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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,189 5,257 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.06% 12.14% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.77% 40.16% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,741 2,985 5,557
10th Percentile £39,602 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £128,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 15,965 13,091 26,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.22% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,668 8,844 20,551
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £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 17 July 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 17 July 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 2,488 £85,000 -5.56% 1,091
North of England -12 1,244 £65,000 - 496
South East +2 932 £60,000 -2.04% 561
Midlands +19 597 £60,000 - 267
North West -16 584 £65,000 - 259
South West +7 562 £60,000 +7.14% 219
Yorkshire +14 443 £65,000 - 157
West Midlands +3 308 £62,500 +4.17% 133
East of England -8 297 £70,000 +5.73% 238
East Midlands +31 289 £55,000 - 132
North East +22 217 £59,000 -5.60% 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
1 223 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 218 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 162 (2.62%) Apache
4 77 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.87%) Confluence
6 46 (0.74%) WordPress
7 37 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 29 (0.47%) SAS
9 26 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.11%) CMS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 6 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.097%) Camunda
12 6 (0.097%) nginx
12 6 (0.097%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.081%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.032%) Appian
Applications
1 869 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.26%) Simulink
7 11 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.097%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.081%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.048%) Magento
6 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.048%) Shopify
6 3 (0.048%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,617 (42.28%) Azure
2 1,972 (31.86%) AWS
3 1,141 (18.44%) Power Platform
4 1,037 (16.76%) Azure AI
5 733 (11.84%) GCP
6 379 (6.12%) GitHub
7 364 (5.88%) Serverless
8 238 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.78%) SaaS
10 226 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 216 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 196 (3.17%) Snowflake
13 190 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 173 (2.80%) dbt
15 167 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
16 159 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 153 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 127 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 117 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
20 114 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (3.78%) Firewall
2 172 (2.78%) Broadband
3 138 (2.23%) VPN
4 134 (2.17%) DNS
5 117 (1.89%) Network Security
6 108 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 95 (1.53%) WAN
8 79 (1.28%) Wireless
9 74 (1.20%) LAN
10 69 (1.11%) Internet
11 58 (0.94%) BGP
12 56 (0.90%) VLAN
13 52 (0.84%) HTTP
14 50 (0.81%) SD-WAN
15 39 (0.63%) DHCP
16 38 (0.61%) MQTT
16 38 (0.61%) OSPF
17 37 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 31 (0.50%) SSL
19 29 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,082 (17.48%) Power BI
2 936 (15.12%) Tableau
3 298 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 268 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 178 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 176 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 162 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 143 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.79%) Big Data
13 105 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 102 (1.65%) MySQL
15 93 (1.50%) Metadata
16 76 (1.23%) DynamoDB
17 69 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 60 (0.97%) Spark SQL
19 58 (0.94%) Data Mining
20 57 (0.92%) Looker
Development Applications
1 620 (10.02%) Git
2 278 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 253 (4.09%) GitLab
4 154 (2.49%) JIRA
5 82 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 57 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 55 (0.89%) MLflow
8 51 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 40 (0.65%) Selenium
10 37 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 32 (0.52%) Subversion
12 26 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.40%) JUnit
13 25 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 23 (0.37%) Postman
15 22 (0.36%) Eclipse
15 22 (0.36%) JMeter
16 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 2,149 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 1,242 (20.07%) Finance
3 802 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (4.54%) Banking
5 249 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 227 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 189 (3.05%) Retail
8 162 (2.62%) Law
9 133 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 129 (2.08%) Front Office
11 108 (1.75%) Legal
12 99 (1.60%) Marketing
13 84 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.29%) Electronics
15 75 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 68 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
18 63 (1.02%) Games
19 62 (1.00%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,148 (18.55%) Senior
2 1,067 (17.24%) Analyst
3 903 (14.59%) Data Analyst
4 889 (14.36%) Developer
5 775 (12.52%) Junior
6 759 (12.26%) Software Engineer
7 714 (11.54%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.50%) Junior Data Analyst
9 594 (9.60%) Python Engineer
10 591 (9.55%) Data Engineer
11 547 (8.84%) Lead
12 460 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 376 (6.08%) Python Developer
14 285 (4.60%) Python Software Engineer
15 220 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
16 208 (3.36%) Architect
17 196 (3.17%) Data Scientist
18 187 (3.02%) Senior Developer
19 179 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
19 179 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (6.40%) React
2 279 (4.51%) Kafka
3 246 (3.97%) Node.js
4 221 (3.57%) PySpark
5 218 (3.52%) REST
6 212 (3.43%) .NET
7 199 (3.22%) RESTful
8 195 (3.15%) FastAPI
9 185 (2.99%) Django
10 182 (2.94%) HTML
11 166 (2.68%) PyTorch
12 165 (2.67%) CSS
13 155 (2.50%) Pandas
14 150 (2.42%) LangChain
15 143 (2.31%) TensorFlow
16 134 (2.17%) Flask
17 127 (2.05%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.73%) JSON
18 107 (1.73%) NumPy
19 104 (1.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 511 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 320 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 185 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 177 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 170 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 133 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 97 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 86 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 82 (1.32%) Low-Code
14 76 (1.23%) Equities
14 76 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.21%) Hedge funds
16 72 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
16 72 (1.16%) Security Posture
17 68 (1.10%) Robotics
18 65 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 685 (11.07%) Linux
2 302 (4.88%) Windows
3 89 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.36%) Unix
5 49 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.65%) CentOS
7 38 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.39%) Debian
9 21 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 18 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.18%) VMS
14 10 (0.16%) Android
15 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Rocky
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 5 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,643 (42.70%) AI
2 1,472 (23.78%) Software Engineering
3 1,466 (23.69%) CI/CD
4 1,197 (19.34%) Business Intelligence
5 1,080 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
6 1,049 (16.95%) Agile
7 1,024 (16.55%) DevOps
8 1,008 (16.29%) Analytics
9 896 (14.48%) Machine Learning
10 861 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 743 (12.01%) Mentoring
12 657 (10.62%) Data Pipeline
13 647 (10.45%) Data Engineering
14 632 (10.21%) Data Modelling
15 597 (9.65%) Data Science
16 571 (9.23%) Containerisation
17 570 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 562 (9.08%) Full-Stack Development
19 551 (8.90%) Computer Science
20 534 (8.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,320 (37.49%) SQL
2 759 (12.26%) Java
3 638 (10.31%) JavaScript
4 504 (8.14%) C++
5 503 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 481 (7.77%) Bash
7 425 (6.87%) C#
8 386 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 279 (4.51%) Go
10 180 (2.91%) C
11 156 (2.52%) R
12 122 (1.97%) Scala
13 101 (1.63%) PHP
14 100 (1.62%) Rust
15 85 (1.37%) Bicep
16 64 (1.03%) Perl
16 64 (1.03%) Ruby
17 63 (1.02%) MATLAB
18 54 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 51 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,156 (18.68%) Azure Certification
2 803 (12.97%) Degree
3 710 (11.47%) Security Cleared
4 405 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 295 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 235 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 205 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 177 (2.86%) Master's Degree
9 116 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 112 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 91 (1.47%) PhD
12 77 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.84%) CCNP
14 50 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 41 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 39 (0.63%) OSCP
17 37 (0.60%) CISSP
18 33 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
19 27 (0.44%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 247 (3.99%) QA
3 146 (2.36%) GDPR
4 84 (1.36%) NIST
5 79 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 70 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.36%) GRC
9 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.32%) SLA
11 19 (0.31%) PMO
12 15 (0.24%) WCAG
13 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 698 (11.28%) Docker
2 112 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.95%) Firmware
5 41 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 40 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.47%) KVM
8 26 (0.42%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.23%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.15%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.048%) IAG
17 3 (0.048%) iptables
17 3 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
17 3 (0.048%) Xen
Systems Management
1 888 (14.35%) Terraform
2 689 (11.13%) Kubernetes
3 380 (6.14%) Ansible
4 238 (3.85%) Grafana
5 167 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.97%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Nagios
8 38 (0.61%) Puppet
9 34 (0.55%) Kibana
10 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 26 (0.42%) Istio
13 25 (0.40%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.29%) Podman
16 17 (0.27%) Proxmox
17 15 (0.24%) logstash
18 14 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
18 14 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,495 (24.16%) Microsoft
2 384 (6.20%) Databricks
3 188 (3.04%) Google
4 142 (2.29%) Splunk
5 141 (2.28%) VMware
6 135 (2.18%) Oracle
7 118 (1.91%) Cisco
8 102 (1.65%) OpenAI
8 102 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 65 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.03%) Foundry
11 59 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 49 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.76%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
15 44 (0.71%) SAP
16 43 (0.69%) F5
17 37 (0.60%) Fortinet
18 35 (0.57%) Palantir
19 33 (0.53%) IBM