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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,294 5,309 6,490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.49% 11.62% 9.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.77% 34.02% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,834 3,225 5,163
10th Percentile £31,400 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,938 £98,474 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.80%

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 10,797 15,604 24,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.83% 34.15% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,051 9,238 20,766
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £102,500
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 7 February 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 7 February 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 2,021 £80,939 -7.50% 1,139
North of England -12 730 £47,500 -26.92% 437
South East -22 511 £60,000 -12.73% 606
Midlands -13 393 £55,000 - 219
South West 0 353 £60,000 -7.69% 250
Yorkshire +5 324 £45,000 -30.77% 151
North West -16 305 £55,000 -12.00% 236
West Midlands +2 258 £55,000 - 110
East of England -17 222 £51,250 -22.64% 182
East Midlands -19 138 £55,000 - 109
North East +2 101 £40,000 -42.29% 53
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
1 155 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 118 (2.75%) Apache
4 38 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 34 (0.79%) Confluence
6 31 (0.72%) SAS
7 30 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.63%) WordPress
9 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.44%) Appian
10 19 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 18 (0.42%) IIS
12 17 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
13 15 (0.35%) WebSphere
14 13 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.23%) nginx
15 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 651 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.093%) Windchill
9 3 (0.070%) CATIA
9 3 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.047%) Stata
10 2 (0.047%) Weka
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 4 (0.093%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.047%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,767 (41.15%) Azure
2 1,476 (34.37%) AWS
3 809 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 543 (12.65%) GitHub
5 445 (10.36%) GCP
6 421 (9.80%) Azure AI
7 262 (6.10%) Serverless
8 186 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 169 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (3.84%) SaaS
11 156 (3.63%) Amazon S3
12 153 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 152 (3.54%) Snowflake
14 138 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 127 (2.96%) dbt
16 111 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 107 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 79 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
18 79 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 73 (1.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.99%) Internet
2 160 (3.73%) Firewall
3 98 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 88 (2.05%) VPN
5 73 (1.70%) DNS
6 71 (1.65%) WAN
7 61 (1.42%) LAN
8 60 (1.40%) Broadband
9 57 (1.33%) BGP
10 55 (1.28%) Wireless
11 53 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (1.14%) Network Security
13 44 (1.02%) VLAN
14 41 (0.95%) HTTP
15 40 (0.93%) OSPF
16 34 (0.79%) MPLS
17 33 (0.77%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.75%) Wireshark
19 26 (0.61%) VXLAN
20 25 (0.58%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 766 (17.84%) Power BI
2 691 (16.09%) Tableau
3 240 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 215 (5.01%) SQL Server
5 213 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
6 177 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 155 (3.61%) Data Mining
8 154 (3.59%) Relational Database
9 116 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.63%) Big Data
11 112 (2.61%) MongoDB
12 87 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 87 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
12 87 (2.03%) MySQL
13 84 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 73 (1.70%) Metadata
15 70 (1.63%) Hadoop
16 68 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
17 50 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 571 (13.30%) Git
2 216 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 153 (3.56%) GitLab
4 110 (2.56%) JIRA
5 59 (1.37%) Selenium
6 45 (1.05%) MLflow
7 40 (0.93%) Postman
8 33 (0.77%) JUnit
9 28 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.54%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.47%) JMeter
13 19 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.44%) LabVIEW
13 19 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
14 16 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.37%) Subversion
15 15 (0.35%) Burp Suite
15 15 (0.35%) Metasploit
16 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1,359 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 1,048 (24.41%) Finance
3 694 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.61%) Multimedia
5 236 (5.50%) Banking
6 180 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 179 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 173 (4.03%) Law
9 133 (3.10%) Marketing
10 131 (3.05%) Front Office
11 113 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 113 (2.63%) Retail
12 111 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 86 (2.00%) Financial Institution
14 76 (1.77%) Electronics
15 74 (1.72%) Legal
16 59 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 55 (1.28%) Games
18 51 (1.19%) Investment Banking
19 48 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 820 (19.10%) Analyst
2 787 (18.33%) Developer
3 662 (15.42%) Data Analyst
4 659 (15.35%) Senior
5 419 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 398 (9.27%) Junior
7 390 (9.08%) Trainee
8 377 (8.78%) Junior Analyst
8 377 (8.78%) Junior Data Analyst
9 337 (7.85%) Software Engineer
10 326 (7.59%) Lead
11 314 (7.31%) Python Developer
12 243 (5.66%) Python Engineer
13 196 (4.56%) Software Developer
14 149 (3.47%) Architect
15 145 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 127 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
16 127 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
17 126 (2.93%) Trainee Analyst
17 126 (2.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (9.06%) HTML
2 345 (8.03%) React
3 343 (7.99%) CSS
4 185 (4.31%) REST
5 183 (4.26%) Node.js
6 168 (3.91%) Django
7 156 (3.63%) Kafka
8 147 (3.42%) RESTful
9 133 (3.10%) .NET
9 133 (3.10%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.03%) PySpark
11 126 (2.93%) PyTorch
12 113 (2.63%) Pandas
13 110 (2.56%) Flask
14 105 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 97 (2.26%) AngularJS
16 90 (2.10%) JSON
17 80 (1.86%) Vue
18 79 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
18 79 (1.84%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 232 (5.40%) Cloud Native
2 214 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 165 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 100 (2.33%) Equities
8 99 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 78 (1.82%) Low-Code
11 76 (1.77%) Hedge funds
12 73 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 69 (1.61%) Derivative
15 68 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
16 65 (1.51%) AI Agents
16 65 (1.51%) Fixed Income
17 64 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
18 59 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
19 56 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 498 (11.60%) Linux
2 199 (4.63%) Windows
3 178 (4.15%) Unix
4 66 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.72%) CentOS
7 30 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.42%) Debian
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.26%) Android
12 11 (0.26%) Solaris
12 11 (0.26%) VMS
13 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.093%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.070%) FreeRTOS
16 3 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.070%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (31.18%) AI
2 986 (22.96%) CI/CD
3 935 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
4 870 (20.26%) Business Intelligence
5 831 (19.35%) Analytics
6 783 (18.23%) Agile
7 769 (17.91%) DevOps
8 704 (16.39%) Software Engineering
9 671 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 569 (13.25%) Machine Learning
11 486 (11.32%) Data Science
12 478 (11.13%) Data Modelling
13 475 (11.06%) ETL
13 475 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
14 461 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
15 458 (10.67%) Computer Science
16 456 (10.62%) Data Engineering
17 421 (9.80%) Data Analysis
18 399 (9.29%) Containerisation
19 393 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,726 (40.20%) SQL
2 750 (17.47%) JavaScript
3 588 (13.69%) Java
4 390 (9.08%) Bash
5 349 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 323 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 278 (6.47%) C#
8 234 (5.45%) R
9 221 (5.15%) C++
10 182 (4.24%) Go
11 129 (3.00%) C
12 81 (1.89%) Scala
13 63 (1.47%) PHP
14 62 (1.44%) VBA
15 51 (1.19%) Rust
16 47 (1.09%) Bicep
17 45 (1.05%) MATLAB
18 41 (0.95%) Perl
19 40 (0.93%) T-SQL
20 36 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 789 (18.37%) Degree
2 682 (15.88%) Azure Certification
3 446 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 368 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 265 (6.17%) SC Cleared
7 254 (5.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 219 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 182 (4.24%) Master's Degree
10 155 (3.61%) DV Cleared
11 115 (2.68%) PhD
12 73 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.42%) CCNP
14 49 (1.14%) CISSP
15 48 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.72%) OSCP
19 27 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.61%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 163 (3.80%) QA
3 111 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (2.35%) GDPR
5 96 (2.24%) NIST
6 65 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 36 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.68%) SLA
9 20 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.30%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.19%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.093%) NIST 800
19 4 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 514 (11.97%) Docker
2 85 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.70%) Firmware
5 20 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.30%) vSphere
8 11 (0.26%) KVM
9 10 (0.23%) HDFS
9 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.070%) iptables
13 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.070%) QEMU
13 3 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 548 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 543 (12.65%) Terraform
3 314 (7.31%) Ansible
4 130 (3.03%) Grafana
5 128 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.42%) Argo
7 23 (0.54%) Puppet
8 22 (0.51%) Kibana
9 20 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.35%) Nagios
12 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.30%) Nessus
14 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.28%) Rancher
15 11 (0.26%) Control-M
15 11 (0.26%) logstash
15 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,218 (28.37%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.82%) Databricks
3 196 (4.56%) Google
4 124 (2.89%) Oracle
5 102 (2.38%) Cisco
6 99 (2.31%) VMware
7 77 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 76 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 68 (1.58%) SAP
10 61 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 59 (1.37%) Splunk
12 51 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.14%) Informatica
14 44 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.98%) Bloomberg
16 41 (0.95%) IBM
16 41 (0.95%) Talend
17 39 (0.91%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.75%) Palantir