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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,967 4,823 7,107
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.75% 8.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.73% 38.34% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,412 3,155 5,524
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,833 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 13,964 12,578 26,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.55% 33.25% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,798 9,268 22,404
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £112,500 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 2,323 £85,000 -5.56% 1,245
North of England -15 1,188 £55,000 -15.38% 457
South East -3 874 £60,000 -7.69% 628
Midlands +11 672 £55,000 - 209
Yorkshire +15 536 £50,000 -23.08% 121
South West +5 522 £57,500 -4.17% 222
North West -21 491 £60,000 -7.69% 258
West Midlands +24 391 £56,350 +2.45% 115
East of England -15 327 £57,500 -13.16% 194
East Midlands +5 281 £55,000 - 92
North East +14 161 £45,000 -30.77% 80
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
1 212 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 130 (2.18%) Apache
4 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 61 (1.02%) WordPress
6 39 (0.65%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 28 (0.47%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
18 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
19 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,226 (20.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.067%) CATIA
8 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.034%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.034%) Windchill
11 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.017%) Houdini
11 1 (0.017%) Notion
11 1 (0.017%) NUKE
11 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
3 4 (0.067%) Shopify
4 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.034%) Teamcenter
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%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,864 (48.00%) Azure
2 1,794 (30.07%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.13%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (22.05%) Azure AI
5 618 (10.36%) GCP
6 547 (9.17%) GitHub
7 294 (4.93%) Serverless
8 225 (3.77%) SaaS
9 206 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 199 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 169 (2.83%) Snowflake
14 163 (2.73%) dbt
15 158 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 125 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 125 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
17 121 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 96 (1.61%) OpenShift
19 92 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.75%) Internet
2 198 (3.32%) Firewall
3 138 (2.31%) Broadband
4 121 (2.03%) DNS
5 111 (1.86%) VPN
6 92 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 91 (1.53%) Network Security
8 81 (1.36%) WAN
9 74 (1.24%) LAN
10 66 (1.11%) BGP
10 66 (1.11%) Wireless
11 56 (0.94%) VLAN
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
13 47 (0.79%) OSPF
14 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 39 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 39 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
16 33 (0.55%) DHCP
17 31 (0.52%) MPLS
18 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,395 (23.38%) Power BI
2 1,313 (22.00%) Tableau
3 270 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 205 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.22%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 140 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 139 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 138 (2.31%) Data Mining
10 120 (2.01%) BigQuery
11 113 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 111 (1.86%) MongoDB
13 106 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 93 (1.56%) Big Data
15 86 (1.44%) Metadata
16 78 (1.31%) MySQL
17 61 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 53 (0.89%) Spark SQL
19 52 (0.87%) DynamoDB
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 671 (11.25%) Git
2 232 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 207 (3.47%) GitLab
4 111 (1.86%) JIRA
5 77 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.07%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 44 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 38 (0.64%) Postman
11 26 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 24 (0.40%) Claude Code
13 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.35%) JUnit
15 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
17 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
17 17 (0.28%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,322 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 1,161 (19.46%) Finance
3 797 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (4.19%) Banking
5 237 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 208 (3.49%) Multimedia
7 202 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 177 (2.97%) Retail
9 160 (2.68%) Law
10 146 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.21%) Front Office
12 101 (1.69%) Marketing
13 99 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.47%) Legal
15 75 (1.26%) Electronics
16 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.96%) Investment Banking
18 53 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 51 (0.85%) Aerospace
20 42 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,434 (24.03%) Analyst
2 1,251 (20.97%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.33%) Junior
4 994 (16.66%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.66%) Junior Data Analyst
5 900 (15.08%) Developer
6 849 (14.23%) Senior
7 555 (9.30%) Software Engineer
8 514 (8.61%) Data Engineer
9 467 (7.83%) Lead
10 429 (7.19%) Python Engineer
11 390 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 379 (6.35%) Python Developer
13 377 (6.32%) Trainee
14 214 (3.59%) Software Developer
15 191 (3.20%) Python Software Engineer
16 170 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
17 166 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
18 157 (2.63%) Senior Developer
19 150 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (6.50%) React
2 348 (5.83%) HTML
3 303 (5.08%) CSS
4 243 (4.07%) Kafka
5 205 (3.44%) REST
6 204 (3.42%) Node.js
7 200 (3.35%) PySpark
8 192 (3.22%) Django
9 172 (2.88%) RESTful
10 167 (2.80%) Pandas
11 163 (2.73%) PyTorch
12 160 (2.68%) .NET
13 142 (2.38%) FastAPI
14 138 (2.31%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.16%) scikit-learn
16 125 (2.09%) Flask
17 104 (1.74%) NumPy
18 102 (1.71%) JSON
19 96 (1.61%) LangChain
20 89 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 310 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 287 (4.81%) Algorithms
3 228 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 165 (2.77%) Data Structures
5 123 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 122 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 96 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 92 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 88 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 87 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 83 (1.39%) Fixed Income
11 83 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 83 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 81 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 80 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 79 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
15 78 (1.31%) Equities
16 76 (1.27%) Security Posture
17 73 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
18 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 560 (9.38%) Linux
2 236 (3.96%) Windows
3 133 (2.23%) Unix
4 71 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 55 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.69%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.18%) Debian
9 11 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.12%) Solaris
13 7 (0.12%) VMS
14 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,484 (41.63%) AI
2 1,490 (24.97%) Business Intelligence
3 1,183 (19.83%) CI/CD
4 1,063 (17.81%) Software Engineering
5 973 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
6 938 (15.72%) Analytics
7 917 (15.37%) Agile
8 891 (14.93%) DevOps
9 720 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 717 (12.02%) Machine Learning
11 629 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 572 (9.59%) Data Modelling
13 557 (9.33%) Data Science
14 556 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
15 545 (9.13%) Data Engineering
15 545 (9.13%) ETL
16 522 (8.75%) Computer Science
17 511 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 488 (8.18%) Containerisation
19 440 (7.37%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,473 (41.44%) SQL
2 748 (12.54%) JavaScript
3 649 (10.88%) Java
4 436 (7.31%) PowerShell
5 419 (7.02%) Bash
6 355 (5.95%) TypeScript
7 330 (5.53%) C++
8 322 (5.40%) C#
9 278 (4.66%) Go
10 224 (3.75%) R
11 151 (2.53%) C
12 116 (1.94%) Scala
13 74 (1.24%) Rust
14 68 (1.14%) PHP
15 66 (1.11%) VBA
16 52 (0.87%) Bicep
17 44 (0.74%) Perl
18 41 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.59%) T-SQL
20 29 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,569 (26.29%) Azure Certification
2 779 (13.06%) Degree
3 498 (8.35%) Security Cleared
4 354 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 288 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 283 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 264 (4.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 259 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 173 (2.90%) DV Cleared
10 152 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.46%) PhD
12 76 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.06%) CCNP
14 50 (0.84%) OSCP
15 49 (0.82%) CISSP
16 46 (0.77%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 34 (0.57%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 222 (3.72%) QA
3 124 (2.08%) GDPR
4 107 (1.79%) NIST
5 99 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.39%) PMO
10 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) GRC
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 15 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 576 (9.65%) Docker
2 111 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.85%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.34%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 14 (0.23%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) iptables
13 5 (0.084%) Lustre
13 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 690 (11.56%) Terraform
2 610 (10.22%) Kubernetes
3 341 (5.71%) Ansible
4 190 (3.18%) Grafana
5 148 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.07%) Argo
7 29 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.49%) Nagios
8 28 (0.47%) Puppet
9 23 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 22 (0.37%) Istio
11 21 (0.35%) Kibana
12 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.25%) logstash
14 14 (0.23%) Packer
14 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 12 (0.20%) SCCM
15 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
16 11 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,914 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 316 (5.30%) Databricks
3 204 (3.42%) Google
4 131 (2.20%) Oracle
5 122 (2.04%) Cisco
6 118 (1.98%) VMware
7 107 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 88 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 81 (1.36%) Splunk
10 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 59 (0.99%) SAP
11 51 (0.85%) Foundry
12 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 48 (0.80%) Palo Alto
14 47 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 46 (0.77%) Informatica
16 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
17 40 (0.67%) Palantir
17 40 (0.67%) SolarWinds
17 40 (0.67%) Talend