) Agile
7 975 (16.07%) Analytics
8 956 (15.75%) DevOps
9 828 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 742 (12.23%) Mentoring
11 739 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 619 (10.20%) Data Modelling
13 600 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
14 594 (9.79%) Data Engineering
15 592 (9.75%) Data Science
16 537 (8.85%) Computer Science
16 537 (8.85%) ETL
17 513 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 502 (8.27%) Containerisation
19 490 (8.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,400 (39.55%) SQL
2 680 (11.20%) JavaScript
3 662 (10.91%) Java
4 477 (7.86%) PowerShell
5 456 (7.51%) Bash
6 420 (6.92%) C++
7 388 (6.39%) C#
8 365 (6.01%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.60%) Go
10 205 (3.38%) R
11 161 (2.65%) C
12 125 (2.06%) Scala
13 85 (1.40%) Rust
14 74 (1.22%) PHP
15 60 (0.99%) VBA
16 59 (0.97%) Bicep
17 51 (0.84%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.76%) Perl
19 41 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,353 (22.29%) Azure Certification
2 774 (12.75%) Degree
3 586 (9.66%) Security Cleared
4 346 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 283 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 192 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 180 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 178 (2.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 154 (2.54%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.43%) PhD
12 83 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.12%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 51 (0.84%) OSCP
15 40 (0.66%) CISSP
16 35 (0.58%) CREST Certified
17 31 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 29 (0.48%) CCIE
19 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 232 (3.82%) QA
3 122 (2.01%) GDPR
4 94 (1.55%) NIST
5 80 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.43%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.31%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.12%) IFRS
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 602 (9.92%) Docker
2 109 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.96%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 20 (0.33%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.049%) Lustre
15 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 791 (13.03%) Terraform
2 621 (10.23%) Kubernetes
3 355 (5.85%) Ansible
4 204 (3.36%) Grafana
5 166 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 26 (0.43%) Kibana
10 22 (0.36%) Istio
10 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 21 (0.35%) Packer
11 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.23%) Podman
15 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
16 13 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,710 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 340 (5.60%) Databricks
3 208 (3.43%) Google
4 129 (2.13%) Oracle
4 129 (2.13%) VMware
5 127 (2.09%) Cisco
6 114 (1.88%) Splunk
7 99 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 98 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 58 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 56 (0.92%) Foundry
11 55 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 54 (0.89%) SolarWinds
13 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 50 (0.82%) SAP
15 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.69%) F5
18 38 (0.63%) Palantir
19 34 (0.56%) Informatica