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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,038 5,468 5,267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.56% 11.38% 10.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.00% 33.60% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,762 3,296 4,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.27% -0.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,375 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,353 16,273 19,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.39% 33.86% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,802 9,576 15,986
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,063 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -2 1,986 £83,875 -1.32% 1,016
North of England -9 663 £50,000 -23.08% 568
South East -35 429 £60,000 -7.69% 1,110
Midlands -12 370 £60,000 +9.09% 324
South West -4 331 £60,000 -7.69% 380
Yorkshire +14 303 £50,000 -23.08% 215
North West -15 274 £55,000 -10.54% 260
West Midlands +4 258 £60,000 +4.35% 132
East of England -13 204 £50,000 -28.57% 427
East Midlands -28 115 £60,000 +9.09% 187
North East +2 88 £40,000 -42.29% 96
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
1 170 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 133 (3.29%) Apache
4 43 (1.06%) Confluence
5 34 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.72%) SAS
7 26 (0.64%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.45%) IIS
10 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.40%) Appian
11 16 (0.40%) nginx
11 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.17%) CMS
15 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 511 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.099%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.099%) Windchill
9 3 (0.074%) CATIA
9 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.074%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,569 (38.86%) Azure
2 1,423 (35.24%) AWS
3 685 (16.96%) Power Platform
4 526 (13.03%) GitHub
5 435 (10.77%) GCP
6 276 (6.84%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.46%) Serverless
8 179 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
9 178 (4.41%) Snowflake
10 170 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (3.94%) Amazon S3
12 156 (3.86%) SaaS
13 145 (3.59%) dbt
14 139 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 139 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
15 103 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 90 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
17 88 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 82 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
19 77 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.36%) Internet
2 154 (3.81%) Firewall
3 87 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 76 (1.88%) VPN
5 69 (1.71%) WAN
6 66 (1.63%) DNS
7 60 (1.49%) LAN
8 50 (1.24%) BGP
9 47 (1.16%) Wireless
10 42 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (0.99%) Network Security
12 38 (0.94%) HTTP
13 37 (0.92%) Broadband
13 37 (0.92%) OSPF
14 36 (0.89%) VLAN
15 31 (0.77%) MPLS
16 30 (0.74%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.72%) SSL
18 27 (0.67%) SAN
19 22 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 647 (16.02%) Power BI
2 549 (13.60%) Tableau
3 266 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 227 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.40%) SQL Server
6 169 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 162 (4.01%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.47%) Data Mining
9 130 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 116 (2.87%) MongoDB
11 107 (2.65%) Big Data
12 94 (2.33%) BigQuery
13 91 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 87 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
14 87 (2.15%) MySQL
15 80 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
16 72 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
17 71 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
18 70 (1.73%) Hadoop
19 66 (1.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 571 (14.14%) Git
2 228 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 138 (3.42%) GitLab
4 121 (3.00%) JIRA
5 59 (1.46%) Selenium
6 43 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.94%) JUnit
8 35 (0.87%) Postman
9 27 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 26 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.59%) JMeter
12 20 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.32%) Burp Suite
16 13 (0.32%) Metasploit
16 13 (0.32%) SonarQube
17 12 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 1,176 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 1,023 (25.33%) Finance
3 631 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (6.09%) Banking
5 241 (5.97%) Multimedia
6 174 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 169 (4.19%) Law
8 159 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 152 (3.76%) Marketing
10 148 (3.67%) Front Office
11 111 (2.75%) Retail
12 110 (2.72%) Telecoms
13 101 (2.50%) Manufacturing
14 87 (2.15%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.93%) Electronics
16 73 (1.81%) Legal
17 72 (1.78%) Investment Banking
18 58 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (1.39%) Games
20 50 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 761 (18.85%) Developer
2 686 (16.99%) Analyst
3 662 (16.39%) Senior
4 498 (12.33%) Data Analyst
5 422 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.92%) Trainee
7 324 (8.02%) Software Engineer
8 304 (7.53%) Python Developer
9 298 (7.38%) Lead
10 260 (6.44%) Junior
11 243 (6.02%) Python Engineer
12 235 (5.82%) Junior Analyst
12 235 (5.82%) Junior Data Analyst
13 188 (4.66%) Software Developer
14 145 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 143 (3.54%) Architect
16 140 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
16 140 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
17 139 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
18 127 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (9.39%) HTML
2 334 (8.27%) CSS
3 325 (8.05%) React
4 172 (4.26%) Node.js
5 170 (4.21%) REST
6 155 (3.84%) Django
7 144 (3.57%) Kafka
8 142 (3.52%) RESTful
9 135 (3.34%) Pandas
10 133 (3.29%) FastAPI
11 129 (3.19%) PySpark
12 117 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 112 (2.77%) .NET
14 103 (2.55%) Flask
15 102 (2.53%) AngularJS
16 99 (2.45%) TensorFlow
17 94 (2.33%) NumPy
18 86 (2.13%) Vue
19 83 (2.06%) JSON
20 76 (1.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 199 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 152 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 142 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 125 (3.10%) Equities
6 112 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 109 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 95 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 87 (2.15%) Hedge funds
10 85 (2.11%) Fixed Income
11 81 (2.01%) Product Ownership
12 79 (1.96%) Derivative
13 74 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
14 69 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 66 (1.63%) Low-Code
16 61 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
17 57 (1.41%) AI Agents
18 56 (1.39%) Data Centre
19 55 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
20 51 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 503 (12.46%) Linux
2 211 (5.23%) Windows
3 186 (4.61%) Unix
4 73 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.69%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.42%) VMS
10 16 (0.40%) Solaris
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.17%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.12%) zOS
16 4 (0.099%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (27.51%) AI
2 938 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 895 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
4 821 (20.33%) Analytics
5 786 (19.47%) Agile
6 765 (18.95%) DevOps
7 756 (18.72%) Business Intelligence
8 644 (15.95%) Mentoring
9 642 (15.90%) Software Engineering
10 531 (13.15%) Machine Learning
11 484 (11.99%) ETL
12 482 (11.94%) Data Science
13 457 (11.32%) Data Modelling
14 454 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
15 444 (11.00%) Data Engineering
16 435 (10.77%) Computer Science
17 431 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 410 (10.15%) Data Analysis
19 379 (9.39%) Containerisation
20 367 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,613 (39.95%) SQL
2 717 (17.76%) JavaScript
3 586 (14.51%) Java
4 375 (9.29%) Bash
5 333 (8.25%) PowerShell
5 333 (8.25%) TypeScript
6 271 (6.71%) C#
7 244 (6.04%) R
8 201 (4.98%) C++
9 151 (3.74%) Go
10 108 (2.67%) C
11 80 (1.98%) Scala
12 60 (1.49%) PHP
13 55 (1.36%) VBA
14 49 (1.21%) Bicep
15 47 (1.16%) Perl
16 45 (1.11%) MATLAB
17 39 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 39 (0.97%) Rust
18 38 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 786 (19.47%) Degree
2 543 (13.45%) Azure Certification
3 426 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 357 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 288 (7.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 253 (6.27%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 204 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.68%) Master's Degree
10 160 (3.96%) DV Cleared
11 121 (3.00%) PhD
12 74 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.44%) CCNP
14 50 (1.24%) CISSP
15 49 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.62%) HND
20 24 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 158 (3.91%) QA
3 100 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (2.45%) GDPR
5 78 (1.93%) NIST
6 63 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.84%) SLA
8 22 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.35%) PMO
11 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.099%) GRC
16 4 (0.099%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 504 (12.48%) Docker
2 76 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.64%) Firmware
5 19 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.42%) vSphere
7 15 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
8 10 (0.25%) KVM
8 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
9 8 (0.20%) NFS
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
12 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.099%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.099%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.099%) Squid
Systems Management
1 535 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 500 (12.38%) Terraform
3 311 (7.70%) Ansible
4 123 (3.05%) Grafana
5 117 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 51 (1.26%) Argo
7 28 (0.69%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Nessus
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.35%) Nagios
11 13 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
11 13 (0.32%) Rancher
12 12 (0.30%) Control-M
13 11 (0.27%) logstash
13 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,028 (25.46%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.51%) Databricks
3 189 (4.68%) Google
4 133 (3.29%) Oracle
5 102 (2.53%) Cisco
6 100 (2.48%) VMware
7 86 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.66%) SAP
10 63 (1.56%) Splunk
11 60 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.39%) ServiceNow
13 44 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 44 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.06%) IBM
14 43 (1.06%) Informatica
15 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 41 (1.02%) Talend
16 29 (0.72%) Palantir
17 27 (0.67%) Atlassian