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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,858 4,754 6,684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.63% 10.96% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.13% 41.13% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 2,592 4,138
10th Percentile £43,965 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,150 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -3.33% +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 16,676 11,558 20,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.03% 26.64% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,130 7,594 12,642
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,225
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -2 2,545 £85,000 -2.86% 7,118
North of England -18 1,078 £66,805 +11.34% 1,352
South East +6 809 £62,500 +8.70% 1,399
South West +2 573 £62,500 +13.64% 796
North West -24 560 £67,500 +12.50% 721
Midlands 0 485 £60,000 - 733
East of England +9 310 £67,500 +17.39% 866
Yorkshire +3 281 £66,805 +2.78% 429
West Midlands -13 264 £62,500 +4.17% 406
North East +19 240 £67,500 +50.00% 213
East Midlands +12 219 £55,000 -15.38% 327
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
1 212 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 171 (2.92%) Apache
3 165 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.19%) Confluence
5 41 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 37 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 28 (0.48%) SAS
8 24 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.29%) nginx
11 12 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.15%) IIS
14 8 (0.14%) Camunda
14 8 (0.14%) CMS
14 8 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.10%) JBoss
15 6 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 312 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.43%) Simulink
4 20 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.10%) LaTeX
9 6 (0.10%) Lightworks
10 4 (0.068%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.051%) Blender
11 3 (0.051%) Maya
11 3 (0.051%) OrCAD
11 3 (0.051%) Revit
11 3 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.051%) SPSS
11 3 (0.051%) Trello
12 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.034%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.068%) Shopify
6 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.051%) Line 50
6 3 (0.051%) Summit
7 2 (0.034%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.034%) Magento
7 2 (0.034%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.034%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.017%) FastStats
8 1 (0.017%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.017%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2,062 (35.20%) Azure
2 1,853 (31.63%) AWS
3 724 (12.36%) GCP
4 694 (11.85%) Power Platform
5 442 (7.55%) Azure AI
6 394 (6.73%) GitHub
7 345 (5.89%) Serverless
8 252 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 245 (4.18%) SaaS
10 226 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
11 223 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 216 (3.69%) Snowflake
13 207 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 199 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 186 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
15 186 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
16 167 (2.85%) dbt
17 131 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
18 125 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
18 125 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 221 (3.77%) Firewall
2 159 (2.71%) DNS
3 147 (2.51%) VPN
4 145 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 105 (1.79%) Network Security
6 91 (1.55%) WAN
7 79 (1.35%) Wireless
8 66 (1.13%) Broadband
9 64 (1.09%) BGP
9 64 (1.09%) DHCP
10 63 (1.08%) LAN
11 48 (0.82%) MQTT
12 45 (0.77%) SD-WAN
12 45 (0.77%) VLAN
13 44 (0.75%) OSPF
14 40 (0.68%) HTTP
15 35 (0.60%) SSL
16 26 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.41%) 5G
18 23 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 624 (10.65%) Power BI
2 325 (5.55%) Tableau
3 324 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 306 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
5 191 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 149 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 147 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 126 (2.15%) Big Data
11 115 (1.96%) MySQL
12 113 (1.93%) Metadata
13 112 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 100 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 93 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 85 (1.45%) DynamoDB
17 83 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 77 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 73 (1.25%) Delta Lake
20 69 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 678 (11.57%) Git
2 313 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 259 (4.42%) GitLab
4 174 (2.97%) JIRA
5 69 (1.18%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.90%) Subversion
7 52 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 44 (0.75%) Selenium
9 42 (0.72%) MLflow
10 38 (0.65%) JUnit
11 32 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
13 30 (0.51%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.50%) TeamCity
15 28 (0.48%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.38%) Maven
17 20 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.32%) Cucumber
19 18 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 1,796 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 1,339 (22.86%) Finance
3 819 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 348 (5.94%) Banking
6 262 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 224 (3.82%) Marketing
8 219 (3.74%) Law
9 166 (2.83%) Retail
10 133 (2.27%) Legal
11 112 (1.91%) Aerospace
11 112 (1.91%) Front Office
12 102 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 97 (1.66%) Electronics
14 92 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 83 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 68 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 64 (1.09%) Games
18 49 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 49 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,259 (21.49%) Senior
2 886 (15.12%) Software Engineer
3 816 (13.93%) Developer
4 706 (12.05%) Python Engineer
5 615 (10.50%) Lead
6 613 (10.46%) Data Engineer
7 535 (9.13%) Analyst
8 442 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 359 (6.13%) Python Developer
10 355 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
11 345 (5.89%) Data Analyst
12 272 (4.64%) Junior
13 260 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 218 (3.72%) Architect
15 214 (3.65%) Data Scientist
16 205 (3.50%) Senior Developer
17 199 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
18 193 (3.29%) Junior Analyst
19 192 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
20 189 (3.23%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (16.15%) Terraform
2 391 (6.67%) React
3 247 (4.22%) REST
4 232 (3.96%) .NET
5 227 (3.88%) Node.js
6 223 (3.81%) PySpark
7 220 (3.76%) Kafka
8 215 (3.67%) FastAPI
9 200 (3.41%) RESTful
10 179 (3.06%) LangChain
11 165 (2.82%) Django
12 155 (2.65%) PyTorch
13 137 (2.34%) TensorFlow
14 134 (2.29%) HTML
15 130 (2.22%) CSS
16 127 (2.17%) Spring Boot
17 126 (2.15%) Spring
18 111 (1.89%) Flask
19 106 (1.81%) LangGraph
20 94 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 602 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 296 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 281 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 268 (4.57%) AI Agents
5 233 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 143 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 129 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 95 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 91 (1.55%) Robotics
10 90 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 89 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 86 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 85 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 84 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
15 82 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
16 75 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
17 70 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
18 66 (1.13%) Low-Code
19 65 (1.11%) Equities
20 63 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 706 (12.05%) Linux
2 328 (5.60%) Windows
3 82 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 80 (1.37%) Unix
5 49 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.43%) Debian
10 19 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 16 (0.27%) Rocky
14 13 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.20%) Android
15 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
16 10 (0.17%) Solaris
17 9 (0.15%) VMS
18 6 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
18 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,378 (40.59%) AI
2 1,706 (29.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,628 (27.79%) CI/CD
4 1,213 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 1,117 (19.07%) Analytics
6 1,100 (18.78%) DevOps
7 1,074 (18.33%) Agile
8 1,011 (17.26%) Machine Learning
9 955 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 791 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
11 785 (13.40%) Mentoring
12 732 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
13 727 (12.41%) Data Engineering
14 684 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 644 (10.99%) Data Modelling
16 623 (10.64%) Decision-Making
17 611 (10.43%) Data Science
18 587 (10.02%) Containerisation
19 584 (9.97%) Test Automation
20 575 (9.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,929 (32.93%) SQL
2 825 (14.08%) Java
3 601 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 557 (9.51%) C++
5 531 (9.06%) Bash
6 495 (8.45%) PowerShell
7 481 (8.21%) C#
8 403 (6.88%) TypeScript
9 263 (4.49%) Go
10 197 (3.36%) C
11 158 (2.70%) R
12 105 (1.79%) Scala
13 100 (1.71%) Bicep
14 98 (1.67%) Rust
15 88 (1.50%) MATLAB
16 84 (1.43%) PHP
17 80 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 74 (1.26%) Ruby
20 55 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 925 (15.79%) Degree
2 884 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 519 (8.86%) Azure Certification
4 504 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 304 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 283 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 220 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 121 (2.07%) PhD
9 115 (1.96%) AWS Certification
10 85 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 56 (0.96%) CISSP
14 47 (0.80%) CCNP
15 40 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.60%) CCNA
17 34 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 32 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
20 29 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (9.53%) Data Quality
2 244 (4.17%) QA
3 128 (2.19%) GDPR
4 102 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 75 (1.28%) NIST
6 61 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.48%) SLA
9 25 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.39%) NCSC
11 18 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.29%) WCAG
13 15 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 12 (0.20%) PMO
15 11 (0.19%) GRC
16 9 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.14%) JTAG
18 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 800 (13.66%) Docker
2 121 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 94 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.09%) Firmware
5 38 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.51%) vSphere
8 22 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.27%) KVM
11 14 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.14%) Squid
14 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.051%) NFS
16 2 (0.034%) IAG
16 2 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 821 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 415 (7.08%) Ansible
3 244 (4.17%) Grafana
4 164 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 75 (1.28%) Puppet
6 63 (1.08%) Argo
7 46 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.65%) Kibana
9 31 (0.53%) Nagios
10 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.44%) Istio
11 26 (0.44%) Rancher
11 26 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.39%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.36%) Packer
13 21 (0.36%) Podman
14 18 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.29%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.26%) Kubeflow
16 15 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 938 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 440 (7.51%) Databricks
3 236 (4.03%) Google
4 152 (2.59%) Splunk
5 123 (2.10%) OpenAI
6 122 (2.08%) Oracle
7 119 (2.03%) VMware
8 108 (1.84%) Cisco
9 90 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 55 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 54 (0.92%) Foundry
13 42 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 40 (0.68%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 38 (0.65%) Fortinet
17 36 (0.61%) F5
17 36 (0.61%) SAP
18 33 (0.56%) Informatica
19 31 (0.53%) New Relic