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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,944 4,867 7,032
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 12.99% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.91% 38.22% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,390 3,193 5,490
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £66,750 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +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 13,851 12,733 26,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 33.98% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,716 9,363 22,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,643 £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 £111,250 £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 22 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 22 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 2,302 £85,000 -5.56% 1,309
North of England -14 1,194 £51,500 -20.77% 489
South East -2 864 £60,000 -7.69% 596
Midlands +7 654 £55,000 - 269
Yorkshire +16 541 £49,500 -23.85% 148
South West +5 528 £57,500 -4.17% 238
North West -20 486 £57,593 -11.40% 253
West Midlands +27 386 £55,200 +0.36% 133
East of England -16 336 £55,000 -16.94% 245
East Midlands +1 268 £55,000 - 134
North East +15 167 £45,000 -30.77% 90
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
1 209 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 183 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.22%) Apache
4 72 (1.21%) WordPress
5 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 29 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 25 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.24%) IIS
13 10 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.050%) Anypoint
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1,240 (20.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.084%) CATIA
9 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.067%) Windchill
10 3 (0.050%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.10%) Shopify
3 5 (0.084%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.067%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.050%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.017%) Actimize
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,874 (48.35%) Azure
2 1,812 (30.48%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.23%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (22.12%) Azure AI
5 613 (10.31%) GCP
6 579 (9.74%) GitHub
7 301 (5.06%) Serverless
8 225 (3.79%) SaaS
9 203 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 197 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (2.88%) dbt
14 164 (2.76%) Snowflake
15 163 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 126 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
16 126 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 122 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
18 93 (1.56%) OpenShift
19 92 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.22%) Internet
2 198 (3.33%) Firewall
3 138 (2.32%) Broadband
4 112 (1.88%) DNS
5 111 (1.87%) VPN
6 97 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 87 (1.46%) Network Security
8 80 (1.35%) WAN
9 73 (1.23%) LAN
10 67 (1.13%) BGP
10 67 (1.13%) Wireless
11 58 (0.98%) VLAN
12 52 (0.87%) HTTP
13 47 (0.79%) OSPF
14 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 40 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (0.66%) SD-WAN
16 33 (0.56%) DHCP
17 32 (0.54%) MPLS
18 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,396 (23.49%) Power BI
2 1,327 (22.33%) Tableau
3 275 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 193 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 150 (2.52%) Data Mining
8 144 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.37%) Data Lake
10 119 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 115 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 112 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 103 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.60%) Big Data
15 87 (1.46%) Metadata
16 79 (1.33%) MySQL
17 67 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (0.87%) Spark SQL
19 49 (0.82%) Looker
20 48 (0.81%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 688 (11.57%) Git
2 226 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 199 (3.35%) GitLab
4 108 (1.82%) JIRA
5 73 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.08%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 46 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 41 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.62%) Postman
11 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
11 25 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.35%) Claude Code
14 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.34%) JUnit
15 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
15 19 (0.32%) JMeter
16 17 (0.29%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 2,325 (39.12%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (19.45%) Finance
3 809 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (4.16%) Banking
5 236 (3.97%) Multimedia
6 231 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 202 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 175 (2.94%) Retail
9 164 (2.76%) Law
10 143 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.19%) Front Office
12 102 (1.72%) Marketing
13 99 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.50%) Legal
15 73 (1.23%) Electronics
16 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 55 (0.93%) Investment Banking
19 48 (0.81%) Aerospace
20 42 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,443 (24.28%) Analyst
2 1,261 (21.21%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (17.36%) Junior
4 994 (16.72%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.72%) Junior Data Analyst
5 904 (15.21%) Developer
6 833 (14.01%) Senior
7 533 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 510 (8.58%) Data Engineer
9 453 (7.62%) Lead
10 416 (7.00%) Trainee
11 412 (6.93%) Python Engineer
12 383 (6.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 378 (6.36%) Python Developer
14 221 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 185 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
16 166 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
18 159 (2.67%) Senior Developer
19 151 (2.54%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (6.54%) HTML
2 383 (6.44%) React
3 340 (5.72%) CSS
4 244 (4.10%) Kafka
5 204 (3.43%) Node.js
5 204 (3.43%) REST
6 198 (3.33%) Django
6 198 (3.33%) PySpark
7 177 (2.98%) RESTful
8 164 (2.76%) Pandas
9 158 (2.66%) PyTorch
10 154 (2.59%) .NET
11 142 (2.39%) FastAPI
12 134 (2.25%) TensorFlow
13 130 (2.19%) Flask
14 128 (2.15%) scikit-learn
15 107 (1.80%) JSON
16 103 (1.73%) NumPy
17 93 (1.56%) LangChain
18 90 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 306 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 276 (4.64%) Algorithms
3 228 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 121 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 92 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 88 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 88 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 86 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 86 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 85 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 84 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 81 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 80 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 79 (1.33%) Equities
14 79 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 79 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
16 69 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 555 (9.34%) Linux
2 231 (3.89%) Windows
3 145 (2.44%) Unix
4 71 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 55 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.66%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.19%) Debian
8 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.15%) Android
10 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.13%) VMS
12 7 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.12%) Solaris
13 6 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,453 (41.27%) AI
2 1,497 (25.19%) Business Intelligence
3 1,180 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 1,026 (17.26%) Software Engineering
5 982 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
6 941 (15.83%) Analytics
7 921 (15.49%) Agile
8 884 (14.87%) DevOps
9 732 (12.31%) Mentoring
10 690 (11.61%) Machine Learning
11 634 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 572 (9.62%) Data Modelling
13 552 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
14 546 (9.19%) Data Science
14 546 (9.19%) ETL
15 543 (9.14%) Data Engineering
16 520 (8.75%) Computer Science
17 517 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 492 (8.28%) Containerisation
19 429 (7.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,478 (41.69%) SQL
2 785 (13.21%) JavaScript
3 653 (10.99%) Java
4 433 (7.28%) PowerShell
5 416 (7.00%) Bash
6 350 (5.89%) TypeScript
7 316 (5.32%) C#
8 314 (5.28%) C++
9 278 (4.68%) Go
10 242 (4.07%) R
11 143 (2.41%) C
12 116 (1.95%) Scala
13 73 (1.23%) Rust
14 68 (1.14%) VBA
15 67 (1.13%) PHP
16 53 (0.89%) Bicep
17 42 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 42 (0.71%) Perl
18 35 (0.59%) T-SQL
19 30 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,595 (26.83%) Azure Certification
2 785 (13.21%) Degree
3 484 (8.14%) Security Cleared
4 383 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 292 (4.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 286 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 285 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 278 (4.68%) SC Cleared
9 170 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 148 (2.49%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.45%) PhD
12 76 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.06%) CCNP
14 51 (0.86%) OSCP
15 49 (0.82%) CISSP
16 44 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.54%) CREST Certified
19 28 (0.47%) GIAC
20 25 (0.42%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 225 (3.79%) QA
3 128 (2.15%) GDPR
4 109 (1.83%) NIST
5 102 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 36 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.39%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.35%) GRC
13 18 (0.30%) SLA
14 13 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.13%) WCAG
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
17 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 587 (9.88%) Docker
2 107 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (0.79%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.32%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) iptables
12 5 (0.084%) Lustre
12 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 696 (11.71%) Terraform
2 613 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 339 (5.70%) Ansible
4 193 (3.25%) Grafana
5 150 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.11%) Argo
7 29 (0.49%) Nagios
8 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.45%) Puppet
9 23 (0.39%) Istio
9 23 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 19 (0.32%) Kibana
11 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.25%) logstash
12 14 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.22%) Rancher
14 12 (0.20%) Packer
14 12 (0.20%) SCCM
14 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,939 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 312 (5.25%) Databricks
3 204 (3.43%) Google
4 133 (2.24%) Oracle
5 123 (2.07%) Cisco
6 114 (1.92%) VMware
7 105 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 81 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 80 (1.35%) Splunk
10 62 (1.04%) SAP
11 60 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.84%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 48 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 48 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 47 (0.79%) Informatica
16 45 (0.76%) Typelevel
17 42 (0.71%) Talend
18 39 (0.66%) Palantir
18 39 (0.66%) SolarWinds