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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,996 4,833 7,169
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.46% 12.57% 8.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 38.49% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,429 3,128 5,548
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £127,500 £122,500
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 13,989 12,556 27,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 32.67% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,808 9,192 22,430
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,238
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,663 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -1 2,348 £85,000 -5.56% 1,230
North of England -16 1,192 £55,000 -15.38% 470
South East 0 878 £60,000 -7.69% 570
Midlands +13 667 £55,000 - 213
Yorkshire +16 533 £50,000 -23.08% 136
South West +7 524 £57,500 - 195
North West -23 496 £61,334 -5.64% 254
West Midlands +23 384 £60,000 +9.09% 108
East of England -6 322 £60,000 -9.39% 192
East Midlands +15 283 £55,000 - 105
North East +17 163 £46,500 -28.46% 82
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 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.20%) Apache
4 65 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 60 (1.00%) WordPress
6 37 (0.62%) Confluence
7 31 (0.52%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 13 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.10%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.083%) CMS
16 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Pulsar
17 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
18 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,220 (20.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.15%) Simulink
7 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.050%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) Notion
10 1 (0.017%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.017%) Trello
10 1 (0.017%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.067%) Line 50
4 3 (0.050%) Magento
4 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.050%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
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
6 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,858 (47.67%) Azure
2 1,802 (30.05%) AWS
3 1,438 (23.98%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (21.93%) Azure AI
5 623 (10.39%) GCP
6 529 (8.82%) GitHub
7 292 (4.87%) Serverless
8 229 (3.82%) SaaS
9 208 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 207 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 186 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 170 (2.84%) Snowflake
14 161 (2.69%) dbt
15 159 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 130 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 129 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 122 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 94 (1.57%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (3.44%) Internet
2 204 (3.40%) Firewall
3 150 (2.50%) Broadband
4 123 (2.05%) DNS
5 114 (1.90%) VPN
6 92 (1.53%) Network Security
7 91 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 80 (1.33%) WAN
9 73 (1.22%) LAN
10 65 (1.08%) BGP
11 64 (1.07%) Wireless
12 55 (0.92%) HTTP
13 51 (0.85%) VLAN
14 46 (0.77%) OSPF
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.67%) SD-WAN
16 35 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (0.55%) DHCP
18 29 (0.48%) MPLS
19 28 (0.47%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,391 (23.20%) Power BI
2 1,303 (21.73%) Tableau
3 268 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 210 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 168 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 144 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 124 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 117 (1.95%) MongoDB
12 110 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 106 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 92 (1.53%) Big Data
15 89 (1.48%) Metadata
16 77 (1.28%) MySQL
17 65 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (0.93%) DynamoDB
19 55 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 654 (10.91%) Git
2 243 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 215 (3.59%) GitLab
4 111 (1.85%) JIRA
5 77 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.05%) MLflow
7 54 (0.90%) Selenium
8 45 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.62%) Postman
11 26 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.33%) JUnit
15 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
16 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 2,321 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 1,155 (19.26%) Finance
3 793 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (4.22%) Banking
5 246 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 191 (3.19%) Multimedia
8 175 (2.92%) Retail
9 158 (2.64%) Law
10 144 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.20%) Front Office
12 99 (1.65%) Marketing
13 95 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.43%) Legal
15 74 (1.23%) Electronics
16 66 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 57 (0.95%) Investment Banking
18 54 (0.90%) Aerospace
19 53 (0.88%) Financial Institution
20 43 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,420 (23.68%) Analyst
2 1,241 (20.70%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.24%) Junior
4 994 (16.58%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.58%) Junior Data Analyst
5 910 (15.18%) Developer
6 865 (14.43%) Senior
7 555 (9.26%) Software Engineer
8 517 (8.62%) Data Engineer
9 479 (7.99%) Lead
10 449 (7.49%) Python Engineer
11 394 (6.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 386 (6.44%) Python Developer
13 354 (5.90%) Trainee
14 207 (3.45%) Software Developer
15 197 (3.29%) Python Software Engineer
16 175 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
16 175 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 158 (2.64%) Senior Developer
18 154 (2.57%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (6.35%) React
2 326 (5.44%) HTML
3 288 (4.80%) CSS
4 243 (4.05%) Kafka
5 208 (3.47%) Node.js
6 204 (3.40%) PySpark
7 202 (3.37%) REST
8 187 (3.12%) Django
9 174 (2.90%) RESTful
10 167 (2.79%) .NET
11 166 (2.77%) Pandas
12 163 (2.72%) PyTorch
13 144 (2.40%) FastAPI
14 139 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 128 (2.13%) scikit-learn
16 123 (2.05%) Flask
17 106 (1.77%) NumPy
18 100 (1.67%) JSON
19 99 (1.65%) LangChain
20 89 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 334 (5.57%) Cloud Native
2 292 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 240 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 124 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 119 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 102 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 92 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 87 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 86 (1.43%) Low-Code
12 84 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 79 (1.32%) Equities
14 79 (1.32%) Hedge funds
15 78 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
16 77 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
17 76 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
18 74 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 573 (9.56%) Linux
2 238 (3.97%) Windows
3 124 (2.07%) Unix
4 68 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.67%) CentOS
7 28 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.18%) Debian
11 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.15%) Android
12 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.15%) VMS
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.10%) Solaris
16 4 (0.067%) Rocky
16 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,498 (41.66%) AI
2 1,485 (24.77%) Business Intelligence
3 1,205 (20.10%) CI/CD
4 1,084 (18.08%) Software Engineering
5 953 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 938 (15.64%) Analytics
7 918 (15.31%) Agile
8 899 (14.99%) DevOps
9 722 (12.04%) Machine Learning
10 710 (11.84%) Mentoring
11 661 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 578 (9.64%) Data Modelling
13 562 (9.37%) Data Pipeline
14 558 (9.31%) Data Engineering
15 551 (9.19%) Data Science
16 542 (9.04%) ETL
17 527 (8.79%) Computer Science
18 513 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 489 (8.16%) Containerisation
20 456 (7.61%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,464 (41.09%) SQL
2 723 (12.06%) JavaScript
3 651 (10.86%) Java
4 436 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 431 (7.19%) Bash
6 361 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 340 (5.67%) C++
8 334 (5.57%) C#
9 280 (4.67%) Go
10 219 (3.65%) R
11 148 (2.47%) C
12 120 (2.00%) Scala
13 76 (1.27%) Rust
14 66 (1.10%) PHP
15 64 (1.07%) VBA
16 54 (0.90%) Bicep
17 43 (0.72%) Perl
18 39 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 35 (0.58%) T-SQL
20 32 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,553 (25.90%) Azure Certification
2 772 (12.88%) Degree
3 510 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 335 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 299 (4.99%) SC Cleared
6 277 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 247 (4.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 244 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 171 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 148 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.47%) PhD
12 75 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.05%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 48 (0.80%) CISSP
16 47 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 35 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.45%) GIAC
20 26 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.85%) QA
3 122 (2.03%) GDPR
4 105 (1.75%) NIST
5 97 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.37%) GRC
11 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.10%) Basel III
System Software
1 572 (9.54%) Docker
2 108 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.88%) Firmware
5 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.37%) 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 (0.083%) iptables
13 5 (0.083%) Lustre
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.067%) Squid
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 707 (11.79%) Terraform
2 607 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 338 (5.64%) Ansible
4 194 (3.24%) Grafana
5 152 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.05%) Argo
7 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (0.50%) Nagios
9 29 (0.48%) Puppet
10 23 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 22 (0.37%) Istio
12 19 (0.32%) Kibana
13 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.25%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Packer
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 13 (0.22%) Proxmox
17 13 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,892 (31.55%) Microsoft
2 320 (5.34%) Databricks
3 206 (3.44%) Google
4 132 (2.20%) Oracle
5 121 (2.02%) Cisco
6 120 (2.00%) VMware
7 105 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 95 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 82 (1.37%) Splunk
10 57 (0.95%) SAP
11 56 (0.93%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.83%) Foundry
12 50 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 48 (0.80%) Palo Alto
14 47 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 47 (0.78%) Informatica
15 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.70%) SolarWinds
17 40 (0.67%) Palantir
18 39 (0.65%) Talend