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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,934 4,871 7,024
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 13.04% 8.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.89% 38.25% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,376 3,193 5,489
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,481 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.03% +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 13,837 12,735 26,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 34.08% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,702 9,358 22,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,623 £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 £111,250 £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 21 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 21 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 2,294 £85,000 -5.56% 1,201
North of England -15 1,189 £52,500 -19.23% 455
South East -2 867 £60,000 -7.69% 575
Midlands +10 653 £55,000 - 255
Yorkshire +14 538 £49,000 -24.03% 145
South West +4 530 £57,500 -4.17% 234
North West -20 484 £57,687 -11.25% 227
West Midlands +25 386 £55,000 - 125
East of England -17 337 £55,000 -16.94% 243
East Midlands -2 267 £55,000 - 128
North East +16 167 £45,000 -30.77% 87
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
1 211 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.24%) Apache
4 72 (1.21%) WordPress
5 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 38 (0.64%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 29 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 25 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.24%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
17 3 (0.051%) Apache Pulsar
17 3 (0.051%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1,241 (20.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.084%) CATIA
9 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.067%) Windchill
10 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.10%) Shopify
3 5 (0.084%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.067%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.051%) Line 50
5 3 (0.051%) Magento
5 3 (0.051%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.051%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,876 (48.47%) Azure
2 1,813 (30.55%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.27%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (22.16%) Azure AI
5 613 (10.33%) GCP
6 577 (9.72%) GitHub
7 302 (5.09%) Serverless
8 224 (3.77%) SaaS
9 204 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 195 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 176 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 172 (2.90%) dbt
14 165 (2.78%) Snowflake
15 162 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 126 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 124 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
18 121 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
19 94 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
20 93 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.23%) Internet
2 196 (3.30%) Firewall
3 138 (2.33%) Broadband
4 109 (1.84%) DNS
4 109 (1.84%) VPN
5 98 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 85 (1.43%) Network Security
7 80 (1.35%) WAN
8 73 (1.23%) LAN
9 67 (1.13%) BGP
10 66 (1.11%) Wireless
11 58 (0.98%) VLAN
12 51 (0.86%) HTTP
13 47 (0.79%) OSPF
14 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 40 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
15 38 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 34 (0.57%) DHCP
17 32 (0.54%) MPLS
18 30 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,396 (23.53%) Power BI
2 1,330 (22.41%) Tableau
3 276 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 213 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.54%) Data Mining
8 145 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 143 (2.41%) Data Lake
10 119 (2.01%) BigQuery
11 115 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.87%) MongoDB
13 103 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.60%) Big Data
15 88 (1.48%) Metadata
16 78 (1.31%) MySQL
17 66 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (0.88%) Spark SQL
19 49 (0.83%) Looker
20 48 (0.81%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 687 (11.58%) Git
2 226 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 197 (3.32%) GitLab
4 108 (1.82%) JIRA
5 72 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.08%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 46 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 41 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.62%) Postman
11 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
11 25 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.35%) JUnit
14 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.34%) Claude Code
14 20 (0.34%) JMeter
15 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.29%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 2,327 (39.21%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (19.48%) Finance
3 809 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (4.20%) Banking
5 236 (3.98%) Multimedia
6 228 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 203 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 177 (2.98%) Retail
9 164 (2.76%) Law
10 144 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 131 (2.21%) Front Office
12 102 (1.72%) Marketing
13 99 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.50%) Legal
15 73 (1.23%) Electronics
16 71 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 59 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 55 (0.93%) Investment Banking
19 48 (0.81%) Aerospace
20 42 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,446 (24.37%) Analyst
2 1,263 (21.28%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (17.39%) Junior
4 994 (16.75%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.75%) Junior Data Analyst
5 900 (15.17%) Developer
6 825 (13.90%) Senior
7 530 (8.93%) Software Engineer
8 513 (8.65%) Data Engineer
9 453 (7.63%) Lead
10 417 (7.03%) Trainee
11 407 (6.86%) Python Engineer
12 383 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 374 (6.30%) Python Developer
14 221 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 182 (3.07%) Python Software Engineer
16 164 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
17 163 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
18 157 (2.65%) Senior Developer
19 152 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (6.57%) HTML
2 382 (6.44%) React
3 340 (5.73%) CSS
4 245 (4.13%) Kafka
5 204 (3.44%) Node.js
6 203 (3.42%) REST
7 199 (3.35%) Django
8 197 (3.32%) PySpark
9 176 (2.97%) RESTful
10 165 (2.78%) Pandas
11 158 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 152 (2.56%) .NET
13 140 (2.36%) FastAPI
14 134 (2.26%) TensorFlow
15 130 (2.19%) Flask
16 128 (2.16%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.80%) JSON
18 104 (1.75%) NumPy
19 93 (1.57%) LangChain
20 90 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 305 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 271 (4.57%) Algorithms
3 227 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 170 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 121 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 90 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 90 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 86 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 86 (1.45%) Fixed Income
8 86 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 84 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 84 (1.42%) Low-Code
10 81 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 79 (1.33%) Hedge funds
11 79 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 79 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 78 (1.31%) Equities
13 71 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
14 66 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 552 (9.30%) Linux
2 229 (3.86%) Windows
3 145 (2.44%) Unix
4 71 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 55 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.19%) Debian
9 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.15%) Android
10 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 7 (0.12%) Solaris
11 7 (0.12%) VMS
12 6 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.051%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,449 (41.27%) AI
2 1,498 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
3 1,179 (19.87%) CI/CD
4 1,017 (17.14%) Software Engineering
5 984 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
6 949 (15.99%) Analytics
7 919 (15.49%) Agile
8 880 (14.83%) DevOps
9 734 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 687 (11.58%) Machine Learning
11 630 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 576 (9.71%) Data Modelling
13 557 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
14 548 (9.23%) ETL
15 545 (9.18%) Data Engineering
15 545 (9.18%) Data Science
16 521 (8.78%) Computer Science
17 516 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 490 (8.26%) Containerisation
19 429 (7.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,478 (41.76%) SQL
2 787 (13.26%) JavaScript
3 653 (11.00%) Java
4 433 (7.30%) PowerShell
5 416 (7.01%) Bash
6 351 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 317 (5.34%) C#
8 312 (5.26%) C++
9 280 (4.72%) Go
10 241 (4.06%) R
11 143 (2.41%) C
12 116 (1.95%) Scala
13 73 (1.23%) Rust
14 68 (1.15%) VBA
15 66 (1.11%) PHP
16 53 (0.89%) Bicep
17 42 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 42 (0.71%) Perl
18 35 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,596 (26.90%) Azure Certification
2 787 (13.26%) Degree
3 481 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 385 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 292 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 286 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 286 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 274 (4.62%) SC Cleared
8 169 (2.85%) DV Cleared
9 148 (2.49%) Master's Degree
10 87 (1.47%) PhD
11 75 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 62 (1.04%) CCNP
13 51 (0.86%) OSCP
14 49 (0.83%) CISSP
15 43 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 36 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 33 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.47%) GIAC
19 25 (0.42%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 226 (3.81%) QA
3 127 (2.14%) GDPR
4 108 (1.82%) NIST
5 103 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 36 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.39%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 13 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.13%) WCAG
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 586 (9.88%) Docker
2 107 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (0.79%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.32%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) iptables
12 5 (0.084%) Lustre
12 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.051%) Squid
13 3 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 694 (11.70%) Terraform
2 613 (10.33%) Kubernetes
3 338 (5.70%) Ansible
4 192 (3.24%) Grafana
5 149 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.10%) Argo
7 28 (0.47%) Nagios
8 27 (0.46%) Puppet
9 26 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.37%) Istio
10 22 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 20 (0.34%) Kibana
12 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 13 (0.22%) Rancher
14 12 (0.20%) Packer
14 12 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.20%) SCCM
14 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,938 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 313 (5.27%) Databricks
3 204 (3.44%) Google
4 133 (2.24%) Oracle
5 122 (2.06%) Cisco
6 113 (1.90%) VMware
7 104 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 81 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 81 (1.37%) Splunk
9 62 (1.04%) SAP
10 60 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 50 (0.84%) Foundry
12 49 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 48 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 47 (0.79%) Informatica
15 46 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 45 (0.76%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.71%) Talend
18 39 (0.66%) Palantir
19 37 (0.62%) SolarWinds