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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,536 4,397 6,872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.63% 12.00% 8.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.45% 35.37% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 3,230 5,414
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,042 12,430 26,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 33.93% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,317 9,362 22,267
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,624
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,217 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 0 2,261 £84,625 -5.97% 1,152
North of England 0 1,062 £48,979 -24.65% 475
South East -4 783 £60,000 -7.69% 576
Midlands +11 582 £56,350 +2.45% 255
South West +7 482 £57,500 -9.80% 280
Yorkshire +15 476 £48,445 -24.31% 164
North West -4 436 £56,000 -17.04% 230
West Midlands +31 355 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -15 305 £52,500 -20.72% 219
East Midlands -1 228 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 150 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 208 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.42%) Apache
4 70 (1.26%) WordPress
5 62 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 36 (0.65%) Confluence
7 31 (0.56%) SAS
7 31 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 23 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.31%) Appian
10 14 (0.25%) IIS
11 11 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.16%) nginx
13 8 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.090%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.090%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.072%) CMS
15 4 (0.072%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.072%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1,116 (20.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 53 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.072%) CATIA
8 4 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.072%) Windchill
9 3 (0.054%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.036%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.036%) Weka
11 1 (0.018%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.018%) Houdini
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.11%) Shopify
3 5 (0.090%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.072%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.054%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.054%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.036%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.036%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.018%) Actimize
7 1 (0.018%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.018%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.018%) Endur
7 1 (0.018%) Findur
7 1 (0.018%) Line 50
7 1 (0.018%) Magento
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.018%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.018%) Primavera
7 1 (0.018%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,580 (46.60%) Azure
2 1,792 (32.37%) AWS
3 1,302 (23.52%) Power Platform
4 1,030 (18.61%) Azure AI
5 608 (10.98%) GCP
6 588 (10.62%) GitHub
7 291 (5.26%) Serverless
8 212 (3.83%) SaaS
9 207 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 187 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
11 183 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
12 175 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
13 169 (3.05%) dbt
14 165 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.91%) Snowflake
16 127 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 110 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
20 89 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 256 (4.62%) Internet
2 186 (3.36%) Firewall
3 139 (2.51%) Broadband
4 108 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 105 (1.90%) VPN
6 99 (1.79%) DNS
7 76 (1.37%) Network Security
8 75 (1.35%) WAN
9 70 (1.26%) LAN
10 66 (1.19%) Wireless
11 65 (1.17%) BGP
12 60 (1.08%) VLAN
13 49 (0.89%) HTTP
14 45 (0.81%) OSPF
15 43 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.65%) SD-WAN
18 33 (0.60%) MPLS
19 30 (0.54%) DHCP
19 30 (0.54%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,261 (22.78%) Power BI
2 1,213 (21.91%) Tableau
3 267 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 158 (2.85%) Data Mining
8 150 (2.71%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 114 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
12 106 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 90 (1.63%) Big Data
15 85 (1.54%) Metadata
16 75 (1.35%) MySQL
17 73 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
18 49 (0.89%) Delta Lake
19 48 (0.87%) Looker
20 47 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 667 (12.05%) Git
2 222 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 183 (3.31%) GitLab
4 107 (1.93%) JIRA
5 65 (1.17%) MLflow
6 61 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
7 55 (0.99%) Selenium
8 45 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 37 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 37 (0.67%) Postman
10 25 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
11 23 (0.42%) JUnit
12 22 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 21 (0.38%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.36%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.36%) JMeter
15 18 (0.33%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.31%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 2,043 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 1,171 (21.15%) Finance
3 830 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (4.79%) Banking
5 243 (4.39%) Multimedia
6 226 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 176 (3.18%) Retail
9 168 (3.03%) Law
10 154 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.44%) Front Office
12 116 (2.10%) Marketing
13 106 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.59%) Legal
15 79 (1.43%) Electronics
16 74 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 65 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.07%) Investment Banking
19 43 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 42 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,311 (23.68%) Analyst
2 1,136 (20.52%) Data Analyst
3 887 (16.02%) Junior
4 884 (15.97%) Developer
5 852 (15.39%) Junior Analyst
5 852 (15.39%) Junior Data Analyst
6 794 (14.34%) Senior
7 493 (8.91%) Data Engineer
8 468 (8.45%) Software Engineer
9 433 (7.82%) Lead
10 429 (7.75%) Trainee
11 365 (6.59%) Python Developer
12 362 (6.54%) Python Engineer
13 236 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 218 (3.94%) Software Developer
15 158 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 157 (2.84%) Python Software Engineer
17 156 (2.82%) Architect
18 155 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
18 155 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (7.15%) HTML
2 383 (6.92%) React
3 347 (6.27%) CSS
4 237 (4.28%) Kafka
5 213 (3.85%) Django
6 203 (3.67%) REST
7 200 (3.61%) Node.js
8 191 (3.45%) PySpark
9 172 (3.11%) RESTful
10 163 (2.94%) PyTorch
11 154 (2.78%) Pandas
12 145 (2.62%) .NET
13 142 (2.57%) FastAPI
14 138 (2.49%) TensorFlow
15 136 (2.46%) Flask
16 131 (2.37%) scikit-learn
17 105 (1.90%) JSON
18 99 (1.79%) NumPy
19 89 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
19 89 (1.61%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 292 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 254 (4.59%) Algorithms
3 219 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 100 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 92 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 88 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.59%) Fixed Income
10 87 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 84 (1.52%) Equities
12 83 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (1.45%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 73 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
16 72 (1.30%) AI Agents
16 72 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
17 70 (1.26%) Security Posture
18 65 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 550 (9.93%) Linux
2 217 (3.92%) Windows
3 169 (3.05%) Unix
4 65 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.72%) CentOS
7 28 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.14%) Android
11 8 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.13%) Solaris
13 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 6 (0.11%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.054%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,137 (38.60%) AI
2 1,369 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
3 1,141 (20.61%) CI/CD
4 998 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
5 949 (17.14%) Analytics
6 921 (16.64%) Software Engineering
7 913 (16.49%) Agile
8 859 (15.52%) DevOps
9 730 (13.19%) Mentoring
10 688 (12.43%) Machine Learning
11 601 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 570 (10.30%) Data Modelling
13 557 (10.06%) Data Science
14 539 (9.74%) ETL
15 535 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
16 518 (9.36%) Data Engineering
17 500 (9.03%) Computer Science
18 499 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 492 (8.89%) Containerisation
20 417 (7.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,336 (42.20%) SQL
2 794 (14.34%) JavaScript
3 619 (11.18%) Java
4 408 (7.37%) Bash
5 404 (7.30%) PowerShell
6 337 (6.09%) TypeScript
7 295 (5.33%) C#
8 280 (5.06%) C++
9 273 (4.93%) Go
10 255 (4.61%) R
11 139 (2.51%) C
12 111 (2.01%) Scala
13 71 (1.28%) VBA
14 70 (1.26%) Rust
15 63 (1.14%) PHP
16 44 (0.79%) Bicep
17 42 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 41 (0.74%) Perl
19 37 (0.67%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,311 (23.68%) Azure Certification
2 784 (14.16%) Degree
3 454 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 395 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 298 (5.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 289 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 261 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 165 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 132 (2.38%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.57%) PhD
12 70 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.05%) CCNP
14 49 (0.89%) CISSP
15 46 (0.83%) OSCP
16 37 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 31 (0.56%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.49%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 214 (3.87%) QA
3 126 (2.28%) GDPR
4 110 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (1.93%) NIST
6 63 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 48 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.45%) PMO
10 22 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.36%) GRC
13 19 (0.34%) SLA
14 15 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.14%) WCAG
16 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.11%) DICOM
18 5 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 588 (10.62%) Docker
2 95 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.67%) Firmware
5 33 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) KVM
8 16 (0.29%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.090%) iptables
13 5 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.054%) HDFS
15 3 (0.054%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 672 (12.14%) Terraform
2 606 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 332 (6.00%) Ansible
4 184 (3.32%) Grafana
5 149 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.08%) Argo
7 28 (0.51%) Nagios
8 23 (0.42%) Puppet
9 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.34%) Istio
10 19 (0.34%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.22%) logstash
12 12 (0.22%) Nessus
13 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.18%) Rancher
14 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,781 (32.17%) Microsoft
2 310 (5.60%) Databricks
3 207 (3.74%) Google
4 135 (2.44%) Oracle
5 123 (2.22%) Cisco
6 117 (2.11%) VMware
7 100 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 74 (1.34%) SAP
9 73 (1.32%) Splunk
10 62 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 54 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 49 (0.89%) Fortinet
12 49 (0.89%) Informatica
13 46 (0.83%) Foundry
13 46 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 45 (0.81%) Typelevel
15 41 (0.74%) Talend
16 40 (0.72%) Dell
17 39 (0.70%) Palantir