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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,037 4,851 6,655
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.03% 11.18% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.19% 40.94% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,725 2,662 4,325
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,682 11,849 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.67% 27.31% 30.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12,208 7,813 13,837
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,344 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 2,523 £85,000 -5.56% 4,065
North of England -16 1,156 £67,500 +8.00% 635
South East +11 862 £62,500 +4.17% 822
South West +11 594 £62,500 +13.64% 409
North West -20 570 £67,500 +12.50% 324
Midlands +3 533 £60,900 -6.31% 307
Yorkshire +8 344 £70,000 +7.69% 224
East of England +11 314 £65,000 +18.18% 426
West Midlands -9 286 £65,000 +0.78% 155
East Midlands +20 245 £52,500 -19.23% 151
North East +22 242 £66,762 +11.27% 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
1 219 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 181 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.72%) Apache
4 71 (1.18%) Confluence
5 40 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 32 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.43%) SAS
8 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.20%) nginx
10 11 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.15%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) Camunda
12 7 (0.12%) WordPress
13 6 (0.099%) IIS
13 6 (0.099%) JBoss
14 5 (0.083%) Headless CMS
15 3 (0.050%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 486 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.35%) Simulink
4 11 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 5 (0.083%) Lightworks
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Mathematica
10 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.099%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Shopify
6 4 (0.066%) Line 50
6 4 (0.066%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.050%) Magento
7 3 (0.050%) Summit
8 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.017%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.017%) FastStats
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
9 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,305 (38.18%) Azure
2 1,866 (30.91%) AWS
3 869 (14.39%) Power Platform
4 728 (12.06%) GCP
5 722 (11.96%) Azure AI
6 364 (6.03%) Serverless
7 351 (5.81%) GitHub
8 246 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 230 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 218 (3.61%) Snowflake
12 215 (3.56%) SaaS
13 202 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 201 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 175 (2.90%) dbt
16 172 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
17 163 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
18 138 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 128 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
20 127 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (3.54%) Firewall
2 142 (2.35%) DNS
3 128 (2.12%) VPN
4 127 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 103 (1.71%) Broadband
6 101 (1.67%) Network Security
7 96 (1.59%) WAN
8 81 (1.34%) Wireless
9 71 (1.18%) LAN
10 60 (0.99%) BGP
11 58 (0.96%) DHCP
12 48 (0.80%) VLAN
13 47 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 43 (0.71%) MQTT
14 43 (0.71%) OSPF
15 38 (0.63%) HTTP
16 35 (0.58%) SSL
17 26 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
17 26 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (13.22%) Power BI
2 535 (8.86%) Tableau
3 339 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 210 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.93%) SQL Server
7 155 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 148 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 146 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 126 (2.09%) Big Data
11 120 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 113 (1.87%) MySQL
13 105 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 101 (1.67%) Metadata
15 96 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
16 90 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 88 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
18 76 (1.26%) Delta Lake
19 74 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
20 69 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 654 (10.83%) Git
2 300 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 238 (3.94%) GitLab
4 171 (2.83%) JIRA
5 64 (1.06%) Claude Code
6 53 (0.88%) MLflow
7 52 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.83%) Subversion
9 49 (0.81%) Selenium
10 38 (0.63%) JUnit
10 38 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 37 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 30 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.38%) Maven
16 21 (0.35%) TeamCity
17 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 2,009 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (21.30%) Finance
3 799 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (5.25%) Banking
6 243 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 217 (3.59%) Law
8 187 (3.10%) Marketing
9 156 (2.58%) Retail
10 124 (2.05%) Legal
11 103 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 102 (1.69%) Front Office
12 102 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 97 (1.61%) Electronics
14 84 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 82 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 70 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 63 (1.04%) Games
18 44 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
19 42 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,247 (20.66%) Senior
2 844 (13.98%) Software Engineer
3 828 (13.72%) Developer
4 694 (11.50%) Analyst
5 687 (11.38%) Python Engineer
6 614 (10.17%) Data Engineer
7 609 (10.09%) Lead
8 524 (8.68%) Data Analyst
9 519 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 460 (7.62%) Junior
11 384 (6.36%) Junior Analyst
12 380 (6.29%) Junior Data Analyst
13 371 (6.15%) Python Developer
14 321 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
15 252 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 218 (3.61%) Architect
16 218 (3.61%) Data Scientist
17 194 (3.21%) Senior Developer
18 190 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
19 189 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 943 (15.62%) Terraform
2 388 (6.43%) React
3 251 (4.16%) Kafka
4 230 (3.81%) .NET
5 229 (3.79%) REST
6 223 (3.69%) PySpark
7 217 (3.59%) Node.js
8 209 (3.46%) RESTful
9 207 (3.43%) FastAPI
10 185 (3.06%) Django
11 181 (3.00%) PyTorch
12 179 (2.97%) LangChain
13 152 (2.52%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.27%) HTML
15 127 (2.10%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) CSS
17 115 (1.90%) Spring
17 115 (1.90%) Spring Boot
18 106 (1.76%) Pandas
19 98 (1.62%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 596 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 315 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 296 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 241 (3.99%) AI Agents
5 206 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 157 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 135 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 84 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 84 (1.39%) Robotics
10 82 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 81 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 80 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
12 80 (1.33%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 74 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 74 (1.23%) Low-Code
15 71 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 66 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
17 63 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 700 (11.60%) Linux
2 314 (5.20%) Windows
3 83 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.28%) Unix
5 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.73%) CentOS
7 39 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.40%) Debian
10 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.25%) Rocky
13 13 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 12 (0.20%) Solaris
15 11 (0.18%) Android
16 10 (0.17%) VMS
17 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
18 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
19 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,549 (42.22%) AI
2 1,653 (27.38%) Software Engineering
3 1,558 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 1,188 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
5 1,084 (17.96%) DevOps
6 1,079 (17.87%) Analytics
7 1,065 (17.64%) Agile
8 1,005 (16.65%) Machine Learning
9 961 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
10 940 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 789 (13.07%) Mentoring
12 732 (12.13%) Data Engineering
13 713 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
14 654 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 652 (10.80%) Data Modelling
16 629 (10.42%) Data Science
17 602 (9.97%) Decision-Making
18 592 (9.81%) Computer Science
19 574 (9.51%) Containerisation
20 569 (9.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,086 (34.55%) SQL
2 805 (13.33%) Java
3 577 (9.56%) JavaScript
4 564 (9.34%) C++
5 505 (8.37%) Bash
6 484 (8.02%) PowerShell
7 474 (7.85%) C#
8 389 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 252 (4.17%) Go
10 195 (3.23%) C
11 135 (2.24%) R
12 115 (1.90%) Scala
13 93 (1.54%) Bicep
13 93 (1.54%) PHP
14 92 (1.52%) Rust
15 89 (1.47%) Perl
16 76 (1.26%) Ruby
17 74 (1.23%) MATLAB
18 68 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 48 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 916 (15.17%) Degree
2 821 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 795 (13.17%) Azure Certification
4 458 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 318 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 261 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 217 (3.59%) Master's Degree
8 118 (1.95%) PhD
9 107 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 84 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 51 (0.84%) CCNP
14 43 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 42 (0.70%) CISSP
16 39 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (0.55%) CCNA
18 31 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.50%) OSCP
20 27 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 520 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 261 (4.32%) QA
3 134 (2.22%) GDPR
4 105 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 59 (0.98%) NIST
6 53 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.48%) SLA
8 26 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.31%) NCSC
12 18 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 18 (0.30%) WCAG
13 16 (0.27%) PMO
14 15 (0.25%) GRC
15 13 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.12%) Basel III
17 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 747 (12.37%) Docker
2 110 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.08%) Firmware
5 44 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.46%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.30%) KVM
10 15 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) ProxySG
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
17 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 755 (12.51%) Kubernetes
2 401 (6.64%) Ansible
3 235 (3.89%) Grafana
4 148 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.03%) Puppet
6 55 (0.91%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.63%) Kibana
9 33 (0.55%) Istio
10 32 (0.53%) Nagios
11 28 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (0.46%) Packer
12 23 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.36%) Podman
14 21 (0.35%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,097 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 455 (7.54%) Databricks
3 211 (3.50%) Google
4 148 (2.45%) Splunk
5 120 (1.99%) Cisco
5 120 (1.99%) OpenAI
5 120 (1.99%) VMware
6 112 (1.86%) Oracle
7 95 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 70 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 52 (0.86%) Foundry
10 51 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 49 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 41 (0.68%) Fortinet
13 38 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 38 (0.63%) SolarWinds
14 33 (0.55%) F5
14 33 (0.55%) SAP
15 30 (0.50%) IBM
15 30 (0.50%) Informatica