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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,141 4,860 6,575
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.26% 11.26% 9.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.71% 41.06% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 2,679 4,395
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £132,500 £136,250
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 16,727 11,836 20,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.05% 27.42% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,268 7,818 14,238
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -5.56% 4,245
North of England -15 1,195 £66,805 +6.89% 587
South East +13 877 £60,000 - 793
South West +11 602 £60,500 +10.00% 450
North West -20 583 £67,500 +12.50% 331
Midlands +6 547 £60,000 -7.69% 289
Yorkshire +9 363 £68,000 +4.62% 174
East of England +12 318 £65,000 +18.18% 433
West Midlands -4 293 £62,500 -3.85% 152
East Midlands +16 252 £52,500 -19.23% 134
North East +20 249 £66,000 +10.00% 85
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
1 217 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 188 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.69%) Apache
4 70 (1.14%) Confluence
5 47 (0.77%) WordPress
6 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.37%) SAS
10 21 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.15%) CMS
12 9 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.098%) JBoss
15 5 (0.081%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 544 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 23 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Simulink
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.098%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.081%) Shopify
6 4 (0.065%) Line 50
6 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 3 (0.049%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.016%) FastStats
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,399 (39.07%) Azure
2 1,933 (31.48%) AWS
3 908 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 768 (12.51%) Azure AI
5 730 (11.89%) GCP
6 406 (6.61%) GitHub
7 365 (5.94%) Serverless
8 245 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 234 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 219 (3.57%) SaaS
11 219 (3.57%) Snowflake
12 208 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 194 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 180 (2.93%) dbt
15 168 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
16 164 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
17 139 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 129 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
19 122 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.48%) Firewall
2 136 (2.21%) DNS
3 128 (2.08%) VPN
4 122 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 113 (1.84%) Broadband
6 103 (1.68%) Network Security
7 95 (1.55%) WAN
8 80 (1.30%) Wireless
9 71 (1.16%) Internet
9 71 (1.16%) LAN
10 60 (0.98%) BGP
11 53 (0.86%) DHCP
12 48 (0.78%) VLAN
13 47 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.70%) OSPF
15 42 (0.68%) MQTT
16 36 (0.59%) HTTP
17 35 (0.57%) SSL
18 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
18 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 838 (13.65%) Power BI
2 592 (9.64%) Tableau
3 343 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 280 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
5 207 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.85%) SQL Server
7 158 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 143 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 125 (2.04%) Big Data
11 122 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 113 (1.84%) MySQL
13 101 (1.64%) Metadata
14 100 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
15 97 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
16 91 (1.48%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.21%) Delta Lake
19 71 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 702 (11.43%) Git
2 300 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 244 (3.97%) GitLab
4 170 (2.77%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 52 (0.85%) MLflow
7 52 (0.85%) Selenium
8 49 (0.80%) Subversion
9 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.60%) JUnit
12 36 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
16 23 (0.37%) Maven
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.33%) JMeter
17 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2,059 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (20.84%) Finance
3 807 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 325 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 303 (4.93%) Banking
6 240 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 211 (3.44%) Law
8 184 (3.00%) Marketing
9 147 (2.39%) Retail
10 125 (2.04%) Legal
11 106 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 97 (1.58%) Front Office
13 96 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 95 (1.55%) Electronics
15 83 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 80 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.07%) Games
19 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
20 44 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,245 (20.27%) Senior
2 834 (13.58%) Developer
3 833 (13.56%) Software Engineer
4 746 (12.15%) Analyst
5 676 (11.01%) Python Engineer
6 616 (10.03%) Data Engineer
7 615 (10.01%) Lead
8 581 (9.46%) Data Analyst
9 511 (8.32%) Junior
10 507 (8.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 431 (7.02%) Junior Analyst
12 427 (6.95%) Junior Data Analyst
13 361 (5.88%) Python Developer
14 308 (5.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 248 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.58%) Architect
17 216 (3.52%) Data Scientist
18 195 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 188 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 948 (15.44%) Terraform
2 391 (6.37%) React
3 248 (4.04%) Kafka
4 231 (3.76%) .NET
5 227 (3.70%) REST
6 219 (3.57%) Node.js
6 219 (3.57%) PySpark
7 211 (3.44%) RESTful
8 205 (3.34%) FastAPI
9 191 (3.11%) HTML
10 188 (3.06%) Django
11 178 (2.90%) PyTorch
12 175 (2.85%) CSS
13 173 (2.82%) LangChain
14 150 (2.44%) TensorFlow
15 128 (2.08%) Flask
16 115 (1.87%) Spring
16 115 (1.87%) Spring Boot
17 104 (1.69%) Pandas
18 98 (1.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 592 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 325 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 295 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 231 (3.76%) AI Agents
5 204 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 156 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 92 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.37%) Robotics
10 83 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 83 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 79 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 78 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
13 77 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 75 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 75 (1.22%) Hedge funds
15 73 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 70 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
17 67 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
18 63 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 706 (11.50%) Linux
2 318 (5.18%) Windows
3 86 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.24%) Unix
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.70%) CentOS
7 37 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 23 (0.37%) Debian
10 16 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,569 (41.83%) AI
2 1,644 (26.77%) Software Engineering
3 1,559 (25.39%) CI/CD
4 1,188 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1,089 (17.73%) Analytics
6 1,084 (17.65%) DevOps
7 1,073 (17.47%) Agile
8 1,000 (16.28%) Machine Learning
9 999 (16.27%) Business Intelligence
10 942 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 808 (13.16%) Mentoring
12 728 (11.85%) Data Engineering
13 710 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
14 663 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 657 (10.70%) Data Modelling
16 630 (10.26%) Data Science
17 594 (9.67%) Decision-Making
18 592 (9.64%) Computer Science
18 592 (9.64%) Containerisation
19 568 (9.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,142 (34.88%) SQL
2 805 (13.11%) Java
3 633 (10.31%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.96%) C++
5 497 (8.09%) Bash
6 487 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 476 (7.75%) C#
8 388 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 256 (4.17%) Go
10 193 (3.14%) C
11 172 (2.80%) R
12 120 (1.95%) Scala
13 96 (1.56%) PHP
14 93 (1.51%) Bicep
14 93 (1.51%) Rust
15 89 (1.45%) Perl
16 76 (1.24%) Ruby
17 67 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 65 (1.06%) MATLAB
19 44 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 912 (14.85%) Degree
2 894 (14.56%) Azure Certification
3 806 (13.12%) Security Cleared
4 443 (7.21%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 213 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 164 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (1.81%) PhD
11 84 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 73 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 63 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 53 (0.86%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.70%) CISSP
17 40 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 31 (0.50%) OSCP
20 30 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 513 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.35%) QA
3 133 (2.17%) GDPR
4 107 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.98%) NIST
6 56 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.44%) SLA
9 23 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.31%) WCAG
13 18 (0.29%) PMO
14 17 (0.28%) NCSC
15 16 (0.26%) GRC
16 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) Basel III
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 761 (12.39%) Docker
2 112 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.12%) Firmware
5 43 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 20 (0.33%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.098%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
16 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.049%) IAG
18 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
18 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 761 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 404 (6.58%) Ansible
3 236 (3.84%) Grafana
4 142 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 60 (0.98%) Puppet
6 53 (0.86%) Argo
7 40 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 34 (0.55%) Nagios
10 32 (0.52%) Istio
11 29 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.33%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
16 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,205 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 451 (7.34%) Databricks
3 203 (3.31%) Google
4 149 (2.43%) Splunk
5 124 (2.02%) VMware
6 121 (1.97%) Cisco
6 121 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 114 (1.86%) Oracle
8 95 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 72 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.96%) Foundry
11 50 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 47 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.65%) SolarWinds
15 39 (0.64%) Salesforce
16 36 (0.59%) F5
17 35 (0.57%) Palantir
18 32 (0.52%) SAP
19 31 (0.50%) IBM