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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,200 5,383 6,368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.48% 11.52% 10.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.46% 33.86% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,788 3,237 5,069
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.49% -2.14%

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 10,645 15,896 23,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.95% 34.01% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,937 9,272 20,264
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,365
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1,998 £80,939 -7.50% 1,279
North of England -13 700 £48,445 -25.47% 429
South East -24 487 £60,000 -11.11% 690
Midlands -13 386 £55,000 - 221
South West -3 347 £60,000 -7.69% 279
Yorkshire +9 312 £46,250 -28.85% 158
North West -16 292 £55,000 -12.00% 218
West Midlands +1 255 £55,000 - 99
East of England -19 219 £51,250 -22.65% 238
East Midlands -23 134 £55,000 - 121
North East +3 96 £40,000 -42.29% 56
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
1 157 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 120 (2.86%) Apache
4 37 (0.88%) Confluence
5 36 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.74%) SAS
7 27 (0.64%) WordPress
8 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.48%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.45%) Appian
12 18 (0.43%) IIS
13 17 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 12 (0.29%) nginx
16 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.17%) CMS
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 612 (14.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.095%) Windchill
10 3 (0.071%) CATIA
10 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.048%) Stata
11 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,697 (40.40%) Azure
2 1,459 (34.74%) AWS
3 775 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 533 (12.69%) GitHub
5 436 (10.38%) GCP
6 374 (8.90%) Azure AI
7 264 (6.29%) Serverless
8 181 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 162 (3.86%) Amazon S3
11 157 (3.74%) SaaS
12 154 (3.67%) Snowflake
13 145 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 124 (2.95%) dbt
16 110 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 102 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
19 81 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 75 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.12%) Internet
2 158 (3.76%) Firewall
3 96 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 87 (2.07%) VPN
5 74 (1.76%) DNS
6 70 (1.67%) WAN
7 59 (1.40%) Broadband
7 59 (1.40%) LAN
8 55 (1.31%) BGP
9 52 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (1.21%) Wireless
11 45 (1.07%) Network Security
12 43 (1.02%) VLAN
13 39 (0.93%) HTTP
14 38 (0.90%) OSPF
15 34 (0.81%) MPLS
16 32 (0.76%) SD-WAN
17 30 (0.71%) Wireshark
18 26 (0.62%) SSL
18 26 (0.62%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 734 (17.48%) Power BI
2 637 (15.17%) Tableau
3 238 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 212 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 181 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 155 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.50%) Data Mining
9 116 (2.76%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.64%) Big Data
10 111 (2.64%) MongoDB
11 87 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 86 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
13 83 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 83 (1.98%) MySQL
14 77 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
15 73 (1.74%) Metadata
16 70 (1.67%) Hadoop
17 55 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (1.29%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 574 (13.67%) Git
2 218 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.43%) GitLab
4 111 (2.64%) JIRA
5 58 (1.38%) Selenium
6 44 (1.05%) MLflow
7 39 (0.93%) Postman
8 34 (0.81%) JUnit
9 28 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.55%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.50%) JMeter
13 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.36%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.36%) Subversion
16 14 (0.33%) Burp Suite
16 14 (0.33%) Metasploit
17 13 (0.31%) Maven
17 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,300 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 1,023 (24.36%) Finance
3 669 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.74%) Multimedia
5 238 (5.67%) Banking
6 180 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (4.05%) Law
9 135 (3.21%) Marketing
10 131 (3.12%) Front Office
11 112 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 110 (2.62%) Retail
13 106 (2.52%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.86%) Electronics
16 74 (1.76%) Legal
17 59 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 57 (1.36%) Games
19 54 (1.29%) Investment Banking
20 47 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 777 (18.50%) Analyst
2 771 (18.36%) Developer
3 641 (15.26%) Senior
4 601 (14.31%) Data Analyst
5 412 (9.81%) Data Engineer
6 374 (8.90%) Trainee
7 349 (8.31%) Junior
8 332 (7.90%) Software Engineer
9 329 (7.83%) Junior Analyst
9 329 (7.83%) Junior Data Analyst
10 309 (7.36%) Lead
11 303 (7.21%) Python Developer
12 237 (5.64%) Python Engineer
13 192 (4.57%) Software Developer
14 146 (3.48%) Architect
15 141 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 133 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 128 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
18 118 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
18 118 (2.81%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (9.26%) HTML
2 342 (8.14%) CSS
3 335 (7.98%) React
4 180 (4.29%) REST
5 177 (4.21%) Node.js
6 166 (3.95%) Django
7 150 (3.57%) Kafka
8 146 (3.48%) RESTful
9 135 (3.21%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.10%) PySpark
11 128 (3.05%) PyTorch
12 126 (3.00%) .NET
13 113 (2.69%) Pandas
14 109 (2.60%) Flask
15 105 (2.50%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.36%) AngularJS
17 85 (2.02%) JSON
18 83 (1.98%) Vue
19 80 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
20 77 (1.83%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 233 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 207 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 159 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 153 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 99 (2.36%) Equities
6 99 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 98 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 85 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 76 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 74 (1.76%) Hedge funds
11 70 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 69 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.55%) Derivative
15 63 (1.50%) Fixed Income
15 63 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
16 60 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 58 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
18 53 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 497 (11.83%) Linux
2 203 (4.83%) Windows
3 182 (4.33%) Unix
4 67 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.76%) CentOS
7 30 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.45%) Debian
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.33%) VMS
12 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 12 (0.29%) Solaris
14 11 (0.26%) Android
15 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.095%) zOS
18 3 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (30.02%) AI
2 976 (23.24%) CI/CD
3 932 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
4 842 (20.05%) Business Intelligence
5 822 (19.57%) Analytics
6 770 (18.33%) Agile
6 770 (18.33%) DevOps
7 687 (16.36%) Software Engineering
8 664 (15.81%) Mentoring
9 558 (13.29%) Machine Learning
10 487 (11.60%) Data Science
11 479 (11.40%) ETL
12 464 (11.05%) Data Modelling
13 463 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
14 460 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 450 (10.71%) Data Engineering
16 449 (10.69%) Computer Science
17 414 (9.86%) Data Analysis
18 397 (9.45%) Containerisation
19 386 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,688 (40.19%) SQL
2 734 (17.48%) JavaScript
3 583 (13.88%) Java
4 392 (9.33%) Bash
5 346 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 317 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 276 (6.57%) C#
8 232 (5.52%) R
9 213 (5.07%) C++
10 171 (4.07%) Go
11 125 (2.98%) C
12 83 (1.98%) Scala
13 63 (1.50%) PHP
14 61 (1.45%) VBA
15 49 (1.17%) Bicep
16 47 (1.12%) MATLAB
16 47 (1.12%) Rust
17 42 (1.00%) Perl
18 40 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 804 (19.14%) Degree
2 635 (15.12%) Azure Certification
3 448 (10.67%) Security Cleared
4 367 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 265 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 246 (5.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 212 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 188 (4.48%) Master's Degree
10 158 (3.76%) DV Cleared
11 122 (2.90%) PhD
12 73 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.43%) CCNP
14 49 (1.17%) CISSP
15 47 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.64%) OSCP
18 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.86%) QA
3 106 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.43%) GDPR
5 88 (2.10%) NIST
6 65 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.71%) SLA
9 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.14%) GRC
16 6 (0.14%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.12%) NCSC
18 4 (0.095%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 517 (12.31%) Docker
2 84 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.71%) Firmware
5 19 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.29%) vSphere
8 10 (0.24%) HDFS
8 10 (0.24%) KVM
8 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 5 (0.12%) NFS
11 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.071%) iptables
13 3 (0.071%) Postfix
13 3 (0.071%) QEMU
14 2 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 542 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 532 (12.67%) Terraform
3 315 (7.50%) Ansible
4 127 (3.02%) Grafana
5 126 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.43%) Argo
7 23 (0.55%) Kibana
8 22 (0.52%) Puppet
9 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.31%) Nagios
12 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.29%) Nessus
13 12 (0.29%) Rancher
14 11 (0.26%) Control-M
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,145 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 252 (6.00%) Databricks
3 190 (4.52%) Google
4 129 (3.07%) Oracle
5 101 (2.40%) Cisco
6 95 (2.26%) VMware
7 79 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.64%) SAP
10 59 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.38%) Splunk
12 53 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.12%) Informatica
14 43 (1.02%) Bloomberg
14 43 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.02%) IBM
15 40 (0.95%) Talend
16 39 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 32 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 32 (0.76%) Palantir