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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,344 5,023 6,532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.67% 11.47% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.82% 40.17% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,875 2,804 4,653
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,150 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -0.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 16,772 12,505 21,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.64% 28.54% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 8,350 15,710
10th Percentile £38,735 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,125 £83,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -3 2,646 £85,000 -2.86% 788
North of England -11 1,247 £65,500 +0.77% 359
South East +8 909 £60,000 - 531
South West +12 616 £60,000 +9.09% 213
North West -16 597 £65,500 +9.17% 177
Midlands +5 557 £62,000 -4.62% 186
Yorkshire +12 398 £65,500 +0.77% 106
East of England +10 315 £65,000 +18.18% 156
West Midlands -3 302 £62,500 -3.85% 107
East Midlands +19 254 £53,750 -10.42% 78
North East +26 252 £65,000 - 78
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
1 246 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 232 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 188 (2.96%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 53 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.76%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) SAS
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.095%) Camunda
14 6 (0.095%) JBoss
14 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 660 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.27%) Simulink
6 13 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.079%) Shopify
7 4 (0.063%) Line 50
7 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.047%) Magento
8 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.047%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,505 (39.49%) Azure
2 2,041 (32.17%) AWS
3 994 (15.67%) Power Platform
4 858 (13.52%) Azure AI
5 769 (12.12%) GCP
6 399 (6.29%) GitHub
7 376 (5.93%) Serverless
8 261 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 242 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 239 (3.77%) Snowflake
11 238 (3.75%) SaaS
12 232 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
13 209 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 200 (3.15%) dbt
15 180 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 164 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
17 158 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
18 140 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 131 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
20 120 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (3.55%) Firewall
2 136 (2.14%) DNS
3 127 (2.00%) Broadband
4 125 (1.97%) VPN
5 124 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 109 (1.72%) Network Security
7 95 (1.50%) WAN
8 78 (1.23%) Wireless
9 74 (1.17%) LAN
10 71 (1.12%) Internet
11 55 (0.87%) BGP
12 47 (0.74%) VLAN
13 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 45 (0.71%) DHCP
15 42 (0.66%) HTTP
16 40 (0.63%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 923 (14.55%) Power BI
2 735 (11.59%) Tableau
3 337 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 290 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 159 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 145 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 132 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.94%) Big Data
12 113 (1.78%) MySQL
13 111 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 108 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
15 95 (1.50%) Metadata
16 87 (1.37%) DynamoDB
17 81 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
18 71 (1.12%) Delta Lake
18 71 (1.12%) Looker
19 60 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 707 (11.14%) Git
2 292 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 242 (3.81%) GitLab
4 169 (2.66%) JIRA
5 62 (0.98%) MLflow
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.96%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
8 49 (0.77%) Selenium
9 41 (0.65%) Subversion
10 37 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 36 (0.57%) JUnit
12 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.35%) JMeter
17 21 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,138 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 1,350 (21.28%) Finance
3 859 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 331 (5.22%) Banking
6 244 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 220 (3.47%) Law
8 189 (2.98%) Marketing
9 169 (2.66%) Retail
10 138 (2.18%) Legal
11 123 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 117 (1.84%) Front Office
13 93 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 92 (1.45%) Electronics
15 85 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 83 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 78 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 72 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 67 (1.06%) Games
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,254 (19.77%) Senior
2 876 (13.81%) Analyst
3 867 (13.67%) Developer
4 837 (13.19%) Software Engineer
5 689 (10.86%) Data Analyst
6 665 (10.48%) Python Engineer
7 631 (9.95%) Data Engineer
8 623 (9.82%) Lead
9 609 (9.60%) Junior
10 527 (8.31%) Junior Analyst
11 523 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
12 487 (7.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 370 (5.83%) Python Developer
14 300 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
15 243 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 222 (3.50%) Architect
17 214 (3.37%) Data Scientist
18 202 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 189 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
20 188 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (6.51%) React
2 275 (4.33%) Kafka
3 243 (3.83%) Node.js
4 235 (3.70%) PySpark
5 233 (3.67%) .NET
6 226 (3.56%) REST
7 209 (3.29%) FastAPI
8 208 (3.28%) RESTful
9 195 (3.07%) HTML
10 189 (2.98%) Django
11 184 (2.90%) PyTorch
12 179 (2.82%) CSS
13 178 (2.81%) LangChain
14 156 (2.46%) TensorFlow
15 136 (2.14%) Pandas
16 132 (2.08%) Flask
17 124 (1.95%) scikit-learn
18 118 (1.86%) Spring
18 118 (1.86%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 593 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 339 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 315 (4.97%) Algorithms
4 226 (3.56%) AI Agents
5 204 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 147 (2.32%) Data Structures
7 143 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 95 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 79 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 79 (1.25%) Low-Code
12 77 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 77 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
13 76 (1.20%) Robotics
14 74 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
14 74 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
15 71 (1.12%) Equities
16 64 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 726 (11.44%) Linux
2 331 (5.22%) Windows
3 95 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.29%) Unix
5 55 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.74%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 12 (0.19%) Rocky
13 11 (0.17%) Android
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,689 (42.39%) AI
2 1,634 (25.76%) Software Engineering
3 1,586 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1,194 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 1,138 (17.94%) Analytics
6 1,122 (17.69%) Agile
7 1,090 (17.18%) DevOps
8 1,079 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
9 1,026 (16.17%) Machine Learning
10 940 (14.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 817 (12.88%) Mentoring
12 742 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
13 733 (11.55%) Data Engineering
14 666 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 665 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 640 (10.09%) Data Science
17 609 (9.60%) Containerisation
18 592 (9.33%) Computer Science
19 586 (9.24%) Decision-Making
20 579 (9.13%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,277 (35.89%) SQL
2 815 (12.85%) Java
3 673 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.67%) C++
5 507 (7.99%) PowerShell
6 498 (7.85%) Bash
7 471 (7.42%) C#
8 406 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 272 (4.29%) Go
10 190 (2.99%) C
11 171 (2.70%) R
12 123 (1.94%) Scala
13 103 (1.62%) PHP
14 97 (1.53%) Rust
15 91 (1.43%) Bicep
16 83 (1.31%) Perl
17 74 (1.17%) Ruby
18 64 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 61 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 46 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 983 (15.49%) Azure Certification
2 896 (14.12%) Degree
3 794 (12.52%) Security Cleared
4 443 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 319 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 267 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 179 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 118 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 106 (1.67%) PhD
11 93 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 78 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.80%) CCNP
15 44 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.66%) CISSP
16 42 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.55%) OSCP
18 28 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 272 (4.29%) QA
3 150 (2.36%) GDPR
4 109 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.10%) NIST
6 59 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 32 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.39%) SLA
10 24 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 16 (0.25%) GRC
14 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.24%) NCSC
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 770 (12.14%) Docker
2 118 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.01%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.39%) vSphere
8 24 (0.38%) KVM
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 16 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 944 (14.88%) Terraform
2 758 (11.95%) Kubernetes
3 408 (6.43%) Ansible
4 239 (3.77%) Grafana
5 147 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 57 (0.90%) Puppet
7 52 (0.82%) Argo
8 41 (0.65%) Nagios
9 38 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.57%) Kibana
11 32 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 31 (0.49%) Istio
13 29 (0.46%) Packer
14 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.30%) Podman
16 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
17 17 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
18 16 (0.25%) logstash
19 15 (0.24%) Graylog
20 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,311 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 454 (7.16%) Databricks
3 203 (3.20%) Google
4 153 (2.41%) Splunk
5 143 (2.25%) Oracle
6 135 (2.13%) VMware
7 122 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 121 (1.91%) Cisco
9 120 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 54 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 43 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.65%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.58%) F5
17 36 (0.57%) SAP
18 34 (0.54%) Palantir
19 33 (0.52%) IBM