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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,064 5,000 7,226
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.54% 12.79% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.19% 39.18% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,472 3,100 5,596
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,450
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -4.42%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,400 £126,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £68,679 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +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 14,373 12,763 27,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.86% 32.65% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,143 9,111 22,459
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,394 £47,500 £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 12 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 12 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 2,376 £85,000 -5.56% 1,311
North of England -8 1,217 £59,000 -9.23% 490
South East 0 885 £60,000 -7.69% 692
Midlands +11 665 £55,000 - 244
South West +7 527 £57,500 - 243
Yorkshire +15 525 £50,000 -23.08% 136
North West -26 516 £61,959 -4.68% 262
West Midlands +22 377 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England +4 328 £62,500 -5.61% 248
East Midlands +25 288 £55,000 - 129
North East +21 176 £48,445 -25.47% 94
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
1 214 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 185 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 133 (2.19%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 41 (0.68%) Confluence
7 37 (0.61%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 15 (0.25%) Appian
11 13 (0.21%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) JBoss
17 2 (0.033%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1,207 (19.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 1 (0.016%) Notion
9 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,876 (47.43%) Azure
2 1,832 (30.21%) AWS
3 1,441 (23.76%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.70%) Azure AI
5 634 (10.46%) GCP
6 499 (8.23%) GitHub
7 305 (5.03%) Serverless
8 229 (3.78%) SaaS
9 219 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 211 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 194 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 174 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 163 (2.69%) dbt
15 158 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 136 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 133 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 91 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
20 85 (1.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.58%) Firewall
2 186 (3.07%) Internet
3 162 (2.67%) Broadband
4 126 (2.08%) DNS
5 121 (2.00%) VPN
6 100 (1.65%) Network Security
7 93 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 90 (1.48%) WAN
9 81 (1.34%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 64 (1.06%) BGP
12 56 (0.92%) HTTP
13 49 (0.81%) VLAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
14 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
16 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
17 34 (0.56%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,389 (22.91%) Power BI
2 1,283 (21.16%) Tableau
3 275 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 167 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 152 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 129 (2.13%) BigQuery
10 128 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 120 (1.98%) Data Mining
12 113 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.57%) Big Data
15 88 (1.45%) Metadata
16 75 (1.24%) MySQL
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 60 (0.99%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 51 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 650 (10.72%) Git
2 238 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 215 (3.55%) GitLab
4 118 (1.95%) JIRA
5 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 47 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.74%) Selenium
9 36 (0.59%) Postman
10 35 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.45%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
18 16 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 2,332 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1,151 (18.98%) Finance
3 802 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (4.09%) Banking
5 247 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 212 (3.50%) Public Sector
7 175 (2.89%) Retail
8 170 (2.80%) Multimedia
9 161 (2.66%) Law
10 140 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.19%) Front Office
12 101 (1.67%) Marketing
13 93 (1.53%) Legal
13 93 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 78 (1.29%) Electronics
15 66 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 59 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 54 (0.89%) Financial Institution
18 53 (0.87%) Games
19 52 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,407 (23.20%) Analyst
2 1,227 (20.23%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (17.02%) Junior
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.39%) Junior Data Analyst
5 917 (15.12%) Developer
6 900 (14.84%) Senior
7 574 (9.47%) Software Engineer
8 531 (8.76%) Data Engineer
9 481 (7.93%) Lead
10 460 (7.59%) Python Engineer
11 403 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 392 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 321 (5.29%) Trainee
14 202 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
15 200 (3.30%) Software Developer
16 177 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 172 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 165 (2.72%) Architect
19 160 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (6.30%) React
2 308 (5.08%) HTML
3 274 (4.52%) CSS
4 248 (4.09%) Kafka
5 214 (3.53%) PySpark
6 207 (3.41%) Node.js
7 202 (3.33%) REST
8 184 (3.03%) .NET
9 176 (2.90%) RESTful
10 174 (2.87%) Django
11 161 (2.66%) Pandas
12 160 (2.64%) PyTorch
13 143 (2.36%) FastAPI
14 135 (2.23%) TensorFlow
15 124 (2.04%) scikit-learn
16 115 (1.90%) Flask
17 104 (1.72%) LangChain
17 104 (1.72%) NumPy
18 101 (1.67%) JSON
19 81 (1.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 351 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 302 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 262 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 163 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 128 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 109 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 93 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 91 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
14 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.29%) Equities
15 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 75 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 73 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 67 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 598 (9.86%) Linux
2 254 (4.19%) Windows
3 114 (1.88%) Unix
4 70 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.61%) CentOS
7 27 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.16%) Debian
10 10 (0.16%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 5 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,551 (42.07%) AI
2 1,486 (24.51%) Business Intelligence
3 1,240 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 1,128 (18.60%) Software Engineering
5 955 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 945 (15.58%) Analytics
7 934 (15.40%) Agile
8 914 (15.07%) DevOps
9 745 (12.29%) Machine Learning
10 722 (11.91%) Mentoring
11 689 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 590 (9.73%) Data Modelling
13 572 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
14 560 (9.23%) Data Engineering
15 546 (9.00%) ETL
16 542 (8.94%) Data Science
17 530 (8.74%) Computer Science
18 519 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 483 (7.97%) Containerisation
20 482 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,480 (40.90%) SQL
2 708 (11.68%) JavaScript
3 658 (10.85%) Java
4 450 (7.42%) PowerShell
5 438 (7.22%) Bash
6 367 (6.05%) TypeScript
7 366 (6.04%) C++
8 350 (5.77%) C#
9 287 (4.73%) Go
10 215 (3.55%) R
11 161 (2.66%) C
12 120 (1.98%) Scala
13 79 (1.30%) Rust
14 67 (1.10%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 56 (0.92%) Bicep
17 44 (0.73%) Perl
18 43 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.63%) MATLAB
20 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,536 (25.33%) Azure Certification
2 771 (12.71%) Degree
3 540 (8.91%) Security Cleared
4 318 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 313 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 280 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 226 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 225 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 180 (2.97%) DV Cleared
10 148 (2.44%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.43%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.14%) CCNP
14 49 (0.81%) OSCP
15 48 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 43 (0.71%) CISSP
17 33 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.53%) CREST Certified
19 28 (0.46%) CCIE
19 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.79%) QA
3 128 (2.11%) GDPR
4 100 (1.65%) NIST
5 86 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 13 (0.21%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 572 (9.43%) Docker
2 107 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 88 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.40%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
14 5 (0.082%) Lustre
14 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.082%) Squid
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 728 (12.01%) Terraform
2 607 (10.01%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.76%) Ansible
4 194 (3.20%) Grafana
5 153 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.99%) Argo
7 33 (0.54%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (0.48%) Puppet
10 22 (0.36%) Istio
10 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 19 (0.31%) Kibana
12 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.26%) Packer
12 16 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.23%) logstash
14 14 (0.23%) Rancher
15 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,889 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 322 (5.31%) Databricks
3 205 (3.38%) Google
4 129 (2.13%) Oracle
5 128 (2.11%) Cisco
6 126 (2.08%) VMware
7 107 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 101 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 94 (1.55%) Splunk
10 55 (0.91%) SAP
11 54 (0.89%) Foundry
11 54 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 50 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 49 (0.81%) Fortinet
15 48 (0.79%) SolarWinds
16 47 (0.78%) Informatica
17 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
18 41 (0.68%) F5
18 41 (0.68%) Palantir