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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,975 4,689 6,642
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.52% 12.15% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.41% 35.18% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 3,247 5,332
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £121,250 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -4.93%

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 12,013 13,330 25,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 34.55% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,738 9,372 21,819
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 17 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 17 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 -1 2,184 £82,500 -8.33% 1,217
North of England -4 892 £45,794 -29.55% 511
South East -12 658 £60,000 -9.77% 655
Midlands -2 484 £55,000 - 257
South West +3 423 £57,500 -11.54% 267
Yorkshire +11 387 £45,000 -30.77% 199
North West -8 372 £51,250 -21.15% 220
West Midlands +15 308 £60,000 +9.09% 117
East of England -23 256 £50,000 -24.51% 229
East Midlands -11 177 £55,000 - 140
North East +20 133 £40,000 -38.46% 96
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
1 192 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.73%) Apache
4 68 (1.37%) WordPress
5 63 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 35 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.66%) SAS
8 30 (0.60%) Confluence
9 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 23 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 18 (0.36%) Appian
12 15 (0.30%) IIS
13 14 (0.28%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
16 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.080%) Apache Solr
18 3 (0.060%) JBoss
Applications
1 951 (19.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 52 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.12%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.080%) Windchill
9 3 (0.060%) CATIA
10 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.040%) Weka
11 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.020%) Houdini
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) NUKE
11 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.14%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.080%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.060%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.020%) Actimize
8 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.020%) Primavera
8 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,186 (43.94%) Azure
2 1,717 (34.51%) AWS
3 1,092 (21.95%) Power Platform
4 698 (14.03%) Azure AI
5 597 (12.00%) GitHub
6 542 (10.89%) GCP
7 277 (5.57%) Serverless
8 203 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 199 (4.00%) SaaS
10 180 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 178 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
12 172 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 155 (3.12%) Snowflake
14 151 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 150 (3.02%) dbt
16 125 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 100 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 92 (1.85%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 271 (5.45%) Internet
2 184 (3.70%) Firewall
3 128 (2.57%) Broadband
4 109 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 105 (2.11%) VPN
6 93 (1.87%) DNS
7 69 (1.39%) WAN
8 67 (1.35%) Network Security
9 66 (1.33%) LAN
10 61 (1.23%) BGP
11 57 (1.15%) VLAN
11 57 (1.15%) Wireless
12 51 (1.03%) HTTP
13 47 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
14 43 (0.86%) OSPF
15 37 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.68%) MPLS
17 32 (0.64%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.64%) Wireshark
18 28 (0.56%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,056 (21.23%) Power BI
2 1,020 (20.50%) Tableau
3 253 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 168 (3.38%) Data Mining
7 165 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.89%) Relational Database
9 121 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 98 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 96 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 92 (1.85%) Big Data
14 91 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 87 (1.75%) Metadata
16 80 (1.61%) MySQL
17 69 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 46 (0.92%) Delta Lake
18 46 (0.92%) Hadoop
19 45 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 664 (13.35%) Git
2 217 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 177 (3.56%) GitLab
4 101 (2.03%) JIRA
5 56 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 54 (1.09%) Selenium
7 50 (1.01%) MLflow
8 40 (0.80%) Postman
9 38 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.52%) JUnit
12 25 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
13 21 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 21 (0.42%) Jaeger
14 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.40%) JMeter
14 20 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 18 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 17 (0.34%) Metasploit
17 15 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,698 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (22.97%) Finance
3 810 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.51%) Banking
5 260 (5.23%) Multimedia
6 210 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 202 (4.06%) Public Sector
8 169 (3.40%) Law
9 164 (3.30%) Retail
10 145 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.71%) Front Office
12 122 (2.45%) Marketing
13 108 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.73%) Legal
15 73 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.43%) Financial Institution
17 68 (1.37%) Electronics
17 68 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 46 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,153 (23.18%) Analyst
2 970 (19.50%) Data Analyst
3 825 (16.58%) Developer
4 727 (14.61%) Senior
5 697 (14.01%) Junior
6 663 (13.33%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (13.33%) Junior Data Analyst
7 465 (9.35%) Data Engineer
8 455 (9.15%) Trainee
9 416 (8.36%) Software Engineer
10 388 (7.80%) Lead
11 325 (6.53%) Python Developer
12 299 (6.01%) Python Engineer
13 201 (4.04%) Software Developer
14 156 (3.14%) Architect
15 150 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 145 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
17 144 (2.89%) Trainee Analyst
17 144 (2.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
18 138 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (8.12%) HTML
2 372 (7.48%) React
3 351 (7.06%) CSS
4 214 (4.30%) Kafka
5 205 (4.12%) Node.js
6 191 (3.84%) REST
7 190 (3.82%) Django
8 167 (3.36%) PySpark
9 155 (3.12%) RESTful
10 140 (2.81%) .NET
11 138 (2.77%) Pandas
12 136 (2.73%) FastAPI
12 136 (2.73%) PyTorch
13 119 (2.39%) TensorFlow
14 117 (2.35%) Flask
15 108 (2.17%) scikit-learn
16 102 (2.05%) JSON
17 89 (1.79%) NumPy
18 87 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
19 83 (1.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 259 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 240 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 200 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 97 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 90 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 85 (1.71%) Equities
9 85 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 80 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 75 (1.51%) Hedge funds
13 73 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
14 71 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.29%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.27%) Security Posture
18 62 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
19 61 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 529 (10.63%) Linux
2 212 (4.26%) Windows
3 180 (3.62%) Unix
4 64 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.80%) CentOS
7 29 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.18%) Android
12 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.12%) VMS
14 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.080%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.060%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.060%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,736 (34.89%) AI
2 1,167 (23.46%) Business Intelligence
3 1,097 (22.05%) CI/CD
4 967 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 925 (18.59%) Analytics
6 867 (17.43%) Agile
7 844 (16.96%) Software Engineering
8 823 (16.54%) DevOps
9 708 (14.23%) Mentoring
10 646 (12.98%) Machine Learning
11 556 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 535 (10.75%) Data Modelling
13 524 (10.53%) Data Science
14 522 (10.49%) ETL
15 520 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
16 482 (9.69%) Containerisation
16 482 (9.69%) Data Engineering
17 475 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 469 (9.43%) Computer Science
19 431 (8.66%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,098 (42.17%) SQL
2 795 (15.98%) JavaScript
3 605 (12.16%) Java
4 395 (7.94%) Bash
5 381 (7.66%) PowerShell
6 329 (6.61%) TypeScript
7 275 (5.53%) C#
8 264 (5.31%) R
9 255 (5.13%) Go
10 241 (4.84%) C++
11 121 (2.43%) C
12 97 (1.95%) Scala
13 73 (1.47%) Rust
14 71 (1.43%) VBA
15 60 (1.21%) PHP
16 45 (0.90%) Bicep
17 40 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.76%) T-SQL
19 34 (0.68%) Perl
20 30 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 993 (19.96%) Azure Certification
2 766 (15.40%) Degree
3 442 (8.88%) Security Cleared
4 413 (8.30%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 308 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 246 (4.94%) SC Cleared
8 241 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 173 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 133 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.79%) PhD
12 66 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (1.15%) CCNP
14 50 (1.01%) CISSP
15 45 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.84%) OSCP
17 41 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.54%) ACCA
19 27 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (7.54%) Data Quality
2 196 (3.94%) QA
3 113 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (2.21%) GDPR
5 107 (2.15%) NIST
6 69 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 23 (0.46%) SLA
10 22 (0.44%) PMO
11 20 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 16 (0.32%) GRC
15 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 5 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 583 (11.72%) Docker
2 91 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Firmware
4 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.38%) KVM
7 16 (0.32%) ProxySG
8 15 (0.30%) vSphere
9 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.14%) Lustre
10 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.10%) iptables
13 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.060%) HDFS
14 3 (0.060%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.040%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 622 (12.50%) Terraform
2 590 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 320 (6.43%) Ansible
4 171 (3.44%) Grafana
5 145 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.25%) Argo
7 25 (0.50%) Nagios
8 23 (0.46%) Puppet
9 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.40%) Kibana
10 20 (0.40%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.32%) Istio
12 13 (0.26%) Control-M
13 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.24%) logstash
13 12 (0.24%) Nessus
14 11 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,597 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 268 (5.39%) Databricks
3 204 (4.10%) Google
4 144 (2.89%) Oracle
5 116 (2.33%) VMware
6 113 (2.27%) Cisco
7 96 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.45%) SAP
9 68 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 67 (1.35%) Splunk
11 66 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 50 (1.01%) Informatica
14 43 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 43 (0.86%) Foundry
15 42 (0.84%) Palantir
16 41 (0.82%) Bloomberg
17 39 (0.78%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.78%) Talend
18 37 (0.74%) MuleSoft