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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,043 5,144 7,619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.38% 13.09% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.48% 40.56% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 2,852 5,767
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 14,927 12,683 28,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.23% 32.27% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,678 8,486 22,842
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £86,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 2,405 £85,000 -5.56% 1,073
North of England -10 1,235 £61,418 -5.51% 392
South East 0 872 £62,500 - 548
Midlands +27 646 £60,000 +9.09% 160
North West -15 568 £65,000 - 219
South West +7 529 £57,500 +0.10% 190
Yorkshire +13 475 £60,000 -7.69% 110
West Midlands +17 342 £60,000 +9.09% 85
East Midlands +29 304 £55,000 +20.88% 74
East of England -3 296 £70,000 +5.72% 173
North East +19 192 £55,000 -13.73% 64
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
1 219 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 197 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 152 (2.52%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 50 (0.83%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 33 (0.55%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
14 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.083%) CMS
15 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.050%) Headless CMS
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 978 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,673 (44.23%) Azure
2 1,876 (31.04%) AWS
3 1,243 (20.57%) Power Platform
4 1,125 (18.62%) Azure AI
5 667 (11.04%) GCP
6 431 (7.13%) GitHub
7 328 (5.43%) Serverless
8 240 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 229 (3.79%) SaaS
10 217 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 206 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.75%) dbt
14 160 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 156 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 142 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
18 117 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 104 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (3.87%) Firewall
2 188 (3.11%) Broadband
3 129 (2.13%) VPN
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
4 122 (2.02%) Internet
5 107 (1.77%) Network Security
6 100 (1.65%) WAN
7 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 84 (1.39%) LAN
9 77 (1.27%) Wireless
10 64 (1.06%) BGP
11 54 (0.89%) HTTP
12 53 (0.88%) VLAN
13 52 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.50%) DHCP
17 30 (0.50%) Wireshark
18 29 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,184 (19.59%) Power BI
2 1,062 (17.57%) Tableau
3 286 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 236 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 164 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 132 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 114 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 112 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 106 (1.75%) Big Data
14 91 (1.51%) Metadata
15 88 (1.46%) Data Mining
16 81 (1.34%) MySQL
17 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.01%) Spark SQL
19 53 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 636 (10.52%) Git
2 255 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 229 (3.79%) GitLab
4 137 (2.27%) JIRA
5 80 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.99%) MLflow
7 49 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.65%) Selenium
9 35 (0.58%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.40%) Subversion
15 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 23 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.28%) JUnit
General
1 2,157 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 1,191 (19.71%) Finance
3 826 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.35%) Banking
6 212 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 183 (3.03%) Retail
8 155 (2.56%) Law
9 128 (2.12%) Front Office
10 126 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 107 (1.77%) Multimedia
12 104 (1.72%) Legal
13 95 (1.57%) Marketing
14 88 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.24%) Electronics
16 69 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 63 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 58 (0.96%) Games
19 57 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,197 (19.81%) Analyst
2 1,023 (16.93%) Data Analyst
3 1,013 (16.76%) Senior
4 908 (15.03%) Developer
5 849 (14.05%) Junior
6 806 (13.34%) Junior Analyst
6 806 (13.34%) Junior Data Analyst
7 645 (10.67%) Software Engineer
8 560 (9.27%) Data Engineer
9 511 (8.46%) Python Engineer
10 503 (8.32%) Lead
11 443 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 383 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 229 (3.79%) Python Software Engineer
14 228 (3.77%) Trainee
15 189 (3.13%) Data Scientist
16 184 (3.04%) Architect
17 183 (3.03%) Software Developer
18 181 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
19 173 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (6.22%) React
2 259 (4.29%) Kafka
3 237 (3.92%) HTML
4 225 (3.72%) Node.js
4 225 (3.72%) PySpark
5 221 (3.66%) CSS
6 210 (3.48%) REST
7 196 (3.24%) .NET
8 179 (2.96%) RESTful
9 173 (2.86%) PyTorch
10 167 (2.76%) Django
11 164 (2.71%) FastAPI
12 157 (2.60%) Pandas
13 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
14 129 (2.13%) LangChain
15 123 (2.04%) Flask
15 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
16 107 (1.77%) NumPy
17 97 (1.61%) JSON
18 91 (1.51%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 432 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 322 (5.33%) Algorithms
3 287 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 135 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 129 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 111 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 102 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 101 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
10 94 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 83 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 80 (1.32%) Equities
14 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 77 (1.27%) Hedge funds
16 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 67 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 65 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 618 (10.23%) Linux
2 264 (4.37%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 83 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 35 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.25%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
15 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,520 (41.70%) AI
2 1,328 (21.98%) CI/CD
3 1,286 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
4 1,264 (20.92%) Software Engineering
5 1,013 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 997 (16.50%) Agile
7 977 (16.17%) Analytics
8 951 (15.74%) DevOps
9 849 (14.05%) Machine Learning
10 759 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 744 (12.31%) Mentoring
12 611 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 597 (9.88%) Data Engineering
14 596 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
14 596 (9.86%) Data Science
15 529 (8.75%) Computer Science
16 523 (8.65%) ETL
17 516 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 513 (8.49%) Containerisation
19 508 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,367 (39.17%) SQL
2 669 (11.07%) JavaScript
3 663 (10.97%) Java
4 477 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 455 (7.53%) Bash
6 423 (7.00%) C++
7 382 (6.32%) C#
8 373 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 288 (4.77%) Go
10 199 (3.29%) R
11 159 (2.63%) C
12 126 (2.09%) Scala
13 85 (1.41%) Rust
14 76 (1.26%) PHP
15 62 (1.03%) Bicep
16 55 (0.91%) MATLAB
17 53 (0.88%) VBA
18 46 (0.76%) Perl
19 42 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,294 (21.41%) Azure Certification
2 766 (12.68%) Degree
3 601 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 357 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 277 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 252 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 195 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 165 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 164 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 153 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.44%) PhD
12 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.08%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 39 (0.65%) CISSP
16 35 (0.58%) CREST Certified
17 32 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.45%) CCIE
19 25 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 228 (3.77%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 91 (1.51%) NIST
5 76 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 19 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.30%) SLA
14 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) IFRS
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 613 (10.14%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 20 (0.33%) vSphere
9 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 804 (13.30%) Terraform
2 637 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 350 (5.79%) Ansible
4 206 (3.41%) Grafana
5 170 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.06%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 27 (0.45%) Kibana
11 24 (0.40%) Istio
11 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 22 (0.36%) Packer
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,639 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 348 (5.76%) Databricks
3 207 (3.43%) Google
4 129 (2.13%) VMware
5 125 (2.07%) Cisco
6 124 (2.05%) Oracle
7 118 (1.95%) Splunk
8 99 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 97 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 58 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 56 (0.93%) Foundry
13 53 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 45 (0.74%) SAP
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 40 (0.66%) F5
18 37 (0.61%) Palantir
19 31 (0.51%) Arista