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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,632 4,920 6,467
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.43% 12.01% 9.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.34% 34.68% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,961 3,147 5,207
10th Percentile £32,838 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £98,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -4.32%

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 11,481 14,185 24,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.40% 34.62% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8,445 9,042 21,132
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 3 March 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 3 March 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 2,087 £82,500 -5.71% 1,291
North of England -9 815 £45,000 -30.77% 572
South East -21 595 £61,000 -12.86% 886
Midlands -12 436 £55,000 - 314
South West +3 394 £58,497 -10.01% 364
Yorkshire +7 352 £40,000 -38.46% 221
North West -10 343 £55,000 -15.38% 257
West Midlands +8 282 £55,200 +0.36% 141
East of England -26 233 £50,000 -24.52% 367
East Midlands -15 156 £55,000 - 169
North East +11 120 £40,000 -38.46% 100
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
1 183 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 137 (2.96%) Apache
4 59 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 36 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 34 (0.73%) SAS
7 28 (0.60%) Confluence
7 28 (0.60%) WordPress
8 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.41%) Appian
10 17 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 16 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 12 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
14 9 (0.19%) nginx
14 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.11%) CMS
16 4 (0.086%) JBoss
Applications
1 817 (17.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 57 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.086%) Windchill
10 3 (0.065%) CATIA
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.086%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.086%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.022%) Actimize
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.022%) Primavera
7 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,937 (41.82%) Azure
2 1,601 (34.56%) AWS
3 949 (20.49%) Power Platform
4 554 (11.96%) Azure AI
5 541 (11.68%) GitHub
6 514 (11.10%) GCP
7 268 (5.79%) Serverless
8 190 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 181 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 179 (3.86%) SaaS
11 174 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 163 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 154 (3.32%) Snowflake
14 142 (3.07%) dbt
15 137 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 121 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
18 84 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 238 (5.14%) Internet
2 171 (3.69%) Firewall
3 108 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 98 (2.12%) VPN
5 91 (1.96%) Broadband
6 86 (1.86%) DNS
7 71 (1.53%) WAN
8 64 (1.38%) LAN
9 59 (1.27%) BGP
10 58 (1.25%) Wireless
11 55 (1.19%) Network Security
11 55 (1.19%) VLAN
12 51 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.04%) HTTP
14 42 (0.91%) OSPF
15 34 (0.73%) MPLS
15 34 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.69%) Wireshark
17 30 (0.65%) DHCP
18 28 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 912 (19.69%) Power BI
2 874 (18.87%) Tableau
3 237 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
4 216 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (4.53%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.67%) Data Mining
7 168 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 111 (2.40%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 102 (2.20%) Big Data
12 91 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 88 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 84 (1.81%) Metadata
15 77 (1.66%) MySQL
16 67 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
17 56 (1.21%) Hadoop
18 44 (0.95%) RDBMS
19 42 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 600 (12.95%) Git
2 211 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 167 (3.61%) GitLab
4 102 (2.20%) JIRA
5 53 (1.14%) Selenium
6 50 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 43 (0.93%) MLflow
8 38 (0.82%) Postman
9 34 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.63%) JUnit
12 23 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 21 (0.45%) JMeter
14 19 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 19 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.37%) Subversion
16 16 (0.35%) Metasploit
16 16 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,540 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 1,130 (24.40%) Finance
3 779 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (5.57%) Banking
5 223 (4.81%) Multimedia
6 202 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 186 (4.02%) Public Sector
8 173 (3.73%) Law
9 158 (3.41%) Retail
10 147 (3.17%) Front Office
11 140 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 121 (2.61%) Marketing
13 111 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 85 (1.84%) Legal
15 76 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.49%) Electronics
18 66 (1.42%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,020 (22.02%) Analyst
2 829 (17.90%) Data Analyst
3 795 (17.16%) Developer
4 682 (14.72%) Senior
5 545 (11.77%) Junior
6 519 (11.20%) Junior Analyst
6 519 (11.20%) Junior Data Analyst
7 446 (9.63%) Data Engineer
8 417 (9.00%) Trainee
9 385 (8.31%) Software Engineer
10 357 (7.71%) Lead
11 307 (6.63%) Python Developer
12 272 (5.87%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.23%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.37%) Architect
15 142 (3.07%) Trainee Analyst
15 142 (3.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 141 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
17 132 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (7.97%) React
2 365 (7.88%) HTML
3 316 (6.82%) CSS
4 201 (4.34%) Kafka
5 198 (4.27%) Node.js
6 182 (3.93%) Django
7 181 (3.91%) REST
8 156 (3.37%) PySpark
9 148 (3.20%) RESTful
10 138 (2.98%) Pandas
11 133 (2.87%) FastAPI
12 132 (2.85%) .NET
13 122 (2.63%) PyTorch
14 111 (2.40%) Flask
15 109 (2.35%) TensorFlow
16 98 (2.12%) JSON
17 94 (2.03%) scikit-learn
18 91 (1.96%) AngularJS
19 89 (1.92%) NumPy
20 84 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 238 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 232 (5.01%) Algorithms
3 184 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (1.99%) Equities
8 90 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.88%) Fixed Income
10 82 (1.77%) Product Ownership
11 76 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.58%) Data Centre
13 72 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
14 71 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 69 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
16 68 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
17 63 (1.36%) Derivative
18 62 (1.34%) AI Agents
18 62 (1.34%) Security Posture
19 61 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 502 (10.84%) Linux
2 206 (4.45%) Windows
3 183 (3.95%) Unix
4 62 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.82%) CentOS
7 29 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.26%) Debian
12 11 (0.24%) Android
13 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.086%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.065%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.065%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,546 (33.38%) AI
2 1,048 (22.63%) CI/CD
3 1,013 (21.87%) Business Intelligence
4 949 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
5 883 (19.06%) Analytics
6 838 (18.09%) Agile
7 796 (17.18%) DevOps
8 780 (16.84%) Software Engineering
9 677 (14.62%) Mentoring
10 596 (12.87%) Machine Learning
11 520 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 508 (10.97%) ETL
13 503 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
14 502 (10.84%) Data Science
15 496 (10.71%) Data Modelling
16 470 (10.15%) Data Engineering
17 468 (10.10%) Computer Science
18 444 (9.59%) Data Analysis
19 440 (9.50%) Containerisation
20 438 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,931 (41.69%) SQL
2 756 (16.32%) JavaScript
3 607 (13.10%) Java
4 392 (8.46%) Bash
5 367 (7.92%) PowerShell
6 335 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 269 (5.81%) C#
8 235 (5.07%) C++
9 227 (4.90%) R
10 224 (4.84%) Go
11 125 (2.70%) C
12 90 (1.94%) Scala
13 72 (1.55%) VBA
14 65 (1.40%) Rust
15 57 (1.23%) PHP
16 41 (0.89%) Bicep
17 39 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.80%) MATLAB
19 34 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 809 (17.47%) Azure Certification
2 787 (16.99%) Degree
3 463 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 377 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 273 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 270 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 269 (5.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 234 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 165 (3.56%) DV Cleared
10 150 (3.24%) Master's Degree
11 92 (1.99%) PhD
12 68 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.27%) CCNP
14 52 (1.12%) CISSP
15 47 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.84%) OSCP
18 35 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (0.63%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.61%) QA
3 110 (2.37%) GDPR
3 110 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (2.27%) NIST
5 67 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 43 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 24 (0.52%) SLA
9 19 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.35%) PMO
12 15 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.26%) GRC
15 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 559 (12.07%) Docker
2 91 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.60%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.37%) KVM
8 13 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.15%) Lustre
11 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.13%) HDFS
13 4 (0.086%) iptables
13 4 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.065%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.065%) QEMU
15 2 (0.043%) Ceph
15 2 (0.043%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 579 (12.50%) Terraform
2 576 (12.44%) Kubernetes
3 316 (6.82%) Ansible
4 151 (3.26%) Grafana
5 142 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.38%) Argo
7 24 (0.52%) Puppet
8 21 (0.45%) Kibana
8 21 (0.45%) Nagios
9 20 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.30%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.28%) Control-M
13 12 (0.26%) Nessus
14 11 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.24%) logstash
14 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.24%) Rancher
15 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,400 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 244 (5.27%) Databricks
3 211 (4.56%) Google
4 149 (3.22%) Oracle
5 108 (2.33%) Cisco
6 107 (2.31%) VMware
7 92 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 69 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 69 (1.49%) SAP
9 66 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 65 (1.40%) Splunk
11 52 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 50 (1.08%) Informatica
13 44 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.91%) Bloomberg
15 40 (0.86%) Alteryx
16 39 (0.84%) Talend
17 38 (0.82%) IBM
18 35 (0.76%) Foundry
19 34 (0.73%) Palantir