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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,391 5,198 6,550
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.98% 11.94% 8.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.69% 40.11% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,883 2,924 4,786
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £108,950 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,518 12,959 21,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.04% 29.76% 29.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12,044 8,712 16,683
10th Percentile £37,575 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 1 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 1 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 2,604 £85,000 -5.56% 2,239
North of England -11 1,283 £65,000 - 491
South East +3 938 £60,000 - 550
North West -17 607 £65,000 +4.00% 261
South West +9 602 £60,000 +9.09% 286
Midlands +10 593 £62,000 -0.80% 218
Yorkshire +13 430 £65,000 - 144
West Midlands 0 315 £62,500 -3.85% 131
East of England +5 310 £65,000 - 217
East Midlands +23 277 £55,000 - 87
North East +27 246 £61,250 -5.77% 92
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
1 247 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 238 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
3 182 (2.85%) Apache
4 72 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 62 (0.97%) Confluence
6 47 (0.74%) WordPress
7 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.17%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.11%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.094%) Camunda
15 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.078%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 819 (12.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.23%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 4 (0.063%) Shopify
7 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.047%) Magento
7 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.047%) Summit
8 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.016%) Odoo
9 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (41.15%) Azure
2 2,046 (32.01%) AWS
3 1,131 (17.70%) Power Platform
4 991 (15.51%) Azure AI
5 776 (12.14%) GCP
6 385 (6.02%) GitHub
7 371 (5.81%) Serverless
8 251 (3.93%) Amazon S3
9 235 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 235 (3.68%) SaaS
10 228 (3.57%) Snowflake
11 224 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
12 200 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 197 (3.08%) dbt
14 166 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 159 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 131 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 124 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
19 116 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 231 (3.61%) Firewall
2 149 (2.33%) Broadband
3 135 (2.11%) DNS
4 130 (2.03%) VPN
5 119 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 115 (1.80%) Network Security
7 95 (1.49%) WAN
8 81 (1.27%) Wireless
9 76 (1.19%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 55 (0.86%) BGP
12 52 (0.81%) VLAN
13 48 (0.75%) HTTP
14 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.66%) DHCP
16 40 (0.63%) MQTT
17 39 (0.61%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 30 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
20 27 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,062 (16.62%) Power BI
2 891 (13.94%) Tableau
3 331 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 293 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 194 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 162 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 146 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 142 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 141 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.88%) Big Data
12 113 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 112 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 111 (1.74%) MySQL
15 98 (1.53%) Metadata
16 82 (1.28%) DynamoDB
17 74 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.03%) Looker
19 65 (1.02%) Delta Lake
20 61 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 679 (10.62%) Git
2 283 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 254 (3.97%) GitLab
4 164 (2.57%) JIRA
5 79 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 60 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 60 (0.94%) MLflow
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 38 (0.59%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.49%) JUnit
13 28 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.39%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 20 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 2,213 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 1,322 (20.69%) Finance
3 855 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (4.79%) Banking
5 297 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 203 (3.18%) Law
8 185 (2.89%) Retail
9 146 (2.28%) Marketing
10 134 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.03%) Front Office
12 125 (1.96%) Legal
13 88 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 83 (1.30%) Electronics
15 82 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 77 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 77 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.05%) Investment Banking
18 64 (1.00%) Games
19 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,228 (19.21%) Senior
2 1,024 (16.02%) Analyst
3 901 (14.10%) Developer
4 852 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 820 (12.83%) Software Engineer
6 743 (11.63%) Junior
7 668 (10.45%) Junior Analyst
8 665 (10.41%) Junior Data Analyst
9 651 (10.19%) Python Engineer
10 635 (9.94%) Data Engineer
11 599 (9.37%) Lead
12 468 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 378 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 303 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 236 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 214 (3.35%) Architect
17 211 (3.30%) Data Scientist
18 196 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 190 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (6.48%) React
2 299 (4.68%) Kafka
3 251 (3.93%) Node.js
4 235 (3.68%) PySpark
5 232 (3.63%) REST
6 223 (3.49%) .NET
7 206 (3.22%) RESTful
8 203 (3.18%) FastAPI
9 197 (3.08%) Django
10 189 (2.96%) HTML
11 172 (2.69%) CSS
12 171 (2.68%) PyTorch
13 166 (2.60%) LangChain
14 155 (2.43%) Pandas
15 145 (2.27%) TensorFlow
16 136 (2.13%) Flask
17 133 (2.08%) scikit-learn
18 112 (1.75%) Spring
19 110 (1.72%) Spring Boot
20 109 (1.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 553 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 343 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
3 329 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 200 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 188 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 172 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 134 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 98 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
11 86 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.33%) Fixed Income
13 84 (1.31%) Low-Code
14 79 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (1.22%) Equities
15 78 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 72 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
16 72 (1.13%) Robotics
17 71 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
18 68 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 719 (11.25%) Linux
2 323 (5.05%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.36%) Unix
5 53 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.70%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.34%) Debian
10 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Android
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,743 (42.92%) AI
2 1,583 (24.77%) Software Engineering
3 1,551 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 1,197 (18.73%) Business Intelligence
5 1,160 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 1,135 (17.76%) Agile
7 1,082 (16.93%) Analytics
8 1,074 (16.80%) DevOps
9 975 (15.26%) Machine Learning
10 903 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 785 (12.28%) Mentoring
12 710 (11.11%) Data Engineering
12 710 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
13 673 (10.53%) Data Modelling
14 630 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 625 (9.78%) Data Science
16 597 (9.34%) Containerisation
17 578 (9.04%) Full-Stack Development
18 577 (9.03%) Computer Science
19 562 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,383 (37.29%) SQL
2 791 (12.38%) Java
3 667 (10.44%) JavaScript
4 537 (8.40%) C++
5 504 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 484 (7.57%) Bash
7 453 (7.09%) C#
8 409 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.33%) Go
10 180 (2.82%) C
11 172 (2.69%) R
12 125 (1.96%) Scala
13 100 (1.56%) PHP
13 100 (1.56%) Rust
14 89 (1.39%) Bicep
15 73 (1.14%) Perl
16 68 (1.06%) Ruby
17 61 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 61 (0.95%) MATLAB
18 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,118 (17.49%) Azure Certification
2 864 (13.52%) Degree
3 742 (11.61%) Security Cleared
4 425 (6.65%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 249 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 198 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 190 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 97 (1.52%) PhD
12 81 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.86%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 35 (0.55%) CISSP
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 24 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 264 (4.13%) QA
3 151 (2.36%) GDPR
4 94 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 76 (1.19%) NIST
6 64 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
10 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 20 (0.31%) GRC
11 20 (0.31%) WCAG
12 18 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.17%) NCSC
14 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 747 (11.69%) Docker
2 112 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 57 (0.89%) Firmware
5 45 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.45%) KVM
8 28 (0.44%) vSphere
9 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 15 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
15 5 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 913 (14.29%) Terraform
2 725 (11.34%) Kubernetes
3 390 (6.10%) Ansible
4 242 (3.79%) Grafana
5 157 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Argo
7 46 (0.72%) Nagios
8 45 (0.70%) Puppet
9 36 (0.56%) Kibana
10 31 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.45%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,468 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 426 (6.67%) Databricks
3 194 (3.04%) Google
4 152 (2.38%) Splunk
5 142 (2.22%) Oracle
6 140 (2.19%) VMware
7 122 (1.91%) Cisco
8 114 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 114 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 72 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 61 (0.95%) Foundry
11 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 47 (0.74%) SolarWinds
14 42 (0.66%) F5
15 40 (0.63%) SAP
16 39 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 37 (0.58%) Dynatrace
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 34 (0.53%) Palantir