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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,049 4,873 7,177
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.49% 12.52% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.70% 38.55% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,441 3,099 5,569
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 14,165 12,641 27,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.54% 32.47% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,929 9,112 22,446
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 2,389 £85,000 -5.56% 1,225
North of England -15 1,199 £57,500 -11.54% 459
South East +2 878 £60,000 -7.69% 593
Midlands +17 662 £55,000 - 216
South West +7 528 £57,500 - 194
Yorkshire +17 525 £50,000 -23.08% 133
North West -24 504 £62,500 -3.85% 242
West Midlands +25 376 £60,000 +9.09% 101
East of England -2 326 £60,100 -9.23% 179
East Midlands +23 286 £55,000 - 115
North East +18 170 £47,500 -26.92% 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
1 214 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.22%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 59 (0.98%) WordPress
6 41 (0.68%) Confluence
7 37 (0.61%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.083%) CMS
15 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.083%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,209 (19.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 46 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.050%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.017%) Notion
10 1 (0.017%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.017%) Trello
10 1 (0.017%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,868 (47.41%) Azure
2 1,831 (30.27%) AWS
3 1,439 (23.79%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.74%) Azure AI
5 637 (10.53%) GCP
6 511 (8.45%) GitHub
7 300 (4.96%) Serverless
8 235 (3.88%) SaaS
9 213 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 210 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 191 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 177 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 161 (2.66%) dbt
15 160 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 135 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
17 131 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
18 122 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 92 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
20 87 (1.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 212 (3.50%) Firewall
2 192 (3.17%) Internet
3 165 (2.73%) Broadband
4 126 (2.08%) DNS
5 119 (1.97%) VPN
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.47%) WAN
9 79 (1.31%) LAN
10 70 (1.16%) Wireless
11 66 (1.09%) BGP
12 56 (0.93%) HTTP
13 51 (0.84%) VLAN
14 47 (0.78%) OSPF
15 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 42 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
17 36 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 34 (0.56%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) MPLS
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,390 (22.98%) Power BI
2 1,285 (21.24%) Tableau
3 270 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 148 (2.45%) Data Lake
8 137 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 127 (2.10%) MongoDB
10 126 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.03%) Data Mining
12 114 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 99 (1.64%) Big Data
15 90 (1.49%) Metadata
16 76 (1.26%) MySQL
17 65 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (0.96%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.93%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 651 (10.76%) Git
2 242 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 217 (3.59%) GitLab
4 118 (1.95%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Selenium
8 47 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 36 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.60%) Postman
10 29 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 27 (0.45%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 19 (0.31%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
16 17 (0.28%) JMeter
16 17 (0.28%) LabVIEW
16 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 2,335 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (19.13%) Finance
3 798 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (4.20%) Banking
5 249 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 177 (2.93%) Multimedia
8 174 (2.88%) Retail
9 161 (2.66%) Law
10 142 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.20%) Front Office
12 101 (1.67%) Marketing
13 95 (1.57%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.52%) Legal
15 75 (1.24%) Electronics
16 66 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (0.93%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.89%) Financial Institution
18 54 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,404 (23.21%) Analyst
2 1,230 (20.33%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (17.06%) Junior
4 994 (16.43%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 915 (15.13%) Developer
6 881 (14.56%) Senior
7 566 (9.36%) Software Engineer
8 529 (8.75%) Data Engineer
9 478 (7.90%) Lead
10 459 (7.59%) Python Engineer
11 401 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 392 (6.48%) Python Developer
13 330 (5.46%) Trainee
14 200 (3.31%) Software Developer
15 199 (3.29%) Python Software Engineer
16 175 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
16 175 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
17 159 (2.63%) Senior Developer
18 158 (2.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.35%) React
2 319 (5.27%) HTML
3 280 (4.63%) CSS
4 250 (4.13%) Kafka
5 214 (3.54%) PySpark
6 207 (3.42%) Node.js
7 206 (3.41%) REST
8 184 (3.04%) RESTful
9 178 (2.94%) Django
10 174 (2.88%) .NET
11 165 (2.73%) Pandas
12 163 (2.69%) PyTorch
13 146 (2.41%) FastAPI
14 139 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.10%) scikit-learn
16 118 (1.95%) Flask
17 105 (1.74%) JSON
17 105 (1.74%) NumPy
18 103 (1.70%) LangChain
19 83 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 348 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 300 (4.96%) Algorithms
3 258 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 127 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 105 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 95 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 86 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 86 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 86 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
12 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 81 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 80 (1.32%) Equities
14 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 77 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 76 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
17 68 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 593 (9.80%) Linux
2 252 (4.17%) Windows
3 124 (2.05%) Unix
4 71 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 29 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 25 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 5 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,544 (42.06%) AI
2 1,487 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
3 1,237 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 1,116 (18.45%) Software Engineering
5 950 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 946 (15.64%) Analytics
7 936 (15.47%) Agile
8 912 (15.08%) DevOps
9 746 (12.33%) Machine Learning
10 707 (11.69%) Mentoring
11 691 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 592 (9.79%) Data Modelling
13 575 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
14 561 (9.27%) Data Engineering
15 556 (9.19%) Data Science
16 551 (9.11%) ETL
17 529 (8.75%) Computer Science
18 518 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 489 (8.08%) Containerisation
20 474 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,480 (41.00%) SQL
2 714 (11.80%) JavaScript
3 659 (10.89%) Java
4 442 (7.31%) PowerShell
5 438 (7.24%) Bash
6 370 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 356 (5.89%) C++
8 338 (5.59%) C#
9 291 (4.81%) Go
10 213 (3.52%) R
11 155 (2.56%) C
12 119 (1.97%) Scala
13 78 (1.29%) Rust
14 65 (1.07%) PHP
14 65 (1.07%) VBA
15 53 (0.88%) Bicep
16 42 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 42 (0.69%) Perl
17 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 34 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,540 (25.46%) Azure Certification
2 774 (12.80%) Degree
3 536 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 322 (5.32%) AWS Certification
5 315 (5.21%) SC Cleared
6 278 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 233 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 230 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 180 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 151 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.45%) PhD
12 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.14%) CCNP
14 51 (0.84%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) CISSP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 33 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.46%) CCIE
18 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.80%) QA
3 125 (2.07%) GDPR
4 104 (1.72%) NIST
5 91 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 47 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.28%) SLA
14 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.099%) Def Stans
System Software
1 574 (9.49%) Docker
2 108 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 32 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.36%) KVM
8 17 (0.28%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.083%) iptables
14 5 (0.083%) Lustre
14 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.083%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 732 (12.10%) Terraform
2 611 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 352 (5.82%) Ansible
4 193 (3.19%) Grafana
5 155 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.01%) Argo
7 33 (0.55%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.50%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.36%) Istio
12 20 (0.33%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.26%) Packer
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.21%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,881 (31.10%) Microsoft
2 324 (5.36%) Databricks
3 206 (3.41%) Google
4 129 (2.13%) Cisco
5 127 (2.10%) Oracle
6 124 (2.05%) VMware
7 107 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 100 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 92 (1.52%) Splunk
10 56 (0.93%) SAP
11 55 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 55 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) Foundry
13 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 50 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 47 (0.78%) Informatica
15 47 (0.78%) SolarWinds
16 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
17 41 (0.68%) F5
17 41 (0.68%) Palantir