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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,889 4,786 6,648
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.21% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.12% 35.00% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,102 3,248 5,351
10th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -5.02%

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 11,889 13,673 25,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.23% 34.89% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,691 9,351 21,784
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 2,146 £82,500 -5.71% 1,240
North of England -6 881 £45,000 -30.77% 496
South East -14 640 £60,000 -11.11% 631
Midlands -5 476 £55,000 - 245
South West +4 419 £57,500 -11.54% 263
Yorkshire +6 379 £40,000 -38.46% 196
North West -8 370 £49,490 -23.86% 220
West Midlands +9 307 £56,350 +2.45% 114
East of England -21 253 £50,000 -24.51% 213
East Midlands -13 171 £55,000 - 131
North East +17 132 £40,000 -38.46% 84
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
1 191 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.74%) Apache
4 68 (1.39%) WordPress
5 63 (1.29%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.67%) SAS
7 32 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.59%) Confluence
9 25 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
11 18 (0.37%) Appian
12 15 (0.31%) IIS
12 15 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.18%) nginx
13 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
15 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.082%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.082%) GeoServer
Applications
1 916 (18.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 55 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.12%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.082%) Windchill
10 3 (0.061%) CATIA
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.041%) Weka
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Houdini
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) NUKE
12 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.14%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.082%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.061%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.041%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.041%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.020%) Actimize
8 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.020%) Primavera
8 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,123 (43.42%) Azure
2 1,700 (34.77%) AWS
3 1,044 (21.35%) Power Platform
4 651 (13.32%) Azure AI
5 608 (12.44%) GitHub
6 528 (10.80%) GCP
7 276 (5.65%) Serverless
8 201 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 195 (3.99%) SaaS
10 180 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 178 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
12 171 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 157 (3.21%) Snowflake
14 150 (3.07%) dbt
15 145 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 123 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 105 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 97 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 86 (1.76%) OpenShift
20 84 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 288 (5.89%) Internet
2 182 (3.72%) Firewall
3 110 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 103 (2.11%) Broadband
4 103 (2.11%) VPN
5 91 (1.86%) DNS
6 68 (1.39%) WAN
7 64 (1.31%) Network Security
8 63 (1.29%) LAN
9 59 (1.21%) BGP
10 57 (1.17%) Wireless
11 55 (1.12%) VLAN
12 50 (1.02%) HTTP
13 48 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
14 42 (0.86%) OSPF
15 34 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
15 34 (0.70%) MPLS
16 33 (0.67%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.65%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,008 (20.62%) Power BI
2 981 (20.07%) Tableau
3 244 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 177 (3.62%) Data Mining
7 165 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 141 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 119 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 102 (2.09%) MongoDB
11 96 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 95 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 91 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 90 (1.84%) Big Data
15 86 (1.76%) Metadata
16 79 (1.62%) MySQL
17 68 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 46 (0.94%) Hadoop
19 45 (0.92%) Delta Lake
20 43 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 676 (13.83%) Git
2 215 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.64%) GitLab
4 99 (2.02%) JIRA
5 55 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 52 (1.06%) Selenium
7 50 (1.02%) MLflow
8 39 (0.80%) Postman
9 37 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.53%) JUnit
12 25 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.45%) Jaeger
14 21 (0.43%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.41%) JMeter
15 20 (0.41%) LabVIEW
16 19 (0.39%) Cypress.io
17 18 (0.37%) Metasploit
17 18 (0.37%) TeamCity
18 15 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 1,650 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 1,144 (23.40%) Finance
3 808 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.60%) Multimedia
5 268 (5.48%) Banking
6 206 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 198 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 167 (3.42%) Law
9 163 (3.33%) Retail
10 144 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 138 (2.82%) Front Office
12 124 (2.54%) Marketing
13 110 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.76%) Legal
15 72 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.43%) Electronics
17 70 (1.43%) Investment Banking
18 47 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
19 40 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,121 (22.93%) Analyst
2 933 (19.08%) Data Analyst
3 819 (16.75%) Developer
4 707 (14.46%) Senior
5 647 (13.23%) Junior
6 615 (12.58%) Junior Analyst
6 615 (12.58%) Junior Data Analyst
7 478 (9.78%) Trainee
8 454 (9.29%) Data Engineer
9 415 (8.49%) Software Engineer
10 380 (7.77%) Lead
11 320 (6.55%) Python Developer
12 296 (6.05%) Python Engineer
13 205 (4.19%) Software Developer
14 153 (3.13%) Trainee Analyst
14 153 (3.13%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 151 (3.09%) Architect
16 148 (3.03%) Senior Developer
17 139 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
18 136 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (8.55%) HTML
2 365 (7.47%) CSS
2 365 (7.47%) React
3 205 (4.19%) Kafka
4 203 (4.15%) Node.js
5 184 (3.76%) REST
6 183 (3.74%) Django
7 164 (3.35%) PySpark
8 152 (3.11%) RESTful
9 138 (2.82%) Pandas
10 135 (2.76%) .NET
11 134 (2.74%) FastAPI
12 130 (2.66%) PyTorch
13 118 (2.41%) TensorFlow
14 114 (2.33%) Flask
15 103 (2.11%) scikit-learn
16 101 (2.07%) JSON
17 90 (1.84%) NumPy
18 87 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
19 85 (1.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 253 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 239 (4.89%) Algorithms
3 193 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 115 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 89 (1.82%) Equities
8 89 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 86 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 78 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 77 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 75 (1.53%) Hedge funds
13 74 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 69 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
16 63 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 63 (1.29%) Security Posture
17 62 (1.27%) Derivative
18 60 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 520 (10.64%) Linux
2 213 (4.36%) Windows
3 182 (3.72%) Unix
4 62 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.80%) CentOS
7 29 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.18%) Android
12 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.12%) VMS
14 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.061%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.061%) Robot Operating System
15 3 (0.061%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,670 (34.16%) AI
2 1,117 (22.85%) Business Intelligence
3 1,082 (22.13%) CI/CD
4 947 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
5 919 (18.80%) Analytics
6 857 (17.53%) Agile
7 830 (16.98%) Software Engineering
8 811 (16.59%) DevOps
9 712 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 625 (12.78%) Machine Learning
11 545 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 520 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
13 516 (10.55%) Data Modelling
13 516 (10.55%) ETL
14 515 (10.53%) Data Science
15 473 (9.67%) Data Engineering
16 472 (9.65%) Containerisation
17 466 (9.53%) Computer Science
18 463 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 444 (9.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,051 (41.95%) SQL
2 810 (16.57%) JavaScript
3 597 (12.21%) Java
4 396 (8.10%) Bash
5 379 (7.75%) PowerShell
6 327 (6.69%) TypeScript
7 269 (5.50%) R
8 266 (5.44%) C#
9 243 (4.97%) C++
9 243 (4.97%) Go
10 124 (2.54%) C
11 96 (1.96%) Scala
12 72 (1.47%) Rust
13 71 (1.45%) VBA
14 60 (1.23%) PHP
15 44 (0.90%) Bicep
16 38 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 37 (0.76%) T-SQL
18 31 (0.63%) Perl
19 30 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 957 (19.57%) Azure Certification
2 769 (15.73%) Degree
3 448 (9.16%) Security Cleared
4 427 (8.73%) AWS Certification
5 327 (6.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 322 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 257 (5.26%) SC Cleared
8 236 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 175 (3.58%) DV Cleared
10 129 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.74%) PhD
12 65 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.15%) CCNP
14 50 (1.02%) CISSP
15 46 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.88%) OSCP
17 41 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 30 (0.61%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.55%) ACCA
19 27 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 185 (3.78%) QA
3 112 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (2.23%) GDPR
5 107 (2.19%) NIST
6 68 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.47%) SLA
10 22 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.41%) PMO
12 18 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.35%) ISO 22301
14 15 (0.31%) GRC
15 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 575 (11.76%) Docker
2 91 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.67%) Firmware
5 25 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.37%) KVM
8 14 (0.29%) ProxySG
8 14 (0.29%) vSphere
9 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.14%) Lustre
10 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.10%) iptables
13 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.061%) HDFS
14 3 (0.061%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.041%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 609 (12.46%) Terraform
2 581 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 321 (6.57%) Ansible
4 164 (3.35%) Grafana
5 146 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.29%) Argo
7 25 (0.51%) Nagios
8 24 (0.49%) Puppet
9 20 (0.41%) Kibana
9 20 (0.41%) Kustomize
9 20 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.27%) Control-M
11 12 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.25%) logstash
11 12 (0.25%) Nessus
12 11 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.20%) Istio
13 10 (0.20%) Rancher
13 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,566 (32.03%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.28%) Databricks
3 202 (4.13%) Google
4 144 (2.95%) Oracle
5 113 (2.31%) VMware
6 112 (2.29%) Cisco
7 98 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 71 (1.45%) SAP
9 66 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 66 (1.35%) Splunk
10 54 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 49 (1.00%) Informatica
12 43 (0.88%) Foundry
13 42 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 41 (0.84%) Bloomberg
14 41 (0.84%) Palantir
15 39 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 39 (0.80%) Talend
16 37 (0.76%) MuleSoft