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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,450 4,398 6,897
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.57% 12.02% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.08% 35.41% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 3,231 5,434
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 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
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 12,950 12,420 26,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 33.96% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,315 9,353 22,358
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,046 £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 £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 5 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 5 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 2,275 £84,625 -5.97% 1,152
North of England -3 1,028 £48,445 -25.47% 475
South East -4 761 £60,000 -7.69% 576
Midlands +9 558 £56,350 +2.45% 255
South West +4 467 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +14 455 £48,445 -24.31% 164
North West -5 428 £56,000 -17.04% 230
West Midlands +27 343 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -15 297 £52,500 -20.72% 219
East Midlands -5 216 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 145 £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 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.46%) Apache
4 70 (1.28%) WordPress
5 62 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 36 (0.66%) Confluence
7 31 (0.57%) SAS
8 30 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 17 (0.31%) Appian
12 14 (0.26%) IIS
13 11 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.17%) nginx
15 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.092%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.092%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.073%) CMS
17 4 (0.073%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1,070 (19.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 53 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.073%) CATIA
8 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.073%) Windchill
9 3 (0.055%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.037%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.037%) 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 (0.092%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.073%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.055%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.055%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.037%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.037%) 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 2,495 (45.78%) Azure
2 1,797 (32.97%) AWS
3 1,256 (23.05%) Power Platform
4 936 (17.17%) Azure AI
5 609 (11.17%) GCP
6 589 (10.81%) GitHub
7 292 (5.36%) Serverless
8 211 (3.87%) SaaS
9 207 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 188 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 184 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 175 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
13 169 (3.10%) dbt
14 165 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.95%) Snowflake
16 127 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 109 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
20 89 (1.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 256 (4.70%) Internet
2 186 (3.41%) Firewall
3 139 (2.55%) Broadband
4 108 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 105 (1.93%) VPN
6 99 (1.82%) DNS
7 76 (1.39%) Network Security
8 75 (1.38%) WAN
9 70 (1.28%) LAN
10 66 (1.21%) Wireless
11 65 (1.19%) BGP
12 60 (1.10%) VLAN
13 50 (0.92%) HTTP
14 45 (0.83%) OSPF
15 43 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 33 (0.61%) MPLS
19 30 (0.55%) DHCP
19 30 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,215 (22.29%) Power BI
2 1,167 (21.41%) Tableau
3 270 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
5 196 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 159 (2.92%) Data Mining
8 150 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 115 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 115 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
11 106 (1.94%) MongoDB
12 99 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 92 (1.69%) Big Data
14 85 (1.56%) Metadata
15 77 (1.41%) MySQL
16 73 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
17 49 (0.90%) Delta Lake
18 48 (0.88%) Looker
19 47 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 669 (12.28%) Git
2 222 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 185 (3.39%) GitLab
4 108 (1.98%) JIRA
5 65 (1.19%) MLflow
6 61 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 55 (1.01%) Selenium
8 45 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 38 (0.70%) Postman
10 37 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.42%) JUnit
13 22 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 21 (0.39%) Jaeger
15 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.37%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.37%) JMeter
16 18 (0.33%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.31%) Metasploit
17 17 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 1,954 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 1,178 (21.61%) Finance
3 833 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (4.86%) Banking
5 243 (4.46%) Multimedia
6 226 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 213 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 177 (3.25%) Retail
9 170 (3.12%) Law
10 154 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.48%) Front Office
12 116 (2.13%) Marketing
13 106 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.63%) Legal
15 79 (1.45%) Electronics
16 73 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.23%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.08%) Investment Banking
19 43 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 42 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,266 (23.23%) Analyst
2 1,091 (20.02%) Data Analyst
3 879 (16.13%) Developer
4 840 (15.41%) Junior
5 805 (14.77%) Junior Analyst
5 805 (14.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 794 (14.57%) Senior
7 496 (9.10%) Data Engineer
8 469 (8.61%) Software Engineer
9 432 (7.93%) Lead
10 429 (7.87%) Trainee
11 361 (6.62%) Python Developer
12 360 (6.61%) Python Engineer
13 218 (4.00%) Software Developer
14 190 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 157 (2.88%) Architect
15 157 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
15 157 (2.88%) Senior Developer
16 155 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
17 152 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (7.27%) HTML
2 384 (7.05%) React
3 347 (6.37%) CSS
4 239 (4.39%) Kafka
5 212 (3.89%) Django
6 204 (3.74%) REST
7 201 (3.69%) Node.js
8 191 (3.50%) PySpark
9 172 (3.16%) RESTful
10 163 (2.99%) PyTorch
11 153 (2.81%) Pandas
12 147 (2.70%) .NET
13 142 (2.61%) FastAPI
14 138 (2.53%) TensorFlow
15 135 (2.48%) Flask
16 131 (2.40%) scikit-learn
17 105 (1.93%) JSON
18 98 (1.80%) NumPy
19 89 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
19 89 (1.63%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 292 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 254 (4.66%) Algorithms
3 220 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 122 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 100 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 92 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 88 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.61%) Fixed Income
10 87 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 84 (1.54%) Equities
12 83 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (1.47%) Hedge funds
14 77 (1.41%) Public Cloud
15 76 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
16 75 (1.38%) AI Agents
17 72 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
18 71 (1.30%) Security Posture
19 66 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 551 (10.11%) Linux
2 217 (3.98%) Windows
3 170 (3.12%) Unix
4 66 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.73%) CentOS
7 28 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.17%) Android
11 9 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.13%) Solaris
13 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.11%) VMS
14 5 (0.092%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.055%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.055%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,045 (37.52%) AI
2 1,324 (24.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1,146 (21.03%) CI/CD
4 1,001 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 953 (17.49%) Analytics
6 925 (16.97%) Software Engineering
7 913 (16.75%) Agile
8 860 (15.78%) DevOps
9 732 (13.43%) Mentoring
10 690 (12.66%) Machine Learning
11 604 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 572 (10.50%) Data Modelling
13 559 (10.26%) Data Science
14 543 (9.96%) ETL
15 539 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
16 522 (9.58%) Data Engineering
17 502 (9.21%) Computer Science
18 499 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
19 494 (9.06%) Containerisation
20 416 (7.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,298 (42.17%) SQL
2 797 (14.62%) JavaScript
3 623 (11.43%) Java
4 408 (7.49%) Bash
5 407 (7.47%) PowerShell
6 340 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 298 (5.47%) C#
8 281 (5.16%) C++
9 273 (5.01%) Go
10 255 (4.68%) R
11 139 (2.55%) C
12 113 (2.07%) Scala
13 73 (1.34%) Rust
14 70 (1.28%) VBA
15 64 (1.17%) PHP
16 45 (0.83%) Bicep
17 42 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 42 (0.77%) Perl
18 37 (0.68%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,218 (22.35%) Azure Certification
2 783 (14.37%) Degree
3 454 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 396 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 298 (5.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 290 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 268 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 260 (4.77%) SC Cleared
9 166 (3.05%) DV Cleared
10 130 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.58%) PhD
12 70 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.06%) CCNP
14 50 (0.92%) CISSP
15 47 (0.86%) OSCP
16 37 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.66%) DBS Check
18 31 (0.57%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.50%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 214 (3.93%) QA
3 126 (2.31%) GDPR
4 112 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (2.00%) NIST
6 63 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 48 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.46%) PMO
10 22 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.37%) GRC
13 19 (0.35%) SLA
14 17 (0.31%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.15%) WCAG
17 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 591 (10.84%) Docker
2 94 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.68%) Firmware
5 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.29%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.26%) 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 (0.092%) iptables
13 5 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.055%) HDFS
15 3 (0.055%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 674 (12.37%) Terraform
2 608 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 334 (6.13%) Ansible
4 184 (3.38%) Grafana
5 149 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.10%) Argo
7 28 (0.51%) Nagios
8 23 (0.42%) Puppet
9 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.35%) Istio
10 19 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.22%) logstash
12 12 (0.22%) Nessus
12 12 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.18%) Rancher
14 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,739 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 311 (5.71%) Databricks
3 207 (3.80%) Google
4 135 (2.48%) Oracle
5 123 (2.26%) Cisco
6 120 (2.20%) VMware
7 100 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.38%) SAP
9 74 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 73 (1.34%) Splunk
11 62 (1.14%) Salesforce
12 54 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 49 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 49 (0.90%) Informatica
14 46 (0.84%) Foundry
14 46 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 45 (0.83%) Typelevel
16 41 (0.75%) Talend
17 40 (0.73%) Dell
18 39 (0.72%) Palantir