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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,355 5,076 6,554
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.75% 11.60% 9.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.11% 40.25% 30.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 2,816 4,680
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,435 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £99,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.03% +2.07%

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 16,674 12,610 21,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 28.82% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,106 8,403 15,882
10th Percentile £38,469 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,094
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -3 2,641 £85,000 -2.86% 5,132
North of England -11 1,248 £65,500 +0.77% 734
South East +8 912 £60,000 - 832
South West +11 618 £60,000 +9.09% 397
North West -16 597 £65,500 +9.17% 409
Midlands +6 564 £62,500 -3.85% 291
Yorkshire +15 404 £65,860 +1.32% 194
East of England +10 314 £65,000 +18.18% 437
West Midlands -2 302 £63,750 -1.92% 167
East Midlands +20 261 £53,750 -6.52% 124
North East +26 247 £65,000 - 136
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
1 251 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 240 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 189 (2.97%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 54 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.76%) WordPress
7 38 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 5 (0.079%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 704 (11.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 42 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
4 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.079%) Shopify
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,543 (40.02%) Azure
2 2,041 (32.12%) AWS
3 1,035 (16.29%) Power Platform
4 904 (14.23%) Azure AI
5 767 (12.07%) GCP
6 392 (6.17%) GitHub
7 377 (5.93%) Serverless
8 264 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 245 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 240 (3.78%) Snowflake
11 235 (3.70%) SaaS
12 228 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 209 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 205 (3.23%) dbt
15 179 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 159 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
17 152 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
18 137 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 131 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
20 120 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.57%) Firewall
2 139 (2.19%) Broadband
3 135 (2.12%) DNS
4 126 (1.98%) VPN
5 122 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 107 (1.68%) Network Security
7 95 (1.49%) WAN
8 80 (1.26%) Wireless
9 74 (1.16%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.87%) BGP
12 50 (0.79%) VLAN
13 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 44 (0.69%) DHCP
15 42 (0.66%) HTTP
16 41 (0.65%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 967 (15.22%) Power BI
2 781 (12.29%) Tableau
3 337 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.12%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 138 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.94%) Big Data
12 112 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 109 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 109 (1.72%) MySQL
14 104 (1.64%) Metadata
15 88 (1.38%) DynamoDB
16 78 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
17 70 (1.10%) Delta Lake
17 70 (1.10%) Looker
18 59 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 702 (11.05%) Git
2 287 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.78%) GitLab
4 169 (2.66%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) MLflow
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.76%) Selenium
9 40 (0.63%) Subversion
10 36 (0.57%) JUnit
11 35 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 34 (0.54%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,168 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 1,342 (21.12%) Finance
3 862 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 330 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 329 (5.18%) Banking
6 240 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 226 (3.56%) Law
8 187 (2.94%) Marketing
9 167 (2.63%) Retail
10 137 (2.16%) Legal
11 121 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 116 (1.83%) Front Office
13 90 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 90 (1.42%) Electronics
14 84 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.26%) Financial Institution
16 78 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
17 72 (1.13%) Investment Banking
18 66 (1.04%) Games
19 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,255 (19.75%) Senior
2 922 (14.51%) Analyst
3 862 (13.56%) Developer
4 832 (13.09%) Software Engineer
5 737 (11.60%) Data Analyst
6 662 (10.42%) Python Engineer
7 654 (10.29%) Junior
8 629 (9.90%) Data Engineer
9 611 (9.61%) Lead
10 573 (9.02%) Junior Analyst
11 570 (8.97%) Junior Data Analyst
12 483 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 360 (5.66%) Python Developer
14 300 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
15 244 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 221 (3.48%) Architect
17 214 (3.37%) Data Scientist
18 199 (3.13%) Senior Developer
19 187 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
20 180 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (6.39%) React
2 283 (4.45%) Kafka
3 237 (3.73%) Node.js
4 235 (3.70%) PySpark
5 232 (3.65%) .NET
6 229 (3.60%) REST
7 210 (3.30%) FastAPI
8 209 (3.29%) RESTful
9 193 (3.04%) Django
9 193 (3.04%) HTML
10 185 (2.91%) PyTorch
11 177 (2.79%) CSS
11 177 (2.79%) LangChain
12 157 (2.47%) TensorFlow
13 138 (2.17%) Pandas
14 134 (2.11%) Flask
15 124 (1.95%) scikit-learn
16 112 (1.76%) Spring
16 112 (1.76%) Spring Boot
17 102 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 592 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 336 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 318 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 215 (3.38%) AI Agents
5 200 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 156 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 145 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 97 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 91 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 81 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 81 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
11 80 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 79 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 79 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 76 (1.20%) Hedge funds
14 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
14 74 (1.16%) Robotics
15 72 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
16 71 (1.12%) Equities
17 64 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 721 (11.35%) Linux
2 329 (5.18%) Windows
3 95 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.31%) Unix
5 55 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,719 (42.79%) AI
2 1,619 (25.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,571 (24.72%) CI/CD
4 1,181 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 1,135 (17.86%) Analytics
6 1,126 (17.72%) Agile
7 1,119 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
8 1,083 (17.04%) DevOps
9 1,023 (16.10%) Machine Learning
10 933 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 815 (12.82%) Mentoring
12 742 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
13 734 (11.55%) Data Engineering
14 674 (10.61%) Data Modelling
15 655 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 648 (10.20%) Data Science
17 601 (9.46%) Containerisation
18 586 (9.22%) Computer Science
18 586 (9.22%) Decision-Making
19 573 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,317 (36.46%) SQL
2 809 (12.73%) Java
3 667 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.65%) C++
5 502 (7.90%) PowerShell
6 483 (7.60%) Bash
7 467 (7.35%) C#
8 399 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 267 (4.20%) Go
10 187 (2.94%) C
11 170 (2.68%) R
12 128 (2.01%) Scala
13 102 (1.61%) PHP
14 97 (1.53%) Rust
15 90 (1.42%) Bicep
16 79 (1.24%) Perl
17 74 (1.16%) Ruby
18 64 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,028 (16.18%) Azure Certification
2 892 (14.04%) Degree
3 789 (12.42%) Security Cleared
4 443 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 321 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 206 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 179 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 117 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 106 (1.67%) PhD
11 94 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 80 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.83%) CCNP
14 52 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 43 (0.68%) DBS Check
16 40 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
17 38 (0.60%) CISSP
18 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 27 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 511 (8.04%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.20%) QA
3 152 (2.39%) GDPR
4 109 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 71 (1.12%) NIST
6 57 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 32 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.39%) SLA
10 24 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.25%) GRC
14 14 (0.22%) NCSC
15 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 761 (11.97%) Docker
2 113 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.01%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 25 (0.39%) KVM
9 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) iptables
16 2 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 929 (14.62%) Terraform
2 747 (11.75%) Kubernetes
3 396 (6.23%) Ansible
4 237 (3.73%) Grafana
5 147 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Puppet
7 51 (0.80%) Argo
8 41 (0.65%) Nagios
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 36 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.47%) Istio
10 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.30%) Podman
14 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
16 14 (0.22%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,346 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 452 (7.11%) Databricks
3 202 (3.18%) Google
4 151 (2.38%) Splunk
5 145 (2.28%) Oracle
6 135 (2.12%) VMware
7 122 (1.92%) Cisco
8 121 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 119 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 63 (0.99%) Foundry
12 55 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 43 (0.68%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.66%) SolarWinds
16 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
17 39 (0.61%) F5
18 37 (0.58%) SAP
19 34 (0.54%) Palantir
20 33 (0.52%) IBM