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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,156 4,970 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.40% 12.98% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.17% 40.68% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,590 2,800 5,648
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,470
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,275 £125,000 £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 14,954 12,217 27,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 31.90% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,658 8,297 22,538
10th Percentile £36,535 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £86,250 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -1 2,421 £85,000 -5.56% 1,217
North of England -10 1,260 £60,000 -7.69% 392
South East +3 904 £62,250 -1.19% 508
Midlands +18 662 £55,000 - 172
North West -28 563 £65,000 - 211
South West +7 533 £57,500 +0.10% 187
Yorkshire +16 504 £52,500 -19.23% 105
West Midlands +10 361 £60,000 +9.09% 82
East of England +2 314 £62,500 -5.60% 175
East Midlands +30 301 £55,000 +22.22% 89
North East +24 193 £52,000 -20.00% 79
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
1 215 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 198 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 149 (2.42%) Apache
4 73 (1.19%) Jupyter
5 54 (0.88%) WordPress
6 46 (0.75%) Confluence
7 34 (0.55%) SAS
8 28 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 10 (0.16%) Appian
13 6 (0.097%) nginx
13 6 (0.097%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) CMS
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.032%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,090 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.032%) Blender
9 2 (0.032%) CATIA
9 2 (0.032%) Maya
9 2 (0.032%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.065%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.032%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.032%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) FastStats
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,812 (45.68%) Azure
2 1,882 (30.57%) AWS
3 1,345 (21.85%) Power Platform
4 1,221 (19.83%) Azure AI
5 663 (10.77%) GCP
6 464 (7.54%) GitHub
7 323 (5.25%) Serverless
8 233 (3.78%) Amazon S3
9 230 (3.74%) SaaS
10 222 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
11 200 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.70%) dbt
14 165 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
16 149 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 142 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 100 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.77%) Firewall
2 179 (2.91%) Broadband
3 154 (2.50%) Internet
4 129 (2.10%) VPN
5 124 (2.01%) DNS
6 105 (1.71%) Network Security
7 99 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 97 (1.58%) WAN
9 83 (1.35%) LAN
10 76 (1.23%) Wireless
11 66 (1.07%) BGP
12 56 (0.91%) HTTP
13 53 (0.86%) VLAN
14 48 (0.78%) OSPF
14 48 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 41 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 38 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (0.50%) DHCP
18 30 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,284 (20.86%) Power BI
2 1,168 (18.97%) Tableau
3 293 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 163 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 141 (2.29%) BigQuery
8 141 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 120 (1.95%) MongoDB
10 115 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 114 (1.85%) Big Data
12 112 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 104 (1.69%) Data Mining
14 91 (1.48%) Metadata
15 79 (1.28%) MySQL
16 71 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (1.04%) DynamoDB
18 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 53 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 665 (10.80%) Git
2 254 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 226 (3.67%) GitLab
4 132 (2.14%) JIRA
5 80 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.01%) MLflow
7 46 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.62%) Selenium
9 34 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.50%) Postman
12 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
14 22 (0.36%) Subversion
15 21 (0.34%) Cypress.io
16 20 (0.32%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.32%) JUnit
17 18 (0.29%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 2,271 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 1,202 (19.53%) Finance
3 838 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 258 (4.19%) Banking
6 212 (3.44%) Public Sector
7 184 (2.99%) Retail
8 162 (2.63%) Law
9 138 (2.24%) Multimedia
10 131 (2.13%) Front Office
10 131 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 105 (1.71%) Legal
12 101 (1.64%) Marketing
13 90 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.30%) Electronics
15 68 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 59 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 54 (0.88%) Investment Banking
18 53 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,298 (21.09%) Analyst
2 1,121 (18.21%) Data Analyst
3 989 (16.07%) Senior
4 943 (15.32%) Junior
5 927 (15.06%) Developer
6 900 (14.62%) Junior Analyst
6 900 (14.62%) Junior Data Analyst
7 630 (10.23%) Software Engineer
8 552 (8.97%) Data Engineer
9 495 (8.04%) Python Engineer
10 494 (8.02%) Lead
11 428 (6.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 390 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 274 (4.45%) Trainee
14 223 (3.62%) Python Software Engineer
15 198 (3.22%) Software Developer
16 184 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
17 179 (2.91%) Architect
18 178 (2.89%) Data Scientist
19 177 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (6.11%) React
2 270 (4.39%) HTML
3 258 (4.19%) Kafka
4 251 (4.08%) CSS
5 227 (3.69%) PySpark
6 215 (3.49%) Node.js
7 211 (3.43%) REST
8 199 (3.23%) .NET
9 180 (2.92%) RESTful
10 173 (2.81%) Django
11 166 (2.70%) PyTorch
12 159 (2.58%) Pandas
13 156 (2.53%) FastAPI
14 145 (2.36%) TensorFlow
15 123 (2.00%) scikit-learn
16 122 (1.98%) Flask
17 118 (1.92%) LangChain
18 107 (1.74%) NumPy
19 98 (1.59%) JSON
20 86 (1.40%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 398 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 274 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 179 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 102 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
10 92 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 89 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 83 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 82 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 81 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 81 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.30%) Equities
16 74 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
17 71 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 64 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 625 (10.15%) Linux
2 268 (4.35%) Windows
3 100 (1.62%) Unix
4 79 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 34 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.19%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.097%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,571 (41.76%) AI
2 1,389 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1,316 (21.38%) CI/CD
4 1,224 (19.88%) Software Engineering
5 1,009 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
6 992 (16.11%) Agile
6 992 (16.11%) Analytics
7 958 (15.56%) DevOps
8 830 (13.48%) Machine Learning
9 747 (12.13%) Mentoring
10 736 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 623 (10.12%) Data Modelling
12 603 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
13 595 (9.67%) Data Engineering
14 592 (9.62%) Data Science
15 547 (8.89%) ETL
16 544 (8.84%) Computer Science
17 514 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 501 (8.14%) Containerisation
19 494 (8.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,460 (39.96%) SQL
2 699 (11.35%) JavaScript
3 664 (10.79%) Java
4 478 (7.76%) PowerShell
5 454 (7.37%) Bash
6 423 (6.87%) C++
7 390 (6.34%) C#
8 370 (6.01%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.50%) Go
10 212 (3.44%) R
11 164 (2.66%) C
12 126 (2.05%) Scala
13 85 (1.38%) Rust
14 73 (1.19%) PHP
15 62 (1.01%) VBA
16 59 (0.96%) Bicep
17 52 (0.84%) MATLAB
18 47 (0.76%) Perl
19 42 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,418 (23.03%) Azure Certification
2 785 (12.75%) Degree
3 582 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 344 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 286 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 282 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 195 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 194 (3.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 189 (3.07%) DV Cleared
10 157 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.46%) PhD
12 82 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 68 (1.10%) CCNP
14 51 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 50 (0.81%) OSCP
16 40 (0.65%) CISSP
17 35 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.47%) CCIE
20 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.75%) QA
3 122 (1.98%) GDPR
4 94 (1.53%) NIST
5 80 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.42%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.31%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 605 (9.83%) Docker
2 109 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.94%) Firmware
5 36 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.47%) KVM
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.11%) Squid
14 6 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 786 (12.77%) Terraform
2 629 (10.22%) Kubernetes
3 352 (5.72%) Ansible
4 205 (3.33%) Grafana
5 166 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.01%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Nagios
8 31 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.50%) Puppet
9 26 (0.42%) Kibana
10 23 (0.37%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 20 (0.32%) Packer
12 20 (0.32%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) Podman
16 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
17 13 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,783 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 340 (5.52%) Databricks
3 208 (3.38%) Google
4 129 (2.10%) Oracle
5 128 (2.08%) VMware
6 127 (2.06%) Cisco
7 111 (1.80%) Splunk
8 99 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 98 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 57 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 56 (0.91%) Foundry
12 55 (0.89%) Palo Alto
13 54 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 52 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 50 (0.81%) SAP
16 46 (0.75%) Fortinet
17 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
18 42 (0.68%) F5
19 38 (0.62%) Palantir
20 37 (0.60%) Informatica